"None of the computers or machines worked except for the General Electric-powered machines like the MRIs [magnetic resonance imaging]," recalled Mykhailo Radutskyi, president of the Boris Clinic - Kiev's largest medical clinic. His radiologists decided to turn off the body scanners anyway as a precautionary measure after the building's IT system went down at two o'clock in the morning in late June. Doctors across the centre had to resort to taking records solely by paper and pen for the first time since the mid-1990s. "The main problem for us was that Ukrainian law requires us to keep all our patient info for 25 years, and we lost that medical documentation for the 24 hours when our systems were down," Mr Radutskyi divulged. "But thankfully we keep back-ups, so we didn't lose any information." All in all, Mr Radutskyi reckons his clinic's damage tally totalled $60,000 (Â£46,000). Others have been unwilling to reveal how badly they were hit. Oschadbank - one of the country's biggest lenders - was among those that declined an interview with the BBC. Even now, almost a month after the so-called NotPetya strike, some companies inside and outside the nation are still facing disruption. Ukraine's top cyber-cop disclosed that some of the nation's largest companies were still too scared to share the full scale of the fallout with his investigators. And Sergiy Demedyuk - head of Ukraine's ministry of internal affairs' cybercrime division - added he has come to believe there are aftershocks still to come since the hackers appear to have compromised their targets for some time before they pounced, and might still be sitting on data they could yet exploit. NotPetya initially appeared to be a ransomware attack, but many now suspect its blackmail demands were a cover for something more ominous. Experts who have spoken to the BBC are seemingly sure of two things: first, Ukraine was the target, and second, it was not about money. Despite denials, suspicion has fallen on Ukraine's eastern neighbour, Russia. "Cyber-attacks are just one part of Russia's wider efforts to destabilise the country," Nato's former chief civil servant Anders Fogh Rasmussen told the BBC. "In my time as secretary general we agreed that a cyber-attack could trigger Nato's mutual defence clause. "The Alliance has been assisting Ukraine especially with monitoring and investigating security incidents. However... more support is also needed for prevention." One cybersecurity veteran has been investigating how a local software developer's program, MeDoc, came to be hijacked to spread the malware. "It wasn't just [a case of] take over MeDoc's update server and push out NotPetya," explained Nicholas Weaver from University of California, Berkeley. "Instead, they had previously compromised MeDoc, made it into a remote-control Trojan, and then they were willing to burn this asset to launch this attack," he added, referring to the fact the servers have since been confiscated by the police. "That really is huge." MeDoc's tax filing services were used by more than 400,000 customers across Ukraine, representing about 90% of its domestic firms. Although it was not mandatory for local companies to use

Summary: When the attack came, it took hold quickly and brought a screeching halt to many businesses across Ukraine.


Her stepson, filmmaker Carlo Alberto Pinelli, told the Hollywood Reporter that she had died on 1 May in Spain. In Casablanca, Lebeau plays Humphrey Bogart's spurned lover. In a famous scene, she tearfully shouts "Vive La France", after the clientele in Rick's CafÃ© sing La Marseillaise to drown out singing by German soldiers. Born in 1923 near Paris, she fled Nazi-occupied France with her then husband, prominent actor Marcel Dalio, in 1940. The couple ended up in Hollywood, and both played in Casablanca. In the film, Bogart plays an American cafe owner in Morocco, a territory controlled by France's Nazi collaborationist regime. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her husband escape Casablanca to continue fighting the Nazis. Lebeau played in two more US films before returning to France after the war. Her subsequent work includes the role of a temperamental French actress in Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963).

Summary: French actress Madeleine Lebeau, the last surviving cast member of the classic 1942 film Casablanca, has died at the age of 92, her family says.


The Scottish champions went out 4-3 on aggregate after a 2-0 defeat in Sweden. Deila said: "The hype about the Champions League is big, everybody wants it so badly. You have to deal with it but we looked very stressed. "We didn't look like we wanted to go out and play football. We have a lot of young players coming through but this was a hard lesson for us." The Norwegian was new to the Celtic manager's job when his team was knocked out in the play-off round last season by Slovenian side Maribor. But having reshaped the team on his way to winning the Scottish Premiership in his debut season and across this summer, he was confident he could guide them into the group stage of the Champions League at the expense of the Swedish champions. And with a 3-2 lead heading to Malmo's 20,000 capacity stadium his side were in a strong position to qualify. Malmo are fifth in the Swedish league, seven points off the leaders with only nine matches to play of their summer season. Media playback is not supported on this device But Celtic will now compete in the Europa League and find out their opponents in Friday's group stage draw. Among the teams in Europe's second-tier competition are Liverpool and Tottenham. "We looked very uncomfortable on the ball. We looked frightened and scared and that is very disappointing," he said in his media conference afterwards. "It was a team performance that was not at the level we should expect at these games. We have to learn from this, some very hard learning. "We knew if we were at our best we had a good chance to go through but we were not even close. "We have shown that the Europa League is the level we have to compete at and it is better than nothing. It is a good competition." Asked about the goal Nir Bitton had disallowed for a foul - replays showing that Bitton's marker, Kari Arnason, had handled the ball in the aerial challenge - Deila felt Serbian referee Milorad Mazic had made "a big mistake". "It could have changed the game - it is irritating that we lost that," he said.

Summary: Celtic were "scared and frightened" in their Champions League exit to Malmo, said boss Ronny Deila.


Ross, 39, has agreed a deal that runs initially until the summer of 2016. The former St Mirren defender has coaching experience from stints at Dumbarton and Hearts, where he departed in October. Ross will be in the dugout for Saturday's home match against the Buddies. Alloa are bottom of the Championship, three points adrift of Livingston, who they beat 1-0 on Saturday.

Summary: Scottish Championship strugglers Alloa Athletic have appointed Jack Ross as their new manager following the resignation of Danny Lennon.


The monitoring of paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland was conducted by the IMC up until 2011. The PSNI has previously said it would support any move to set up such a body. Lord Alderdice, who is also a former leader of the Alliance Party, said he did not think it would be appropriate for the commission to return now. Talks will begin next week in Belfast in a bid to resolve the current crisis, sparked by the murder of ex-IRA man Kevin McGuigan Sr. Police believe that killing was in retaliation for the murder of former IRA commander Gerard Jock Davison in the Markets area of Belfast in May. The Ulster Unionists withdrew from the executive after police said Provisional IRA members had a role in the killing. "The current crisis is of a different order," Lord Alderdice told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme. "Even before the horrible murders of these two men, we were right on the edge of devolution being set aside. "If somehow or another, magically, the issue of these two murders was taken out of the picture, we would still be in that position of crisis where the assembly, the executive, is about to be suspended or fold because there is no agreement on the governance of Northern Ireland. "The IMC or any new IMC could not help that problem at all, it did not have a political mandate to try to get people to negotiate on the politics and the governance issue. "I think it is maybe unwise for people to look back at a form of treatment that worked before and say: 'Oh well the symptoms are the same so the diagnosis is the same'."

Summary: The ex-chair of the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) has said he does not believe bringing it back would solve the latest Stormont crisis.


The visitors started brightly and broke the deadlock in the seventh minute when Rhys Browne found the bottom corner of Ryan Clarke's net. The game became more open as the first half wore on, with both sides creating a number of chances, but it remained 1-0 at the break. Macclesfield had the ball in the net once again seven minutes after the interval but the flag was up. Eastleigh nearly equalised in the 70th minute but Ayo Obileye's header clattered against a post. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Eastleigh 0, Macclesfield Town 1. Second Half ends, Eastleigh 0, Macclesfield Town 1. Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Danny Whitaker replaces Rhys Browne. Substitution, Eastleigh. Ben Close replaces Sam Togwell. Substitution, Eastleigh. Mekhi Leacock-McLeod replaces Craig McAllister. Substitution, Eastleigh. Scott Wilson replaces James Constable. Second Half begins Eastleigh 0, Macclesfield Town 1. First Half ends, Eastleigh 0, Macclesfield Town 1. Adam Dugdale (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card. Goal! Eastleigh 0, Macclesfield Town 1. Rhys Browne (Macclesfield Town). First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.

Summary: Macclesfield moved within three points of the National League play-off spots after recording a 1-0 victory over Eastleigh.


The money is owed by absent parents who have been referred to the Child Support Agency. Accounts prepared for Parliament by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) class £2.9bn of the £3.9bn in maintenance arrears as "uncollectable". Ministers said the focus was on debts for children still being brought up, but old debts would not be "forgotten". The Child Support Agency (CSA) was set up 21 years ago with the aim of ensuring that if a relationship broke down, a parent could not just walk off and leave an ex to pay the costs of bringing up their children. The CSA's role was to calculate maintenance - and ensure that non-resident parents paid up. But it has been dogged with problems. Computer systems did not work properly. Mistakes were made with assessments and absent parents were not tracked down. In 2012, a new child maintenance system was introduced in an effort to draw a line under the CSA's difficulties. The Child Maintenance Service, as the new system is called, does not consider recovering the historic debts on the CSA's books as a priority. Around 1.3 million single parents are owed money the CSA ruled they were entitled to - and some have been waiting years. One single parent, Marianne Miles from London, said she badly needed the money the CSA ordered her ex-partner to pay towards their son. But after nearly seven years of waiting for payment, she has all but given up. "I am not hopeful of seeing any of that money to be perfectly honest," she said. "They [the CSA] haven't made much effort to get anything - even £30 a week - so I have practically written off all of it." In 2008, Marianne Miles, from London, was made redundant from her job as a publicist. Raising her teenage son alone became a severe financial struggle. She turned to the CSA, which ordered her ex-partner to contribute. To this day, she still has not received the money owed, which has built up to a total of £12,000. "I try not to get angry about it, but it's not fair," she said. "If he owed the government council tax money, or for a parking ticket, they would pursue it and make sure it was paid. But when it's paying maintenance towards your own child, it is not deemed as important." Her son is now 20 and has left home, but Marianne is still responsible for him financially. "Just because he didn't have it before doesn't mean he doesn't need it now," she said. "It would make a huge difference. "He's a student so it could go towards his books and his food, that I have to support, and he's learning how to drive. I'm the only person around to help him." Janet Allbeson, from the single-parent charity Gingerbread, believes the government should be recovering unpaid maintenance, even in cases that have been going on for years. She said: "If they do manage to get the money, even if it is years late, it can really make a difference to

Summary: Billions of pounds owed in child maintenance may never be recovered, government accounts show.


The 32-year-old scored 25 points on Sunday to pass the milestone in his 10th season with the Cavaliers. He now has twice as many points as Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who is second on the team's all-time list with 10,616. James, who also played for Miami Heat, is eighth on the NBA all-time list with 27,938 career points. Media playback is not supported on this device Elsewhere the Atlanta Hawks needed four periods of over-time to beat New York Knicks 142-139. The game lasted for more than four hours, after the teams were tied after 48 minutes and then played periods of five minutes until there was a winner. Hawk's Paul Millsap played 60 minutes, including 35 consecutive minutes, to finish with 37 points.

Summary: LeBron James became the first player to score 20,000 points for the Cleveland Cavaliers when the NBA champions beat Oklahoma Thunder 107-91.


Flight MU736 was heading from Sydney, Australia to Shanghai, but the pilot reported problems with the engine about one hour after taking off. Passengers, who had to spend the night in Sydney, told media they smelt something burning inside the aircraft. The Airbus A330 landed safely and there were no reports of injuries. Images circulating on social media showed a large hole in the engine casing. Several passengers said they had heard a loud sound coming from the left engine shortly after take-off. One passenger told Australia's Seven News network: "All of a sudden we heard this noise... it kind of smelt like burning". "I was really scared. Our group was terrified." One woman on the flight told news agency Reuters: "The cabin crew went out and told us to fasten our seatbelts and tried to calm us down, but we were actually very panicked because we had no idea what was happening." Passengers said the crew cleared the seats near the affected engine. China Eastern Airlines said in a statement to the media that the crew had "observed the abnormal situation of the left engine and decided to return to Sydney airport immediately". It added that all passengers would be placed on flights leaving on Monday. Aviation safety authorities are now investigating. Aviation expert Greg Waldron of consulting firm FlightGlobal told the BBC that it would be "difficult to say at this early juncture what caused such extensive damage" to the China Eastern plane. He said investigators would likely look at all possible factors and examine maintenance records of the aircraft and engine. "They will also carefully assess whether a foreign object may have played a role in this," he said. Last month, industry websites The Aviation Herald and Aero.de published pictures from social media appearing to show a similar hole in another aeroplane's engine casing. Mr Waldron added it would be "too early" to say whether the Sydney incident was linked to other cases, but it would be something investigators would consider.

Summary: A China Eastern Airlines plane has had to turn back to Sydney airport after a technical failure which left a hole in an engine casing.


The 19-year-old moved to Glasgow a year ago and has played in more than 40 games for the Scottish champions. His 18-month deal ends in the summer and Roberts intends to return to City to battle for a place. "I'll always have that belief; the more you play, the more you improve," said Roberts. "It's been my first proper season playing men's football. I did a bit at Fulham, but I was in and out, the same at Man City, so coming here, the manager before [Ronny Deila] played me a lot and Brendan's [Rodgers] been really good with me as well. "It's been good and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I came here to improve, to win trophies and score goals. "Hopefully at the end of the season I can take that back with me to City and have a good go there. It's been a great experience and I'm thankful for that." Roberts has often found Scott Sinclair and James Forrest starting games ahead of him this season, but the winger says he has learned from working alongside Sinclair in particular. He also insists that the camaraderie within the squad has been a significant factor as Celtic reached the Champions League group stages and have put together a run of 25 unbeaten domestic matches. If Celtic can avoid defeat against St Johnstone on Wednesday, they will equal the record of 26 set by the Lisbon Lions in the 1966-67 season. Roberts, though, insists that the players are not giving too much thought to the record. "The team spirit's been great since day one, when the manager came in and the boys came back for pre-season," he said. "We've kept each other going, we've had good times, fun together, and done well on the pitch. It shows in results and if we continue to do that, it should be a very good season for us. "It's [about] momentum, you feel good, positive and go into every game believing you can win. The more you win, the more positive you are. We're in good stead right now and we'll go into Wednesday firing and ready to go. "We're just going out with the mentality to win every game. On Wednesday we'll show that again. We'll be buzzing to be back in the league and looking to put on a good show. "It's more other people [looking at the record], we just focus on trying to win. We'll do all we can to do that and focus on the game."

Summary: Patrick Roberts believes his loan spell at Celtic will prepare him for the challenge of trying to break into the Manchester City first team.


The incident, in a village in western Bengkulu province, sparked a rare debate in Indonesia about sexual violence. The maximum penalty would have been 15 years each, but the judge said he took into account the boys' youth. The girl, Yuyun, went missing on 2 April on her way back from school. Her body was found in undergrowth two days later by villagers, bruised, beaten and with her hands tied. The case was not widely covered by Indonesian media until it was picked up by activists online several weeks later. That led to protests in the capital, Jakarta, and prompted the Minister for Child Protection Yohana Yembise to call for rapists to face the death penalty. Five men are also facing trial in connection with the case, and police say two more suspects are still on the run.

Summary: Seven boys below the age of 18 have been sentenced to 10 years in jail each in Indonesia for the gang rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl.


After talks in Nairobi, President Obama and Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta said they were "united against terrorism" and efforts to deal with it. But the two leaders differed sharply in their positions on gay rights. While Mr Obama spoke strongly against discrimination, Mr Kenyatta said Kenya did not share the same values. Earlier Mr Obama praised Africa's economic and business potential in a speech. "Africa is on the move... People are being lifted out of poverty, incomes are up (and) the middle class is growing," he told a business summit. BBC Africa Live: Obama in Kenya as it happened He also visited a memorial for those killed in the 1998 US embassy bombing. The trip, which began on Friday, is Mr Obama's first visit as president to the country where his father was born. Barack Obama said he was encouraged by statements President Kenyatta had made about the need to root out corruption. People were being "consistently sapped by corruption at a high level and at a low level" and there was a need for "visible prosecutions," Mr Obama said, to show Kenyans that action was being taken. "They don't have to be a forensic accountant to know what is going on." Police officers and civil servants had to be paid properly to help curb corruption, but sometimes it just required "breaking the habit". Unlike some other Western leaders, Mr Obama neither lectured Mr Kenyatta nor patronised him at their joint press conference. Instead, he spoke like a friend - that Kenya needed to stamp out corruption to attract investments and to make life easier for its own businessmen who have to pay bribes. And Mr Obama pointed out that the US was also once badly affected by corruption, but it had overcome the problem, giving hope to Kenyans. What Kenya needs, Mr Obama said, were "visible prosecutions". Will Mr Kenyatta make sure that this happens or will it be business-as-usual after Mr Obama leaves? As for gay rights, Mr Kenyatta left the clear impression that Kenya will not legalise homosexual relations. Mr Obama is likely to continue to speak in favour of gay rights, but there was no indication that the issue could cause a serious rift between the two countries. President Obama had told the BBC he would deliver a blunt message on gay rights when he travelled to Africa - and defended his stand in response to a question at the joint news conference. "If somebody is a law-abiding citizen, who is going about their business... and not harming anybody, the idea that they are going to be treated differently or abused because of who they love is wrong. Full stop," he said. But Uhuru Kenyatta said gay rights were not "foremost" in the minds of Kenyans. There were "some things that we must admit we don't share - our culture, our societies don't accept," he said. "It's very difficult for us to be able to impose on people that which they themselves do not accept." In other comments, President Obama said: Five things we learned from BBC Obama

Summary: The US president has urged Kenya to hold "visible" trials to tackle corruption, which he said could be the "biggest impediment" to further growth.


Nye Frankie Newman, 17, from Aldershot in Hampshire, died in the French capital on New Year's Day. Speaking at the memorial in Guildford, his mother Debs Malone told the crowd of teenagers to carry his spirit "forever". A minute's silence was held at the event, organised by the Brewman parkour group Mr Newman co-founded. His friends took part in a "remembrance jam" afterwards. Ms Malone, 49, said: "Can I ask you all, please carry Nye's spirit with you forever and always, and smile. "I want you all to put your hand on your heart now and we are going to get down for my boy. "Stay safe, stay brave, stay strong yeah? And be happy." Alex Grubb, 18, who helped to organise the event, described the teenager as kind, caring and "very eccentric". He said: "He had his own style, he wasn't like anyone else. He was a bit out there, very opinionated but very loving at the same time." Organisers estimated about 200 people attended the memorial. Before the event, Guildford council and Surrey Police had warned businesses to take "reasonable measures to prevent rooftop access". But organiser Luke Stones, 16, said: "We have had made it clear people should not go on rooftops. "If they go on rooftops, it's not parkour, that's another sport. Today, we are sticking to ground level." He said rooftop running was more usually referred to as urbex, climbing or roof-topping. Mr Stones said people had travelled from across Europe and Hong Kong, where Mr Newman visited in the summer. He said organisers could not comment on Mr Newman's death, but confirmed he "was not participating in parkour" at the time of the accident. Guildford council said it provided Portsmouth Road car park as a meeting place for the memorial, but not as a place for free-running. A statement said: "By providing an area for the memorial event, the council does not condone or encourage parkour or free-running in our car parks, properties or anywhere else in the town or borough, whether it is at a low level or on rooftops." Mr Stones defended the activity and said: "It is another form of exercise. "It is a way to express your emotions through movement. "When you're doing parkour you're at one with yourself, it's almost like a meditation." The UK this year became the first country to officially recognise parkour as a sport.

Summary: Free-runners gathered to remember a parkour enthusiast who died in an accident on the Paris Metro.


This time the poll was held under a new constitution, designed to prevent a repeat of that violence when more than 1,000 people died when supporters of rival candidates clashed. They have been choosing a president, members of parliament and senators, the new posts of county governors and members of county assemblies. The presidential contest is seen as a two-horse race between Prime Minister Raila Odinga against Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta. BBC correspondents around the country sum up how the voting went. The queues in some places stretched for more than a kilometre, as voters in Kibera stood patiently in line. The neighbourhood is one of Nairobi's largest slums. It is the constituency of Raila Odinga, one of the favourites for the presidential contest and the scene of some of the worst violence following the last election in 2007. Today, many had arrived before dawn, waiting patiently in line, sometimes for hours. Voters cast their ballots into colour-coded boxes - six each - for a variety of different representatives, local and national. The memories of five years ago are still fresh and, as the campaign drew to a close, a sense of apprehension was palpable. Police talked of conspiracies to cause chaos and warned that violence would be met in kind. But, in Kibera at least, as the sun grew hotter and the umbrellas came out, the mood was up-beat. "Peace, peace," one crowd shouted as a truck of paramilitary police trundled past. We came across a man with dreadlocks and a pot of white paint. His message, "Peace wanted alive", can be seen daubed on walls and roads around the neighbourhood. The real test of peace, though, is likely to come once all the ballots have been cast, and the results start coming in. As the sun begins to set, the heat is easing and some polling stations are still open after the official closing time of 17:00, with queues of people determined to cast their vote. Tensions have been running high in this insecure and arid region near the Somali border and there has been a heavy security presence at the polling stations - with between five and 10 armed police officers on guard. On Sunday night one people died in an explosion and another person was shot dead in what is believed to be election-related violence. Some people began queuing at 05:00 - an hour before the polls opened. But there has been frustration in the long queues, with some buying water to pour over their heads to cool themselves down and others sitting under umbrellas. The biometric voter ID systems have not worked at the polling stations in this north-eastern town so electoral officials have had to resort to the manual voters registers. The computerised fingerprint and facial identification was introduced after the last election to prevent fraud. This slowed the whole process down, as has the fact that about 60% of voters have needed assistance to cast their ballot as they are illiterate. One woman with a baby on her back told me that after waiting

Summary: Kenyans have been voting in a key election - the first since the disputed contest of December 2007 that triggered weeks of bloodshed.


The warning comes as the Scottish curry industry will celebrate its annual awards ceremony in Glasgow on Monday. The rules prevent non-EU chefs being employed if a restaurant offers a take-away service. The UK government said this was designed to drive innovative cuisine. But industry sources say it has led to restaurants closing because they cannot recruit skilled chefs. The rules, laid down by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) and the Home Office, are part of the Tier 2 visa scheme, which allows workers of sufficient skill levels to be employed on the Shortage Occupation List. They must be paid at least Â£29,570 a year, and to meet the criteria the job must also not be in a fast food or "standard fare" outlet, or an establishment which provides a take-away service. But Ajmal Mushtaq, who runs a restaurant in Hamilton providing up to 3,000 meals a week, said that was "total insanity". Holding two portions of a curry - one on a plate, the other in a take-away carton - he said: "Here is a chicken tikka chasni, one of our top selling dishes. "What the government are saying is: if I put that same dish into a container, I'm not allowed to bring expert chefs over from India. "The quality is the exact same." Mr Mushtaq said the restriction meant that plans to expand his restaurant have been put on hold. He currently employs three Indian-born chefs who have been in Scotland long enough to qualify for permanent resident status, but wants to increase his staffing. "As a result of bringing over three chefs a few years ago, I have been able to create 52 jobs in this business," he said. "We are at the point of expanding our business. If I were to bring over another two chefs, I would be able to increase the number of employees up to 95 in this one establishment alone." The industry has been putting pressure on the government to review its rules, particularly in the wake of the Brexit vote, which it sees as offering an opportunity to workers outwith the EU. International Development Secretary Priti Patel, who campaigned for a Leave vote said during the campaign, said it was a "travesty" that curry houses were subjected to a "second class UK immigration system" in comparison to EU chefs. With a growth in online apps such as Hungry House and Just Eat promoting home delivery of food, Hans Ram, chief executive of the catering recruitment agency Goldstar Chefs, said the government approach to the Indian restaurant sector was wrong. "They have totally misunderstood and misconceived the industry as being a low-paid, low-skilled jobs base. Which it is not," he said. "The biggest consequence to this is actually the skills erosion - erosion of authenticity. "It is affecting the product that the public are being served." He also pointed out that the Indian restaurant sector in the UK is worth an estimated Â£4bn a year.

Summary: Indian restaurants are closing in Scotland because strict immigration curbs mean it is difficult to recruit top chefs from the Indian sub-continent, it has been claimed.


That's how David Miliband, who heads the International Rescue Committee, recently phrased two pressing goals for Syria. On Monday, as a second round of peace talks gets under way in Geneva, both the worsening war and a grave humanitarian crisis will be on the agenda again. For much of the first round, UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi expressed anguish over the failure of warring sides to agree, at the very least, a humanitarian ceasefire in the embattled city of Homs. Then, a few days after talks broke up, the UN announced a "humanitarian pause" had finally been reached between government and opposition forces. Suffering of Syrian Palestinians In pictures: Escaping besieged Homs Over the past three days, a temporary truce allowed more than 600 women, children and the elderly to escape the ruins of a shattered Old City which has been in rebel hands, under siege by government forces, for nearly two years. Young men who left the area were taken in for questioning by Syrian forces. Their fate is still not clear. But the joint aid convoy of the UN and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Society (SARC) still came under mortar and gunfire when it entered the area with food and medicine to ease the suffering of starving people. More than 15 aid workers were pinned down, unable to exit, for hours. "All the devils in this crisis will always try to hinder our work," regretted SARC's head of operations Khaled Erksoussi, on a telephone line from Damascus with a voice tinged with exhaustion and anger. "We have to be stubborn and not lose hope about getting aid to the people in need," he emphasised. Badly needed food distribution has also started in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus which has been cut off for many months. But Christopher Gunness, spokesman for the UN's Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said the operation has had to be suspended because of clashes close to the distribution area. Such is the sad reality of the existential battle in Syria. Everything - even daily bread and innocent children - are weapons in this war. If there are, to use Mr Erksoussi's phrase, "devils in this crisis", there are also few angels. All sides are putting civilian populations in harm's way to press for advantage on the battlefield. Videos and eyewitness accounts point to attacks by pro-government forces in the latest violence in Homs but Syrian officials put the blame on "terrorists" and infighting among rebel forces. There is still no recognition on the ground of that mantra repeated endlessly outside Syria that "there is no military solution to this crisis". That is what makes the prospects for success in the Geneva talks still so slim. Like these aid operations, negotiations will be a tortuous process of small steps forward, and big lurches backward. "Its very good that it is taking place but I am sad to report there is no progress," admitted a grim-faced Mr Brahimi at the Munich Security Conference only hours after the first round ended in Geneva. "It's not often

Summary: "If peace cannot be brought, how can humanity be brought to the conduct of the war?"


The 1999 Open winner has dropped to 424th on the world rankings from a high of 26. "I hate the position I'm in," the Aberdonian told BBC Scotland. "I don't like not being a good golfer. "I've been putting off an operation on my foot for about four or five years now and I'm going to go in and get it done this winter." Lawrie explained that he has a bone spur and cist on his foot. "Once I hit 100 balls, my foot is in total bits and I can't handle any more," the Scot revealed. "My game is not in the best of states. "I'm going to go in, get it done and hopefully next year I'll come back a little stronger. "I'm going to bite the bullet and it's going to be a couple of months recuperating with it. "I want to be up there. I want to be challenging and I've had a few bits and pieces in the last few years that have stopped me. "It's just so difficult when you've got an injury and you're playing against these guys who are all younger, all fitter, all stronger, all hitting it past you but you still feel competitive." Lawrie, who is a vice-captain with the European Ryder Cup team, will be at Castle Stuart this week for the Scottish Open, which acts as a dress rehearsal for the Open at Troon. "I can't wait," he added. "Castle Stuart has been a brilliant venue in the past. "The thing a lot of players didn't want was to be battered on a golf course that was mega-tough before the Open. "They didn't want their swing wrecked and Castle Stuart is just perfect. "You want it to blow round there and be a challenge, but you don't want it to be silly tough before you go into the Open."

Summary: Paul Lawrie hopes foot surgery this winter will help breathe new life into his golfing career at the age of 47.


Slovakia is launching a legal challenge to mandatory quotas that were passed in a majority vote on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Hungary's prime minister has proposed a radical budgetary revamp to raise funds. The summit will focus on tightening EU borders and aiding neighbours of Syria, from where many migrants come. The talks were continuing well into the night, having started just after 19:00 Brussels time (17:00 GMT). Draft proposals seen by the BBC, that are being discussed at the summit, include: European Council President Donald Tusk called for "a concrete plan" to secure the EU's external borders, "in place of the arguments and the chaos we have witnessed in the past weeks". As she arrived at the summit, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite said it was "not a lack of European unity, but a lack of European wisdom" that had led to this point. On arriving, British Prime Minister David Cameron said the UK would be giving another £100m ($152m) to help Syrian refugees, including £40m towards the World Food Programme. "We need to do more to stabilise the countries and the regions from which these people are coming," he said. The UK has opted against taking part in the relocation scheme and has its own plan to resettle migrants directly from Syrian refugee camps. The scale of the problem was highlighted again on Wednesday when Croatia revealed that 44,000 migrants - including 8,750 on Tuesday - had arrived there since Hungary completed a fence along its border with Serbia last week. Analysis: Chris Morris, BBC Europe correspondent As thousands of people continue to arrive on European shores, EU leaders are trying to focus on longer term solutions, to try to stem the flow. The EU can't ignore the divisions and disagreements that have emerged in the last few weeks between member states that have different ideas about how this crisis should be confronted. One EU official said there was a need to clean up the bad blood around the table. Progress may be made this evening, but it will take years of political engagement to make a significant difference. And there will be more bumps in the road. Relocation deal explained Hungary proposes its own deal Why central Europe says 'No' One young Syrian's story On Tuesday, in a rare move for an issue involving national sovereignty, EU interior ministers approved the resettlement scheme by majority vote rather than unanimous approval. The deal will see thousands of migrants moved from Italy and Greece to other EU countries. A proposal to take 54,000 migrants from Hungary was dropped. The plan's opponents have lashed out. However, Czech PM Bohuslav Sobotka said on Wednesday it would not launch a court challenge, adding: "Europe must not fall apart on the migration crisis." Romania said it could manage its allocation but President Klaus Iohannis insisted mandatory quotas were not the answer. The UN has warned that the relocation alone would not be enough to stabilise the situation. Close to 480,000 migrants have arrived in Europe by sea this year, and are now reaching European shores at a rate

Summary: Splits within the EU on the relocation of 120,000 migrants have been further exposed as leaders hold an emergency meeting in Brussels.


Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said it was hard to seek EU help on migration "when some regions in your own country say the problem has nothing to with them". Leaders in Lombardy, Liguria and Veneto warn they cannot accept more migrants. Italy is struggling with a huge surge in migration, with nearly 6,000 people rescued from the sea just this weekend. More than 50,000 people have arrived in Italy this year, most of them setting sail from Libya aboard unsafe vessels. More than 1,500 people have drowned while making the Mediterranean crossing this year. The deaths have prompted an EU effort to boost naval patrols off Libyan waters. The rescued migrants are brought ashore to centres throughout Italy, where they are expected to remain until their claims for asylum within the EU have been processed. Speaking to reporters after the G7 summit in Germany, Mr Renzi said the EU had to acknowledge that its current system for dealing with migrants was not working. "What we need to do at the moment is solve problems, not by shouting but through action," he said. He also urged the EU to take in more refugees from Italy, saying a recent plan to relocate 24,000 refugees to other European countries was "not enough". The influx has put a severe strain on Italy's asylum infrastructure, and has fuelled support for right-wing politicians who oppose immigration. On Sunday, the president of Lombardy, Roberto Maroni, said his region would not take in any more migrants. He also threatened to cut funding for local authorities who continued to accept migrants. His stance was supported by Luca Zaia, the president of Veneto and a member of the Northern League. He was also backed by Giovanni Toti, the newly-elected president of the Liguria region and a member of Forza Italia. The three northern regions are among the most affluent in Italy, and have so far accommodated around 15% of the latest migrant influx. Sicily, a relatively poor southern region with high unemployment, has accommodated 22%. Italy's government predicts a total of 200,000 migrants will arrive on its shores this year, up from 170,000 in 2014.

Summary: Italy's government has criticised leaders in the north of the country for their refusal to host any more migrants rescued from the Mediterranean.


The crash happened outside Castle Bytham, south of Grantham, on Wednesday afternoon. The 73-year-old pilot, from Thurnby, Leicestershire, is being treated for back and leg injuries. A 52-year-old tanker driver was treated for minor injuries and the 61-year-old occupant of the property was unhurt. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has said it is aware of the incident and is making inquiries. Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said the man who lives in the bungalow was in the garden and pushed the tanker driver out of the way, to prevent them both being hit. The pilot became stuck in the plane, which was embedded in the building, and the aircraft's landing gear broke off and landed on a bed. A police guard remains in place at the bungalow while recovery work is carried out. Pete Wiles, from the fire service, said: "If they hadn't moved... they would have been hit. "It's a fairly miraculous escape... there's an overhead power line nearby which it missed as well."

Summary: An investigation into how a small plane narrowly avoided two men and then struck a bungalow on a farm in Lincolnshire is continuing.


The detective leading the enquiry said the soldiers are not obliged to speak to the police because they are being treated as witnesses and not suspects. Thirteen civilians were killed when soldiers opened fire on a civil rights march in Londonderry in 1972. A 14th died later. Police resumed their investigation into the killings in January.. The information about 100 soldiers being contacted emerged on Thursday following fresh criticism of the police investigation by some Bloody Sunday families. Det Ch Insp Ian Harrison, from the PSNI's Legacy Investigations Branch, said his team completed its "civilian witness enquiries" and made contact with more than 100 soldiers to "determine if they are willing to engage with us". "It should be noted that these soldiers are witnesses, not suspects, and are therefore not obliged to speak with us," said Mr Harrison. "The next stage of the investigation would be to interview those soldiers who are willing to engage with the enquiry team as witnesses." Mr Harrison said his team of officers was also carrying out a number of other enquiries in relation to the investigation which he described as a "long, complex and protracted". "I am content with the level of resources I have working on the investigation at this stage. "If at any time further resources are required they will be made available to me." Some Bloody Sunday families criticised the police investigation in a letter to Detective Chief Inspector Ian Harrison from Peter Madden of Madden and Finucane Solicitors. It said that some of the families were losing faith in the investigation because they had "heard nothing from the PSNI since a meeting in January and were entirely unaware of what progress had been made". Peter Madden also said there was a presumption that there had "still been no move by the PSNI to interview any of the soldiers involved in the shootings" and that this added to a perception that police were "reluctant to arrest and question soldiers as murder suspects". The letter continued: "Regrettably, as we fast approach the fifth anniversary of the delivery of Lord Saville's report, it seems that little has occurred in the interim to alleviate those public concerns and those that we represent are rapidly losing faith in the PSNI's ability to see their task through." Peter Madden demanded another meeting between the police and the families he represents. He also asked Detective Chief Inspector Ian Harrison to set out a full written progress report within the next 14 days. Mickey McKinney, whose brother William was killed on Bloody Sunday, told BBC Radio Foyle: "The entire investigation has slowed down. "The last meeting with the police was five months ago and we have been told nothing since then. "There was an agreement that there would be a meeting with families every three months but that hasn't been happening. "I only found out about the 100 soldiers being contacted last night (Thursday) but we want suspects being questioned in this case. "Sometimes I and other families just feel we are on a road to nowhere. "Some of the

Summary: The PSNI has contacted more than 100 soldiers as part of the investigation into Bloody Sunday.


Many people have been reluctant to seek medical treatment for Ebola, fearing that diagnosis might mean death as there is no proven cure. A team of 30,000 people is going house-to-house to find those infected and distribute soap. But critics say the lockdown will damage public trust in doctors. Meanwhile in neighbouring Guinea, the bodies of eight missing health workers and journalists involved in the Ebola campaign have been found. A government spokesman said some of the bodies had been recovered from a septic tank in the village of Wome. The team had been attacked by villagers on Tuesday. Guinea's prime minister said an investigation was under way, and vowed to catch the perpetrators of the "heinous murders". Correspondents say many villagers are suspicious of official attempts to combat the disease and the incident illustrates the difficulties health workers face. Sierra Leone is one of the countries worst hit by West Africa's Ebola outbreak, with more than 550 victims among the 2,600 deaths so far recorded. In the capital, Freetown, normally bustling streets were quiet, with police guarding roadblocks. During the curfew, 30,000 volunteers will look for people infected with Ebola, or bodies, which are especially contagious. They will hand out bars of soap and information on preventing infection. Officials say the teams will not enter people's homes but will call emergency services to deal with patients or bodies. Volunteers will mark each house with a sticker after they have visited it, reports say. 11,315 Deaths - probable, confirmed and suspected (Includes one in the US and six in Mali) 4,809 Liberia 3,955 Sierra Leone 2,536 Guinea 8 Nigeria On Thursday, President Ernest Bai Koroma said: "Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures." He urged citizens to avoid touching each other, visiting the sick or avoid attending funerals. Freetown resident Christiana Thomas told the BBC: "People are afraid of going to the hospital because everyone who goes there is tested for Ebola." Another resident in Kenema, in the east of the country, told the BBC families were struggling because the price of food had gone up. In the hours leading up to Sierra Leone's lockdown, there was traffic gridlock in Freetown as people stocked up on food and essentials. The BBC's Umaru Fofana in Sierra Leone Cities and towns across the country were quiet without the usual early morning Muslim call to prayer and the cacophony of vehicles and motorbikes that people wake up to here. Thousands of volunteers and health workers have assembled at designated centres across Sierra Leone and started moving into homes. But they had to wait for hours before their kit - soaps and flyers - could reach them. MP Claude Kamanda, who represents the town of Waterloo near Freetown, told local media that all the health centres there were closed, hours after the health workers and volunteers were meant to assemble for deployment to homes. He complained that the delays were not helping the campaign. The UN Security Council on Thursday declared the outbreak a "threat to international peace" and called on states to provide more resources to combat

Summary: A three-day curfew is under way in Sierra Leone to let health workers find and isolate cases of Ebola, in order to halt the spread of the disease.


They held private meetings with Theresa May in the wake of the Hillsborough inquests, which ended in April. Jurors found the fans who died as a result of the 1989 crush were unlawfully killed. The families also complained about the conduct of South Yorkshire Police. They called on the home secretary to put the force into remedial measures. It is understood the proposed 'Hillsborough Law' would seek to place a further onus on those in public office to cooperate positively with investigations. The families were told about developments in two ongoing criminal investigations into the disaster at the meetings with the home secretary, which were held in Warrington. Theresa May has previously praised the dignity and determination of the victims' relatives. Chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, Margaret Aspinall, whose son James died in the disaster, said: "I myself for the very first time felt - I'm sure the families did as well - that at last there's a home secretary that's actually listening to them." The home secretary has met some Hillsborough families before, but this is the first time that she's spoken directly to them since the inquests ended. Theresa May spent several hours in Warrington, meeting separately with the two main groups of relatives. The atmosphere was said to be heated, with some of the families complaining directly to her about the conduct of South Yorkshire Police during the inquests. Some relatives asked for assurances that there will be criminal prosecutions, and I'm told that they wanted to make sure that the home secretary personally understood the emotional toll that the two-year inquests have taken. Although the Hillsborough families welcomed the jury's finding of unlawful killing, they know that many months of uncertainty lie ahead before they find out whether criminal trials will follow. The Independent Police Complaints Commission revealed that 19 people have refused to assist with their probe into the conduct of officers from West Midlands Police, which investigated the tragedy. The watchdog has now handed files on suspects to the Crown Prosecution Service in its largest-ever inquiry into alleged criminality and alleged police misconduct. The IPCC has contacted 258 officers and staff members involved in the investigation into the tragedy and a total of 161 statements have been taken. The watchdog said: "Our intention remains to submit full files of evidence to the CPS by the turn of the year to enable decisions to be made on whether any individuals should be charged."

Summary: Relatives of the 96 people who died at Hillsborough have told the home secretary they want a "Hillsborough Law" to compel public officials to tell the truth at inquiries.


The man was injured by accident on "soft ground" near Okehampton in Devon, police said. The man was with his 10-year-old daughter the time, officers said. There were no reports she was injured. It is not known how extensively the man was injured, but Sgt Harry Tangye, of Devon and Cornwall Police, tweeted that the early signs were "good". An air ambulance was called to the scene after the incident on Tuesday morning.

Summary: A man has been injured when he was run over by a JCB forklift handler vehicle in a field.


Mr Oyston sued Stephen Reed over material posted on a fans' webzine, Back Henry Street, in June 2015. Mr Justice Langstaff in the High Court in Manchester ruled Mr Oyston was blameless and Mr Reed's allegation was untrue. The verdict comes the day after the club was relegated to League Two. Mr Reed's website posting claimed the club chairman entered into a foul-mouthed rant at him in public, held a gun in such a way as to make Mr Reed believe he was about to be shot at and had assaulted Mr Reed and put him in fear for his safety or even his life. The judge said judgment for Mr Oyston was entered in August 2015 and Mr Reed now accepted the club chairman did not brandish a gun at Mr Reed, who maintained had not lied about the incident since he had given his honest opinion. In ruling Mr Oyston was blameless, the judge added that further libel had not been discouraged by an award in an earlier action brought by Mr Oyston against another supporter, David Ragozzino. The judge said the effect appeared to have been "to stir up, and maintain, resentment of and hostility" toward Mr Oyston and his wife Victoria. He ordered Mr Reed to pay Mr Oyston £30,000 and his legal costs. Mr Reed was among a number of Blackpool supporters unhappy about the way the Oyston family have run the football club. Fans have held regular protests and boycotted games over the past two seasons. Mr Oyston was fined £40,000 in June and banned from football activity for six weeks by the Football Association for five breaches of aggravated misconduct after sending abusive and insulting text messages to a fan.

Summary: Blackpool Football Club's chairman Karl Oyston has won £30,000 in libel damages from an abusive fan who claimed Mr Oyston threatened him with a shotgun.


11 August 2015 Last updated at 19:18 BST Safid has travelled 5,000 miles from his home and is currently one of thousands of migrants living in a camp called the Jungle in Calais, France. It's thought more than 600 child migrants arrived in the UK without their parents last month alone. And Safid told Newsround reporter Martin Dougan that he will do whatever it takes to try and get to Britain soon. Find out why child migrants want to come to the UK

Summary: An 11-year-old migrant from Afghanistan has been speaking to Newsround about being separated from his father during a year long trip to try and reach the UK.


Media playback is not supported on this device Michael Allen's try helped a sluggish Ulster into a 10-0 lead at the break but the hosts sparkled in the final 20 minutes as they scored five tries. A penalty try was reward for constant pressure and Stuart McCloskey went over before Ireland wing Craig Gilroy sprinted in for the bonus point. Andrew Warwick touched down before Gilroy completed the rout. Ulster edged out Treviso in Italy last month and they were expected to brush aside the visitors on home soil. However, Treviso applied the early pressure as Ulster made a lacklustre start to the game. The Italians failed to capitalise on their territorial dominance and Ulster finally sparked into life, with a 19th-minute penalty from Ruan Pienaar getting the hosts on the scoreboard. The opening try came seven minutes later, with Allen jinking inside and darting through before Pienaar added the extras. Ulster were now the team in control although handling errors and stubborn Treviso defending kept the gap at 10. Pienaar had the chance to extend Ulster's advantage with the final action of the half, but the scrum-half saw his penalty strike the upright. Ulster pinned Treviso back on the restart but rustiness from the three-week break was evident as unforced errors denied them a try. Lewis Stevenson rumbled over from close range but it was ruled out for offside, although Treviso captain Antonio Pavenello was sinbinned for a deliberate knock-down in the move. His second-row replacement Tomas Vallejos was also yellow-carded as Treviso infringements mounted. The pressure finally told courtesy of a converted penalty try on the hour mark and Ulster could now target the bonus point. Treviso finally registered a score with Joe Carlisle's penalty before Ulster added a third converted try as replacement McCloskey muscled over in the corner on 68 minutes. It was quickly followed by the bonus-point try, with Gilroy finishing off a passing move on his 100th appearance for Ulster although Pienaar missed the conversion. Treviso were visibly wilting and Ulster were taking full advantage as replacement Warwick charged over before Gilroy intercepted a pass before sprinting in for his second try. Pienaar converted both tries as Ulster came away with a victory which leaves them level on points with the pacesetting Ospreys. Ulster: Ludik, Gilroy, Cave, L. Marshall, Allen, Humphreys, Pienaar, Black, Herring, Herbst, Stevenson, van der Merwe, Wilson, McComish, Williams. Replacements: McCloskey for L. Marshall (54), Warwick for Black (67), B. Ross for Herring (74), J. Andrew for Wilson (74), Diack for Williams (54). Not Used: C. Ross, P. Marshall, Nelson. Benetton Treviso: Hayward, Esposito, Bacchin, Christie, Nitoglia, Carlisle, Lucchese, Zanusso, Giazzon, Harden, Pavanello, van Zyl, Swanepoel, Budd, Luamanu. Replacements: Pratichetti for Nitoglia (45), Novak for Zanusso (48), Anae for Giazzon (48), Manu for Harden (63), Vallejos for van Zyl (40), Cattina for Swanepoel (73). Not Used: Ambrosini, Seniloli. Sin Bin: Pavanello (53), Vallejos (59). Att: 15,518 Ref: Ian Davies (Wales).

Summary: Ulster moved up to second in the Pro12 standings thanks to this bonus-point win over Treviso at Kingspan Stadium.


The county council plans to build 200 council homes and 300 affordable homes. The first will be built on the site of the former Custom House Lane School in Connah's Quay. Meanwhile, the nearby "old dairy" on Mold Road is being flattened along with some terraced homes on the adjacent High Street. The former dairy has stood empty for more than 30 years. The council has asked experts to draw up proposals for the site, which will be levelled and seeded once demolition work is completed in March.

Summary: Building work is due to start next month on the first new council homes in Flintshire for more than 20 years.


The cameras will be operated by the Canadian Urthecast company, which intends to stream high-resolution video of the planet to web users. Russian cosmonauts completed the attachment in a six-hour spacewalk on Monday. It followed an aborted installation attempt in December. On that occasion, there was a difficulty in getting telemetry through to Moscow mission control. In a statement on Tuesday, Urthecast confirmed that both cameras were passing data to the ground following the latest effort. "During the installation, we were able to complete all of the intended tests during the spacewalk," the statement read. "At this time, all telemetry received and analysed is within our expected results." The cameras were made for Urthecast by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, UK. The high-resolution video unit should provide a resolution on the ground of about 1m per pixel. Large crowds and moving vehicles would be visible on this scale. The second camera will provide static imagery at a medium resolution of 5m per pixel. "Testing of every part of the camera system will now follow. Once that's completed, we can expect the first imagery to be released publicly," said Prof Richard Holdaway, the director of RAL Space. "We'll be helping Urthecast. We'll be checking the optical alignment and focus, to see that it is everything we expected," he told BBC News. Urthecast hopes to build a business around space station imagery. One of the customer sectors for the hi-res video, for example, is likely to be news organisations that want moving pictures of major events, such as war zones and regions of the Earth hit by natural disasters. It is hoping also to generate social media buzz around its imagery products, by enabling people to tag and share pictures through a special web portal. Urthecast is one of a group of Earth observation start-ups currently in the process of launching and commissioning space hardware. Skybox Imaging of San Francisco has already started to showcase video of Earth acquired by its small, free-flying SkySat-1 satellite. And Planet Labs, another San Francisco venture, has a "flock" of 28 nano-satellite imagers that are about to be released out of the airlock on the ISS. The station itself is increasingly becoming a platform for Earth observation. This is quite a challenge, however. The movement of the astronauts inside the ISS makes it flex, and there is a constant vibration from onboard equipment. All this requires cameras to have dampers built into their rigs to maintain a steady shot. The US space agency (Nasa) will be launching another two Earth-observing instruments to the station this year. One will study ocean winds and storms; the other will examine small particles in the atmosphere that can influence the climate.

Summary: Two British-built Earth-observation cameras have been successfully installed on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS)


It is part of a wider disposal of problem debt on both sides of the Irish border. Most of the loans - 86% - that are being sold off are in the Republic of Ireland. The rest relate to business in Northern Ireland. While the face value is about £15m, the actual value is now likely to be considerably less. The process starts next week and should be completed by the end of the year. It is understood the loans being disposed of have been under special management for a significant time. The sale is not connected to the squeeze on agricultural incomes linked to the current downturn.

Summary: Ulster Bank is to sell off agricultural loans in Northern Ireland with a face value of about £15m.


Police said that someone opened fire from a passing car and witnesses spoke of up to a dozen shots being fired close to the main police station. "Nothing is known about the culprits yet but we can guess that this involves local crime gangs," investigators told German media. The suspects fled and the area was quickly cordoned off. The shots were fired in Friedrich-Stoltze Square, a busy area of bars and cafes, as local people enjoyed the Ascension Day holiday in the sunshine.

Summary: At least three people were wounded, two seriously, when shots were fired in the German city of Frankfurt on Thursday.


Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were found dead on a beach on the island of Koh Tao on Monday. British brothers Christopher and James Ware were questioned but police now say there is no evidence against them. Officers had said there was "strong evidence" against Burmese suspects, but now say there are no DNA matches. Forensic tests carried out on Ms Witheridge's body revealed traces of semen from two different men, neither of which matched DNA from Mr Miller, the Ware brothers or 11 Burmese people they have been questioning. Meanwhile, Thailand's prime minister has apologised after he appeared to suggest beautiful women in bikinis could not be safe. BBC south-east Asia correspondent Jonathan Head said police have admitted they "really don't know where to look now". He said investigators had several problems, including that the crime scene was not sealed off and people were not stopped from leaving Koh Tao after the killings. "The impression we got from a police press conference [on Thursday] was they haven't really made much progress at all," he added. He said police were looking for a group of men who were heard singing "Western pop songs" near the crime scene. Post-mortem examinations showed Ms Witheridge, from Hemsby in Norfolk, died from head wounds and Mr Miller, from Jersey, died from severe blows to the head and drowning. Police said Mr Miller also suffered wounds on his hands, which indicated a struggle had taken place. Their bodies were found close to the beach-side bungalows where they had been staying. A garden hoe believed to have been used in the attack was found nearby. Members of Ms Witheridge's family have arrived in Bangkok and had a meeting with Thailand's deputy police chief. British consul Michael Hancock said they were "deeply distressed" and it was "very important for the family" to speak directly to a senior police officer. Thailand's paradise island murder mystery The Ware brothers, believed to be from Jersey, were stopped at Bangkok International Airport as they prepared to leave the country. Police earlier said they were "possible suspects" but did not arrest them. Formally making people suspects is an official judicial process in Thailand. The BBC understands they have now been told they can leave Thailand. British freelance journalist Andrew Drummond, who lives in Bangkok, said the investigation seemed to have followed the "same pattern" as those into previous killings of Britons in Thailand, such as the unsolved murder of Kirsty Jones in 2000. "Police initially seem to always seek the foreigners or the immigrants as the main suspects and that certainly happened in this case," he said. "We've had a week of toing and froing between British suspects and Burmese immigrant suspects and now we find out that... the DNA doesn't match anybody." Speaking earlier this week, Thailand's prime minister appeared to suggest attractive women put themselves in danger by wearing certain clothes. "Can they be safe in bikinis... unless they are not beautiful?" he said. General Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led a military coup in May, has since said: "I'm sorry that

Summary: Thai police admit they are struggling to find the killers of two British tourists, after it emerged crime scene DNA did not match that of any suspect.


Wilson rejoined Championship side Forest from Celtic for £2.5m in August 2013, but has been without a team since being released in May. The 30-year-old made 51 appearances in his second spell at the City Ground, having spent four seasons at the club prior to signing for Celtic. He has also previously had spells with Preston North End and Notts County. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

Summary: Rotherham United have signed former Nottingham Forest centre-back Kelvin Wilson on a one-year contract.


Giving evidence against Ralph Clarke the woman, now in her 50s, said she did not want "to go to my grave knowing that I let him get away with it". The former lorry driver is alleged to have committed 31 offences against three children, including one as young as seven, between 1974 and 1983. Mr Clarke, of Holly Lane, Erdington, Birmingham, denies the charges. The alleged victim told jurors she went to police because she was unable to cope with the "guilt" of not making a complaint. See more stories from Birmingham and the Black Country here The witness told the court she had decided to complain to police in August last year after suffering nightmares and flashbacks. She told Birmingham Crown Court she had hidden abuse she suffered as a young child from school friends. Responding to questions from Mr Clarke's barrister Darron Whitehead, the alleged victim said: "I hid it from everybody because you feel dirty and ashamed - I felt as if I had done something wrong." When Mr Whitehead said Mr Clarke denied abusing her, the woman added: "I am not going to my grave knowing that I let him get away with it; I am not taking that guilt to my grave. "He's a monster. I couldn't cope with it any more." Mr Clarke denies 17 charges of indecent assault, 12 offences of indecency with a child and two attempted serious sexual offences. The trial continues.

Summary: A 101-year-old man accused of child sex offences was described as a "monster" by an alleged victim.


Vokes is now tied to the Turf Moor club until the end of the 2018-19 season. "My massive goal is to do well at club level and play at the Euros in the summer," Vokes told BBC Radio Wales. The 26-year-old, who has six goals in 37 games for his country, has been with the Clarets since joining from Wolves in July 2012. He has scored 31 goals in 137 appearances in all competitions for Burnley, with a total of 64 in 300 career games. He has netted five times in 27 games for Sean Dyche's side this season. "It's great to put pen to paper, I've been very happy at Burnley, it's a club I've found a home at in the last few years," he said. "We are concentrating on pushing for promotion and that was a massive factor in signing the new deal, the belief I have in the club. "Promotion is a big aim and I think we've got the squad to do that." A spot in Chris Coleman's 23-man squad for Wales' first major football tournament since 1958 this summer is another priority. "I'm not guaranteed a spot, it's never a given or something I'd take for granted. You need to be playing well for your club to be picked for your country," Vokes added. "I need to do well this season and that gives me the best chance of going to France and forcing my way into the team." Vokes' 2014-15 campaign was hampered by a cruciate ligament injury but has suffered no problems since having surgery. "Three-and-a-half more years shows faith from the club in me and they stood by me with my injury," he said. "I'm over the injury, it's behind me now, but the club were great with me. "Playing week in and week out has helped."

Summary: Striker Sam Vokes is aiming for promotion and a place in Wales' Euro 2016 team after signing a new contract with Burnley.


Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews said Labour needed a leader to win elections, not "return to the politics of the 1970s or 1950s". Fellow ministers Vaughan Gething and Ken Skates support Andy Burnham, while three Labour AMs back Jeremy Corbyn. No AMs have publicly come out in support of Liz Kendall. First Minister Carwyn Jones has not named his preferred candidate, but has said veteran left-winger Mr Corbyn would be an "unusual choice" for the party. On Wednesday, Mr Andrews said he understood the "romantic appeal of anti-austerity politics", but said Labour had to be able to win power to change things. At the general election in May, Labour had "appeared both pro-austerity and economically incompetent, which was a hell of an achievement", he added. "Labour must either be in the business of bringing change or else it is worthless," he said. Declaring his support for Ms Cooper, Mr Andrews said Labour needed a leader "who looks and sounds different from the blokeish Westminster culture, who understands that the personal is political". Mr Corbyn, who ended a two-day campaign visit to Wales with a rally in Cardiff on Tuesday, has more nominations from local parties in Wales and across the UK than any of the other three contenders. But the only Welsh MP to nominate him - Huw Irranca-Davies - said he only did so to ensure a broad range of candidates, and that he intended to vote for Ms Cooper. Mr Burnham has the backing of nine Welsh MPs and four AMs, while Ms Cooper has support from eight Welsh MPs and four AMs. Ms Kendall is backed by five Welsh MPs but no AMs, while Mr Corbyn has support from three AMs. The winner, to be chosen by a vote of Labour party members, will be named on 12 September.

Summary: Yvette Cooper has been urged to "show her passion for change" by a Welsh government minister backing her for the Labour leadership.


The crackdown began last month when Turkish ISPs were told to cut off the virtual private networks people use to hide where they go. Many people are changing the way they connect to Tor to avoid the block. Activists said the block moved Turkey's net censorship policies from "moderate" to "severe". Tor, also known as The Onion Router, aims to conceal where people go online by using encryption and randomly bouncing requests for webpages through a network of different computers. The system has become popular in many nations, such as China and Turkey, where governments are known to watch what people do and say online. Now Turkey Blocks, which monitors internet censorship in the nation, said its regular monitoring of Tor showed that it was being widely blocked across the country. The organisation started to investigate after many people in Turkey reported having problems reaching the Tor network. It added that the Turkish government had put in place sophisticated systems at ISPs to spot when people were trying to connect to Tor. These inspect packets of data and can pick out the distinctive signature of those that are destined for Tor. Turkey Blocks said the Turkish government ordered firms to start blocking VPNs and Tor in early December, and has increased the pressure on firms to act by asking for weekly updates about the success of the measures. The monitoring group said that while direct access to Tor was not working well, many people were reporting that they could still access the network if they used a bridge. These are unofficial entry points to the Tor network which, because they are not listed in the software itself, can survive when blocks are imposed. Turkey has a long history of cutting off access to websites and services - particularly during periods of social unrest.

Summary: Turkey has blocked direct access to the Tor anonymous browsing network as part of a wider crackdown on the ways people circumvent internet censorship.


The group carried out a nine-month investigation into the 53,000 images handed to the opposition by a military police photographer, codenamed Caesar. Researchers interviewed former prisoners, defectors, forensic experts and families of the disappeared. Syria's government and its allies had questioned the images' authenticity. They were first published in January 2014 in a report by three former war crimes prosecutors that was commissioned by Qatar, which supports the political and armed opposition in Syria. In an interview earlier this year, President Bashar al-Assad said: "You can bring photographs from anyone and say this is torture. There is no verification of any of this evidence, so it's all allegations without evidence." But on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch laid out in a new report what it said was new evidence regarding the authenticity of the Caesar photographs, identifying a number of the victims and highlighting some of the key causes of death. The US-based group said it had located and interviewed 33 relatives and friends of 27 victims whose cases researchers verified; 37 former detainees who saw people die in detention; and four defectors who worked in Syrian government detention centres or the military hospitals where most of the photographs were taken. Syria torture report In pictures: Syria accused of torture Using satellite imagery and geolocation techniques, HRW confirmed that some of the photographs of the dead were taken in the courtyard of the 601 Military Hospital in Mezzeh, a western suburb of the capital Damascus. The group also identified a coding system for the cards placed on the bodies. "We have meticulously verified dozens of stories, and we are confident the Caesar photographs present authentic - and damning - evidence of crimes against humanity in Syria," said Nadim Houry, HRW's deputy Middle East director. HRW said its report focused on 28,707 of the 53,275 photos smuggled out of Syria by Caesar that, based on all available information, showed the bodies of at least 6,786 people who died in detention or after being transferred from detention to a military hospital. The remaining photographs are of attack sites or of bodies identified by name as of government soldiers, other combatants, or civilians killed in attacks, explosions or assassination attempts. Most of the victims were detained by just five intelligence agency branches in Damascus, and their bodies were sent to at least two military hospitals in Damascus between May 2011, when Caesar began copying files and smuggling them out of his workplace, and August 2013, when he fled Syria, HRW said. Forensic pathologists from Physicians for Human Rights analysed a subset of the photos, and found evidence of several types of torture, starvation, suffocation, violent blunt force trauma, and in one case, a gunshot wound to the head. Among the 27 victims identified by HRW - all of whose families spent months or years searching for news of their whereabouts, in many cases paying huge sums to contacts and middlemen - were Rehab al-Allawi, a boy who was 14 at the time of his arrest for having an anti-Assad song on his phone, and student Rehab

Summary: Human Rights Watch says it is confident photos smuggled out of Syria by a defector in 2013 showing 6,786 people who died after detention are authentic.


The move comes after Mexico drew their opening Confederations Cup game 2-2 with Portugal in Russia. Fifa has since warned the FMF about "insulting and discriminatory chants" and said it could take further action if it happens again. Mexico have already been fined eight times during World Cup qualifying because of homophobic chanting. Some fans of Mexico shout an insult at keepers when they take a goal-kick which is argued to be homophobic. "As you know, Fifa is very serious about the chanting that we do when the goalkeeper takes a kick, and the possible sanctions are serious," said a statement from the FMF. "Our efforts on the pitch will come to nothing if, because of this (behaviour), we lose the match, the game is suspended or you are expelled from the stadium. "We lose, you lose, everyone loses."

Summary: Mexico's football federation (FMF) has asked a "small group" of its fans to stop a chant Fifa says is homophobic.


He said pro-devolutionists should be working together to ensure Wales does not lose powers. The former party leader dramatically announced his exit on Friday, prompting anger from some of his colleagues. He has rejected demands for him to stand down and trigger a by-election. Labour has a minority of AMs in the assembly and needs other parties to help govern. Plaid Cymru has not agreed to a formal coalition deal with Labour, but did allow Carwyn Jones to return as first minister following an earlier deadlocked vote over whether Mr Jones or Plaid leader Leanne Wood would take the top job. Lord Elis-Thomas, who represents Dwyfor Meirionnydd, said: "It was clear to me that the Plaid group in the National Assembly was not willing to seriously participate in government and to give Wales a stable government, particularly after the decisions taken in Wales and elsewhere about our future relationship with the European Union". "There is a serious constitutional challenge now and we might well lose powers from Wales," he said. "I think all pro-devolutionists should be working together to ensure that doesn't happen." Lord Elis-Thomas was critical of the deadlocked first minister vote, caused when the Tories and UKIP backed Ms Wood for the top job. He said it was done without his knowledge and was "totally inappropriate". Asked if he would support the next Welsh Government budget, which is due to be tabled on Tuesday, he said: "It depends on what's in it." "I have to be satisfied that that budget contains funding for the work I'm doing for them now", he said, pointing to his work on the future of designated natural landscape areas in Wales. Last year Lord Elis-Thomas clashed with his party over remarks he made about its general election campaign. He suggested efforts in the wake of the row to make him refrain from public statements about controversial issues breached his human rights. On Saturday the peer alleged that he had been "forced to attend an unconstitutional party meeting" by the national executive committee "in which they sought to deselect me as a candidate in Dwyfor Meirionnydd after I had been selected properly by the constituency party". "The whole episode was totally disorderly. I said so at the time, they wouldn't listen to me," he said. Lord Elis-Thomas said he had been "forced to agree to not speaking publicly about any matters they regarded as controversial without specific permission of the party chair". "I stuck with that until the last election," he added. "I certainly don't think I had any further obligation to anyone within the party and that I should be able to speak my mind as an assembly member. "It's contrary to democratic principles as well as my human rights to try to stop an AM from speaking out in support of his constituents and in support of his own principles." Former Plaid Cymru president Dafydd Iwan was among party figures who criticised the former presiding officer at the weekend. He said: "I'm saddened by his decision. "But I think Dafydd has never been a

Summary: Lord Elis-Thomas left Plaid Cymru to sit as an independent AM because the party was not "serious" about taking part in the Labour-led Welsh Government, he has said.


The 32-year-old was dropped in 2013 after playing nine Tests, amid reports he fell out with coach Andy Flower. He was recalled for last winter's series win in South Africa. "For some people cricket is a lifestyle. For me it's a job," he said. "Because I don't laugh and joke with the media or the opposition, that doesn't mean I'm intense." Batting at number three, Compton scored 245 runs at an average of 30 as England won 2-1 in South Africa, but his place for the first Test of the summer against Sri Lanka starting on 19 May is not certain. In his first spell in the Test side, Compton opened with captain Alastair Cook, averaging almost 32 in nine matches. "I don't think I'm far off cementing my place in the side," the Middlesex batsman told BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. "I felt really settled in the England team in the South Africa series. It was a good group of guys to be around - professional and relaxed. "I am an intense performer - I go out there and concentrate my hardest. The job of batting in the top three can be tough and I pride myself on my work ethic. "Off the field I am a different guy. I do have a lot of friends away from cricket and a lot of other interests. People don't always see that."

Summary: England batsman Nick Compton says his approach to the game does not make him an intense character.


A passer-by found two men unconscious and bleeding at the side of the road in Grove Lane, Handsworth, at about 03:00 BST. One of the men died at the scene and the other is critical in hospital. Both are thought to be in their late 20s, West Midlands Police said. A finger-tip search of the area is under way, Detectives are also looking at CCTV footage of Soho Road and Douglas Road, which have been closed for forensic examination.

Summary: One man has been killed and another seriously injured in a double stabbing in Birmingham.


Gatwick claims Sir Howard Davies's decision not to back a second runway at the airport in West Sussex was flawed. Sir Howard has written to the government insisting issues raised by Gatwick were carefully considered before the report was written. The government is due to decide which airport should expand by Christmas. The Airports Commission spent three years hearing submissions, including those from Gatwick and Heathrow, about how best to expand airport capacity in the South East. Its report, on 1 July, said there should be a third runway at Heathrow. Gatwick had argued strongly that it should be allowed to expand instead. It has said the economic argument for expanding Heathrow is flawed and Sir Howard was using passenger numbers that were "10 years out". Sir Howard forecasts Gatwick at 40 million passengers by 2024 but the airport says it will hit that number this year. In a letter to Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin, Sir Howard says the Airports Commission believes strongly its work is robust. "The majority of the points made by Gatwick Airport Ltd were also made to the commission in the course of its work and we considered them carefully before we reached our conclusions," he said. Crispin Blunt MP for Reigate, who chairs a group of local MPs who oppose expansion at Gatwick hit out at the airport for continuing to campaign for expansion. "Sir Howard Davies has demolished Gatwick's arguments, which amount to a feeble public relations effort to undermine the credibility of the Airports Commission's work and recommendations," he said. Gatwick said it stood by its view that Sir Howard's report was flawed. "If backed by government it will inevitably lead to 'Heathrow Groundhog Day' with nothing happening once again," said chief executive Stewart Wingate.

Summary: The chairman of the Airports Commission has rejected Gatwick's criticism of its report recommending expansion at Heathrow.


A post-mortem examination found that Mr Hunter, from Coulsdon in south London, died from a single gunshot wound at the private event in Headley, near Epsom. Two other people were also injured in the shooting shortly after 02:30 BST on Monday. A 36-year-old woman was shot in the leg and taken to hospital while another man was treated for minor shoulder wounds. A man from London, 38, who was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder remains in custody. A woman, 30, arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been released on conditional bail until September, police said. Specialist divers have been searching a village pond for the gun used in the shooting, while forensic teams are continuing a detailed examination of the address in Church Lane. More than 400 people were at the party at the hired house. The annual event had been organised by reggae dancehall artist Jason White and his girlfriend Summerlyn Farquharson. He told BBC Newsbeat they used seven security staff with metal detectors to check all the guests as they arrived. Det Ch Insp Paul Rymarz, from the Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team, said: "This was a shocking incident where a man lost his life and we are determined to bring those responsible to justice." He said police intended to speak to everyone who was at the party, and appealed for anyone not already contacted to come forward. "This incident has understandably sent shockwaves through the Headley community and we are working with our Safer Neighbourhood Team colleagues to update and reassure residents," he said. "We do not believe there is any ongoing risk to Headley residents."

Summary: A man who died during a shooting at a pool party in Surrey has been named as 34-year-old Ricardo Hunter.


Bingham, who won the World Championship in 2015, reached the semi-finals of the 2016 event before being knocked out by eventual winner Ronnie O'Sullivan. The 39-year-old told BBC Essex he would play in this year's tournament if his wife gives birth before his first-round game against Joe Perry on Monday. "The only question I'd ask myself is if she actually went on the day," he said. "Obviously it could happen and even now I still haven't got an answer to that question. I'd have to talk it over with my wife and see where we go." Bingham, the current world number two, said his wife has been supportive in wanting him to play at the tournament, which gets under way on Sunday. He continued: "She's had two previous babies and she's been in labour for 10 hours, so obviously if that's the case then I've got a bit of time to 'pot some balls and hurry up' sort of thing. "As I say, we need to talk the next day or two because we thought it'd be out by now. "But being the stubborn Little Miss Bingham it's going to be, I think she's a bit too comfortable in my missus' belly."

Summary: Stuart Bingham may pull out of the Masters if his wife goes into labour with their third child.


About half of the former John Player factory in Radford, built in 1895, has now been torn down in a series of controlled demolitions. The decision on whether to erase it completely will be made by its owners and insurers. Senior firefighters have said the blaze at the Victorian landmark, which was being converted into student accommodation, was the most complex they had ever dealt with. So how much damage has the fire done to the city's architectural landscape? Maria Erskine, curator of community history for Nottingham City Museums and Galleries describes the site as "significant" in terms of the social and economic history of the city. She says the factory was envisaged in the 1880s and was the only remaining one commissioned by John Player himself. "Radford was an undeveloped area before these factories were built, so it really showed the growth," Ms Erskine said. "It was built just after Radford Boulevard was laid down and it was the building up of Radford, so that's why it was so significant." Players built three factories in the area, though they originally only needed one. It was used by the lace-making industry before cigarette production began there in 1903. Players' Victorian factories featured high ceilings and large windows. Many of the company's original buildings were demolished when the larger Horizon factory was built to meet the firm's production needs in Lenton in the 1970s. "Players relocated because they couldn't build anymore in Radford as there was so much housing and that's why there's been a slow erosion of these buildings. "The firm's advertising later took off through slogans such as "Player's Please", which was registered in 1924. Player's sponsorship of major sporting events such as motor racing, tennis and rugby in the last half of the 20th Century also helped it become a household name. The Lotus Formula One team was sponsored by John Player from the late 1960s until the 1980s. In 2009, the city council and the University of Nottingham began an online archive of more than 20,000 objects from the firm's history. The items include adverts, packaging and enamel signs from the 1890s to the 1980s.

Summary: A 19th Century factory, once a grand beacon of Nottingham's industry, has been largely reduced to ashes and rubble after a fire consumed it for more than a week.


It was England's first victory away in New Zealand since 2001 and followed wins against Australia and Canada in the four-team tournament. The Red Roses recovered from 14-7 down after 30 minutes to win a ninth game in a row on Sunday. Emily Scarratt, Abbie Scott, Lydia Thompson, Marlie Packer and Vicky Fleetwood scored the tries. "With analysis we can look at what we have to improve on but we needed to give everything against the best side in the world. We've done that and so are rightfully very happy and very proud," said head coach Simon Middleton. England are preparing for the Women's Rugby World Cup, which takes place in Ireland and starts in Dublin on Wednesday, 9 August. "We have built through the series and to come out and to put in a performance like that against New Zealand is something we're very pleased and happy about," said England captain Sarah Hunter. "We wanted to stick to our processes, stay patient and that's exactly what we did. We took everything we've been doing in training onto the pitch."

Summary: England beat New Zealand 29-21 in Rotorua to finish the International Women's Rugby Series unbeaten.


David Harris, 68, who had become "besotted" with another woman, was found guilty of offering to pay an undercover policeman £150,000 to murder Hazel Allinson. His Old Bailey trial heard he wanted to inherit her West Sussex home and elope with sex worker Ugne Cekaviciute, 28. The Court of Appeal confirmed papers had been lodged for an appeal. Harris, the former producer of the police drama series The Bill, had claimed he was researching a spy novel and denied solicitation to murder at his trial. But the retired producer was caught when the police officer posing as a would-be hitman taped a conversation in which Harris said he was "100% sure" he wanted his partner dead. The jury was told Harris had mounting debts and was desperate to inherit his partner's £800,000 home in Amberley and set up home with Ms Cekaviciute. The Old Bailey was told Harris had approached London mechanic Christopher May in March 2016 and said: "I'm offering you £250,000 to kill my wife." In November 2016 he met an undercover policeman posing as a hitman called Chris in the car park of Sainsbury's in Balham, south London. They were introduced by a 6ft 3in "man mountain" called Zed, to whom Harris had previously given Ms Allinson's details and a photograph. Unknown to Harris, Zed, whose real name is Duke Dean, had already reported him to City of London Police, the court was told. Jailing Harris for 17 years in July, Judge Anne Molyneux QC said: "For your pipe dream, for your obsessive infatuation with a young woman, Ms Allinson, who had protected and nurtured you, was to die a painful and terrifying death in an isolated spot. "Her death was to fund your life. You had used her until she had outlasted her usefulness to you."

Summary: A retired TV producer is to appeal against his conviction for trying to hire a hitman to kill his partner.


Sharnford Traffic Action Group (STAG) said some motorists were clocked at "eye watering" speeds topping 100mph. It has campaigned against dangerous driving on Aston Lane and the B4114 in Leicestershire for more than 10 years. The county council has offered to install speed bumps on Aston Lane at a cost of Â£12,000 to the parish council. More on this story and other news in Leicestershire Motorists have been recorded by the village's speed monitor, which is moved around Sharnford - located near Hinckley and about 11 miles (17.7 km) from Leicester. STAG, which owns the monitor, sends the speeds of the vehicles to Leicestershire Police and the county council every month. It said according to its data, more than 13,000 motorists drove above 50mph in a 30mph zone in the past year and about 562,000 since November 2015. In the space of about 15 months, a total of 2.75m vehicles travelled through the village and about one in five - around 21% - were speeding, the data suggested. The group claims that if they had the powers to fine drivers the charges would total Â£5.6m. Sharnford parish councillor Mike Shirley, secretary of STAG, said: "The eye-watering figures demonstrate the inarguable need for proper, enforceable speed monitoring 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in the interests of safety." He added that homes have been damaged, lampposts and signs felled and pedestrians knocked over by lorries trying to navigate the narrow streets. Leicestershire County Council said their own speed survey showed the village would "not qualify" for speed cameras and it cannot afford to build a bypass without government funding.

Summary: Villagers who set up their own speed monitor say they have recorded more than half a million drivers breaking the 30mph limit since November 2015.


Mohamed Houli Chemlal is one of four surviving suspects who gave evidence. He and Driss Oukabir have both been charged with membership of a terrorist organisation and murder. Salah al-Karib has been detained pending further investigations, while Mohammed Aallaa was released on bail. According to Houli Chemlal, the group's plans - which he had known of "for at least two months - were scaled back when a house packed with bomb-making equipment blew up the day before. He was injured in the accidental blast that reduced the house to rubble in the town of Alcanar. The Alcanar explosion came the day before Thursday's Barcelona attack in which a van was driven at speed down the main Las Ramblas boulevard, killing 13 and injuring more than 100. Judicial sources quoted Houli Chemlal as telling the court a much bigger series of attacks had been planned. Assailants killed a total of 15 people in the van attack, the stabbing of a driver whose car was commandeered shortly afterwards, and a car attack in the resort of Cambrils hours later. Eight members of the cell are dead - two were killed in the Alcanar explosion, and six were later shot by police, including five after the Cambrils attack. The last suspect to be killed was Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, believed to be the driver of the Las Ramblas van. Wearing a fake explosives belt and armed with knives, he was shot dead by police in a vineyard west of Barcelona on Monday. The surviving suspects were moved, under high security, from Barcelona to Madrid for Tuesday's hearing. The court session, a preliminary hearing to gather evidence for a future trial, took place behind closed doors. Houli Chemlal was the first to testify, wearing hospital pyjamas. He is still being treated for his injuries from the blast in Alcanar. Oukabir, whose brother Moussa was among suspects killed after the Cambrils attack, has also given evidence to the Madrid court. According to judicial sources, he has changed his story to say that he admits renting the van used in the Las Ramblas attack but thought it was to be used for a house-move. Under earlier police interrogation, he is said to have maintained that his brother Moussa hired the van using documents stolen from him. Both have been held in jail. Two other suspects were killed in the Alcanar explosion, including Abdelbaki Es Satty, the Moroccan imam from the town of Ripoll thought to have been a radicalising influence on the suspects. The two other suspects appearing in court were: All four suspects giving evidence are reported to have testified that Es Satty was the ringleader of the group. As Tuesday's Madrid hearing took place, Ana Suárez, a Spanish woman in her 60s killed in Cambrils, was buried in a private ceremony in Zaragoza. Forty-five companies in a Catalonia association of undertakers and funeral companies have offered to perform funerals for the victims without charge. Most of the 12 suspects lived in Ripoll, north of Barcelona close to the French border. All were young men of North

Summary: The cell behind the Barcelona van attack had planned to use explosives against monuments including the city's famous Sagrada Familia church, a suspect has told a Madrid court.