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Rhodri Colwyn Philipps, 50 - the 4th Viscount St Davids - wrote the message four days after Ms Miller won a Brexit legal challenge against the government. Chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said she had "no doubt it was menacing". Philipps, who called his comments "satire", faces a custodial sentence. He was found guilty of two counts of making malicious communications and acquitted of a third at Westminster Magistrates' Court. One of the counts related to a post regarding Ms Miller, published on Facebook on 7 November 2016, which said: "£5,000 for the first person to 'accidentally' run over this bloody troublesome first generation immigrant." Philipps, of Knightsbridge, London, described her as a "boat jumper" and added: "If this is what we should expect from immigrants, send them back to their stinking jungles." Ms Arbuthnot found this offence was racially aggravated. The court heard how Ms Miller, 52, said she felt "violated" by Philipps's "shocking" comments about her. Ms Miller led a successful legal challenge which, on 3 November, resulted in the government being told to consult Parliament before formally beginning the Brexit process. Philipps, who defended himself throughout the trial, said his posts had been simply reflecting how he and others felt following this ruling in the High Court. He told the court: "My family motto is 'Love of Country is my motivation'." He said his comments were "meant to be a form of satire, a literary technique, iterated in my personal style, which may not be to everyone's taste, but is understood and accepted by everyone who knows me". Ms Arbuthnot, in a series of exchanges with the peer, asked Philipps: "Boat jumper, how can I see that as anything other than a racial, ethnic aggravation?" But Philipps denied the allegation that his posts were "racially aggravated" saying that describing Ms Miller as a "boat jumper" and that she should go back to the "steaming jungle" were "statements of fact not a racist comment at all". He added that he would not have made any serious threat "on an account where I could easily be identified". He added he had deleted the posts as soon as he realised that his closed circle of Facebook friends had been "infiltrated" and screen shots of the posts had been passed to Ms Miller. Delivering her verdict, Ms Arbuthnot said there was "nothing private about a Facebook post". The other post Philipps was convicted for was in response to a news article about an immigrant in Luton, who was involved in a row over housing. Philipps wrote: "I will open the bidding. £2,000 in cash for the first person to carve Arnold Sube into pieces." Kate Mulholland, from the Crown Prosecution Service said: "No-one should have these kind of menacing comments made to them or about them." Philipps will be sentenced later this week.

An aristocrat who wrote an online post offering £5,000 to anyone who ran over businesswoman Gina Miller has been found guilty of two charges of making menacing communications.

The inquiry was told Harry Clarke, 58, had been unconscious at the wheel of a bus in 2010 and during the bin lorry crash in December last year. Expert witness Dr Ronald Neville told the inquiry doctors did not note differing accounts of the 2010 episode. Mr Clarke told his GP he had fainted in the work canteen at First Bus. But the First Bus doctor was aware this happened while he was at the wheel of the bus. Six people died and 15 others were injured when the Glasgow City Council bin lorry veered out of control on Queen Street before crashing into the Millennium Hotel in George Square in December 2014. The fatal accident inquiry (FAI) at Glasgow Sheriff Court is examining Mr Clarke's health, the condition of the lorry and the route taken. The court had previously heard that following the 2010 blackout when he was a bus driver, Mr Clarke was examined by Dr Kenneth Lyons, the medical advisor to First Bus. Dr Lyons subsequently sent a letter to Mr Clarke's own GP, which described how his loss of consciousness took place on a stationary bus and asked for further advice. Mr Clarke's GP, Dr Gerard McKaig, told the inquiry that the driver had said to him that he had fainted in the First Bus canteen. After he went on annual leave, Dr Lyons received a response to his letter from a Dr John Langan, who worked at the same practice as Dr McKaig. The letter said Mr Clarke had been "waiting for his lunch in a hot environment" when he fainted, and the driver was "unlikely to have another one". It concluded Mr Clarke was "fit to return to work as a bus driver". On Tuesday, the inquiry heard a second day of evidence from Dr Neville, a GP in Dundee, who also prepares expert reports on drivers' fitness to drive. He prepared a report on Mr Clarke after the bin lorry crash. Dr Neville told the inquiry that the "major discrepancy" in reports about the 2010 episode should have been caught by doctors. The expert witness said the letter that came back from Mr Clarke's GP's surgery lacked the detail or thoroughness you would expect from a healthcare professional. He said the First Bus doctor should have noted the major discrepancy in the account of the 2010 blackout and he should have got in touch with the other doctor. Dr Neville said that if either doctor had noted the discrepancy in Mr Clarke's account, an inquiry into the exact facts would have resulted. Erin McQuade, 18, her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and his 69-year-old wife Lorraine, all from Dumbarton, died in the bin lorry crash. Stephenie Tait, 29, and Jacqueline Morton, 51, both from Glasgow, and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh, were also killed. The Crown Office has already concluded that there will be no criminal prosecution over the crash, with senior lawyers deeming it a "tragic accident". The inquiry continues.

The inquiry into the Glasgow bin lorry crash which killed six people last year has heard of a "lack of due diligence" from doctors in relation to the driver.

The London-born, USA-raised 21-year-old will count as a foreign import because of his overseas junior development. "My dad loves it," he said. "It's different from soccer, but he loves the intensity of it. "He's only an hour and a half away, so he'll be able to get to watch me play more than he's ever done." Asked whether his football-mad dad, a former Brentford trialist and passionate Celtic and Scotland fan, understands the game, Stewart added: "I've told him that, whenever we score, or the opposition score, he's just got to make sure he cheers for the right team." "Liam is a very important signing for us," said Blaze head coach Danny Stewart. "He adds to our depth which will be crucial next season." Blaze, who won the Elite League five times in eight seasons between 2003 and 2010, finished sixth last season. Liam Stewart first developed an interest in ice hockey after moving to America to live with his mother in Southern California at the age of three. He played at a junior level with the Spokane Chiefs, before making two play-off appearances for the Quad City Mallards, and then making 13 appearances last season for the Alaska Aces. "I was there for a couple of months before I got injured," he said. "The injury is fully recovered now and I am itching to get back on the ice to start the season."

Elite League side Coventry Blaze have signed Liam Stewart, son of music legend Rod and former model Rachel Hunter, for the 2016-17 season.

Revenue rose to $20.26bn (£14bn) between January and March, from $17.26bn a year earlier. But Alphabet's share price fell about 6% in after-hours trading, as the revenue figure fell short of analysts' expectations. Net income for the quarter was $4.2bn, up from $3.5bn a year ago. The earnings report came one day after the European Commission issued formal antitrust charges against Google over claims that it abuses the dominant market position of its Android operating system. Google's advertising revenue jumped 16.2% in the first quarter to $18.02bn. The company said the number of ads, also known as paid clicks, jumped 29%. But the average price of online ads, known as cost-per-click, fell 9% in the quarter. Ruth Porat, chief financial officer at the parent company Alphabet, said the first quarter results represented a "tremendous start to the year", and that the company is "thoughtfully pursuing big bets and building exciting new technologies" which she hopes will put the company in a good position for long term growth. Google embarked on a restructuring drive late last year and created a new parent company - Alphabet. Under the rebranding, Google retained its best-known businesses, such as search, apps, YouTube and Android. Some of the newer entities, such as the investment and research divisions, the "smart-home" unit Nest, and the drone arm will be run under Alphabet.

Alphabet - Google's parent company - has reported a 17% rise in quarterly revenue after strong advertising sales on mobile devices.

Researchers found that four out of five children in England who ate school lunches had tried food at school that they had not tried at home. Half of parents questioned said their children had asked for foods they had eaten at school to be cooked at home. The survey, of about 1,000 parents, found the most popular vegetables were carrots, sweetcorn and peas. Aubergine, chickpeas and spinach were among the least popular. Of the parents questioned, 628 had children who ate school lunches. (% denotes proportion of parents who said their child would eat each vegetable) England's School Food Trust commissioned the research after a survey by the Mumsnet website suggested some parents gave their children packed lunches because they thought they were too fussy to eat anything else. Trust chairman, Rob Rees, said: "Every parent knows it's a nightmare watching their child push food around the plate. "School meals can be a great way to help parents encourage their children to try new foods and to increase the variety of foods in their diet." Mumsnet co-founder, Carrie Longton, said: "Getting children to eat healthily is every parent's dream, but meal times at home can often be a battle ground and emotionally charged. "From Mumsnetters' experience it seems that once at school there's a desire to fit in with everyone else and even some positive peer pressure to boast about the variety of what foods you can eat. "School meals have also moved on quite a bit from when Mumsnetters were at school, with healthier options and more variety." School meals in England now have to comply with strict nutritional guidelines. About four in 10 primary school children in England now eat school lunches, slightly more than in secondary schools. More children in Scotland eat school lunches - about 46%. The survey was conducted online between 26 February and 5th March among a panel of parents who had at least one child in school aged 4-17 years old.

School lunches can tempt fussy eaters to try new foods, a survey for the School Food Trust has suggested.

The Keep Military Museum in Dorchester plans to use the money to convert a bunker into an interactive experience. It also wants to create an online gallery of Dorset and Devon people who fought in the war, and a room for community talks and school visits. The Keep is the only military museum for the regiments of both Dorset and Devon. The museum, which is receiving the money from the Heritage Lottery Fund, houses thousands of original and unique exhibits, including the desk belonging to Adolf Hitler and hundreds of items from WWI. Curator Colin Parr said they wanted to gather stories from people whose relatives had taken part in the war. He added: "Our volunteers will create an online history gallery which will include a contributory archive for people wishing to share their history with us." Nerys Watts, of the Heritage Lottery Fund, said: "All communities living in the UK have been affected by the First World War in some way, either by the events that took place, or by the changes it brought about. "We are keen to support projects that, like this one, enable local people to understand more about the heritage of the First World War and how it touched and changed their community."

A Dorset museum has been given a £51,900 grant to help commemorate the outbreak of World War I.

Mahmoud Amir Alagha is working in four dimensions to capture digitally the way partial paralysis affects people's expressions. His research is supported by the university which awarded him a scholarship and supported him when, as a refugee from the conflict in Syria, he applied for permission to stay in the UK. Mahmoud began studying in Glasgow in 2014 but was only able to complete his postgraduate course because he received a fee-waiver scholarship from the university. The 28-year-old graduated with distinction in his Masters degree and hopes to take his research to a higher level. He is currently applying to do his PhD and the UK government has given him leave to remain for five years. Mahmoud has been using technology developed in Scotland to capture 3D images of moving faces. "This is stepping into the fourth dimension," he says. "Capturing 3D images over time." After capturing the images he superimposes a digital mask. "This mask is composed of points, could be thousands," Mahmoud says. "It is a mathematical construction so you can do decimation to make more points or reduce the number of points. "It depends how much is really clinically significant." Those thousands of reference points highlight how our faces move, or fail to move, because of injury, conditions such as Bell's Palsy or the aftermath of surgery, which can cause facial paralysis. Mahmoud say this technique could provide pointers to the correct treatment. He says: "Muscles move the face. There are a very big number of muscles. "Being able to decode the face by region, for example, you can know that this muscle that is being supplied by that branch of the nerve is being affected because it is paralysed or is weak. "Being able to study the region rather than the whole face, or both of them, gives us a new dimension into the management of these cases." Mahmoud, who is from war-torn Aleppo, was half way through his masters degree when he became a refugee. He says: "By the end of the first year, the situation in Syria got mad. I had at some point to apply for asylum in the UK and the asylum process was harsh. "I could not afford the tuition fees for the second year. At that point I was stepping into the unknown. I felt like I was losing my solid ground." Ashraf Ayoub, professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Glasgow University, has been Mahmoud's mentor and supporter during his quest for refugee status. He says: "If it was rejected he would have been deported immediately. That would have been very dangerous for him and undermine what he had achieved in the first year and destroy him as a human being and as a potential scientific researcher." Practical support came from the university in the form of the scholarship, one of four given to refugee students. Prof Ayoub says it has paid off handsomely. He says: "Number one, the enthusiasm. He wanted really to break the mould and innovate the application of this technology. "He also brought to it some of his own ideas of how we take this further. He also conducted a very successful pilot study as part of his Masters degree that he was awarded with distinction." Since the 1970s, the Glasgow Coma scale, developed by two Glasgow university professors at the Southern General has been the global standard for assessing patient consciousness. Mahmoud wants to create a similar framework in his own field - the Glasgow Index of Facial Paralysis. He says: "How can you really diagnose a patient or not without being subjective, to say 'yes, there is improvement' or relying on a ruler to measure movement between two parts of the face? "Having something that will tell you precisely what movement is there, the speed, the direction, the pattern of movement, where you can compare before and after, that is something that will benefit the patients and will advance the management of these patients."

A postgraduate researcher at Glasgow University is developing new technology designed to help people with paralysed faces.

The price of Brent crude oil fell below $39 a barrel at one point, its lowest since December 2008. The IEA said demand in the current quarter was growing by 1.3 million barrels a day, down from 2.2 million barrels in the previous quarter. The IEA predicts that will slip back to 1.2 million barrels a day next year. The price of Brent crude fell to $38.90 a barrel at one point, before recovering slightly to $39.13 - still down 60 cents in the trading session. US crude oil also fell, down 50 cents to $36.12 a barrel. Oil prices are down more than 10% over the week. The trigger was a meeting of oil producers' cartel Opec late last week, which broke up in disarray as the member countries failed to agree to put a lid on production. Opec producers pumped more oil in November than in any month since late 2008, almost 32 million barrels per day. That comes at a time when the world's economic growth is slowing, blunting demand for raw materials. The IEA said that although consumption was likely to have peaked in the third quarter, demand growth of 1.2 million barrels a day was still healthy. Earlier this week, the US Energy Information Administration forecast that US shale oil production, now a major source of oil supply, would fall in January for the ninth month in a row. Sustained falls in output could help to stabilise the price of oil, although some market forecasters suggest the price could continue to fall to as low as $20 a barrel.

The oil price has fallen to a new seven-year low after the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast a slowdown in growth in demand for oil.

The vigilantes were celebrating a successful operation with the military against the Islamist militants. An improvised explosive device (IED) went off killing and injuring people gathered around the celebrations. Despite losing territory this year, Boko Haram still controls a few areas. The BBC's Nigeria correspondent Will Ross says although it seems to have been an accident, this tragedy highlights the danger that remains even after the jihadists have been flushed out of an area. African news updates "The vigilante group together with the military decided to go to villages in Marte local government [area] where there is preponderance of Boko Haram elements," MP Tahir Monguno told the BBC Hausa service. "In the course of the operation they killed some Boko Haram insurgents and they confiscated their weapons," he said. But one of the vigilantes failed to disclose one of the IEDs picked up during the two-day mission and took it back to Monguno, about 135km (83 miles) north-east of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri. "Because of the successes they recorded there was celebration galore," the MP said, with many people joining in. Ten people were killed instantaneously when the device exploded on Tuesday evening and another 13 people died by the time the injured were taken to Maiduguri, he said. "Fifteen of them are [still] in the intensive care unit of the hospital," Mr Monguno said. Will new military HQ defeat Boko Haram? Why Boko Haram remains a threat A military source told the BBC that 12 people transported to Maiduguri had died but was unable to confirm the number of those who died in Monguno. Earlier, a witness told the Associated Press news agency that the device was found at an abandoned Boko Haram camp. According to Amnesty International, at least 17,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed since the group launched their violent uprising to impose Islamic rule in 2009. The group is still holding many women, girls and children captive, including 219 schoolgirls it kidnapped from a school in Chibok in April last year. With the help of Niger and Chad, Nigeria's military has been able to recapture most towns and villages taken by the group. Despite losing territory, the militants are still active in the north-east and Chad blames Boko Haram for two suicide attacks in its capital, N'Djamena on Monday.

At least 23 people have been killed in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Monguno after a Boko Haram bomb confiscated by vigilantes exploded, an MP and army source have told the BBC.

They went in front on eight minutes when a superb Lloyd James free-kick was headed back across goal and Jordan Moore-Taylor poked home the loose ball from close range. The Grecians, who lost striker Reuben Reid in the warm-up, then saw Ollie Watkins limp off injured and as they struggled to regroup, George Cooper curled a long-range shot off the top of the crossbar for Crewe. Exeter were indebted to Christy Pym, who made an astonishing double save to deny Cooper and keep their lead intact. Two minutes later, it was 2-0 as David Wheeler headed in from close range from Liam McAlinden's 58th-minute cross to make it a club-record seven goals in seven successive matches. Simpson laid the ball off to Wheeler and he drilled a brilliant 20-yard shot into the bottom corner for the third on 68 minutes. Crewe's misery was compounded by a straight red card for substitute Charlie Kirk for an awful tackle on Exeter's Jake Taylor and on 86 minutes, James curled in the fourth from 25 yards. Report supplied by the Press Association Match ends, Exeter City 4, Crewe Alexandra 0. Second Half ends, Exeter City 4, Crewe Alexandra 0. Luke Croll (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Jordan Bowery (Crewe Alexandra). Attempt missed. Jordan Bowery (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Goal! Exeter City 4, Crewe Alexandra 0. Lloyd James (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Attempt missed. Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Substitution, Exeter City. Joel Grant replaces Ryan Harley. Jake Taylor (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Charlie Kirk (Crewe Alexandra) is shown the red card. Foul by Charlie Kirk (Crewe Alexandra). Attempt saved. Robbie Simpson (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Foul by Ryan Harley (Exeter City). (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Ben Garratt. Substitution, Exeter City. Luke Croll replaces Jordan Moore-Taylor because of an injury. Delay in match Jordan Moore-Taylor (Exeter City) because of an injury. Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Charlie Kirk replaces Danny Hollands. Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Lloyd James. Attempt saved. Jordan Bowery (Crewe Alexandra) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Jake Taylor (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Jordan Bowery (Crewe Alexandra). Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Jordan Moore-Taylor. Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Troy Brown. Attempt blocked. Callum Cooke (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by David Wheeler. Goal! Exeter City 3, Crewe Alexandra 0. David Wheeler (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Robbie Simpson. Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Chris Dagnall replaces Alex Kiwomya. Foul by David Wheeler (Exeter City). Ben Nugent (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Zoumana Bakayogo. Craig Woodman (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Callum Cooke (Crewe Alexandra). Goal! Exeter City 2, Crewe Alexandra 0. David Wheeler (Exeter City) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Harley with a cross. Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Troy Brown. Attempt missed. Callum Cooke (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Christy Pym. Attempt saved. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Attempt saved. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Attempt missed. Robbie Simpson (Exeter City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.

Exeter City made it 12 games unbeaten with a ruthless demolition of 10-man Crewe at St James' Park.

Media playback is not supported on this device Hamilton was initially stuck behind Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel but switched to a different strategy to get ahead. The German was third ahead of Williams' Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Raikkonen. The result means Rosberg has reduced Hamilton's advantage in the championship to 20 points, while Vettel is 31 points adrift in third place. It was Mercedes' most dominant grand prix since the first race in Australia. Ferrari had come to this weekend with a major upgrade package, with revisions to almost every aerodynamic surface of the car, but Mercedes were perhaps further ahead than they had been all season. Rosberg converted his pole position into a lead at the first corner and simply cruised into the distance as Vettel held up Hamilton behind him. Mercedes urged Hamilton to try to pass the Ferrari, but he told the team it was impossible to get close enough to overtake on the pit straight even with the help of the DRS overtaking aid. Mercedes decided their best option was to give Hamilton some clear track, and told him that they would switch to a three-stop strategy and try to pass Vettel at the end of the race. But Hamilton did not need to overtake the Ferrari on track. Stopping on lap 32 to fit the slower 'hard' tyre, Hamilton immediately set the fastest lap of the race and proceeded to take huge chunks out of Vettel's advantage. Media playback is not supported on this device Twenty seconds behind when he rejoined, Hamilton had cut Vettel's lead in half by the time the Ferrari driver made his second and final stop eight laps later. Vettel rejoined 13.5 seconds behind Hamilton, who continued to pull away until he was 23 seconds in front by the time of his final stop on lap 51, which was comfortably enough to allow him to rejoin in front of the Ferrari. Now 17 seconds behind Rosberg, Hamilton fancied his chances of catching his team-mate for the win, but was told by his engineer Peter Bonnington that he had too much to do and to "consolidate" second place. Hamilton pressed Bonnington, saying: "Is it impossible?" He was told: "Yes, it's impossible. He'll respond if we pick up the pace." "Perfect weekend," said Rosberg. "The car has been awesome - all weekend." Hamilton said: "I got a bad start, had lots of wheelspin but it was a good race. Nico did a fantastic job and I was just grateful I could get back up to second. This was a difficult weekend for me and I'll take this." Behind Vettel in the race, Bottas took fourth, fighting off a stern challenge from Ferrari's Raikkonen in the closing laps. Ferrari inverted Raikkonen's tyre strategy, putting him on the 'hard' tyre for his middle stint rather than taking the conventional route of leaving it for the end of the race. Media playback is not supported on this device That meant Raikkonen had a grip advantage over Bottas, who was on the 'hard' tyre in the final stint, but he was unable to make it pay. The second Williams of Felipe Massa was sixth, from the Red Bull of Daniel Ricciardo and Lotus's Romain Grosjean. Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz passed Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat for ninth place at the first corner of the last lap. The stewards investigated the incident because Sainz went off track through Turn Two as he completed the move - gaining an advantage by leaving the track is forbidden - but they decided to take no further action. Three laps earlier, Sainz cleanly passed team-mate Max Verstappen for 10th place. The two Toro Rossos had started fifth and sixth and had always suspected it would be tough to beat Raikkonen, Massa and the Red Bulls, all of which had qualified behind them. Sainz took advantage of being on the 'medium' tyres in the final stint while Verstappen was on the 'hard'. The Dutchman ran wide in the final twisty section of the track on lap 62 and Sainz was able to draft past on the straight. Jenson Button finished 16th after a troubled race for McLaren. Team-mate Fernando Alonso ran 12th in the first stint, climbed as high as seventh at one point thanks to a late first pit stop, but retired from 14th place with brake failure. Full race results here

Nico Rosberg took a dominant win in the Spanish Grand Prix as Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton fought back from a slow start to take second.

Stephen Kinnock, as the son of a former Labour leader, is one of the better-known among the 2015 intake of MPs. But like the rest of the new faces he has to wait for behind-the-scenes negotiations to conclude before he can be allocated a permanent office at Westminster. "So no office," the Aberavon MP tells me. "We're hot-desking. "I have been given a telephone extension on the system here in parliament but as I don't actually have a telephone or a desk or an office for any of those things I'm not sure what good that does me at the moment." He says constituents can contact him via a number on his website. Craig Williams held off a Labour challenge to hold Cardiff North for the Conservatives. He has benefited from a new induction programme with new MPs offered help from designated "buddies" among the parliamentary staff. "I've had a couple of tours," he says. "Not that it helps because it's a bit like a rat warren in here. It's like Hogwarts, I think, but it's a great building to get lost in - and I'm going to continue getting lost but I'm sure it'll come before long." Mr Williams knows where his office facilities are - he just struggles to find them. "I've got a desk and a phone in committee room 17. It's up three floors that way, left-right, left-right. I get lost twice getting there but there's something in committee room 17 for me." I ask Stephen Kinnock if he has had any advice from his father. The question is met with a familiar throaty chuckle. "What my dad has always said to me is 'be yourself. You'll get criticism, you'll get people having a go at you, the key thing is to never take it personally. This is the job'." Before he can get on with the job, he and the other 649 MPs have to be sworn in, taking the oath of allegiance. They have to do this in English, but can repeat the oath - or affirmation - in Welsh, Scottish Gaelic or Cornish. Without it, they can't take part in Commons debates or votes - or even get paid.

He may have a famous name but he does not have an office or a phone yet.

Slow-motion footage revealed the spiders used their silk draglines to stabilise their bodies and to brake, enabling them to land poised and ready to pounce on prey. The discovery, the scientists say, could inspire new robot design. It is published in the Royal Society journal Interface. Kai-jung Chi, from National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan, and her colleagues investigated the jumping ability of Adanson's house spider, a common arachnid that jumps when it hunts, in order to surprise its prey. Ultimately, Dr Chi and her team hope to learn exactly how these creatures fine-tune and control their jumping manoeuvres, to aid the design of miniature robots able to move in similar ways. Dr Chi's colleague, PhD student Yung-Kang Chen, filmed the spiders at 1,000 frames per second, and slowed down the resulting footage. They compared the movements of the Adanson's spider with those of a species of jumping spider that does not use a silk dragline. "We analysed the motion and body orientation throughout the jumps," Dr Chi told BBC News. This revealed that the Adanson's spider used its dragline to control the orientation of its body mid-air and to brake as it landed. The non-silk jumping spider would often lose balance - tipping forward and onto its back upon landing. "[The silk means that the spiders] can land in the optimal position to rapidly initiate prey capture," Dr Chi said. The results, she said, suggested that the spiders were taking up the slack in their silk dragline by using the valve in their spinning system. These super-fast adjustments mean that silk provides more than just a safety line for a jumping spider. Dr Chi said that the "adjustable silk tension" could provide "biological inspiration" for future manoeuvrable robot design.

High-speed cameras have revealed how jumping spiders use a dragline of silk to stabilise themselves mid-air and control their landings.

Abigail is the first storm to be given a name by the Met Office who keep track of our weather. The storm will hit Northern Ireland with strong winds on Thursday afternoon, and move towards the west coast of Scotland and northern England on Friday. As if one storm wasn't enough, the UK will also be battered by ex-hurricane Kate, which is the end of a hurricane from the Atlantic Ocean. Kate will bring lots more rain for Scotland, Wales and northern parts of England. Weather forecasters have told people to make sure they are prepared for strong winds, especially in Scotland. Several schools have already shut in the Western Isles in Scotland because of the bad weather.

Much of the UK will be hit by Storm Abigail on Thursday, bringing lots of rain and strong winds.

Witnesses said after the attack, at Forest Hill station at about 13:20 GMT, a man then chased other people outside the station. People said they saw a man attack another on the train then run out of the station shouting "he wanted to kill Muslims". A 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and remains in police custody. Train services were temporarily stopped on the line. Police said they were not treating the attack as terrorism, but as a hate crime. Ambulance officials said the victim, who is in his 40s, was treated at the scene for a stab injury and taken to a south London hospital. He remains in hospital in a serious, but not life-threatening, condition. Emma Pinder, who was at the station, said a man had "chased other people outside the station with a knife". Shellby Curry, 24, from Forest Hill, said she saw a man "waving what looked to be a knife in his hand" near the station and screaming words like "Muslims... kill them all". She described the attacker as a black man with short hair, who she thought appeared to be in his late 30s or early 40s. Several people phoned the police, who arrived about 10 minutes later and restrained him, Miss Curry said. "I was walking along and someone stopped and said, 'be careful, he's got a knife'. As I looked around there he was. "I just grabbed my baby and ran across the road. Looking back I saw him marching up and down waving his arm about." Appealing for witnesses senior investigating officer Det Ch Insp, Paul Langley, said: "This was a serious assault on a man in broad daylight and we are aware that other passengers may have seen what happened or been threatened themselves. "We have spoken with many witnesses from the train but if you saw what happened and haven't yet contacted police, please do so as soon as you can." Services were stopped on the rail line but have since reopened with severe delays, London Overground said. Roads around the station were also shut for a while.

A man has been stabbed on an Overground train in south-east London.

Security experts warn that African governments and commercial online services are vulnerable to criminals, who have the potential to disrupt critical infrastructure. But critics say that these laws could also be used to clamp down on the use of online platforms that promote good governance, express dissent and mobilize citizen engagement. The measures have not only been implemented in countries known for strict media controls such as Ethiopia, but are also being introduced in democracies such as Kenya and South Africa. While rising internet use is driving the rapid growth of the digital economy and enhancing access to information and government services in Africa, it has also exposed users to new and sophisticated threats. The two largest economies in Africa - South Africa and Nigeria - are each estimated to lose $500m (£375m) annually to cyber criminals, according to a 2016 McAfee report. In addition, African governments are fighting against local and international hacktivist groups who have carried out several disruptive attacks in recent years. Anonymous Africa claimed responsibility for several attacks that targeted the website of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in July over the broadcaster's ban on broadcasting violent protests. The group also shut down the website of the Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF in support of anti-government protests. Many African governments have appeared unprepared for these threats and are now racing to tighten their telecom laws. With social media platforms being used to organise political activity, the continent's political elite seems worried that such platforms could be used to foment revolt. In the past months, authorities in Uganda, Gabon, Chad, Burundi and Congo-Brazzaville have shut down internet services during disputed elections, raising fears that more governments could take similar measures. Over the past year, South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Angola, Madagascar and Zimbabwe have passed or proposed stringent laws to fight real and imagined threats. South Africa has been accused of proposing "Africa's worst new internet censorship law". The draft Films and Publications Amendment Bill seeks to "protect the public and children", but critics say its vague language and definitions will "stifle the empowering, democratising potential of the internet" and scare away potential business investors. In June, Ethiopia passed the Computer Crime Proclamation, which criminalises defamatory speech, spam and pornography, among other offences, with jail sentences of up to 10 years. Activists say it could also be used to silence government critics, who are reliant on online publishing due to the country's rigid media controls. In Nigeria, journalists and bloggers have criticised the 2015 Cyber Crime (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc) Act, saying it has been used by politicians to curtail freedom of expression. Two prominent bloggers have been arrested on allegations of "cyber stalking" under the Act. Kenya is preparing legislation to curb cyber crime and regulate social media, and has been accused of plotting to use the law to shut down social media. The government already has a history of going after internet users: Among Kenyan social media users arrested in 2015 was a prominent blogger accused of insulting the president. Kenyan officials have also blamed "the spread of hate speech" on unregulated social media use. The law is expected to be implemented before the August 2017 general elections. The Zimbabwe government, long intolerant of dissent, is planning to pass a law which has been criticised for banning the use of anti-censorship software. The proposed law also outlaws social media groups based on racial or tribal identity. Information Minister Supa Mandiwanzira said there was a need to pass laws that protect internet users against defamation and hacking, but the Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights urged parliament and citizens to defend human rights "as it grossly violates human rights". While these laws provide a legal framework to fight cyber crime and control the dissemination of hate speech, they could also provide a basis for authoritarian regimes to intimidate their rivals. In June, Isaac Habakuk Emily from northern Tanzania was jailed for three years after he was found guilty of insulting President John Magufuli in a Facebook post contrary to the country's CyberCrime Act of 2015. He is said to have referred to the president as an "imbecile". Tanzanian law allows for a minimum fine of 3m shillings ($1,375; £1,000) and minimum jail term of three months for publishing false, deceptive or misleading information on a computer system. In Zimbabwe, spokesperson for the People First party, Jealousy Mawarire, was last month charged over a tweet accusing Education Minister Jonathan Moyo of financial impropriety. With the cybercrime bill still in the draft stage, he was charged under the old Posts and Telecommunications Act, which outlaws the sending "by telephone any message that is grossly offensive or is of an indecent, obscene or threatening character". In Nigeria, the Bauchi State authorities arrested Musa Azare, a journalist and blogger in June on allegations of "cyber stalking" the governor. This came shortly after another blogger, Abubakar Sadiq, was arrested by the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) on similar charges. In both cases, the bloggers were critical of the authorities. African nations are far from alone in attempts to control the internet. However, stifling discourse as it emerges as a crucial medium on the continent poses worrying questions regarding freedom of speech. 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.

As the mobile revolution continues to drive change across Africa, governments are rushing to introduce legislation to curb cyber crime and to regulate the use of social media platforms.

The move comes after the Security Council adopted a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building on occupied land. The resolution was passed after the US refused to veto it, breaking with long-standing American practice. Washington has traditionally sheltered Israel from condemnatory resolutions. Blame and bitterness keeping peace at bay Mr Netanyahu insists that Israel will not abide by Friday's vote at the 15-member UN Security Council, which was welcomed by Palestinian leaders. "I instructed the Foreign Ministry to complete within a month a re-evaluation of all our contacts with the United Nations, including the Israeli funding of UN institutions and the presence of UN representatives in Israel," he said. He described the Security Council decision as "biased and shameful", adding: "It will take time, but this decision will be annulled." The Egyptian-drafted resolution had been withdrawn after Israel asked US President-elect Donald Trump to intervene, but it was proposed again by Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal and Venezuela. The resolution, approved by 14 votes to zero, with only the US abstaining, demands that Israel immediately "cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem". It says Jewish settlements are a "flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-state solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace". Israel earlier announced that its ambassadors to New Zealand and Senegal had been ordered to return for consultations and that it was cutting all aid programmes to Senegal. Israel has no diplomatic ties with Malaysia and Venezuela. The issue is one of the most contentious between Israel and the Palestinians. About 500,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this. A spokesman for Mr Abbas said: "The Security Council resolution is a big blow to Israeli policy, a unanimous international condemnation of settlements and a strong support for the two-state solution." The Palestinian ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour said: "The Council's action, while long overdue, is timely, necessary and important." The US envoy to the UN, Samantha Power, said the resolution reflected the "facts on the ground" that settlement growth had been accelerating. "The settlement problem has gotten so much worse that it is threatening the two-state solution," she said. Criticising Mr Netanyahu, she said: "One cannot simultaneously champion expanding settlements and champion a two-state solution that would end the conflict." However, she said the US had not voted in favour of the resolution because it was "too narrowly focused" on settlements. Meanwhile, Mr Trump, who will be inaugurated on 20 January, tweeted after the vote: "As to the UN, things will be different after Jan. 20th." On Thursday, Mr Trump had urged the council to reject the motion.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will re-assess its ties with the United Nations.

WBC cruiserweight champion Bellew, 34, produced an upset to stop David Haye in a heavyweight contest last month. But when asked if he would fight WBA and IBF champion Joshua, Bellew said: "Absolutely not. I don't need that kind of fight. He's far too good for me." His promoter Eddie Hearn said he could fight WBO champion Joseph Parker next. New Zealand's Parker, 25, will defend his title against Romanian Razvan Cojanu in Auckland next weekend. Speaking after Joshua's 11th-round stoppage of Wladimir Klitschko, Bellew said: "I'm still dreaming about winning the heavyweight world title but a different portion to the one AJ has." The Liverpudlian said he was considering retirement following his surprise victory over Haye last month on his heavyweight debut. But on fighting Parker, he added: "I say Eddie knows what he's doing." Promoter Hearn confirmed that an all-British Bellew-Joshua fight was not on the cards. "Tony and Joshua are good friends," he told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme on Sunday morning. "Tony Bellew has got his eye on some of the smaller guys. Fighters like Joshua are giants and Bellew isn't, but he's in the mix we talk about for challenging for world heavyweight titles." Bellew is not a natural heavyweight, having stepped up from the cruiserweight division to fight David Haye in March. He weighed in at 96.6kg for that fight, while Joshua was at a career heaviest of 113 kg against Klitschko on Saturday - a difference of almost 20kg. But also in the mix for Bellew is WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder - and the American wants a unification fight against Joshua, should he take the WBO belt off Parker. "My plans are to get the WBO belt and once I get that, if I'm given a mandatory challenger, get that out of the way and set up a mega fight early in 2018," said Wilder.

Tony Bellew still retains hope of winning a world heavyweight title but says he will not fight fellow Briton Anthony Joshua.

This was a key rebel demand during drawn-out talks which led to a peace deal in August. All foreign forces were meant to have left by 10 October. Meanwhile, a rebel leader has told the BBC the deal is unlikely to work and said he may take up arms again. Tens of thousands of people have died since the civil war began in 2013. Uganda's defence chief Gen Katumba Wamala told the press that all soldiers should be out by 1 November. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Henry Okello Oryem added in a statement that Uganda's intervention "helped to stop what was likely to be the worst genocide in the region". Uganda has not revealed how many troops it has in South Sudan, where they are supporting the government. But they are stationed in three bases: The international airport in Juba; in Nesitu just south of the capital and at their biggest base in the town of Bor, which is hosting some 3,500 soldiers. The BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga in Uganda says that a neutral regional force is meant to step in once Uganda withdraws but it is not clear when that will happen. Senior rebel leader Gen Johnson Oloni said he might resume fighting because of President Salva Kiir's recent decree creating 18 new states. He called the plan a "naked power-grab", the BBC's Tim Franks reports from South Sudan. He also said the government was undermining the deal with attacks on civilians. The rebel leader said land appropriations had pushed his ethnic group to use force in the past and they could do so again. Gen Johnson is head of the Shilluk militia, which has been accused by the UN children's agency Unicef of abducting hundreds of boys and forcing them to become child soldiers. The US had proposed that he should be subject to a travel ban and assets freeze, along with an army chief, but this was blocked by Russia and Angola at the UN Security Council. South Sudan's elusive peace: Five obstacles to peace in South Sudan Men of dishonour South Sudan gained independence from neighbouring Sudan four years ago making it the world's youngest country. Two years later, in December 2013, a conflict erupted after President Salva Kiir accused Riek Machar, his sacked deputy, of plotting a coup. Mr Machar denied the allegation, but then formed a rebel army. Much of the fighting has been carried out along ethnic lines, between Mr Machar's Nuer group and Mr Kiir's Dinka, the two dominant ethnic groups in South Sudan.

Ugandan troops will start leaving South Sudan by the end of this week, according to the head of the Ugandan force in the country.

The Canal & River Trust said the path at Pontcysyllte Aqueduct would close between 09:00 GMT and 15:00 from Monday until 17 February. The towpath will be open outside these hours from Monday to Saturday and will be open all day on Sundays. Repair work is needed on the parapet of the 126ft (38m) tall structure. The Canal & River Trust said said: "These measures are to protect the public whilst we undertake these important works, allowing them to be undertaken safely by our operatives."

Maintenance work on a Wrexham aqueduct means the towpath will be closed for six hours a day.

Enforcement company Kingdom Services hands out on the spot fines. Ashford Borough Council removed all its Kingdom officers from patrolling the streets, after one was filmed revealing he raked in a bonus of almost £1,000. They will be out of action while undergoing extra training. A spokeswoman for the council said: "In light of the recent Panorama programme we have decided to take this opportunity to give our wardens some important additional staff training exercises so they can continue operating fairly and effectively. "We haven't suspended them but they are not patrolling currently. They should be back soon, after the training has been undertaken." Littering is a crime, but by paying the fine you can avoid a criminal record. Another Kent-based Kingdom trainer was caught on camera saying they pretend to call the police to pressure people to pay up. The BBC1 programme, aired on Monday, revealed people across the country were wrongly fined for tipping coffee down a drain and putting their recycling out on the wrong day. On Tuesday Maidstone Borough Council also removed its own Kingdom officers while a review was carried out. They were back patrolling on Wednesday. It is not the first time councils in Kent have had problems with Kingdom. Maidstone suspended its officers last year for a two-week review after a woman was incorrectly fined for littering while feeding some ducks. Gravesham Borough Council severed ties with Kingdom last year and now operates its litter enforcement "in-house". A spokesman for Kingdom said: "Our service operates under some of the tightest legal guidelines which set the fixed penalty notice level and affords anybody the right to appeal to the council or/and challenge with the courts if they choose."

Privately contracted so-called "litter police" have been removed from service by a council after an undercover Panorama report found they were getting bonuses for issuing fines.

"Nobody risks £15,000 on a hunch," said a spokesman for William Hill, who make the band 6/4 favourites to get the gig. Ladbrokes, Coral and Paddy Power have also suspended betting. A spokesman for Radiohead said he had "no comment" on whether the band would be performing the Spectre title track. Bond star Daniel Craig is known to be a Radiohead fan, having quizzed frontman Thom Yorke for Interview magazine in 2013. Speculation about whom will sing the song has been feverish in recent days, with Ellie Goulding emerging as another favourite. The star posted a photo on Monday that appeared to hint she had been chosen. "That's a wrap!" the singer wrote on Instagram, next to a photograph of her leaving Abbey Road studios in London. The historic recording facility was where Adele recorded the title track for Skyfall, the previous James Bond film, in 2012. The Showbiz 411 website reported on Tuesday that Goulding had registered a song called Spy with music rights organisation BMI, a song it suggested was the theme song for Spectre. According to NME, though, a spokesman for the singer later confirmed she had been working on her new studio album at Abbey Road. "The first gamble of the day was Ellie Goulding and punters were backing her as if she already had the gig," said William Hill's Rupert Adams on Tuesday. "But just as we were thinking of pulling the plug we had a load of bets for Radiohead, including one customer who asked to place a £15,000 bet on the band at 10/1." If Yorke's band are chosen to record the title track for Spectre, it would be the first group to sing a James Bond title song this century. The last band to have that honour was Garbage, who performed the title track for The World is Not Enough, in 1999. The makers of Spectre have yet to announce who will sing the song, though director Sam Mendes has confirmed a song has been recorded. "It's fantastic and I'm very excited about it," he told BBC Radio's Test Match Special. "You won't have to wait long." Sam Smith, another mooted candidate, denied rumours he would be singing the theme tune earlier this month. "People seem to think I'm doing it but I have no idea what's going on," he told Capital FM. "I think I would know by now." A spokeswoman for Coral told the BBC the bookmaker had decided to suspend betting on Tuesday following Goulding's cryptic hint. A spokesman for Paddy Power said it had not accepted any bets since Mendes' confirmation that an artist had been chosen, while Ladbrokes' spokeswoman said it suspended betting last week. "We're no 007, but money talks, and with Ellie proving to be punters' Bond girl of choice we had no option but to suspend betting on her recording Spectre's theme song," said Ladbrokes' Jessica Bridge.

A leading bookmaker is refusing to take bets on which artist will record the next James Bond theme song after one customer tried to place a £15,000 wager on Radiohead being selected.

Stephen O'Brien said the agencies had been told to leave by Friday, and several international non-governmental organisations (NGO) by Saturday. The Luhansk separatists had earlier banned 10 international humanitarian agencies citing "violations". Pro-Russian rebels seized parts of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions last year. Almost 8,000 people have been killed since fighting erupted in eastern Ukraine in April 2014, a month after Russia annexed the southern Crimea peninsula. In a statement, Mr O'Brien said the "de facto authorities" in Luhansk had ordered the UN agencies and NGOs to leave the area. He also said all UN agency operations had been suspended in the rebel-held parts of Donetsk. Mr O'Brien urged the separatists in "both Luhansk and Donetsk to ensure the immediate resumption of UN and international NGO activities". He warned that restrictions on humanitarian shipments had prevented delivery of some 16,000 tons of vital supplies. "Hospitals cannot perform surgery because they lack anaesthesia. Some 150,000 people are not receiving monthly food distributions," Mr O'Brien said. On Thursday the Luhansk rebels refused to register 10 out of 11 foreign NGOs because of "violations". They accused one of the banned NGOs - Doctors Without Borders - of "illegally storing psychotropic medication". The NGO denies the allegation. Ukraine and the West accuse Russia of arming the separatists and also sending its regular troops in eastern Ukraine. Moscow denies this, but admits that Russian "volunteers" fight alongside the rebels. The EU and the US have imposed their own sanctions against Russian officials and top allies of President Vladimir Putin. A ceasefire in eastern Ukraine has been holding in the past two weeks, although there have been reports of occasional shelling.

The UN humanitarian aid chief has expressed alarm after UN agencies were ordered out of rebel-held parts of the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine.

Ex-Leeds prop Bailey, 31, joined after the start of the season and made 15 appearances for Wire. Forward Cox, 24, arrived on a one-year deal from Hull KR while Australian prop Dodds, 27, had an injury-hit season. "I'd like to thank all three players for their contributions over the season," said head coach Tony Smith.

Super League side Warrington Wolves have announced Ryan Bailey, Jordan Cox and Mitchell Dodds will leave at the end of their contracts.

Salva Kiir issued a decree dismissing all ministers and deputy ministers, as well as Vice-President Riek Machar. No clear reason was given for the sackings, but analysts say Mr Kiir and Mr Machar have been embroiled in a power struggle for months. South Sudan has suffered from chronic economic problems since it split from Sudan in 2011. There was tight security outside ministry buildings on Wednesday, while radio broadcasts urged people to remain calm, the AFP news agency reports. Its stability has been hampered by lingering rows over territory and oil with its northern neighbour. Recently some of Mr Kiir's colleagues have hinted at discontent with his leadership. Local reports say Mr Kiir is battling to maintain control of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the former rebel group that now runs the country. Mr Machar, who had been stripped of some of his powers in April, had hinted that he may stand against Mr Kiir for leadership of the SPLM before the next presidential election in 2015. By Nyambura WambuguBBC News, Juba Dissolving the cabinet in South Sudan hints at a wider attempt by the president to restructure not only the government but power and access to power in the country. There have been reports in recent weeks of strained relations within the governing SPLM and the relationship between the president and his deputy are said to be at an all-time low. Although the cabinet restructuring has been a long time coming, its timing is curious and raises suspicions that the president could be using his executive powers to stamp out dissent in the party and disagreement within his government. Whether the sacking of the entire cabinet will succeed in calming the disquiet within South Sudan's political circles remains to be seen -there is also a real fear that this might further divide the country along ethnic lines. The BBC's Nyambura Wambugu in the capital, Juba, says there is a real fear that the sacking could further divide the country along ethnic lines. Mr Kiir is from the Dinka community, which is the largest in South Sudan, while Mr Machar is from the second-largest group, the Nuer, some of whom have complained about Dinka domination. Under-secretaries have been put in charge of the departments and the government insists it can function smoothly until new ministers are appointed. Barnaba Marial Benjamin, who had been information minister until Tuesday, characterised the sackings as a "major reshuffle" and said it was part of Mr Kiir's constitutional mandate. "Some of these people will come back and some will not," Mr Benjamin AFP. Among the other leaders to be dismissed was Pagan Amum, the top negotiator in peace talks with Sudan. He was removed from his post as SPLM secretary general and the decree said he would be investigated for mismanaging the party. Last month Mr Kiir sacked two other senior ministers embroiled in a multi-million dollar financial scandal, a decision reportedly criticised by Mr Amum. It was unclear whether Tuesday's decree had any link to the scandal. South Sudanese journalist Nhial Bol said Mr Kiir had probably acted to end the paralysis in his government. "Things have not been moving in the government because of this internal fighting over who is going to control the SPLM," Mr Bol told Reuters news agency. South Sudan is rich in oil, but is one of Africa's least developed countries, with few paved roads and poor health and educational facilities. It gained independence from Sudan in July 2011 after a decades-long civil war. However, the oil refineries are on Sudanese territory, so the South relies on its northern neighbour to get its product on to the market.

South Sudan's president has sacked his entire cabinet, in an apparent power struggle with other senior leaders.

Richard Brittain, a former champion on the TV programme Countdown, travelled from England and used Facebook to find Paige Rolland, 18, at her work. He admitted assaulting Miss Rolland with a bottle to her severe injury on 3 October 2014 at Asda, Glenrothes. Sheriff Martin Jones deferred sentence until a later date. A motion for bail was refused. Glasgow Sheriff Court heard Brittain uploaded part of a published book of his called The World Rose onto a website called Wattpad, where people can read and critique literature written by others. Miss Rolland read the excerpt of Brittain's book and left comments about it. Procurator fiscal depute Harry Findlay said: "The complainer had read some of that material and gave feedback of what she thought to be the merits or otherwise of the book. "The feedback was negative. What followed were comments made by the accused which give an indication that he was displeased." In October last year, Brittain went to the Asda store Miss Rolland worked in after she began her shift. Mr Findlay said: "He went to the alcohol aisle and picked up a bottle of wine, he then went to the aisle where the complainer was working. "He approached her from behind, she was kneeling down collecting cereal from the bottom shelf of the aisle. "While doing so, the accused approached without warning, any provocation or words and he struck the complainer on the back of the head with the bottle. "One blow. It made contact and the wound bled immediately and she had a moment of unconsciousness." Miss Rolland was taken to hospital suffering from a cut to her head and treated for a head injury. The court also heard that a month before the attack on Miss Roland, Brittain stalked a university classmate, Ella Durant, 23, who moved from London to Glasgow. He used her Twitter and Instagram accounts to find where she worked and turned up on two occasions to speak to her. Brittain, whose address was given as Palgrave, Bedford, pled guilty to engaging in a course of conduct which caused Miss Durant fear or alarm by repeatedly pursuing her, approaching her, following her and publishing a story about stalking her in September 2014. Defence counsel Michael Meehan told the court that in relation to the message from Brittain to Miss Rolland after she criticised his work, his client pointed out she had not read the published version and asked her to remove her comments. The court was told he also contacted her in September this year with an apologetic message.

An author tracked down a teenager in Fife and hit her over the head with a bottle after she gave his book a bad review, a court has heard.

Wayne Rooney and Ashley Young are back in training after respective ankle and groin injuries and might be involved. Chelsea head coach Antonio Conte has a full-strength squad and could name an unchanged side. Cesc Fabregas and Willian are the most likely of any players to earn a recall. Guy Mowbray: "On paper it's one of the biggest fixtures of the season, but there are factors to suggest that this won't be a United-Chelsea classic. "A close one as with last month's FA Cup tie? Almost certainly. End to end attacking excitement? Probably not. "Chelsea will be fresher than United and quite frankly are much the better team right now, so Jose Mourinho is unlikely to set his side up for an open game. "Moreover, he'll be very keen to avoid any prospect of a third defeat of the season to his old side - and maybe more pertinently to Antonio Conte. "A fourth Old Trafford Premier League draw in a row will be a popular prediction." Twitter: @Guymowbray Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho on Chelsea: "It's not for no reason that they are top of the league. "It's not just because they're fresh but they have individual quality and they have collective quality. "They have a certain style of play, they stick to it, they do it very well. "For me, it is just a game. One more game. No difference for me." Chelsea head coach Antonio Conte: "I have zero problems [with Mourinho]. It's only a sporting competition between him and me. "There is a game of football. I want to try and win with my team. He wants to try and win with his team. It's normal to be at conflict during the game, but only a sporting conflict." I was tempted to go for a draw but, because of United's schedule, I am going to back Chelsea to take another step towards the title. Prediction: 0-2 Lawro's full predictions v singer Sting and his son. Head-to-head Manchester United Chelsea SAM (Sports Analytics Machine) is a super-computer created by @ProfIanMcHale at the University of Salford that is used to predict the outcome of football matches.

Goalkeeper David de Gea is expected to start for Manchester United after missing out against Sunderland with a hip problem and only making the substitutes' bench against Anderlecht.

Glasgow City Council's proposals for Byres Road include improvements for pedestrians, safe cycle routes and spaces for community events. Architects Benton Scott-Simmons have been appointed to prepare designs, which also aim to improve connections to the University of Glasgow's campus. Construction work is expected to begin in late 2018. Funding for the improvements are to come from the £1.13bn Glasgow City Region City Deal. The project will aim to complement Glasgow University proposals to expand its campus onto the site of the former Western Infirmary. The university said its campus expansion had the potential to create 2,500 new jobs and contribute an additional £130m to the economy each year. The council met on Monday to discuss the findings of the Byres Road public consultation, which included: Council leader Frank McAveety said: "Byres Road is a jewel in the crown of Glasgow's economic and social life, attracting visitors from Glasgow and beyond to its attractions during the day and at night. "This consultation process will help to ensure that it remains in this position by informing how best to shape the Byres Road that everyone with an interest in the area wants, and I would urge all stakeholders to participate." The next stage of consultation involves a series of public events, with the first at Hillhead Library on 23 February.

A £9m redesign of a Glasgow west end road, known for its eclectic shops and cafes, has been backed by the public.

Media playback is not supported on this device Muir told BBC Scotland her veterinary medicine studies will mean she will not be with the Scotland team at next year's event on Australia's Gold Coast. The 24-year-old finished fourth and sixth in the 1500m and 5,000m at the World Athletics Championships. "My exams aren't until May so Commonwealths being in April, it's just not going to work out unfortunately," said the middle distance runner. "I go back to university next week. I've got a week off then back to my studies to complete my final year. Media playback is not supported on this device "I love running for Scotland whenever I can and the Commonwealths are one of the few opportunities you can do it so, yeah, I'm gutted I'm going to be missing it. "But you have to think about getting my degree and that was really important to me. I'm sure the team's going to do so, so well. They're going to do great. "I think I've got at least two, even three more Olympics in me. What events? I don't know. Certainly, so much scope for the future." However, Muir says the World Indoor Championships in March are "potentially a target". "These next few months are going to be very full on with my studies," she explained. "I feel like I'm in reasonable shape. I'd like to run in Birmingham." Hellen Obiri upset defending world champion Almaz Ayana to win 5,000m gold in London, with Sifan Hassan third. Muir's time of 14 minutes 52.07 seconds was her new outdoor personal best. "I'm really happy," she said after Sunday's race. "It was really tough competition out there. I'm delighted with that. I'm really, really pleased with how I ran. "My fifth race in 10 days - it's a lot of running and to still come away with that I think there's a lot of potential for the future."

Laura Muir says she'll be "gutted" to miss April's Commonwealth Games.

Midfielder Jeff Hendrick has been ruled out because of a shoulder problem and has returned to his club Derby County. Harry Arter will miss the Dublin games because of an Achilles injury. The Bournemouth player, who has only one Republic cap, has returned to his club for treatment. Stoke City forward Walters sat out training sessions in Dublin over recent days. "Jeff has got a shoulder injury that he has had to deal with for quite a number of weeks now so we thought it best going back and getting is sorted a club level," said Republic manager Martin O'Neill. "Jon, I think he will be fit for Tuesday, he just thought he might be best to go home for a day or two. He should be back on Friday night to watch the game. He will definitely play on Tuesday. "Robbie Keane sat out training again on Wednesday but there is no real problem. He will be okay and will be available for any of the two games." Republic of Ireland Euro 2016 fixtures (all times BST) Monday, 13 June Republic of Ireland v Sweden (17:00; Stade de France, Paris) Saturday, 18 June Belgium v Republic of Ireland (14:00; Stade de Bordeaux) Wednesday, 22 June Italy v Republic of Ireland (20:00; Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille)

Republic of Ireland striker Jonathan Walters will not feature in Friday's friendly with Switzerland because of a hamstring injury, but should be fit to face Slovakia on Tuesday.

He was also being assessed for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Post-traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder caused by witnessing or being involved in a frightening or distressing event. People naturally feel afraid when in danger, but the legacy of some traumatic events is a change in perception of fear. They may feel stressed or frightened in day-to-day life. Any traumatic event has the potential to lead to PTSD including: People will be generally affected within one month of the event. There is no blood test for PTSD, it instead relies on the judgement of a doctor speaking to their patient about their symptoms. There must have been an initial traumatic event involving a close brush with death or serious violence. There are then four criteria which must be present: "This has to impair day-to-day function," said Neil Greenberg, a defence professor of mental health at the King's College London. "With properly skilled doctors it can be very easy to diagnose, it could take a few hours," says Prof Greenberg. But he says doctors must have a good suspicion of PTSD before starting to diagnose someone, as patients may not bring up their trauma history. It can also be a challenge because some people deliberately "overinflate symptoms", sometimes for financial reasons, while others seek to avoid the stigma of a PTSD diagnosis. For many people, the symptoms will go away within a month - but others will need psychotherapy or, if that fails, medication. Cognitive behavioural therapy can help change the way people think about the traumatic event in order to control fear and anxiety. This involves going through the event in detail with a therapist. Antidepressants, such as paroxetine, are used if psychotherapy does not work. Prof Greenberg, who also works with the UK Psychological Trauma Society, says treatment is still effective many years after the incident. However, after such a long time the symptoms are very unlikely to clear up without treatment.

A soldier who killed three colleagues and injured 16 others in a shooting at US Army base was being treated for depression and anxiety.

The incident happened on Morningside Road, near to Jordan Lane, at about 11:45 on Sunday. A local diversion was put in place at Comiston Road and Churchill Place, following the incident. Police Scotland have appealed to anyone who may have seen the elderly woman, or the bin lorry, before the incident occurred. Sgt Andrew Miller, of the road policing unit, said: "The woman was walking with a wheeled walking aid, similar to a zimmer frame, and we're hopeful anyone who might have seen her will come forward with relevant information."

An 85-year-old woman has died after being struck by a bin lorry in Edinburgh.

Media playback is not supported on this device Former world player of the year Messi, 27, has inspired Argentina in Brazil. The Barcelona forward has scored in all three games and is one goal shy of Maradona's 1986 five-goal haul, but Mehmedi says it is not all about Messi. "With all due respect for his qualities and class, I think too much is talked about just Messi," said Mehmedi, 23. Media playback is not supported on this device "He is exceptional, no question, but that is not all, he has very good players around him. We will not neglect the preparation nor in the game itself," the Freiburg striker said ahead of their last-16 clash. Argentina are unbeaten in their six previous games against Switzerland but Mehmedi says his side are not heading into the game at Corinthians Arena just to make up the numbers against one of the pre-tournament favourites. "Swap jerseys with Messi? I'm not here as a tourist," he said. "Switzerland is in the second round of a World Cup." Mehmedi knows if his side can defeat Argentina in Sao Paulo they will cause one of the biggest shocks of the 2014 tournament in Brazil. "I know the quality and potential of this team," he continued. "If we defeat Argentina, we write a piece of World Cup history and many people in Switzerland will be proud of the team. "I even think such success would see the world take notice, but we are not naive. "It will take an absolutely top performance of each one of us. And I assure you, everyone will do everything we can to provide these and tearing for Switzerland."

Lionel Messi is not the only threat in the Argentina team, according to Switzerland's Admir Mehmedi ahead of Tuesday's last-16 World Cup clash.

The 80 signatories include leading figures in the Asian hospitality industry and award-winning gospel singer Rachel Kerr. The PM is expected to recommend Britain remains in a reformed EU. Remain campaigners said several Commonwealth leaders, including India's PM, had urged Britain to stay in. The 80 figures from Britain's Commonwealth community criticised Mr Cameron for a lack of ambition in his EU reform demands, which he hopes to put to the public in a referendum in June. They claimed the UK government's immigration policy discriminates against non-EU citizens. In their letter to Mr Cameron, published by the Vote Leave campaign, they say: "As patriotic Britons of Commonwealth backgrounds, we saw the EU renegotiation as an opportunity to rediscover Britain's global vocation. "As long as Britain's trade policy is controlled by the EU, we cannot sign bilateral free trade agreements with Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand or for that matter any other non-EU state. "Vested interests on the Continent sustain a relatively protectionist policy. We have to apply the EU's common external tariff to exports from Commonwealth countries - hurting consumers here as well as producers there. "At the same time, our immigration policy forces us, in effect, to turn away qualified workers from the Commonwealth so as to free up unlimited space for migrants from the EU. "The descendants of the men who volunteered to fight for Britain in two world wars must stand aside in favour of people with no connection to the United Kingdom." One of the signatories, Pasha Khandaker, president of the UK Bangladesh Caterers Association UK, said the 12,000 curry houses his organisation represents "have been struggling to recruit the talent that they need because of the difficulties associated with employing people from outside of the EU". "If the UK had a fairer immigration system it would be easier for businesses to recruit skilled workers regardless of their nationality," he added. Other signatories include Rachel Kerr, who won a Mobo award in 2012, in the gospel music category, and Moni Verma, founder of Veetee Rice, a UK-based food business with a turnover of £80m a year. A spokesman for Britain Stronger in Europe said: "Several Commonwealth leaders have been very clear that Britain is stronger, safer and better off in Europe. "Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Britain is the entry point for trade right across Europe; while Australia's former deputy prime minister said the Commonwealth could never replace the trade Britain does with the EU. "We get the best of both worlds in Europe, trading freely with the world's largest market, as well as accessing free trade deals with over 50 countries around the globe. "While Leave campaigners may look back with rose-tinted spectacles, they have no plan for what Britain outside the EU would look like, and no guarantee that trade, jobs and prices wouldn't be hit." In a separate development, 63% of business people polled by the British Chambers of Commerce said David Cameron's EU negotiations would not change the way they will vote in the referendum. The internet survey of 2,133 BCC members found 60% would vote to remain, down slightly from 63% in a previous poll in September, with 30% saying they would vote to leave, a 3% increase. Those representing large firms were significantly more likely to vote 'remain' than small-business people. BCC director general John Longworth said: "Our findings suggest that for business people, this is a question of in or out - not renegotiation."

Community and business leaders with Commonwealth links have written to David Cameron to urge him to back Britain's exit from the EU.

Guido Tognoni worked "extremely closely" with the Fifa president during Blatter's second term. "In Fifa, for many years, you could only reach your goal by taking dollars in your hands," Tognoni told BBC Sport. Fifa said investigations into such claims were ongoing and, as yet, there was no evidence of wrongdoing. The bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments is the subject of a Swiss criminal investigation. Asked if countries had any choice other than to bribe Fifa during the bidding process, Tognoni replied: "This speculation is permitted, yes." Russia and Qatar deny wrongdoing, while Blatter has not been named in a separate US criminal investigation into widespread corruption at Fifa. Domenico Scala, head of Fifa's audit and compliance committee, said if evidence emerges from either the US or Swiss investigations which shows the result was affected by bought votes, the "awards could be cancelled". However, Tognoni, who was Blatter's right-hand man for a period in the mid-90s and again between 2001-2003, said he did not think the World Cups would be taken away from Russia or Qatar. "Even if there is evidence that Fifa people were bribed, where is the problem? With Fifa, or the people who had no choice but to get the World Cup with bribing?" In response, Fifa said in a statement on Monday: "Fifa initiated the investigation by the Swiss authorities precisely to answer questions such as this. "However, while investigations are ongoing, it should be noted that to date, no evidence has come to light to suggest there are any legal grounds for rescinding the current Fifa World Cup selections." Seven senior Fifa officials were arrested last month in high-profile dawn raids at a Zurich hotel, where they had been staying before the presidential election. They are among 14 people charged by US prosecutors, who allege that bribes and kickbacks of more than $150m (£100m) were accepted over a 24-year period. Blatter, Fifa president since 1998, was re-elected at the Zurich meeting but announced four days later that he would resign amid the corruption allegations engulfing the organisation. American lawyer Michael Garcia was previously hired by Fifa to investigate the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding processes, but he complained that the published summary of his 430-page report was an "erroneous" representation of his work. The report cleared World Cup hosts Russia and Qatar of wrongdoing. Garcia quit weeks later over Fifa's handling of his inquiry and his comments reopened the debate about the validity of the bidding process. Scala has since had Garcia's report reviewed by legal experts, from both in and outside of sport, but neither were able to find grounds to alter the award of either tournament at this stage.

Russia and Qatar may have had to pay bribes to secure their World Cups, Sepp Blatter's former special advisor has suggested.

The move would also ease the "growing burden" on politicians in Cardiff Bay as more power is devolved, the group's Wales director Martin Warren said. Peers serving in the UK cabinet have set the precedent, he added. Parties in the assembly have questioned the idea on the grounds of democracy and accountability. The accountants' organisation said scrutiny of Welsh legislation was suffering due to "significant workloads for politicians shifting from Westminster to Cardiff Bay". If it proved difficult to increase the number of AMs from the present 60, a bigger role could be given to the 40 MPs from Wales as their role in Parliament diminished, Mr Warren said. He suggested letting the first minister appoint MPs to the Welsh cabinet, or inviting MPs to serve on assembly committees, in both cases reducing the demands on the time of politicians in Cardiff Bay. Another idea put forward was the creation of a non-political body of professionals who could advise on and scrutinise policy. "Wales is a small country with limited resources and making best use of those resources within a democratic framework to achieve for Wales must surely be an objective that crosses all political borders," said Mr Warren. Dr Rebecca Rumbul, politics lecturer at the Centre for Lifelong Learning at Cardiff University, said involving MPs in assembly business might be "confusing" to voters. Liberal Democrat AM Peter Black was also doubtful, claiming MPs "won't be able to do either job properly". Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said: "After 17 years of the same old, tired ideas in a Labour-run Wales, our country needs a change. "May's election is the chance to choose the Welsh Conservatives and secure new ministers, fresh ideas and a brighter future." For Plaid Cymru, former presiding officer Lord Elis-Thomas said it was "a completely anti-democratic idea". "The notion that people could come down to Cardiff, turn up and be ministers without having been elected takes us back to a pre-democratic period, and certainly before the assembly was in existence," he told BBC Radio Cymru. "If anyone is suggesting something like this, we'd need to have a referendum immediately." A Welsh government spokesman said: "Ministers are selected from the membership of the democratically elected National Assembly and we see no need to change this."

MPs could serve as Welsh government ministers in a bid to widen the talent pool, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales says.

Mr Trump said Mr Mueller's friendship with James Comey, who had been heading the inquiry until sacked from his role as FBI chief, was "bothersome". Asked on Fox News whether Mr Mueller should step down, Mr Trump said: "We're going to have to see." However, Mr Trump did call Mr Mueller an "honourable man". Mr Mueller was given the role of special counsel by the justice department to lead its investigation into alleged Russian interference after Mr Comey was sacked on 9 May. Mr Mueller has not given any details of his investigation but US media have reported he is investigating Mr Trump for possible obstruction of justice, both in the firing of Mr Comey and whether Mr Trump tried to end an inquiry into sacked national security adviser Michael Flynn. President Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion with Russia, calling it a "witch hunt". He did so again in his interview with Fox & Friends on Friday, saying "there has been no obstruction. There has been no collusion." He called the accusations of obstruction of justice "ridiculous". Asked whether Mr Mueller should recuse himself from the inquiry because of his friendship with Mr Comey, Mr Trump said: "Well he's very, very good friends with Comey which is very bothersome. But he's also... we're going to have to see." He also said that "the people that've been hired were all Hillary Clinton supporters". When Mr Mueller was appointed Mr Trump was said to be furious, but the special counsel won widespread initial praise from both Republicans and Democrats. However, lately some influential conservatives have intensified their attacks, openly calling for Mr Mueller's dismissal. Trump advocate Newt Gingrich urged the president to "rethink" Mr Mueller's position, saying: "Republicans are delusional if they think the special counsel is going to be fair." The New York Times has reported that Mr Trump has considered firing Mr Mueller but has so far been talked out of it by aides. Ten days ago, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said: "While the president has every right to" fire Mr Mueller "he has no intention to do so". On Friday, her colleague Sean Spicer repeated there was "no intention" to dismiss Mr Mueller. And in his Fox interview, Mr Trump said: "Robert Mueller is an honourable man and hopefully he'll come up with an honourable conclusion." Earlier this month, Mr Comey testified to Congress that Mr Trump had pressured him to drop the investigation into Mr Flynn. Mr Flynn was sacked in February for failing to reveal the extent of his contacts with Sergei Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to Washington. Mr Comey testified he was "sure" Mr Mueller was looking at whether Mr Trump had obstructed justice. US media said Mr Mueller was also examining whether Mr Comey's sacking was an attempt by the president to alter the course of the investigation. On 16 June, Mr Trump sent out a tweet appearing to accept he was under investigation, although later his aides suggested that was not the intention. On Thursday, Mr Trump also made it clear that he had not made secret recordings of his conversations with Mr Comey, despite an earlier hint to the contrary. His tweet came a day before he was required by Congress to hand over any such tapes. Mr Trump had kick-started speculation of the recordings in a tweet he posted days after firing Mr Comey, saying: "James Comey better hope there are no 'tapes' of our conversations." Allegations of collusion between the Trump team and Russian officials during the election have dogged the president's first five months in office. US investigators are looking into whether Russian cyber hackers targeted US electoral systems in order to help Mr Trump win - something Moscow has strongly denied. Separately on Friday, a Washington Post article said the Obama administration had been made aware by sources within the Moscow government last August of President Vladi­mir Putin's direct involvement in the cyber campaign to disrupt the election. The article said the administration debated a response for months before expelling 35 diplomats and closing two Russian compounds. Mr Obama had also approved planting cyber weapons in the Russian infrastructure, the article said, but the measure was not put into action.

President Donald Trump has questioned the neutrality of Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in last year's US election.

Aiton, 30, had scans to diagnose the injury on Monday. He joined the Dragons from Leeds at the end of 2015, and missed the end of the last campaign with an arm injury. The Papua New Guinea player played 94 games for both Wakefield and Leeds following his move from Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in 2012.

Catalans Dragons will be without hooker Paul Aiton for up to six weeks after he tore a pectoral muscle on his debut, in a defeat by Wigan Warriors on Friday.

Police were called to the A35 at Bloxworth, near Wareham, at about 09:10 BST after they were discovered by a dog walker. Tests are under way to "determine the contents" of the cigarettes and HM Revenue and Customs has been informed. Dorset Police urged anyone who may have found other packets in "unusual circumstances" to contact them. No arrests have been made.

About 34,000 cigarettes have been found in a layby in Dorset.

In a match reduced to 17 overs per side at Old Trafford, only seven were possible with Lancashire on 39-0. But Warwickshire's win at Yorkshire and Worcestershire's victory over Notts saw the 2014 champions finish fifth in the North Group with a worse net run-rate. Lancashire remain bottom of the group with just two wins. Following a delay of more than four hours, play eventually got under way at 18:15 BST with each innings reduced to 24 overs, and Lancashire's Karl Brown raced to 30 not out. The players went off for rain 30 minutes later, but it was hoped they could start again at 19:45 BST, with the match now 17 overs for each team. However, the weather closed in again and they did not return - meaning both sides take one point.

Durham were eliminated from the One-Day Cup after their match against Lancashire was abandoned and other results went against them.

"The decision has dealt the final blow to democracy in the country," said the Organisation of American States. The court ruled that the assembly was in contempt and said it would exercise congressional functions. The charge stems from alleged electoral irregularities by three opposition lawmakers in elections in 2015. The head of the OAS Luis Almagro accused President Nicolas Maduro's government of carrying out what he described as a coup against itself. Brazil's foreign ministry said the court's decision violated the country's separation of powers. Several other Latin American countries expressed concern too. Peru recalled its ambassador to Caracas, saying there had been a rupture of democracy. The United States also condemned Venezuela's government. "This rupture of democratic and constitutional norms greatly damages Venezuela's democratic institutions," said a State Department spokesman, Mark Toner. Venezuela's opposition had earlier said President Maduro was becoming a dictator. Venezuela's foreign ministry accused critics of the government of forming a right-wing regional pact against President Maduro. He says the OAS is a pawn of US "imperialism".

There has been growing criticism of Venezuela's government after the Supreme Court took over legislative powers from the National Assembly.

He was unseated as Royal Ascot winner Permian was fatally injured after coming last in the Secretariat Stakes at Arlington on 12 August. Buick, 29, suffered a compression of his T12 vertebrae and he will be assessed again in six weeks. "I have plenty of respect for the injury and I realise how lucky I have been," he said. Buick is one of the leading jockeys in Britain, and a retained rider for Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin team. Permian, trained by Mark Johnston, suffered a broken leg and was put down.

Jockey William Buick will be sidelined for at least six weeks after being injured in a fall in the United States.

The gang carried a handgun, a crowbar and a machete as they burst into the Kirkcaldy home of Dwayne Kinner, who was with his cousin Nicholas Roberts. James Mackie, 30, Derek Finlay, 31, Gordon Ellis, 24, and Scott Smith, 23, raided the flat on 8 January 2015. A stolen phone with a tracking app took the police to the gang. They also made off with a haul of £2,500. The High Court in Edinburgh heard that the victims believed they were going to be shot after the gun was pointed at their heads and another robber threatened he was going to cut their fingers off. The gun, which was discovered to be an air pistol, was later found behind a kickboard in a kitchen at a house in Glenrothes, which Finlay had previously had access to. Advocate Ashley Edwards QC said it had the appearance of a firearm. Mackie, from Kirkcaldy, Ellis, from Cardenden, Finlay, a prisoner and Smith, from Cardenden, all pleaded guilty to assaulting and robbing the victims. Judge Michael O'Grady QC deferred sentence for the preparation of background reports and all four were remanded in custody.

Four thieves who forced their way into a Fife flat and held two men at gunpoint while they stole money and valuables have admitted the raid.

The Catalan regional parliament has voted to start the secession process, but Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has gone to the Constitutional Court to suspend the resolution. Secession is banned under Spain's constitution and the prime minister has accused campaigners of trying to "liquidate" the nation. When Catalan nationalists held an unofficial poll in November 2014, 80% of those who voted backed independence. The vote was non-binding as the Constitutional Court had ruled it illegal. But the secessionists viewed it as a defining moment and declared regional elections in September 2015 would be a de facto referendum on independence. Catalan nationalist parties won an absolute majority in the 135-seat regional assembly and on 9 November pushed through a motion to start the process towards independence. The Spanish government has hit back, declaring the secessionist step unconstitutional. The votes suggest they have popular support, but last November's non-binding poll was based on relatively low turnout of 2.2 million voters out of a potential 5.4 million. And the Junts pel Si (Together for Yes) coalition of two major separatist parties which won this year's regional election relied on the support of a radical left-wing party, CUP, to secure its majority in the Catalan parliament. Even then, they fell short of a majority of voters, with 48% support. So the secessionists control the regional parliament but Catalan opinion on secession appears evenly divided. And with Spain facing a general election on 20 December, and no party expected to win a clear majority nationally, the Catalan issue is only adding to political uncertainty. Catalonia - its history, politics and language That is the process that the Catalan parliament has voted to start - with plans for legislation to begin by early December on a separate constitution, treasury and social security system. Catalans already have extensive autonomy in education, health and policing. But acting Catalan President Artur Mas wants the rapid creation of other trappings of an independent state, too, such as a diplomatic service, central bank and armed forces. But Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, whose Popular Party is facing a critical test in December national elections, may invoke article 155 of the constitution that allows the national government to compel an autonomous regional authority to meet its constitutional obligations. Before the 2014 vote, he took the case to the Constitutional Court and the poll was declared illegal. Artur Mas is facing criminal charges as a result. And now Mr Rajoy has returned to the court to have the regional assembly's motion suspended. But there is a growing demand in Madrid for the government to engage with Catalan leaders. So far, the independence movement remains peaceful and organised, in stark contrast, for instance, to the separatist violence which plagued the Spanish Basque Country until recently. Spain's rapid return to democracy after the death of dictator General Francisco Franco in 1975 brought devolution for Catalonia, along with Spain's other regions. Prosperity followed, with Barcelona becoming one of the EU's most high-profile cities, famed for its 1992 Summer Olympics, trade fairs and its football. But Spain's economic crisis hit Catalonia hard, leaving it with 19% unemployment (compared with 21% nationally). The region, which makes up 16% of Spain's population, accounts for almost 19% of Spanish GDP but there is a widespread feeling that the central government takes much more than it gives back. This sense of injustice fuels the independence campaign, especially since Mr Mas was rebuffed by Mr Rajoy when he asked for greater fiscal powers in 2012. Catalan became the joint official language along with Spanish after the return to democracy. But in recent years Spain has challenged its status as the first language of instruction in schools. It is difficult to calculate how much more Catalans contribute in taxes to Madrid each year than they get back from investment in services such as schools and hospitals because of Spain's complex system of budget transfers. However, Spanish government data from 2011, published only this year, show the region paid €8.5bn (£6bn) more than it got back. According to the Catalan government, the discrepancy was closer to €11.1bn - the equivalent of nearly half of Catalonia's budget for this year. Meanwhile, state investment in Catalonia continues to drop: the 2015 draft national budget allocated 9.5% to Catalonia - compared with nearly 16% in 2003. While some Catalans may accept their tax money being used to help ailing southern regions like Andalusia, there is a perception that their own public services are being underfunded at the same time. On the other hand, Spanish unionists argue that taxpayers in the Madrid region pay out even more. Scotland's 2014 independence referendum inspired Mr Mas and his supporters, despite the No camp's victory. Unlike Catalans, Scots were allowed a legitimate vote on their future. With its own language, a recorded history of more than 1,000 years as a distinct region, and a population nearly as big as Switzerland's (7.5 million), Catalonia lays a strong claim to nationhood. It also happens to be a vital part of the Spanish state, locked in since the 15th Century, and subjected periodically to repressive campaigns to make it "more Spanish". According to the most recent Catalan government data, nearly one in five adults living in Catalonia today was born in a different part of Spain, while under Franco, the proportion was even higher, at 36.7% (figures for 1970). Depending on who you ask, Barcelona today is the capital of Catalonia - or Spain's second city. Catalonia profile - Timeline Catalonia is worth much more to Spain economically than Scotland is to the UK. So whoever runs Spain after the December general election will want Catalonia to remain part of it. But momentous changes may be afoot in the country's national politics and it is not yet clear who will win. The Popular Party may prefer to stick to the legal route to keep the secessionists in check. The opposition socialists are against independence but have mooted a constitutional reform that would grant the region more powers. The anti-capitalist Podemos movement supports Catalonia's right to a referendum. The rise of new parties also complicates the picture in Catalonia. The centre-right Citizens (Ciudadanos) party, which was born in Catalonia, has become the second force in Catalan politics, winning almost 18% of the vote. Notably, the party is firmly opposed to independence and is surging in the opinion polls nationally too. Independence campaigners argue the idea of a rich region like Catalonia being expelled from the EU is unthinkable. In a BBC interview, Raul Romeva of Together for Yes said that 7.5 million Catalan citizens who were already part of the EU could not be removed from it. However, the region would likely have to apply to become a member from scratch, as it would need to be recognised as a state by all 28 existing members. The EU's executive body, the European Commission, has tried to stay out of the debate, insisting that is not for the Commission to take a position on a member state's constitutional arrangements. But European leaders have backed the stance of the Madrid government. UK Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that an independent Catalonia could end up outside the EU and would have to "take its place at the back of the queue" if it sought to rejoin. And Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she stands with Mr Rajoy on respecting "national law".

Pro-independence parties in Spain's richest region, Catalonia, are pushing ahead with a historic plan for an independent state within 18 months, and the national government in Madrid is fighting back.

Josh Vela fired Bolton in front from eight yards after Emile Heskey laid Dean Moxey's long throw into his path. But Boro equalised when Rhodes, who was about to be replaced by David Nugent, drilled home from close range. Rhodes then headed in Middlesbrough's second stoppage-time winner this week from three yards. Minutes earlier, Boro's big-money transfer deadline day signing from Blackburn had hit the post and headed wide from six yards as the Teessiders sought a winner, while substitute Gaston Ramirez also scooped a shot over from close range. Relive Middlesbrough's win at Bolton But Rhodes was in the right place at the right time to nod in Nugent's cross in the first minute of injury time and leave Boro two points clear at the top after promotion rivals Burnley, who they face on Tuesday, won 2-1 at Birmingham. Boro, who have now won six successive games, also scored an injury-time winner to beat Reading in midweek and this late show secured only their second victory at Bolton's current home. Middlesbrough face promotion rivals Burnley and Brighton in their closing four games and, as such, have their fate in their own hands as they bid to return to the Premier League for the first time since 2009. Aitor Karanka's side dominated the first half in terms of chances as Stewart Downing hit the bar from 25 yards, while Adam Forshaw, Daniel Ayala, Albert Adomah and Ritchie de Laet all failed to hit to target. Mark Davies' backheel forced Boro keeper Dimi Konstantopoulos into a save from Bolton's best first-half opening. Wanderers looked set for only their fifth win of the season after Vela put them in front but Rhodes had the final say to the delight of Boro's 4,302 travelling fans. Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka: "I told him [Rhodes] after the game that a goalscorer can't forget to score goals in two months. "Always one day it would arrive that he would score goals and it was today - two important goals. "I don't think it's been easy for him. He's not a strong character, you can see it in his face. The reason I am pleased for him is because sometimes when you do your best and you're unlucky you are going down. He was always trusting himself. "Today, the most important day, he arrived and he was there to help the team." Bolton interim manager Jimmy Phillips: "That's [the level of performance] got to be the case from now until the end of the season. "We encourage players to get on the ball, show as much in possession as they could, to be confident with it, because our league fate has been decided but also retaining a real competitive edge and defensive shape. "There's still areas to work on, definitely, hopefully if we can achieve better ball retention, become harder to beat and still work hard that will set the players up for next season for those that are going to be here." Match ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Middlesbrough 2. Second Half ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Middlesbrough 2. Offside, Middlesbrough. Gastón Ramírez tries a through ball, but David Nugent is caught offside. Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Rob Holding (Bolton Wanderers). Substitution, Middlesbrough. Tomas Kalas replaces Jordan Rhodes. Goal! Bolton Wanderers 1, Middlesbrough 2. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) header from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by David Nugent with a cross. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box. Assisted by David Nugent with a cross. Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Kaiyne Woolery replaces Josh Vela. Attempt missed. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by David Nugent with a headed pass following a corner. Substitution, Middlesbrough. David Nugent replaces Stewart Downing. Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Dean Moxey. Attempt missed. Ritchie de Laet (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Adam Forshaw with a headed pass following a corner. Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Darren Pratley. Attempt blocked. Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers). Attempt saved. Daniel Ayala (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Gastón Ramírez with a cross. Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Mark Davies. Attempt missed. Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Stewart Downing with a cross. Attempt blocked. Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gastón Ramírez. Ben Amos (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card. Hand ball by Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough). Attempt missed. Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from very close range is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ritchie de Laet with a cross. Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Niall Maher. Attempt missed. Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Josh Vela with a cross. Foul by Ritchie de Laet (Middlesbrough). Dean Moxey (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing. Goal! Bolton Wanderers 1, Middlesbrough 1. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Attempt blocked. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Forshaw with a cross. Offside, Middlesbrough. Albert Adomah tries a through ball, but Jordan Rhodes is caught offside. Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Liam Trotter replaces Emile Heskey. Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Dean Moxey. Offside, Middlesbrough. Adam Clayton tries a through ball, but Daniel Ayala is caught offside. Attempt blocked. Ritchie de Laet (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by David Wheater. Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. George Friend (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers).

Jordan Rhodes scored twice, including an injury-time winner, as Championship leaders Middlesbrough came from behind to beat already-relegated Bolton.

All is not lost, however, for the team that just over three years ago were celebrating their fourth consecutive world title double. Red Bull were the only team to beat Mercedes last year and finished second in the championship. But although Red Bull were clearly the third best team in Melbourne, there is good reason to believe they will make it a three-way fight at the front in 2017. Red Bull admit they have work to do with both their chassis and the Renault engine, but improvements to obvious faults are on the way. Red Bull qualified 1.3 seconds off pole position in Australia. Which sounds a lot - indeed, it is a lot. But it is worth bearing in mind that last year, which they ended with two victories and could have had three, they were 1.6 seconds off the pace at Albert Park. In the race, their pace was hard to judge - Daniel Ricciardo was never really in it after what team boss Christian Horner said was a "weekend from hell". And Max Verstappen spent much of the afternoon bottled up behind Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen. There were only a handful of laps in the first stint in which Verstappen was more than two seconds behind Raikkonen - the gap at which drivers say their car starts to be affected by aerodynamic turbulence from following another car. On average, on those 'clean-air' laps, Verstappen was about 0.7secs off the pace of leaders Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. After his pit stop, the Dutchman was pretty much on the leaders' pace - sometimes quicker, sometimes slower, sometimes about the same - but then the picture was skewed by the fact that he was on a softer, faster tyre. In all, Horner reckoned Red Bull needed to find "a good half a second to get into that fight with the cars ahead". Coincidentally, 0.5secs is about the margin Red Bull believe they are losing as a result of the Renault engine in race pace - and as much as 0.6-0.7secs in qualifying. The Renault, which has been redesigned for this season, has had reliability problems this year and fixes for these had a direct impact on performance in Australia. Primarily, Renault were suffering in pre-season testing with overheating of the MGU-K - the part of the hybrid system that recovers energy from the rear axle. The temporary fix for this was to use last year's MGU-K, which is 5kg heavier than the 2017-spec design and also requires an extra air bottle, which is at least another 1kg. That weight accounts for about 0.2secs in lap time itself, and a revised version of the new MGU-K is set to be introduced for the fourth race of the season in Russia. Renault will then introduce a major upgrade for either Monaco - the sixth race - or, more likely, the subsequent event in Canada. This is referred to by Red Bull as "significant" - which is code for about 0.3-0.4secs in lap time. Horner said the lap-time deficit of the Red Bull-Renault to Mercedes and Ferrari was "probably an equal share" between car and engine. And it was clear the Red Bull was far from its best in Australia. Both drivers struggled to find the right set-up - complaining of the balance switching too easily between extremes. The car, in its current form, has what is known in F1 as "a narrow set-up window" - it is hard to home in on the correct balance - as well as a performance shortfall to the Ferrari and the Mercedes. But Horner says: "It's still early days. The regulations are still very immature. We've chosen a different concept. I believe there's really good development potential in the concept that we have." What does he mean by "different concept"? The key is in the aerodynamics - and particularly in the design of the front wing. In all F1 cars, the front wing is crucial in setting up the airflow around the rest of the car. It creates what are known as vortices that sweep around the sides of the car and then under the floor in front of the rear wheels. The faster these vortices can be made to travel, the more aerodynamic downforce will be created by the floor between the rear wheels. These vortices start at the inner tips of the flaps on either side of the front wing. Most teams send them between the front wheels and over the various fins and curved plates that can be seen in front of the side pods - the bodywork either side of the cockpit. But because it is so crucial that the airflow hits all these pieces of bodywork, that means that overall downforce of the car can be badly affected in less than perfect conditions - such as in a cross-wind, or in traffic. The Red Bull has far fewer of these additional pieces of bodywork than the other front-running teams, and that's a conscious choice by Red Bull's aerodynamic team under chief technical officer Adrian Newey. They wanted a car that was more consistent in changing conditions. The key to the way it differs from other cars can be seen in the front wing. On the Mercedes and Ferrari, the inboard ends of the series of flaps on either side of the wing point downwards towards the wing mainplane. Red Bull's inner flaps point upwards - because they are directing the airflow higher up around the car. That means there is reduced need for the intricate cascading flaps downstream. It's a classic example of the philosophy long-espoused by Red Bull design chief Newey, whose genius resides in not only producing great performance, but also in doing it in a manner which means the driver can access more of it more of the time. The performance is not there at the moment, but as Horner put it: "I think development is going to be incremental at every event. Looking at the amount of notes Adrian has taken away from this weekend, for sure it's going to keep our design office pretty busy." Last year, after Red Bull were 1.6 seconds off the pace at the first race, Max Verstappen won the fifth race in Spain. That win was only possible because Mercedes drivers Hamilton and Nico Rosberg crashed out on the first lap. But two weeks later, Daniel Ricciardo took a brilliant pole in Monaco and would have won but for a delay caused by a pit-stop mix-up. From then on, Red Bull were usually Mercedes' main challenger - Ricciardo again came close in Singapore and then did finally win a week later in Malaysia, albeit this time after a Hamilton engine failure. At this early stage, the pattern looks very similar - a deficit in Australia, a major engine upgrade at the sixth or seventh race, consistent chassis improvements. On that basis, it is easy to believe Horner when he says: "There's a lot of positives to take out of Australia, at a track where we have not been competitive for the last couple of years. I'm sure that we can build on this over the coming races. "We have a good basis and a good direction and as the regulations are quite immature, I think things will move quite quickly. So I honestly believe we will get ourselves into a competitive situation this year."

Red Bull were one of the prime movers behind the push for faster, more demanding Formula 1 cars this season, so it is somewhat ironic that they started the season off the pace of Ferrari and Mercedes.

Gordon, 53, is also the National League club's major shareholder and chief executive, and has been in charge of the first team since Dave Hockaday left the role in January. "I think what he's done with the players he's had has been amazing," Brown told BBC Hereford and Worcester. "We haven't always had results, but the football's been the best I've seen." Harriers have struggled all season in the aftermath of major financial problems and look certain to be relegated as they are 12 points adrift of safety at the bottom of the National League table with only nine games to play. Gordon, who has stated that he does not want the head coach's job full-time, previously had a four-game spell in charge following Gary Whild's departure in September. "Colin has a lot of interests in the football club and has a lot of skills," Brown continued. "He is not sure whether his skill-sets are right to be head coach, but I think he should be part of it. "I can see his vision and the brand of football he wants to play and if I don't get him to do it, then second best thing would be that he's part of a team managing the club." Media playback is not supported on this device Brown admitted Harriers were effectively 'bust' last November before Gordon bought a majority stake in the club, but over the last 12 months have filled a financial "black hole" of £300,000 and reduced the playing budget from a peak of £800,000 two seasons ago to £260,000 at the start of this term. With the club now on the way to becoming self-sufficient, he is adamant they will remain a full-time outfit. "We will break even this year - the first time in 15 years and that's very gratifying," Brown added. "Full-time football can be sustainable and I've got no doubt the future is bright."

Kidderminster chairman Rod Brown says he wants interim head coach Colin Gordon to take the job permanently.

We've learned a lot about the end of the journey, the slave camps and mass graves in the jungles of Thailand and Malaysia. What we haven't heard so much about is how these journeys begin. We travelled to southern Bangladesh, where many of the migrants set off on their perilous voyages. What we have discovered brings a shocking new dimension to this story that speaks of the terrible desperation that is driving this vast movement of people. We met one of the people smugglers on what Bangladeshis proudly boast is the world's longest beach - a vast stretch of sand that runs for more than 120km along the southern coast. Let's call him Kamrul Rahman. He appeared to be in his early 30s. He said he used to be a fisherman and started in the people smuggling racket greedy for money after his business went belly up. As the surf crashed down on the beach beside us, he calmly explained in chilling detail how the business worked. He said the prison camps were an essential part of the business model and all the migrants knew about them. It seems they are part of what amounts to a sinister and hideously cynical marketing trick the people smugglers have evolved: they offer the voyage for virtually no upfront cost. He said the deal was straightforward and understood by everyone involved. You only pay the main charge - about £1,500 ($2,300) when you arrive in southern Thailand. I was amazed. "So the migrants know they will be held in camp before they get to Malaysia?" I asked. "Before they leave from here we tell them if they don't pay they will be put in a prison. You won't get any rice and you will die of hunger", he told me, without any sign of emotion. "If you pay, you will be able to start for Malaysia with honour." We spoke to many migrants and relatives of migrants in southern Bangladesh. They all confirmed his account. Without exception, they said they knew migrants would be held in Thailand until full payment was made. What this suggests is that for the most part this phenomenon isn't strictly human trafficking - where people are bought and sold against their will - but rather a perverted business transaction to which most of the migrants and their families are actually party. The so-called "ransoms" migrants who have been rescued from the camps in Thailand say their captors are actually part of the deal they sign up to when they make the journey. Take a moment now to think about what that tells us about the people who make these journeys. They are so desperate for a better life that they are willing to go with the people smugglers even though they know that they may end up starving to death in a jungle prison camp. Stina Ljungdell, the UN refugee agency representative in Bangladesh, agrees that many migrants do know what they are getting into. If you think about it objectively, it makes a kind of sick business sense for both the smugglers and their customers. The migrants are assured that they only pay the full cost if they actually arrive in Thailand - cash on delivery, if you like. Meanwhile, the smugglers have leverage to guarantee that they get paid. The model has the added advantage, from the perspective of the smugglers at least, of making the decision to attempt the trip much easier. It seems many young men, and it is predominantly young men who seem to make the journey, are lured in the risky and selfish hope that their family will find a way raise the money once they arrive in Thailand. But other migrants make the decision to leave together with their families, judging that it is the only way to lift them out of poverty. We were told that a successful migrant can send as much as 30,000 taka (£260/$400) back to his family each month. But many, many migrants don't make it. Within minutes of arriving in an unofficial camp for Rohingya refugees further up the coast, I was surrounded by parents showing me pictures of their missing sons (and occasionally daughters). Some said their sons had left for Malaysia without telling them. Many others, however, said they had sent them off in the hope that they would send money back for the family. According to the smuggler, one in five of the migrants he takes don't make it to Malaysia. Many die before they even reach the camps, he told me. "Some die because of the suffering, some die because of of tension, some die thinking about how to escape from the situation and some people die of hunger after they run out of food. "All people have to die", he said, "that is fate."

Over the last couple of weeks, the world has woken up to the horrific trade in human beings being conducted in the seas of South East Asia.

The collision happened on the A21 Bangor to Newtownards dual carriageway, near the Green Road junction, at 19:40 GMT on Thursday. A number of people were taken to hospital after the crash. The road was closed overnight but has now reopened. Insp David McClements appealed for anyone who witnessed the collision to contact police.

A man and a woman have been critically injured in a three-car crash in County Down.

Media playback is unsupported on your device 17 December 2014 Last updated at 10:15 GMT Will Watson was speaking after calls for the mining firm to accept the "moral responsibility" for cleaning up two major sites at Margam near Port Talbot and East Pit near Ammanford following the collapse of a fraud case. The cost has been estimated at around £150m. Celtic Energy transferred ownership of the mines to a firm in the Caribbean, leading the Serious Fraud Office to accuse six people including two former directors of trying to avoid paying restoration costs. A judge threw out the case. Mr Watson, speaking to Oliver Hides on Radio Wales, said the firm had accepted that for Margam the prospect of further mining to help pay for restoration costs was not an option.

The chief executive of Celtic Energy has said there needs to be collaboration between companies, councils and government to resolve the problem of opencast mining sites which need restoring.

Thomas Baker, known as Tommy, was found badly injured at Stanley Meat Market in the Old Swan area of Liverpool on 27 January. The 44-year-old, from Everton, had been shot in the head and chest. He died later in hospital. The three Liverpool men arrested - two aged 29 and the other 32 - remain in police custody for questioning. Merseyside Police said Mr Baker had left Phoenix Gym at the market shortly before he was shot while getting into his car. Detectives believe those involved in the shooting had been waiting outside the gym for about an hour. Det Ch Insp Bev Hyland said officers were still searching for a silver VW polo, which "left the scene at speed" and travelled along a number of roads including Balmoral Road, Molyneux Road and Queens Road. She added that a number of people captured on CCTV near the meat market had yet to come forward and while "they may not think what they saw would be of any significance, they could have information which is key to our inquiries".

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of murder over the shooting of a man at a meat market.

Bell travelled around the Middle East in the early 1890s and is credited with drawing up the borders of modern Iraq. Her Grade II* listed childhood home, Red Barns, in Redcar, has since been a pub and hotel and is now empty. Redcar Labour MP Anna Turley is seeking help to save the building and use it as a museum, learning centre and tourist attraction. "Red Barns has huge significance to the local area and it is tragic that such a beautiful building with so much history has deteriorated into such a poor state," she said. The current owners have planning permission to convert the building into flats, but are "sympathetic to the building's relevance to the community", she said. The manager of Bell's photographic archive at Newcastle University, Dr Mark Jackson, said it was "desperately sad" her home had fallen into disrepair. The house was designed by renowned Arts and Crafts movement architect, Philip Webb, and the interiors were by designer and artist William Morris "so it's an architecturally important building", he added. Bell left a "fantastic record" of buildings and communities long since destroyed, including 50 photographs of Palmyra in 1900, much of which has been destroyed by so-called Islamic State, Dr Jackson said. In 2015 Nicole Kidman starred in a film about Bell's life, Queen of the Desert.

A campaign has been launched to save the childhood home of the explorer, writer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell.

Led by fire officer Dave Curry, the team created a giant Indian bread, weighing 26kg (57lb 5oz) and measuring 3.79m (12ft 5in) by 1.4m (4ft 7in). The cooking feat, carried out at the Eastleigh Mela in Hampshire on 6 July, was confirmed as successful on Tuesday by the Guinness World Records. This beats the 2008 record naan, which weighed 9.5kg (20lb 15oz). That creation was cooked by Loblaw Companies Limited in Brampton, Ontario, Canada and measured 2.89m (9ft 6in) by 1m (3ft 4in). Mr Curry said they were "absolutely thrilled" to have the record confirmed. "We were also able to raise several hundred pounds for charity through selling the naan at the Eastleigh Mela," he said. "As well as being a record-breaker, it tasted good too as it quickly sold out." The Hampshire firefighters' enormous naan bread, which was sold for £3 per portion with a curry, raised money for The Fire Fighters Charity, Water Wells Project and Hampshire Hurricanes. It was created with the help of Badi Mirchi and Sanjha restaurants.

A huge naan bread made by firefighters has been confirmed to be the biggest the world has ever seen.

"We have big ideas for the future, and part of making them happen is building Instagram into a sustainable business," it said. Ads will appear in a few months and involve just a handful of firms. Instagram was bought by Facebook for $1bn (£619m), but has never made a profit. The company, which now has 150 million users, has been a favourite among consumers but has long left analysts wondering how it could turn enthusiasm among photographers into a business model. Early efforts by Instagram to generate revenue were met with user backlash, such as when the company changed the terms of service to seemingly indicate that it would own user images and could sell those images to advertisers. The failure of this move was acknowledged in the company's posting. "As always, you own your own photos and videos. The introduction of advertising won't change this," it said. In an interview earlier this year with the BBC, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom said that Instagram must "fund its own future." Social media advertising is a booming business in the US. According to research firm eMarketer, advertisers will spend $9.5bn on social network ads worldwide this year. Facebook has boosted its efforts to gain a larger share of this ad spending. This year, the company's share of global mobile ad revenues will rise to 15.8% from 5.35% last year.

The photo sharing service Instagram announced it will start placing ads in US users photo streams in a posting on its website.

The verdict came from the Care Quality Commission's first inspection since the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust was created in November. The hospital was at the centre of a £6m public inquiry into care failings. But despite the CQC's overall finding being critical, the trust said it was "highly complimentary" about the standard of care in some areas. Inspectors visited County Hospital, formerly Stafford Hospital, and Royal Stoke University Hospital, also run by the trust, in April. They carried out unannounced inspections in May. Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, which ran Stafford, was dissolved in November after a report concluded it was not "clinically or financially sustainable". 700,000 People served by the hospital trust 194,954 Combined A&E visits to the two hospitals (2013-14) 1,508 Beds provided across the two sites 8,848 Equivalent full-time staff employed by the trust The NHS in Staffordshire was given almost £300m to create the new trust and relocate some services in the county. The CQC said it recognised "that the leadership of the new trust has had the significant task of bringing together two organisations at a challenging time. We have seen that progress has been made but there is still more to be achieved". The trust was rated as good overall for how caring its services were, but told it required improvement to ensure safe, effective and well-led services. It received an inadequate rating in relation to whether services were responsive. Several initiatives within children and young people's services at Stoke were rated as outstanding in relation to whether they were caring. Outstanding work was also seen in the specialised neurological unit at County Hospital, inspectors said. But the trust was told it must address high waiting times in its emergency department, and inspectors noted the Royal Stoke had "consistently and frequently failed the four-hour waiting time target". It also said the trust should review capacity and adequacy of critical care services, and communication between senior management and frontline staff. Mark Hackett, trust chief executive, said: "Less than a year ago there were serious concerns about the sustainability, and therefore the safety, of services at County Hospital, but the CQC has now given the hospital 23 good ratings and just one inadequate rating." He said the trust was addressing the areas for improvement the CQC identified.

A new NHS trust set up to run Stafford's hospital requires improvement, inspectors have said.

But Team Sky's leading rider stressed the importance to the outfit of under-fire boss Sir Dave Brailsford. UK Anti-Doping is investigating a 'mystery package' sent for Team Sky's former rider Sir Bradley Wiggins at a race in 2011. Brailsford last week said he would not resign over the package. "Without Dave B, there is no Team Sky," said Froome, who added it would "take time for faith to be restored". Brailsford has said he was told the package contained a legal decongestant - Fluimucil - but the team has been unable to provide records to back up the claim. Team Sky has since accepted "mistakes were made" over how medical records relating to the package were kept but denied breaking anti-doping rules. Froome added: "I would like to apologise for this on behalf of myself and the other riders of Team Sky who feel passionately about our sport and winning clean." A parliamentary select committee into anti-doping has been hearing evidence about the package, with committee chairman Damian Collins MP saying that Team Sky's reputation had been "left in tatters". Dr Richard Freeman, who received the package for Wiggins at the Criterium du Dauphine, did not attend the last hearing because of ill health. The committee has also heard evidence about Wiggins' use of therapeutic use exemptions, or TUEs, which allow athletes to take otherwise-banned substances when there is a clear medical need. Wiggins was granted a TUE to take anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia. Wiggins' TUEs were approved by British authorities and cycling's world governing body the UCI, and there is no suggestion either he or Team Sky have broken any rules. Last week several Team Sky riders - including Britain's Geraint Thomas - tweeted their support for Brailsford, but Froome did not comment publicly at the time. Thomas also said last week there were "still questions to be answered" and expressed his annoyance that "Freeman and Brad don't seem to have the flak". "It disappoints me hugely to see the way in which Team Sky has been portrayed by the media recently. It does not reflect the support crew and the riders that I see around me. "At the same time, I completely understand why people feel let down by the way in which the situation has been handled, and going forward we need to do better. "I would like to apologise for this on behalf of myself and the other riders of Team Sky who feel passionately about our sport and winning clean. I believe in the people around me, and what we are doing. "With respect to Dave Brailsford, he has created one of the best sports teams in the world. Without Dave B, there is no Team Sky. "He has supported me throughout the last seven years of my career and I couldn't be more grateful for the opportunities and the experiences I've had. By his own admission, mistakes have been made, but protocols have been put in place to ensure that those same mistakes will not be made again. "I know it will take time for faith to be restored, but I will do my utmost to ensure that happens, along with everyone else at Team Sky." BBC sports editor Dan Roan This may appear to be Chris Froome belatedly backing his under-fire boss Sir Dave Brailsford, but read the careful wording closely and it is clear that his support is very, very qualified. This is different from the "100% backing" messages that several of Froome's team-mates gave to the Team Sky principal last week. Instead, Froome seems to be taking a more pragmatic stand, making the point that unless Brailsford stays, Sky's sponsorship may cease, and the team could fold. This is how high the stakes have now become for one of the most successful professional teams in sport.

Britain's three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has apologised for the way Team Sky has handled questions over its record on doping.

Hilary won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in Harrogate on Thursday. Radio Times TV editor Alison Graham, who was one of the judges, described the book as "an emotionally exhausting and powerful story". US author Sara Paretsky, who created detective VI Warshawski, received an outstanding contribution honour. The accolades were handed out at the start of the North Yorkshire town's annual crime writing festival. Shetland and Vera writer Ann Cleeves, this year's festival programming chair, said the crime novel of the year shortlist had been "really strong" this year. The panel had felt Hilary's winning book was "so finely written and tightly written", she said. Someone Else's Skin, a thriller that tackles domestic violence and so-called honour crime, is the first in a series of novels featuring Det Insp Marnie Rome. "The author was able to conjure up atmosphere in very few lines," Cleeves said. "The subject matter was well done and well plotted." The other books on the shortlist were: Sara Paretsky was chosen for the outstanding contribution to crime fiction award after her 23-year career writing about VI Warshawski, a female private investigator from Chicago. Actress Kathleen Turner played VI Warshawski in a 1991 movie based on the Deadlock novel and in a BBC Radio 4 adaptation. VI Warshawski was "a real game changer", Cleeves said. "This was a woman who didn't just solve crimes but was like an action hero in a sense." Paretsky "really changed the way that readers thought about female writers", Cleeves said. "When she started writing, it was pretty well unheard of to have a strong female protagonist," she added. Paretsky also set up Sisters In Crime, an organisation to support female crime writers around the world.

Author Sarah Hilary has won one of the UK's top crime-writing awards for her debut novel, Someone Else's Skin.

Plans were approved for Coastal Oil and Gas Limited to drill in a field at St Nicholas. The permit does not allow the company to carry out fracking - hydraulic fracturing of the land - to extract any oil or gas. Fracking is subject to a temporary ban in Wales until decision-making powers on the practice are devolved. Natural Resources Wales said it had carried out a "thorough assessment" of the company's plans before approving them, with all work including reinstatement of the land to be completed within 12 months. "It's important that any activity of this kind doesn't harm the environment, and this permit makes it clear what Coastal Oil and Gas Limited will need to do to comply with this," a spokesman said. "Once the work begins, our officers will regulate and monitor the site to ensure it complies with the conditions of the permit, to protect people and the environment." The permit for exploratory drilling comes despite a moratorium on fracking in Wales pending devolution of responsibility for such decisions. In August, the UK government urged councils in England to speed up the process of approval for fracking projects. However, Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant said fracking technology was "unproven", and that Welsh Labour ministers preferred to look at renewable energy.

Permission has been given for exploratory drilling for oil and gas in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Media playback is unsupported on your device 21 October 2014 Last updated at 09:51 BST Eleven-month-old Harmonie-Rose Allen became ill in September and was rushed into Bristol Children's Hospital where she was diagnosed with a rare form of meningococcal septicaemia. Harmonie-Rose's family want to raise money to help with her care and have stuck pink ribbons all around the estate where she lives. BBC reporter Ali Vowles went to meet the family.

A fundraising campaign is under way to help a baby girl from Bath who has to have all of her limbs amputated after contracting meningitis.

It works by looking for a combination of "markers" in the blood which are different in healthy people and those with the disease. Delegates at the Alzheimer's Research UK Conference heard that the University of Nottingham is now developing a quick and easy test to do in clinics. It could mean much earlier diagnosis and better treatments, they said. The test uses some proteins that have been strongly linked with Alzheimer's disease, such as amyloid and APOE. But through careful analysis of blood from people with the disease, as well as those with early-stage memory problems, the researchers detected some other markers that were suggestive of the disease. Most notably, some proteins related to inflammation seem to have been added to increase the power of the test. Prof Kevin Morgan from the University of Nottingham said they still had to validate the test and it could be a decade before it was used in patients. But he added that the combination of markers they had found was looking very promising. "Our findings are exciting because they show that it is technically possible to distinguish between healthy people and those with Alzheimer's using a blood test. "As blood tests are a fast and easy way of aiding diagnosis, we are really encouraged by these findings and the potential they hold for the future." He said there were several ways the test could benefit patients, including giving people a definitive diagnosis, which was not always possible at the moment. It could also direct future therapies to make sure patients were getting the most appropriate treatment, he explained. Potentially, it could be a "cheap and easy pre-screen" test which enabled Alzheimer's to be picked up before symptoms appeared, he said. "The way we see it working is you can test people and it will tell them if they have the all-clear, or if they are medium- or high-risk. "If they are medium-risk, they can be monitored closely and high-risk patients can be referred to a specialist for more in-depth testing." Dr Eric Karran, director of Research at Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "Giving people with dementia an accurate diagnosis is not always easy, and so building up our armoury of diagnostic techniques is vital. "While there is still some way to go before a test like this could become available, the results are promising. "When used alongside other diagnostic techniques, a blood test like this could be a real help."

British researchers have developed a test to detect Alzheimer's disease in its earliest stages.

The Australian, whose car has a major aerodynamic update, was 0.234 seconds quicker than Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen. Title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel were third and sixth, Hamilton 0.7secs quicker than Vettel and 0.372secs behind Ricciardo. Hamilton, who has won five times in 10 years in Hungary, trails Vettel by one point at the mid-point of the season. Hamilton was 0.4secs quicker than team-mate Valtteri Bottas, who was fifth behind the second Red Bull of Max Verstappen, and 0.6secs off Ricciardo, struggling with his set-up. Vettel also appeared to be struggling. The four-time champion was a second off the pace, complained of a lack of rear grip and had a spin and a number of moments when he ran wide and off track. He was not the only one to fall prey to the slippery surface at the Hungaroring. Both Haas drivers crashed at the fast Turn 11, Romain Grosjean incurring only light damage, but reserve driver Antonio Giovinazzi bringing out a red flag when he buried his car in the wall, damaging the left-hand side. And at the end of the session, Renault's Jolyon Palmer lost control at the exit of the fast uphill kink at Turn Four, bouncing over the kerbs and smashing his front wing to pieces. Palmer finished the session in an encouraging 10th, just one place and 0.3secs behind team-mate Nico Hulkenberg on a weekend when he is under pressure. Former F1 driver Robert Kubica will test with Renault at this track next week as the team assess whether the Pole is capable of returning to the sport more than six years after a horrific rally crash left him with only partial use of his right arm. It was not immediately clear whether Palmer had damaged the new floor that was introduced for the first time at the last race and which he was using for the first time. Plus, if he had, whether Renault had sufficient spares to fit a new one. McLaren lived up to their promise to perform better than usual in Hungary because of the relative unimportance of engine power at the track, with Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne best of the rest in seventh and eighth places.

Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo sprung a surprise with fastest time in first practice at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The tour players were also given an option to scrap the tournament after last month's controversy in Watford. World number 20 Dave Gilbert was knocked out in the quarter-finals after referee Rob Spencer failed to call a time foul on China's Xiao Guodong. Event winner Anthony McGill said "in no way on God's Earth should this be a ranking tournament". The Scot beat Xiao in the final and claimed the £32,000 prize money. But World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn said he was "very pleased" with the outcome of the vote. This is the first year the Shoot Out has counted as ranking event, after existing as a non-ranking event for the previous six years. Each match has a maximum time of 10 minutes, with players on a shot clock of 15 seconds for the first five minutes and 10 seconds for the second half of the frame. Top players including five-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan, world number one Mark Selby and Judd Trump all skipped the event.

Snooker players have voted 72% in favour of keeping the one-frame Shoot Out as a ranking event.

Kingfisher is selling a 70% stake in the business - which has 39 stores and more than 3,000 staff - for £140m. The company had already announced that it was looking for a strategic partner to develop its B&Q business in China. The transaction, which is subject to approval by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, is expected to be completed in the first half of 2015. As well as B&Q, Kingfisher owns the Screwfix, Brico Depot and Castorama home improvement chains. It also owns 50% of the Koctas brand in Turkey. "I am delighted to have found a strong retail partner who will help us to release the financial value of our business in China," said group chief executive Veronique Laury. "This will enable us to focus our financial resources and management talent on the large and attractive European home improvement market." Beijing-based Wumei Holdings operates about 650 supermarkets and 10 department stores in China, owning brands such as Wumart, Jingbei Shopping Mall, and Merrymart. Ms Laury recently took over from Ian Cheshire as chief executive.

Home improvements retailer Kingfisher has agreed to sell a controlling stake in B&Q China to Wumei Holdings.

South Wales Police said 39-year-old Angharad Bullock was reported missing on 28 April, along with the toddler. Officers are concerned for the welfare of the pair.

Police are searching for a woman who has gone missing with her three-year-old son.

The British Under-23 time-trial champion will compete in her title-winning event and women's road race next month in Herning. Mel Lowther, the Under-23 national road race champion, will also compete in both disciplines. Alice Barnes, Ellie Dickinson, Lucy Shaw and Abi Van Twisk complete the road race line-up. It will take place over a 62-mile (100.5km) course on 4 August, two days after Christian and Lowther compete in the 20-mile (31.5km) time trial event. Head coach Iain Dyer said: "This will be the first time this group of riders has raced together as a team, so it presents a good development opportunity. "In terms of the race, the course promises to be quick and flat, so we have options within the team depending on how the race unfolds. "In the time trial event, the course is pan flat which should suit both Anna and Mel, so it will be good to see how they get on against international opposition." Great Britain Cycling Team for UEC European Road Championships: Alice Barnes (Road race) Anna Christian (Road race and time trial) Ellie Dickinson (Road race) Mel Lowther (Road race and time trial) Lucy Shaw (Road race) Abi Van Twisk (Road race)

Isle of Man rider Anna Christian will represent Great Britain at the 2017 UEC European Road Championships in Denmark.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, is charged with 30 counts related to the bombings, which killed three people and wounded more than 260 in April 2013. As part of the prosecution's summing up, medical examiners gave graphic details of the injuries suffered by those who died in the attack. Mr Tsarnaev could face the death penalty if found guilty. Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Henry Nields testified that the youngest victim of the attacks, eight-year-old Martin Richard, received injuries to every part of his body. The testimony was illustrated by autopsy photos and the child's bloody, torn clothing. Mr Nields said one piece of shrapnel appeared to have gone straight through Richard's body. "It would be difficult to say the precise location due to the size of the openings in the abdomen," he testified, according to Reuters. The defence began calling its own witnesses later on Monday. Earlier in the trial, the defence made the surprise admission that Mr Tsarnaev had participated in the attacks. But defence lawyers argue that his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, had been the driving force behind the attacks. By doing so they hope to spare their client the death penalty. Mr Tsarnaev is charged with 30 counts related to the bombings. The brothers set off a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line. Mr Tsarnaev is also accused of fatally shooting a police officer three days later. The prosecution says Mr Tsarnaev, who emigrated with his family from Chechnya, had extremist views and wanted to hit back at the US in revenge for military action in Muslim countries.

The prosecution has rested its case in the trial of a man accused of carrying out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.

Berlusconi told an Italian daily that Americans had chosen Mr Trump, "now let him go to work". Both men both entered politics from the world of business, Berlusconi a media magnate and Mr Trump a property tycoon. Legal battles have dogged Mr Trump but unlike Berlusconi, he has no criminal convictions. Aged 70, the man who defeated Hillary Clinton at Tuesday's polls is one of America's most famous and colourful billionaires, with a net worth of $3.7bn (£2.9bn; €3.4bn), according to Forbes business magazine. Berlusconi, 80, served four terms as prime minister before his criminal convictions in 2013 and 2015. Forbes values him and his family at $5.9bn. Asked what they had in common, Berlusconi told Italian daily Corriere della Sera (in Italian): "There are some obvious similarities even though my story as an entrepreneur is very different to Trump's, whom I've never met." The Italian politician did not go into detail but similarities he may have had in mind include: The combover: A hairstyle that refuses to lie down Berlusconi bandana hides mystery Berlusconi and the bunga bunga What are the allegations against Trump? Trump lewd video on women: Transcript Berlusconi says Obama is 'tanned' Italians have not been slow to pick up on the comparisons between the incoming US president and their former prime minister, fusing the two on social media as "Trumpusconi". In the interview, Berlusconi stopped short of welcoming Mr Trump's victory but the centre-right politician explained why he thought Mrs Clinton had been defeated. Mr Trump, he argued, "was elected by all Americans weary of an old political order". This group had, he suggested, made a "mistake typical of all the left around the world" in "thinking that "'political correctness' was the way to keep close to people's needs". A constitutional reform referendum due to be held in Italy on 4 December is being seen as a vote of confidence in the country's current Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi. He has threatened to resign if he loses the vote. Opinion polls suggest he risks a narrow defeat and that would boost Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement. Five Star's founder, ex-comic Beppe Grillo, has described Mr Trump's election victory as "the apocalypse for information, TV, the big newspapers, the intellectuals, the journalists". Will Trump-style revolt engulf Europe?

Disgraced former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said comparisons between himself and US President-elect Donald Trump are "obvious".

Smith was named captain of the Red Rose for the 2015 season, but only skippered the team in one game after being told he needed back surgery. The injury kept him out for 13 months but he came back to feature in the final months of last season, only for back problems to return. "It's very sad and a tough decision to come to," he told BBC Radio Lancashire. "Following some medical advice from the specialist and thinking about the long term future it has come because of injury. "The highs of lows of the past two years from captain to not playing, to surgery, to back playing, to retiring but ultimately it has taken its toll. My long-term health has taken priority." The club have announced that Smith will stay at Old Trafford to assist academy director Gary Yates in helping bring young players through their system. BBC Radio Lancashire cricket reporter Scott Read: "Tom Smith can look back on his career with a great deal of pride for both his performances on the field Lancashire and for the courage he showed off it. "He fought hard to return from injury last season, an injury which robbed him of the captaincy in 2015. "A genuine all-rounder, who consistency with the bowl and skill with the bat saw him named the club's player of the year after a stellar 2014. "He'll be admired and respected at Old Trafford in equal measure both as a player and a person."

Lancashire all-rounder Tom Smith has announced his retirement at the age of 31 after a series of injury problems.

The Save Oxfordshire Children's Centres Campaign "baby blockade" is against Oxfordshire County Council plans to cut the number of centres to save £8m. Organiser Jill Huish said more than 500 people were "definitely seen and heard" when they took part in the march through Oxford on Saturday. David Cameron had been invited to join the protest after saying he was "disappointed" by the cuts. The council has said it will continue to support the most vulnerable families in Oxfordshire. Under the proposals, the authority would replace 44 existing centres with eight "children and family centres" located in the neediest areas of Oxfordshire. The PM wrote to council leader Ian Hudspeth last month calling it "counter-productive" and urging the authority to "move cautiously in setting out its budget plans". In his response, Mr Hudspeth said the council's grants from government had fallen and that it had already made back-office savings. Ahead of the protest, Jill Huish, on behalf of the campaign group, wrote an open letter to Mr Cameron saying: "We welcome your efforts to help protect these services, however perhaps like us you are rapidly losing confidence in government." "Please join us in the streets," her letter urged. "Cameron can't plead not guilty. Let's be clear, he is not just a local constituency MP, he is the prime minister. "It's just not good enough.... we cannot keep mum and watch the 44 children's centres in Oxfordshire be closed down," she said. When asked to comment on the open letter, a government spokesperson said: "There is still significant scope for sensible savings across local government to be made by back-office consolidation, disposing of surplus property and joining up our local public services. "The government continues to work with councils to help deliver these savings and protect frontline services."

A protest has taken place opposing cuts to children's centres in Oxfordshire.

The company currently employs 500 people at premises in Glasgow, Robroyston, Livingston, Ayr, Clarkston, Hamilton, Lanark and Clydebank. The expansion plans include new stores in Port Glasgow and Irvine, while other locations are "in negotiation". Existing stores in Clarkston, Ayr and Livingston will also be enlarged. The family-owned business, which is currently celebrating its centenary, has forecast a turnover of between £25m and £30m in 2015. Its sells a wide range of products, including clothing and accessories, housewares, jewellery, watches, books, toys and confectionery. Owner Willie Watt said: "Our business has changed dramatically since it first opened its doors in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street, when the focus was exclusively on high-end ladies' fashions. "We have evolved as a business and recognised that a retail offer including a wider range of great value products in a department store-style setting has greater appeal to today's consumer. "We've seen positive growth in terms of both turnover and customer numbers, even in the recent recessionary period, and we've continued our expansion in terms of new store openings. "My long-term plan is to have a total of 16 stores throughout Scotland, and we're constantly looking at new opportunities to secure ideal locations."

Retailer Watt Brothers has announced plans to create 350 new jobs by opening six new stores and expanding three others over the next few years.

Speaking in an interview with BBC Newsnight, Ross McEwan said the uncertainty caused by the EU vote could "slow down banking". He said he would like the referendum to be held as early as possible, ideally in June. Mr McEwan added that he does not expect an interest rate rise before 2017. The UK is due to hold a referendum on whether or not to stay in the European Union, before the end of 2017. In an interview with Newsnight's Kirsty Wark Mr McEwan said he had seen no "economic data that suggests we'd be better off out in the short to medium term". He said unpredictability around the referendum was causing problems for the UK's banks. "The issue we've got is the uncertainty which slows businesses down, which will over time slow down banking so it's... really good that the government is trying to have the vote very quickly." On interest rates, Mr McEwan said he sees no prospect of any rise from the Bank of England in the near future. "We're going to have lower interest rates for a lot longer than was anticipated… I don't think [we'll have rate rises] for all this year and possibly all of 2017 as well. "We just have to get used to an environment where we have low interest rates for a long period of time." Mr McEwan suggested RBS had turned a corner under his leadership, but that it was likely the firm would post its eighth consecutive years of losses later this month. The bank has set aside considerable sums to pay for US-imposed fines over mis-selling of mortgage-backed securities and payment protection insurance (PPI) payments. In line with other banks the share price of RBS has declined by nearly 45% in a year. The firm remains largely in public hands, with the British government owning a 73% stake, after a £45bn ($65bn) bailout in 2008. Chancellor George Osborne sold 5% of its stake last August, making a loss. The share price has fallen still further since then. Asked if the British taxpayer is likely to get its £45bn back, Mr McEwan said: "At this rate no… We'd love to get that money back to the public because it's the public's money. "But at the time, if they hadn't saved RBS then a lot of the financial services in the UK would have probably collapsed." The full interview with the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland Ross McEwan will be broadcast on BBC Newsnight at 22:30 GMT on Friday 12 February. You can also catch up on iPlayer (UK only)

The chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland says he believes the UK financial sector would be better off inside the European Union.

The County Down school led 0-9 to 0-4 at half-time and extended their lead to six points by the conclusion. Rian O'Neill top-scored for the winners with 0-7, while Cian McConville contributed 0-2. Tiernan Kelly recorded three points for St Ronan's. St Mary's Magherafelt and St Paul's Bessbrook must replay their semi-final. The schools played out a 1-12 to 1-12 draw in the opening semi-final at the Dub on Wednesday and are set to meet next week at a venue still to be finalised.

St Colman's Newry progressed to the MacRory Cup final by beating St Ronan's Lurgan 0-14 to 0-8 in Thursday night's semi-final at the Athletic Grounds.

Police briefly detained the protesters. The envoy was questioned on Friday after his Indian wife alleged he sexually abused their three-year-old. Although a case has been registered against him, he has not been arrested or formally charged. The envoy has made no public comment as yet. Police say they are trying to confirm if the man has diplomatic immunity. The wife of the envoy has written to the French ambassador in India and the Indian government, to prevent her husband from leaving the country until all legal proceedings are complete. She has also asked the French Embassy for financial support for herself and her three children, who are French citizens. The French Consulate-General in Bangalore confirmed that "a complaint had been lodged regarding the rape of a minor girl who is a French national". "The complaint names the father of the child, who is a consular agent of this Consulate-General. An investigation is under way for which this Consulate-General is extending its full cooperation with the police and the authorities in charge," the Consulate said in a press release on Monday. "It remains also in touch with the family of the child," it added. The complaint was lodged on Thursday night, after the envoy's wife approached the Bangalore-based non-governmental organisation, Enfold India, for help.

Demonstrations have been held outside the French consulate in the Indian city of Bangalore demanding the arrest of a French official accused of abusing his daughter.

It comes 12 years after their first, when Jose Mourinho's 2004-05 side stormed to glory, 12 points clear of nearest rivals Arsenal after having lost just once, to Manchester City, all season. Didier Drogba spearheaded the attack, Claude Makelele reinvented the anchor man role and Frank Lampard top-scored from midfield as the Blues won their first top-flight title in more than half a century. Antonio Conte's 2016-17 breed have wrapped up the league with two games to spare, with Diego Costa hitting 20 goals [as of 12 May], Eden Hazard impressing and N'Golo Kante winning player of the year. But who, from Chelsea's first and most recent Premier League-winning teams, would make your combined XI? Pick your best XI from Chelsea's Premier League winners in 2004-05 and 2016-17.

Chelsea's 1-0 win at West Brom on Friday clinched the Blues their fifth Premier League title.

His comments, made during a closed-session meeting in the Hungarian capital Budapest, were accidentally broadcast to reporters. He said the EU was the only major power to attach "political" conditions to its relationship with Israel. This, he said, was damaging to the bloc's security and economic interests. The EU has repeatedly condemned Israel's building of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. In comments picked up on the headphones of reporters waiting outside the meeting, Mr Netanyahu told the prime ministers of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia: "The European Union is the only association of countries in the world that conditions the relations with Israel... on political conditions. The only ones." He was referring to the EU's insistence on terms relating to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process being included in its Association Agreement with Israel, signed in 2000 and not subsequently updated. "It's crazy. It's actually crazy," he said. "It's not about my interest. I'm talking about Europe's interest. "We have a special relationship with China. And they don't care. They don't care about the political issues." He added that India and Russia had a similar approach, and urged the four prime ministers to push for a deal on a new Association Agreement. "There is no logic here. The EU is undermining its security by undermining Israel. Europe is undermining its progress by undermining its connection with Israeli innovation by a crazy attempt to create conditions." He added: "I think Europe has to decide if it wants to live and thrive or if it wants to shrivel and disappear. "I am not very politically correct. I know that's a shock to some of you. It's a joke. But the truth is the truth. Both about Europe's security and Europe's economic future. Both of these concerns mandate a different policy toward Israel." Mr Netanyahu also criticised the policies of former US President Barack Obama's administration, saying things had improved since Donald Trump took office. "We had a big problem. I think its different now. Vis-a-vis Iran, there is a stronger position. The US is more engaged in the region and conducting more bombings." He also admitted that Israel had carried out dozens of attacks against Iranian-backed militia group Hezbollah's arms convoys in Syria. "I told [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, when we see them transferring weapons to Hezbollah, we will hurt them. We did it dozens of times," he said. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has been an outspoken opponent of Muslim immigration to Europe, later told reporters: "We share Israel's notion of protecting external borders. If Europe does not co-operate with Israel, it is punishing itself."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned the European Union's "crazy" approach to dealing with his country.

He is one of 249 men suing the Catholic Church over alleged historical sexual abuse at St William's residential school in Market Weighton. Only one man out of five initial cases heard at the High Court in Leeds has been awarded compensation. In December, a judge ruled in favour of one claimant and ordered the church to pay £14,000 in damages. At the same hearing, His Honour Judge Gosnell dismissed three other claims. More on this and other East Yorkshire stories In January 2016 the former head of St William's James Carragher was jailed for the third time after he was found guilty of sexually abusing boys. Carragher, 75, had already been sentenced to 21 years in prison for sexually abusing boys and was jailed for a further nine years in January. He was jailed for seven years in 1993 and a further 14 years in 2004 for offences he committed at St William's, which closed in 1992. Co-defendant Anthony McCallen, 69, a former chaplain at St William's, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a series of historical sex offences. He was acquitted of eight other charges at the same trial. The De La Salle Brothers, a Christian order of lay teachers, which ran the school in conjunction with the Diocese of Middlesbrough, has apologised "unreservedly" for the abuse. Another set of compensation claims is expected to be heard in late 2017.

A man who claimed he was abused at an East Yorkshire Catholic school has lost a legal action for compensation.

Harold Jellicoe Percival, who was known as Coe, served as ground crew on the famous Dambusters raids carried out in May 1943 by 617 Squadron. Mr Percival, who died last month aged 99, never married or had children. The funeral home organising the service put an advert in a newspaper appealing for people to attend. The Reverend Alan Clark, who conducted the service, said: "We marvel at the power of the printed word, whether on paper or screen." Mr Percival's nephew, Andrew Colyer-Worrsall, said the attendance was "just remarkable". "He was a quiet man, he was an ordinary man who did his duty and served in the war and to see so many people turn up, it's just overwhelming," he said. "I can only say thank you so much to everybody. "We thought there would just be two or three of us, so to see this many hundreds of people turn up is stunning." Mr Percival, who lived in Penge, south London, before joining Bomber Command, died in Alistre Lodge Nursing Home in Lytham St Annes in Lancashire. Nursing home manager Lorraine Holt told BBC News she had been inundated with responses from people after the advert was reposted on social media sites. "Late last night, we had a call from a soldier on leave from Afghanistan who said he wanted to attend. "Then an 80-year-old lady from London who served in the RAF called us to say she was attending. "The response has been absolutely incredible." The RAF Association Leyland branch, said they had also helped to ensure Mr Percival's funeral on Monday was well attended. By Steve BeckerBBC Radio Lancashire reporter Harold Percival was, by all accounts, something of a loner, with no close family or friends. Yet hundreds of people attended Lytham Crematorium to pay their respects, as a testimony to the power of remembrance and social networking. With the service taking place on Armistice Day, it became a particularly poignant event, drawing armed forces personnel, charities and many members of the public. In fact, before the Last Post was played, a spontaneous round of applause broke out as his coffin was taken from the hearse. We'll never know the answer to the question posed by many people at the service: what would this quiet man have made of his send off? But most suspected he'd have been secretly pleased and proud. The association's standard bearer Stuart Dagger said: "We are saying goodbye to a hero." The Dambusters March played as Mr Percival's coffin was carried into Lytham Park Crematorium at 11:00 GMT on Armistice Day. A two-minute silence was observed around the coffin to mark the anniversary of the World War One armistice before it was carried into the crematorium. About 100 people were inside with another 400 standing silently outside in the rain. Relatives of Mr Percival thanked those who attended and who spread the word saying "We are overwhelmed. This shows how great the British public are." Mr Percival's nephew, David Worsell, who could not attend the funeral, said: "He was a private man. "He worked in Australia for a number of years as a decorator and would visit England for holidays. "He travelled around England with only his backpack. "He didn't have a postal address - he just used to get everything sent to my mother's address and would go through it when they met up." Frank Richard Carew-Percival, who contacted the BBC from Australia, said he was Mr Percival's nephew and was disappointed that he wouldn't be able to attend the service. "He lived with us on and off in Australia and New Zealand. He loved cricket and taught my son how to spin bowl." He said his uncle was a shy man who led a "nomadic type " lifestyle. "I managed to trace him six months ago and sent him photos of when he lived with us. "We always had a Coe's room wherever we lived as he could turn up at any time." Mr Percival's family told the BBC a nephew, great-nephew and great-niece would be at his funeral.

Hundreds of people from across the UK have attended the funeral in Lancashire of a World War Two veteran they never knew.

Anderson, level with Darren Gough on 234 before the game, took the wicket of Mitchell Marsh to move past the former Yorkshire seamer's old record. The Lancashire seamer's record-breaking wicket came in the first ball of his seventh over at Edgbaston. He went on to take his new record to 237 with two more wickets. Six others have taken 100 ODIs wickets or more for England, but only Anderson and Gough have broken the 200 barrier. Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan holds the world record with 534 wickets from 350 matches, while Pakistan pace bowler Wasim Akram took 502 from 356. Anderson is 25th in the all-time world list but has only played 170 internationals. The 30-year-old became only the fourth England player to take 300 Test wickets when he dismissed New Zealand opener Peter Fulton during the first Test at Lord's in May. If he is to become England's most successful Test bowler of all time, he will have to overhaul Sir Ian Botham's 383, with Fred Trueman's 307 and Bob Willis's 325 his next targets. In February of this year, Anderson claimed his 529th scalp in all formats to pass Botham's 528 and become England's leading international wicket-taker. "He's right up there with the best that England have had and he's right up there with the best in the world," said former England captain Michael Vaughan last month.

James Anderson became England's leading wicket-taker in one-day internationals with his 235th victim as they

A review of research for the Reading Agency says reading for pleasure does much more than boost educational outcomes among adults and children. One recent study quoted - of 4,000 UK adults - says reading for pleasure can help them enjoy social occasions more. It can also boost children's emotional understanding, the research adds. In general, the study found reading was associated with enjoyment, relaxation and escapism. The research involving a poll of 4,000 people that is cited by the report looked at how mental and physical health can be boosted by the enjoyment of reading. It said those who read regularly for pleasure: It also cited research carried out in Germany, with children aged seven to nine, that looked at possible links between literacy and emotional understanding. The report focused on the impact of after-school literacy sessions in which children's books with emotional content were read and discussed by the group. It found the scheme enhanced the children's emotional vocabulary, knowledge and understanding of emotions. It also found boys were more "positively influenced in their capability to recognise masked feelings than girls". The report concluded that: "Reading is closely linked to increasing understanding of our own identities and can also play a large part in relating to others, understanding their world views and so forth." Sue Wilkinson, chief executive of The Reading Agency, said the findings of the report showed that "everything changes when we read".

Getting stuck into a good book can boost people's ability to relate to each other and increase their empathy, a report suggests.

They said the Syrian government had failed to respect the 1 June deadline for widespread aid distribution agreed by world and regional powers. Only a small amount of aid was delivered on Wednesday and a convoy to the town of Darayya near Damascus did not carry food. The UN Security Council will meet on Friday to discuss the air drops. Syrian town in 'extremely dire' state What's left of Syria? US State Department spokesman John Kirby said hundreds of thousands of Syrians needed "sustained and regular" access to aid. He said the UN food agency, the World Food Programme, had briefed the US on how the air drops could be carried out. Meanwhile British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond described the limited access for aid allowed on the day of the deadline agreed by the International Syria Support group (ISSG) as "cynical". "While air drops are complex, costly and risky, they are now the last resort to relieve human suffering across many besieged areas," he said. The US and UK called on Russia and Iran, which back the Syrian government, to use their influence to ensure the air drops could proceed safely. Russia said the arrival of Wednesday's aid convoys was a positive step. The ISSG, co-chaired by the US and Russia, comprises 17 world and regional powers, as well the Arab League, the European Union and the United Nations. In April, the UN said at least 4,000 people were besieged in Darayya by Syrian government forces, which have surrounded the suburb for four years. The Darayya convoy - the first since November 2012 - contained vaccines, baby milk, medicine and nutritional goods. Separately, the rebel-held town of Muadhamiya, north-west of Darayya, received deliveries of food parcels and wheat flour on Wednesday, a month since aid convoys last visited. Darayya's electricity supply was cut off more than three years ago. UN emergency relief co-ordinator Stephen O'Brien said in April that the Syrian government had ignored "countless" requests for aid to be allowed in. An aid convoy was blocked from entering the town last month, despite all involved parties agreeing aid could be delivered. The latest delivery was made by teams from the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Red Crescent. Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday it had agreed a pause with the Syrian authorities for 48 hours to allow for the distribution of humanitarian aid in Darayya. It borders a military airport used by Russian planes in support of the government of President Bashar al-Assad. It was one of the first towns to report demonstrations against the Assad regime, and has been under siege since late 2012. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported clashes this week between rebel groups and government fighters on the outskirts of Darayya. The UN believes there are more than 4.6m people living in hard-to-reach areas in Syria, including nearly 600,000 in besieged areas.

The US, UK and France have urged the UN to begin air drops of humanitarian aid to besieged areas in Syria.

The Scream (1892), by Edvard Munch, depicts a figure holding its face, which is making an agonised expression. But look above this individual and the sky is full of colourful wavy lines. The researchers say these are probably Mother of Pearl Clouds - rare phenomena that would have had a big impact on anyone who saw them for the first time. "Today the general public has a lot more scientific information but you can imagine back in his day, he'd probably never seen these clouds before," said Helene Muri from the University of Oslo. "As an artist, they no doubt could have made quite an impression on him." Dr Muri was speaking here in Vienna at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly. From Munch’s diary notes, 1890-1892 "I went along the road with two friends – the sun set I felt like a breath of sadness - The sky suddenly became bloodish red I stopped, leant against the fence, tired to death - watched over the flaming clouds as blood and sword the city - the blue-black fjord and the city - My friends went away - I stood there shivering from dread - and I felt this big, infinite scream through nature" The unusual sky formation in The Scream has previously been ascribed to volcanic effects. Just nine years before Munch's first rendering of The Scream, Krakatoa famously blew its top. This eruption in what is now Indonesia was one of the biggest such events in recorded history, and its sulphurous emission circled the globe to generate some spectacular sunsets. But the Norwegian group argues that the wavy shapes painted by Munch are a far better match for what are termed Polar Stratospheric (Type II) Clouds; or as they are also sometimes called - Nacreous Clouds. Their rarity comes from the very particular conditions needed in their formation, at altitudes between 15km and 20km. These requirements include not only very cold winter air, down at minus 80-85C, but a good degree of humidity as well. Atmospheric flow up and over mountains helps because it can inject moisture from the troposphere into the stratosphere, followed by a process called adiabatic cooling that can then greatly reduce air temperatures. "That's when you can get very small ice crystals of about one micrometer," explained Dr Muri. "These clouds are very thin and are best seen just before sunrise and after sunset, when the sun is below the horizon. "You get these very distinct colourings, from the combination of scattering, diffraction and internal refraction of the sunlight on these tiny ice crystals." Dr Muri has lived in the Oslo area for 25 years. She says she has seen the iridescent clouds only once with her own eyes - and she knows precisely when and what to look for. Such phenomena could have taken Munch completely by surprise, she believes. The team first started investigating the possible link between the unusual meteorology and The Scream when consultant Svein Fikke observed a display of the clouds in 2014. He managed to take a series of stunning photos, and then started delving deeper into the story. Some very rare cloud types are reported to be increasing in frequency and distribution, perhaps due to climate change. An example would be Noctilucent Clouds. These are the highest clouds on Earth, forming at altitudes of 80km and more. There is evidence to suggest they are becoming more visible at lower latitudes than used to be the case. It is conceivable similar trends might occur with Nacreous Clouds, Dr Muri said, although no statistics can justify such a statement yet. "We know that the troposphere is warming and expanding while the stratosphere above is compressing and cooling. So, the temperature characteristics of minus 80C and below might become commonplace in the future," she speculated.

Norwegian scientists have put forward a new theory to explain the inspiration behind one of the most famous works of art ever produced.

The Scot, 29, is the first British singles player to reach top spot since computerised rankings began in 1973. "I don't think Andy was ever going to settle for second best," former British number one Henman told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek. "Now he's reached number one I don't think for any moment in time he's going to take his foot off the gas." Murray, who plays American John Isner in Sunday's Paris Masters final, will be confirmed as number one on Monday when the latest rankings are published. "If Andy stays fit and healthy, I can see him being the dominant force going forward," Henman said. "If you're going to put a number on it, you'd like him to get to 52 weeks at the top. Who knows from there?" Media playback is not supported on this device Murray ended Novak Djokovic's 122-week stint at the top of the world rankings after Milos Raonic withdrew from his Paris Masters semi-final against the Briton with an injury on Saturday. His rise to the top comes after he claimed his second Wimbledon title in June, defended his Olympic singles title in Rio in August and helped Great Britain to their first Davis Cup win since 1936 last November. "Playing in the toughest era there has ever been, for him to have three Grand Slams, two Olympic golds and now the world number one, it's an incredible achievement," Henman said. "It's testament to his perseverance when you reflect over the last decade and you talk about those players he has been up against. "I spoke to him on Saturday and he's so level-headed. He is able to keep a pretty even keel." Jamie, the older of the two Murray brothers at 30, became the first Briton under the modern system to top the doubles rankings in March 2016. He also claimed the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 2007, six years before his younger brother won his first singles title at the All England Club. "For an average family from a small town (Dunblane) in Scotland, what they have managed to achieve is quite extraordinary," their mother Judy said. "After we found out we were looking back over the years and talking about how Jamie had made number one first and won Wimbledon first. As the older brother, it was an order that was meant to be." She added that the sport had "never been easy" for either player but that it had forced both players to work harder. "This sport is very unforgiving, the circuit is relentless and the strength and depth in the men's game is huge. "With tennis being a minority sport in Scotland you have to travel down south and they are long journeys. "There's the expense, the time, leaving the social side. I'm glad it's been tough because it makes you work harder." Media playback is not supported on this device Find out how to get into tennis in our special guide. There were no big celebrations for Murray when the news was confirmed, according to coach Jamie Delgado. "We just went for a nice dinner. There was no partying or drinking," Delgado added. "It took time to sink in but it was a strange moment when Raonic came in and told us. We were silent and then there were huge congratulations."

Britain's Andy Murray will be the dominant force in tennis now he is world number one, Tim Henman says.

David Dixon texted his aunt saying he was safe after the two airport blasts, but his family fear he was caught up in a further explosion at a Metro station. Mr Dixon, from Nottingham, lived in the capital with his partner Charlotte Sutcliffe and their son. He is thought to be the only Briton still missing since Tuesday's attacks. Downing Street said four Britons were injured in the blasts, which left 31 people dead. Mr Dixon's partner told the Telegraph that police have his dental records and are seeing if they match any of the victims. How the day unfolded What we know about the attacks so far Airport security under the spotlight again Full coverage of the Brussels attacks His friend Simon Hartley-Jones said the couple had lived in Brussels for about 10 years but still had a house in Nottingham and came back regularly. "David is a programmer and works in the centre of Brussels," said Mr Hartley-Jones. "He makes his way there every day using the Metro system. "For some reason he hasn't made it... and we're really concerned about him. "It's really unusual for him not to contact [Charlotte] - it's really out of character." Updates on this story and more from Nottinghamshire He described Mr Dixon, originally from Hartlepool, as "a lovely guy" and "an amazing man who deeply, deeply loves his son". The couple's son was staying with friends and was unaware his father was missing, he added. "They still have a house in Mapperley [in Nottingham] which they come back to regularly, this is their home. "They were supposed to come back this weekend, all the family were due back this weekend to spend Easter with us here, and we're missing them deeply." Mr Hartley-Jones has appealed for anyone in Belgium who might know of Mr Dixon's whereabouts to get in touch. "Charlotte is just desperately looking for David and we need any information you can get," he said. "Please just check in hospitals in Brussels, just check that David is not one of your patients, and just let us know." Ms Sutcliffe's sister, Marie, said they were hoping to hear from a hospital or police that he had perhaps been injured but was safe. "Not everybody has been identified yet among the injured, so it's just waiting for that process to happen," she said. She plans to go out to Brussels to support her sister. "Understandably she's very, very distressed," she said. "It's just waiting, which is heartbreaking and very worrying." Mr Dixon's cousin, Philip Dixon, said his family was "fearing the worst". "He takes the Metro to work and unfortunately it's looking like he could have been on this Metro train at the time of this bombing yesterday," he said. "Charlotte tried phoning his work and he didn't turn in for work yesterday morning so we are fearing the worst at the moment." Downing Street said four Britons were confirmed to have been injured in the twin blasts which hit Zaventem airport at about 07:00 GMT and Maelbeek Metro station an hour later. So-called Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for the attacks. A No 10 spokesman said: "We are concerned about one missing British national and we are in close contact with the Belgian authorities. "We are aware of four British nationals who were injured in the attacks - three are being treated in hospital, one has already been discharged. "Our embassy staff are working to assist all British nationals affected." Mr Dixon has been working as an IT contractor for securities settlement group Euroclear, which has an office a few Metro stops away from the station that was attacked. Tristan Peniston-Bird, a Euroclear spokesman, said: "We confirm that David Dixon is a contractor working for Euroclear in Brussels, who remains unaccounted for following yesterday's tragic events. "We are in touch with his partner and continue to co-ordinate with the authorities in locating David. "Our primary concern is the safety and protection of our people, and our thoughts go out to those affected by yesterday's attacks."

Friends of a computer programmer missing in Brussels since the bomb attacks in the Belgian capital have said they are desperate to find him.

An app which helps people share pictures of litter and report it to their local council may not seem a threat. But to one of the world's largest corporations it was, with the US internet giant's lawyers saying the name was "unacceptable". Trademark infringement cases are not new, so how have they been won or lost in the past? Back when the iPhone and Macbook were a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye, there was a bigger Apple. Set up by The Beatles in 1968 to release their songs and manage their creative affairs, Apple Corps was the first. The dispute dates back to 1980, when the George Harrison noticed an advert for a fledgling computer company in a magazine. The sides reached a deal in 1981 allowing Apple to use the name as long as it stuck to computers, while The Beatles' company would continue in the entertainment field. With the advent of iTunes and the iPod this changed and battle recommenced. A deal was finally struck in 2007 with Jobs' Apple taking full control of the brand, licensing certain trademarks back to Apple Corps. A popular sandwich bar in Birmingham faced the wrath of Hollywood with its choice of Hungry Hobbit as the name for its business. The cafe chose the name in honour of the author who grew up in the Moseley area. But in 2012 lawyers for the Saul Zaentz Company objected saying it was trademark infringement. A campaign ensued with actor Stephen Fry voicing support for the eatery. As of 2016 its name remains the same. Before Little Mix became chart sensations they were plain old Rhythmix- a group of X Factor contestants pushed together in the hope of forming a successful girl band. Unfortunately for them, and X Factor, the name Rhythmix was already being used by a Brighton charity. Simon Cowell's show eventually caved in and a new name was sought. The four girls were said to have come up with the name Little Mix themselves. A comedy club chain may be responsible for forcing one of the biggest TV hits of the past 10 years to change its name. The owner of The Glee Club, Mark Tughan, took 20th Century Fox to court in 2014 arguing its TV show Glee breached its trademark rights. He won his case. What's more, he recently won an appeal. However, 20th Century Fox said it is planning a fresh round of appeals.

Instagram has ordered the owner of a British anti-litter app to change its name from Littergram, but how have other "David v Goliath" corporate name battles panned out and does the big guy always win?

The blue-chip index closed 0.6%, or 45.4 points, higher at 7,337.8 - the 14th time it has ended higher. Housebuilders helped to lift the index, with Barratt Developments up 3.1% and St James's Place 2.3% higher. ITV shares rose 2.9% after Goldman Sachs named the broadcaster as a possible takeover target. Shares in building materials company SIG jumped 15.4% after it reported higher sales. The FTSE 250 firm said like-for-like group sales increased by 0.3% last year, adding that full-year profits were on track to meet its forecast range of £75m to £80m. Pub group Mitchells & Butlers - whose brands include Harvester, Toby Carvery and All Bar One - rose 2.9% after reporting "particularly strong" trading over Christmas. The company said like-for-like sales were up 4.7% in the four weeks to 7 January. On the currency markets, the pound was up 0.4% against the dollar at $1.2212, and rose 0.2% against the euro to €1.1488.

London's FTSE 100 has chalked up its 12th consecutive record high as shares in housebuilders led the way.

Nine men were arrested over a pitch invasion and flares being thrown during City's 3-0 loss at Sixfields. The club has said that the "repeated disruptions" were "unacceptable". A Sky Blue Trust statement said: "We do not condone anti-social and illegal acts such as the throwing of smoke bombs and multiple pitch invasions." The statement continued: "We do understand, however, that it was entirely the result of frustration and desperation and that many supporters are simply at the end of their tethers feeling powerless and ignored. "While peaceful protests and petitions have attracted national attention and sympathy, they have seemingly been ignored by Sisu and [chairman] Tim Fisher and this once great club is in now in total disarray and turmoil. "The scenes were ugly but borne of desperation and passion. The Trust urges all fans to keep any protests lawful and ensure these scenes are not be repeated." Coventry fans have held a number of protests against the club's owners this season, with December's EFL Trophy second round win over Crawley attracting a record-low home crowd. The Sky Blues are without a League One victory since 1 November and have only won four times all season.

A Coventry City fans' trust says disruption at Saturday's defeat by Northampton was caused by "desperation" with the club's owners, Sisu.

The squeeze has resulted in reduced opening hours, the removal of play equipment, toilets closing and more litter, vandalism and rats, MPs said. They urged councils to find new ways to fund and manage parks. The Local Government Association said councils have to balance spending on parks against other priorities. The report by the Commons Communities and Local Government (CLG) Committee argued housing demand was also putting parks at risk, with new homes "nibbling away" at green spaces in some areas. Unless parks were recognised as "much more than just grass and tulips", there was a risk of turning the clock back to an era of neglect of 20 to 30 years ago, the MPs warned. Local authorities have no statutory duty to fund and maintain public parks, and a 2014 report by the Heritage Lottery Fund found 86% of park managers had seen cuts to their budgets since 2010. The UK has about 27,000 public parks attracting 2.6 billion visits a year. The MPs argued that parks play an important role by: Councils should publish strategic plans that recognise parks' wider value and consider a range of alternative models for looking after parks, they said. However, the MPs added, they should remain owned by local authorities and be freely available to everyone. The MPs also entered the debate over the free use of parks by organisations such as Parkrun, which hit the headlines when a parish council tried to charge for its weekly runs in a Bristol park last year. Community organisations, such as Parkrun, which do not charge for participation or raise revenue, could be encouraged to contribute volunteer time to help maintain parks or undertake fundraising, the report said. Helen Griffiths, chief executive of Fields in Trust, a charity that seeks better statutory protection for recreational spaces, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that parks can help to get more people active, tackle obesity and address anti-social behaviour. "I think it is really important that we shouldn't see parks as a drain on our services, not as a budget just for cutting the grass, but as an area that can make a real contribution to tackling some of those very important issues," she said. Peter Fleming, deputy chairman of the Local Government Association, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Many councils are saying actually the park is an asset that can help things around public health, but also around how we bring open spaces for families who live in urban areas as well. "But we have to try and balance that spending against those other priorities that councils have, so it is a difficult thing." Parkrun UK facts and figures: •Number of events - 78,995 •Number of locations - 443 •Average run time - 00:27:54 •Number of runners - 1,199,064 •Total distance run - 69,671,120km. Clive Betts, Labour chairman of the Commons committee, said: "Parks are treasured public assets, as the overwhelming response to our inquiry demonstrates, but they are at a tipping point and, if we are to prevent a period of decline with potentially severe consequences, then action must be taken." He said the government had a leadership role to play and volunteers did "fantastic work" but the primary responsibility lay with local authorities. The vast majority of councils have cut budgets for parks and were likely to cut further, with Newcastle City Council's parks management budget slashed from £2.589m in 2011/12 to £0.253m in 2016/17, the report found. The government should help councils find innovative ways of managing public parks and green spaces should also be at the heart of planning, the report added.

Public parks are at risk of falling into neglect as funding to maintain them comes under pressure, says a report by a committee of MPs.

A boy was lost in the woods while the family was foraging for wild vegetables. But then the story changed - he was lost because he had been abandoned by his parents and not just once, but twice in a very short space of time. Since news of his disappearance broke early on Sunday and then the dramatic admission by his parents within 24 hours that they had actually left him in the woods as a punishment, the Japanese public has collectively worried about Yamato Tanooka, trying to make sense of the situation. Abuse? Monster parents? Hansel and Gretel? Or was it just bad parenting, parents pushed over the edge by an active seven-year-old? Active enough, and resourceful enough as it turns out, to trek his way across about 5km (3 miles) and find shelter in a barrack under a roof with mattresses. That the boy's father made him get out of the car "to discipline him", but couldn't say so at first because he was afraid of what "people would think" has touched many a nerve. The word he used was "sekentei" - literally, how one is seen by society. The sense of societal shame he conveyed, on top of his concern for his boy, was perhaps a touch too "Japanese" for many here. Hardly anybody voiced support for the father, there was simply no debate about that. The parents should not have let the boy out of their sight, was the consensus. Naoki Ogi, a TV personality and pedagogy expert, better known as "Ogi-mama", condemned the parents outright, saying this was neglect and abuse. He also noted and criticised how many parents in Japan tend to see their children as their personal possessions. But then opinions started to vary and there were some more nuanced and sympathetic views. "Raising kids is hard" seemed to be the collective sigh heard around social media, TV talk shows, and proverbial water coolers. One famous morning talk show host, Tomoaki Ogura, sympathised with the parents on Monday, on his Fuji TV show "Tokudane!". Mr Ogura said: "To say 'If you're so bad, we can't take you along, just stay here' is a valid way of scolding a child." Many recalled how they too were shut out of their homes as children, left throwing a tantrum on the toy shop floor, or shut in a dark closet. A well-known literary critic, Yumi Toyozaki, tweeted on Tuesday: "I was a restless, rambunctious, cantankerous child, so I feel very much for the father who left his child in the woods for a bit in order to discipline him. I hope people stop condemning him." The incident has had many sharing childhood memories of how parents pretended to leave them or their siblings for refusing to listen. Parents also wrote they knew all too well that when small children decide to run off, they can disappear in a flash - there are times when they are simply at the end of their tether. Tomoko Miyakoda , a mother of a four-year old boy, said you have to be extra careful to avoid the worst. But she also stresses it's simply not normal to leave a child anywhere and found it impossible to understand why the parents left their boy in the woods like that.　 But the verdict seemed clear, you don't let a child out of your sight, least of all in a bear-inhabited neck of the woods. So the Japanese public has spent this past week discussing good and bad parenting, what is acceptable punishment and what is abuse. It has come a long way from the days when it was totally fine for a parent to smack a child and many argue this wasn't a clear-cut case of abuse, which is regrettably still too common.

It was a bizarre story from the outset.

Jamal Kiyemba, a Ugandan, was arrested with the the help of US officials in the capital on Tuesday, police added. Prosecutor Joan Kagezi was shot dead on 30 March, a day before the trial of men accused of involvement in bombings. Mr Kiyemba, a former UK resident, was freed from Guantanamo Bay in 2006 without being charged with any offence. For the latest news, views and analysis see the BBC Africa Live page. He was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 for alleged links with al-Qaeda, and later transferred to the controversial US-run detention centre in Cuba. "There was an operation which we carried out with our counter-terrorism team because we suspect that Jamal Kiyemba and his colleagues have been involved in some form of criminality," Ugandan police spokesman Fred Enanga told Associated Press news agency. There was no conclusive evidence to link him to Ms Kagazi's killing, but he was being questioned about his possible role in her murder and in other crimes, he added. Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead Ms Kagezi in a suburb of Kampala. She was prosecuting 13 men accused of being linked to suicide bombings which killed 76 people in Kampala in 2010. The US deported Mr Kiyemba to Uganda after the UK refused to take him back. He had lived in the UK for eight years before travelling to Pakistan. US President Barack Obama has promised to shut the Guatanamo Bay detention centre because of concerns of widespread human rights abuses.

An ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee has been arrested in Uganda for questioning over his possible role in the killing of a top prosecutor, police say.

Marcel Kittel o'r Almaen oedd y cyntaf i gyrraedd y llinell derfyn yn Liege, gyda Thomas yn seithfed. Mewn glaw trwm ac amgylchiadau anodd, cafodd Thomas a phencampwr y llynedd, Chris Froome, hefyd o Team Sky, ddamwain ar hyd y daith, ond llwyddodd Thomas i gyrraedd y terfyn yn ddianaf. Ond Geraint Thomas sy'n parhau ar frig y tabl ar sail amser. Dywedodd Geraint Thomas fod y profiad o ddod yn fuddugol yn y ras yn erbyn y cloc ddydd Sadwrn yn anghredadwy, a diolchodd i'w gefnogwyr am eu dymuniadau da. Bydd y trydydd cymal yn dechrau yn Verviers yng Ngwlad Belg ddydd Llun, ac yn croesi'r ffin i Ffrainc cyn gorffen yn Longwy. Tabl y Tour de France wedi dau gymal 1. Geraint Thomas (Prydain/Team Sky) - 4:53:10" 2. Stefan Kueng (Swisdir/BMC Racing) - +5 eiliad 3. Marcel Kittel (Yr Almaen/Quick-Step) - +6 eiliad 4. Vasil Kiryienka (Belarws/Team Sky) - +7 eiliad 5. Matteo Trentin (Yr Eidal/Quick-Step) - +10 eiliad 6. Chris Froome (Prydain/Team Sky) - +12 eiliad Gallwch wylio uchafbwyntiau'r Tour de France ar S4C yn ddyddiol.

Bydd Geraint Thomas yn gwisgo crys melyn y Tour de France unwaith eto ddydd Llun er nad enillodd ail gymal y ras.

But Mikel, 25, has been charged by the FA with misconduct following his involvement in the incident. The Blues had claimed Clattenburg directed racial language at Mikel in their home defeat by Manchester United. "The FA's verdict of no case to answer against referee Mark Clattenburg was hardly a surprise. "Ever since it emerged the alleged victim John Obi Mikel hadn't even heard the comment but was relying on second-hand evidence from Brazilian team-mate Ramires, Chelsea's case looked as wafer thin as their managerial contracts. "Rightly, given how high the stakes were, the FA has taken its time to be sure. "And while their reluctance to criticise Chelsea for bringing the case is designed to avoid other players from clamming up if they believe they have been racially abused, this is yet another damaging blow for a club which seems a magnet for trouble." Clattenburg said it was "truly frightening" to have faced the prospect that his career might be over. Following the match at Stamford Bridge on 28 October, the FA interviewed Clattenburg, Mikel and several other Blues players before reaching its decision to clear the official and charge the Nigerian. "It is alleged that in or around the match officials' changing room at the end of the fixture, Mikel used threatening and/or abusive and/or insulting words and/or behaviour," an FA statement read. Mikel has until Friday, 30 November to respond. Chelsea have indicated he will not deny the charge but will request a hearing to "explain the mitigating circumstances". The evidence for Chelsea's allegation towards Clattenburg came from their midfielder Ramires who, when interviewed, explained that his instinctive reaction was to seek confirmation from Mikel as to what the referee said. Mikel, who was being spoken to by Clattenburg, was much closer than Ramires and did not hear what it is suggested was said to him. The two assistant referees and the fourth official revealed they did not hear any of the comments Clattenburg was accused of making, despite being linked up to the referee via microphones. An FA statement also said the complaint by Mikel's team-mate Ramires was "made in good faith". Clattenburg, 37, has always maintained his innocence and the Metropolitan Police dropped its own inquiry earlier this month. He missed four weekends of Premier League matches while the FA investigated Chelsea's complaint. "I am looking forward to putting this behind me and concentrating on refereeing in the Premier League and other competitions," said Clattenburg. "The messages of encouragement from those inside and outside of the game have helped me through the most stressful time of my professional life. "To know you were innocent but there was the opportunity for it to wreck your career was truly frightening. "Racism has no place in football and this experience should not discourage those to speak out if they genuinely believe they are a victim of abuse. "However, there are processes that should be adhered to in order that any investigation can be carried out in a manner that is fair for all parties involved. "I know first hand the ramifications of allegations of this nature being placed into the public domain ahead of a formal process and investigation. I hope no referee has to go through this in the future." What has happened over the last few weeks should not overshadow the fact the on-pitch relationship between match officials, players and managers is the best we've ever known it Responding to the announcement, a Chelsea statement said: "Chelsea Football Club accepts the Football Association's decision regarding Mark Clattenburg and welcomes the fact that the FA recognises the club and players were correct in reporting the matter. "The club accepts the case is now concluded and notes the FA states the allegation was made in good faith. "Chelsea FC has a duty of care, as do all employers, to act responsibly when such allegations are reported by employees. "We did not take the decision to lodge a formal complaint with the FA lightly and followed the correct processes and protocols throughout." Referees' union Prospect, on behalf of Clattenburg, are asking Chelsea for a full apology and compensation. Police dropped an investigation into the alleged comments towards Chelsea's Mikel and Juan Mata in the Premier League match at Stamford Bridge last month. Chelsea initially suggested Spanish midfielder Mata had also been verbally abused by Clattenburg, before deciding there was insufficient evidence to support these claims.

The Football Association has cleared referee Mark Clattenburg of using "inappropriate language" towards Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi.

Dubbed "carbon farming", researchers say the idea is economically competitive with high-tech carbon capture and storage projects. But critics say the idea could be have unforeseen, negative impacts including driving up food prices. The research has been published in the journal Earth System Dynamics. Jatropha curcas is a plant that originated in Central America and is very well adapted to harsh conditions including extremely arid deserts. It is already grown as a biofuel in some parts of the world because its seeds can produce oil. In this study, German scientists showed that one hectare of jatropha could capture up to 25 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year. The researchers based their estimates on trees currently growing in trial plots in Egypt and in the Negev desert. "The results are overwhelming," said Prof Klaus Becker, from the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart. "There was good growth, a good response from these plants. I feel there will be no problem trying it on a much larger scale, for example ten thousand hectares in the beginning," he said. According to the researchers a plantation that would cover three percent of the Arabian desert would absorb all the CO2 produced by cars and trucks in Germany over a 20 year period. The scientists say that a critical element of the plan would be the availability of desalination facilities. This means that initially, any plantations would be confined to coastal areas. They are hoping to develop larger trials in desert areas of Oman or Qatar. Prof Becker says that unlike other schemes that just offset the carbon that people produce, the planting of jatropha could be a good, short term solution to climate change. "I think it is a good idea because we are really extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere - and it is completely different between extracting and preventing." According to the scientist's calculations the costs of curbing carbon dioxide via the planting of trees would be between 42 and 63 euros per tonne. This makes it competitive with other techniques, such as the more high tech carbon capture and storage (CCS). A number of countries are currently trialling this technology but it has yet to be deployed commercially. Growing jatropha not only soaks up CO2 but has other benefits. The plants would help to make desert areas more habitable, and the plant's seeds can be harvested for biofuel say the researchers, providing an economic return. "Jatropha is ideal to be turned into biokerosene - it is even better than biodiesel," said Prof Becker. But other experts in this area are not convinced. They point to the fact that in 2007 and 2008 large numbers of jatropha trees were planted for biofuel, especially in Africa. But many of these ventures ended in tears, as the plants were not very successful in coping with dry conditions. Lucy Hurn is the biofuels campaign manager for the charity, Actionaid. She says that while jatropha was once seen as the great, green hope the reality was very different. "When jatropha was introduced it was seen as a miracle crop, it would grow on scrubland or marginal land," she said. "But there are often people who need marginal land to graze their animals, they are getting food from that area - we wouldn't class the land as marginal." She pointed out that jatropha is highly toxic and can pollute the land it is grown on, even in a desert. And she also had concerns about the fairness of the idea. "It is still somebody else's land. Why go in and grow these massive plantations to deal with a problem these people didn't actually cause?" Follow Matt on Twitter.

Scientists say that planting large numbers of jatropha trees in desert areas could be an effective way of curbing emissions of CO2.

These dinoasurs, including the diplodocus, were the biggest to walk the Earth. T. rex would have nipped at the knees of the largest sauropod - Argentinosaurus huinculensis. University of Manchester researchers have now made a digital Argentinosaurus robot to work out how this 80-tonne monster would have moved its vast bulk. The study is published in an issue of PLoS One on "sauropod gigantism". The immense size of sauropods - the long-necked, tree-trunk-legged storybook giants of the Jurassic period - presents a quandary for biologists because they push animal bones and muscles to their limit. This is why researchers have set out to answer some of the big questions about these very big animals, including: How did their muscles and bones support and move their bodies? How did their digestive system process sufficient food? And how high could they have reached with their immensely long necks (much longer, proportionally, than a giraffe's)? "The biggest elephants weigh around six or seven tonnes," said Dr Bill Sellers, of the University of Manchester, who led the digital robot study. "So Argentinosaurus was at least 10 times bigger than the biggest elephant. "As you get bigger your weight goes up by the cube of your height, but the force your muscles can generate only goes up by the square, so your strength-to-weight ratio gets much worse." As with many dinosaurs, the reconstructions of this giant are based on a relatively limited fossilised jigsaw. For Argentinosaurus, only its legs and part of its spine have been unearthed. So controversy has raged over whether it was possible for an animal to be so huge and heavy and still able to walk on land. "Whenever anyone finds a dinosaur, they want it to be the biggest, meanest dinosaur ever, so there might be a temptation to make a reconstruction a bit bigger than it was," Dr Sellers told BBC News. "We wanted to test whether it was a reasonable reconstruction for an animal." To make the digital dinosaur, Dr Sellers and his colleagues scanned a reconstructed skeleton housed at the Carmen Funes municipal museum in Argentina. They were able to map muscles and tendons on to the skeleton using the anatomy of modern animals, including reptiles and birds, as a guide. Then came the difficult part - their digital dinosaur had to learn to walk. This, Dr Sellers said, required a technique called "machine learning". BBC Nature - Dinosaurs "The animal needs to learn how to move the best way it can using the muscles and skeleton we've given it," he said. This took a huge amount of computer processing power, as the simulated dinosaur robot took the information programmed into its virtual muscles and worked out how to use them to walk. The resulting steady march of this digital dinosaur revealed that, to keep its body steady, the movement at its joints had to be very restricted. "This animal is so big that it's right at the limit of what you could cope with as an animal that lives on land," said Dr Sellers. "So things like getting up off the ground would have been extraordinarily difficult if not impossible." Something else these beasts would not have been capable of, according to Prof Kent Stevens, of the University of Oregon, would be adopting the storybook pose of holding their heads aloft. He says that while "soaring necks is congruous with childhood expectations, the bones tell a different story". For his study, Prof Stevens also created virtual dinosaurs - digitally reconstructing the skeleton of Apatosaurus (better known in the past as brontosaurus). Dr Stevens said: " [If we] put sauropod neck vertebrae back together with the proper separations, and they form a very straight line." He says the bones simply do not have the curves seen in giraffes' or some birds' necks. A natural J-curve in a giraffe's vertebrae direct its neck upwards at a steep angle. A vertebral S-curve gives a swan its shapely neck. But while Prof Stevens' less soaring reconstructions of these dinosaurs might puncture childhood myths, his digital dinosaurs were still capable of impressive feats, thanks to their huge size. As his animations reveal, by sweeping its outstretched neck, Apatosaurus would have explored, and devoured food, over a huge space. "While none were very flexible, sauropods could sweep out broad areas - in some cases 10 or so metres above the ground," Prof Stevens said. All this sweeping and devouring provided a digestive challenge for these huge herbivores. And Dr Marcus Clauss, of the Clinic for Zoo Animals at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, set out to find out how their digestive systems coped. Just as Dr Sellers found that normal bones and muscles could carry 80 tonnes of bulk, it seems there was also nothing unusual about the sauropod gut. "A normal gut can work for any size of body," said Dr Clauss. "A mouse can get enough energy for its size, and an elephant can. The main thing is that [the elephant] eats much more." One key factor that seems to have allowed sauropods to become so gigantic is that they would swallow their food without chewing. As this unchewed food would spend so much time passing through extremely long intestines, it would have ample time to break down. "If you spend so much time chewing, you're limited in the amount of food you can take in," Dr Clauss said. "So one of the conditions for an animal to become that large is that it must not chew." The secret to just how massive these creatures were could be contained in their ancient fossilised trackways. Dr Tom Schanz, of Ruhr University in Germany, has lent his engineering skills to the study of dinosaurs by developing a technique to estimate sauropod weight from a single footprint. He is an engineer who studies the properties of soil to work out exactly how buildings will settle and move on their foundations. Dr Schanz's new method incorporates this expertise. His laser scanning of preserved footprints could produce the most accurate measurements yet of what the dinosaurs weighed. To prove this, Dr Schanz's team took an elephant for a walk. The researchers studied every "dynamic component" of the walk - measuring the speed at which the elephant planted its feet, and how its weight was distributed in each step. "[Then we used the] laser scanning technique on the elephant footprints and back-calculated the weight," Dr Schanz said. The team was able to calculate the elephant's weight to within 10%. And since sauropods and elephants have such similar anatomy, the scientist says the same technique could be used to estimate the weight of the extinct dinosaurs. Building up an accurate picture of how these animals worked is revealing some of the most basic aspects of biology, including how bones and muscles work, and what the very limits are of their ability to function. "That's very important," Dr Sellers says, "because these things go wrong very commonly, and the better we understand them, the better our chances are of fixing them."

In an era of giants, sauropods dwarfed everything.

The 30-year-old was previously with Wigry Suwalki, who are 14th in Poland's second tier. County manager Jim McIntyre said: "He has 35 international caps for Lithuania under his belt, bringing a wealth of experience to the squad." Sernas started his career with Dainava Alytus in his homeland and has also played in Russia, Turkey and Australia. After leaving Dainava, he had spells with Vttra, Spartak Nalchik, Widzew Lodz, Zaglebie Lubin and Gaziantepspor, who sent him on loan to A-League outfit Perth Glory last year. County have already signed former Celtic defender Marcus Fraser,striker Craig Curran, previously of Nuneaton Town, and defender Cameron Burgess on loan from Fulham during January. The Dingwall side are bottom of the Scottish Premiership, four points behind 11th-placed St Mirren but with two games in hand.

Lithuania midfielder Darvydas Sernas has become Ross County's fourth signing of the January transfer window.

Media playback is unsupported on your device 26 October 2014 Last updated at 00:31 BST She released her first solo album Malagasy Blues Song in 2013, but she has a long career behind her. She comes from a musical family of 15 children, and in this performance for the BBC's Africa Beats series, she is supported by her brothers, Pata and Dozzy Njava, and her cousin Christian Ravalison, all of whom are respected musicians in Belgium, where they now live. Lala Njava is passionately concerned by the issues her native land faces, especially deforestation, and is donating a portion of the revenues from her CD sales to a tree planting project. More from Africa Beats

Lala Njava's music is grounded in Madagascan tradition but is enriched with jazz, trance and afrobeat.

Chris Maguire struck a brilliant free-kick from 23 yards in stoppage time to give the U's victory. The Bantams, who had been undefeated in their first 15 games of the campaign, stay second in League One but they will be cursing Billy Clarke's penalty miss in the 21st minute. Charlie Raglan tripped Timothee Dieng to concede the spot-kick, but Clarke smashed the penalty against the crossbar. Before that, Maguire twice went close for the U's, with City keeper Colin Doyle pushing aside his 15-yard volley, and later saving the striker's header. Bradford then began to control possession and Jordy Hiwula should have done better than sky a volley from 10 yards out. Simon Eastwood saved at the feet of Clarke as the visitors continued to create opportunities. Hiwula missed badly from four yards out in the second half before Oxford began to look dangerous. Ryan Taylor had an effort saved and Chey Dunkley saw his header from a corner blocked on the goal line. Just as the game entered second-half stoppage time, the referee penalised Romain Vincelot for pulling John Lundstram's shirt, and Maguire curled in the free-kick for his seventh goal of the season. Reports supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Oxford United 1, Bradford City 0. Second Half ends, Oxford United 1, Bradford City 0. Goal! Oxford United 1, Bradford City 0. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Stephen Darby (Bradford City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. John Lundstram (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Stephen Darby (Bradford City). Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Nicky Law. Foul by Joe Rothwell (Oxford United). Josh Cullen (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high. Foul by Marvin Johnson (Oxford United). Nicky Law (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Timothee Dieng. Attempt blocked. Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United) header from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Stephen Darby. Attempt saved. Ryan Taylor (Oxford United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Hand ball by Timothee Dieng (Bradford City). Foul by Filipe Morais (Bradford City). John Lundstram (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt missed. Kane Hemmings (Oxford United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Billy Clarke (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Joe Rothwell (Oxford United). Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Timothee Dieng. Substitution, Oxford United. Kane Hemmings replaces Alexander MacDonald. Substitution, Bradford City. Marc McNulty replaces Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila. Substitution, Bradford City. Filipe Morais replaces Mark Marshall. Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Cheyenne Dunkley. Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Charlie Raglan. Attempt blocked. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Attempt missed. Josh Ruffels (Oxford United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Ryan Taylor (Oxford United) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play. Romain Vincelot (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Ryan Taylor (Oxford United). Attempt saved. Ryan Taylor (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Attempt missed. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left misses to the right. Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Romain Vincelot. Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Timothee Dieng. Attempt saved. Alexander MacDonald (Oxford United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Substitution, Bradford City. Matthew Kilgallon replaces James Meredith because of an injury. Attempt missed. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.

Bradford lost their record as the country's only unbeaten side in all competitions after going down to a very late goal at Oxford.

The adult comedy, starring Mila Kunis and Kristen Bell, took £1.47m in its first week, falling just behind the animated Pixar film. Finding Dory took another £1.51m, bringing its total UK takings so far to £35.8m. Suicide Squad dropped one place to third, with takings of £1.27m, followed by new entry War Dogs. The comedy drama, starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller, is based on the true story of two men in their 20s who won a contract to arm America's allies in Afghanistan. The top 10 also saw a new entry for horror film The Purge: Election Year, which took £807,803 in its first week. Mechanic: Resurrection, a thriller starring Jason Statham, debuted at number 10, with a total of £508,715. Jason Bourne is in the charts for a sixth week, taking £732,632 and the number six spot this week, with The BFG following in seventh place with £658,840. Lights Out - another horror film - took £558,167 in its second week of release and is in eighth place, with David Brent: Life on the Road at number nine with £508,762. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected].

Finding Dory has clung on to the top spot in the UK box office - despite the threat from nearest rival Bad Moms.

Bernard Kenny, 78, was stabbed as he intervened when Thomas Mair attacked Mrs Cox in his home village of Birstall, West Yorkshire, a year ago. PCs Craig Nicholls and Jonathan Wright - who arrested Mair - have also received Queen's Gallantry Medals. Unarmed, they pursued him despite knowing he may have a gun and a knife. The late politician's senior caseworker, Sandra Major, who witnessed the killing, receives an MBE for parliamentary services and service to the community in Batley and Spen. Mrs Cox, the Labour MP for the Yorkshire constituency of Batley and Spen, was stabbed and shot outside Birstall Library on 16 June 2016. After the attack more than 80,000 people signed an online petition calling for Mr Kenny to be awarded the George Cross for his bravery. At Mair's trial at the Old Bailey, the jury heard Mr Kenny was waiting for his wife outside the library in Birstall when he saw Mair going "berserk". He said in statement to police: "I thought if I could jump on to the back I could take him down. "I thought he was thumping her until I saw the blood. I saw he had a knife in his hands. "Just as I got short of him, he turned around and saw me. He shoved the knife in and it hit me in the stomach. The blood started pouring out between my fingers. I saw the blood and I thought 'Oh my God'." Mr Kenny said: "I am honoured to receive such an award." After the attack, Mair left the scene armed with a knife and a gun and was followed by PC Nicholls and PC Wright. Realising the public could be in danger, the officers chased the suspect and arrested him. 'Heroic actions' PC Nicholls said he was "honoured, surprised and humbled" to receive the gallantry award. "Our thoughts remain with Jo's family and friends. We have met members of her family who are incredible and extremely positive. "On the day this happened, we were not due on patrol but our training was cancelled. "When we heard what was happening we went straight to the area - we knew who we were looking for and what we were going towards but we knew that if he wasn't stopped he could hurt someone else," he said. PC Wright said: "I didn't expect this - it's taken me completely by surprise. I am really humbled and honoured to receive it." West Yorkshire Police Chief Constable Dee Collins said: "I am delighted that the brave and heroic actions of Bernard Kenny, PCs Craig Nicholls and Jonathan Wright have been recognised in this way. "They all showed tremendous courage putting other people's safety ahead of their own."

The man who tried to stop a right-wing extremist from murdering MP Jo Cox has been awarded the George Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

The body of Waldek Mural, 57, was discovered by a member of the public in Burley Park Burley on 5 September. A post-mortem examination showed he had died as a result of multiple injuries. Grzegorz Kowalczyk, 41, from Headingley, appeared at Leeds Magistrates' Court where he was remanded in custody to appear at the city's crown court on Tuesday.

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a Polish national found dead in a park in Leeds.

The female was found in the Llandovery area last month, struggling with a fever and dehydration. She was rehabilitated by RSPCA staff at a specialist wildlife facility in Taunton, Somerset. Her weight also increased from 2.8kg to 4.8kg by the time she was released near to where she was found.

An otter has been returned to the wild in Carmarthenshire after being found curled up in a puddle of water from a pressure hose.