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Dawn McKenzie, 34, was stabbed by the 13-year-old in her home in Hamilton in 2011. The inquiry into her death heard the boy had watched footage of his older siblings brandishing knives before he went to stay with the McKenzie family. The same video showed them drinking alcohol with a gang's logo behind them. Social worker Stephen Lorimer, giving evidence at the inquiry, said that the boy had been in a stable, happy placement with the foster couple who were caring for him. But the couple handed in their notice after a member of their own family became very ill, and the boy was moved to stay with Mr and Mrs McKenzie instead. Mr Lorimer, who is now a team leader within Glasgow City Council's social work department, told the inquiry that this had been a "a terrible outcome" for the boy, who stabbed Mrs McKenzie seven months later. The boy was detained for seven years in 2012 after admitting culpable homicide on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Mr Lorimer said both the boy and his two sisters had been "extremely affected and damaged" from their experiences before going into care. The inquiry also heard that another boy threatened the teenager with a knife while he was staying with the foster couple prior to the McKenzies, and that the incident was reported to police. Following this, the boy was not happy that his foster carers did not let him go outside to play. He was quoted at the inquiry as having said: "Maybe the only way it will go away is if I deal with it myself. If I fight him and beat him he will back off." Mr Lorimer also told the inquiry about an incident where the boy punched a brick wall because he was not getting his own way. But said he did not think the incident, that had taken place when the child was aged about 12, was very serious. The inquiry in Motherwell continues.

The woman, in her 30s, was approached from behind and struck in the face before being sexually assaulted in Langdale Common, Witney at about 03:00 BST on Saturday. Police said the offender, who wore a black jacket, fled after possibly being disturbed by other people. Officers have appealed for information from anyone in the area at the time. Det Insp Larry Johnson, from Thames Valley Police, said: "I would also like to speak to anyone who was in the area of Witan Way, close to the entrance to Langdale Common and near a kebab van, as they may also have information which could assist our investigation." "I understand this incident could cause the community some concerns, therefore additional patrols are taking place," he added.

Shadow Europe minister Pat Glass made the comments after an interview with BBC Radio Derby in Sawley, Derbyshire. She said: "The very first person I come to is a horrible racist. I'm never coming back to wherever this is." She later said the comments were "inappropriate" but UKIP said it showed "contempt" for people's concerns. Updates on this story and more from Derbyshire The man Ms Glass is believed to have been referring to said he had spoken to her about to a Polish family in the area who he believed were living on benefits, describing them as "spongers", but denied being racist. The North West Durham MP said: "The comments I made were inappropriate and I regret them. "Concerns about immigration are entirely valid and it's important that politicians engage with them. "I apologise to the people living in Sawley for any offence I have caused." But those campaigning for the UK to leave the EU criticised her remarks. Conservative MP Peter Bone, one of the founders of Grassroots Out, said: "It is disappointing that a member of the Remain campaign called a voter a 'horrible racist' for raising perfectly valid concerns about the impact uncontrolled migration is having on the UK." And Steven Woolfe MEP, UKIP's migration spokesman, said her comments showed "the contempt Labour has for ordinary workers' concerns". "It is in the DNA of the Labour Party. We have had Gordon Brown calling a Labour supporter a bigot, Emily Thornberry ridiculing a white van man displaying an English flag - and now this." Brendan Chilton, the general secretary of the Labour group campaigning for Brexit - Labour Leave - criticised Ms Glass's comments as "shocking". "A significant number of Labour voters want to leave the EU, and have justified concerns with immigration. "Pat Glass's comments do not reflect the views of a large number of Labour voters." Conservative MP for Erewash Maggie Throup had urged Ms Glass "to make a full apology to my constituent at the earliest opportunity" and to return to the area "to see for herself just how great a place it is to live, work and raise a family". In April 2010, then PM Gordon Brown apologised after being recorded describing a 65-year-old voter as a "bigoted woman". Labour MP Ms Thornberry quit the shadow cabinet in 2014 after a photo she tweeted of a house with three England flags and a white van parked outside, during the Rochester by-election, was criticised as "disrespectful". Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, who is campaigning for the UK to remain in the EU, told BBC One's Question Time: "Pat has apologised and of course it's not racist to want to leave the European Union, it's not racist to be worried about immigration - there are concerns particularly about dodgy employers who exploit low skilled migration to undercut wages and jobs and I think something should be done about that." But she accused Leave campaigners of offering "false promises" that if the UK left the EU there would be a "substantial" change on migration policy.

David Leyonhjelm, a cat-loving former veterinarian and Liberal Democratic senator for New South Wales, has twice been elected to federal parliament, and is one of a disparate group of cross-benchers who hold the balance of power in an unpredictable upper house. He is his libertarian party's sole representative in Canberra, and has been branded "the nastiest, most sexist politician in Australia" by Sydney Morning Herald columnist Peter FitzSimons. FitzSimons, a former rugby union international, told his readers a story about an elderly female reader who had taken exception to the senator's relaxed view on Donald Trump's crass remarks about women. She complained and received a brusque response saying she was "not fit to use a computer". "Apparently a constituent wrote to me and made some fairly silly remarks. I have a fairly low tolerance for idiots," Senator Leyonhjelm told the BBC from his offices in Sydney. "It was fairly idiotic email, so I wrote back to her and called her a bimbo. I had no idea [but] it turns out she is in her 70s or 80s or something like that and she complained to this sports writer." "He contacted my office and asked for a comment and one of my staff replied we had no comment for him about the particular matter but… said 'well, usually he [the Senator] tells people like that to [profanity]-off, and he didn't in this case, so we're worried that he is mellowing. "Apparently that enraged this guy." It sure did. A fired-up FitzSimons added that "with such personal abuse, the Senator disgraces the office he holds". This is not the first time the Liberal Democratic MP has been castigated in the press. In August, the Herald labelled him a "hate-speech apologist" and "a boorish, supercilious know-all with the empathy of a [concrete] besser block". At issue is the senator's push to repeal section 18C of Australia's Racial Discrimination Act, which outlaws behaviour that is likely to "offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate" someone because of their race or ethnicity. Here is where he channels memories of "Chopper" Read, who died in 2013 after serving 23 years in jail in Australia for kidnapping and malicious wounding. "Our right to free speech is not a frivolous matter, but it is time for sooks and whingers to take a leaf from Chopper. It's not the government's job to protect us from hurt feelings," Senator Leyonhjelm said on his official website. Feelings were certainly singed following a tweet soon after the death from cancer of the celebrated sports journalist Rebecca Wilson. "Doubt there'll be many #WSW [Western Sydney Wanderers] fans at Rebecca Wilson's funeral #innocentlivesdamaged," he tweeted in reference to the late reporter's identification of fans allegedly on a banned list for poor behaviour, most of whom were followers of Western Sydney Wanderers. "He takes bluntness to a higher level. He can be obscene at times but it is in Australia's more rough and tumble tradition," explained Dr Peter Chen, senior lecturer in the department of government and international relations at the University of Sydney. "He originally was a member of the Labor Party. He joined the Liberal Party and he fell out with both sides of politics, most recently with his membership of the Liberal Party over the introduction of gun laws in Australia following the Port Arthur shooting about 20 years ago," Dr Chen added. Senator Leyonhjelm is broadly in favour of immigration, supports same-sex marriage, lower taxes and assisted suicide, but it's restrictions on firearms that make his blood boil. "I find that distressing because it is wrong and it is very unkind to me and 800,000 licensed shooters in the country, who are absolutely vilified, treated like we are criminals-in-waiting and whose sporting implements are constantly under threat," he explained. His critics argue that his stance on guns ignores the opinions of most Australians, who back tough laws. "He is using extreme tactics to push through his quite dangerous agenda," said fellow New South Wales Senator Lee Rhiannon, from the Greens, who is her party's gun control spokesperson. "He has been provocative, blunt, extreme, at times rude." She concedes, however, that Senator Leyonhjelm and Pauline Hanson's right-wing anti-immigration One Nation Party are tapping into anti-establishment rage in Australia. "We're seeing a real anger build up within the community with regard to machine politics, the political class, whatever name you want to call it, who are worried how their kids are going to buy a home and feeling left out of how society is working," Ms Rhiannon told the BBC. "They think that globalisation has robbed them of a life that they think is fair." The Liberal Democrats say they have recruited hundreds of disaffected former supporters of the governing Liberal Party and hope to mount a show of force at the next year's state election in Western Australia. That campaign promises to be anything but dull. Lampooned by TV comedians in June, Senator Leyonhjelm reacted in trademark fashion by swearing at the crew and telling them to leave.

Charminster bridge was previously untouchable due to its historic status, but authorities agreed its small arches restricted the flow of the River Cerne. English Heritage will now allow the 16th Century bridge to be replaced with a new one that has bigger arches. The bridge had been blamed for nearly wrecking a nearby grade I-listed church during the January 2014 floods. Dorset County Council, which has worked with the Environment Agency on the project, said the replacement bridge would "reflect the character" of the existing bridge, and would use "as many of the original bricks as possible". The existing historic parapets will also used on the new bridge. Work on the new bridge is planned for May, which includes raising the road surface by 30cm to accommodate the larger arches. The road would be closed to both vehicles and pedestrians until October.

The IPCC - weren't they the ones who said the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035? How can we trust what they say this time? The weight given to the reports of the IPCC is a measure of the global scale of scientific involvement with the panel. Divided into three working groups that look at the physical science, the impacts and options to limit climate change, the panel involves thousands of scientists around the world. The first report, to be presented in Stockholm, has 209 lead authors and 50 review editors from 39 countries. The 30-page Summary for Policymakers that will be published after review by government officials in the Swedish capital is based on around 9,000 peer-reviewed scientific papers and 50,000 comments from the expert reviewers. But among these icebergs of data, things can and do go awry. In the last report, published in 2007, there were a handful of well publicised errors, including the claim that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. The wrong percentage was also given for the amount of land in the Netherlands under sea level. The IPCC admitted it had got it wrong and explained that, in a report running to 3,000 pages, there were bound to be some mistakes. The Himalayan claim came from the inclusion of an interview that had been published in the magazine New Scientist. In its own words, the IPCC is there "to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic impacts". The offspring of two UN bodies, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, it has issued four heavyweight assessment reports to date on the state of the climate. These are commissioned by the governments of 195 countries, essentially the entire world. These reports are critical in informing the climate policies adopted by these governments. The IPCC itself is a small organisation, run from Geneva with a full time staff of 12. All the scientists who are involved with it do so on a voluntary basis. In 2009, a review of the way the IPCC assesses information suggested the panel should be very clear in future about the sources of the information it uses. The panel was also scarred by association with the "Climategate" rumpus. Leaked emails between scientists working for the IPCC were stolen and published in 2009. They purported to show some collusion between researchers to make climate data fit the theory of human-induced global warming more clearly. However at least three investigations found no evidence to support this conclusion. But the overall effect of these events on the panel has been to make them more cautious. Although this new report is likely to stress a greater certainty among scientists that human activities are causing climate warming, in terms of the scale, level and impacts, the word "uncertainty" features heavily. "What we are seeing now is that this working group is getting more careful than they already were," said Prof Arthur Petersen, chief scientist at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. "Overall, the message is, in that sense, more conservative I expect, for this IPCC report compared to previous ones." Hasn't global warming stopped since 1998? The 2007 IPCC report made no mention of any slowdown or standstill in temperature rises in recent decades. They pointed out that the linear warming trend over the previous 50 years was 0.13C per decade, which was twice that for the past 100 years. They forecast that, if emissions of carbon dioxide continued on their existing path, over the next century the climate would respond by warming between 2C and 4.5C, with a most likely rise of 3C. But since 2007, climate sceptics have loudly argued that global average temperatures haven't actually gone above the level recorded in 1998. The issue is now being taken more seriously by the IPCC and other respected science organisations. My colleague David Shukman summarised some of the explanations now being offered as to why the temperatures have not risen more quickly in line with the modelling. Most scientists believe that the warming has continued over the past 15 years, but more of the heat has gone into the oceans. They are unsure about the mechanisms driving this change in behaviour. The most recent peer reviewed article suggested that a periodic, natural cooling of the Pacific Ocean was counteracting the impact of carbon dioxide. "1998 was a particular hot year due to a record-breaking El Niño event, while recently we have had mostly the opposite - cool conditions in the tropical Pacific," Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, told BBC News. "That warming has not stopped can be seen from the ongoing heat accumulation in the global oceans." Climate sceptics, however, argue that the pause is evidence that climate models used by the IPCC are too sensitive and exaggerate the effects of carbon dioxide. "In the last year, we have seen several studies showing that climate sensitivity is actually much less than we thought for the last 30 years," said Marcel Crok, a Dutch author who is sceptical of the IPCC process. "These studies show that our real climate has a sensitivity of between 1.5C and 2.0C. But the models are much more sensitive, and warm up three degrees." Am I going to get flooded? The 2007 IPCC report was heavily criticised for its estimations on sea level rise. The panel suggested that a warming planet would see waters around the world rise by between 18cm and 59cm by the end of this century. Heat causes the seas to expand but also increases the rate of melting of glaciers and ice sheets. The IPCC doesn't commission any new science, but reviews and condenses existing peer reviewed material. Each Summary for Policymakers is a short distillation of an underlying report that can stretch to several hundred pages. The final draft of the short summary is presented to representatives of the 195 governments who commission the report. In a hectic week before publication, every single line is gone through by the scientists and civil servants. The lead authors are in the room and can veto a change if it isn't supported in the underlying report. The IPCC figure didn't include any estimates for the extra water coming from the Greenland or Antarctic ice sheets as they said they didn't have enough accurate information. Other researchers were critical of this approach and have published studies that suggested a far higher sea level rise. But in recent months, a study funded by the European Union and involving scientists across the world, came up with what they believe is the most accurate estimate yet - and it increases the level of sea rise by just 10cm from the IPCC report. "What we are talking about is a reduction in uncertainty - we find we haven't changed the number enormously compared to AR4 (IPCC 2007 report)," said Prof David Vaughan, from the British Antarctic Survey (Bas), while speaking at the launch of the report. "We've added maybe another 10cm but the level of certainty we have around that is actually higher than it was in the AR4." Leaked details from the forthcoming report indicate that the worst sea level rise scenarios for the year 2100, under the highest emissions of carbon dioxide, could reach 97cm. Some scientists, including Prof Rahmstorf, have been unhappy with the models used by the IPCC to calculate the rise. Using what's termed a semi-empirical model, the projections for sea level can reach 2m. At that point, an extra 187 million people across the world would be flooded. But the IPCC is likely to say that there is no consensus about the semi-empirical approach and will stick with the lower figure of just under 1m. So will all this mean more flooding? "Yes, but not everywhere," said Prof Piers Forster from the University of Leeds. "Generally, the wet regions will get wetter and the dry ones drier." The report is also likely to assess the intensity of storms, and there might be some better news in that there is likely to be a downwards revision. And what about the Polar bears? The state of the North and South Poles has been of growing concern to science as the effects of global warming are said to be more intense in these regions. The IPCC has evolved a complicated way of communicating scientific certainty and confidence in a finding: very unlikely - 0-10% unlikely - 10-33% likely as not - 33-66% likely - 66-100% very likely - 90-100% Extremely likely - 95-100% Virtually certain - 99-100% Confidence is also expressed as very low, low, medium, high and very high. Evidence can can be limited, medium or robust. And levels of agreement can be low, medium or high In 2007, the IPCC said that temperatures in the Arctic increased at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years. They pointed out that the region can be highly variable, with a warm period observed between 1925 and 1945. In the drafts of the latest report, the scientists say there is stronger evidence that ice sheets and glaciers are losing mass and sea ice cover is decreasing in the Arctic. In relation to Greenland, which by itself has the capacity to raise global sea levels by six metres, the panel says they are 90% certain that the average rate of ice loss between 1992 and 2001 has increased six-fold in the period 2002 to 2011. While the Arctic mean sea ice extent has declined by around 4% per decade since 1979, the Antarctic has increased up to 1.8% per decade over the same time period. As for the future, the suggestions are quite dramatic. Under the worst carbon emissions scenarios, an Arctic free of sea ice in the summer by the middle of this century is likely. Some recent newspaper reports have suggested that sea ice in the Arctic has recovered in 2013, but scientists are virtually certain about the trend. "The sea ice cover on the Arctic ocean is in a downward spiral," said Prof Rahmstorf. "And much faster than IPCC predicted." And Prof Shang-Ping Xie from the University of California in San Diego told BBC News that the outlook for polar bears and other species isn't good. "There will be pockets of sea ice in some marginal seas. Hopefully, polar bears will be able to survive summer on these pockets of remaining sea ice," he said. Does the IPCC have a future? There have been growing calls for reform of the IPCC process from critics and friends alike. Many believe that these big, blockbuster reports, published once every six years, are not the way forward in the modern era. "The close government scrutiny and infrequent publication certainly fillip the climate change agenda," said Prof Forster. "But, given the pace of both science and news, perhaps it is time the IPCC moved with the Twitter generation." Many sceptical voices are also calling for changes. Marcel Crok says the whole process of the IPCC is bad for the scientific principle of open argument. "It is not designed to answer questions because the whole IPCC process, the whole consensus-building process, is choking the openness of the scientific debate," he explained. However, some argue the IPCC plays an important role as a source of information for developing countries. And again others think the organisation will survive for far more unprincipled reasons. "It is a UN body," said Prof Petersen. "It may perpetuate until eternity." Follow Matt on Twitter.

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The 25-year-old has agreed a three-year contract at the Madejski Stadium. His arrival comes after it was revealed veteran striker Yann Kermorgant will miss the start of the season following surgery on his hip and groin. Bodvarsson joined Wolves from Kaiserslautern last summer, scoring three goals in 48 appearances. "Jon is the type of player who can play in our system and he is able to play in a number up different positions within that system too - up front as a central striker, as one of a two or as a winger," Royals boss Jaap Stam told the club website. "He's a strong runner, he's tall but he's very comfortable on the ball, he's got some pace, so he's definitely a player who will be a useful addition to our squad." Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

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Announcing the change, justice minister Sam Gyimah said: "Stalkers torment their victims and can make everyday life almost unbearable." If the offence is racially or religiously aggravated, the current seven-year maximum will go up to 14. Labour said ministers had "changed their mind" under pressure, having previously opposed tougher penalties. In 2015, 194 people were convicted of stalking in England and Wales and were, on average, sentenced to 14 months in jail. The government is expected to bring in the changes in an amendment to the Policing and Crime Bill, when it is debated in the Commons on Tuesday. The bill, which is in its final stages in Parliament, is likely to become law in the coming weeks. It will also raise the maximum sentence for harassment from five to 10 years, and similarly from seven to 14 if it is racially or religiously aggravated. Helen Pearson's five-year ordeal started with slashed bicycle tyres. Then the text messages, phone calls and threatening letters began. A dead cat left on the doorstep. "It just slowly kind of escalated," says Helen Pearson, from Devon. "You are constantly the whole time living on a knife edge. "Every time you had a letter, it would get sent off for fingerprints. They'd find no fingerprints, so it would be logged and it would just carry on and on and on." Read more here Mr Gyimah said the sentences were being doubled so these "awful crimes can be properly punished". But Labour said its amendment to the bill in the House of Lords in December, which would have doubled maximum sentences for the most serious offences, had been opposed by the government. The amendment was approved by the Lords by 160 votes to 149 but 139 Conservative peers voted against. However two Conservative MPs, Alex Chalk and Richard Graham, had campaigned to increase punishment for stalking. Mr Chalk introduced a private member's bill last year calling for the maximum sentence to be doubled. Labour says there was a chance of a "sizeable rebellion" among Conservative MPs if the government sought to overturn the move when MPs debate it. "Thankfully, under pressure, the Tories have changed their mind," said shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon. "But more still needs to be done to ensure that victims of stalking feel confident enough that their complaint will be investigated properly when they first report it." Last month, new stalking protection orders were introduced to protect victims - especially those targeted by strangers or colleagues - at the very earliest possible stage. Police in England and Wales can now apply to the courts for an order before a stalking suspect has been convicted or even arrested. A typical order might ban the suspect from going near the victim or contacting them online, and could also make them undergo treatment if they have a mental health problem. The orders follow legislation introduced in 2012 which made stalking a specific criminal offence in England and Wales. In Scotland, stalking is illegal under the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 and in Northern Ireland it is prohibited under the Protection from Harassment Order (NI) 1997.

He told the BBC's Talkback programme that Gerry Adams gave him an ash tree to mark the 125th anniversary of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The Democratic Unionist Party member told the story as he reminisced about his time in the Stormont Assembly. Mr Wilson is stepping down as an MLA to concentrate on his job as an MP. The move comes ahead of a forthcoming ban on "double-jobbing" at Stormont, which will come into force next year. Speaking from his home on Tuesday, he said: "Most of my life in politics was dominated by people being killed, bombs going off, disruption in the streets, terrorism, etc. We have moved on from that and moved on very substantially." He added: "When I look down the garden, there is a symbol of how Northern Ireland has changed." The DUP member described how, during his tenure as finance minister, Mr Adams came to ask for permission to plant a tree in the grounds of Stormont to mark 125 years since the foundation of the GAA. "I think he expected me to say 'take yourself off, I'm not having any GAA tree in the grounds of Stormont'," Mr Wilson said. "I actually thought it was a step forward, that here was a body which we regarded as a nationalist sporting body, wanting to be recognised in the grounds of the parliament of Northern Ireland. "I said 'I have no difficulty with that' and he was quite taken aback. "Then I kind of joked with him and said 'Gerry, it's a bit of a change. It used to be, you lot wanted to plant bombs here, now you want to plant trees'. And at least he had the humour to laugh about it." Mr Wilson said that a few days later, the Sinn Féin leader presented him with a personal gift of an ash tree that he had grown from seed. "He said 'there's a wee thing just to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the GAA'. I've got it planted down the garden now. I suppose that's an indication of the changes that there have been in Northern Ireland," Mr Wilson added. The DUP member has been a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly since its foundation in 1998 and is one of its best known and most animated speakers. He told the programme he was a "strong supporter" of devolution and it was "difficult decision" to choose between his jobs as an MP and a Stormont MLA. Mr Wilson said he opted for Westminster as he did not expect he would get a third opportunity to be a Stormont minister because there were younger and "very able" people already in the posts. "There is no right that I would have to those positions and I supposed that if I was going to be a backbencher, I've decided better to be a backbencher in the bigger theatre of Westminster that the assembly." He said it had been a "great privilege" to serve his constituents during his time in Stormont.

It also proclaimed the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as caliph and "leader for Muslims everywhere". Setting up a state governed under strict Islamic law has long been a goal of many jihadists. Meanwhile, Iraq's army continued an offensive to retake the northern city of Tikrit from the Isis-led rebels. The city was seized by the insurgents on 11 June as they swept across large parts of north-western Iraq. In a separate development, Israel called for the creation of an independent Kurdish state in response to the gain made by the Sunni rebels in Iraq. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) announced the establishment of the caliphate in an audio recording posted on the internet on Sunday. Isis also said that from now on it would be known simply as "the Islamic State". The BBC's Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, says the declaration harks back to the rise of Islam, when the Prophet Muhammad's followers conquered vast territories in the Middle Ages. The Sunni-Shia split has its origins in a dispute over the succession to Muhammad. It's easy to dismiss the latest crop of Isis videos and statements as mere propaganda (however well produced), but the announcement of the establishment of a caliphate is rich with religious, cultural and historic significance. Generations of Sunni radicals have dreamt of a moment when, in the words of Isis spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Muslims "shake off the dust of humiliation and disgrace" and a new caliphate rises out of the chaos, confusion and despair of the modern Middle East. Many Sunnis, and all Shia, will recoil in horror from the barbarism that has accompanied this moment, but the sight of old colonial-era boundaries being erased is a powerful statement, designed to attract new recruits to this whirlwind jihad. In one of the Isis videos uploaded on Sunday, a bearded fighter called Abu Safiyya guides the viewer around a newly demolished border post. The video, with its arresting imagery and impressive production values, is designed to electrify the group's followers. The fact that Abu Safiyya is described as being from Chile merely adds to what the authors hope is now the organisation's global appeal. Isis said the Islamic state would extend from Aleppo in northern Syria to Diyala province in eastern Iraq. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group said, would become the leader of the state and would be known as "Caliph Ibrahim". In the recording, the rebels also demanded that all Muslims "pledge allegiance" to the new ruler and "reject democracy and other garbage from the West". On Sunday, Iraqi government jets struck at rebel positions and clashes broke out in various parts of Tikrit, witnesses and officials said. "The security forces are advancing from different areas", Lt-Gen Qassem Atta told journalists. "There are ongoing clashes." Troops had reportedly pulled back to the nearby town of Dijla as Saturday's initial offensive met stiff resistance. The heavy fighting over the two days caused many casualties on both sides, eyewitnesses and journalists told the BBC. Insurgents were reported to have shot down a helicopter and captured the pilot. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the creation of an independent Kurdish state in response to gains made by Sunni insurgents in Iraq. In a speech in Tel Aviv, he said the Kurds were "a nation of fighters and have proved political commitment and are worthy of independence". The Kurds have long striven for an independent state but they remain divided between Syria and Turkey, Iran and Iraq. The international community, including neighbouring Turkey and the US, remains opposed to the breakup of Iraq.

It came into effect on Tuesday night and was in place until 10:00 GMT on Wednesday. The Met Office said icy patches were expected on untreated surfaces, with slippery conditions on pavements and cycle paths possible. Drivers were also warned to be aware of difficult conditions on the roads. The warning covered Pembrokeshire, Swansea, Vale of Glamorgan, Bridgend, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Conwy, Gwynedd, Anglesey, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Denbighshire, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen.

Their rise to third place in the polls comes despite a string of pre-election scandals. One local candidate stood down after a picture emerged of her wearing a swastika armband. Another was highlighted for posting racist and anti-immigrant comments online. And yet, the revelations appear to have had little obvious effect on voters, even if the mainstream parties do not want anything to do with the party. They are led by the dapper and clean-cut Jimmie Akesson, 35. Voters also seemed unperturbed by the news that he has gambled half a million kronor (£43,000; 54,000 euros; $70,000) online. "Every crisis the party gets into Mr Akesson handles very efficiently," says Ulf Bjereld, professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg, who sees him as a very skilful politician, if uncharismatic. Any political party would struggle to fend off accusations of racism, he told the BBC, but the party leader simply took them off the list and said they were not welcome. They will now occupy 49 seats in Sweden's 349-seat parliament. By publicly stressing the Sweden Democrats' zero tolerance towards racism for the past two years, he has been careful not to fall out of step with the tolerance that Swedes believe they have towards ethnic minorities. In contrast with other EU countries, Sweden is granting automatic residence to all refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict and some 80,000 people are expected to apply for asylum this year. The Sweden Democrats have carefully refined their 2010 election platform, when their campaign commercial featured an elderly woman pushing slowly towards a welfare desk. "You can choose if you want to save money from the pensions or immigration budgets," ran the commentary, over menacing music. The pensioner is overtaken by a group of women in burqas. The party made it into parliament in 2010 with 5.7% of the vote, five years after Jimmie Akesson took on the leadership. Beforehand the party had been linked for years to neo-Nazis and other extremist groups. In a speech in August, he identified himself as a nationalist but called for his party to show they were "broad and inclusive". But he was forthright on the risks of political Islam. "Islamism is the Nazism and communism of our time. It has to be met with disgust and much stronger resistance than has so far been the case." The anti-immigration rhetoric has been toned down and carefully argued, with a policy of preferring to help refugees in their own countries. There are obvious parallels with France's National Front which, under the leadership of Marine Le Pen, has moved into the political mainstream. The two parties go back many years, and Ms Le Pen visited Jimmie Akesson last year in Stockholm. A few months ago he praised the National Front's "modern, quite fresh direction". That does not mean the Sweden Democrats have shaken off their past but, with two MEPs in the European Parliament, they are now part of the same grouping as the Eurosceptic UK Independence Party - the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group. Swedish voters are attracted to the party, more because it gives a voice to people who dislike the political elite than its stance on immigration, Prof Bjereld believes. And although he argues that party membership will always have a racist element, the main stance is more xenophobic than racist. "One of Jimmie Akesson's skills is that he sends one message to the racists in his party and another to the general public."

They said Brexit "consequences are likely to be significant". Highlighting Britain's role in the global financial system, they warn Brexit could affect jobs in the financial industry and beyond. In a June referendum, the UK voted to leave the EU causing global uncertainty over the fallout of the separation. In their letter, the bankers also said US companies in the UK rely on "passporting rights" between the UK and the remaining EU member states to allow UK-based firms to operate freely across the economic bloc. They added that millions of people in the US are employed by UK and EU companies and called for a "smooth" transition period to give firms time to get used to changes in trade and investment. All you need to know about Brexit UK's Brexit vote: what has actually happened so far? Brexit: 'No substantive talks for 12 months' In the months since the UK vote to leave the European Union, markets around the globe have seen increased volatility with investors nervous about uncertainty in Europe. The pound plunged on the day after the vote and has remaining at record low levels since then. In their letter, the bankers stress that "for the prosperity of the US and world economies" it was vital that uncertainly was "kept to a minimum" and that existing trade ties were "disrupted as little as possible." The signatories ask for: The letter is signed by the chiefs of the American Bankers Association, the Financial Services Forum, the Financial Services Roundtable and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. Exit negotiations between London and Brussels have not yet begun and the uncertainty of the timeline has added to business uncertainty. Substantive Brexit talks between the UK and the rest of the EU are unlikely to start much before the end of 2017, a former European Council president earlier this month told the BBC. Herman Van Rompuy said negotiations were unlikely until a new German government was formed after next September's election.

The 26-year-old Brazil international has signed a five-year deal and will join City on their pre-season tour of the United States. Danilo can play in both full-back roles as well as in midfield, and is City's fourth major signing of the summer. "There was interest from other clubs, but it has always been my ambition to play for Pep Guardiola," he said. His arrival takes City's summer spending to almost £150m, following the recruitment of England international Kyle Walker (£45m), Portugal midfielder Bernardo Silva (£43m) and Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson Moraes (£35m). The club have also agreed a £52m deal for 23-year-old Monaco defender Benjamin Mendy and sold left-back Aleksandar Kolarov to Serie A club Roma for £4.5m. Danilo's move is subject to him receiving a work permit, meaning he is unlikely to make his debut when City face Real on Wednesday in Los Angeles. The former Santos player joined Real in 2015 from Porto but started just 17 La Liga games last season. In two years at the Bernabeu, he won La Liga, two Champions Leagues, the Uefa Super Cup and the Fifa Club World Cup. "Danilo is a fine player who offers great versatility," said City director of football Txiki Begiristain. "He can operate in several different roles in both defence and midfield, increasing Pep's options ahead of the new season."

Abbie Lee Everett posted the image of her nephew Ben, 14, on Facebook saying he was "lucky to be alive". "It's not an easy photo to look at is it? He ended up in a coma because of somebody spiking his drink," she said. North Wales Police is investigating an incident in Old Colwyn, Conwy county, on Saturday night. Ms Everett said "people may not like this picture" but Ben, who is now home from hospital, had agreed for it to be shared to show what can happen. She added that few people show the consequences of when "kids can get their hands on drugs". "He ended up in a coma because of somebody spiking his drink.. he was lucky to be alive if another lad didn't carry him home when he did and my sister and her husband phoning an ambulance when they did, he wouldn't be here," she posted. "His bloods came back as some alcohol in his blood but really high of MDMA. A dodgy drug nearly took his life, is it really worth taking these kind of drugs?" She added: "Please share to show kids what can actually happen." Police said no arrests have been made but appealed for information.

He was told about the political revenge plot at a 9/11 memorial service two days after the lanes were blocked, a former aide testified in federal court. David Wildstein, who pleaded guilty to the scheme last year, recounted his discussion with Mr Christie on Tuesday. The New Jersey governor has repeatedly denied knowing about the lane closures. Mr Wildstein, who worked at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, said he and his boss, Bill Baroni, told Mr Christie that Mark Sokolich, the mayor of Fort Lee, was "frustrated" over the lane closures. Mr Christie allegedly laughed and responded in a sarcastic tone: "I would imagine that he wouldn't be getting his phone calls returned." The Port Authority oversees airports, tunnels and bridges in the New York area. The fall and fall of Chris Christie Mr Wildstein testified on Tuesday against Mr Baroni and Bridget Anne Kelly, the governor's former deputy chief of staff. The two former aides are charged with conspiring to misuse Port Authority property to punish Mayor Sokolich, a Democrat. Mr Christie, who was once considered a favourite for the Republican presidential nominations, first became embroiled in the scandal in January 2014, when revelations from a series of emails and texts showed that traffic congestion on the George Washington Bridge may have been more than just routine maintenance. Mr Christie's administration justified the closures as part of a traffic study, but Port Authority officials later said the study did not exist. The congestion ended after five days, when an aide to New York's Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo reopened the lanes over concerns of public safety. Federal prosecutors opened an investigation and indicted three members of Mr Christie's aides in 2015, alleging that two of the key bridge's three lanes were closed in retaliation over Mayor Soklich's refusal to endorse the governor in his re-election bid. The governor was not charged in connection to the scheme and has denied any involvement. Mr Wildstein avoided going to trial by pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit fraud on a federally funded property and a civil rights violation. Ms Kelly and Mr Baroni have pleaded not guilty to the charges. Mr Wildstein's dramatic testimony follows weeks of renewed questions over whether Mr Christie was aware of the political retribution. After the governor dropped out of the Republican primary race earlier this year, concerns over "Bridgegate" were overshadowed by his surprising move to endorse his former rival, Donald Trump, for the White House. But last week, federal prosecutors alleged that the governor was informed of the plot, using Mr Wildstein's testimony to argue their claim. Prosecutors revealed photographs of Mr Wildstein, Mr Baroni and the governor laughing together at the 2013 memorial service, suggesting that they were taken during the conversation about the bridge closure. At an event in Trenton, New Jersey later on Tuesday, the governor again denied any knowledge. "I had no knowledge prior to or during" the closures, he said. "There's been no evidence ever put forward that I did. Mr Wildstein's testimony follows last month's revelations that former Christie ally Christina Renna allegedly texted her colleague, Peter Sheridan, about the governor's knowledge of the plot. "He just flat out lied about senior staff and [former campaign manager Bill Stepien] not being involved," she allegedly texted, referring to comments Mr Christie made during a news conference that year. Republicans are probably thanking their lucky stars - as much as they can these days - that Donald Trump didn't go with what was reportedly his gut instinct and pick Chris Christie to be his vice-presidential running mate. If the New Jersey governor had ended up on the ticket, the party would be facing a huge "Bridgegate" distraction on the eve of the one and only vice-presidential debate. Of more proximate concern for Mr Christie at this point is that the latest revelations will make it increasingly difficult for him to have any sort of high-profile job in a possible Trump administration. He would likely be savaged by the Senate if he stood for confirmation for a Cabinet position such as attorney general. Given that the unpopular Christie has little future in New Jersey elective politics, the "Bridgegate" trial could be closing his only lane to continued political relevance.

But with the lowest turnout in the constituency's history and a margin of 2,620 the narrowest ever recorded in this once proud Labour heartland, can this declaration really be believed? It's a bright and windy day in Stoke-on-Trent. The town has been at the centre of the political spotlight for weeks now, but people seem more interested in discussing the aftermath of Storm Doris than the small matter of Stoke Central's by-election result. This staunch working class community was once passionately behind Labour. In 1951, more than 60,000 went to the polls - 34,260 backing Labour. Rather than feel victorious about Gareth Snell's win, Labour voters willing to talk simply seem relieved Paul Nuttall didn't clinch it. In all, 7,853 voted for Mr Snell, compared to 5,233 who wanted UKIP to win. Wendy Wright, 51, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, thought the vote for UKIP may have been higher had it not been for its disastrous campaign. "I'm not surprised Labour won because of the way UKIP handled the campaign," she said. "The people of Stoke seemed to think he [Paul Nuttall] didn't come from the area and they didn't believe his pack of lies. "It's a relief UKIP didn't get in but [Labour retaining the seat] just means things are going to stay the same." Ms Wright said there had not been a high turnout because "people aren't interested in politics". She said: "They've kind of lost faith and lost hope. They think, what's the point, nothing's going to change. "It's a deprived area and it's a shame because the people are so welcoming and friendly." Veronica Millington, 71, from Blythe Bridge, said she and husband Anthony, 75, were "Labour through and through". They backed Mr Snell in the by-election and also voted to stay in the European Union. "I think the people of Stoke do care about politics and they want to make things better," she said. "I think they were misled by UKIP in the beginning. They seemed to promise them so much and people saw it as a new chance really. "It was only when all the lies came out they saw how many wrong things had been said." Mr Millington, 75, expressed concern about why so few people bothered to go to the polls. "The turnout seemed to be very low and I think a lot of people think it was a foregone conclusion. "They thought the Labour Party would win. Now whether or not they've had a jolt from the outsider now, I don't know." For a city that has had such a strong relationship with the Labour party, the changing political landscape over the past seven decades reveals a lot about the strength of feeling in the community. Labour has won all 18 elections since since the inception of the Stoke Central constituency, with the Conservatives coming second until 2001. But although Labour enjoyed a heyday in the 1960s and 70s, their share of the vote has consistently fallen over the years down to a record low of 37% in this by-election. So why did this city of proud, working class voters fall out of love with Labour? "Things started to change because of a growing alienation of the people of Stoke-on-Trent from Westminster," says Prof Mick Temple from Staffordshire University. "Industry was decimated in the 1980s - coal, steel and the Potteries. "When I first came here [in the early 90s] infrastructure was poor, schools were poor and still today, unemployment is higher than the national average." From the closure of Shelton Steel Works - where 10,000 once worked - to the shrinking of its famous pottery industry, the people of Stoke-on-Trent have lived through some turbulent times. But the bleak images of derelict factories and houses often shown by the media are not a true reflection of the passion and pride of a community that is fiercely proud of its heritage. Data shows 6.2% of adults in Stoke Central claim unemployment benefit, far higher than the national average of 3.8%. In recent years employers such as Bet365, Michelin Tyres and Goodwin have invested millions of pounds into their businesses, providing jobs for thousands of people. Hanley's famous pottery industry is also enjoying something of a resurgence, with Emma Bridgewater investing more than £1m in its thriving ceramics factory. Middleport Pottery, home of world-famous Burleigh, is in the national spotlight thanks to the success of BBC Two's The Great Pottery Throw Down. Millions of pounds are being spent regenerating the city. For many people though, the investment has been too little, too late. "The feeling is that the city has been passed by Westminster and the EU, and that is why people voted Leave so overwhelmingly," says Prof Temple. "There are many towns in the north of England where people feel the same - areas that are ripe for UKIP." From 2005, the BNP and UKIP began to resonate with voters, coming fourth and fifth in that year's election and again in 2010. By 2015, UKIP had won so much support its candidate Mick Harold came second to Tristram Hunt for a seat that had the lowest voter turnout in the whole of the UK. Pub owner Tony Flackett, 69, backed Paul Nuttall in Thursday's poll. "It feels sad, it's such a shame, they've worked really hard and people have come from all over the country. "I've always voted for Conservatives but the last two years I voted UKIP because of Brexit and immigration. "But life goes on and at least they reduced the margin." Tom Wilson, 26, voted for UKIP in the by-election and said he was "very upset" at the result. "I think Labour winning is very bad news for Stoke-on-Trent. "There has been years of neglect in Stoke with money spent only on Hanley. "I think only UKIP would have made a change for the people of Stoke." UKIP has made moves to appeal to former Labour voters, as well as those who formerly backed the Tories. "They're more pro-State, pro-NHS. They recognise that strong nationalistic message supported by the working class," says Prof Temple. Between the 2001 and 2011 Censuses, the non-white population doubled and there was a relatively high population of Muslims, he said. "I'm not saying the response was a racist one - Stoke-on-Trent was getting less and less money from the government and the EU and the feeling was the traditional working class community was being overtaken. "Many working class voters felt they could not express their views within the Labour party. "The BNP and UKIP gave them a chance to say how they felt." Now Mr Snell is the town's new MP, the challenge is on for him to win back the trust of former Labour supporters and engage with new ones. Lee Woolrich, 33, from Stoke-on-Trent, is head of client services for a digital agency but did not vote in the by-election. "I'm ashamed really that I didn't use my vote, but I almost don't think I invest enough in politics to make an informed decision," he said. "I don't think young people are engaged in politics. I think they are more so recently because of what's happened in America. "I read about Paul Nuttall and some of his views and policies and I don't believe it's what we need here." Mr Woolrich believes politicians need to take more of an interest in Stoke-on-Trent - he too feels the place has been forgotten and is badly represented by the media. "Stoke is doing great without those kinds of ideas. "I love the developments in Hanley and the cultural quarter. "Stoke is showing signs of change and getting in line with cities like Manchester. "On a local level, I like the direction things are going in but I don't necessarily think government in London will listen to the people of Stoke. "I hate that stigma that Stoke isn't a nice place to live. "It doesn't do the place justice. It's a beautiful city steeped in history." And Prof Temple agrees. "It's a much more attractive place," he said. "I've been here for 24 years, I've lived all around the world and this is the friendliest, most coherent community I've ever known. "Stoke-on-Trent has an identity most places in the UK have lost. "There's a very strong sense of community. It's a place where friendship and family is still strong."

First Minister Arlene Foster said the terms for an independent inquiry were worked out in consultation with the attorney general. She said they were sent to Sinn Féin who, so far, had not responded. However, Sinn Féin's MLA Conor Murphy said they were "insufficient". "There has been no agreement with the DUP on the terms of reference of an independent investigation," he said. "In order to restore public confidence in the political institutions we need an independent investigation, which is robust, transparent, timeframed and led by a senior judicial figure from outside the jurisdiction and with the power to compel witnesses and subpoena documents. "Arlene Foster should step aside to facilitate that investigation pending a preliminary report." Set up in November 2012, the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme was an attempt by the Northern Ireland Executive to help to increase consumption of heat from renewable sources. It is approximately £490m over budget as businesses were receiving more in subsidies than they were paying for renewable fuel and the scheme became heavily oversubscribed.

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A further eight people were injured, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group. It happened at a border crossing north of the Syrian town of Jisr al-Shugour, which is controlled by jihadist groups. The Turkish military insists guards fired only warning shots and that the Syrians dispersed. Syria: The story of the conflict Syria's displaced struggle to survive Turkey says it is being unjustly accused, and is under immense pressure from the EU to stop Syrians trying to travel to Europe. More than 2.7 million people who fled the war in Syria have taken refuge in Turkey. Turkey closed its borders to Syrians several months ago. As well as four children, three women and a man were also killed, the Observatory said. Other Syrian opposition groups put the death toll at 11. Since the beginning of 2016, nearly 60 civilians have been shot while trying to flee across the border from Syria into Turkey, the Observatory says.

Police confirmed the body is that of missing Kirsty Aitchison, who was last seen in the early hours of Sunday after leaving a social event for deaf people in the city centre. The 30-year-old mother-of-four had left Campus bar in Sauchiehall Street at about 03:00 BST. The death is not being treated as suspicious, Police Scotland said. The discovery was made by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service from the Clyde near to the Kingston Bridge at about 16.35. Chief Inspector John McBride said: "We would like to thank members of the public and the Deaf/BSL community for their support and assistance throughout this investigation. "Our thoughts and condolences are with Kirsty's family and friends during this difficult time." After leaving the bar, Ms Aitchison was seen on CCTV images heading towards the Broomielaw, holding her high-heeled black sandals and walking barefoot. It had been reported she may have been planning to meet friends at a casino moored on the river. During the week, police divers were brought in to search the river, and an air support unit was used to assist community policing officers as they conducted inquiries.

The CIES Football Observatory has drawn up a list of the players with most league appearances by year of birth. It says 19-year-old Alli's 98 games for Spurs and MK Dons are the most for a player born in 1996 or later. The list is dominated by Premier League players ahead of their rivals in Spain, Germany, Italy and France. England international Alli has made one more appearance than Barcelona's Croatia Under-21 international Alen Halolovic, 19, who is on loan at Sporting Gijon. Third on the list is Villarreal's Spain U21 international winger Matias Nahuel, 19. Among players born in 1985 or later, only one player has more games under his belt than Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney - Bournemouth defender Simon Francis with 460 games. Everton's Romelu Lukaku, 22, tops the list for players born after 1993, having played 210 games so far for the Toffees, Anderlecht, Chelsea and West Brom. Of players born after 1991, Chelsea's Eden Hazard has played 277 games, just ahead of Liverpool's Nathaniel Clyne. Chelsea boss Guus Hiddink has urged doctors at the Football Association and Premier League clubs to put pressure on the game's authorities to reduce the number of fixtures played by clubs in English competitions. Chelsea face four games in the next 12 days across three competitions, and Hiddink says the players need more protection. But former Chelsea doctor Ralph Rogers told BBC Radio 5 live on Monday that was unrealistic. "I appreciate his concern but it's all market-driven. People want football," he said.

The 41-year-old reached the semi-final for the first time since he last lifted the trophy in 2011 with a 13-6 win over Kyren Wilson. The world number six will now face the winner of Stephen Maguire's match against Barry Hawkins for a place in Sunday's final. "I believe I can [win], and that's a great feeling to have," Higgins said. "I was close last year, Alan [McManus] pipped me [in the quarter-final]," he added. "A couple of years after 2011, I'd been losing, my form wasn't great and you don't think you're going to get back to that one-table set up. "It's the best place in the world to get out and play and I can't wait to get into the arena tomorrow [Thursday]. I'm buzzing." Higgins won all three sessions against Wilson, the world number 16, and believes his game has grown in strength over the course of the tournament. The Scot considers reigning champion Mark Selby as the favourite for the title, while his pre-competition tip was Hawkins. Yet Higgins is in a good place mentally as he prepares for the semi-final. "The nerves get more difficult, but I'm more relaxed this year," he said. Media playback is not supported on this device "I don't know if that's because I feel as if I'm playing OK. At this event, you need to have a few sessions when you have good, frame-winning breaks. I did that against Mark Allen and in the second session against Kyren. "To win this event you need a couple of sessions when you're dominating the other player. I feel as if my game can be there to do that but I'm sure other players will say the same thing. "There are some sessions, especially this year, when I couldn't have played any better. I played [Ronnie] O'Sullivan in the final of the Champions and couldn't have played any better. You've just got to hope that comes out in the big matches." Maguire was once tipped as a potential world champion by O'Sullivan, and Hawkins said the Scot is benefitting from curbing his socialising at tournaments. Higgins would like to face his compatriot Maguire in the semi-final, because it would guarantee that a Scot will feature in Sunday's final. "Everybody's got their own choices in life and us Scots, we maybe like a drink and there's nothing wrong with that," Higgins said. "Life's too short. "Stephen is a great player and I hope [he] comes through. If he was to beat me, I would be the first one to cheer him to win his first world title. "But I get on well with Barry as well and I know how difficult he is to beat. In the last few years he's grown into a great champion, because he always had the game and he's got the belief now."

About 300 kgs of cannabis resin, eight kgs of cannabis herb and 1 kg of cocaine were found at Donaghmede Park, north Dublin, on Saturday at 19:30 local time. The men, aged 25 and 52, were arrested at the scene. They are being held at Coolock and Clontarf garda stations.

There I was thinking it was turning into a big love-in after Andrew RT Davies and Carwyn Jones were in danger of agreeing with each other on the need for an M4 relief road and the sterling work carried out by retiring assembly members, when Leanne Wood stepped into the fray. She'd clearly established that this wasn't the time for sentimentality and hit the first minister with a triple whammy by accusing him of five years' worth of evasion, failing to answer questions and a lack of engagement. Ouch. It was a sharp reminder that we're about to enter an election campaign. And it was also clear that economic development will play a big part in Labour's campaign, with Aston Martin not only being mentioned twice but a claim that there'll be more jobs announcements in the coming weeks. Carwyn Jones then attacked Plaid, claiming their policies usually involve the creation of a "national committee of some kind". Now that the sentimental spell had been broken, Kirsty Williams followed in kind by criticising Labour's record on access to GPs, child poverty and education standards. Much of it was standard pre-election fare but there was an interesting tone from Carwyn Jones on proposals for the M4 relief road. He said: "We wish to see the M4 relief road being built. It's true to say that our preferred route is the black route but of course we are willing to examine other options should they prove feasible." That doesn't sound to me like a man who's preparing to go to battle on the so-called black route and is a marked difference in tone to that used by the outgoing economy minister Edwina Hart. There are two proposals. The black route is a new six lane motorway to the south of Newport, while the much cheaper blue route is an upgrade of an existing southern distributor road which would involve removing the roundabouts in what is largely a dual carriageway. There have been a number of recent developments in relation to the M4. Last week it emerged that the black route is after all going to cost £1.1bn, despite Carwyn Jones saying it was going to come in way below that figure. Leanne Wood also told me in an interview at the Plaid spring conference in Llanelli that she would refuse to consider any kind of deal with Labour, whether a formal coalition or an informal arrangement, so long as it was considering an investment of £1bn on the black route. The Conservatives have given us their pre-election position, which is not to have a position on whether it should be the blue or the black route. Instead they made a commitment to have diggers in the ground within a year. What's fascinating about the M4 relief road is that it stands in stark contrast to the metro rail scheme, which will form part of the new Cardiff city deal. The metro, to improve bus and train services in south east Wales, is supported by virtually everyone while the M4 relief road is one of the most divisive subjects in Welsh politics.

It is urging them to "keep trying" the emergency phone numbers instead, although some have pointed out that mobile phone batteries are running low. One expert said it could be because social media posts can be hard to verify. Many people are tweeting their addresses and asking to be rescued. However it is possible that not all the requests will be spotted - and they may not all be genuine. "The web is messy and unpredictable," said Euan Semple, who advises on the impact of social media on businesses and society. "You have to be able to judge signal from noise." Mr Semple added that persuading people to follow the Coast Guard's advice would be challenging. "If you're in an extreme situation, and you can't get access through formal channels, and there is the prospect of help from somewhere else helping your signal to be seen, it would be tough not to." Residents of a care home were rescued after an image of them waist-deep in floodwater went viral on Twitter. Facebook has activated its safety check-in in Texas so that affected members can mark themselves safe.

The plane crashed in the French Alps on March 24 with 150 people on board. Investigators say co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed the plane after locking the pilot out of the cockpit. Experts have spent six weeks conducting DNA tests on the remains. "The 150 death certificates can now be signed, as well as the 150 burial permits," said Brice Robin, Marseille's city prosecutor. Mr Robin had previously said it was Mr Lubitz's "intention to destroy [the] plane", which was flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. Among the victims was a group of 16 students, 14 girls and two boys, and two of their teachers, from Joseph-Koenig school in Haltern, western Germany. They were travelling back from a Spanish exchange programme on the Germanwings flight. The victims were from 18 countries, including Australia, Argentina and Japan, but most of those on board were either Spanish or German. The plane took off from Barcelona just after 09:00 GMT on 24 March. It made its last contact with air traffic control half an hour later, before descending over the following ten minutes. The Airbus plane crashed in a remote region at 09:41GMT. On 26 March, French investigators said information from the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) found at the crash zone revealed that Mr Lubitz had taken over the controls of the plane and sent it into a dive intentionally. A full investigation report is expected to be completed in a year.

Chris Coleman's team are likely to face a tough draw as they will be one of the lowest-seeded teams. But former striker Rush believes the biggest nations will not want to face a Welsh side which lost only once in qualifying. "They won't want Wales in their group," Rush told BBC Wales' Sport Wales. "I'm not saying we are going to win it but the opposition won't like to play Wales. "Every game will be a big test and they will learn from it and I think we will win a game." Rush is the country's all-time leading goalscorer with 28 goals, while Gareth Bale took his tally to 19 with Wales' second goal in the 2-0 win over Andorra. Real Madrid forward Bale scored seven of Wales' 11 goals in Euro 2016 qualifying, with Aaron Ramsey netting twice and Hal Robson-Kanu and David Cotterill scoring one apiece. But former Liverpool and Juventus striker Rush is not too concerned by Wales' limited forward options. "The lads that play there I think you forget the work that they do. They put in a tremendous work rate," Rush added. "What we may be missing is someone to tap the ball in "But Robson-Kanu, [Sam] Vokes and [Simon] Church give it 110% so you can't knock that. I think sometimes you need that goal to give you confidence. "Get the confidence in the friendly internationals and you never know what might happen." *Watch Sport Wales most Fridays on BBC Two Wales and for seven days after transmission on iPlayer

Malcolm Roberts, from the far-right party One Nation, said he was "very confident" he could prove he was not a dual citizen. Under Australia's constitution, a person cannot run for federal office if they hold dual or plural citizenship. Three politicians have quit as a row over dual citizenship has intensified. The Queensland senator, who was born in India to a Welsh father, said he never believed he was British citizen. Speaking in a television interview with Sky News, Senator Roberts said he contacted British authorities days before the cut-off for candidate nominations. He said he wrote three times to British authorities saying: "I believe I am not a British and just in case though, if I am, then I renounce it effective immediately." Senator Roberts said he received formal registration of his status from British authorities on December 5, 2016 - five months after the federal election. "I've taken all steps that I reasonably believe necessary," Senator Roberts told Sky News. The senator has previously confirmed on social media that he was not an Indian citizen. "I am a citizen only of Australia and therefore eligible to hold the position as Senator in the Australian parliament," he said on Facebook. The politician has been under pressure to reveal his status following the resignation of two deputy Greens leaders, Scott Ludlam and Larissa Waters, who were both dual nationals. This week, Matthew Canavan also quit as Australia's Minister for Resources and Northern Australia because he faces legal questions over his Italian citizenship. The Section 44 (Disqualification) states that any person who "is under any acknowledgment of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power... shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator or a member of the House of Representatives". This is interpreted by the High Court of Australia as meaning that persons with dual citizenship are not permitted to run for office. Yes. Dual nationals cannot be elected to parliament in Armenia, Egypt or the Philippines. In Israel, a person must renounce his or her other citizenship to be sworn is as a member of Knesset (parliament). In New Zealand, serving lawmakers run the risk of losing their seat if they renew non-New Zealand passports.

The march began at about 14:15 BST in St Helen's Square before making its way to York Minster. The crowd was then addressed by representatives of charities and pressure groups as well as refugees. March organiser Harkirit Boparai, from York Human Rights Network, said: "What we've seen through this demonstration is the community spirit of York". David Cameron announced on Monday that the UK would accept up to 20,000 people from camps surrounding Syria with priority given to vulnerable children. A spokesperson for City of York Council said: "The council is meeting partners from across the city to identify how York can best provide support, as we await information from the government on how the process of resettlement will work."

The Englishman, appointed earlier this month, said that he was looking for "warriors" for next month's opening Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Nigeria. Baxter named 25 players for the match in Uyo on 10 June - a tough start for Bafana Bafana in their bid to qualify for the 2019 finals in Cameroon after missing out on this year's tournament in Gabon. Baxter picked only two players from his own club SuperSport United, who he leaves on June 24. He is juggling both jobs at the moment, missing on the club's trip to Gabon for their African Confederation Cup assignment on Tuesday so he could concentrate on picking the Bafana Bafana squad. There are six Europe-based players, including recalls for stylish midfielder Bongani Zungu, who is set to play in the Portuguese Cup final on Sunday for Vitoria Guimaraes, and striker Tokelo Rantie, who scored twice in Uyo in November 2014. "We have players who have been outstanding in the Premier Soccer League the whole season, and we also have continuity with a number of players that Safa has invested much time in. I believe we have a good mix," said Baxter, who is back as coach for a second time. He added: "We have also looked at aerial strength and tried to spread that well throughout the team; it means if we can have good preparation before we go, then we have a squad that is capable of giving Nigeria a good game." South Africa have never beaten the Super Eagles in a competitive international but in the 2015 Nations Cup qualifiers gave away a two-goal lead in a 2-2 draw. Squad: Goalkeepers: Darren Keet (Bidvest Wits), Itumeleng Khune (Kaizer Chiefs), Ronwen Williams (SuperSport United) Defenders: Rivaldo Coetzee (Ajax Cape Town), Lorenzo Gordinho (Kaizer Chiefs), Sifiso Hlanti, Thulani Hlatshwayo (both Bidvest Wits), Tebego Langerman (Mamelodi Sundowns), Mulomowandau Mathoho (Kaizer Chiefs), Abubakar Mobara (Orlando Pirates), Ramahlwe Mphahlele (Kaizer Chiefs) Midfielders: Keegan Dolly (Montpellier, France), Dean Furman (SuperSport United), Andile Jali (Oostende, Belgium), Hlompho Kekana (Mamelodi Sundowns), Kamohelo Mokotjo (Twente Enschede, Netherlands), Aubrey Ngoma (Cape Town City), Bongani Zungu (Vitoria Guimaraes, Portugal), Themba Zwane (Mamelodi Sundowns) Forwards: Kermit Erasmus (Racing Lens, France), Thamsanqa Gabuza (Orlando Pirates), Lebogang Manyama (Cape Town City), Tokelo Rantie (Genclerbirligi, Turkey), Percy Tau, Sibusiso Vilakazi (both Mamelodi Sundowns).

Dover District Councillor Bob Frost appeared to make comments about black people during an online conversation about the recent riots. Mr Frost, a teacher, has apologised "unreservedly" and deleted the posts. Deputy Council Leader Sue Chandler said: "There is no place in our society for this kind of language." She added: "We have therefore suspended Councillor Frost from the Conservative Group pending investigation." The comment was made while Mr Frost was having a conversation on the social-networking site, alluding to the London riots while he was on holiday. On his status he wrote: "I'm missing the vibrant and multi-cultural society which I normally celebrate here in Sicily! Not!" It was then suggested by someone else on Facebook that he take a trip to north London. He replied: "All the bunnies here are of the woodland variety rather than the jungle." Sola Afuape, chair of the equality charity Afiya Trust, said: "You don't expect somebody in a position of power, in a leadership position, to make comments like this. "They're clearly offensive - racist in fact." In a statement, Mr Frost said: "What I said was wrong and I apologise unreservedly. "I am mortified by the offence that I have caused and have deleted these comments. "I am very sorry."

The Kenyan trade unionist turned politician Tom Mboya, who studied at Ruskin College, Oxford, wanted members of his country's government to be adequately prepared for a post-colonial Kenya. He recognised quite early on that there were not enough professional Africans to run an efficient civil service. To make up the shortfall, he set up a scholarship fund that would take young bright Africans to the US and Canada. The idea was for them to acquire the necessary skills and come back to help build a new country when the white civil servants packed up and returned to Europe. One of those students was one Barack Obama from Kogelo, near the port city of Kisumu on the shores of Lake Victoria. Barack Obama Senior was the first African student to study at the University of Hawaii. There he fell in love and married a young American woman, Ann Dunham. They had a son named after his father, Barack Hussein Obama II. I travelled to Mr Obama's home in Kogelo where I met his step-grandmother Sarah Obama and aunt Marsat Onyango Obama to find out what the scholarship meant for the family at the time. We stood in the family's small graveyard, next to the grave of Barack Obama Senior. Ms Onyango told me that even though she had not yet been born when Mr Obama left, she knew that the family had been very proud of him. "They said he carried their hopes and dreams." Tom Mboya was assassinated in central Nairobi 1969 at the age of 38. He was minister of economic development and planning but the motive for his killing remains a mystery. He had achieved a lot for his young age - his intellectual prowess and eloquence meant that he could articulate his vision clearly to others. As a sign of his global significance he had appeared on the cover of Time magazine, the first Kenyan to have done so. One of his daughters, Susan Mboya, who holds a PhD in chemistry, is an executive at Coca-Cola Africa based in Nairobi. She also runs a scholarship programme, known as Zawadi, the Kiswahili word for gift, helping mainly young African women to study abroad. In light of the excitement engulfing Kenya ahead of President Obama's visit this weekend, I asked what she thought of her father's initiative. She replied in a quiet, confident voice: "My father could not have known that by helping one person to go to school, he was going to change the lives of so many people. "Barack Obama has achieved a lot personally and it's great that he is the president of the United States. "But I think the biggest benefit that Barack Obama has brought is how he has inspired young people all over the world… and to me that is the huge thing that has come out of the scholarships." I asked her why she had followed in her father's footsteps by setting up her own programme. "I want to finish what my father started but I want to finish it in a way that brings balance to the leadership in this country." The airlift scholarship also took the Kenyan newspaper columnist Philip Ochieng to America. He studied a Bachelor of Arts in Literature at Chicago's Roosevelt University. The 76-year-old knew Mr Obama Senior very well and recalls that he was clever. He told me in Nairobi that they used to drink whisky together. As he put it: "America watered my thirst for knowledge." What if The scholarship programme educated nearly 800 students from Kenya and elsewhere in East Africa. Other scholars included the late Wangari Mathaai, who became the first African woman to become a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and the late geneticist Reuben Olembo, who became a director at the United Nations environment agency, Unep. The partner, on the other side of the Atlantic, was an American entrepreneur William X Scheinman, who was a good friend of Tom Mboya's, and they received President John F Kennedy's support. Musician and activist Harry Belafonte and actor Sidney Poitier raised funds for the scholarship fund, amongst many others. Mr Belafonte later wrote about Mr Obama Senior's scholarship: "Imagine: perhaps, if not for support from the African American Students' Foundation, he might not have come to America," he said. "Then who would be in the White House today?" Mr Obama Senior, who also graduated from Harvard, returned to Kenya in 1968 and eventually worked for the government as an economist. He died in a car crash in 1982. But not before he had visited his son in Hawaii. He gave his son his first basketball as a gift and took him to his first jazz concert, where the maestro pianist and composer Dave Brubeck was performing. And as I left her office in Nairobi, which boasts pictures of when she met President Obama, Ms Mboya reminded me "it doesn't take much to change a life."

Neill Birnie is paralysed from the neck down as a result of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. In 2014, he was admitted to Antrim Area Hospital three times. He said that following the first admission he discovered a DNR order had been placed on his medical file. According to Mr Birnie, the order had been placed on his record without his knowledge. The 48-year-old is unable to talk and spoke to me via a head-operated computer. "A consultant told me that I had gone through enough and I had to face the facts. "He went on to say that he'd consulted with others and that they both thought that a DNR notice should be placed on my admission file," said Mr Birnie. He told the BBC that at no time did either he or his sister grant permission for a DNR notice to be placed on his file. While he survived the first bout of pneumonia, he said he discovered when admitted for a second time that the DNR notice had not been removed. "What some of the doctors did was life-threatening and mentally cruel. I felt I had been tossed to the one side, I had no feelings of self worth," added Mr Birnie. Several months after the incident, Mr Birnie made an official complaint to the Northern Health and Social Care Trust. In a letter to Mr Birnie dated October 2015 and seen by the BBC, the trust explained that as he was so unwell they had spoken to his sister. The trust also said that if the infection had caused his heart to stop, medical staff would not have been able to bring him back and that attempts at cardio respiratory resuscitation would not have been in his best interests. However, Mr Birnie said he does not accept that a DNR notice was placed on his file in advance of him being admitted without his or his sister's consent. In a statement to the BBC, a spokesperson for the Northern Health Trust confirmed that a DNR notice was placed on Mr Birnie's file in January 2014, but not before a conversation had taken place with their patient. "The decision to implement a DNR is a medical one, which is taken in cases where medical professionals feel that if a person's medical condition at that time causes their heart to stop, resuscitation attempts would be futile and therefore not in their best interests in providing a dignified death. "This was discussed with Mr Birnie initially and was put in place following a conversation with his next of kin who indicated that they had talked it over with Mr Birnie and agreed with the decision taken," the statement said. "A DNR notice is reviewed and, if felt appropriate, renewed on a daily basis. There is currently no DNR on Mr Birnie's file and his treatment remains unaffected." A DNR notice is an extremely sensitive issue. Often the subject can arise when a person least expects it or is not in a position to make a rational judgement. The order means medical staff will not attempt to bring the patient back to life if they stop breathing or their heart stops. The decision to use one is ultimately a doctor's, but official guidelines from the British Medical Association (BMA) state medical staff have a duty to discuss it with relatives wherever possible. The problem for medical staff is that sometimes the conversation between doctor and the patient or family may not take place in time. The usual circumstances in which it is appropriate not to resuscitate are when it will not restart the heart or breathing; when there is no benefit to the patient; and when the benefits are outweighed by the burdens. The guidelines also say that it should only be issued after discussions with the patient or family. However, according to Neill Birnie that did not happen. As a quadriplegic who requires 24-hour care via the computer, he told me he is still a human being with feelings: "The lights are still on and I am definitely at home." Via his voice-activated computer, he told a rude joke that made me laugh. He smiled through his eyes. At times, there were tears in his eyes. Earlier this year, a study by the Royal College of Physicians in England found one in five families was not consulted when doctors had decided not to revive their relative. The study was taken from just over 9,000 dying patients.

Coastguard and police teams were alerted after the 56-year-old got into difficulties at St Cyrus beach on Thursday evening. Access difficulties meant an RAF helicopter was needed to get him out. He was flown to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with suspected rib injuries. His condition is not believed to be life-threatening.

Stone said he would make a movie in India "if there was a great story". He said Indian cinema was "very prolific and vital" and that he had used that vitality in his 1994 film Natural Born Killers. The movie is about two young lovers who commit numerous robberies and murders during a wild three-week spree. Stone is in the western Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) to receive a lifetime achievement award at a prominent film festival. "Indian cinema is very prolific. I can't keep up. I used that vitality in Natural Born Killers. I love that the films switch from comedy to romance and then to tragedy. I love that," Stone told reporters. He said he had studied Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray's works in school. Asked if he would make a movie in India, Stone said: "If there was a great story. If I had Danny Boyle's luck, I'd make Slumdog Millionaire. There was a good detective story [based in India] written two years ago but..." Stone shot parts of his film Alexander in the Ladakh region which he described as "beautiful". Stone said his 10-part documentary mini-series, The Untold History of America, will air sometime next year.

Kruse, ranked 10th in the world, beat Italy's Alessio Foconi 15-8 in the final to win the foil. The 33-year-old was attacked shortly after arriving in Shanghai last week. "The adrenaline that went through my body was unbelievable," said Kruse, who will rise to world number five. "When I came to fence, I was ready to fight." Kruse, who finished fourth at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, received a bye through the qualifying rounds in Shanghai before beating German fencer Benjamin Kleibrink in his opener. Further victories over American Nick Itkin, Hong Kong's world number seven Cheung Ka-long, Italian Lorenzo Nista and France's world number six Erwann le Pechoux set up the meeting with Foconi in the showpiece. "Maybe coming fourth in Rio was the best thing to happen to me," said Kruse, who missed out on Great Britain's first Olympic fencing medal in 52 years. "Had I got a medal then perhaps I wouldn't have had the motivation to carry on."

Transgender protesters forced a halt to debate on the bill on Wednesday. Last month, the state approved a human rights measure banning gender identity discrimination at public facilities. In recent weeks, two other states passed laws ensuring equal access to gender-segregated facilities for transgender students. The bill in Arizona's Republican-dominated legislature would make it a misdemeanour offence to use a public toilet, bathroom, shower, bath, dressing room or changing room associated with a gender other than what is on one's birth certificate. Penalties could include six months in prison. "If you look like a man and you live your life like a man, you should be able to use a man's bathroom," said Dru Levasseur, a transgender rights lawyer for the advocacy group Lambda Legal. But John Kavanagh, the Republican lawmaker who sponsored the bill, said he feared criminals might take advantage of the situation and expose themselves to children of the opposite gender. "This law simply restores the law of society: men are men and women are women," Mr Kavanagh said, according to the Associated Press. "For a handful of people to make everyone else uncomfortable just makes no sense." But, Mr Kavanagh added, police would be allowed to use their discretion over whether to press charges if women used the men's room to avoid a long queue. On Wednesday, Mr Kavanagh agreed to postpone a vote on the bill at the start of a hearing filled with dozens of transgender activists. The bill's opponents say it would force transgender people to reveal themselves and risk harassment, "Most transgender people try to slip through public places without being noticed,'' activist Erica Keppler said. "This will turn us into criminals." And advocates say transgender people can find it difficult to change gender on their birth certificates because many states require proof of gender treatment surgery. Meanwhile, other states such as Idaho and Ohio do not allow such changes at all, the American Civil Liberties Union said. It is already illegal to discriminate against transgender people in 16 US states, although the extent of protections can vary, the group added. In an ongoing case, a Colorado family has filed a complaint against the state after their six-year-old, who was born a boy, was banned from using the girl's bathroom at her primary school.

Media playback is not supported on this device Skipper Johnnie Jackson also fired home for the Addicks as they saw off a second-half fightback from the visitors courtesy of substitute Tom Hopper's header. Following early Scunthorpe dominance, it was Charlton who took the lead through a sublime left-foot strike from Lookman as the first-half substitute converted his fourth goal of the season in style. The hosts doubled their lead six minutes later courtesy of Jackson's fine low finish. The visitors managed to pull a goal back seven minutes into the second half as Hopper headed home from a Josh Morris corner. The Iron nearly levelled moments later but defender Charlie Goode saw his shot deflected onto the post before Kevin Van Veen's follow-up was denied by Declan Rudd. It was the 1947 winners who sealed their place in the next round as Lookman fired past Daniels from close range in the 83rd minute. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Charlton Athletic 3, Scunthorpe United 1. Second Half ends, Charlton Athletic 3, Scunthorpe United 1. Foul by Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United). Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt missed. Lee Novak (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Tom Hopper (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic). Foul by Murray Wallace (Scunthorpe United). Lee Novak (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing. Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United). Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Jordan Botaka replaces Johnnie Jackson. Attempt missed. Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left. Attempt blocked. Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Goal! Charlton Athletic 3, Scunthorpe United 1. Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Fredrik Ulvestad. Attempt saved. Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Attempt blocked. Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Conor Townsend (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card for hand ball. Hand ball by Conor Townsend (Scunthorpe United). Foul by Tom Hopper (Scunthorpe United). Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Johnnie Jackson. Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Sam Mantom replaces Richard Smallwood. Attempt missed. Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Lee Novak replaces Nicky Ajose. Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United). Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt saved. Johnnie Jackson (Charlton Athletic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Attempt blocked. Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Stephen Dawson (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic). Attempt missed. Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Attempt saved. Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Luke Williams replaces Duane Holmes. Hand ball by Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic). Foul by Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United). Ezri Konsa Ngoyo (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing. Attempt saved. Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.

I ddathlu'r diwrnod, mae Cymru Fyw wedi herio rhai o sêr y sgrin fach i ddysgu ychydig o Gymraeg. Sut hwyl gafodd actorion Eastenders, Casualty a Dannii Minogue, o'r gyfres Let It Shine, arni? Mae'r gantores ac actores Dannii Minogue wedi bod yn disgleirio fel un o feirniaid y gyfres Let it Shine yn ddiweddar ar y BBC. Ac er mai yn Awstralia gafodd hi ei magu, mae ganddi wreiddiau yng Nghymru felly dyw'r Gymraeg ddim yn newydd iddi: Mae llawer o ymwelwyr i Gymru yn cael trafferth i ynganu enwau hyfryd ein pentrefi, trefi a dinasoedd. Ond sut hwyl gafodd cast Eastenders arni? Gan fod y gyfres ddrama Casualty yn cael ei ffilmio yng Nghaerdydd erbyn hyn, mae'n ddefnyddiol i'r criw ddysgu enwau rhannau'r corff yn Gymraeg... Rhannwch y Gymraeg! Ydych chi'n nabod rhywun fyddai'n hoffi dysgu'r iaith? Rhowch gynnig ar y Gymraeg

Bobby Grant's early penalty was a dent to the Blades' hopes, which rested on them beating Coventry and Town losing. Curtis Nelson drilled in to level for Oxford, which is how it remained until Ashley Eastham's powerful header put Fleetwood back in front late on. David Ball fired into the top corner with three minutes to go to seal it. Uwe Rosler's side are third after the win, seven points behind second-placed Bolton with five games to play. Oxford, who lost in the Checkatrade Trophy final at Wembley on Sunday, are 10th and seven points off the play-off places. Match ends, Oxford United 1, Fleetwood Town 3. Second Half ends, Oxford United 1, Fleetwood Town 3. Attempt blocked. Curtis Nelson (Oxford United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Cheyenne Dunkley. Attempt missed. Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Foul by Jack Sowerby (Fleetwood Town). Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Nathan Pond. Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Canice Carroll. Attempt blocked. David Ball (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Goal! Oxford United 1, Fleetwood Town 3. David Ball (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by George Glendon. Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Jack Sowerby replaces Ashley Hunter. Foul by David Ball (Fleetwood Town). Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) wins a free kick on the left wing. Amari'i Bell (Fleetwood Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Canice Carroll (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Amari'i Bell (Fleetwood Town). Substitution, Oxford United. Kane Hemmings replaces Chris Maguire. Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Nathan Pond replaces Kyle Dempsey. Goal! Oxford United 1, Fleetwood Town 2. Ashley Eastham (Fleetwood Town) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Bobby Grant. Bobby Grant (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Liam Sercombe (Oxford United). Attempt missed. Antonio Martínez (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Foul by Bobby Grant (Fleetwood Town). Canice Carroll (Oxford United) wins a free kick on the left wing. Cian Bolger (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Antonio Martínez (Oxford United). Substitution, Oxford United. Antonio Martínez replaces Josh Ruffels. Attempt blocked. Cian Bolger (Fleetwood Town) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Marvin Johnson (Oxford United). Chris Maguire (Oxford United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Cian Bolger (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Chris Maguire (Oxford United). Attempt missed. Josh Ruffels (Oxford United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Attempt saved. Amari'i Bell (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. David Ball (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United). Ben Davies (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Chris Maguire (Oxford United).

In-form striker James Vaughan gave the hosts a 22nd-minute lead before Reece Brown scored a 45th-minute free-kick from around 40 yards. Bury were stunned by three goals in eight minutes through Erhun Oztumer and a Jason McCarthy brace, but Tom Soares pounced at the death to deny Walsall a third straight win. Tom Pope and Amadou Bakayoko had gone close at each end before Pope crossed for Vaughan to slide in his 17th goal of the season - and seventh in three games. Neil Etheridge then saved a Pope header and blocked the striker's follow-up, while Bury's Rob Lainton saved a Bakayoko shot. But Bury doubled their lead as Brown's free-kick caught Etheridge off his line and flew into the top corner. The Shakers eased off in the second half, though, and Walsall made them pay. Matt Preston had a shot blocked on the line and Lainton denied Isaiah Osbourne from the rebound. But Oztumer hit a 20-yard free-kick into the bottom corner on 71 minutes to spark the Saddlers' fightback. Five minutes later, McCarthy fired home from Bakayoko's cut-back before the Southampton loanee headed home from Osbourne's cross. Soares then glanced in Brown's cross to rescue a point but Bury remain in the relegation zone. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Bury 3, Walsall 3. Second Half ends, Bury 3, Walsall 3. Substitution, Walsall. Andreas Makris replaces Amadou Bakayoko. Foul by James Vaughan (Bury). (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Goal! Bury 3, Walsall 3. Tom Soares (Bury) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Reece Brown. Substitution, Walsall. George Dobson replaces Erhun Oztumer. Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Reece Brown. Foul by Taylor Moore (Bury). Joe Edwards (Walsall) wins a free kick on the left wing. Attempt blocked. Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Substitution, Bury. Ryan Lowe replaces Hallam Hope. Substitution, Bury. Jermaine Pennant replaces Jacob Mellis. Attempt missed. Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Goal! Bury 2, Walsall 3. Jason McCarthy (Walsall) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Isaiah Osbourne. Foul by Hallam Hope (Bury). Jason McCarthy (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Goal! Bury 2, Walsall 2. Jason McCarthy (Walsall) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Substitution, Bury. George Miller replaces Tom Pope. Attempt missed. Taylor Moore (Bury) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Attempt blocked. Jacob Mellis (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Substitution, Walsall. Simeon Jackson replaces Florent Cuvelier. Goal! Bury 2, Walsall 1. Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner. Reece Brown (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Reece Brown (Bury). Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt missed. Reece Brown (Bury) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick. Hand ball by Neil Etheridge (Walsall). Reece Brown (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Isaiah Osbourne (Walsall). Attempt saved. Hallam Hope (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Hallam Hope (Bury) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Adam Chambers (Walsall). Attempt saved. Hallam Hope (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Tom Pope (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Adam Chambers (Walsall). Attempt missed. Isaiah Osbourne (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Attempt blocked. Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall) right footed shot from very close range is blocked. Attempt saved. Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall) left footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Greg Leigh.

Funerals have been held across the country for those whose bodies were released by forensic investigators. Officials said the number of dead had risen to 358 after two badly burned victims died in hospital. Honduran President Porfirio Lobo has ordered a safety review of all prisons as experts try to establish the causes of the blaze in the Comayagua prison. Pathologists continue to try to identify the bodies of the victims, but said many were so badly burned they could only be identified through DNA testing. So far, only 18 bodies have been released to their families for burial. Deadly conditions Of the 358 people who died, all but one were inmates. The other was the wife of a prisoner who had come to visit her husband. Forensic experts from Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico have joined their Honduran colleagues to try to speed up the identification process. The United States has sent a team from its Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to help with the investigation into the causes of the fire. ATF team member Jose Oquendo said they would stay "until the investigation is concluded, however long that may take". The Honduran Ministry of Public Affairs said there had been 852 people inside the prison when the fire broke out on Tuesday. The prison was at double its capacity and there were only six guards on duty. Survivors described how they desperately struggled to save themselves as firefighters tried to find the guards who had the keys to the cells. The prison had no emergency evacuation plan. President Lobo said he would ensure measures would be taken to improve the situation in the country's 24 prisons, which hold more than 13,000 inmates.

Kensington and Chelsea council said it had given the owner a section 215 notice ordering the stripes' removal after neighbours complained. The stripes appeared earlier this month after plans to demolish the house and replace it with a new house and two-storey basement were refused. Neighbours said it looked "hideous". The house, in a quiet cul-de-sac, must be repainted by 3 July. The owner has until 5 June to appeal the decision. A council spokesman said: "The property is situated within the Kensington Square Conservation Area and its condition and appearance has attracted numerous complaints to the council's planning enforcement team."

Bristol-born Kersey-Brown grew up in Penmaenmawr and was a Wales schoolboy rugby union international. He spent five years at London Welsh before switching codes to turn professional with Huddersfield in November 1967. Kersey-Brown, who also played for Oldham, won two caps for Wales in the 1968-69 season. "We're really sorry to hear that Alex has lost his long battle with cancer," Wales Rugby League's chairman Brian Juliff said. "On behalf of everyone at Wales Rugby League, I would like to send our condolences to Alex's family and friends at this sad time."

The winger, who re-joined the club over the summer, rifled a 20-yard drive into the top left corner of the goal after 54 minutes to cancel out Cameron Burgess' early opener. Latics were reduced to 10 men four minutes after Hall's strike when Ousmane Fane fouled Marvin Johnson and was sent off for his second yellow card. And later, Oxford boss Michael Appleton and a member of Oldham's coaching staff were both sent from the dug-out for remonstrating over a booking. On-loan Fulham centre-half Burgess fired Oldham in front in the 10th minute. Keeper Simon Eastwood failed to collect Ollie Banks' free-kick, and the ball ran loose for Burgess to knock into an empty net from five yards. Almost immediately, Kane Hemmings should have levelled as he slid in to meet Chris Maguire's cross, but diverted the ball over the net from four yards. Oxford dominated the second half and Connor Ripley saved well from Chris Maguire, Marvin Johnson twice and Chey Dunkley as Latics held out for a point under severe pressure. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Oxford United 1, Oldham Athletic 1. Second Half ends, Oxford United 1, Oldham Athletic 1. Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Cameron Burgess. Substitution, Oxford United. Ryan Taylor replaces Kane Hemmings. Connor Ripley (Oldham Athletic) is shown the yellow card. Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Charles Dunne. Attempt missed. Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Attempt saved. Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Brian Wilson replaces Ryan McLaughlin. Attempt missed. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Substitution, Oxford United. Tyler Roberts replaces Robert Hall. Philip Edwards (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic). Foul by Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United). Lee Erwin (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Philip Edwards (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Lee Erwin (Oldham Athletic). Attempt missed. Robert Hall (Oxford United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play. Philip Edwards (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic). Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match (Oxford United). Attempt missed. John Lundstram (Oxford United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Connor Ripley. Attempt saved. Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Connor Ripley. Attempt saved. Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Attempt missed. Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Substitution, Oxford United. Josh Ruffels replaces Alexander MacDonald. Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Connor Ripley. Attempt saved. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner. Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Lee Croft replaces Ryan Flynn. Attempt saved. Ryan Ledson (Oxford United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Foul by John Lundstram (Oxford United). Paul Green (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Robert Hall (Oxford United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Oliver Banks (Oldham Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Robert Hall (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

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Andrew Ridgeley took to social media on Thursday to criticise the show, titled The Last Days of George Michael. The former Wham! star said the channel had been "insensitive, contemptuous and reprehensible" and should have waited until after his friend's funeral. But Channel 5 said it was "a measured account" of Michael's life and death. "George Michael was a high-profile public figure and there has been legitimate public interest in the circumstances surrounding his death," the broadcaster said in a statement. It said the documentary, which aired at 21:00 GMT on Thursday, had been "based on contributions from those who knew him and reported on him over many decades". Ridgeley, who paid an emotional tribute to Michael at last month's Brit Awards, had called the programme a "piece of voyeurism" that should only have been aired "after a respectful period". It was confirmed earlier this month that Michael - who was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou - died on Christmas Day as a result of heart and liver disease. Fans of the late singer called Channel 5's programme "pathetic", "disrespectful" and "utter trash" on Twitter. One who complained directly to the broadcaster received a reply saying it was not the show's intention "to upset or cause any offence". Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected].

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The 23-year-old former Sheffield Wednesday and Bradford trainee made 23 appearances for the National League side last season. Lacey has also had a stint with Altrincham but now has the chance to play his first Football League match. "It's a big chance for me and I need to grab it with both hands," he told the club website. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

Julian Cuddihy, 43, was charged with murdering his parents Kathleen and Jimmy Cuddihy at their family home in County Donegal on 22 October 2014. It took the jury at Dublin's Central Criminal Court 40 minutes to reach a unanimous verdict. Mr Cuddihy has now been sent to the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum for assessment. He will return to court on 20 June when a doctor will suggest a strategy for Mr Cuddihy's long-term treatment and care.

Liu Xiaoming said President Xi Jinping's state visit would focus on "partnership" and "co-operation" between the two countries. The state visit, the first from China since 2005, begins on Tuesday. Mr Corbyn's spokesman has said he will use the visit to discuss human rights. He is due to have a private meeting with the Chinese president, and has not ruled out using a state banquet at Buckingham Palace to make his case. But Mr Liu told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "I don't think the Labour Party will raise this issue at a state banquet... I don't think so." The president, he said, will be "here for co-operation, for partnership, he's not here for debate about human rights". Mr Liu said it was "natural" there were differences between China and the UK, suggesting Chinese people care more about jobs and housing. "We do not shy away from discussions about human rights," he said, adding that he had a "good meeting" with Mr Corbyn last week and that China was "not interested in microphone diplomacy". "First of all, I think the state banquet is for Her Majesty, it is her show, either Jeremy Corbyn or others are her guest," he said. President Xi is also expected to address Parliament and hold talks with Prime Minister David Cameron. David Mepham, UK director of campaign group Human Rights Watch, accused the ambassador of "empty rhetoric". He told the BBC News Channel: "What Human Rights Watch and others have documented over the last three years since Xi came to power as the president of China is a very rapid and marked deterioration in the human rights climate in China." Mr Mepham said there had been a "ferocious assault on human rights activists" in China, with "scores" of people sent to prison over the last three years, some of whom had been ill-treated and tortured. He said it was right for Mr Corbyn, along with Mr Cameron and other cabinet members, to address human rights issues. Mr Mepham added that activists in China said the public spotlight was vital for their own protection and to put increasing pressure on the Chinese government. Mr Liu also played down the significance of the absence of the Prince of Wales from the banquet in Buckingham Palace, saying the prince would be present on "separate occasions". After reports the prince was "staying away" from the event, royal officials said he would have "significant involvement" in the state visit, including meeting President Xi and his wife and a formal welcome on Horse Guards Parade. On Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, whose latest exhibition is at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Mr Liu said "he is not my taste". "There are so many talented Chinese artists but yet - there are many, much better than him - why is he so famous? "Because he is critical of Chinese government," he told The Andrew Marr Show. Mr Liu said the artist had "never been put behind bars" but had been under investigation for having been suspected of "destroying accounting documents".

Lost and homeless, in a city he doesn't know, you'd forgive him for cursing his luck from time to time. But Paddington is the politest of bears and would surely never say anything bad, right? However, the family adventure about a talking bear has been awarded a PG certificate instead of a U. Here's why: Okay, this is putting it a bit strongly, but the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has said that there is some "mild innuendo" in the film. Enough to warrant an appearance on Scott Mills's Innuendo Bingo? Probably not. But there's one sequence highlighted by the BBFC where "a man disguised as a woman is flirted with by another man." Let's be honest unless you're a Paddington superfan, have children or have a teddy bear obsession, you're probably not going to go and see this film. It's primarily been made for kids - and it follows that kids copy things they see on the big screen. So what are the BBFC trying to stop these impressionable young viewers from doing? Well, there's one scene where "Paddington (is) hiding from a villain inside a refrigerator." But turning Paddington from a chilly bear in to a polar bear isn't the board's only concern. Our loveable hero is also seen "riding on a skateboard while holding onto a bus, as well as a brief scene of a boy strapping fireworks to his shoes." Who would possibly want to hurt a cute, cuddly bear like Paddington? Nicole Kidman, that's who. The Australian actress plays the film's villain and she's out to "kill and stuff" Paddington. And (spoiler alert), she comes close too. Viewers will see our pawed protagonist spread unconscious on a table, while an evil taxidermist prepares tools nearby. But it's not just in London that Paddington needs to keep his wits about him. "There is also a short scene in a jungle when Paddington and his family run for shelter during an earthquake with trees falling around them," according to the BBFC. On the whole Paddington is as sweet as the marmalade he devours. His manners are immaculate, barring the odd dining table faux pas, but there is one solitary "mumbled use of 'bloody'" which is enough to cause concern for the BBFC. Contrary to other reports, the BBFC has told Newsbeat that Paddington was always classified as a PG film and has not been upgraded from a "U" certificate. The board defended its decision and said its guidelines are reviewed every four to five years. "The most recent review of the guidelines, in 2013, involved more than 10,000 member of the public from across the UK. "The 2013 review found that 92% of film viewers agreed with the classification of films and videos they had seen recently." Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube

The phrase "rapid rise through the ranks" is a standard line in profiles of political leaders. But it's rarely as speedy as in Natalie Bennett's case. The Australian-born former Guardian journalist woke up on New Year's Day 2006 and decided she wanted to do something to change the world. After pondering her options (should she get involved with an NGO or the UN?) she joined the Green Party. Within six short years she had become its leader. Three years after that she was sharing a stage with the prime minister and other party leaders in a televised general election debate. Her sudden arrival on the frontline of British politics was all the more remarkable because she had never won an election, other than the one that had made her party leader. Her first aim when she took on the job was to insert the Green Party - routinely ignored or patronised by the mainstream media - into the national conversation. But when media outlets finally began calling, on the back of a surge in support for the party, she sometimes found it difficult to get her message across in a suitably snappy way. Her vision for the party was to show how "economic and environmental justice are indivisible", she explains, "the idea that tackling environmental problems isn't an add-on luxury". It was "not a easy concept to get across", she confesses. "I still don't think I've got the 12 second soundbite. But I am going to keep working on it." "It's a classic Shakespearean thing," she says of her struggles with the broadcast media. "It's both my strength and my weakness that I answer the question." But, she adds, "when you get asked a stupid question, it's rather hard to know what to do at that point. And I guess I get tangled up in my desire to answer a question, even when it's a really stupid question". Did she get asked a lot of stupid questions? "Yes." Asked for an example, she ponders for a minute, before highlighting an interview with the BBC's very own John Humphrys, which led to her having "to spend time, valuable peak time, explaining how the interviewer got the question wrong. And listeners don't particularly like that because it's all technical and boring and you are arguing with the interviewer but if it's entirely on the wrong track you have to". She says she has some sympathy with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has also attracted criticism for broadcast interviews in which he has deviated from the usual prepared soundbites. "The focus on the individual is a problem for British politics and it's very uncomfortable when the focus is on you," she says, arguing that the media in continental Europe are focused more on policies than personalities and trivia. "I am not complaining - you have to work within those limits," she adds, but she believes British politics is "broken" and the media must take its share of the blame. "There should be some pressure on the journalist to ask better, more sensible questions," she argues. There was nothing particularly stupid about the question that prompted her darkest moment in a radio studio, however, when she struggled over several excruciating minutes, punctuated by coughing fits, to answer a question from LBC's Nick Ferrari on her party's housing policy. She was quick to hold her hands up afterwards, apologising to supporters and blaming her sub-par performance, in the heat of the general election campaign, on "brain freeze". "That was a very tough moment. And of course you take a bit of a punch to the stomach. "But then a few weeks later I was up on the leader debates, able to look David Cameron in the eye and challenge him about his failure to welcome Syrian refugees to Britain, and that was one of the best moments. "My great problem on that day was that I was in no way well enough to actually be doing anything. I'd had about three and a half hours sleep and I'd been throwing up most of the night. I should have just pulled the day but that's partly a function of how we got to that point. "We weren't used to getting a lot of media attention and it was very, very hard to turn media attention down." One of Ms Bennett's proudest moments came at the end of the BBC leaders debate when she joined Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in a "group hug", while Labour leader Ed Miliband looked on awkwardly. This felt like a watershed moment for women in politics, she says, sending out the message "that politics can not just be 'dog eat dog', it can be people agreeing on some things and disagreeing on others but supporting each other". As a lifelong feminist, she is particularly pleased to have been told by "lots of young women" that they had been inspired by the "group hug", which she stresses had not been planned in advance. "I hope and think that that moment really, in 15 years' time, 20 years' time, we might see a whole crop of MPs down the road who will reference that moment as the time they decided they were going to try and get there." Ms Bennett's decision to pitch for the anti-austerity vote, positioning the Greens as a left-wing alternative to what was then Ed Miliband's Labour Party, struck a chord with idealistic young people who felt alienated by mainstream politics, and led to a surge in party membership. But then Jeremy Corbyn came along and shifted Labour firmly to the left, inspiring idealistic activists to join his party in numbers the Greens could only dream about. Hasn't the Green Party, which had a mixed set of results in May's elections, losing four councillors in England and failing to make progress in Wales but getting its best ever result in London, been crowded out of the picture by Labour? Ms Bennett insists this is not the case, arguing that there is a "very clear distinction" between the Greens and Labour on a range of issues - from nuclear weapons to fracking - and that voters know exactly what they are getting when they vote Green. But she is also open to the idea of a "progressive alliance" at the next general election, with local Green Parties potentially making electoral pacts with Labour, Plaid Cymru, the SNP or other parties who broadly share their outlook. She remains a passionate advocate of electoral reform. The Green Party fielded a record number of general election candidates in 2015, standing in 93% of constituencies, and gaining more than a million votes. By rights, she argues, the party should have 25 MPs. She believes the case for scrapping what she sees as Britain's outdated first-past-the-post electoral system is gaining ground in the country. She says she has had an "amazing" four years as leader, and has no regrets, believing the party is in better shape now, having quadrupled its membership and gained a foothold in the national debate on issues such as welfare and the economy, than when she took over. But she is also keen to stress that she will not be leaving politics. "I'm aiming to turn former leader into a role in its own right, to keep travelling the country, supporting local parties, doing media. Leadership is a role we can share around. It's not you become leader, that's the pinnacle, and then you disappear." Asked if she has any advice for the next leader, she says trust the party membership. Anything else? "Work out how to answer stupid questions," she laughs. "I still don't quite know the answer to that one myself."

He also hailed improving ties between the US and Cuba as "an example of reconciliation for the whole world". The Pope was greeted by President Raul Castro after landing in the capital, Havana. The Pope is due to celebrate Mass on Sunday in Havana's iconic Revolution Square. He will spend four days in Cuba before flying to the US. Following his arrival on Cuba on Saturday, thousands lined the route of the Pope's motorcade to the home of the Vatican's ambassador to Cuba. Pope Francis - the first pontiff to hail from Latin America - is credited with helping the recent thaw in diplomatic relations between Cuba and the US. Mr Castro has thanked the Pope for his contribution. Speaking at the airport alongside President Castro, Pope Francis urged further support for Cuba's Catholics "so that the Church can continue to support and encourage the Cuban people in its hopes and concerns, with the freedom, the means and the space needed to bring the proclamation of the kingdom to the existential peripheries of society". He also called on Cuba and the US to "persevere on the path" of detente. On Thursday the Vatican said it hoped the Pope's visit would help bring an end to the 53-year-old US embargo and lead to more freedom and human rights on the island. Pensioner Diego Carrera told AP the visit was "like a breath of hope blowing over Cuba" because of the role that the Pope played in the reestablishment of relations with the US. On Friday the US announced eased restrictions on business and travel with Communist Cuba, the latest move by President Barack Obama to improve relations. At the scene: Will Grant, BBC News, Havana Disembarking to chants of "Christ lives" and other religious slogans, the Pope was welcomed off the plane by Raul Castro. He was quick to praise the pontiff for his leadership on issues of climate change and poverty and thanked him for his role in brokering talks with Washington. The Pope said he was in Cuba to "support and encourage the Cuban people in their hopes and concerns". While he didn't shy away from using the word "freedom" in his initial address, he is still unlikely to publically berate the Cuban government over its human rights record - choosing instead a more pragmatic approach. As the first Latin American pope, he's likely to receive a unique welcome from the Cuban people - many of whom remember when a commitment to atheism was a key part of the constitution. Cuba all set for Pope Francis Cristina Fernandez Kirchner, president of the Pope's native Argentina, also arrived on the island on Saturday and will attend the Mass in Revolution Square. Workers have been building a huge altar and stands for the congregation and choir on the square. Streets have been newly paved in Havana, and the cathedral has been renovated. In the city of Holguin where the Pope will celebrate Mass on Monday, the cathedral has been repaired and repainted. Nearly 1,000 Cuban and foreign journalists were expected to cover the visit. In 1998 Pope John Paul II became the first Pope to visit the island, saying: "May Cuba... open itself up to the world, and may the world open itself up to Cuba." His predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, also visited Cuba in 2012. Francis's trip will later take him to the US, which he will also be visiting for the first time since his election to the papacy.

According to CNN, the former FBI director and his team of crack investigators were caught somewhat flat-footed by the recent email revelations. They were believed to have been focusing their attention on former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, son-in-law Jared Kushner and former campaign chair Paul Manafort, among others. As it turns out, the first bit of concrete public evidence that someone in the president's inner circle might be open to Russian assistance in the presidential election involved Mr Trump's eldest son. The president, Trump Jr and his administration have quickly reformed their defences and are now dismissing the meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya last June as a minor event during a hurly-burly political season, largely lost in the fog of time, that led to nothing and which they have been admirably "transparent" in discussing. Key members of Congress seem to think otherwise, with senators like Republican Susan Collins of Maine calling for Trump Jr to be questioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa eager to bring Manafort before his Senate Judiciary Committee. But while Congress gears up for more hearings, Mr Mueller operates quietly behind the scenes. Where might he look first? What threads, revealed in Trump Jr's emails, will he and his team tug on, to see what unravels? Here are a few of the tempting questions he might be tempted to ask. Nestled toward the end of music publicist Goldstone's explosive first email to Trump Jr about the "official documents and information" the Russian government supposedly had about Hillary Clinton was that this constituted just "part of" Russia's support for his father, "helped along by Aras and Emin" Agalarov, the father-son Moscow-based real estate duo. It's a rather stunning detail for Goldstone to have offhandedly mentioned - and one that Trump Jr, in his "love it" response, seems to have breezed past with no comment. That kind of remark, however, would cause anyone looking for evidence of a Trump-Russia campaign collusion to stop dead in their tracks and ask: "What's the rest of the story?" Why is this British guy emailing Trump Jr? Even if one takes Veselnitskaya at her word that she is not an agent of the Russian government and did not know or provide any damaging information about Mrs Clinton to the Trump team during the 9 June meeting, her own recent admissions raise some pressing questions. On Tuesday she told an NBC interviewer that Trump Jr, Manafort and Kushner may have been "longing for" the dirt on their Democratic opponent. "They wanted it so badly that they could only hear the thought that they wanted," she said. In other words, Veselnitskaya walked out of that meeting in New York with the belief that Mr Trump's campaign both was desperately seeking damaging information about Mrs Clinton and were open to talking to Russian nationals about what they might have to offer. Given that Veselnitskaya is at the very least a well-connected figure in Moscow, it doesn't require a great leap of faith to think this information eventually made its way to the Russian government. If the US intelligence community is to be believed, that government soon would acquire a trove of damaging information about Mrs Clinton and the Democrats as a result of hacks it co-ordinated into the Democratic National Committee server and the personal email of a senior member of Mrs Clinton's campaign team. In the ensuing months, details from those hacks would be made public via Wikileaks at times that were particularly damaging to Mrs Clinton. Derogatory statements about Mrs Clinton's Democratic opponent Bernie Sanders were produced the week before Democrats gathered for their national convention. Transcripts of Mrs Clinton's paid speeches to Goldman Sachs were published just days before the final presidential debate - and cited during that showdown by Mr Trump himself. The Trump campaign wanted dirt on Mrs Clinton. The Russian government had it in spades. Mr Mueller might want to see if those dots can be connected. Another choice tidbit in that first Goldstone email was his suggestion that he might "send this info to your father via Rhona" - a reference to Rhona Graff, the elder Trump's personal assistant. Graff has served as the gatekeeper to Mr Trump at the Trump organisation - and, according to a profile in Politico, still is the preferred method for the president's business associates to contact him outside of White House channels. "If I really wanted to whisper something in his ear, I would probably go to Rhona," Trump business associate John Catsimatidis told the publication. The White House has said that Mr Trump did not know about the meeting with Veselnitskaya - despite the fact that his son, son-in-law and campaign chief were in attendance and it took place in his New York tower. If this assertion is proven to be inaccurate, Rhona could be the key. Trump Jr meeting scandal: The key players The middle portion of the email chain released on Tuesday morning involved Trump Jr and Goldstone trying to set up a phone conversation with Russian pop star/businessman Emin Agalarov. After a fair bit of wrangling the two apparently spoke, and the very next email was Goldstone informing Trump Jr he was scheduling the meeting with the "Russian government attorney" (Veselnitskaya) for later in the week. Mr Mueller and congressional investigators may be interested in learning what Agalarov said that convinced Mr Trump to move ahead with the plans for a face-to-face gathering. And what was the nature of the relationship between Agalarov and the Trump clan, in light of Goldstone's observation that Emin and his father were helping Russia's support of the Trump campaign? Did Donald Trump Jr break the law? Four days after the first email from Goldstone to Trump Jr about the incriminating information the Russia government was said to have about Mrs Clinton, candidate Trump promised to give a "major speech" the following week discussing "all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons", including Mrs Clinton's alleged misdeeds while serving as secretary of state. "I think you're going to find it very informative and very, very interesting," he added. That speech, originally announced for the Monday after the Trump camp's New York meeting with Veselnitskaya, never took place. Was this an indication that the elder Trump may have known about the meeting - which, according to Trump Jr, did not produce the promised dirt on Mrs Clinton? That's one more question Mr Mueller might be mulling. Follow Anthony Zurcher on Twitter.

There were celebrations in Europe after Germany surrendered. But on the other side of the world in the Pacific Ocean, Japan was still fighting against America, Britain and their allies. The Americans, however, had a secret plan to end the war - by using the most powerful weapon ever created. On 6 August 1945, at 8.15am Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber plane, called 'Enola Gay', dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The devastation was beyond anything seen before. The city was immediately flattened. 80,000 people were killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 were injured. Even then, Japan didn't surrender. Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped by the Americans on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Shortly afterwards, on 15 August 1945, Japan finally admitted defeat. World War Two was over. When the bomb exploded in Hiroshima, the city has struck by a flash of blinding light then a giant cloud shaped like a mushroom. The blast flattened buildings within a 2.5 km radius of the bomb. There were 90,000 buildings in Hiroshima before the bomb was dropped but only 28,000 remained after the explosion. Thousands and thousands of people were killed. Many were badly injured. But the suffering didn't end there because it wasn't just a normal bomb. The nuclear radiation released when it exploded caused people to suffer horrible illnesses. Thousands more people died from their injuries and radiation sickness in the weeks, months and years that followed. Japan was at war with America and its allies, which included Britain and Soviet Union (a nation made up of modern-day Russia and other countries). The allies were winning the war and the Japanese forces had been pushed back from many locations. However fighting was still very fierce and soldiers and civilians were dying every day. Japan had been at war for many years. It had invaded the countries near to it such as China and the Japanese had attacked America. Everywhere the Japanese soldiers went, they were known for their cruelty. They treated prisoners of war very badly, including American and British soldiers who had surrendered. US President Harry S Truman wanted the Japanese to surrender as quickly as possible so he could save lives. The atomic bomb was a deadly new weapon. President Truman hoped the massive destruction it caused would shock the Japanese into realising they had to surrender. US President Truman wanted to avoid a land invasion of Japan. There were 2.5 million Japanese troops stationed there and Truman's staff estimated that defeating them would cost the lives of 250,000 US soldiers. Some historians also say that the US wanted to avoid Japan being occupied by Soviet troops. America and the Soviet Union were allies but they did not really trust each other. It was the first and only time that atomic bombs have been used in a war. Although the scientists who made the bombs were proud of what they'd achieved, it scared them as well. The way the atomic bomb was built meant it had huge power - enough to destroy whole cities on it's own. Many people now believe that the devastation caused in Hiroshima, and in Nagasaki, was so awful that the bombs should never be used again. Today, a small number of countries around the world, including USA, China and the UK, have nuclear weapons. Some campaigners argue that there is no place for nuclear weapons and that all countries should get rid of them immediately. Others say that having such terrible weapons will keep a country safe, even if they are never used.

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Officers have released CCTV of the woman driving her dog around Willingdon Golf Course in Eastbourne, Sussex. One or more buggies were driven around the course, causing significant damage, police said, while one vehicle sustained up to £1,000-worth of damage. PC James Gillies said it was "rather strange", not least because the buggies were later returned. Not only was the dog taken for a spin, he said, but the buggies were driven back to their container about 90 minutes later - and plugged back in to charge up. "It appears that a key to the container may have been stolen unnoticed from the club prior to Sunday night, but the locks have now been changed," he said. PC Gillies said the woman was accompanied by another person, thought to be a man, at about 22:35 GMT. Anyone who recognised the woman or her dog is urged to contact the force.

A ceremony, attended by PM Shinzo Abe, was held at Hiroshima's memorial park before thousands of lanterns are released on the city's Motoyasu river. The bombing - and a second one on Nagasaki three days later - is credited with bringing to an end World War Two. But it claimed the lives of at least 140,000 people in the city. A US B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay dropped the uranium bomb, exploding some 600m (1,800ft) above the city, at around 08:10 on 6 August 1945. On that day alone, at least 70,000 people are believed to have been killed. Many more died of horrific injuries caused by radiation poisoning in the days, weeks and months that followed. People across Japan have observed a minute's silence to mark the anniversary. In Hiroshima a bell tolled at 08:15 local time - when the US aircraft dropped the bomb that flattened the city centre. Addressing 40,000 people who attended the commemoration ceremony at Hiroshima's peace park near the epicentre of the 1945 attack, Mr Abe called for worldwide nuclear disarmament. He said that that atomic bomb not only killed thousands of people in Hiroshima but also caused unspeakable suffering to survivors. "Today Hiroshima has been revived," the prime minister said, "and has become a city of culture and prosperity. "Seventy years on I want to reemphasise the necessity of world peace." Mr Abe and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matusi were joined by US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy for the official ceremony of remembrance on Thursday, which included silent prayers, the release of doves and a declaration of peace. Mr Matsui described nuclear weapons as an "absolute evil" while urging the world to put an end to them forever. "To coexist we must abolish the... ultimate inhumanity that is nuclear weapons. Now is the time to start taking action," he said in his annual speech. Later in the day, thousands of paper lanterns will be released on the city's Motoyasu River - symbolising the journey to the afterlife of those who died. The anniversary comes as divisions in Japan rise over Mr Abe's bid to pass unpopular legislation to expand the country's military role worldwide. The 'sanitised narrative' of Hiroshima's atomic bombing In pictures: The first atomic bomb

Manuel Pellegrini's side dominated the second half but were repeatedly denied by away keeper Tim Howard. It was a supreme defensive display from the Toffees, who had been the better attacking side in the first half. They also rode their luck, as City were denied a late penalty for a foul on Raheem Sterling by John Stones. For Everton, it is a point won - and a confidence-boosting one, following a run of seven games in which they have won just once. But it is two key points dropped for City and they remain three points behind joint league leaders Arsenal, held 3-3 by Liverpool, and Leicester, 1-0 winners at Tottenham. Look back at all the action from the Etihad Listen: Is Pellegrini 'too nice' to win the title this season? Football Daily podcast - Does anyone want to win the league? The game began in a half-full Etihad Stadium as traffic problems prevented many fans arriving by kick-off. However, you would forgive many of the City supporters who did eventually make it to the ground for wishing they had not. Before the break, the home side looked sluggish and were outworked by a dynamic away side. They did produce a couple of chances - the best of them a Yaya Toure header from eight yards that was palmed away by Howard - but could easily have trailed. They improved in the second half as Sergio Aguero became more involved, but still struggled to break their opponents down, even after the introduction of David Silva with 15 minutes to go. The game would end in desperate, vain calls for a penalty for Stones' admittedly risky sliding challenge on Sterling. City boss Manuel Pellegrini was adamant that Stones' challenge should have been penalised and his side awarded a "clear penalty". Media playback is not supported on this device "Everyone in the stadium could see it was a penalty - it was so near to the referee and so clear," said the Chilean. "Both Raheem's legs were taken by Stones but if he doesn't whistle we can't say anything." Unsurprisingly, Everton boss Roberto Martinez had an opposing view of the incident and praised the "maturity" of referee Roger East. "We have been on the back end of receiving a penalty, in the last seconds against Stoke," said the Spaniard. "Stones goes to slide to block the ball, Sterling does not play the ball and waited. In my eyes it is an area that is not certain if it's a penalty or not. "I believe the referees should control their emotions and the referee did exactly that. It is impossible to be 100% certain and I am pleased he did this and showed his maturity." This game was the second part of a fixture trilogy between these sides in January, falling between the two legs of a Capital One Cup semi-final. Media playback is not supported on this device A week ago, Romelu Lukaku's winner gave Everton a 2-1 victory at Goodison Park, and they impressed again in a performance that showcased both sides of their game. In the first half, the Toffees were patient and precise when they had the ball and hard-working when they did not. But for some wayward shooting, they would have led at the break. Gerard Deulofeu and Lukaku were both denied with shots from an angle in the box, while the latter set up Leon Osman for the best chance - a volley from 15 yards that flew just past Joe Hart's far post. After the break, Roberto Martinez's side were firmly on the back foot and spent long spells without the ball but demonstrated discipline and commitment to limit City to only a few goalscoring chances. Manchester City are at home again on Saturday, with Crystal Palace the visitors. Everton face another tough away trip on the same day, as they travel to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea.

Some 60 excavators and 100 dump trucks are being used in the search. The boy fell down the 40m dry well in Baoding, Hebei province on Sunday morning. He had been helping harvest vegetables, his father told Chinese media. The child's condition is unknown. Oxygen, food and water have been supplied. The 30cm-diameter well is too narrow for an adult to retrieve him. After two days of careful digging, rescuers have dug only 13m down the metal shaft, which threatens to collapse at any moment. An 800-square metre work area has been cleared to facilitate rescue attempts, a volunteer told The Paper, a Shanghai-based news website. The well had been left unused for five years and there were no warning signs. Visual imagery has so far failed to locate the boy. Many locals volunteered to help in the rescue, rushing to the scene after learning about the accident on WeChat, a popular communication app in China. Most netizens sent good wishes to the boy. "It was saddening to read about such news. As a mother, it was heartbreaking to see a child fall into a well. I hope the child will be alive and alive," one user called 80 Hou Bu Huai wrote. Some wondered who was to blame. Weibo user S_AND_YY wrote: "Parents have to take care of their children and it's dangerous everywhere." But not everyone agreed. "The kid is in primary one already. Do his parents have to spend every minute with him? Is it possible? Shouldn't the well be the focus? If the well didn't exist, would this accident happen?" wrote another user. Falling ground water levels in Hebei province have left many wells without water, reports say.

It followed an incident on the motorway near Eaglesfield in December 2014 in which Faranza Kousar, of Glasgow, died. Stephen Clarke, 59, from Wednesbury, was on a petition in private before Sheriff Scott Pattison on a charge involving dangerous driving. No plea or declaration was made and he was released on bail.

A video was released via social media from MotoGP's Valencia Grand Prix, appearing to show the Italian colliding with the fan while riding a motorcycle. The nine-time world champion apologised for the incident and said that he hoped she was ok. Rossi, 37, added it was difficult for him to move quickly around the paddock. Fan Ana Cabanillas Vazquez told Spanish radio station COPE she would have accepted the apology if she thought it "had been an accident". "Seeing the video, you can tell that it was done on purpose," she said. "I have a small bruise on my leg. I'll consider pressing charges." Rossi finished fourth in Valencia, the final race of the MotoGP season and came second in the championship standings behind Spain's Marc Marquez.

Media playback is not supported on this device Wada says Ukad will take control of drug-testing in Russia as long as the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) remains non-compliant with Wada's code. Rusada was declared non-compliant in November following allegations it was involved in widespread doping. Its athletes remain banned from international competition. That suspension was imposed on 13 November after the publication of an independent Wada report that alleged "state-sponsored doping". The ban will remain in place until Russia convinces athletics authorities it has sufficiently changed its practices. Wada's statement said Ukad would be responsible for co-ordinating testing with the appropriate sport federations in the country. It added: "Results management of all cases will be managed by a designated independent body, with full oversight by Wada."

The chairman of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) inquiry made the announcement during a preliminary hearing at Stormont, outlining its work. Sir Patrick Coghlin said his inquiry will investigate failings in the scheme "wherever accountability may lie". No time limit has been placed on the scheme to produce a conclusion, the retired Court of Appeal judge added. He said he "will insist" that the inquiry has "complete independence" and it will carry out its work "without fear or favour and free from any external pressures". The public and the media must understand that the inquiry is a "fact-finding exercise" and not an "adversarial trial", Sir Patrick said. Statutory notices requiring production of documents have already been served on 125 bodies such as government departments. Notices requiring witnesses statements have also been served. The inquiry team expects to view hundreds of thousands of pages of documentation relating to the scheme. Sir Patrick said another public session could be held in June, when further information about the inquiry timetable may be announced. The green scheme was set up in 2012 to encourage businesses and other non-domestic users to move from using fossil fuels to renewable heating systems. In what has been dubbed the "cash-for-ash" scandal, the flawed scheme meant users could legitimately earn more cash the more fuel they burned. The inquiry was announced in January by the then finance minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir. It was set up to investigate the design and operation of the scheme, which at one point had a projected overspend of £490m. Cost controls have now been introduced for the current financial year. The inquiry will consider the delay in implementing cost controls in 2015 and allegations of political pressure to keep the scheme open at a time when applications were flooding in and the projected costs were spiralling. The fallout was cited as one of the reasons for Sinn Féin withdrawing from devolved government and forcing the recent Northern Ireland Assembly election. The party has said it will not share power with Arlene Foster as Democratic Unionist Party leader until the inquiry has fully investigated her role. Mrs Foster was the minister in charge of the former Department of Enterprise Trade and Investment, which ran the scheme. She has said she expects to be vindicated. Meanwhile, some recipients of the RHI subsidy have said cuts to tariff rates have had a significant impact on their business. The changes were applied from April, but a usage cap means some people who borrowed tens of thousands of pounds to put in a boiler are receiving no subsidy payments and are struggling to repay the banks. A group of about 500 boiler owners is going to court in an attempt to have the new reduced tariffs set aside. They say they signed up to a government scheme in good faith and they had factored in the promised subsidy payments to bank loans.

Police responded to reports of cars being driven dangerously near Marrowbone Millennium Park on the Oldpark Road late on Wednesday. Officers found one abandoned car in the area and a second car leaving the scene at speed. The police gave chase and the helicopter was called in when speeds reached in excess of 100 mph. The car, a Volkswagon Golf, sped off through Newtownabbey, Doagh, Ballymena, Broughshane and Carnlough. The pursuit ended when the vehicle crashed on the Munie Road, between Glenarm and Ballymena, at about 01:10 BST. The occupants of the car made off as police arrived at the scene, but the vehicle was seized and is being examined by forensic officers. Insp Paul Noble said: "The car has now been recovered and will be forensically examined. "The gates to the Millennium Park were damaged as a result of the earlier incident and the abandoned car set alight in the grounds of the park. "Enquiries are ongoing at present and I would appeal to anyone with any information to contact 101."

Northern Lights will showcase the work of designers who have chosen to stay in Scotland to build their careers. Products on show range from hand-crafted wooden furniture to ceramic jewellery. Organisers said the show would highlight the "increasing confidence" designers felt in basing their businesses in Scotland. Product and furniture designer Scott Jarvie said: "London Design Festival will be the centre of the design universe in September, so I'm thrilled to be part of the V&A Dundee show, exhibiting alongside leading lights in contemporary Scottish design. "The V&A in London has been a great inspiration and influence on my work as a designer, since being captivated by the place as a child. " The London Design Festival was first staged in 2003 and includes more than 400 events and exhibitions. Philip Long, director of V&A Dundee, said: "We are delighted with the calibre, ambition and volume of submissions we received to exhibit as part of Northern Lights. "London Design Festival allows us to highlight these most exciting contemporary product designers, showcase their ideas and ingenuity, and give them an opportunity, whether they are an established or emerging designer, to raise their profile internationally." The full list of designers and companies taking part in Northern Lights is: The show runs from 17 to 25 September at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington.

The Lionesses' third-place finish in Canada makes them the second most successful England team ever, only behind the men's victory in 1966. Sampson replaced former boss Hope Powell in August 2013. "It's been instilled in us over the last 18 months, that family atmosphere, the togetherness," said White. "It's 23 players, we're all in it. You can't win it without 23 players or the backroom staff as well." During Powell's 15-year reign as manager, the Lionesses never progressed beyond the World Cup quarter-finals - and former players have since criticised the negative feeling among the team during her time in charge. However, speaking to BBC Radio Three Counties, 26-year-old White says it has been a different story under Sampson. "He's changed a lot in the team, he's brought in new people," said White. "I always think it's good to have a change. "He's definitely brought that togetherness, that fire, that passion. Everyone was on board with everything. "We all stuck together and we're definitely like a little family."

In her resignation letter she said her decision would enable her party to have a "real discussion" about its future. Senior party members had "questioned my place in this new phase", she said. Earlier, the 56-year-old said some Labour MPs were "dinosaurs" who failed to see "Scotland has changed forever". Ms Lamont had wanted more autonomy for the party in Scotland and significant new powers for the Scottish Parliament. But in an interview with the Daily Record she accused Westminster colleagues of treating Scotland like a "branch office". Labour has 41 MPs in Scotland who will fight for their Westminster seats at next May's General Election. The party also has 38 MSPs in Edinburgh's Holyrood parliament and they will seek re-election in 2016. In her resignation letter to Scottish Labour chairman Jamie Glackin Ms Lamont said the referendum had "opened a new chapter in the debate about the future of the Scottish Labour Party". She added: "In order that we can have the real discussion about how we take Scottish Labour forward, I believe it would be best if I took myself out of the equation and stepped down as leader." She described Labour's challenge in Scotland as "serious", but added "I strongly believe that the Labour Party is not only our best chance of achieving a better, fairer Scotland, it's our only chance". There are two versions of this story. In one version, Scottish Labour's departing leader, Johann Lamont, accuses her Westminster colleagues - and, by implication, Ed Miliband - of undermining her and failing to grasp how much Scotland has changed. She says some of her MP colleagues are "dinosaurs". The alternative version is that Johann Lamont wasn't up to the job - that she failed to counter the SNP, that she failed to modernise the party sufficiently to cope with a new Scotland where people are no longer prepared to back Labour as a duty, that she failed to attract new talent who might freshen up the party's portrait for the electorate in 2016, when Holyrood goes to the polls. Reacting to news of the resignation, SNP deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon said that Ms Lamont "carries my personal best wishes". But she added: "There is no question that her shock resignation reveals Labour to be in complete meltdown in Scotland." Ms Sturgeon said: "The scale of the infighting between Scottish Labour and Labour at Westminster is exposed for all to see." The timetable for choosing a new leader will be set out soon. In the meantime, deputy leader Anas Sarwar is in charge and an MSP will be chosen to stand in for Ms Lamont at Holyrood. Whoever replaces her will become Scottish Labour's seventh leader since the Scottish Parliament was established 15 years ago. Ms Lamont, a former English teacher who joined the Labour Party as a teenager, has represented the Glasgow Pollok constituency at Holyrood since 1999. She took over as the party's Scottish leader in the aftermath of the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, when Labour suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the SNP. In the weeks after the independence referendum, she said she wanted to lead Labour to victory in the next Holyrood election in 2016 and become first minister. Labour leader Ed Miliband said she deserved "significant credit" for the successful "No" vote in the Scottish referendum campaign. He added: "She campaigned the length and breadth of Scotland making the case for social justice within the United Kingdom. "She has led the Scottish Labour Party with determination. I know she will continue to serve her constituents. "Having elected a new leader, I believe the party will show the same will and determination it did in the referendum campaign to help us to victory in the general election of 2015 and the Scottish elections of 2016." Former prime minister Gordon Brown has constantly been linked to the job, as has fellow MP Jim Murphy, who also played a prominent role in the referendum campaign. Mr Brown said he was sorry to hear that Ms Lamont had resigned. He added; "She brought determination, compassion and a down-to-earth approach to the leadership and deserves great credit for taking on the challenge after 2011. "I wish her well in the future." Senior Labour sources have indicated that both the former Prime minister, Gordon Brown and the former Scottish Secretary , Jim Murphy, will be approached to see if they are willing to lead the Labour Party in Scotland. If the two men refuse another scenario being canvassed is for a joint ticket between the MP Anas Sarwar and the MSP Kezia Dugdale. Mr Sarwar would be the leader and would seek to improve relations between Westminster and Holyrood. Ms Dugdale would lead the group at Holyrood. One Labour source described this as the "ideal option". Others believe Mr Murphy should be encouraged to stand. One figure said that if "Jim doesn't stand it will be a disaster", but added he believed the shadow cabinet member could be persuaded.

Morrisons had agreed to rent the 73,000 sq ft store but the site developer said its lawyers were now attempting to "terminate the agreement". Augur Buchler Partners (ABP) Ltd said it had received notice from Morrisons on 16 December and the matter was "being dealt with by our lawyers". Morrisons has so far declined to comment on their plans for the site. On Tuesday, the supermarket giant said its chief executive was to leave after five years in charge, and it would be closing 10 loss-making stores during 2015. Cheltenham Borough Council, which sold the land to ABP in 2011, had wanted to develop the car park since 2008 with previous ideas including a new library, flats, homes and retail space. But the plans were put on hold due to the recession. Councillor Andrew McKinlay, cabinet member responsible for built environment, said the latest setback was "certainly disappointing news". He added: "It's important to say at this stage we're not going to do anything too quickly because, until the dust settles and we know exactly what the situation is, I think it would be unwise. "Clearly, we need to get the Morrisons legal situation resolved before we can move forward on any other potential plans." The construction of the £60m redevelopment was originally expected to be completed in late 2015. The council's pay-and-display car park was shut last year and work has already begun to dig up the ground.

Mills and Clark improved on the silver they won in London by taking Olympic gold in the women's 470 event in Rio. Four-time world champion Giles Scott, who won Finn gold at Rio 2016, was nominated for the men's award but it went to Argentina's Santiago Lange. "I've got the gold medal that was the childhood dream and the goal we set," said Clark, 37, who retired after Rio. Find out how to get into sailing with our special guide. Mills, 28, added: "Our whole six years together has been focused on building our team, making it as strong as it can be. "London was a rushed Olympics where we had 18 months and it was kind of hashed together. Rio we had four years to really get it right and our team is at the centre of this. To finish like this just means everything." Media playback is not supported on this device

His pledge came as Facebook shares hit an all-time low of $17.55 on Tuesday. There have been fears that as various lock-up periods, which stop sales by early investors, end, the stock may dip further. Mr Zuckerberg owns about 444 million shares of Facebook plus an option to issue another 60 million. Last month, Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist and one of Facebook's earliest backers sold 20.1 million shares, cashing in most of his stake in the firm, after the first lock-up period ended. Facebook shares rose nearly 2% in after-hours trading post the announcement. Facebook shares have fallen almost 50% since the company went public in May this year. Analysts and investors have been concerned about the firm's ability to generate revenue from users that access the website on their mobile devices. The decreased screen space on these devices, compared with traditional desktop computers, means it is difficult to place advertisements. As more and more users access the site from mobile devices, there are fears that revenue growth from advertisers, may slow. That does not bode well for Facebook, as advertising revenue is one of the biggest contributors to its income. Those fears were fanned further on Tuesday after analysts at Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase cut their price targets for the firm's shares. Scott Devitt of Morgan Stanley lowered his target price to $32 from $38 on concerns over mobile advertising. Meanwhile, Doug Anmuth of JPMorgan Chase slashed his target to $30 from $45, saying that revenue from games hosted on the website was likely to fall.

A Metrolink driver reported a collision involving a tram and a pedestrian at about 19:45 BST on Sunday, Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) said. A 31-year-old woman is being questioned in police custody. The woman arrested was not the tram driver, police confirmed. Metrolink customer director Stephen Rhodes said he was "absolutely devastated" to hear someone had died. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the man died at the scene. There was disruption to services on the Bury line for several hours affecting those attending Parklife festival. Metrolink issued a walking map to help those travelling from the festival at Heaton Park return to the city centre. Parklife finished at 23:00 on Sunday. The three-mile walk should take about an hour. Some people questioned the advice on Twitter, suggesting telling young people to walk the distance in wellies in the dark was "unbelievable". Others said they thought there would be safety in numbers. Metrolink tweeted there was an "ongoing medical emergency" and advised passengers to avoid Manchester Victoria station. In a statement, Mr Rhodes, added: "My immediate thoughts are with this person's family and friends. "As this is now a police investigation it would not be appropriate for me to make any further comment about what happened at this time." He encouraged those who were able to walk to do so and said 100 buses were also in place, adding: "I'd ask everyone to please bear with us and be patient." Metrolink said "a good service" was in operation on all lines on Monday and trams were operating in and out of Victoria.

Ed Joyce top-scored with 35 from 60 balls, sharing a third-wicket partnership of 55 with Niall O'Brien. Queensland are 137-5 in reply, with one further day's play to come on Tuesday. The fixture was arranged as preparation for Ireland's Intercontinental Cup game against Papua New Guinea, which begins in Townsville on Sunday. Ireland currently top the Intercontinental Cup table with maximum points from convincing wins in their matches against the UAE and Namibia. Openers William Porterfield and Paul Stirling were both dismissed cheaply, making only five, but the experienced pairing of Joyce and O'Brien led a fightback. Joyce plundered four fours and a six in his innings, while O'Brien struck four boundaries in a fluent 26. O'Brien's dismissal by Australian international Ben Cutting sparked a collapse in the Irish ranks, as Joyce followed shortly after. Gary Wilson and Stuart Poynter both made 18, with Andrew Balbirnie (0) and Stuart Thompson (4) falling in quick succession to leave Ireland reeling on 122 for 8, with Clontarf professional Mick Granger (2-53) accounting for Wilson and Thompson. Tim Murtagh made a solid 20 before he was dismissed by Andy McBrine (1-14) - both the Donemana all-rounder and George Dockrell were playing for the hosts. Indeed it was Dockrell (1-5) who brought the Irish innings to a close on 155 as he bowled Boyd Rankin for nine. Craig Young took an early wicket but a second wicket stand of 68 between Scott Henry (50) and Nick Stevens (33) put Queensland firmly in the ascendancy. Young came back to break the partnership, having Stevens well caught by Stirling. Former Australian Under-19 international Sam Truloff (9) became Boyd Rankin's (1-15) first wicket back in Irish colours as Ireland rallied late in the day. Stuart Thompson had Henry caught behind by O'Brien, before Stirling bowled Scott Bazley with the last ball of the day as Queensland finished 18 runs adrift.

Larry Flanagan criticised how some journalists and politicians "portray a problem as a crisis". He told the EIS annual meeting in Perth a "more considered analysis" would be useful. Mr Flanagan spoke as delegates confirmed they may take industrial action unless their pay improves. The union's general secretary said some teachers were fearful that in the run-up to next year's Scottish election, politicians may seek to overplay concerns to score political advantage. Mr Flanagan said there were also misgivings about the way some popular newspapers covered education, believing they sensationalised problems but did not reflect the reality of the situation in many schools and classrooms. Addressing delegates, Mr Flanagan said: "It has been interesting to read recently some right-wing commentators having a specific go at the EIS, with one demanding that the first minister should 'take on the EIS'. But on what basis? "The inference which might be drawn from these comments is that somehow the EIS is the block to 'progress' however that is defined - when the reality is that as Scotland's teachers, we are the vehicle of progress." Mr Flanagan said no-one was suggesting "that everything in Scottish education is perfect - clearly it isn't". But he said the union was "well aware of the attainment gap" and was working jointly with the Scottish government on issues regarding child poverty. A motion calling for a back-dated pay rise was backed overwhelmingly at the conference. However, any ballot on industrial action is still some way off. Moving the motion, David Baxter from Dundee said: "A restorative pay rise will boost the economy and is needed to give public sector workers the same spending power they had before austerity and pay freezes and sub-inflation level pay awards." He added: "Teachers are working, on average, 46.5 hours on a contract that pays them for working 35 hours. "Teachers are being worked harder, paid less and are being seriously under-valued. "Teachers have had enough. This is the time to act." Seconding the motion, Mike Callaghan, from Angus, said: "If we do not take action now, after at least five years of pay erosion, when will we?" Teachers' pay is negotiated nationally through a joint body which involves unions, councils and the Scottish government.

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He would go upstairs, on the premise that he was saying a prayer with his niece, then sexually abuse her. Now in her 30s, Karen wasn't understood when she first told her parents what her uncle, Mark Sewell, was doing. Sewell was also the son of a trusted older member of the local Jehovah's Witnesses congregation, known as an elder. Christian churches, as well as other religions, have faced claims of child abuse. But what is striking about the Jehovah's Witnesses is their explicit policy of dealing with abuse in-house. Because of their practice of following the Bible literally, they insist there must be two witnesses to a crime, often not the case in child abuse cases. However, in Karen's case a second witness did come forward: Wendy, a family friend and fellow member of the Barry congregation in south Wales. She had been raped by the same man. When she reported the crime to elders, Wendy was made to describe it in minute detail to a group of older men. Later, she had to give her account again in the same room as Sewell. Afterwards, the elders told her that as it was only her account against that of Sewell, nothing more could be done. This bringing together of the accused and the accuser in a "judicial committee" is a common feature of Jehovah's Witnesses' justice. Karen, still a teenager at the time, was put through the process. The elders also ruled that their separate accusations didn't constitute the required two witnesses. Despite a pattern of predatory sexual behaviour, it took more than two decades to bring Wendy and Karen's abuser to justice. He is now serving a 14-year prison sentence. His punishment from the Jehovah's Witnesses? There wasn't one. Even when the case came to court, the organisation was reluctant to co-operate. Karen's father, John Viney, who was also an elder in the Barry congregation, says that elders who knew of Sewell's conduct and were asked to give statements or evidence in court did not want to get involved. In a programme for Radio 4's The Report, we have identified this lack of co-operation in several other similar cases. Confidential documents from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Britain - the official name for the Jehovah's Witnesses - that we have seen are explicit about the best way to deal with such matters being within the congregation. Nowhere in the hundreds of pages we have seen are elders told that they must go to the police, even if the perpetrator confesses, unless state or national law makes it mandatory to report such allegations. The Jehovah's Witnesses' UK leadership declined to talk to us for the programme. In a statement, they said they were appealing against a recent High Court ruling in the UK that awarded substantial damages against the organisation for failing to protect a child from sexual abuse by a paedophile. Their statement also insists that the organisation does take child abuse extremely seriously. Karen Morgan and Wendy are now pursuing a civil claim against the organisation, hoping that further financial penalty may force the leadership of the Jehovah's Witnesses to change its policies. For both of them, what made it even harder was the sense that belonging to the Jehovah's Witnesses was part of an all-encompassing lifestyle, with members encouraged to socialise and marry within the group. The organisation has some eight million members around the world, but as Karen found to her cost, those who decide to have a boyfriend or girlfriend who is not a member may find themselves "disfellowshipped" or shunned. Jehovah's Witnesses are not the only religious organisation to try to deal with allegations of sexual abuse in-house. For many decades, that was the preferred method of the Roman Catholic Church, which has since reformed its child safeguarding policies following numerous court cases in the US and Europe against priests for the sexual abuse of children. Other churches have also tightened up their child safeguarding policies, with the Methodist Church conducting its own recent inquiry into abuse allegations dating back to 1950. That inquiry has led to calls for the Church of England to hold a fresh internal inquiry of its own, separately from the overarching national public inquiry that has just begun, and from the investigation it published in 2010, which critics termed inadequate. However, it is the more closed religious communities and new religious movements where it remains hardest for the victims of such abuse to speak out and gain access to secular justice, although awareness of the issue is growing. Only this month, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish scholar from Manchester - who fled to Israel after he was exposed as a paedophile - was jailed for 13 years. Todros Grynhaus was deported by the Israeli authorities to face justice in the UK, with his conviction for sex offences against girls leading to a change in attitudes in the Haredi Jewish community. The case prompted the UK's Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, to urge members to report child sex abuse. The court had heard that both women who testified against Grynhaus in the case had been "ostracised" by their community as a result of speaking out about their ordeal. For young Muslim girls, the price of speaking out about child sexual abuse can also be high, with many reluctant to report such abuse because of the fear that it would bring shame on them and their family. Sexual and physical abuse at Islamic religious schools, known as madrassas, has also resulted in some prosecutions in recent years, although often victims still hesitate to come forward with such allegations. Many religious organisations will find themselves being closely scrutinised in the national independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, chaired by New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard. The survivors of such abuse hope that the inquiry will prove itself truly independent, and help ensure that abusers will not be able to rely on their own congregations or religious leaders to protect them - whatever their faith. The Inquiry will investigate a wide range of institutions including: Local authorities The police The Crown Prosecution Service The Immigration Service The BBC The armed forces Schools Hospitals Children's homes Churches, mosques and other religious organisations Charities and voluntary organisations Full details of the inquiry Caroline Wyatt's investigation will be broadcast in Radio 4's The Report at 20:00 BST on Thursday, 23 July.

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The EC's doubts about the arrangement were detailed in a document on Friday. The EC said that its "preliminary view is that the tax ruling... by Luxembourg in favour of Amazon constitutes state aid." However, Amazon said it "has received no special tax treatment from Luxembourg". "We are subject to the same tax laws as other companies operating here [in Luxembourg]," it said. The Luxembourg finance ministry said: "Luxembourg is confident that the state aid allegations in this case are without merit and will be able to convince the Commission of the legitimacy of the anticipatory decision in question and that no competitive advantage was granted," it said. The European Commission began a probe of the tax arrangement last year, saying that it had suspicions it broke EU rules. The Commission document, which was sent to the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs in October, gives its rationale for launching the investigation. The Commission said it had "no indication" that the tax arrangement was "compatible with the internal market". The current European Commission chief, Jean-Claude Juncker, was prime minister of Luxembourg when the deal was struck. Mr Juncker has come under pressure over claims that around 340 global companies were granted tax avoidance deals during his 18 year tenure in Luxembourg. Commission doubts over the Amazon deal included whether Luxembourg had properly looked into Amazon's "transfer pricing" proposals about how money would be moved between different Amazon subsidiaries. Doubts also existed about whether the country had assessed that the proposed tax regime was in line with market conditions before agreeing the deal in 2003, the European Commission document said. The Commission also had questions about how royalty payments between certain Amazon companies were calculated, and whether "Amazon has a financial incentive to exaggerate the amount of the royalty" between its Luxembourg head office company and an Amazon firm that holds shares in the head office company. "If the royalty is exaggerated, it would unduly reduce the tax paid by Amazon in Luxembourg by shifting profits to an untaxed entity from the perspective of corporate taxation," the EC said. It added that Luxembourg might have been too hasty in assessing Amazon's requested arrangement before striking the deal. Luxembourg's finance ministry said it "has provided all the information required by the Commission and cooperated fully with the Commission in its investigation." "Among other things, detailed reports on the transfer price requested by the Commission were disclosed," it added. Luxembourg is also being investigated by the Commission over suspected "sweetheart" tax deals with the financing arm of carmaker Fiat. In addition, Ireland's tax deal with Apple and the Netherlands' arrangement with Starbucks are being scrutinised as part of a crackdown on multinationals' tax avoidance schemes.

Media playback is not supported on this device On Thursday afternoon, Jackson Page was meant to be taking part in a physical education lesson at Ebbw Fawr Learning Community in Blaenau Gwent. Instead, the 15-year-old from Ebbw Vale found himself in front of the television cameras at Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena, playing former world number one Judd Trump for a place in the last 16 of the Welsh Open. Having beaten Jason Weston and John Astley in the first and second rounds, Page attracted a big crowd; the locals curious to see if this improbably bearded schoolboy could continue his improbable run. However, his match against Trump - the winner of six ranking titles - proved a bridge too far for the Welsh teenager. Page was brave in his shot selection and eager to match his opponent's attacking instincts, but was ultimately outclassed as Trump ruthlessly raced to a 4-0 win. "It was great out there but there were a lot of nerves and pressure too," says Page, remarkably calm and level-headed for a 15-year-old. "It's been great - I've loved every minute of it. My friends have been proud of me and enjoyed watching me. Now it's back to blazers and ties. "No-one likes school really. When I'm there I just can't wait to get into the snooker hall." Luckily for Page, his teachers recognise his potential and are happy for him to forego as many lessons as is necessary for him to pursue his snooker ambitions. After a week in school, Page will travel to Cyprus for the European Championships, where winning the under-21 or senior competition would give him the opportunity to turn professional. Media playback is not supported on this device With Page in Cyprus will be his mother Clare, who along with father Andrew, has been integral to his snooker development. Being the parents of a budding player has meant driving him from school to the local snooker hall every day, then for a whole day of practice on Saturdays and usually a tournament on Sundays - of which Page enters about 33 a year. "We're so proud, we just can't believe it," says Clare. "We came down here with no expectation. He did, he had expectation because he's got all the confidence in the world. "We were just thinking we've got a couple of days off work, we'll come down with him, and my head was mostly down because I couldn't watch." Andrew was the first person Jackson saw as he left the table after his first and second-round wins, and he begins to well up as he reflects on his son's achievement. "It's emotional. Even seeing him walk out on the big stage, you get a lump in your throat," says Andrew, his eyes glistening as he struggles to restrain his tears. "When that last black went in - I don't know if it was the first round or the second, I can't remember - I was the first one out of there, before anyone could see me crying." The pride, warmth and sheer enthusiasm with which Page's parents speak is infectious. They joke that it is just as well they have only one son - as they would simply not have the time to support another child as lovingly or committedly. Media playback is not supported on this device Page, while equally amenable and friendly, is more reserved. His is a temperament made for professional sport. Perhaps it is a quality he has gleaned from two-time world champion Mark Williams, who is from Cwm - just a couple of miles away from Ebbw Vale - and has been helping Page train. "He's very laid back, which is a good trait to have," Page says. "I've played with Mark on the practice tables a few times. You learn off him and get tips off him." Williams, a former world number one with 18 ranking titles and about £5m in prize money to his name, will be a valuable influence as Page aims to establish himself. The financial rewards for leading snooker players can be great and, this week, Page got a taste of things which might be to come. Reaching the third round of the Welsh Open earned him £3,500 - a far cry from the pocket money or paper rounds with which most 15-year-olds have to make do. True to form, the measured Page plans to put the majority of that sum in the bank. Surely, though, after such a remarkable week, he can afford himself a little treat? He ponders his options, smiles and says: "I might get a McDonalds later." Media playback is not supported on this device Former world champion Terry Griffiths "When I saw Jackson play, it reminded me of when I was 15 years of age and how I thought about playing. He just loves to be there. "He takes on shots that other people turn down because he's excited at that age and to win two matches as he has done is exceptional. "He's a tremendous potter, he's got no fear at all." Former world champion Mark Williams "He's played a few pros already and beaten them. I didn't do that when I was 15. What he is doing is incredible. "He is a very fast player, he will slow down when he's older, but he is only 15. He keeps winning under-21 tournaments, so he doesn't need to change too much." Deputy phase director of Ebbw Fawr Learning Community, Paul Freeguard "We are very, very proud of his achievement, but not surprised, as he is an under-18 world champion. "The other pupils are following the tournament, they are all avid fans now. They are getting time to catch up and watch him. "He will have exams when he comes back, same as everyone else, so he will be expected to catch up on the work he has missed. "Jackson will make a professional career out of snooker so it would be unfair if we hadn't supported him. But I couldn't tell you why he doesn't like history or English, but luckily he's doing well in those subjects. "He will get a hero's welcome when he returns to the school."

The 32-year-old attacking midfielder has signed a two-year deal with Hull City after eight months Stateside. "The national team weighed heavily on my mind," said Maloney. "It was in March that I noticed that the travel back for the international games was proving more difficult than I thought it was going to be." The former Celtic, Aston Villa and Wigan player acknowledged "it was proving difficult" to be "physically 100% able for training and matches" as he looked to add to his 40 international caps. Maloney played in both of Scotland's matches in the spring, where he was subbed at half-time in the friendly against Northern Ireland and played the full 90 minutes of the 6-1 win over Gibraltar in Euro 2016 Group D qualifying. In June, he was back in Scotland for the friendly against Qatar and a few days later played a key role in Scotland's 1-1 draw in the Euro 2016 qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin. Earlier this week, he was named in the Scotland squad for next month's Euro qualifiers against Georgia in Tbilisi and Germany at Hampden. He said of his decision to leave Chicago: "There were various reasons, a couple of them personal, but once I thought about it professionally, I still had a real desire to achieve something in British football. "I have loved living in Chicago. I had a brilliant time. I don't think I've been happier living anywhere else. "The football didn't work out they way we all hoped. The owner, the manager hoped for things to be different. "I didn't want to give the national manager any excuse whenever I met up with the national team, travelling back from Chicago." Maloney did not speak to Scotland boss Gordon Strachan about his move to Hull, a Championship club he was keen to join with Steve Bruce as manager. He said: "Once I made it known that I was going to come back, it was two or three weeks ago that Hull showed an interest in me. That's when a decision had to be made. "My mind was made up pretty quickly that I wanted to play for him. Everything is geared up to get the team back into the Premier League." Scotland sit third behind Poland and Germany in Group D qualifying. "We're in a good position," Maloney added. "Let's hope that we're good enough to get the results needed to get us out the group and get us to a major championship."

There did not appear to be any obvious link between them, but the group of five were indeed connected - by a dark, despicable secret. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, they operated an "abhorrent" predatory paedophile ring in the Wrexham area of north Wales. They targeted and preyed on vulnerable children aged between 10 and 15, in a "systematic and devious manner" before repeatedly abusing them and passing them from one abuser to the next. "On some occasions, victims were given alcohol before the abuse took place," said Ed Beltrami, chief crown prosecutor for Wales. "That's the whole nature of a paedophile ring; they pick on people who have vulnerability, they don't necessarily have a very stable home life and people looking after them so they are prey to offenders of this nature. "Once they're into the ring then they are passed around from one offender to the other. " The five men - two other defendants; retired teacher Roger Griffiths, 76, from Wrexham, and ex-slaughterman Keith Stokes from Farndon, Cheshire, were cleared of all charges - must have felt confident they would never be held to account for the young lives they had broken. After all, they remembered a time when sex abuse claims against men, often in positions of influence, were routinely dismissed out of hand and not taken seriously. But the two-month trial at Mold Crown Court is a reminder of how things have changed. Now, complaints of abuse - no matter how long ago - are treated differently. They are taken seriously. Rumours of a paedophile ring in Wrexham were nothing new. They had been circulating for years. In 2000, the Waterhouse inquiry into physical and sexual abuse in north Wales children's homes acknowledged its existence. "Twenty-five years ago, when I was first involved in digging this up, there was almost like a wall of silence," said Malcolm King, a Wrexham councillor who has been instrumental in exposing abuse of children in care. "There was almost a disbelief that this sort of evil could be going on in our midst without us ever knowing about it." "So breaking that dam of disbelief has been one of the important things that has happened over the past quarter of a century. "But there's still much more to be done because the evidence is that there are hundreds and hundreds of people who've been abused that have never come forward, often abuse within their own families. "But nevertheless, people remain silent with the most terrible things having been done to them." Mr King and officers on the National Crime Agency's Operation Pallial team - set up in 2012 after Home Secretary Theresa May ordered an investigation into claims of previously overlooked child abuse in north Wales - have repeatedly paid tribute to the five victims. The stress of facing their nightmare past, raking up excruciating memories and of being branded liars by the very men who brutalised them, can only be imagined. "There is no forensic evidence - it's far too late for that," explains Mr Beltrami. "No phone evidence, no CCTV, the usual supporting evidence is not available in a case of this nature so it comes down in the end to the oral testimony of the witnesses and of course the defendants have their say and it's for the jury to make up their mind whether they can be sure on the evidence they hear." The victims told the jury how they had been abused mostly at the home of Gary Cooke - also known as Mark Grainger - who has a string of sex convictions. At the time, he worked as a professional wrestler and ran a sex shop. He was also the ringleader of the gang of paedophiles. He had taken in two lodgers - Neil Phoenix and local radio personality Roy Norry - who exploited his local celebrity status to ensnare his victims. Together with civil servant Edward Huxley, they met former singer David Lightfoot who ran a bar in the town centre called Snowy's. Here, the gang also gathered young boys to abuse. The grooming tactics adopted by the abusers have been described as "carefully planned and single minded" and continued over their victims' childhoods. "They were clearly vulnerable young people," said Ian Mulcahey, senior investigating officer with the National Crime Agency. "They were targeted because of that reason. They were taken into this network of people and it's been difficult to escape that cycle." Verdicts He added: "They accessed their victims in a variety of ways. Some by chance meeting, then they've groomed them and built up levels of trust. "They've plied them with alcohol, they've given them attention. These were very vulnerable young boys. They've played on that vulnerability." The men took them on car trips, provided pornography, drugs, drink and sometimes money. Some of the boys would then introduce their friends to the men. "I think the victims are incredibly brave," Mr Beltrami added. "They have suffered over a very long period of time. "It's not easy to come along and give evidence of sexual offences that have been committed against you in your childhood, particularly going through the criminal process with someone else coming along with suggestions that you're making it up. That's a hard process." "Whilst the criminal justice process cannot put right the wrongs committed by these individuals, we hope that the victims will take some solace in knowing that their abusers have been brought to justice." So the latest chapter in the scandal of child abuse in north Wales, both inside and outside the care system in the 70s and 80s, comes to a close. Connections with some of these men can be made with other known paedophiles. Cooke once worked for notorious paedophile John Allen, who ran children's homes in north Wales and was jailed for life in 2014. There is evidence that they preyed on the same victims. As talk of conspiracies and establishment cover-ups continue, and as Operation Pallial presses on with its quest to expose historical child abuse in the region - it is fair to say this is unlikely to be the last we hear of this episode of north Wales's dark and shameful past.

The skeleton belongs to a small, plant-eating dinosaur which lived 200 million years ago - at the beginning of the Jurassic Period. Although this species was widespread at the time, scientists have largely had to rely on incomplete fossils. The analysis was carried out at the ESRF facility in Grenoble, France, and showed that the specimen was juvenile. The skeleton is too small and fragile, and the rocks around it too hard, to allow it to be studied by conventional means. In addition, the rock matrix in which the fossil is preserved contains trapped minerals which prevented it from being scanned in a standard CT scanner. The specimen was discovered in a stream bed on a farm in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa by palaeontologist Billy de Klerk. "There's still a lot we don't know about early plant-eating dinosaurs," said Prof Jonah Choiniere from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. "We need new specimens like this one and new technology like the synchrotron to fill in those gaps." Prof Choiniere, along with Dr Vincent Fernandez, from the ESRF (European Synchrotron), scanned the specimen with high-powered X-rays to understand how the species, Heterodontosaurus tucki, ate, moved, and breathed. Scanning the fist-sized skull might allow the scientists to perform a 3D reconstruction of the animal's brain, offering insights into its lifestyle - including its sense of smell, and whether it was capable of complex behaviours. The scientists think the diminutive dinosaur used its back teeth to grind down plant food. In other animals with similar anatomy, this requires the teeth to be replaced due to wear and tear. The team members said they can now begin testing this theory and others regarding the dinosaur's biology and behaviour. Follow Paul on Twitter.

Celtic have not lost a domestic game this season ahead of their Scottish Cup semi-final against Rangers. And Lovenkrands, 37, insists reaching the cup final in May should be all the motivation the Ibrox players need. "I don't think it's anything to do with being the first team to beat them," the Dane said. "With the Old Firm, you have to win. If you are playing for Rangers, you have to go and beat your rivals and Celtic will say the same. "I don't think anybody would be looking at it from a Rangers point of view, that we want to be the first team to beat them this season. "You need to approach every game to win it." Lovenkrands spent six years at Ibrox and scored twice, including a late winner, in the 3-2 Scottish Cup final win over Celtic at Hampden in 2002. He also scored the eventual winner in the 2-1 League Cup final defeat of Celtic at the national stadium the following year. And the former Newcastle United and Schalke player, who won 22 Denmark caps, would like to see a new Rangers hero emerge on Sunday. "I would hope someone could come out and grab that chance," he explained. "I grabbed my chance and these things happen in Old Firm games. It happens for Celtic players, like Henrik Larsson, he did fantastic scoring goals against Rangers. "You get your chance and it is about grabbing it and hopefully someone will go and grab the headlines." Celtic, who have already won the Premiership title and the League Cup, are 33 points clear of Rangers in the league. The Ibrox outfit go into Sunday's match having won three games and drawn two under new manager Pedro Caixinha. "Anything can happen in football," Lovenkrands added. "I have always said it is 50-50 in an Old Firm game. "Celtic have won the league comfortably and deservedly so. But Rangers have stepped up in the last couple of games. "They have changed their manager and they have changed their way of playing. I like the way they have changed and the more direct approach suits the players better, they seem to be getting the results. "But it is all about what happens on the day, a challenge after five minutes can change the whole run of the game."

Media playback is not supported on this device The Barcelona forward curled home a free-kick after only 12 minutes, and Luan added a second after the break. Brazil will now play Honduras in Wednesday's semi-finals after they won 1-0 against South Korea, thanks to Alberth Elis's winner. Germany play Nigeria in the other last-four match. The Africans beat Denmark 2-0 in their quarter-final, while Germany won 4-0 against Portugal. Brazil's second pool win came after 0-0 draws with Iraq and South Africa, and a 4-0 victory over Denmark. Neymar, the poster boy for the Games, finally got off the mark at the fourth attempt when he curled home from 25 yards out. He then provoked a mass brawl between the two teams after a heavy challenge on Andres Roa, and five yellow cards were handed out. Brazil made sure of a place in their third consecutive Olympic semi-final when Luan's effort from outside the area beat goalkeeper Cristian Bonilla.

Current Yes keyboardist Geoff Downes tweeted: "Utterly devastated beyond words to have to report the sad news of the passing of my dear friend, bandmate and inspiration Chris Squire." Squire had revealed he was suffering from a rare form of leukaemia. The band said he died "peacefully" in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday night. "It's with the heaviest of hearts and unbearable sadness that we must inform you of the passing of our dear friend and Yes co-founder, Chris Squire," a statement on the band's official Facebook page said. Squire had revealed in May that he had been recently diagnosed with acute erythroid leukemia, which would force him to miss the band's summer co-headlining tour with Toto. Yes were formed in 1968 when singer Jon Anderson met self-taught bassist Squire in London. Their big break came a year later when they signed to Atlantic Records after opening for Janis Joplin at London's Royal Albert Hall. Their debut single, Sweetness, and first album, Yes, were released later that year. Other albums included 1971's Fragile, 1972's Close To The Edge and 1977's Going For The One. In 1983 they released the album 90125, which featured their classic hit Owner Of A Lonely Heart. That went on to become a US number one hit in January 1984 despite only reaching number 28 in their home country. Squire also released a solo album, Fish Out Of Water, in 1975. The group's most recent studio album, Heaven & Earth, came out last year. Squire, who was born in Kingsbury, north-west London, was the only member of the group to feature on every studio album. Musicians and fans took to Twitter and Facebook to pay tribute to Squire. John Petrucci, founding member and guitarist for American progressive metal band Dream Theater, tweeted: "Thank you for all of the amazing music Chris Squire. You will surely be missed." Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello tweeted: "RIP Chris Squire, super bassist of Yes. An extremely talented musician's musician who mastered his instrument and took it to new realms." American rock guitarist Joe Satriani posted: "R.I.P. and thank you Chris Squire. #ChrisSquire,#yes" The band posted on their official website to say they would have more information for fans soon, adding: "Thank you for all your heartfelt tributes on Facebook and Twitter."

Sudanese TV showed the triumphant arrival of the president back home in Khartoum, travelling around the airport in an open-top Landrover, with people chasing the vehicle and singing, "With our blood and souls we shall defend you, Bashir!" Sudanese papers are painting his return as the final nail in the ICC's coffin after years of failing to have him arrested. "Large crowds welcome Bashir and bury the ICC" reads a headline in Al-Ra'y al-Amm. Alwan's editorial says smugly that "His Excellency the President, his advisors and his close circle knew that he would leave and come back without them touching a hair on his head." Columnist Bashir Hamid Jum'ah sets a general tone of gushing praise in Al-Mijhar al-Siyasi, saying that the president is now a "star". "Every summit will now want to have him as a participant, because he will give it a standing and a sense of glamour". Al-Watan's editorial thanks South Africa and the AU for proving they are "strong willed in confronting the new colonialism." Other Sudanese commentators say that the incident leaves the ICC's reputation in tatters. Dhia al-Din Balal writes in Al-Sudani: "The fact that most African countries who are signatories to the Rome Statute of the Hague Court received President Bashir means in practical terms that they have left the court's statute; actions always speak louder than words". However, Al-Maydan newspaper, the mouthpiece of the opposition Sudanese Communist Party, defies the general tone of bravado, insisting that "Dafur crimes will not be dropped due to the passage of time." South African newspapers are leading with AU chairperson Robert Mugabe's comments that President Zuma had allegedly promised the AU that Bashir would not be arrested. South Africa's Times Live illustrates the story with a picture of the two leaders grinning. The Mail and Guardian further quotes Mugabe railing against the ICC, saying, "We don't want it in this region at all... The ICC was there to help us try cases, especially cases of violence in any country during an election, but those who signed are now regretting it." The Cape Times focuses on a call by the governing African National Congress (ANC) for South Africa - and indeed the entire continent - to leave the ICC. But a commentator in the Cape Argus paper is worried that South Africa's need to win friends and influence others in Africa is trumping its international obligations. "It is prepared to snub those who believed South Africa was still committed to international justice... The real winner is impunity," writes Jeremy Sarkin. "Hopefully, the courts remain the beacon of hope and ensure that South Africa is held to its international obligations, and that there are consequences for it not doing so. The world needs an ICC that can hold accountable those who commit international crimes. " The New York Times points the finger of blame for President Bashir's escape squarely on Pretoria. "This could not have happened without the complicity of the South African government, which deserves international condemnation," it says in an editorial. "The biggest losers are the innocent victims of Mr Bashir's cruel policies in Darfur who are still being denied justice." The paper warns that "South Africa cannot help but compromise its leadership position in Africa if it insists on reneging on its international commitments and protecting ruthless leaders accused of war crimes." The UK's Independent has no illusions that South Africa will be held to account, saying the ICC has no teeth. "Realpolitik usually triumphs over international justice. Like so many other flawed institutions, the ICC is all we have, and we should support it, but it is not much of a threat to anyone." 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.

His younger brother Ogbonna told BBC Sport that the former Arsenal striker is doing well after the operation. "It's important to clarify that decision to operate him was reached during his annual medical check-up. "We give thanks to God that everything went well and he's in perfect condition. The decision to operate him was reached during his annual medical check-up "The family would like to say a big 'thank you' to Nigerians and Nwankwo Kanu's fans across the world for their prayers and best wishes." The former Nigeria captain first had heart surgery in November 1996 to correct a faulty aortic valve. After year out, he returned to action for Inter Milan and in February 1999 joined Premier League side Arsenal. The experience prompted him to set up a foundation to build five hospitals in Africa to treat undiagnosed heart disease and provide surgery. At the weekend, the Nigerian government named Kanu among the 100 most distinguished Nigerians during a ceremony to mark the centenary of the unification of north and south Nigeria. Kanu announced his retirement from international football at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. His international success includes a Fifa under-17 World Cup title in 1993 and the 1996 Olympic football gold medal. Kanu's individual honours include African Footballer of the Year awards in 1996 and 1999.

Devon and Cornwall Police said dozens of birds had been "placed" in a line along the central markings of the A35, about 100 yards apart. A "large amount of feathers" and a discarded seed bag, believed to have been used to move the birds, was found nearby. It was too early to say how they died, the force added. For the latest on this story, click here PCSO Steve Mingo said witnesses are being sought. "We are also asking for any pigeon fanciers in the area to check their flock to make sure all are accounted for."

The list of 198 firms owed a total of £466,219 in arrears and included football clubs, recruitment firms, care homes and hairdressers. Top of the list was a London restaurant which owed almost £100,000 to 30 employees. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said all the money owed had been paid back to workers. The list was the largest of its kind since the "naming and shaming" scheme was introduced in October 2013. The department said 688 employers in total have been publicly identified for flouting the law, with total arrears of more than £3.5m. Business Minister Margot James said: "It is not acceptable that some employers fail to pay at least the minimum wage their workers are entitled to. "So we'll continue to crack down on those who ignore the law, including by naming and shaming them." Restaurant San Lorenzo in Wimbledon, South West London, owed £99,541.98 to 30 workers, while Premier Recruitment Ltd in Derby owed £34,797.33 to 424 workers. Also on the list were football clubs Blackpool FC and Brighton and Hove Albion, which owed £2,861.64 to one worker. Brighton and Hove Albion said its reputation had been "unfairly tarnished" by its inclusion on the list, claiming the case was a "minor administrative error" which resulted from being "over generous" in paying expenses to someone on work experience two years ago. A spokesman for the club insisted: "We are one of the few clubs who pays its staff over and above the National Living Wage." TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady called for the "worst offenders" to be prosecuted, adding: "Bosses who try to duck the minimum wage must have nowhere to hide. "The level of underpayment in some cases is truly eye-watering." The list comes after the new National Living Wage was introduced in April, requiring employers to pay at least £7.20 an hour to employees aged 25 and over. However, the Living Wage Foundation calculates that a rate of £8.25 per hour is required to meet the cost of living, rising to £9.40 in London. Some employers pay this higher living wage voluntarily. The National Living Wage of £6.70 an hour applies to workers aged 21 to 24, with lower rates for younger people and apprentices. The government's list includes firms that have failed to pay either the minimum wage or the National Living Wage. Conor D'Arcy from think tank the Resolution Foundation backed the government's policy of naming and shaming but added: "With the number of people on the wage floor set to treble over the next four years, the government will need to strengthen its resources for enforcing both the national minimum wage and the national living wage." Green Party peer Baroness Jones said: "The government must introduce a real Living Wage, calculated by the actual cost of living, as called for by the Living Wage Foundation and the Green Party, among others. "This is the only way to ensure people can afford to live in Britain today."

They were found wounded at a property in Elmshurst Crescent, East Finchley at about 06:25 BST. The Metropolitan Police named the two victims - said to have moved to the UK from Congo in central Africa - as Anny Ekofo, 52, and her nephew Bervil Ekofo, 21. Mr Ekofo's mother said she had lost her "life" and her "best friend". Maymie Botamba said: "He was my life, they have taken my life away. He was my best friend. "He was so lovely and kind to everyone, always surrounded by girls. He had never been in trouble before, he had never been in a fight in his life." The Met's homicide and major crime command unit is investigating. Mrs Ekofo's cousin, Fifi Selo, said the family was in shock and "cannot explain what happened". "They were an amazing family. Anny was the kind of person who was a mum to everybody. She always brought everybody together." Both victims were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Local resident Lizzy Holsgrove said: "About 20 police cars and four or five paramedic cars, and three ambulances sped past my window. "They cordoned off the street very quickly and police were sprinting from the top of the road where they'd stopped. "There had been screaming before the police arrived."

The flag has been hoist above the City Chambers in George Square in a show of solidarity with the French people. On Wednesday, suspected Islamists killed 12 people at the office of the satirical magazine. Glasgow made a similar gesture with the Pakistan flag last month after the Peshawar school massacre. Council leader Gordon Matheson described the killings at the Charlie Hebdo magazine office as "a brutal attack on democracy and freedom of expression". "Glasgow unites in unequivocal condemnation," he said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their loved ones. "The murderous actions of perverse and unrepresentative extremists will never overcome a free press which is so fundamental to the values of a democratic society." He added: "We are flying the flag of France at half-mast from the City Chambers today as a mark of respect for those who have died and to show our solidarity with the people of France and journalists everywhere." Councillor Matheson and Lord Provost Sadie Docherty plans to write jointly to the mayor of Paris and the French consulate in Edinburgh to express condolences on behalf of the city of Glasgow.

Yahoo owns a 43% stake in China's Alibaba group, which it acquired in 2005 for $1bn (£636m), and a part of Yahoo Japan. It had been negotiating a complex swap-deal that was expected to save it billions of dollars in taxes. However, various reports indicated that no agreement had been reached. "I think the deal is either dead or it's going to take a lot longer to complete, which means we don't have a near-term catalyst; hence the selloff," said Brett Harris, an analyst with Gabelli & Co. The stalemate in talks has come as a huge surprise. Analysts and industry experts had expected the deal to be formalised, not least because trading in Alibaba's shares at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has been suspended since 9 February. The reported failure of the talks is a big blow for Yahoo, which has been seeking to restructure its operations in a bid to boost its flagging fortunes. The swap-deal, worth almost $17bn according to some estimates, was not only expected to save taxes, but also provide Yahoo with billions of dollars in cash. Analysts said unless an agreement is reached soon, Yahoo may see its problems escalate further. "The honeymoon is already over,'' said Colin Gillis an analyst with BGC Financial. "Yahoo is probably looking at another year of turmoil.'' To make matters more complicated, Daniel Loeb, of hedge fund ThirdPoint, which owns more than 5% of Yahoo, launched a campaign to install his own directors on the firm's board. "Installing the hand-picked choices of the current board does nothing to allay investor fears that Yahoo is poised to repeat the errors of its past,'' Mr Loeb wrote in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr Loeb's move comes just days after Yahoo announced changes to the board after Chairman Roy Bostock and three board members quit. Their exit followed that of Jerry Yang, Yahoo's co-founder, who resigned from its board last month. Yahoo said it had sought suggestions for new directors from several shareholders. "We have received constructive suggestions from several of our major shareholders and, therefore, it is especially disappointing that Mr. Loeb has chosen a potentially disruptive path, just as the company is moving forward under new leadership to aggressively increase the value of Yahoo,'' the firm said in a statement.