Greece is now part way through its third eurozone bailout programme, worth up to 86bn euros (Â£74bn). The programme has encountered repeated delays as the lenders monitor compliance with policy conditions. Technical officials are expected to return to Athens soon to complete the negotiations. The "in principle" deal, as European Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici called it, was agreed at a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Malta. The main elements in the latest agreement are commitments to reduce spending on pensions from 2019 and to collect more income tax from 2020 by lowering the tax-free threshold. Together the two measures are intended to improve the Greek government's finances by the equivalent of 2% of the country's economic activity, or GDP. To sweeten a pill that will be unpopular in Greece, the other eurozone countries agreed that Athens would be able take other measures to stimulate the economy, if the government finances perform better than expected. The next step is that technical experts from three European institutions and the IMF will return to Athens to try to negotiate the remaining details. The Dutch Finance Minister, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who chairs eurozone ministers' meetings, called for them to put the last dots on the i's and reach a full agreement as soon as possible at staff level - that's the staff of the institutions involved in monitoring the programme. That is needed before there is political decision to make that delayed payment. Once there is a staff agreement, Mr Dijsselbloem said that the Eurogroup ministers would also look at the targets Greece would need to aim for in the government finances after the last bailout payments are made (due in 2018) and the question of debt sustainability - which means debt relief beyond what the eurozone has already provided. Debt relief previously has been in the form of reduced interest rates and longer payment periods, rather than reducing the amount of the principal sum that must ultimately be repaid. Further debt relief is likely to be in a similar form. Eurozone ministers have said it many times and it's politically more difficult for them with domestic political audiences if they were to explicitly write off a chunk of what they have lent. The International Monetary Fund has long argued that Greece needs more debt relief. That has been behind its reluctance to contribute financially to the third bailout. (It did chip in to the first two). Its involvement in the third so far is as an adviser and monitor of Greek performance. The rest of the eurozone, but especially Germany, would like the IMF to put some money in. That's not so much for the sake of reducing the eurozone contribution as for the better credibility they think the programme would have if the IMF did stump up some money. But IMF staff are so far unwilling to even recommend it to their board, which is made up of representatives of the agency's member countries. After the Malta meeting, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said: "We are at a point where we think there are

Summary: Eurozone finance ministers say they have agreed with Greece the main elements of a deal to unlock a delayed bailout payment.


In his speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Mr Cameron promised to open these religious schools to inspection. He said there was no problem with children learning about their faith in supplementary schools, but minds must be broadened, not "filled with poison". The Muslim Council of Britain said it had concerns about the plans. Speaking in Manchester, Mr Cameron told delegates: "Did you know, in our country, there are some children who spend several hours each day at a madrassa? "Let me be clear: there is nothing wrong with children learning about their faith, whether it's at madrassas, Sunday schools or Jewish yeshivas. "But in some madrassas, we've got children being taught that they shouldn't mix with people of other religions; being beaten; swallowing conspiracy theories about Jewish people. "These children should be having their minds opened, their horizons broadened, not having their heads filled with poison and their hearts filled with hate. "So I can announce this today: if an institution is teaching children intensively, then whatever its religion, we will, like any other school, make it register so it can be inspected. "And be in no doubt: if you are teaching intolerance, we will shut you down." It's only a year since plans for a voluntary code of conduct for madrassas were shelved by the Department for Education. Now, the government is going considerably further, with plans to consult then legislate to require supplementary religious schools to register and face what is being described as a "light touch" inspection regime. While any law would be broadly framed to include all religions, the thresholds of numbers of children and hours per week are likely to be set at a level that would exclude conventional Sunday schools as well as home education. This is about what is being described privately as the "hard edge" of some religious instruction that crosses firmly into the territory of inciting hatred or intolerance. There will be no tolerance of corporal punishment, but no prescription of what or how religious beliefs can be taught. Of course, the reality of trying to define that in law will prove complex and highly contentious. Ofsted may be less than keen to take on the additional role of trying to enforce sanctions, which could include plans to change through to closure. The prime minister said extremist religious supplementary schools were part of a wider problem of segregation within some communities, adding extreme madrassas "incubate these divisions". In a statement, the Muslim Council of Britain said: "We are concerned at the Prime Minister's targeting of the supplementary schools. "It is neither Islamic, nor prevalent in madrassas to be isolationist or to preach hate of other faiths. "We would hope that these serious allegations can be substantiated and the evidence brought forward, so that appropriate action can be taken." Downing Street said that the new inspection regime would apply to religious institutions offering eight or more hours of study a week to children in England. This could include Christian Sunday schools and Jewish yeshivas, but is more likely to cover up to 2,000

Summary: Religious supplementary schools in England that teach children intolerance will be investigated and closed down, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.


Wildlife enthusiasts had been watching the chicks and their mother and last saw them on the evening of 27 May. However all of the birds, which can be sold for thousands of pounds, disappeared from their Sutton Bank nest in the North York Moors before 4 June. North Yorkshire Police is investigating whether the disappearance was because of a predator or a criminal act.

Summary: Three peregrine falcon chicks have gone missing from a nest in North Yorkshire, sparking a police investigation.


The pair collided while attempting to take a catch during Sunday's T20 Blast game with Sussex at Arundel. The match was abandoned after ambulances took them from the field. Australia international Henriques, 28, broke his jaw in three places, while Burns, 24, had cuts around his left eye that required stitches. Surrey announced on Twitter on Monday that the pair were "in decent shape". And a further update from the club on Twitter 24 hours later read: "More good news on the lads - Moises has now been released from hospital and will see a dental specialist tomorrow. He's improving slowly!" Burns, meanwhile, tweeted his thanks "to all the medical staff" who treated the pair and his hope that his club colleague "keeps progressing well." Team-mate Kevin Pietersen, who was in the field at the time of the collision, said the incident deeply affected the team. "I kept thinking one of the guys will call. Then you think one will stop but then bang, bang. It was absolutely sickening," Pietersen told the Daily Telegraph. "When those guys went down and did not move it hit some of our guys very hard. "It was the right decision to abandon the match. We had lost two of our players, a lot of players were crying in the dressing room and it is only a game of cricket." Director of cricket Alec Stewart also posted a picture on Twitter of Burns smiling in his hospital bed. Henriques, who has played three Tests, six one-day internationals and four T20 games for Australia, joined Surrey in April as an overseas player for their T20 Blast campaign. Surrey-born Burns, a left-handed batsman and occasional wicketkeeper, made his first-class debut for the county in 2012. Surrey's County Championship game with Glamorgan began as scheduled on Monday.

Summary: Moises Henriques has been released from hospital following the on-field collision with Surrey team-mate Rory Burns that left him with a broken jaw.


The Cumbrians have gone 11 League Two games without defeat since the start of the campaign - a club record - and are up to third in the table. Carlisle's early pressure failed to yield too many clear-cut chances although Michael Raynes was inches off sliding home a Jason Kennedy flick-on after Danny Grainger swung over a corner from the right. The home side were second best for periods before half-time, but improved after the break and Raynes forced Sam Walker to tip his close-range header on to the crossbar. Raynes was involved again when Kennedy gave Carlisle the lead in the 50th minute, the defender heading Nicky Adams' corner back across the face of goal for Kennedy to force home. Colchester missed a great chance to level the scores in the 66th minute when Sammie Szmodics found himself one-on-one with Gillespie but lifted the ball over the goalkeeper and over the bar from eight yards. Szmodics then had a diving header cleared off the line, but substitute Ibehre relieved the tension in the 79th minute when his header from Grainger's corner on the left slipped through Walker's hands and into the net. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Carlisle United 2, Colchester United 0. Second Half ends, Carlisle United 2, Colchester United 0. Glen Kamara (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Charlie Wyke (Carlisle United). Attempt blocked. Dion Sembie-Ferris (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Substitution, Carlisle United. Jamie Devitt replaces Michael Jones. Attempt missed. Craig Slater (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Attempt missed. Denny Johnstone (Colchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Substitution, Colchester United. Glen Kamara replaces Sammie Szmodics. Foul by Reggie Lambe (Carlisle United). Lewis Kinsella (Colchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing. Attempt missed. Jabo Ibehre (Carlisle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Attempt saved. Jabo Ibehre (Carlisle United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Hand ball by Jabo Ibehre (Carlisle United). Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Reggie Lambe. Goal! Carlisle United 2, Colchester United 0. Jabo Ibehre (Carlisle United) header from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Danny Grainger with a cross following a corner. Corner, Carlisle United. Conceded by Tom Eastman. Substitution, Colchester United. Chris Porter replaces Drey Wright. Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Jabo Ibehre. Attempt blocked. Sammie Szmodics (Colchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Michael Raynes. Substitution, Carlisle United. Jabo Ibehre replaces Shaun Miller. Attempt missed. Craig Slater (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Michael Jones. Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Michael Jones. Attempt blocked. Drey Wright (Colchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Corner, Colchester United. Conceded

Summary: Second-half goals from Jason Kennedy and Jabo Ibehre helped Carlisle beat Colchester 2-0 and extend their unbeaten start to the season.


Costa, 27, was sent off during his club's 2-0 FA Cup quarter-final defeat at Everton last week, ruling him out of Saturday's game with West Ham. Chelsea boss Guus Hiddink said on Friday that Costa has a problem with a tendon in a hip muscle. Spain are away to Italy in Udine on 24 March before facing Romania in Cluj three days later. Athletic Bilbao forward Aritz Aduriz, 35, has replaced Costa as Vicente del Bosque's squad build-up to this summer's European Championships in France. Aduriz has scored 17 goals in 28 La Liga games this season. The Spain squad features six Premier League players. Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea and midfielder Juan Mata are included along with three Chelsea players - defender Cesar Azpilicueta, midfielder Cesc Fabregas and winger Pedro. Manchester City midfielder David Silva is also named. Goalkeepers: Iker Casillas (Porto), David de Gea (Manchester United), Sergio Rico (Sevilla). Defenders: Jordi Alba, Gerard Pique, Marc Bartra (all Barcelona), Sergio Ramos, Nacho (both Real Madrid), Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea), Juanfran (Atletico Madrid), Mario Gaspar (Villarreal). Midfielders: Sergio Busquets, Sergi Roberto (both Barcelona), David Silva (Manchester City), Mikel San Jose (Athletic Bilbao), Koke (Atletico Madrid), Cesc Fabregas (Chelsea), Thiago Alcantara (Bayern Munich), Isco (Real Madrid), Juan Mata (Manchester United). Forwards: Pedro Rodriguez (Chelsea), Alvaro Morata (Juventus), Aritz Aduriz (Athletic Bilbao), Paco Alcacer (Valencia), Nolito (Celta Vigo).

Summary: Chelsea striker Diego Costa has been left out of Spain's squad for friendlies against Italy and Romania.


The children were taken in a cross-border raid in the Gambella region last Friday, in which 208 people died. The government has said members of the Murle community were responsible. Flags have been flying at half mast in Ethiopia as the country mourns those who were killed. Africa Live: News updates from around the continent A government official in Gambella said that the abducted children would soon be rescued, the government-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate reports. South Sudan acting Foreign Minister Peter Bashir Gbandi is set to travel to Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, on Friday to coordinate the mission, the AP news agency reports. It says that South Sudan does not want Ethiopian troops to go deeper into the country. The area where the children are being held "is full of jungle", AP quotes Mr Bashir as saying. Ethiopia shares a long border with South Sudan and cross-border raids are not uncommon. Hours after news of Friday's attack emerged, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said the government had requested permission from South Sudan to enter its territory to pursue the attackers. The South Sudanese ambassador to Ethiopia also said his country was "cooperating and helping" the Ethiopian army to track down the raiders and rescue the abducted children. Ethiopia's request to enter South Sudanese territory seems to have been approved quickly. Before South Sudan's civil war began in 2013, joint security operations between the two countries were common as communities on both sides of the border were often involved in cattle raids. Residents of Gambella town held a demonstration on Thursday demanding "justice for what happened" and calling for better security. A mother whose husband was killed and three of her children abducted by the attackers earlier told the BBC that she had no hope of seeing her children again. "I don't know if they were killed during the crossfire," Chol Malual said. "The fighting was intense and if they survived, they will be probably be killed by the Murles." The targets of the raid were members of the Nuer ethnic group who live in both South Sudan and Ethiopia, the AFP news agency reports.

Summary: Ethiopia's army has surrounded the area in neighbouring South Sudan where it believes more than 100 abducted Ethiopian children are being held, local media report.


Robert Beck was shopping with his wife in the US state of Pennsylvania when they heard the commotion, he told the York Daily Record. "Man, there's someone in here with a frickin' gun," Mr Beck, 45, recalled thinking after hearing a loud bang. "When I seen it, it was game-on," said Mr Beck, who raises deer for meat. When he spotted the doe running into the bakery section on Monday night, he trailed after it, then grabbed it by the neck and began leading it towards the door. But it was spooked when it saw other customers, the newspaper reports, and kicked Mr Beck in the ribs, knocking him down. "I think she was scared from all those people," Mr Beck said. "She was like, 'Oh my God, what the heck did I get myself into?'" Two other shoppers, including another hunter, then came to help escort the deer back out of the front door. Local police praised Mr Beck's response, but cautioned against the public getting involved with wild animals. "There is too much risk of injury to the citizen," Northeastern Regional Police Chief Bryan Rizzo said. "If the citizen is an experienced hunter or someone with experiencing wildlife then I would say they should use their own judgment," Mr Rizzo added. "In this case, it was a hunter who had experience in handling live deer, and we are grateful for his intervention and quick thinking in getting the deer under control before the animal could injure anyone, itself or do more damage." Mr Beck says that he raises 16 deer, which he uses for meat, and keeps them penned at home. "My generation is a dying breed," he said. "People aren't into our lifestyle anymore. They'd rather sit at home and play a video game than enjoy the outside."

Summary: A deer burst through the glass doors of a supermarket and ran amok before being caught by a man shopping for medicine for his cold, local media report.


Notts folded on the eve of the Women's Super League One Spring Series season, prompting concern that players would be left without a club for the campaign. Players told the BBC on Friday that the timing had left them "abandoned". Four of England's squad for Euro 2017 - Carly Telford, Jo Potter, Laura Bassett and Jade Moore - played for Notts. A Football Association statement on Thursday said: "The FA can confirm that it has given Notts County Ladies players the opportunity to move to new clubs within England with immediate effect. "Following Notts County's decision last week to terminate its women's team, the FA has worked closely with the PFA and wider stakeholders to enable players to find new clubs as soon as possible. "Players are now in a position to sign for new clubs in England. They may also move to leagues in other countries where the transfer window is open." A statement from the Professional Footballers' Association on Friday had said: "We have also been in discussions with the FA and FAWSL to ensure that players can register with other clubs outside of the transfer window given the exceptional circumstances the players find themselves in due to no fault of their own." What remains unclear is how many WSL clubs will have contingency within their budgets for the Spring Series to sign additional players.

Summary: Notts County Ladies players will be allowed to sign for other sides after the club were liquidated, despite the English transfer window being closed.


The 22-year-old Bath man will have a scan on Saturday. If Watson, who missed the autumn internationals with a broken jaw, is ruled out, then it could present an opportunity to Gloucester's Jonny May. England, Grand Slam winners in 2016, start their title defence at Twickenham on 4 February.

Summary: England winger Anthony Watson is a doubt for the Six Nations opener against France after suffering a hamstring strain.


Although Hibs lost on penalties after a 1-1 aggregate score, the experience was one Laidlaw had not dared dream of. He last played in a 5-4 loss to Annan Athletic in April 2015 while on loan at Elgin City from Raith Rovers. "It's a big difference playing at Borough Briggs compared to playing away to Brondby," said the 24-year-old. Having returned to Raith, where he failed to dislodge first-choice keeper Kevin Cuthbert, he suffered a torn kidney in an innocuous training ground incident last December. "There was a concern that, with the severity of the injury, I might never get back to play football," acknowledged Laidlaw. "It took six months to get back and I'm just delighted that I'm fit again. "My main aim was to get back to training but obviously I'm delighted I got the chance to play and I think I did myself justice." Laidlaw's inclusion came at the expense of Otso Virtanen, whose first-minute mistake in the first leg led to the costly loss of an away goal to Brondby. "I feel for Otso," added Laidlaw. "I've been there myself many a time when I've made a mistake and dropped out the team. But I know he's a really good goalkeeper. "I see him in training every day and I really rate him. He's not in the Finnish under-21 team for nothing so he'll bounce back from it, definitely." Laidlaw produced two outstanding saves against Brondby to help his team take the Danes to penalties. And though that should be enough to ensure he keeps the number one jersey in the short term at least, it's not something he's had a chance to reflect upon. "I'm not really looking into that," he stressed. "I'm just glad I played and did really well. "I'm not looking at the next few games or the start of the [league] season. I'm just concentrating on doing well in training and taking it from there."

Summary: Ross Laidlaw admits he had to pinch himself as he made his Hibs debut in their Europa League second qualifying round second leg win over Brondby.


Hodson, 35, from Wigan died after the incident at the Joey's Windmill section of the Northern Ireland circuit. His brother Rob Hodson was involved in the crash but was not seriously hurt. Templepatrick man Lynd, 36, suffered his injuries in a crash on Wednesday while a third serious accident led to Thursday's Dundrod 150 being abandoned. The condition of the rider involved in Thursday's second crash is unknown. That incident happened in the National Challenge event and led to roads being closed for two hours as police investigated the incident. The earlier National race was immediately red-flagged and the Hodson brothers were taken to hospital after being treated at the scene. Jamie Hodson's death was later announced shortly after 22:00 BST. An experienced rider, Jamie Hodson was the reigning Manx GP Supertwins champion, and this year achieved a top-10 finish in the Isle of Man TT Lightweight race. The organisers of the event, the Dundrod and District Motorcycle Club, offered their sincere condolences to the Hodson family and friends and asked for their privacy to be respected. Thursday's Dundrod 150 meeting was part of the Ulster Grand Prix meeting which concludes with Saturday's main day of racing at the circuit.

Summary: English rider Jamie Hodson died in a crash at the Dundrod 150 on Thursday while Northern Irishman Stephen Lynd is critically ill after another incident.


Daniel and Samuel Sledden mocked Judge Beverley Lunt on Facebook after admitting drug dealing charges. Daniel, 27, posted within 90 minutes of leaving Burnley Crown Court, while Samuel, 22, made offensive remarks 40 minutes after he left the dock. Judge Lunt said the pair had not "learned any responsibility". The judge said: "The question I have to ask myself is this, if I had not known their real feelings at being in court would I have accepted their remorse and contrition, and suspended the sentence. And the answer is of course not. "Each of the posts indicate they have not changed at all. They have not taken on board anything or learned any responsibility." Both men, from Accrington had admitted supplying cannabis from the family home in Hopwood Street between May and September 2014 and were initially given two-year jail sentences, suspended for two years. Daniel Sledden used obscene language in a message he posted online and said he could not believe his luck at getting a suspended sentence. It "beats the three year jail, yes pal", he wrote. His brother also used profanity when celebrating: "What a day it's been Burnley Crown Court..nice two year suspended". Earlier this month, Judge Lunt told the court she did not want to read the messages out which contained "offensive sexual elements".

Summary: Two drug dealing brothers taken back to court for mocking a judge on Facebook when she decided not to jail them have now been jailed for two years.


Scientists were able to locate the hotspots by matching the DNA fingerprint of seized ivory to DNA profiles from the dung of elephants living throughout the continent. Around 50,000 elephants are thought to be poached each year. The worst area for poaching was identified as Tanzania and nearby parts of Mozambique. The Tridom, which spans parts of Gabon, the Republic of Congo and Cameroon, was also highlighted. The researchers say the data, published in Science, may increase international pressure to stop the killing. This week, the US government hopes to send out a message against the illicit sale of elephant ivory by destroying one tonne of elephant ivory in New York's Times Square. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) banned the international trade in ivory in 1989, but a black market trade continues to thrive. Ivory is used for trinkets, souvenirs and also in traditional medicines. With an estimated population of less than half a million, the ongoing African poaching problem is rapidly driving the animal towards extinction, according to some conservationists. International efforts to try to stop the ivory pipeline focus on points of sale and tightening up controls at potential shipping routes. But, Dr Samuel Wasser, a conservation biologist from the University of Washington and lead researcher on the Science paper, thinks other measures might be more effective. "The source populations are where it all starts, and to be able to focus on the source populations, especially the major source populations, is very very effective at trying to target these killings," Dr Wasser told the BBC's Science in Action programme. In an effort to identify where illegal ivory was originating from, Dr Wasser and his team turned to genetic analysis. Elephants live in social groups, or herds. Animals living in one location are more genetically related to one another than they are to animals living elsewhere. So, by analysing the DNA sequence - particularly those stretches that reveal relatedness - from animals living across Africa, the researchers could build a geographical map of elephant genetic diversity. Elephants are large, wary and not easy to sample directly, but their dung provides an abundant source of the essential elephant blueprint; that tell-tale DNA. An analysis of dung samples from 1,500 individuals, each from a separate family group and living in different locations across Africa, resulted in a detailed DNA geographical map. As Dr Wasser explained, this allows them to pinpoint the source of illegal ivory: "We are very accurate. "Most importantly, areas are further apart than 300km so that, combined with knowing the natural history of the area - what parks are there and where the elephants live - it means you can get it to the precise park." Essential groundwork done, they were poised to analyse ivory to pinpoint its source, and there was no shortage of material to analyse. The team focussed on 28 seizures made between 1996 and 2014. "We analyse large animal seizures that are over half a tonne in weight, and that's important because these large seizures represent about

Summary: Most illegally poached African elephant ivory can be traced back to just two areas of Africa, research shows.


The 21-year-old suffered up the injury late on in Saturday's 1-1 draw at Championship leaders Burnley. After being recalled early from loan at League One side Millwall, he was making his first Wolves start in five months. But there is now a chance he may not play again this season, after being ruled out for a minimum of four weeks. "We will have to see how he progresses," said Wolves medical chief Phil Hayward. "He has sustained an injury to his left quad and scans have revealed it to be a grade two injury. "He has a chance to be back and available before the end of the season. He will be out for probably four to six weeks." Wolves boss Kenny Jackett is now without eight first-team players. Striker Nouha Dicko, wingers Razak Boukari and Jordan Graham and defender Ethan Ebanks-Landell are all out for the season, while centre-half Mike Williamson, winger James Henry and midfielder Dave Edwards are also absent. Edwards, who is on course to return from his broken foot next month, is still hopeful of being fit for Wales' Euro 2016 campaign this summer. Williamson and Henry could return sooner, having been lined up to resume training following the Easter weekend. Beacuse of the international break, Wolves do not have a game until Saturday 2 April when they host former manager Mick McCarthy's Ipswich Town.

Summary: Wolves midfielder Jed Wallace has become the Championship club's latest injury casualty and will be out for up to six weeks with a thigh strain.


Play was called off by umpires Nigel Cowley and Billy Taylor at 18:00 BST. A day-and-a-half has now been lost, play having been abandoned on Tuesday, when the rain arrived just in time to prevent Durham starting their second innings 170 runs adrift. If play resumes on Thursday, Durham and Worcestershire will both have replacements playing. Durham's Keaton Jennings and Worcestershire's Joe Clarke are now on England Lions duty, meaning call-ups for Michael Richardson and Tom Fell respectively. Durham will delay a decision about their choice of captain for the forthcoming Twenty20 Blast until they discover whether Jennings, an England Test candidate, will be available to them.

Summary: No play was possible on day three of Durham's County Championship Division Two meeting with Worcestershire.


Prof Graham Upton, who was vice chancellor at Oxford Brookes University and Cumbria University, will take up the role from Monday. His predecessor Prof Michael Scott formally leaves in March, but departed on 1 January to do research. Glyndwr has had an operational and academic restructure in recent months. Last June, the university was suspended from recruiting overseas students after a Home Office investigation into alleged visa fraud. Its right to sponsor foreign students was reinstated in November.

Summary: Glyndwr University has appointed an interim vice-chancellor three weeks after his predecessor left the role.


Prof Francesco Battaglia said that he had been threatened and his car vandalised after Mr Grillo criticised him for backing nuclear energy. Mr Grillo, who is unlikely to go to jail, also faces damages of â‚¬50,000 (Â£36,000; $56,000). He suggested people were afraid his party was getting close to government. And he likened himself to two other historical figures who had spent time in jail, Italian anti-Fascist campaigner Sandro Pertini and South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela. "If Pertini and Mandela ended up in prison, I can go there too for a cause I think is just and that has been supported by the overwhelming majority of Italians," he wrote on his blog. Prof Battaglia said the maverick leader should carry out community service, just as ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had done, and should take more care of what he said because of the large number of Italians who listened to him. Mr Grillo publicly insulted the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia professor at a rally in 2011, after a TV appearance in which Prof Battaglia had supported nuclear energy. "I'll kick your backside and throw you off TV," he said, urging his supporters to refuse to pay their TV licence fees. Beppe Grillo, who was the driving force behind the Eurosceptic, anti-austerity protest party, is gradually handing over the reins of Five Star to a group of younger leaders. The party is currently second in opinion polls behind Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's centre-left Democratic Party.

Summary: Beppe Grillo, who leads Italy's second biggest party, the Five-Star Movement, has been given a one-year jail term for slandering a science professor.


HMP Kingston is one of six jails in England to be closed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) as part of spending cuts. Officers left the prison, by marching out the front gate together, at midday. Friends and family were then taken on a tour of the buildings and grounds. Kingston housed around 800 Category C prisoners with indeterminate sentences. The government said the closures would save Â£63m per year in running costs. The MoJ said the closures would result in the loss of 2,600 places from "old and uneconomic" prisons. It plans to build a new 2,000-place super prison in London, north-west England or north Wales. Unions have previously claimed up to 300 jobs could be lost in the closure of HMP Kingston and Camp Hill on the Isle of Wight. Some staff from Kingston have already been redeployed to other sites. Lou Ralls, chairman of the Portsmouth branch of the Prison Officers Association, said staff were "buoyant" despite the closure. He said: "The announcement came as a shock as we regarded ourselves as a high-performing prison. We feel a pocket of excellence for the industry and the city has been lost. "Around 8% of our members have taken voluntary redundancy. "No compulsory redundancies have happened and 100% of staff who wished to relocate have been handed their first or second choice."

Summary: A Portsmouth prison built in 1877 has closed its doors for the last time.


Labour peer Baroness Royall is looking into claims of anti-Semitism at Oxford University Labour club, as part of a review of Labour's youth wing. She will now also consider a complaint relating to a Labour student at LSE, it is understood. MP John Mann called on leader Jeremy Corbyn to take "decisive action". He told BBC One's Sunday Politics: "It's not a big problem, but a small problem when it comes to racism needs to be dealt with." The complaint at LSE - London School of Economics - relates to student Rayhan Uddin, who is in the Labour group there and recently ran for election as the student union's general secretary. He was criticised for a Facebook post that emerged during the campaign in which he wrote that "leading Zionists" wanted to take over the student union to "make it right wing and Zio again". Mr Uddin has since apologised "unreservedly" for his use of language, saying it is "utterly repugnant to me to think I may have unwittingly appeared to endorse in any way the foul ideology of anti-Semitism". The BBC has contacted Mr Uddin for a comment but he has declined to be interviewed. On the Sunday Politics, Mr Mann, who chairs the all-party parliamentary group against anti-Semitism, said there was "no space for anti-Semitism" in the Labour movement. "We cannot tolerate a situation where any part of society doesn't feel that a major political party like the Labour Party is not the place for them, which is why prompt effective action and vigilance on this is required, including from Jeremy," Mr Mann said. Asked whether Mr Corbyn was doing enough, he said it was "clear" the leader "does not tolerate or support" anti-Semitism. But he added: "What he has to do is follow that through with actions and ensure that others in the Labour Party follow it through with actions. "Because the kind of thing and the atmosphere that's been created in Oxford University is not a one-off. This has been happening elsewhere as well." ÂThe Bassetlaw MP likened the situation to 30 years ago, when extremists tried to ban student Jewish societies in some universities. "Some of that's crept into the Labour Party and it needs to be removed," he told the BBC. Asked what had caused the apparent resurgence in anti-Semitism, Mr Mann pointed to an increase in the party's membership and said that some new members "have attitudes that are very outdated - they're prejudiced". He said Labour's internal inquiry needed to lead to "decisive action", saying "there are many of us who will only accept the highest standards... words aren't good enough". The Parliamentary Labour Party is currently carrying out an investigation into allegations of anti-Semitism in the Oxford University Labour Club. Alex Chalmers resigned as club co-chairman last month after it voted to support Israel Apartheid Week. Oxford University Labour Club has said previously in a statement: "We are horrified at and whole-heartedly condemn anti-Semitic behaviour in all its forms."

Summary: Labour is widening its inquiry into allegations of anti-Semitism among its university organisations, the BBC understands.


We take a look at some of the winners and losers on the UK high street this Christmas. UK's largest supermarket, Tesco, reported a rise in sales over Christmas. UK like-for-like sales were up 1.3% from a year earlier in the six weeks to 9 January. The upbeat results were welcomed in the City and are being seen as part of the turnaround promised by chief executive Dave Lewis, who took over in September 2014. However, the grocer still faces tough competition from discount chains, and it reported a 1.5% fall in sales for the 13 weeks ending 28 November. Britain's biggest department store chain posted an impressive 5.1% rise in like-for-like sales in the six weeks to 2 January, with products in its technology category leading the field with a rise of 9.6%. Online sales were up more than a fifth and accounted for 40% of total sales. (Like-for-like sales, which measures performance at stores open for more than 12 months, is the measure preferred by analysts as it is the most accurate picture of a retailer's performance.) Waitrose, its food retailing business, falls into the other category, however - see the Losers below. Newsagents and stationary retailer, WH Smith, reported a 2% increase in like-for-like for the 20 weeks to 16 January. Sales at its travel arm, which has shops at airports, railways stations, motorway services, and hospitals jumped by 12%.. High Street stores reported a 2% rise in like-for-like sales during the five weeks to 2 January. The business, which has been going for 224 years, said profits were boosted by the recent trend in colouring books for adults. The department store had a reasonably good Christmas, with a 3.7% rise in like-for-like sales for the nine weeks to 9 January. The retailer said it made fewer discounts and kept tight control of clothing stock, such as winter coats, to reflect the unseasonably warm winter. Like-for-like sales at the department store rose by 5.3% in the six weeks to 2 January, which chief executive Nigel Oddy said underlined its strategy of improving both stores and its online offering, and developing its in-house brands. Britain's fourth-biggest supermarket reported better-than-expected sales, with like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, up 0.2% in the nine weeks to 3 January. Analysts had expected a decline of as much as 3%, suggesting that its revival strategy is paying off. The retailer said trading over the key Christmas period was "very positive", with like-for-like sales across all its sportswear brands up 10.6% in the five weeks to 2 January. As a result, it said underlying full-year profits could be up to 10% higher than current market expectations of Â£136m. Record food sales in the run-up to Christmas was not enough to save the high street stalwart, with like-for-likes falling 2.5% in the 13 weeks to 28 December. Food was up 0.4% for the period, but general merchandise - which includes its clothing - sank by 5.8%. Neil Saunders from retail consultants Conlumino commented: "It is timid and it is wedded to this kind of 'we have to be

Summary: Unseasonably warm winter weather, the inexorable rise of online shopping and consumer reluctance to pay full price has added up to a fairly dismal festive season for some retailers.


The Spaniard, 31, lost the first set but fought back to win 6-7 (3-7) 6-3 6-1 6-4 after three hours and 16 minutes. Nadal saw 13 break points go begging before finally breaking the world number 59 after nearly two hours. He dropped just five more games on his way to a last-16 meeting with Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov. "All the matches have been very tight - I am very happy," said Nadal. "I don't know how many break points I had before I got the first one. Mentally, I fought a lot until that moment, then I think I played better." Nadal could not land a telling return as the break points came and went against Mayer, and the Argentine took advantage by playing a fine tie-break to take the first set. I am in the fourth round now. I don't think much about that. When Nadal finally made the breakthrough at the 14th attempt, at 3-3 in the second set, he screamed "Vamos!" and his family and team celebrated in the stands. The Spaniard had won all three previous matches against Mayer and went on to dominate after finally breaking. There was a late flash of resistance when Mayer broke serve with Nadal trying to close out the match, but two games later the world number one sealed victory at 8.40pm local time. Asked about a potential first-ever meeting with 19-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer at the US Open in the semi-finals next week, he said: "I am in the fourth round now. I don't think much about that. "It's a long way away. All the matches have been very tough. "The only thing I am looking for is the practice tomorrow to keep working hard and focus on the match against Dolgopolov." Third seed Federer booked his place in the last 16 with a clinical 6-3 6-3 7-5 victory over Spain's Feliciano Lopez.

Summary: Top seed Rafael Nadal overcame stubborn resistance from Argentina's Leonardo Mayer to reach the fourth round at the US Open in New York.


A 10-year spending plan, published in 2015, added £24.4bn for new maritime patrol aircraft, infantry vehicles, and to speed up the purchase of F35B jets. However, a National Audit Office report warned it must first find £5.8bn in new savings to meet the extra commitments. Defence minister Harriett Baldwin said it was delivering an affordable plan. The government set out its Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) in November 2015, announcing £12bn in extra defence spending. The review included plans for nine Boeing P8 maritime patrol aircraft - to replace the RAF's scrapped Nimrod jets - and that the purchase of 24 new F35 fighter aircraft would be accelerated. The NAO report said additional planned expenditure amounted to £24.4bn of new commitments to the MoD budget. The projected cost of funding the plan increased to £178bn - a rise of 7% - it said. 4,500 miles (7,200 km) maximum range without refuelling 490 knots (910km/h; 560mph) maximum speed 28 P-8A Poseidon aircraft in use by the United States 2 other countries, India and Australia, have variants of the aircraft in use or on order The review said the MoD was already having to use a £10bn contingency fund set aside for emergencies and will have to find another £5.8bn in savings over the next 10 years. The report warned the MoD had yet to generate £2.5bn of the £7.1bn savings already factored into the plan. However, head of the NAO, Sir Amyas Morse, said the affordability of the equipment plan "is at greater risk than at any time since its inception". "It is worrying to see that the costs of the new commitments arising from the review considerably exceed the net increase in funding for the plan. "There is little room for unplanned cost growth and the MoD must actively guard against the risk of a return to previous practice where affordability could only be maintained by delaying or reducing the scope of projects." The spending plans have also been hit by recent currency fluctuations as the MoD looks to buy new equipment from the US. Minister for Defence Procurement Harriett Baldwin said the 10-year plan would deliver "the best kit for our armed forces at the best value for the taxpayer". "We are focused on maintaining an affordable programme and delivering the efficiencies we need to reinvest in cutting-edge ships, planes, versatile strike brigades, and greater cyber capabilities, so that our Armed Forces have the equipment they need to keep the UK safe and secure."

Summary: The Ministry of Defence will struggle to afford plans to buy new jets, ships and armoured vehicles, the government spending watchdog has warned.


Cory Schenkel said on Facebook that his grandfather died on Sunday morning in the city of Boise, Idaho. Kennedy won an Oscar in 1968 for Best Supporting Actor in Cool Hand Luke. As well as the Naked Gun comedies, he also made memorable appearances in Earthquake and Airport 1975. Mr Schenkel said the veteran actor had been in poor health since the death of his wife, Joan, more than a year ago, and had been in a hospice for the past month. Kennedy's daughter, Shannon Kennedy Sullivan, said on Facebook that she hoped people would "remember all the stories he told and the dumb jokes he loved to tell". "He could always get a laugh and I will miss those but will cherish the little strips of paper he use to write them on when the family would go out to dinner." Kennedy was born on 18 February 1925 in New York where his father worked as a musician and his mother was a dancer. He served with the US infantry during World War Two, winning several decorations, and in the 1950s he worked for Armed Forces Radio and Television before moving to Hollywood. The 6ft 4in actor quickly became well known for playing tough-guy characters. Mark Wahlberg, the lead in Kennedy's final film, 2014's The Gambler, and Mia Farrow, who starred alongside him in the 1978 film Death On The Nile, were among those who paid tribute to him. Talk show host Larry King, Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane and actor and comedian Albert Brooks also shared their thoughts.

Summary: US actor George Kennedy, who starred in movies including Cool Hand Luke and the Naked Gun series, has died at the age of 91, his grandson has announced.


Media playback is not supported on this device Marler apologised to Lee, who is from a Traveller background, at half-time during England's Six Nations win. Traveller campaigner Shay Clipson said Marler should be banned. "It's not just in sport, I think it's in every aspect of life where people get so PC and just make massive issues about things," said coach Gatland. "It was just one of those things, a little bit of banter. We've accepted that and we've accepted his apology. Just move on. "Fifteen or 20 years ago, those things were sorted out with fists and stuff." The comment by Marler, 25, is under investigation by Six Nations officials. Clipson, the founder of the National Alliance of Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Women, told BBC Radio 5 live that the Harlequins prop "cannot make mistakes like that and expect to just say sorry and walk away". She added that the public had to imagine what the reaction would have been had a black or Asian player been subject to that sort of derogatory remark. Marler has been cited for a separate incident of foul play involving another Wales prop, Rob Evans. A previous Welsh Rugby Union statement said: "We're disappointed by the comment made and pleased Joe Marler apologised." On Monday, assistant coach Rob Howley commented: "As players and coaches, there's banter in the game, but I think there's no place for that." Marler's comment was heard by television viewers after being picked up on referee Craig Joubert's microphone. "In modern sport, players have got to be aware that there are microphones everywhere and you have to act accordingly," said Gatland.

Summary: Warren Gatland says the "Gypsy boy" comment aimed at Samson Lee by Joe Marler was "banter" and insists Wales have no issue with the England prop.


The man, who has not been named, was with a friend on Scales Fell, one of the Blencathra peaks, on Thursday. The terrain meant an air ambulance was unable to land at the scene, so members of the Keswick mountain rescue team took the decision to carry him to a waiting helicopter. The man was taken to hospital in Newcastle with severe head injuries. A spokesman for the rescue team said: "Two walkers on their way down Blencathra spotted something blue on a lower path. "As they watched, they saw an arm move, and realised to their horror that it was a man in distress. "One of them got down to him, and realised that he had fallen some considerable distance from the path above, and had suffered serious head injuries. "A decision was taken to carry the patient down. This was achieved successfully and the casualty was then airlifted to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary. A spokesman for the Great North Air Ambulance added: "The helicopter took our doctor and paramedic as close to the scene as was safe, before landing at the base of Scales Fell. "The patient was assessed and treated before being carried three miles down to the helicopter."

Summary: Rescuers carried an injured man for three miles after he fell more than 130ft (40m) down a Cumbrian mountain.


It said the investigation following complaints from price comparison websites had failed to understand the "reality" of online shopping. It blamed a drop in traffic for price comparison sites on Amazon and others. Europe's competition commissioner first accused the firm of abusing its dominance in search in April 2015 and made further claims in July 2016. Google's shopping results appear as a box of images and links displayed alongside other search results. In 2015, the EU competition commissioner claimed these results gave prominence to Google's own services and advertisements, to the detriment of price comparison websites, which may have lost visitors. Google responded that the EU had failed to take into account the significance of online shopping giants such as Amazon, which it said also competed against price comparison websites. In its updated claim, the EU said Amazon could not be considered a rival to price comparison websites because it sometimes paid such sites to be included in search results. Google's latest response says websites such as Amazon get a "tiny fraction" of their visitors from price comparison websites, "hardly enough to support the idea that they don't compete" with one another. It also pointed out that Amazon provides its own price comparison tools for its customers. "The commission's revised case still rests on a theory that just doesn't fit the reality of how most people shop online," the company said in a blog. "It's not surprising that when Amazon and other new competitors arrived in European countries, traffic to sites offering only price comparison went down." The company said it would "look forward" to continuing discussions with the commission. FairSearch Europe - a lobby group that was one of the complainants against Google - said Google's actions were "anti-consumer". In a statement, the group said: "We believe it is the European Commission that has the interests of consumers in mind, not a private company that makes money by using its market power to charge high prices to advertisers. "When consumers look at Google ads they do not get the best, most relevant results. Instead, they get results from advertisers willing to pay Google the most money."

Summary: Google has again rejected the EU's objections to how it displays shopping links in its search results.


Tonia Antoniazzi polled 22,727 votes compared with the Tories' Byron Davies on 19,458 in what was the tightest marginal seat in the UK. Labour's Nia Griffith retained Llanelli while the party's Carolyn Harris kept Swansea East. Shadow defence secretary Ms Griffith polled 21,568 votes with Conservative Stephen Davies on 9,544 in second. Labour's Christina Rees also held on to Neath, Geraint Davies retained Swansea West and Stephen Kinnock kept Aberavon. Meanwhile, the Conservatives' Simon Hart held on to Carmarthenshire West and Pembrokeshire South with 46.8% of the vote, and former Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb retained Preseli Pembrokeshire by just 314 votes for the Tories. Plaid Cymru's Jonathan Edwards retained Carmarthen East and Dinefwr with 16,127, ahead of Labour's David Darkin on 12,219. Ms Antoniazzi said she though the key moment for the Labour campaign was when Prime Minister Theresa May "did a U-turn" on the Tories' social care policy. "But also we have a strong manifesto and moving forward, on the doorstep that's what we were hearing," she added. Mr Crabb said: "The motivations for doing this election were entirely right and proper, to strengthen the position of the United Kingdom before going into what will prove to be the most difficult set of international negotiations we've faced since the Second World War. "Clearly something has gone wrong because the country has wanted to talk about other issues at this election time. "They wanted to raise other concerns and there are a whole lot of new voters who were less concerned about Brexit and more concerned about issues to do with quality of life and their economic security into the future." Stephen Kinnock, re-elected in Aberavon, said Labour had presented "radical but realistic policies" and common sense which reached out into the centre ground to appeal to voters. He said Jeremy Corbyn had shown leadership and judgement in the manifesto put forward.

Summary: Labour has won back Gower from the Conservatives, a seat the party won by 27 votes in 2015.


A hacker, or hacking group, published via Twitter what they said were records of 9,000 DHS employees. According to technology news site Motherboard, the hacker has said he will soon share the personal information of 20,000 DoJ employees, including staff at the FBI. The news site said it had verified small portions of the breach, but also noted that some of the details listed appeared to be incorrect or possibly outdated. In a statement, the DHS told journalists: "We take these reports very seriously, however there is no indication at this time that there is any breach of sensitive or personally identifiable information." The Department of Justice also downplayed the breach's significance. The hacker is understood to have used simple human engineering to bypass one stage of the authorities' security systems. Motherboard quoted the hacker, who explained: "So I called up, told them I was new and I didn't understand how to get past [the portal]. "They asked if I had a token code, I said no, they said that's fine - just use our one." The security of government systems was put under scrutiny last year when it was discovered that data on more than five million people was stolen from the Office of Personnel Management. Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook

Summary: US authorities have acknowledged a data breach affecting the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security - but downplayed its severity.


Her account comes after a report from the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group said pregnant women were "systematically overlooked" in the UK's trafficking response. Marta, not her real name, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that she came to Birmingham in November 2014 thinking she would get a job in a poultry factory, where a number of her friends were working. "But my boyfriend and I had our passports taken and we were put to work on a dump," she explained. "They took our documents and our bank cards and they took our wages. We were being moved from site to site. We were given old stale food that was obviously very cheap." Marta and her partner do not speak English so they struggled to get help. She claims it was during this time she realised that she was pregnant. "If you didn't follow and obey their orders you were not given any food," she said. "The worst time was when I was five months pregnant, we were so hungry that we had to eat from rubbish bins. "We found a sandwich factory who were throwing out old sandwiches so we mainly survived on them." Marta claims when she told the gang she was pregnant they reduced the amount of work they sent her out to do. "Even though I was pregnant I was losing a lot of weight," she said. "I wasn't feeling well and they gave me my phone. I was able to get wi-fi and texted my friends in Ireland telling them where I was working. "They went to the police and the police found us three days later." Marta was rescued in April 2015 and taken to a safe house in Manchester where volunteers got her medical help and took her to see a midwife. She was told she was malnourished and that the baby was not feeding properly in the womb. She was also interviewed by police and claims the translator told her that the reason the gang had stopped her working is that they probably had plans to sell her baby. "I was really worried when I heard they might have sold my baby," she said. "There was another pregnant woman there and when her baby was born we never saw her again." After leaving the safe house Marta returned to Poland. Her son is now six months old and his health is beginning to improve. No charges have been brought in relation to her case. In a statement, Home Office Minister Karen Bradley said:"We are currently working with a broad range of interested parties on how best to support trafficked children and intend to announce proposals before Easter." The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:15 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.

Summary: A young Polish woman has described how she was forced to eat rubbish from bins while she was pregnant after being trafficked to the UK.


The company wants to extract shale gas at Little Plumpton and Roseacre Wood on the Fylde Coast. In June, the council rejected both planning applications, after fracking was suspended in the UK in 2011. The company said "a natural step" would now be to appeal. Cuadrilla said the council's planning officer "had recommended approval of the Preston New Road site" at Little Plumpton "and was very clear that the proposals were acceptable in relation to noise and visual impacts.". Its chief executive, Francis Egan, said: "We have given careful consideration to appeal the planning decisions taken by Lancashire County Council. This is a natural step in the democratic process for deciding any planning application." He added: "We recognise that onshore shale gas exploration still feels relatively new in the UK and we remain committed to engaging with local communities to reassure them that exploratory operations can and will be carried out safely and in an environmentally responsible way." The company was granted planning permission for monitoring works around the proposed site at Roseacre Wood, but said it would appeal against certain conditions that were imposed. The appeals on monitoring works are expected to be submitted within the next week, and the shale gas exploration site appeals will "follow in due course," the company said. Fracking - or hydraulic fracturing - was suspended in the UK in 2011 following earth tremors in Blackpool where Cuadrilla previously drilled. It is a technique in which water and chemicals are pumped into shale rock at high pressure to extract gas. Friends of the Earth campaigner Furqan Naeem said: "Cuadrilla's decision to appeal Lancashire's Council's resounding 'no' to controversial fracking shows a blatant disregard for the views of local people and local democracy. "Lancashire councillors and residents have rejected fracking and the government's recent report revealing potential negative impacts on everything from the health of residents, to house prices, to climate change shows they were right to do so." But Babs Murphy, chief executive of North and Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce, said: "The delay has already cost our local business community approximately Â£3.5m of immediate contracting opportunities as five of six shortlisted contractors operate in Lancashire."

Summary: The shale gas firm Cuadrilla is to appeal against the decision by Lancashire County Council to refuse permission to drill and frack at two sites in the county.


The Salomon Glen Coe Skyline was one of six races in the 2015 Skyrunning UK calendar. The other events include races in the Lake District in England and Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland. It has been announced that it will be part of the 2016 Skyrunner World Series, which will start in Norway. Other events in the series will be held in China, the USA, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland and Andorra. The Glen Coe event will be held on 18 September. Joe Symonds, who lives in Glasgow, won the men's race and was first overall in August's inaugural event. He finished the course in a time of seven hours, 36 minutes and 21 seconds. Sweden's Emelie Forsberg won the women's event and was placed second overall with her time of seven hours, 44 minutes and 19 seconds.

Summary: An endurance race held in Glen Coe for the first time this year will form part of an international mountain running competition next year.


Right now, prices are around 60% down on July 2014. Supply has outstripped demand - great news for motorists but a disaster for the UK oil industry. Around 65,000 jobs are estimated to have been lost, many of them in Aberdeen. It is not the first time a glut of cheap oil has given British businesses a battering. But 150 years ago it was not the North Sea that bore the brunt of the downturn - it was north Wales. In the second half of the 19th Century, Flintshire struck oil. Strictly speaking, it struck cannel coal - a dense, smooth, shale-like variety of coal which can be distilled to make oil. While that admittedly sounds a lot less thrilling than the discovery of a black gold "gusher" under the Flintshire hills, it nevertheless heralded a global investment frenzy to rival the early days of the California gold rush. Speculators ploughed close to a million pounds into a variety of coal-oil ventures from Mold to Queensferry. The vast majority of them were to lose their shirts. "It must have been absolutely astounding," said Dr Robin Chesters, Director of the Museum of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry, which has conducted extensive research into the Flintshire "oil-dorado". "It all happened so fast that some of the oil works weren't actually completed and others were put together so quickly that they began to fall down." The seeds of the oil rush were sown in 1858 when an industrialist named Ebenezer Waugh Fernie discovered an exceptionally rich seam of cannel coal at Leeswood Green Colliery, near Mold. Seven years earlier the Scottish scientist James "Paraffin" Young had patented his process of producing oil from coal and established a highly successful oil works at Bathgate in West Lothian. Fernie suspected there was similar money to be made in Leeswood and he set about building an oil works near the colliery. But the budding enterprise was hampered by Young's patent and Fernie's numerous attempts at surreptitious oil production landed him in court. The "Great Paraffine Case" was brought before the Chancery court in London in January 1864. It lasted 33 days, called 73 witnesses and became a cause celebre. The court found in Young's favour and awarded him substantial damages. But his patent expired a few months later anyway, That, together with the huge amount of publicity garnered by the case, meant that Flintshire's cannel coal reserves were suddenly ripe for the distilling. "People who had been reading about this great court case and all the money that could be made realised that they could now go into the business and make their fortune," said Dr Chesters. Would-be oil tycoons from all over Britain and abroad began ploughing money into coal-oil companies. A total of 26 oil works and refineries were built in Flintshire, mainly near the collieries where the cannel coal was mined. People flocked to the area from far and wide in search of work, rents were raised exorbitantly and overcrowding was rife. By late 1865, oil fever had Flintshire in its grip. An account published

Summary: The tumbling price of oil has been headline news for months.


Avon and Somerset Police were called to the junction of Creswicke Road and Airport Road in Knowle West at about 21:05 GMT on Tuesday after reports a man had been run over. Officers said the crash involved a car and a pedestrian, aged in his 20s, who died from his injuries. A 30-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and is police custody. The road has reopened but a nearby petrol station on Hengrove Way remains sealed off while investigations continue. A spokesman said: "A full investigation has been launched and one of our priorities is to ensure the victim's next of kin are given all the support they need."

Summary: A pedestrian has been run over and killed in Bristol.


The senior brother had previously been moved out of Rubane House, where he abused young boys, and became principal of a school in Downpatrick. The details were revealed at the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry. It is examining allegations of abuse at Rubane House in Kircubbin. About 200 former residents have made allegations of abuse. The inquiry also heard the De La Salle Religious Order paid compensation to victims who were sexually abused at Rubane House within years of the order ruling that a previous investigation into their abuser was "best forgotten". The HIA has been told that one victim, then aged 12, arrived at Rubane House in 1961. Three years earlier, in 1958, the order launched an internal inquiry into claims of sex abuse against the brother in charge of the home. The order subsequently ruled that "no reference is to be made at any time or to anyone regarding the inquiry". However, the senior brother continued to sexually abuse boys at the home. The order later paid the victim £27,500 in compensation. Another victim, who was in the home from 1958 to 1960, was paid £20,000 in compensation earlier this year. Junior counsel to the inquiry, Joseph Aiken, opted not to read out the contents of a statement the man made to police in 2010. Mr Aiken invited the inquiry panel to adjourn to take time to read the statement which he described as "graphic". The inquiry also heard the victim "subsequently abused his own children". Rubane House was open from 1950 to 1985. A total of 55 former residents have come forward to the inquiry to allege that they were physically or sexually abused. The sex abuse allegations at Rubane House ranged from watching children in the shower to rape, while physical abuse ranged from corporal punishment to serious assault. The HIA inquiry was set up in 2013 to investigate child abuse in residential institutions in Northern Ireland over a 73-year period, up to 1995. The Rubane House allegations form the third module of its public hearings. It had previously been examining what happened to children sent from Northern Ireland to institutions in Australia.

Summary: The De La Salle religious order moved a serial sex abuser to Africa, in 1982, despite being aware of his crimes at a boys home in County Down.


Alistair Roy missed a good chance to give the hosts the lead early on, pulling his shot wide. Jonathan Page tested Shire's Richard Barnard with a close-range header and nodded another effort over. Kinnaird fired in what proved to be the winner after increased pressure from the home side in the second half.

Summary: Lloyd Kinnaird's second-half strike helped East Stirlingshire defeat East Fife on the opening day of the Scottish League Two season.


David Obaze, 25, was fined A$3,000 (£1,643) after pleading guilty to fixing three semi-professional games in the Victoria Premier League. Obaze is one of four Britons, all of whom played for VPL side Southern Stars, charged with corruption. The four were handed life bans by world governing body Fifa last year. Defender Reiss Noel and goalkeeper Joe Woolley were convicted and fined in December for throwing games. A fourth Briton, Nicholas McKoy, 24, has also entered a guilty plea and is scheduled for a hearing in September.

Summary: A third British footballer has been convicted by an Australian court of helping fix matches for a global betting syndicate.


Media playback is unsupported on your device 10 January 2015 Last updated at 07:53 GMT A farm in Dorset have got a trusty group of 25 goats that love to eat them. The goats eat all of the greenery and leave just the bare branches. The extra food is good for the animals and helps to keep them full up over the winter months. Watch Hayley's report to find out more...

Summary: Goats are being used as a handy new way to recycle unwanted Christmas trees.


It was jockey Ryan Moore's second win in the race, having ridden O'Brien's previous winner Gleneagles, in 2015. Barney Roy (7-2) was second ahead of third-favourite Al Wukair (11-2) in the first Classic of the 2017 Flat season. Frankel's offspring Dream Castle and Colts Eminent were fifth and sixth respectively over the mile distance. The 1,000 Guineas, for fillies, takes place at Newmarket on Sunday at 15:35 BST. Churchill, last season's champion two-year-old, was sitting third at the halfway stage and managed to get the first run on his main rivals as he won by a length from Barney Roy. Moore said Churchill, who was making his three-year-old debut at Newmarket, had "everything you want in a racehorse". "He has a magnificent mind, he travels, has speed and loads of class," Moore told ITV Racing. "He was always racing comfortably - he was there a little bit early. "He always feels like there's more when you ask him." O'Brien added: "I was very worried about it being his first run. He's a big horse and we knew he would come on for the run. Ryan gave him a lovely ride. "Everyone at home was very happy with the horse which is why we took the chance to come first time, so I'm delighted." BBC racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght Am I the only one to feel a slight sense of anti-climax? Obviously, Aidan O'Brien's latest record-breaking feat is a testament to the prolific skills and brilliance of himself, the rest of the Coolmore team, and, of course, of champion stallion Galileo, Churchill's father. But as a race, I'm not sure. It was hardly the potentially epic showdown billed; the time wasn't great, and the first seven finished within about three lengths. Churchill was good rather than sparkling, though it was his first run of the season. A word for Barney Roy who stumbled at a crucial moment late on.

Summary: Churchill, the 6-4 favourite, won the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket to give trainer Aidan O'Brien a record-breaking eighth win in the Classic.


In a video published on 2 September, which has been confirmed as authentic by the US authorities, Mr Sotloff was shown dressed in an orange smock, his hands tied behind his back, kneeling in front of a masked figure holding a knife. He was then beheaded. IS had threatened to kill Mr Sotloff at the end of a video released last month showing fellow American journalist James Foley being murdered. US President Barack Obama denounced Mr Sotloff's murder as "a horrific act of violence" and insisted that the he would not be intimidated by IS. "Whatever these murderers think they will achieve by killing innocent Americans like Steven, they have already failed," he said. Mr Sotloff, 31, was abducted in northern Syria a year ago. He is thought to have been kidnapped near the city of Aleppo, and to have been held in the IS stronghold of Raqqa. Reports suggest his family initially did not publicly confirm his abduction because of official advice that no publicity would improve his chances of release. The freelance journalist wrote for several publications, including Time magazine, Foreign Policy, the Christian Science Monitor and World Affairs Journal. He reported from countries including Egypt, Libya and Syria. On his Twitter account, which has been inactive since 3 August 2013, Mr Sotloff described himself as a "stand-up philosopher from Miami". He tweeted about current affairs in Syria, Libya, Egypt and Turkey - but also about his love for the Miami Heat basketball team. Mr Sotloff was Jewish and held dual US-Israeli citizenship. His mother Shirley is the daughter of Holocaust survivors, and he attended a Jewish school in Miami. He later studied journalism at the University of Central Florida, where he also wrote for the student magazine. Mr Sotloff developed a profound interest in and affection for the Middle East and its culture, travelling to Yemen to study Arabic. According to an unnamed former hostage, Mr Sotloff hid his Jewish identity from his captors and even managed to fast on the Day of Atonement - the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Speaking to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronot, the unnamed former hostage said that Mr Sotloff "...told [his captors] that he was sick and didn't want to eat, even though they served us eggs that day". Laura Kasinof of the New York Times tweeted: "Sotloff was brave and loved the Middle East and its people. Always hung out with Yemenis more than foreigners." His friend Emerson Lotzia told the student magazine that journalism was "what he loved to do". "Steve said it was scary over there. It was dangerous. It wasn't safe to be over there. He knew it. He kept going back," he said. His articles also revealed his determination to report from the field, despite the potential risks. In a 2013 report from Egypt, Mr Sotloff described his visit to a Muslim Brotherhood protest camp, despite his Egyptian friend's warning that he would be in danger there. "After an hour of fruitless conversation over endless glasses of sweet tea, I rose, shook Ahmad's hand, and headed

Summary: Steven Sotloff is the second American journalist the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has killed.


Media playback is unsupported on your device 7 August 2015 Last updated at 17:15 BST The company's chief Elon Musk hinted at the device in December, describing it on Twitter as a "solid metal snake". After the firm revealed a video of the charger in action he joked that it "does seem kinda wrong". At the moment the gadget is just a prototype and the company has no plans to sell it in the near future.

Summary: An electric car charger that can find its own way into a vehicle has been unveiled by Tesla Motors.


A Guardian article claims Al Hasawi, who has said he is close to selling the club, wants wages that could rise to £1m a year, as well as bonuses. A United States consortium is on the verge of a £50m deal, which would see Al Hasawi retain a 20% stake. Al Hasawi said "the information published was inaccurate". "The terms of any potential investment deal are, and will remain, confidential and the club will not be making any comment in relation to this issue," a statement on the club website continued. "The matter has now been passed to my legal team, as such it would not be appropriate to comment further at this time." The takeover would see millionaire John Jay Moores, the former San Diego Padres owner, take an 80% stake in Forest.

Summary: Nottingham Forest owner Fawaz Al Hasawi has denied reports he is demanding a large annual salary and huge bonuses as part of any takeover deal.


The coin, said to date from the dawn of English Christianity, was unearthed in East Grafton by a metal detectorist. Richard Bishop, from auctioneers Spink and Sons, said the final sale price was a "magnificent achievement" for such a "small but perfectly formed gold thrymsa". Wiltshire Museum bought the coin after a fundraising campaign. It features a head motif with a Christian cross and is believed to have been struck in modern-day France. Experts believe it was in circulation just after the burial of King Raedwald at Sutton Hoo around AD 625. Only five examples of this type of coin have ever been found. Wiltshire Museum director David Dawson, said they were "delighted" to have bought the "important coin", which he said will help experts understand the importance of the Vale of Pewsey and the Kingdom of Wessex in the Saxon period. The museum had donations from all over the world, including grants from Arts Council England, Victoria and Albert Purchase Grant Fund and the Art Fund. Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund, said: "Very few coins of such quality exist... It's a wonderful addition to the museum's collection."

Summary: An "excessively rare" Saxon gold coin that was discovered near a Wiltshire village has been sold for £21,600.


The visitors had taken a first-half lead through Harrison Dunk and looked set to add to their five successive League Two wins until Palmer's late intervention. There was little between the two teams in the opening 20 minutes, although the visitors' Luke Berry saw his ninth-minute cross-cum-shot go across the face of the goal with nobody on hand to apply the final touch before the ball ran narrowly wide of the far post. The deadlock was broken on 21 minutes when full-back Myles Judd blocked a Berry shot in the penalty area and the ball fell to the unmarked Dunk, who had the simplest of chances to tuck the ball into the net. From that point on the well-organised visitors were seldom asked any serious questions by their lacklustre hosts. Uche Ikpeazu almost doubled the visitors advantage when his effort brought a good save from home keeper Alex Cisak. The O's shot-stopper was also called into action diving at full stretch to keep out a firm drive by substitute Max Clark. But Palmer was to have the last word as Cambridge failed to clear the danger and Michael Collins played in the striker, whose shot took a deflection before squeezing under U's keeper Will Norris to give the hosts an unlikely point. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Leyton Orient 1, Cambridge United 1. Second Half ends, Leyton Orient 1, Cambridge United 1. Foul by Josh Koroma (Leyton Orient). Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Cambridge United. Joe Pigott replaces Uche Ikpeazu. Goal! Leyton Orient 1, Cambridge United 1. Ollie Palmer (Leyton Orient) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Paul McCallum. Michael Collins (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United). Substitution, Cambridge United. Ben Williamson replaces Harrison Dunk. Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Alex Cisak. Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient). Leon Legge (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing. Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Tom Parkes. Attempt missed. Josh Koroma (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Gavin Massey. Attempt missed. Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Corner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Mark Roberts. Attempt blocked. Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) header from very close range is blocked. Josh Koroma (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Brad Halliday (Cambridge United). Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Myles Judd (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Myles Judd (Leyton Orient). Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box. Foul by Ollie Palmer (Leyton Orient). Mark Roberts

Summary: Substitute Ollie Palmer salvaged a point for Leyton Orient in stoppage time as they drew with Cambridge United at Brisbane Road.


At the core of this week's difficulties for Labour is a clash of mandates. Until that tension is resolved - one way or another - the symptoms are likely to present themselves as splits. Jeremy Corbyn has the largest mandate of any Labour leader from party members and supporters. He also has the shallowest support from Parliamentary colleagues of any of his predecessors. The 90% plus of Labour MPs who didn't vote for him would argue that they draw their mandate from a far wider section of the population: the people who elected them in May. And some would argue that the MPs draw their legitimacy from a manifesto which committed Labour to balancing the books and a continuous at-sea nuclear deterrent - policies to which the current leader doesn't subscribe. There is a feeling at Westminster that the phase of phoney war between the leadership and most MPs is beginning to turn in to an actual conflict. It's not all out war, by any means but the skirmishes have begun. The pre-emptive strike came from the Corbyn camp when Ken Livingstone, who supports unilateral nuclear disarmament, was imposed on multilateralist Maria Eagle, the shadow defence secretary, to co-chair her review of where the party stands on renewing Trident. Shadow defence minister Kevan Jones - who was close to Gordon Brown - retaliated, questioning Livingstone's suitability for the role, and for his trouble was told by the former London mayor to seek psychiatric help. Jones is known to have suffered from depression in the past. Livingstone was later required to apologise and claimed he had no knowledge of Jones's medical history. The reason, though, that relations are reaching a nadir is that there appears to be little appetite for compromise on both sides. The appointment of Ken Livingstone wasn't done as a result of widespread consultation. Quite the reverse. It was a deep red rag to an increasingly bullish Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP). MPs had just elected - or in some cases, simply selected - largely a coterie of Corbyn critics to chair their parliamentary party's departmental committees, which monitor the work of shadow ministers. And the chair of the defence committee John Woodcock - who also represents the constituency in which the nuclear submarines are built - used his new position to write to Maria Eagle asking about the process behind Livingstone's appointment and whether she herself had been told. The letter found its way in to the public domain. What in turn is fuelling the lack of compromise is - for want of a better phrase - a degree of fear and loathing on both sides. Those around Jeremy Corbyn would argue that when Labour MPs recognise his mandate the Conservatives can be put on the back foot. The talk over the summer, under interim leader Harriet Harman, of perhaps accepting some Conservative changes to tax credits has been ditched, and it is George Osborne who is on the back foot and having to find a compromise imposed upon him by the Lords - largely as the result of Labour's

Summary: The Labour Party has had a torrid week with leader Jeremy Corbyn at odds with his MPs over defence policy and a row over Ken Livingstone's comments about a shadow minister.


Liverpool boss Klopp counselled the player through a difficult time when they were at Borussia Dortmund in 2013. Earlier this season, Mkhitaryan did not play in the league for 10 weeks and remembered Klopp's previous advice. "I am thankful to Klopp. He worked on my personality and the psychological part," 28-year-old Mkhitaryan said. The Armenian spent two seasons working under Klopp in Germany before the coach quit, later taking over at Liverpool in October 2015. Within eight months, the playmaker was following his old boss to the Premier League, joining United for a reported £26.3m. However, after being substituted at half-time during United's 2-1 home defeat by Manchester City on 10 September, he did not play in the Premier League again until 27 November. "At Dortmund, I was very stressed after a few games when we were playing really bad," added Mkhitaryan, who has scored five times this season. "Klopp showed me the way. He supported me and told me I had to keep my head up because good things were coming. He helped me to become a player." The move to the Premier League was another step on a remarkable journey for Mkhitaryan, who speaks six languages - including English - and is the son of one of Armenia's most famous footballers. Father Hamlet was also an Armenian international and one of the first players from the country to play outside of the old Soviet Union. He died of a brain tumour when Mkhitaryan was seven. "He was my drive, my goal, my dream," he said. "I did not feel the true impact when he died but I knew that he was watching me from the sky. He has to be very proud." Mkhitaryan is now one of the most famous - and most wealthy - Armenians in the world. But his background is unconventional in United's multi-national squad. He comes from a country that had a five-year conflict with neighbours Azerbaijan between 1989 and 1994 over disputed territory and still does not have normal relations with Turkey due to the treatment it received under Ottoman rule in World War One. So Mkhitaryan had to carry out a period of national service before he was allowed to move abroad, initially to Ukraine's Metalurh Donetsk, in 2009. "It was very hard growing up in Armenia because at that time we had a lot of problems with our neighbours and we had war, so it was a bad situation," said Mkhitaryan, speaking at a Manchester United Foundation #SchoolsUnited event in Moss Side. "Before I could leave and be a football player I had to go to the military. I did that when I was 20. After that I was allowed to change my club."

Summary: Manchester United midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan has thanked Jurgen Klopp for the advice that helped him through a tough start to his Old Trafford career.


Tries by Ben Foden, Alex Waller and George North put the visitors ahead. Elliot Daly crossed to keep Wasps in touching distance at half-time before Christian Wade and Joe Simpson went over to give the hosts the lead. Ahsee Tuala and Teimana Harrisson crossed for Saints, but Mullan drove over and Gopperth clinched victory. Willie le Roux looked to have scored a decisive try for Wasps, but the score was rightly ruled out for Joe Launchbury's block on Luther Burrell as he attempted to stop Kurtley Beale from making the final pass. While the decision was the right one, Wasps were frustrated by a delay in referring the try to the Television Match Official, protests from Saints players having appeared to prompt the review. Saints defended strongly against waves of pressure late on, but after a let-off a minute before for the same offence, Jamie Gibson was sent to the sin-bin for pulling down the maul and Wasps took full advantage. The result might have been different had fly-half Stephen Myler not missed four difficult conversion attempts as well as a penalty for the visitors, Gopperth's three successful conversions and two penalties proving decisive. There was confusion over the final try, as former Saints player Paul Doran Jones and Mullan both initially claimed the score, which was right by the posts. It left the prolific Gopperth with a simple conversion and he duly bisected the posts to bring a thrilling game to a dramatic conclusion. Wasps, already assured of a place in the play-offs, remain unbeaten at home this season, with victory restoring their lead over second-placed Exeter to five points. Wasps director of rugby Dai Young: "We've got another couple of gears we can go to, but Saracens are still the team to beat. "We've just got to keep winning and get ourselves into the competition's latter stages." Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder: "You've got to try to control the game in the last 10 minutes, and we never really managed that. "We've just got to keep pushing for wins, and hopefully we can secure at least European qualification." Wasps: Le Roux; Wade, Daly, Beale, Bassett; Gopperth, Simpson; Mullan, Taylor, Swainston, Launchbury (capt), Myall, Johnson, Young, Thompson. Replacements: Cruse, Bristow, Doran Jones, Symons, Hughes, Robson, Cipriani, Leiua. Northampton: Tuala; North, Tuitavake, Mallinder, Foden; Myler, Groom; A Waller, Hartley, Brookes, Lawes, Ribbans, Gibson, Wood (capt), Picamoles. Replacements: Haywood, E Waller, Hill, Ratuniyarawa, Harrison, Dickson, Burrell, Pisi. Sin Bin: Gibson (80). Attendance: 21,131. Referee: Craig Maxwell-Keys (RFU). For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.

Summary: Matt Mullan's last-minute try and Jimmy Gopperth's conversion with the final kick of the match earned Premiership leaders Wasps victory over Northampton.


The charity wants to increase the number of children it helps directly by 25% to 10,000 annually and offer support to a further 20,000. Believe in Me launches on Thursday and will also tackle a perceived lack of confidence in 11 to 18-year-olds. The move comes on the back of a UK-wide survey that found most youngsters in the age bracket lack confidence. In total, 2,000 youngsters were questioned, with 88% saying they were low in confidence - 96% of the 200 young people questioned in Wales gave that answer. To address this, the charity wants to increase the Â£2.37m it raises annually in Wales to help youngsters dealing with things like poverty, homelessness, disability and bereavement to help reach more people. Barnardo's Cymru director Sarah Crawley called the confidence study results "a wake up call". She said: "We will be galvanising our work around three strategic aims: stronger families, safer childhoods and positive futures. "Through these aims we will not only be meeting the needs of children and young people now, but looking into the future to prevent them from occurring."

Summary: About 30,000 vulnerable children will be helped each year, in plans to be announced by Barnardo's Cymru.


Trustees announced a new partnership deal with Cadw, the Welsh government's historic environment service, resolved "short-term problems that gave rise to concerns over the future" of the museum at Caernarfon. Last week, trustees said they had not received funding since February. Culture and Sport Minister John Griffiths said he endorsed the deal. A statement on the RWF Museum website said the partnership with Cadw will "see the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum funded to provide visitors to Caernarfon Castle with access to the Welsh government accredited museum and to provide an education service for schools". The museum, which has been based at Caernarfon Castle since the early 1960s, charts the 300-year history of the RWF, dating back to William III. The regiment was one of the three Welsh infantry regiments to be merged in 2006 to form The Royal Welsh, though the name lives on as the infantry are known as 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh (The Royal Welch Fusiliers).

Summary: The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum (RWF) has been saved from closure after its funding was secured.


Rutherford, 26, will play in all three forms of the game while Dilshan plays in the Caribbean Premier League. Rutherford, who is part of the Kiwi Test side touring England this summer, has played 16 Tests, scoring 755 runs. "Hamish is a talented top-order batsman," said elite performance director Graeme Welch. "He has international pedigree in both the long and shorter formats which will be key as he joins us at what is a busy part of the summer." Rutherford also had a spell playing for Essex during the 2013 season.

Summary: Derbyshire have signed New Zealand opening Test batsman Hamish Rutherford as cover for Tillakaratne Dilshan from mid-June until the end of July.


The 25-year-old joined the Shrimpers in the summer after a trial, having not played a first-team game since November 2014 while at Blackpool. The former Newcastle and Swindon forward has since scored twice in nine Southend appearances. Phil Brown's side are undefeated in any match Ranger has started, winning five and drawing three of the eight games.

Summary: Southend United striker Nile Ranger has signed a new three-and-a-half year contract with the League One club.


Shaker Aamer was held at the US military base in Cuba over allegations he had led a Taliban unit and had met Osama Bin Laden, but was never charged. Downing Street said there were "no plans" to detain him after his arrival. Mr Aamer said he felt "obliged" to everyone who fought for him to be released, and to "bring an end to Guantanamo". "My thanks go to Allah first, second to my wife, my family, to my kids and then to my lawyers who did everything they could to carry the word to the world," he said. "I am overwhelmed by what people have done by their actions, their thoughts and their prayers, and without their devotion to justice I would not be here in Britain now." Concern has been raised over the health of the Saudi national, 48, whose family live in London, and the BBC witnessed an ambulance arrive at the airport. Number 10 said Prime Minister David Cameron "welcomes" the release of Mr Aamer, who has permission to live in the UK indefinitely because his wife is British. It also said any necessary security measures "will be put in place". The father-of-four landed at London's Biggin Hill Airport shortly before 13:00 GMT. Mr Aamer's father-in-law, Saeed Siddique, said his release was a "miracle". "It's a delightful day," he told BBC News while admitting it was also a "surprise". Mr Aamer, who was first held by US authorities in Afghanistan in 2001, maintains he was in the country doing charity work. Since 2007 Mr Aamer, who claims he was tortured, has been cleared for release twice, by US presidents George W Bush and then Barack Obama. It is understood Mr Aamer will go through standard immigration checks now he has arrived in the UK. Mr Aamer's legal representative Clive Stafford Smith told BBC News: "Shaker only wants the truth to come out he is not interested in persecuting anyone. "His first priority is health - he really is in terrible shape." In letters sent to the BBC by his lawyers earlier this month, Mr Aamer described himself as "an old car that has not been to the garage for years", saying the first thing he wanted once freed was a cup of coffee. By Dominic Casciani, BBC home affairs correspondent When the business jet carrying Shaker Aamer landed in London he was met by British officials. His lawyers say he will need urgent medical and mental assessments. He may, like others who have been held at Guantanamo, be suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. While the PM has said Mr Aamer won't be detained, it's unlikely we will ever find out if MI5 separately decides to monitor him - by definition its work is secret. Mr Aamer is said to be relaxed about such prospects and has asked his lawyers to make clear he believes he has a "contract" to honour with the people of Britain. Shaker Aamer's return is the end of an astonishing and murky personal saga. But it's by no means the end of the story.

Summary: The last British resident to be held in Guantanamo Bay has landed in the UK, having been detained for 13 years.


Samantha Jenkins, 19, from Llanelli, fell into a coma and died in 2011. Her inquest heard she had low mineral levels, which may have been the result of malabsorption caused by chewing gum. Maria Morgan told BBC's Jason Mohammad programme: "It's something that happens over a period of time - eight or 10 months." After her death, Mrs Morgan said she found receipts showing Miss Jenkins had been buying chewing gum almost every day. "The pathologist said it was going down a road he doesn't know enough about, but he said there was enough evidence there to say it was a huge thing that it could be." Her husband, Wayne Morgan, said they believed Miss Jenkins's death could be linked to sweeteners used in chewing gum. Colin Phillips, acting senior coroner for Swansea, said the cause of death was a shortage of oxygen to her brain, resulting from a convulsion caused by an imbalance of minerals in her body. "The chewing gum inside her system did not end her life, but it's a possibility the over consumption of sorbitol and aspartame was the result of all her salts going low and that's what ended her life," said Mrs Morgan.

Summary: The mother of a Carmarthenshire teenager whose death may have been caused by chewing gum wants families to be aware of the potential dangers.


The UK voted to leave the EU in a historic referendum on Friday, sending shockwaves across global markets. India's Sensex fell by 3.4% to 26,022.60 points soon after the outcome of the vote became clear. But Mr Jaitley said that India's market fundamentals are strong enough "to smooth this volatility". The minister acknowledged however, that "Brexit" would cause financial uncertainties for India and other markets around the world. "As I have often said, in this globalised world, volatility and uncertainty are the new norms. This verdict will, obviously, further contribute to such volatility not least because its full implications for the UK, Europe and the rest of the world are still uncertain," he wrote on his Facebook page. But he added that India was "well prepared" to deal with "the short and medium term consequences of Brexit". "The government and the Reserve Bank of India as well as other regulators are well prepared, and working closely together, to deal with any short term volatility," he said. He added that "our aim will be to smooth this volatility" and minimise the "impact on the economy in the short term". Mr Jaitley also said India can emerge as a "safe haven" for investors in these "turbulent times". "India stands out both in terms of stability and of growth," he said. Meanwhile, India's central bank chief, Raghuram Rajan, has said that India is capable of mitigating the "shock" of Brexit. "If we can manage properly it will be a non-event. A larger question is to find places where we can put money going forward," he said. Indian company Tata Sons, which operates 19 companies in the UK, said it was "committed to delivering long term value for all its stakeholders" "Each company continuously reviews its strategy and operations in the light of developments, and will continue to do so. Access to markets and to a skilled workforce will remain important considerations," a spokesperson of the group said.

Summary: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said India is "well prepared" to deal with any volatility arising from the UK's decision to leave the European Union.