Bu farw Sophie Taylor, 22, ar ôl i'w char daro bloc o fflatiau yn ardal Adamsdown ym mis Awst y llynedd. Cafwyd Melissa Pesticcio, 23 o Lanrhymni, yn euog o achosi ei marwolaeth trwy yrru'n beryglus, ac fe gafodd ei charcharu am chwe mlynedd a hanner ddydd Gwener. Cafodd Michael Wheeler, 22 o Dremorfa, oedd wedi cyfaddef i'r un cyhuddiad, ei ddedfrydu yn Llys y Goron Caerdydd i saith mlynedd a hanner mlynedd dan glo. Roedd Pesticcio hefyd wedi ei chael yn euog o achosi anafiadau difrifol i Joshua Deguara trwy yrru'n beryglus - teithiwr yng nghar Ms Taylor. Fe wnaeth Wheeler, oedd wedi bod mewn perthynas â'r ddwy ddynes, hefyd gyfaddef achosi anafiadau difrifol trwy yrru'n beryglus a chyhuddiad o fygwth. Clywodd yr achos bod Pesticcio wedi dilyn Sophie Taylor yn ei char ar hyd strydoedd y brifddinas ar ôl ei gweld tu allan i gartref ei chariad, Wheeler. Roedd y ddwy wedi ffraeo'n gyson ar ôl i Wheeler adael Pesticcio am Ms Taylor, ond aeth Wheeler yn ôl at Pesticcio yn ddiweddarach. Yn dilyn anghydfod dros arian, dilynodd Pesticcio a Wheeler y ddynes ifanc drwy strydoedd ardal Adamsdown. Roedd car Vauxhall Corsa Wheeler yna wedi "gorfodi" car BMW Ms Taylor i mewn i wal, gan achosi ei marwolaeth a gadael Mr Deguara gydag anafiadau oedd "wedi newid ei fywyd". Roedd y tri char wedi gyrru'n gyflym drwy strydoedd Caerdydd, gyda lluniau camerau cylch cyfyng yn dangos car Pesticcio ar y blaen, gyda Wheeler yn ei dilyn y tu ôl i gar Sophie Taylor. Roedd Wheeler wedi gyrru ar ochr anghywir y ffordd ddwywaith er mwyn gyrru'n nes at gar Ms Taylor. Gyrrodd i mewn i'w char, gan olygu ei bod wedi troi allan o reolaeth i mewn i wal y bloc o fflatiau. Bu farw Ms Taylor ac fe ddioddefodd Mr Deguara anafiadau difrifol gan dreulio "misoedd lawer" yn yr ysbyty.

Summary: Mae dynes a'i chariad, wnaeth achosi marwolaeth dynes arall mewn gwrthdrawiad wrth ei dilyn ar hyd strydoedd Caerdydd, wedi eu dedfrydu i gyfnodau sylweddol o garchar.


BHS entered administration in April. Since then, efforts have been continuing to rescue it from closure and save the jobs of its 11,000 staff. Last week, a surprise late bid led by retail veteran Greg Tufnell transformed the race to acquire the retailer. His team, said to be backed by Portuguese money, is the front-runner. But if a deal cannot be struck, the business may still have to be liquidated. The remaining bidders have faded into the background. Another consortium led by Matalan tycoon John Hargreaves and Turkish retail entrepreneur Cafer Mahiroglu has reportedly run into difficulties, while other suitors have apparently failed to impress with their proposals. Some of those involved in the different bids have impressive retailing histories. But then Sir Philip Green, who controlled BHS from 2000 to 2015, also had a brilliant track record. And he ended up selling the business for Â£1. So what are the chances of saving BHS from the liquidators? And just who are the people aiming to do it? In the public eye, Greg Tufnell is easily overshadowed by his more famous brother Phil, the former England cricketer. But that could change if his bid for BHS is successful, because he hopes to become the firm's next chairman. And as far as his credentials for the job are concerned, the 54-year-old executive certainly talks the talk. He describes himself as "a highly experienced managing director with Mothercare and Arcadia, a blend of entrepreneur, strategist and hands-on operator with significant commercial business turnaround, acquisition and fund-raising experience". His record shows that he was buying and merchandising director at Next from 1991 to 1994. He then spent three years as managing director of menswear retailer Burton, part of the Arcadia group, followed by another three years as managing director of Mothercare. He currently appears to occupy a portfolio of different jobs, including the chairmanships of leather accessories brand Zatchels and recruitment consultancy hga Group. Earlier this month, he registered a new firm, Richess Group, at Companies House. Its other directors are Nick de Scossa, a Swiss banker, and Lisbon-based entrepreneur Jose Maria Soares Bento. Until Mr Tufnell's bid turned up, many observers had assumed that BHS would be snapped up by Matalan founder Mr Hargreaves. But it appears that the cost of a deal may have proved too high. Sources say Mr Hargreaves was asked to improve his offer and balked. Like Sir Philip Green, 71-year-old John Hargreaves also enjoys the life of the super-rich. He has an estimated fortune of Â£1bn, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. But in stark contrast to the ebullient Sir Philip, Mr Hargreaves is described by industry insiders as quiet-spoken, someone who shuns the limelight. Mr Hargreaves is no longer directly involved in the business he founded. He sold his 69% stake in Matalan in 2000, then in 2006 took it private through Missouri Bidco, a company 53.5% owned by him and his family. As a partner in Mr Hargreaves' bid, there is also Cafer Mahiroglu, the owner of Select Fashions. At 50, he is the youngest of

Summary: The fate of ailing department store BHS is likely to be decided later on Thursday, with an announcement expected from administrators Duff & Phelps.


The plans would allow victims to ask for a case to be reviewed when police identified a suspect but did not pass a file to the Crown Prosecution Service. The policy would begin with rape and child sexual exploitation cases. Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said it was time to "put victims in the driving seat". The CPS already has a right to review scheme in place, where victims can request a review of their case if it is dropped by prosecutors before reaching the courtroom. Labour said it intended to extend this to decisions by the police. Ms Cooper said: "Rape and child sexual exploitation are vile crimes that ruin lives and destroy families. "Too often victims and survivors aren't listened to and aren't heard, especially children. "And although reports to the police have gone up, arrests and prosecutions have gone down. "But right now if the police decide not to pursue a crime, there is little more victims or their families can do. That's not good enough. "We'll change the law so that if the police decide to drop a case after a suspect has been identified, victims will have a new right to challenge their decision. "It's time to change the culture, stop these awful crimes being hidden away and put victims in the driving seat." Main pledges Labour said that of 16,300 complaints of rape made to the police in England and Wales in 2012-13, 5,400 were passed to the CPS. The party said a decision to drop a case when a suspect had been identified would follow the process used by the CPS, of local resolution followed by independent review. Under the plans, the decision to drop the case would be first be checked by a prosecutor who has not been involved with the case previously. Labour said it would ensure victims were provided with a clear and detailed explanation of the decision and the local resolution would normally be completed within 10 days of the receipt of a request for review. If the victim were not satisfied with the local resolution, the decision would be independently reviewed by another prosecutor. Former Thames Valley Chief Constable and head of the National Policing Improvement Agency, Peter Neyroud, said: "It is critical that victims have a right to review decisions all the way from the duty to record and allegation, through to decisions on whether to pursue a prosecution. "Not only does this put the spotlight of accountability on the police, but it also gives the victim an important additional opportunity to influence their case and understand the decisions. "Sometimes this will encourage a fresh angle to the case; sometimes there will be no new avenues. But there should always be a full and frank explanation of the steps taken to bring an offender to justice and the rationale for police decision."

Summary: Labour has said it would give victims of sexual offences the right to challenge decisions by police not to prosecute suspects.


New rules come in on 1 January, which will reduce compensation to £75,000 per person, per institution. Previously the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) protected savings of up to £85,000 per account. Joint accounts will see protection cut from £170,000 to £150,000. The maximum compensation across the European Union is set at €100,000, and the British level was reduced as a result of the pound gaining strength against the euro. The precise rate was set on 3 July 2015. At the time, one senior Tory MP described the change as "defective". Although 95% of savers will still be protected, as many as 2.5 million people may not be, according to the FSCS. It is advising savers who have more than £75,000 in one account, or in one institution, to move their money if necessary. The situation is further complicated by the fact that some registered banks and building societies operate under more than one brand. So it you had £75,000 savings with HSBC, for example, any additional savings in First Direct would not be protected, as both banks have a joint licence. Savers using Bank of Scotland and Halifax are in the same position. But Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest - although they are sister banks - are both registered separately. So savers could safely have up to £75,000 in accounts with both banks. "While this should be quite simple to navigate, it's made complicated by the fact that FSCS cover is shared between banks that operate under the same licence," said Hannah Maundrell, editor in chief of money.co.uk. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) publishes a full list of registered banks, and which brands come under the same umbrella. Under the new rules, savers who have up to £1m in their accounts temporarily - as a result of selling a house, or being made redundant, for example - are also protected. To receive compensation, they cannot have had that cash in their accounts for more than six months. A further warning comes in relation to some foreign banks which trade in the UK, but are registered within the eurozone, such as Germany's Fidor Bank, or Sweden's Handelsbanken. Handelsbanken confirmed that the level of compensation would depend on the exchange rate at the time. So depending on how much €100,000 is worth in pounds, savers may get more or less than £75,000 protection. At the time of writing, that amount is worth less than £74,000. "With an increasing number of European banks now offering competitive rates, customers need to be aware that not all savings accounts offered in the UK are covered by the UK compensation scheme," said Rachel Thrussell, savings insight manager at Moneyfacts.co.uk.

Summary: Millions of savers are being reminded that they may need to move some of their cash, to guarantee it will be fully protected in the event of their bank going bust.


It is currently negotiating with the landlord of an office block but has other options if those discussions are not successful. The paper has sold its current premises on Royal Avenue to the developer McAleer and Rushe. Its owner, INM, decided to move due to the closure of the printing operation within the Royal Avenue premises. When it made the announcement in August, INM (Independent News & Media) said it would find new premises for the paper in the "very heart of the city".

Summary: The BBC understands that the Belfast Telegraph is planning to move to Clarendon Dock.


Dene Magna School in Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, has about 750 pupils on its roll. Headteacher Stephen Brady said: "It's just got worse and worse - we had to send 26 pupils home today, sometimes common sense has to rule." A private cleaning firm will begin a deep clean on Friday to sterilise the school ahead of it reopening. The school normally has an attendance of 97%, with fewer than 20 students off in a day, but on Thursday this had fallen to 80%. "We've had a steady increase in the number of students and staff coming down with this. I think we've been hit with what is a perfect storm of bugs," Mr Brady said. "Some of the students have experienced nausea and sweating, others with vomiting and diarrhoea." He also said a supply teacher had come in for one day but was forced to go home, after falling ill within a matter of hours. It is expected that the pupils will recover from the bug within 72 hours. "My only message is with the students don't let them go out and about at the weekend," added Mr Brady. "If you can keep them in so they don't spread this amongst their friends. "A good wash would go down very well so they can be back on Monday, nice and healthy."

Summary: A school has been forced to close until Monday after more than 145 pupils and staff came down with a sickness bug.


Midfielder Doughty stabbed home in the 94th minute after Millwall failed to clear a free-kick. Lee Gregory burst through the defence to score his 22nd goal of the season and poor defending allowed Steve Morison to make it 2-0 to Millwall. But Nicky Ajose's penalty, after Raphael Rossi Branco was fouled, set up Doughty's dramatic finish. Millwall remain fifth and have gone five games without defeat, while Swindon - whose unbeaten run now stands at six league games - drop to 14th. Williams signed a five-year contract in midweek after a successful spell as caretaker boss. Millwall manager Neil Harris told BBC Radio London: Media playback is not supported on this device "Huge frustration, I'm certainly disappointed with the outcome. I thought we were so good for so long with and without the ball. "I thought we were outstanding in the first half and I think in the second half even though Swindon had all the football. On the counterattack we were really good, we just lacked that little bit of quality and ruthlessness in the final third. "If you don't see the game off - and it's a very dubious penalty against you, about the softest penalty I've seen for a long time - you're backs-to-the-wall a little bit."

Summary: Michael Doughty earned a draw against Millwall in Swindon's first game since Luke Williams was named manager.


Jersey-based collector David Gainsborough-Roberts, 73, spent his life collecting a variety of memorabilia from famous people. Last year he sold his entire Marilyn Monroe collection, making Â£1.5m which he said would go to charity. Mr Gainsborough-Roberts was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, and died in Jersey on Saturday. His collection focused on popular history of the 19th and 20th Century, and included keys and coats from the Titanic; Winston Churchill's Stetson hat; and guns owned by Billy the Kid. He even had a pair of Queen Victoria's knickers. He would tell friends and family that making money from his collection was never the point. He told his friend Murray Norton that "the point is they have a story attached to them". Mr Norton said his fame stretched far and wide but he would always make time for people. "If you went to America people would know David Gainsborough-Roberts because he was a regular on the Joan Rivers Show. "He was known throughout the world. He would give talks in far flung places from Germany to California," Mr Norton said. Friends have described him as a kind and generous man with a lot of character and enthusiasm.

Summary: One of the biggest collectors of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia has died following a short illness.


They made the connection on an expedition to the boy's village, Meliandou. They took samples and chatted to locals to find out more about Ebola's source. The team's findings are published in EMBO Molecular Medicine. Meliandou is a small village of 31 houses. It sits deep within the Guinean forest region, surrounded by towering reeds and oil palm cultivations - these are believed to have attracted the fruit bats carrying the virus passed on to Emile. During their four-week field trip in April 2014, Dr Fabian Leendertz and colleagues found a large tree stump situated about 50m from Emile's home. Villagers reported that children used to play frequently in the hollow tree. Emile - who died of Ebola in December 2013 - used to play there, according to his friends. The villagers said that the tree burned on March 24, 2014 and that once the tree caught fire, there issued a "rain of bats". A large number of these insectivorous free-tailed bats - Mops condylurus in Latin - were collected by the villagers for food, but disposed of the next day after a government-led ban on bushmeat consumption was announced. While bushmeat is thought to be a possible source of Ebola, the scientists believe it didn't trigger the outbreak. Instead, it was Emile's exposure to the bats and their droppings as he played with his friends in the hollowed tree. The scientists took and tested ash samples from the tree and found DNA traces that were a match for the animals. While they were unable to test any of the bushmeat that the villagers had disposed of, they captured and tested any living bats they could find in and around Meliandou. No Ebola could be detected in any of these hundred or so animals, however. But previous tests show this species of bat can carry Ebola. Dr Leendertz, from the Robert Koch Institute in Germany, and his colleagues say this must be a pretty rare occurrence though. Dr Leendertz said: "That is also obvious when you think about how many tonnes of bat meat is consumed every year. "If more bats carried the virus, we would see outbreaks all the time." He says it is vital to find out more about the bats. "They have moved into human settlements. They do not just live in the trees but also under the roofs of houses in the villages. "The Ebola virus must jump through colonies from bat to bat, so we need to know more." But culling the animals is not the answer. "We need to find ways to live together with the wildlife. These bats catch insects and pests, such as mosquitoes. They can eat about a quarter of their body weight in insects a day. "Killing them would not be a solution. You would have more malaria."

Summary: The Ebola victim who is believed to have triggered the current outbreak - a two-year-old boy called Emile Ouamouno from Guinea - may have been infected by playing in a hollow tree housing a colony of bats, say scientists.


The graves became lost in time until members of Broughton and District History Group began their research. The tragedy in March 1916 happened at Pte John Bagnall's home at Moss Valley. Researchers Phil Coops and Robert Webb hope to mark the centenary next year. There were other people in the small cottage at the time of the explosion: Pte Bagnall's wife, Mary; daughter Sarah, age two; a niece, Violet, age seven; and sister-in-law Sarah Roberts along with her two children, Mary and Ethel, aged five and 15 months. Ethel, the youngest child, was killed instantly. The other three girls died later in hospital. Others sustained terrible injuries, including Pte Bagnall himself, who lost a leg, while Ms Roberts lost both legs. The Wrexham Advertiser from March 11, 1916, reported: "A shocking accident occurred at Moss on Thursday resulting in a child being killed outright and in six other persons being terribly injured, three of whom subsequently died. "It appears that Pte Bagnall, 4th RWF, 2 Red Lion Cottages, Moss, who returned home from the front on Monday after 18 months' service, was cleaning an unexploded German fuse shell, which he had brought with him as a souvenir." Source: Wrexham Museum produced a WW1 commemorative newspaper in 2015 with newspaper reports from 1914-18 The story came to the attention of the historians as they studied World War One. Mr Coops said Pte Bagnall had thought the shell was safe as it had been "chucked around in the barracks and trenches" for six months without any ill-effects before he returned to north Wales from the Western Front. From their research they discovered although the tragedy was big news at the time, it seemed to have been largely forgotten, even by family members, who did not know where the little girls were buried. Then, by chance, while on a visit to Holy Trinity Church in Gwersyllt, a couple of miles from Moss Valley, they found some notebooks detailing burials right through to the early 20th Century. There, they found reference to the Moss Valley children within those pages. Mr Coops said: "We put them all on to a database and by using that and what we know of the church yard and the layout, we managed to pin down where the graves are." But the mystery remains over why the graves were unmarked. Further research revealed there had been a community fundraising event to pay for the funeral of the children which saw one of the largest ever funeral processions in the area. And although enough money had been found for the graves, there was clearly nothing left for a headstone. "When I started writing it down... it made me feel very sad," said Mr Webb. "And then to know they were buried here, locally, I still felt very, very sad, and still do." The men are trying to trace family members to secure permission to erect a memorial at the graves. They said they have already met some, and no objections have been raised, but the descendents had very little information about the family

Summary: Historians are hoping to place a plaque on the unmarked graves of four children who died when a German bomb exploded in Wrexham after being carried home as a solider's souvenir during World War One.


Anthony Kevin Morais went missing on 4 September after leaving his house. Police said they had arrested seven suspects in the case, one of whom led them to the body early on Wednesday. One of the suspects was involved in a corruption case prosecuted by Mr Morais recently, local media quoted police as saying. The 52-year-old armed forces medical officer is believed to have contracted the other suspects, The Star quoted police as saying. Police were led to a river at 06:00 local time on Wednesday, Comm Datuk Seri Mohmad Salleh, director of the criminal investigation department, told reporters. Divers confirmed the oil drum was in the river and a forklift was used to hoist it out of the water, he said. The body was found after the oil drum was broken open. CCTV footage showed Mr Morais's car being trailed by another vehicle which rammed into him. He was abducted after the collision, police said. The body has been sent to a Kuala Lumpur hospital for post mortem examination.

Summary: The body of a missing Malaysian deputy public prosecutor has been found in an oil drum filled with concrete near Kuala Lumpur.


The 33-year-old has featured only twice for the Foxes this term, having signed a new one-year deal with the Premier League newcomers in the summer. Former Blackpool forward Taylor-Fletcher scored three goals in 23 games for his parent club last season. He joined the 13th-placed Owls prior to Saturday's Championship game against Norwich City.

Summary: Leicester City striker Gary Taylor-Fletcher has joined Sheffield Wednesday on an initial month-long loan.


The mile-long Northern Inner Distributor Road (NIDR) now links the east of the town with the west. It was estimated in January that technical issues involving a bridge increased the cost of the £21m project by a further £10m. The council is in a legal dispute with the contractor Carillion about the extra costs and who should pay. Somerset County Council said the delays had been "enormously frustrating". Cabinet member for highways, John Woodman, said the new road will "unlock" the old cattle market Firepool site for development and ease traffic in the town. He added: "The dispute is ongoing and we will work hard to make the best result for all the people of Somerset and the people of Taunton." Mike Rigby, independent councillor for Bishops Lydeard, said the council had "a lot of questions" to answer about how the project was managed. "How has it been that the council signed a contract that enabled a contractor to take more than twice the amount of time to build what should be a fairly straight-forward job? "It worries me, it's [an] example of how the county council has not well-managed a large contract." Carillion had nothing to add to the council statement.

Summary: A multi-million pound road scheme to ease congestion in Taunton has opened more than two years behind schedule.


The soldiers from the 2 Scots battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland are being sent to Kabul to help train the Afghan army. The last British combat troops left Helmand province in October last year. The Scots soldiers are due to leave from their barracks in Penicuik sometime next month, with their deployment expected to last for seven months. The soldiers have completed months of intensive training. About 250 soldiers will be based in the Afghan army college near Kabul. Their role will be to assist in the training of Afghan army soldiers and officers as part of Operation Toral, the ongoing British mission to support Afghan security forces. Lt Col Graham Wearmouth, of 2 Scots Battalion, said the troops will be there in a very different capacity to their previous combat role in Helmand. "I think it is all comparative," he said. "You've got to look at what went before and yes, it is not without risk of course, and as a British soldier deploying on an operation overseas you would expect that. "But it feels very, very different and we are not the ones who are primarily in the lead. "It is the Afghans in the lead. We are there in a supporting role, helping them to develop their institutions so that they can then deliver more enduring stability to their own country." More than 450 British servicemen and women lost their lives in the 13 year conflict in Afghanistan.

Summary: Hundreds of Scottish troops are to be deployed to Afghanistan.


A* and A grades were awarded to 26.3% of entries - up by 0.5 percentage points compared with last year - with boys overtaking girls in top grades. There was a fall in the top grades for 13 subjects in England with new content and now assessed only by final exams. The number of university places allocated so far has dropped this year. In A* and A grades, boys have moved ahead of girls, with 26.6% of boys getting these results compared with 26.1% of girls, reversing a 0.3% gap last year. The change is significant because girls outperform boys at every stage of their education, and have been performing better at the top grades at A-levels for 17 years. There have been suggestions this could reflect the introduction of the new style of A-level exam. 0.5% increase in A* and A grades overall, but 0.7% fewer A* and A grades in 13 new-style subjects 26.6% of boys got A* and A grades 26.1% of girls did the same 97.9% of pupils got A* to E passes As results were being received, the Ucas admissions body said 416,000 university places had so far been confirmed - down 2% on the same point last year. University applications from the UK and European Union countries have fallen compared with last year and there is a demographic dip in the number of 18 year olds. Many universities, including in the prestigious Russell Group, will still have places on offer through the clearing system, which matches people looking for places with vacancies on courses. Pupils at a secondary school close to the Grenfell Tower fire in London received their AS-level results. Four pupils from Kensington Aldridge academy died in the fire and 50 were made homeless. But in this year's results, more than 40% of the pupils achieved A to B grades. Head teacher David Benson said: "The pupils have been incredible." Changes to the qualifications system in England mean 13 A-level subjects this year have been decided solely by final exams, with no link to coursework or AS-levels taken after the first year of study. The overall results remain broadly similar to last year, with over a quarter of entries receiving top grades. The proportion of the highest A* grades has nudged up by 0.2% to 8.3%. The overall A* to E pass rate is marginally down at 97.9%. But in those new-style A-level subjects, including history, English, psychology, physics, chemistry and biology, there were 0.7% fewer A* and A grades overall. Some 24.3% of entries attained the top grades in these subjects. Exam boards said the fall in results reflected a lower-achieving group of candidates, rather than the exams being made "more challenging". In previous years, when more candidates sat AS levels as the first stage of the exam, some poorer performing pupils would have been "weeded out", said Mark Bedlow, director of regulation at exam board OCR. Leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, Geoff Barton, said that when AS-levels no longer contributed to final A-level grades, schools were increasingly likely to abandon

Summary: Top A-level grades have increased for the first time in six years, as teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland get their results.


Media playback is not supported on this device The Premier League paid £174m to agents, up from £130m, with Manchester City being the biggest spenders (£26.3m) ahead of Chelsea (£25.1m) and Manchester United (£19m). England's second tier, the Championship, spent £42.4m on agents, an increase of 62%. The Football Association figures cover from February 2016 to January 2017. They come two years after the last full-year results (2014-15). Premier League teams spent a record £1.38bn on transfers in the 2016-17 season - a 43% increase on transfer spending from the 2014-15 season. In both League One and League Two the total spending on agents and intermediaries decreased from the 2014-15 figures. League One sides spent £3,098,508, down from £3,167,964, while League Two teams spent £821,450, down from £1,007,920. Liverpool led the Premier League in agents' fees when the last full-year results were published for the period 1 October 2014 to 30 September 2015, but the Reds' spending has decreased from £14.3m to £13.8 for the 2016-17 period. Manchester City now top the Premier League list with £26,3m, up from £12.4m, followed by Chelsea, who have also more than doubled their spending on agents' fees, up from £12m to £25.1m. Manchester United (£19m) and Arsenal (£10.2m) complete the top five, while Tottenham's outlay has risen from £6m to £7.2m. Yet despite being considered part of the Premier League's 'big six' clubs, Spurs trail behind West Ham (£9.5m) and Bournemouth (£7.4m) in agents' fees paid for 2016-17. Former England, West Ham and QPR winger Trevor Sinclair I was very fortunate. I met a good agent quite early on in my career after some bad experiences. He took care of negotiations, which is standard, made sure I was pitching myself at the right amount of money to be earning weekly, monthly, annually. On top of that he helped me with financial advice, he helped me with marketing, exit strategies when I finished football, and also just day-to-day things. He was always preaching to do your best and try to look after yourself. The influence that agents have got now in the game is unbelievable. You look at some of the biggest clubs in the UK and Europe, and there are certain super agents who, for me, have too much power. In relation to deals, I think the money should be capped in some way. If you're doing a deal for a player moving for £1m, why would there be another £1m going missing to agents' fees? It's unacceptable, for me, that kind of money going out of the game, when that could be easily used for grassroots football. Jonathan Barnett of the Stellar Group Agents have a bad reputation because nobody really understands what an agent does and that includes, probably, the FA. It's not deserved. More MPs have committed illegal acts than agents. I think it's unjust, a very unjust one. People get confused when they hear of an agent. They think it's somebody that does transfers, runs around from one club to another trying to sell players. They are more traders and brokers.

Summary: The amount paid by English clubs to agents has risen by 38% in a year - up from £160m to £220m.


Hugh McGoldrick spent six days in jail after admitting falsifying drug trials on patients with sleep disorders. The former GP, from Crossgar, County Down, was then brought before a Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MTP) hearing. Last month, it ruled his name would be erased from the medical register but he was given 28 days to appeal. At the time, his solicitor said McGoldrick did not accept the MTP findings and had "every intention of contesting them". But the MTP had not received any appeal when the 28-day deadline passed on Wednesday, 29 March. On Thursday, a spokesman for the MTP said: "We have not received any confirmation of an appeal either from the court or the doctor. "So Dr McGoldrick's name will be removed from the register today.'' The offences took place at his Pound Lane GP practice in Downpatrick between 2007 and 2008. The former GP was originally given a nine-month jail term and a Â£10,000 fine in June 2016, but he appealed the sentence. His prison term was suspended and he was released from jail six days later.

Summary: A doctor who was jailed for falsifying clinical trials for his own financial gain was finally struck off as a GP after failing to lodge an appeal.


Police said the child, who is thought to have been shot by her father who was found dead at the scene in Northiam, is seven years old. Ch Supt Neil Honnor said a firearm had been recovered, but would not confirm the relationship between the girl and the man. The body of the man was found in a car parked outside a house in the Spring Hill area of the village. Prayers have been said at the injured girl's school, Beckley Church of England Primary in Beckley near Rye. The area around the scene has been cordoned off since the shooting, which happened at about 16:00 BST on Thursday. Ch Supt Honnor said officers had identified "the perpetrator of the offence". "This does not appear to be an incident that's necessarily related to Northiam other than the fact that it happened there. "We believe this is a domestic-related incident," he said. In a statement, a spokeswoman for the Beckley CE Primary said: "We have received confirmation that the child who was shot is a pupil at our school. "This is a dreadfully sad and shocking incident and the whole school community are praying for her and her family." The girl is being treated at King's College Hospital in London.

Summary: A young girl shot in the head in East Sussex remains gravely ill in hospital.


Media playback is not supported on this device The Scots pushed France all the way, but the concession of too many penalties proved to be their undoing. Dougie Fife crossed for the game's only try, finishing off a fine passage of play to put the Scots within a point. The French reclaimed the initiative in the second half, and Lopez's accuracy with the boot saw them home. The Scots arrived at Stade de France in buoyant mood. Reinvigorated since the arrival of Vern Cotter as head coach last summer, they had displayed real signs of progress in the autumn with wins over Argentina and Tonga, and a narrow loss to world champions New Zealand. The French had plenty of motivation to perform too. In the first international since the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, the national anthem was belted out with added gusto, and the home fans had just two minutes to wait before fly-half Lopez kicked their side into a three-point lead. Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw and Lopez then traded penalties in an opening period of furious intensity and ferocious defending. After weathering the expected early French storm, the visitors exerted some pressure of their own, with Finn Russell, Alex Dunbar and Stuart Hogg all finding gaps in the home defence, but some stellar defending close to the try-line kept the Scots at bay. Lopez added a third penalty to stretch France's lead to 9-3, but Scotland hit back with the game's only try right on half-time, and it was a superbly crafted score. Another break from Hogg put the Scots on the front foot deep in opposition territory, and after several attempts at the French line, the ball was spun wide to Mark Bennett who slipped a tackle and found Euan Murray, with the prop displaying the velvet hands of a fly-half to slip Fife in at the corner. Laidlaw's missed touchline conversion meant France led 9-8 at the break, and Lopez made it four from four with the boot early in the second half to take the sting out of the Scots' revival. France stepped up their game after the break, pinning the Scots back in their own half with some powerful running. As they came under more pressure from the French, the visitors began to fall foul of referee Nigel Owens, and the loss of Johnnie Beattie to the sin bin did not help their cause. Yoann Huget looked for all the world like he was about to put the Scots to the sword as he raced for the line after a failed interception attempt from Tim Visser, but an outstanding last-ditch tackle from Bennett forced Huget to fumble the ball over the line. The game became loose in the closing stages, with the Scots desperately trying to fashion the score they needed, and the French looking to breach the visitors try-line for the first time. The best Les Bleus could manage was a fifth penalty from Lopez, but that was enough to seal the win. The Scots can take encouragement from many aspects of their play, but

Summary: Five penalties from fly-half Camille Lopez consigned Scotland to defeat in their opening Six Nations match for the ninth consecutive year.


It happened on 16 September when Mr Obama visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The incident came to light on Tuesday, hours after the boss of the Secret Service was grilled by Congress about a security breach at the White House. A Secret Service official confirmed the incident but declined to comment. The incident contravened a protocol that only members of the Secret Service are allowed to carry weapons in the presence of the president. Tuesday's revelations led to calls from one senior US congressman for a "top-to-bottom" review of the agency. The gun was found when the man was questioned by agents after taking a video of the president in the lift. He was immediately sacked by his supervisors, who arrived on the scene shortly after the incident, reports said. November 2009: A Virginia couple filming a reality show make it past Secret Service checkpoints into a dinner for visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh without an invitation. November 2011: A man parks a car directly south of the White House and opens fire with a rifle, striking the residence at least seven times. Secret Service supervisors fail to realise the White House has been struck for four days - until a housekeeper discovers the damage. April 2012: Eleven Secret Service employees preparing for the president's visit to the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Columbia, bring sex workers back to their hotel. An altercation ensues when one agent reneges on an agreement to pay $800 (Â£500) for the night, one woman tells a newspaper. Investigators later reveal agents violated protocol by "consuming excessive amounts of alcohol and patronising questionable local establishments while off duty". November 2013: A senior supervisor on the president's protective detail starts a row after demanding access to a woman's room at the Hay Adams Hotel overlooking the White House. He leaves behind in the room a bullet from his service weapon. March 2014: Three agents on the elite counter assault team are sent home from the Netherlands, where they have been preparing for a presidential visit, after one is found passed out drunk in a hallway. The agents had been drinking until about 02:30 and were scheduled to be on duty at 10:00. 16 September 2014: An armed security contractor with a felony criminal record is allowed to board a lift with the president in a government building in Atlanta. 19 September 2014: Omar Gonzalez, a troubled Iraq War veteran, scales a fence at the White House, evades agents during his dash across the lawn, and enters the White House through an unlocked and unalarmed door. A supervisor asked the man to hand over his gun, surprising the Secret Service team who had not known he was armed. The Washington Post said the man had three convictions for assault and battery. "This person was within arm's length of the president with a gun," said Utah congressman Jason Chaffetz, who was told of the incident by a whistleblower. It will come as another embarrassment on the day after the director of the US

Summary: President Barack Obama rode in a lift with an armed security contractor who had assault convictions, in another security lapse.


The biggest is a $47.5bn (Â£38.6bn) civil claim brought by Brazil's federal prosecutors, the companies said. Under the deal, the firms will provide an initial $681m in compensation. The collapse of the dam, containing waste from an iron ore mine, killed 19 people and created a river of millions of tonnes of toxic waste. It killed 19 people and is Brazil's worst ever mine disaster. The agreement, between the companies and prosecutors, will see experts appointed to advise the federal prosecutors on the impacts of the dam disaster and any changes that might be needed to social and environmental remediation programs agreed last May. It does not cover the potential size of the final liabilities to be agreed by the end of June. BHP spokesman, Paul Hitchins, said the settlement simplified matters: "This spells out how and when we are going to settle this with the prosecutors. "Up until this time we had all these different courts hearing the case. This consolidates all that." The companies said they still had not agreed how and when the mine would be able to re-open. They said any restart was subject to separate negotiations and would only happen once it was safe to do so and economically viable. It also needed the support of the devastated local community.

Summary: BHP Billiton and Vale have agreed a deadline of 30 June to consolidate and settle claims resulting from Brazil's Samarco dam disaster in 2015.


The end-of-season event gets under way on Sunday, with more than 250,000 spectators expected across eight days. Security is under review but the same measures are in place as last year, when the venue was on high alert. Jamie Murray opens play at the O2 Arena alongside doubles partner John Peers at 12:00 GMT on Sunday. "It's obviously a terrible thing that's happened," said Murray. "It's affected so many people and I guess there are a lot of shockwaves around the world that something like that can happen." At least 128 people were killed in attacks carried out by eight gunmen and suicide bombers in the French capital. Mahut, 33, and Herbert, 24, are making their debuts at the season finale for the best eight teams in the world. They will play Croatia's Ivan Dodig and Brazilian Marcelo Melo in their opening match at 18:00 on Monday, and hope to reflect events in their home country. "We are discussing with the ATP to do something, at least to wear something on the shirt," said Mahut, who lives in Paris. "We didn't talk with the other players but I'm sure they will do something. That is the only thing we can do and have a thought for the families, and let the politicians do what they have to do." The ATP confirmed "enhanced security" is in place and preparations continue as normal, reminding spectators that bag searches will be in place and no food or drink can be taken into the O2 Arena. The French pair watched events unfold on television in London and Herbert said they were "still in shock" on Saturday. "Right now are thoughts are with the victims, the families and the guys fighting to get peace and Paris secure again," he said. Having confirmed that his friends and family - who live in Strasbourg - were safe, he added: "I'm one of the lucky people, but it doesn't matter because I feel really, really touched by what is happening right now in France. "When it happens in your country I think the feeling is even worse. I mean, I'm scared right now. "Yesterday we were quite happy, it's the first time for us here working in a kind of euphoria, and then you get a message, a call, and from one second to the other you're scared, you feel bad about what happened in France. "Right now it's tough to realise because I think we're still in shock and afraid of what's happening." While the pair still plan to play in London, Mahut said "tennis comes second now" after confirming his friends and family were also safe. He said: "Of course we were scared but I think that's what they want. "It's not easy to talk about what happened right now. I just talked to the family and friends - I had some friends who were having dinner in the Bataclan area last night. "At this moment we should be having fun playing the World Tour finals but today it's really complicated for us." The World Tour Finals is

Summary: French duo Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert plan to pay tribute to victims of the Paris attacks during the ATP World Tour Finals in London.


Ed Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical worker for the CIA, has since revealed himself to be the source of the leaks in an interview with the Guardian news website. US director of national intelligence James Clapper described the leaks as "extremely damaging" to national security, but Mr Snowden said he had acted because he found the extent of US surveillance "horrifying". What could the US government see? According to the documents revealed by Ed Snowden, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has access on a massive scale to individual chat logs, stored data, voice traffic, file transfers and social networking data of individuals. The US government confirmed it did request millions of phone records from US company Verizon, which included call duration, location and the phone numbers of both parties on individual calls. How much do the spooks know? Why every call matters What can you learn from phone records? According to the documents, Prism also enabled "backdoor" access to the servers of nine major technology companies including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple. These servers would process and store a vast amount of information, including private posts on social media, web chats and internet searches. All the companies named have denied their involvement, and it is unknown how Prism actually works. National Security Agency (NSA) Director Keith Alexander said that the eavesdropping operations have helped keep Americans secure - yet cannot provide details. "If we tell the terrorists every way that we're going to track them, they will get through and Americans will die," he said Some experts question its true powers, with digital forensics professor Peter Sommer telling the BBC the access may be more akin to a "catflap" than a "backdoor". "The spooks may be allowed to use these firms' servers but only in respect of a named target," he said. "Or they may get a court order and the firm will provide them with material on a hard-drive or similar." What about data-protection laws? Different countries have different laws regarding data protection, but these tend to aim to regulate what data companies can hold about their customers, what they can do with it and how long they can keep it for - rather than government activity. Most individual company privacy policies will include a clause suggesting they will share information if legally obliged - and include careful wording about other monitoring. Facebook's privacy policy, for example, states: " We use the information [uploaded by users] to prevent potentially illegal activities". Are we all being watched? The ways in which individual governments monitor citizen activity is notoriously secretive in the interests of national security, and officials generally argue that preventing terrorism over-rides protecting privacy. "You can't have 100% security and also then have 100% privacy and zero inconvenience," said US President Barack Obama, defending US surveillance tactics. Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that phone records were only accessed by the NSA in cases where there was reason to suspect an individual was connected with al-Qaeda or Iran. Speaking to the

Summary: Both international governments and the world's biggest tech companies are in crisis following the leaking of documents that suggest the US government was able to access detailed records of individual smartphone and internet activity, via a scheme called Prism.


Chartoff's daughters confirmed he died at home in Santa Monica surrounded by his family. He had pancreatic cancer. "He was an amazing father and person," said Julie Chartoff, adding: "There are no words." He won the best picture Oscar for the first Rocky film in 1977, which was written by its star Sylvester Stallone. The producer shared the Academy Award - one of three for the 1976 film - with partner Irwin Winkler. They both went on to produce all seven Rocky movies, including the forthcoming film Creed, which is currently in post-production. Chartoff was also nominated for an Oscar in 1981 for Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese's darker take on the sport, which starred Robert De Niro as boxer Jake La Motta. He produced films into his late 70s and early 80s, including 2014's The Gambler with Mark Wahlberg and 2013's Enders Game with Harrison Ford. He also worked on Jane Fonda's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and 1983 film The Right Stuff, which won four Oscars. Chartoff and Winkler - who worked together until 1985 - convinced United Artists to make Rocky for less than $1 million (Â£646,000), after Stallone insisted on playing the lead, according to Variety. The film went on to earn 10 Oscar nominations and take more than $200m (Â£129m). Chartoff is survived by third wife Jenny Weyman and his five children.

Summary: Oscar-winning producer Robert Chartoff, who was behind hit boxing films such as the Rocky series and Raging Bull, has died in California, aged 81.


Ai has accused Lego of "censorship and discrimination" after it refused his bulk order for bricks for a new exhibition in Melbourne, Australia. Lego said it has never sold directly to anyone wanting to use its product to make a political statement. The artist will now use the donated toy bricks to make a "new work". "In response to Lego's refusal and the overwhelming public response, Ai Weiwei has now decided to make a new work to defend freedom of speech and 'political art'," said a post on the artist's Instagram account on Monday. "Ai Weiwei Studio will announce the project description and Lego collection points in different cities. This is the first phase of the coming projects." Further posts pictured a red car labelled, "the first Lego container", and a photo of Lego bricks inside the car, accompanied by the words, "the morning droppings". Ai used Lego last year to create portraits of 175 dissident figures who had been jailed or exiled, from Nelson Mandela to Edward Snowden, on the site of the former Alcatraz prison near San Francisco. He planned a similar work for the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, but a bulk order placed by the museum was rejected by the Danish company. The Chinese artist said the company told the museum its bricks could not be used for artworks containing "any political, religious, racist, obscene or defaming statements". Referring to The Lego Movie's slogan "everything is awesome", Ai wrote on Twitter: "Lego will tell us what to do, or not to do. That is awesome!" He added: "Lego is giving us the definition of what is 'political', and all the big corporations are telling us what to love or hate. That is awesome." In an earlier Instagram post, he wrote: "As a commercial entity, Lego produces and sells toys, movies and amusement parks attracting children across the globe. "As a powerful corporation, Lego is an influential cultural and political actor in the globalized economy with questionable values. "Lego's refusal to sell its product to the artist is an act of censorship and discrimination." Lego spokesman Roar Rude Trangbaek would not comment directly on the case but said that, as a principle, Lego "respects any individual's right to free, creative expression". The artist also linked Lego's stance with plans for a new Legoland in Shanghai. Lego said the theme park was being built by Merlin Entertainment and not Lego, but that Lego does have some ties with Merlin because it uses the Lego brand. Ai Weiwei is known for his criticism of the Chinese government as well as for being one of the world's leading contemporary artists. Many fans have utilised Lego to help show their support for the artist on social media. One used the toy bricks to spell out the words "I support Ai Weiwei", while others offered to let the artist borrow their collection, adding, "we won't be buying more".

Summary: Artist Ai Weiwei is setting up "Lego collection points" in different cities after being inundated with offers of donations from supporters.


A preview showed the pair dancing to Beyonce's Single Ladies. The clip, posted on YouTube, shows Corden arriving at the White House for a tour before Mrs Obama gets into his car. The footage, which was recorded last month in Washington DC, will air on the British star's Late, Late Show in the US on Wednesday. Mrs Obama is seen telling the presenter: "I hear you're here for a 1.45 tour and I had a little time on my hands so you want to go for a spin?" The First Lady then tells Corden she "rarely" gets to listen to music in the car and the only time she has ever sat in the front passenger seat "rocking out" was when one of her daughters was learning to drive. Other stars who have appeared on Carpool Karaoke include Adele, Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder. Corden began hosting The Late, Late Show in March last year. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

Summary: US First Lady Michelle Obama is joining James Corden in his hit sketch Carpool Karaoke this week.


Michal Konrad Herba, 36, was held on a European Arrest Warrant at an address in Tividale, West Midlands. He is the brother of suspect Lukasz Pawel Herba, who is being held by Italian police after Ms Ayling was allegedly kidnapped in Milan. Ms Ayling, 20, was allegedly abducted and held by a group calling itself "Black Death" for five days. Michal Herba was arrested in a joint operation by West Midlands Police and East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) and is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on 17 August. It is alleged that kidnappers attempted to sell Ms Ayling online for Â£230,000. Ms Ayling, from Coulsdon, south London, arrived in Milan on 10 July for a photo shoot. There, Italian police say she was attacked by two men, drugged with ketamine and abducted, apparently to be sold in an online auction. She is believed to have been transported in a bag to an isolated village near Turin, Italy, but was released on July 17. Ms Ayling's lawyer Francesco Pesce has said she was told she would be sold in the Middle East "for sex". Speaking after the alleged abduction, Ms Ayling said she feared for her life throughout the "terrifying experience". "I'm incredibly grateful to the Italian and UK authorities for all they have done to secure my safe release," she said. Italian police documents revealed that suspect Lukasz Herba said he had got involved in order to raise money for cancer treatment. A Polish national, who lives in Oldbury in the West Midlands, he told investigators he drove her to the British consulate in Milan and released her before the sale went ahead. The National Crime Agency and EMSOU said it was providing specialist support to the Italian police as part of the investigation.

Summary: The brother of the alleged captor of British model Chloe Ayling has been arrested, police have said.


Media playback is not supported on this device Wire fell behind to Greg Burke's try but responded through Ryan Atkins and Kevin Brown for a 12-6 half-time lead. Jay Chapelhow's try and a penalty from Patrick Ah Van gave Widnes a two-point lead after the break. Matty Russell and Chris Hill went over after Brown's second and third tries, with Ah Van crossing for the Vikings. England stand-off Brown moved to Warrington for an undisclosed fee at the start of the season after three years at Widnes and was booed by visiting fans throughout, but produced an excellent display for last year's losing finalists. After a stuttering start to their Super League season, Warrington's win was their fifth straight victory at home and their seventh in a row at the Halliwell Jones Stadium against their neighbours. They last won the Challenge Cup in 2012, and were losing finalists at Wembley last year when they were beaten 12-10 by Hull FC. Vikings' injury problems meant they had a number of teenagers in their matchday squad, and Lloyd Roby made his debut. Denis Betts' side have lost six of their last seven games, and have not won at Warrington since August 2013. Warrington: Ratchford; Russell, Hughes, Atkins, Lineham; Brown, Patton; Hull, Gidley, Sims, Jullien, Westwood, Cooper. Replacements: Crosby, Philbin, Smith, G King. Widnes: Hanbury; Roby, Runciman, Walsh, Ah Van; Mellor, Johnstone; Dudson, Heremaia, Buchanan, Cahill, Olbison, Burke. Replacements: Manuakafoa, O'Carroll, Walker, J Chapelhow.

Summary: Kevin Brown's hat-trick against his former club gave Warrington a derby win against Widnes to progress to the last eight of the Challenge Cup.


Leaving the union would see prices rise and threaten jobs, the prime minister said, in a move seen as an attempt to reach out to Labour voters. Writing in the Daily Mirror, he said leaving would be "a national error". Meanwhile, more than 300 business figures and entrepreneurs have signed a letter in support of Brexit. The referendum takes place on 23 June, when voters in the UK will be asked whether they want the country to remain in, or leave, the European Union. With less than six weeks to go before polling day, Mr Cameron continued to make his case for staying in the EU. He said being in the union helped working people and British manufacturing. "I've been in this job for six years now. Whatever you think of me, I know how Britain gets things done in the world," he wrote in the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror. "I've seen how free trade within Europe benefits working people. I've seen how manufacturing is boosted by trade deals the EU has done with the rest of the world. "I've seen how shared intelligence keeps families safe. It's my deep, considered, steadfast belief that leaving Europe would be a national error, a big mistake." He said three million people's livelihoods were directly linked to trade with Europe, with "countless more" linked indirectly. Mr Cameron's comments comes as 320 business figures have signed a letter backing Vote Leave. The letter, published in the Daily Telegraph, said being a member of the EU undermines British competitiveness and Brexit would "create more jobs". Signatories include Peter Goldstein, a founder of Superdrug, Steve Dowdle, a former vice-president of Sony, and David Sismey, a managing director of Goldman Sachs. Tim Martin, chairman of pub chain JD Wetherspoon, Adrian McAlpine, from construction firm Sir Robert McAlpine, and Jon Moulton, chairman of Better Capital LLP, also signed the letter. They say British business would be free to "grow faster, expand into new markets and create more jobs" from outside the EU. "Year-on-year the EU buys less from Britain because its economies are stagnant and millions of workers are unemployed," the letter said. It adds: "Brussels' red tape stifles every one of Britain's 5.4 million businesses, even though only a small minority actually trade with the EU." Both the Leave and Remain campaigns have previously published letters revealing the backing of other business figures. It follows a dispute over the weekend, after Boris Johnson compared the EU's aims to Hitler's, saying both involved the intention to unify Europe under a single "authority". The pro-Brexit Tory MP and ex-London mayor said both the Nazi leader and Napoleon had failed at unification and the EU was "an attempt to do this by different methods". Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who backs Remain, said the comparison was "offensive and desperate". "Leave campaigners have lost the economic argument and now they are losing their moral compass," the Labour MP said. Former Labour minister Yvette Cooper, who also supports the Remain campaign, accused Mr Johnson of a "shameful lack of judgement" and a willingness to play

Summary: The poorest and most vulnerable people in the UK would be hit hardest by the economic consequences of leaving the EU, David Cameron has warned.


He said Manila would not "break or abrogate existing treaties", suggesting he wants to maintain the Philippines' ties with the US. It comes days after Manila announced it was suspending annual joint military exercises with the US. Relations between the old allies have become strained in recent months. Washington has voiced concerns over the newly-elected president's "war on drugs", which has left more than 3,500 people dead in a matter of months. Mr Duterte has called President Barack Obama a "son of a whore". Mr Duterte, who is visiting Beijing next week, has previously suggested China and Russia could be possibly alternate partners. But while Mr Duterte reiterated in his latest speech that the traditional joint exercises with US troops would be stopped, he said he would not break the mutual-defence treaty entirely. ``I insist that we realign, that there will be no more exercises next year," he said. He added: "We need not really break or abrogate our existing treaties because they say that it could provide us with the umbrella. "We will maintain all military alliances because they say we need it for our defence." He did not explain who he meant by "they".

Summary: President Rodrigo Duterte says the Philippines will not end alliances with other countries, despite his increasingly anti-US rhetoric.


In his election campaign for a second term in office, he promised a moderate modern and outward looking Iran, in sharp contrast to the vision his main rival Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline senior cleric and judge, had put forward. He warned Iranians that a single wrong decision by the future president could engulf the country in war. This was a reference to Mr Raisi, who is not overly impressed by the nuclear deal President Rouhani reached with world powers - a deal which removed a serious threat of war hanging over the country. President Rouhani is keen to see the nuclear deal survive - even though US President Donald Trump and opponents of the deal in the United States Congress are looking for ways to put further pressure on Iran, or even scrap the deal. Mr Rouhani also promised to revive the sluggish economy, to extend individual and political freedoms, to steer the country away from the extremist ideas of the hardliners, to ensure equality for men and women, to extend access to internet and generally work for moderations and an outward-looking Iran. Time and again, he praised the reform movement in Iran and its leaders - something that is likely to bring him into constant clashes with the hardliners in his second term. He was re-elected in May 2017 with an emphatic margin of victory. Hassan Rouhani has been a key player in Iran's political life since the revolution in 1979. He was an influential figure in Iran's defence establishment during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War and subsequently held several important political posts. From 1989 to 2005, Mr Rouhani was secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), the top decision-making body in Iran, appointed by and answerable to the Supreme Leader. He served as deputy speaker of parliament between 1996 and 2000 (while simultaneously completing a thesis on Sharia - Islamic law - as a post-graduate student at Glasgow Caledonian University) and in 1997 became a member of the Expediency Council, the highest arbitration body on issues of legislation. Mr Rouhani was Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, from 2003 to 2005, earning the moniker "the diplomat sheikh", when he agreed to suspend uranium enrichment. He resigned from the SNSC and from his role leading the nuclear talks just weeks after the election of the combative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, amid sharp differences with the new president. When Mr Rouhani stood as a presidential candidate in 2013, he knew he was up against an establishment stacked with hardliners who were highly suspicious of him. His campaign slogan "moderation and prudence" resonated with many Iranians who had seen their living standards, and their country's reputation, plummet under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Although he was seen as part of the establishment, Mr Rouhani promised to relieve sanctions, improve civil rights and restore "the dignity of the nation" - and drew large crowds on the campaign trail. Many believe he was not the first choice of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But seeing that he might offer a way to end the nuclear confrontation with big world powers

Summary: For a president who began his first term in the centre of the Islamic political spectrum, Hassan Fereydoun Rouhani, 68, has now moved firmly to the left, placing himself with the reformists.


After two hours of talks with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, he said that the "two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this relationship". Although there was some "common ground" on Syria, "broad differences" remained. Mr Lavrov said the two sides needed to overcome "time-bomb issues" inherited from Barack Obama's administration. Tensions have risen since a suspected chemical attack on the rebel-held Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun last week that left 89 people dead. The US and its allies blamed the Syrian government, and the US fired 59 cruise missiles at Syria's Shayrat airbase in response. Syria denied carrying out the chemical attack and has the support of its main ally, Russia, which on Wednesday vetoed a motion brought to the UN Security Council which would have required Bashar al-Assad's government to co-operate with investigators. It is the eighth time Moscow has used its veto to protect Syria. Both Mr Tillerson and Mr Lavrov said the discussions were frank. Mr Tillerson said: "I expressed the view that the current state of US-Russia relations is at a low point. There is a low level of trust between our two countries." He added: "We need to attempt to put an end to this steady degradation, which is doing nothing to restore the trust between our two countries or to make progress on the issues of greatest importance to both of us." It was a view echoed by President Donald Trump later, who said at a press briefing with Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: "We may be at an all-time low in terms of our relationship with Russia." Mr Trump said "it would be a fantastic thing" if the nations improved ties, but warned "it may be just the opposite". Mr Lavrov said a pragmatic conversation was needed to remove the "irritants that piled up under the Obama administration". Both ministers said there was agreement on working towards a stable and unified Syria, and in defeating so-called Islamic State and other terrorist groups. Both agreed to work towards an international investigation of the chemical attack. But it was obvious there were many differences. Mr Tillerson said there was clear evidence that the recent chemical attack "was planned, directed and executed by Syrian regime forces". He said the reign of Bashar al-Assad must end and that Mr Trump's description of the Syrian president as "an animal" was "a characterisation President Assad has brought on himself". Mr Lavrov said there was no evidence Syria was behind the chemical attack and pointed to the turmoil that had been brought to other nations when leaders had been removed. There was little concrete to come from the meeting, although the fact Mr Putin granted Mr Tillerson an audience - which had been in doubt - was a measure of success. Mr Putin did say he was ready to restore the US-Russia air safety agreement over Syria, and Mr Tillerson said there would be working groups set up on smaller issues. Ahead of the meeting, Mr Lavrov said Russia had "a lot of questions regarding very ambiguous

Summary: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says ties with Russia are at a low point and must improve.


The name is expressed with affection by some, with hostility by others, but it calls up history for everyone. The story of his life is very much the story of our times: revolutionary movements, the Cold War, East v West, North v South, communism v capitalism - except that most of the world has passed him by. Fidel Castro has remained the same, a symbol of revolution, a communist who has survived the fall of communism. Before surgery took him out of public view in July 2006, he inspired his followers with slogans and five-hour speeches. Fidel's views continued to be made public though in the form of editorials and occasional TV appearances. Fidel maintained his rule with an iron grip, sending opponents to prison for years. Throughout his leadership, he railed against the US, its economic and trade embargo and against the evils of free markets Fidel has been praised for standing up for the oppressed of Latin America, for opposing the Yankee imperialist, for making Cuba into a more equal society than many, for developing Cuba's health service and sending doctors abroad to help others. And it wasn't only doctors he sent abroad. He despatched troops to Angola and Ethiopia in support of fellow revolutionaries. His hand was seen in many a revolutionary movement in his own continent. But he has also been condemned for intolerance, for keeping his people poor and for refusing to see the benefits of economic liberalisation that even the communists of China have embraced. Fidel Castro stopped his people from leaving the island, leading them to risk their lives in rickety boats to try to get out. At one stage in the early years of the Reagan administration he was accused of trying to take over Central America for the Soviet Union by revolution. Washington at that time saw a path that led from the guerrillas of El Salvador through Nicaragua to Cuba and right up to the door of the Kremlin. Cuban assistance to the small and then revolutionary island of Grenada in the Caribbean prompted a full-scale US invasion. Throughout his rule, President Castro remained in almost permanent confrontation with the United States - and it with him. The American embargo on Cuba has been used by both sides - as a policy by the US to isolate Cuba and as an excuse by Fidel Castro for the island's poverty. US President Barack Obama and Castro's successor as president, younger brother Raul, announced a thawing in relations in 2015 but the embargo remains in place. When Mr Obama visited earlier this year - the first by a US leader in more than half a century - Castro remained defiant, saying Cuba did not need any gifts from the "empire" in a damning letter. He cut a giant figure on the world stage during the 47 years he controlled Cuba - at one point bringing the US and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. It was the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 that propelled him into worldwide prominence. Before that he

Summary: He is instantly recognisable both from his appearance - the beard and the military fatigues - and from his first name alone: Fidel.


The Lisbon side led 4-0 at the break thanks to goals from Franco Cervi, Raul Jimenez, Pizzi and Jonas. Jonas added a fifth, his second of the game, in the second half, as Benfica won their 36th league championship. Benfica, FC Porto and Sporting Lisbon have won 81 of the 83 Portuguese titles between them. Match ends, Benfica 5, Vitória Guimarães 0. Second Half ends, Benfica 5, Vitória Guimarães 0. Tozé (Vitória Guimarães) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Raúl Jiménez (Benfica) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Tozé (Vitória Guimarães). Offside, Benfica. André Almeida tries a through ball, but Raúl Jiménez is caught offside. Substitution, Benfica. André Almeida replaces Jonas. Alejandro Grimaldo (Benfica) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Alejandro Grimaldo (Benfica). Raphinha (Vitória Guimarães) wins a free kick on the right wing. Attempt missed. Eduardo Salvio (Benfica) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by André Carrillo. Foul by Andreas Samaris (Benfica). Moussa Marega (Vitória Guimarães) wins a free kick on the left wing. Corner, Benfica. Conceded by Douglas. Attempt saved. Pizzi (Benfica) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Eduardo Salvio. Attempt missed. Alejandro Grimaldo (Benfica) left footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner. Corner, Benfica. Conceded by Douglas. Attempt saved. Jonas (Benfica) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Eduardo Salvio. André Carrillo (Benfica) is shown the yellow card. Foul by Eduardo Salvio (Benfica). Rafael Miranda (Vitória Guimarães) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Nelsinho (Benfica) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Rafael Miranda (Vitória Guimarães). Substitution, Benfica. Andreas Samaris replaces Lubomir Fejsa. Attempt missed. Moussa Marega (Vitória Guimarães) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Raphinha with a cross following a corner. Corner, Vitória Guimarães. Conceded by Lubomir Fejsa. Attempt saved. Raúl Jiménez (Benfica) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Pizzi with a cross. Corner, Benfica. Conceded by Pedro Henrique. Attempt blocked. Eduardo Salvio (Benfica) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Pizzi. Attempt missed. Eduardo Salvio (Benfica) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jonas. Substitution, Benfica. André Carrillo replaces Franco Cervi. Raúl Jiménez (Benfica) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the right side of the box. Assisted by Jonas with a cross. Substitution, Vitória Guimarães. Tozé replaces Bruno Gaspar. Attempt missed. Alejandro Grimaldo (Benfica) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Nelsinho. Foul by Lubomir Fejsa (Benfica). Bongani Zungu (Vitória Guimarães) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Goal! Benfica 5, Vitória Guimarães 0. Jonas (Benfica) converts the penalty with a right footed shot

Summary: Benfica won their fourth consecutive Portuguese league title thanks to a comfortable win over Vitoria Guimaraes on the penultimate day of the season.


Mr Kalashnikov had been involved in the "anti-Maidan" protests in support of deposed President Viktor Yanukovych. It is not clear if he was murdered or committed suicide. Police say an investigation has been launched. At least eight Yanukovych allies have died suddenly in the last three months. Most of the deaths are said to have been suicides. However, officials say it was possible some were killed or forced to take their lives. Commentators in Ukraine have accused supporters, as well as opponents, of the current pro-Western government of involvement in the deaths. The BBC's David Stern in Kiev says no motive has emerged linking the deaths and no arrests have been made. Mr Kalashnikov was a former deputy in parliament and a member of Mr Yanukovych's Party of Regions. Accounts of his death differ, with some sources saying his body was found outside his flat in Kiev and others saying it was found within. Mr Yanukovych fled Ukraine in February last year, after months of increasingly violent protests against him, centred on the Maidan, Kiev's main square. He later reappeared in Russia. The government that succeeded him reversed his opposition to closer ties with the European Union - a major factor behind the protests. It has since been plunged into a conflict with pro-Russian separatist rebels in the country's east.

Summary: A Ukrainian opposition politician, Oleg Kalashnikov, has been found dead with gunshot wounds in Kiev - the latest ally of the former government to have died in suspicious circumstances.


Grow NI said companies were deferring decisions to invest due to the uncertainty over the future of the tax. Corporation Tax is the tax that companies pay on their profits. The current UK rate is 21% whereas in the Republic of Ireland firms pay 12.5%. The devolution of the tax was dependant on welfare reform being implemented. However, the controversial Welfare Reform Bill failed to pass at Stormont on Tuesday night. Eamonn Donaghy of Grow NI, a forum representing major business organisations, said: "The power to create tens of thousands of jobs is now within our grasp, but unless our politicians seize this opportunity it will jeopardise significant employment growth opportunities and will increase inequality in Northern Ireland." He added: "Continued uncertainly around a start date and an agreed rate of corporation tax means that the private sector cannot compete on a level playing field with businesses in the Republic of Ireland. "Only by having the same rate of corporation tax across the island will we see any significant increase in employment in Northern Ireland. "Such a change would see increased investment from companies at home and abroad, creating jobs which are much needed in communities everywhere." New legislation to devolve corporation tax to Northern Ireland was passed by the House of Lords in March. Invest NI has said that a US business delegation has postponed a potential investment trip to Northern Ireland. The jobs creation agency said it was because the Stormont executive had not yet set the rate of Corporation Tax to be introduced in Northern Ireland, or the date it will take effect. It had previously been suggested Northern Ireland will cut its rate to 12.5%, to match Ireland, from April 2017. Mr Donaghy said: "The evidence that companies abroad are deferring - sometimes permanently - decisions to invest in Northern Ireland is gravely concerning. "All of us now understand that the election of a Tory government means that the only growth in employment in the future will come from the private sector, and reduced Corporation Tax will be key to deliver this. "If our politicians fail to reduce Corporation Tax a future of low investment, net emigration and increased unemployment looks inevitable." The legislation to allow Corporation Tax powers to be devolved to Stormont was published in January. The government had aimed to pass the law before May's general election. The Northern Ireland parties had agreed a deal on Westminster's welfare reform measures in the Stormont House Agreement last December. However, Sinn FÃ©in withdrew its support in March.

Summary: Significant job opportunities will be lost unless a reduced Corporation Tax is introduced into Northern Ireland, a business group has said.


Edward Davies, 39, from Hampshire, has not been in touch with his family or friends since Sunday 8 May. Extensive searches involving mountain rescue teams, search dogs, police and a helicopter have been made since he was reported missing the following Wednesday. Mr Davies, an experienced hillwalker, had planned to climb Sgurr na h-Ulaidh. In a statement released on Tuesday, his family said they still held "every hope" of him being found alive. They have been told by police of the discovery of the body.

Summary: A body has been found during a search of Glen Coe for a hillwalker who was reported missing last week.


It is more than twice the sum initially estimated in an inquiry into FN staff. The parliament suspects the money went to FN assistants who were not really working for MEPs, but were engaged in FN party work in France. The allegations - denied by the FN - have now gone to French investigators. Ms Le Pen is campaigning for the second-round vote in the presidential election on 7 May. Her rival, liberal centrist Emmanuel Macron, is ahead of her in opinion polls. The alleged fraudulent payments - from 2012 onwards - concern her and several other FN MEPs. The FN is highly critical of the EU, rejecting its liberal, free market agenda. Ms Le Pen says she is the victim of a politically motivated vendetta. What makes Marine Le Pen far right? In depth: Le Pen and rise of National Front The European Parliament is currently withholding half of Ms Le Pen's salary and expenses, as it tries to recoup money it says she owes. Currently the FN has 24 MEPs, France's biggest contingent. Ms Le Pen has refused to answer a summons over the affair in France, citing her immunity as an MEP. The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says most voters drawn to the FN are already highly suspicious of the EU, and may not see the alleged fraud as a particularly serious matter. On Tuesday Ms Le Pen stepped aside as FN leader, saying she needed to be above partisan considerations in the presidential election. The FN's new temporary leader is Jean-François Jalkh, and he has immediately been caught in a row over a 2000 interview, in which he is quoted as doubting the Nazis' use of Zyklon B cyanide gas to murder Jews and other victims in the death camps. "I consider it technically impossible - I repeat, impossible - to use it... in mass murder. Why? Because you have to wait several days before you can decontaminate a place where Zyklon B was used," Le Monde quoted him as saying. When Le Monde asked him about the remark he called it "utter rubbish" and said he had "no recollection of that [interview]". A year ago the FN's founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was fined €30,000 (£25,278; $32,600) for calling the Nazi gas chambers a "detail" of World War Two. He was convicted of contesting crimes against humanity. He got the same conviction in 2012 for calling the Nazi occupation of France "not particularly inhumane". Marine, his daughter, drew strong criticism on 9 April when she suggested France was not responsible for a 1942 wartime round-up of 13,000 Jews, who were sent from France to Nazi death camps.

Summary: The far-right National Front (FN) of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen may have defrauded the European Parliament of about €5m (£4m; $5.4m), EU sources say.


The aircraft, nicknamed "Bette" after one of its pilot's girlfriends, was built in 1941 from donations from the Borough of Lambeth Spitfire Fund. It was stationed in Cornwall, Hampshire, Norfolk and Shropshire during the war but crashed in 1944. Bidding stalled below its Â£120,000 to Â£150,000 valuation. The aircraft saw service with four RAF squadrons between 1941 and 1944 and was flown by author Alec Lumsden, who gave it the name Bette and added a character from the Daily Mirror cartoon strip 'Just Jake' to the paint work. After it crashed in Shropshire in September 1944, killing its Australian pilot, its wreckage was taken to Ibsley museum, Ringwood, Hampshire and displayed. The aircraft was later passed to a collector who showed it at events. It has also been immortalised by modelmakers Airfix and Revell. John Tomlin, from Historics at Brooklands, said: "The historical side of war birds is an up-and-coming market. There are now about 42 flying Spitfires and this seems to be increasing ever year. "The rarity, the history and the provenance of all these aircraft make them very investable items and they're investments that can be used and enjoyed by a lot of people." Experts believe it would cost about Â£1.8m to fully restore the plane.

Summary: The fuselage of a World War II Spitfire that has spent the last few years in a garden in Oxford has failed to reach its asking price at auction in Surrey.


The new note features images of Scottish mathematician and astronomer Mary Somerville, her hometown of Burntisland in Fife, and two otters. The material includes a variety of new security features which the bank said makes them "difficult to counterfeit but easy to authenticate". For the first time, the note includes braille to help the visually impaired. The bank also announced that the face of its polymer £20 note, which is not expected to enter circulation until 2020, will feature Glasgow philanthropist and entrepreneur Catherine Cranston. Mary Fairfax Somerville was a mathematician, geographer and astronomer, who was born in 1780 in Jedburgh but her childhood home was at Burntisland in Fife. Her parents tried to stop her studying because they thought it would kill her. Her sister had died and they thought studying was to blame. But Mary ploughed on and carried out detailed and highly-accurate studies of the solar system. She was so accurate that she noticed a wobble in the orbit of Uranus and suggested there could be another planet out there. She was right. It was the planet Neptune. Jointly with Caroline Herschel, she became the first female member of the Royal Astronomical Society. Mary was also a huge advocate of women's rights, votes for women and women in education, which is why the formerly women-only Somerville College, Oxford, was named after her soon after her death in 1872. Its alumni include former Indian prime minister Indira Ghandi and Margaret Thatcher, among others. The new £10 note is 15% smaller than the paper ones currently in circulation. It follows the bank's polymer £5 note, which features Scottish novelist and poet Nan Shepherd, and came into circulation in 2016. RBS chief executive Ross McEwan said the bank felt that their notes had value beyond the figure printed on them, and were a "symbol which lives in people's pockets and touches everyday lives". He said: "It has been 30 years since we produced a new £10 note, and we wanted the public to help influence the design. They helped influence our theme of 'fabric of nature' and helped us consider the impact Mary Somerville has had on our understanding of the world in which we live. "It is fitting that our most advanced note yet will carry her portrait." A moon diagram taken from Somerville's book Mechanism of the Heavens appears when the note is viewed under UV light. Words from the Scottish poet Norman MacCaig also feature. Bank of Scotland also has a polymer £10 note entering circulation, featuring the image of Sir Walter Scott, while Clydesdale Bank's version, featuring Robert Burns, comes out on 21 September.

Summary: The Royal Bank of Scotland is to issue its first polymer £10 note to the public on 4 October.


The helicopter was trying to find a vulnerable missing person in the Daventry area. It carried on with its mission while a police car was dispatched to investigate the laser. Officers were unable to find out who was responsible. Pilot Paul Atherton said it was "very distracting". Live updates on this story and other news from Northamptonshire He said: "On the police helicopter, I'm the only pilot. "If I get hit in the eye and I'm blinded, who's going to fly the aircraft? People on the ground don't realise how serious this is." The National Police Air Service (NPAS) said Mr Atherton saw two flashes of light from the laser at about 23:00 BST on Friday. The NPAS reported 35 laser incidents on its aircraft in 2014 and 91 in 2015. There was a total of 1,400 attacks on aircraft reported to the Civil Aviation Authority last year. People have been jailed in the past for pointing lasers at aircraft in the sky, but the devices themselves remain legal. Pat Lawrence, a spokesman for the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa), said regulations need to change. He said: "There's no restriction on the imports of these very powerful lasers."

Summary: The pilot of a police helicopter has called for a ban on lasers after a beam of light was shone at his aircraft as it flew over Northamptonshire.


The UK and Ireland are among the countries that can now sell beef to Canada. France and Germany - the EU's biggest producers - are also included. The EU Commission said it was a welcome move, as EU farmers "are going through a particularly difficult period". A Russian import ban and weaker Chinese demand have hit Europe's farm exports. Last month the EU announced a €500m (£365m; $567m) aid package, following many street protests by farmers. The dairy sector has been hit especially hard, with many producers saying current prices are barely enough to cover their costs. The Commission - the EU's top regulator - said Canada's move was "part of a growing trend to recognise the robust, comprehensive and successful measures put in place by the EU to eradicate BSE". The spread of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the 1990s - linked to a fatal neurodegenerative disease in humans - led to the mass slaughter of cattle and big losses for beef farmers. The US has also resumed importing beef from the EU, under strict monitoring, a process that began with Ireland in January. Canada has signed a far-reaching free trade agreement with the EU, which is now going through the ratification process.

Summary: Canada is reopening its market to beef exports from 19 EU member states, lifting a ban that was imposed in 1996 because of BSE "mad cow disease".


The line between Oxford and Didcot Parkway was closed for 16 days while flood prevention work took place at Hinksey. The tracks at Hinksey run alongside the River Thames and have flooded 11 times in 14 years. They have been raised 60cm (24in) and culverts have been built to allow water to flow underneath the line. Replacement buses were used during the period the line was closed. Oxford Station manager Richard Fry said the improvements would "bring Brunel's railway into the 21st Century".

Summary: An £18m project to reduce flooding on a stretch of railway near Oxford has been completed.


The Potters' record signing, who arrived in January, powered home to give the visitors a half-time lead. Ibrahim Afellay struck a sweet second for Stoke, and substitute Joselu made it 3-0 two minutes later. Matt Ritchie responded immediately for the Cherries, but his left-footed strike proved to be a mere consolation. Media playback is not supported on this device It was Stoke's first away win in 2016 and only their second league victory in seven attempts. Mark Hughes's side move up to ninth in the table, five points off the European places, while Bournemouth remain 15th and four points above the relegation zone. Relive Stoke's win over Bournemouth Follow reaction to Saturday's games Stoke had been on the end of three consecutive 3-0 defeats in the league, and had failed to get on the score sheet for a month. But they looked clinical from the outset at the Vitality Stadium, even without Marko Arnautovic and Bojan in the side. Frenchman Imbula, who signed from Marseille for £18.3m on transfer deadline day, opened his Stoke account in only his second appearance by racing onto the ball and thrashing home. A superb counter-attack led to their second, as the impressive Jon Walters held the ball up before feeding to Afellay, who swept home his first ever Premier League goal. And only moments after coming on for the injured Glen Johnson, Joselu grabbed a third with a rising header after a pinpoint ball from Xherdan Shaqiri. Bournemouth enjoyed 62% of the possession in the first-half but failed to really test Stoke goalkeeper Jack Butland - bar a looping effort from Charlie Daniels. Benik Afobe had scored three in five games since joining from Wolves in January but looked out of his depth at times, and only managed two touches in the box during the first 45 minutes. Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe brought on Scotland international Ritchie for the second half, along with Josh King, and the wide pair made a huge difference going forward. Ritchie scored with a clinical effort from the edge of the box, and he almost grabbed a second from King's ball in, as Stoke struggled to cope without injured defenders Johnson and Marc Muniesa. But eventually the Cherries faded and they were unable to pull off an unlikely comeback, leaving them with back-to-back league defeats. Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe: "They were quite compact and deep and I thought they were very respectful of how we played and the first moments of the game I was expecting us to have a really good afternoon but the goal seemed to change the game. Media playback is not supported on this device "I think the quality of their goals was really high and their first goal was a great strike, their third goal was very well worked but their second goal was the one I think we are really disappointed with." Stoke boss Mark Hughes: "It was a really pleasing away performance, we came here with a good game plan. "We conceded a bit of possession, more than we usually do but we felt

Summary: Giannelli Imbula scored his first goal for Stoke as they ended their three-match losing streak in the Premier League against Bournemouth.


Network Rail said it would provide Twitter updates of engineers installing new freight lines over Easter weekend. But Railway Magazine said the firm's PR team had gone into overdrive after work overran during the festive period leading to heavy criticism. The rail firm said they would "definitely have a story to tell". Major work, including extensive signalling improvements, is being carried out on the route from Good Friday to Easter Monday. Patrick Hallgate, from Network Rail, said: "We are acutely aware that some of our work could inconvenience those who want to travel over the Easter period. "Which is why we want to be open and provide the public with live information about how we are using this time to make improvements to this part of the network." Railway Magazine assistant editor Nick Brodrick said this live feed is a result of "the embarrassing fallout caused by the delayed engineering works on the East Coast Main Line after Christmas". He said: "It is therefore not surprising to see its PR team go into overdrive to reassure passengers that it can deliver on its promises." He added that following the minutiae of rail engineering works would not be a popular pastime this Easter. "Most people won't be particularly interested in the nuts and bolts of the work involved; what they expect is a better train service as a result." The improvement work can be followed on Twitter from Friday morning via @networkrailgwrm and the hashtag #greaterwest.

Summary: A social media feed of rail works at Reading is due to the "embarrassing fallout" of engineering delays at Christmas, it has been claimed.


The victim suffered a serious head injury in the attack at an address on School Road in Heysham, on Thursday. She was taken to hospital where she remains in a critical but stable condition, Lancashire Police said. A 57-year-old man from Heysham, who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, is now in a secure unit.

Summary: A man who was arrested after an 85-year-old woman was assaulted with a paving stone has been detained under the Mental Health Act.


Some have asked to remain anonymous so have only given their first names. The minute's silence went relatively well because we only had two incidents. The pupils involved showed reticence so they had a chat with the civics teachers. The school was at the heart of the events, close to the Charlie Hebdo offices. One of my students heard the shots being fired by the Kouachi brothers. Many of our pupils skateboard in Place de la Republique. It all meant a lot to them. They needed to make sense what had happened. We discussed the issues: it was the first act of war in Paris for a long time. We talked about caricatures, blasphemy, freedom of speech. A few loudmouths said: "They [Charlie Hebdo] were asking for it." We discussed this in class and some of them ultimately revised their opinion. So what we had was mostly blustering. It was very spontaneous. On the Thursday morning I saw some of my final-year students as I came in. They asked me for adhesive tape because they wanted to make banners. They took the initiative very quickly. They went to see the head teacher to get authorisation for their plan. They made a speech to younger students after the minute of silence on Friday, then demonstrated across the city, and of course took part in the main [unity] rally on Sunday. The initial reaction was one of unanimous revulsion among pupils. On the Thursday everyone agreed that you don't kill people because you are offended by drawings, regardless of your beliefs. On the Friday, frictions started to creep in. Then there was the mass "Je suis Charlie" demonstration at the weekend. When the pupils returned to school on the Monday, the disruption began. Two pupils found conspiracy theories on the internet: The Kouachi brothers were innocentâ€¦ Wasn't it strange that police had found the ID card left in the car? It was obviously a plot by intelligence servicesâ€¦ I asked what purpose there could be in killing people of various ethnicities and religions. They came back with the answer: "To sully Islam." I was surprised because those two boys of North African origin had never said that sort of thing. But they were defiant. I represented the official version, and they had access to a hidden truth. Problems in the school system run deep. Courses on the Enlightenment, for instance, can be a problem. In a class last week I was analysing an article by Voltaire on religious fanaticism, which is on the national curriculum. As I was talking, the pupils were listening so intently that there was silence. Suddenly two of them made increasingly loud snoring noises that ended up covering my voice. Secularism is not the only sensitive issue. It is also difficult to teach colonial wars. You will be challenged, some will whistle or hum to stop you talking. You will be accused of dishing out propaganda. I noticed an abrupt change in 2001, when I was teaching in an immigrant suburb. My students refused to observe a minute's silence for

Summary: Here teachers in France tell the BBC about their struggles to assert the country's traditional values of free expression and secularism in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.


The 93ft (28m) long VC10 fuselage left Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire for RAF Museum Cosford, Shropshire, at about 07:00 BST. It will be on permanent display in the autumn. The VC10 has been one of the RAF's most significant assets for nearly 50 years, the museum said. A lorry took the fuselage on the M69, M6 and the M54 and through Shifnal in Shropshire. The VC10 entered service with the RAF in 1966 and had the ability to carry up to 124 troops at a time with nine crew members or a freight load of up to 20,400 kg (44,974 lbs). It completed its final mission in 2013. It will be positioned on the airfield at RAF Cosford for about five to six weeks and partially reassembled, before being moved on to the museum site in August. It is scheduled to be placed on permanent display next to the Hercules in October. The museum's head of collections, Ian Thirsk, said: "For one aircraft type to have been in service for such a long period is remarkable in itself. "However, when this is added to the variety of roles and worldwide scope of operations, it is clear this is a unique aircraft."

Summary: A military aircraft has made a six-hour journey to its new home at a museum.