The 80-year-old retired Atomic Weapons Establishment scientist, of The Green in Tadley, has been described by his neighbours as a "wonderful man". Local residents told the BBC he kept himself very physically fit having undergone heart surgery. Tadley Town Council Chairman David Leeks said the reaction in the town was one of "pure shock". He said: "We had a meeting last night and it was mentioned. "We found it very difficult to believe that someone from Tadley had suffered this way. "You don't expect something like this to happen in your community. "Our thoughts go out to his family". Neighbours said Mr Thompson was a keen walker who was known to do up to 60 press ups a day and loved holidays. The BBC understands his long-term partner is currently staying with family. Tadley Town Council will hold a minute's silence outside its offices on Friday. The family of Mr Thompson issued a statement via Hampshire Constabulary, which stated: "We understand the interest the media has at this time, but we do not wish to be approached by nor speak to any members of the media. "We ask that you respect our privacy and our wishes at this extremely difficult time." The police force told the BBC the family have confirmed the death to the Foreign Office, and have been given a family liaison officer. Twenty-one Britons have been identified as victims, with nine more believed to among the dead, Downing Street said.

Summary: One of the Tunisia beach attack victims has been named locally as David Thompson from Hampshire.


One has attracted global celebrities and sports stars, and has been followed mile-by-mile on TV and at the roadside by millions of people. The other is lucky to get a solitary figure on a street corner cheering it on. But the differences between the official Olympic torch relay and the amateur Real Relay do not end there. While the official flame is stopped in its tracks every night, the Real Relay continues 24 hours a day as part of its non-stop journey around the British Isles. And later it will move in front of its official counterpart in Dover. "The Real Relay was conceived when we saw that the Olympic torch was spending a lot of time in the back of a van," says Kate Treleaven, one of the organisers. "We sensed a missed opportunity and set out to recruit real grassroots runners from around the British Isles to run all the way around the Olympic torch route." Instead of the golden Olympic torch carried on the official route, runners carry a metre-long baton which has a GPS tracker inside so people can follow the runners' progress. There are 672 stages of 10-to-12 miles in the relay, which started at Land's End in Cornwall on 28 May - 10 days behind the official one - and concludes at the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, five days ahead of the torch relay. By the time it reaches London more than 2,000 runners will have taken part, covering 7,377 miles on foot, over 55 days and nights. In pictures: The Real Relay The Real Relay has had little publicity but word of mouth has seen it take off, Ms Treleaven says. She believes the tradition of a stripped-back relay without any "road support crew, sponsors and razzmatazz" is what appeals. Unlike the Olympic torch, which caught a train up Snowdon, the Real Relay ran up the biggest mountain in Wales, along with the other three highest peaks in Northern Ireland, England and Scotland. Runners are told where to begin and end their leg, but plan their own route which must take in each community listed on the Olympic torch route. But is it in competition with the official torch relay? Ms Treleaven says it is not an "anti-Olympic torch uprising" but a chance for those not involved to feel "a little bit closer to it". And unlike the torch relay, the challenge is raising money for the charity CHICKS, which provides free, week-long respite breaks for disadvantaged children. Each runner donates Â£10 to the charity and the organisers believe they will raise well over Â£10,000 in total. Barbara Shuttleworth, 54, ran the Real Relay's 400th stage through Manchester on a Saturday night, taking in Salford's Media City, Old Trafford and Moss Side. The leg ended on the "Curry Mile" in the centre of Rusholme, where restaurant-goers cheered on Mrs Shuttleworth, who ran with her husband Duncan, among others. "They were very good-natured but it was pretty surreal," says Mrs Shuttleworth, who runs an accountancy business. She adds: "I love the torch relay and

Summary: A group of amateur runners following the route of the Olympic torch look set to overtake it later on - but unlike the official relay, they are running every step of the way.


On Tuesday, Bana Alabed posted the picture on Twitter saying she was "happy to be alive". Bana, who tweets in English with the help of her mother, said her family had come under fierce bombardment. Aleppo, once Syria's largest city, has been divided by clashes between government allied and rebel forces. On Monday, government forces captured large swaths of rebel-held territory in the east of the city, following heavy bombing. Meet the seven-year-old tweeting from Aleppo Over the weekend, Bana's mother Fatemah, fearing for her life, had bid farewell to her Twitter followers. But hours later, more tweets emerged saying the family was alive but their home had been destroyed. Fatemah and her family were on the run following heavy bombings. "We are fighting for our lives. Still with you," she said. Fatemah, who studied journalism and politics, has been active on Twitter with her daughter since September and has posted details of daily life in the besieged city. In a conversation with the BBC, she explained that she had taught her daughter English and that Bana's tweets were genuine. "[Bana] wants the world to hear our voice," she said. The family has dealt with constant food shortages, a lack of medical care, and continual bombardments. Fatemah told the BBC bombs are dropped "without any mercy". Since the government's advancements in Aleppo over the weekend, some 16,000 civilians have been displaced according to the UN. Aleppo was Syria's commercial and industrial hub before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011. It has been divided in roughly two for the past four years, with the government controlling the west and rebels the east.

Summary: A seven-year-old girl who became internationally renowned for tweeting about life in East Aleppo has posted a photo of her destroyed home.


The Gulls signed unattached Racchi, 27, and Yeovil Town's Allen, 22, on short-term deals on 1 February. Amos Kabeya, Liam Prynn, Oneil Odofin and Exodus Geohaghon are also released. But Torquay are in talks over new deals for Nathan Blissett, Dan Butler, Angus MacDonald, Courtney Richards, Aman Verma, Toby Ajala, Shaun Harrad, Sam Chaney, Luke Young, and Ben Gerring.

Summary: Torquay United have announced that midfielders Iffy Allen and Danny Racchi are to leave the National League club.


Sidibe, who died on Thursday, is known for his black and white studio portraits that captured the lives of young Malians in the 1960s and 1970s. Critics say his photos of Mali's post-colonial period helped people see the West African nation in a new light. In 2007, he became the first African winner of the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Biennale. People on Twitter describe him as a talent whose images of popular and youth culture still resonate among young photographers across Africa. Sidibe's work captures the lives of young men and women, often showing off a prized possession like a watch or a motorbike. He also captures street scenes and young men seducing girls at parties with a sense of newfound freedom and identity. Sidibe has work in several private and public museums around the world. He became famous around the world after holding his first exhibition in France in 1996 Andres Magnin, Malick Sidibe's close friend and owner of the Parisian gallery which represented him, called the photographer an author "of thousands of images of tenderness and beauty". "A photographer of the young generation of an independent Mali, untroubled, free, modern, full of joy and hope... He was generous, welcoming, loved by all the young people in Bamako."

Summary: Tributes are being paid to the award-winning Malian photographer, Malick Sidibe, who has died at the age of 80.


The Hollywood star has set up his own call centre in the city's Fact gallery, where he and his two artistic collaborators are fielding calls. They will be at their desks between 11:00 and 18:00 GMT from Thursday to Sunday. Those wishing to touch LaBeouf's soul can call the trio on 0151 808 0771. Others can visit the gallery to see the event unfold in person, or can watch a live stream and see notes the trio are making on Touchmysoul.net. LaBeouf made his name in films like the Transformers series, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In the last two years, he has become known for art performances that examine the nature of fame and the gap between a celebrity's public persona and real life. He wore a paper bag with the words "I am not famous any more" over his head on the Berlin Film Festival red carpet, set up a live stream for people to watch him watch all his movies one after another, and sat silently in a US gallery where visitors could come and say or do what they wanted to him. He also gave a memorable motivational speech urging people to "just do it!", which became a viral hit. This is his first such performance in the UK. He works with Finnish artist Nastja Sade Ronkko and Briton Luke Turner under the name LaBeouf, Ronkko & Turner. Some critics dismiss their activities as stunts, but the actor told The Guardian they arise out of "an animalistic urge to express love that I can't express in film". In Liverpool, the trio have been answering calls with the words: "You're through to LaBeouf, Ronkko & Turner, can you touch my soul?" They are transcribing what the callers then tell them. According to their notes, they have been told: The trio are part of a group exhibition titled Follow, which examines how connected people really are in the digital age and opens to the public at Fact on Friday. Curator Amy Jones said: "They're definitely exploring the idea that we're more connected than ever but the challenge of making sure those connections are real and meaningful is harder than ever. "This idea of people from all over the world being able to call up and really talk to another person on the other end is quite liberating. "But also the idea of it being through a phone line - it's mediated, so there's a distance, so it's a challenge to overcome that distance, which is something we all experience."

Summary: Actor Shia LaBeouf has launched his latest performance artwork in Liverpool, asking members of the public to phone him and "touch his soul".


Media playback is unsupported on your device 13 May 2014 Last updated at 13:00 BST The mechanical hands have joints and fingers like real hands. They are very sensitive and can be used to pick up delicate objects like eggs. The new arms make it easier for people who have lost a limb to care for themselves and do everyday tasks like doing up zips.

Summary: New high tech robotic arms which can be used for delicate tasks have been approved for use by people in America.


The dataset contained 40,000 images - half of which were of men, half of women - but it is now offline. Stuart Colianni wrote a program to compile the cache of photos, intending to use them for machine learning research. Tinder accused Mr Colianni of violating its terms of service. Tech news site TechCrunch reported that the dataset originally contained many thousands of pictures from Tinder users in the Bay Area, around San Francisco in California. Some users had "multiple" photos scraped from their profiles, TechCrunch added. "Tinder gives you access to thousands of people within miles of you," wrote Mr Colianni on a web page that previously linked to the data. He explained that he was looking for a way of gathering more detailed data on human faces, adding, "Why not leverage Tinder to build a better, larger facial dataset?" He had added folders containing the photos to Kaggle, a Google-run service that allows programmers to experiment with artificial intelligence (AI) progams. AI algorithms can be trained on large sets of photographs in order to perform facial recognition tasks, but it is not clear what purpose Mr Colianni had in mind for the data. However, over the weekend he posted an update saying that he had removed the pictures. "I have spoken with representatives at Kaggle, and they have received a request from Tinder to remove the dataset," he explained. Tinder said it continued to implement measures "against the automated use" of its API (application programming interface), including steps "to deter and prevent scraping". "This person has violated our terms of service (Sec. 11) and we are taking appropriate action and investigating further," the statement added. The firm also noted that all profile images are available to anyone using the app. Programs that scrape data from the web - to compare prices on e-commerce websites, for example - are very common, noted Glenn Wilkinson, an independent security researcher. "People would have an assumption that their profile is quite private," he explained, but added that getting access to such data is not usually very difficult, even if it is prohibited - as in Tinder's case - by the terms and conditions of the service. There were potential privacy threats that could result from this, said Mr Wilkinson, pointing out that it might be possible to use profile pictures to connect people's identities on separate social media sites. "People do like to keep their dating and work life separate - but if you use the same photo on Tinder and LinkedIn, those things could get linked together," he told the BBC.

Summary: Tens of thousands of dating profile pictures were taken from Tinder by a programmer who then made them publicly available on the web.


All of the managerial movements for June will appear below, followed by the full list of each club, league-by-league. To read the list for May, visit the ins and outs page.

Summary: BBC Sport tracks all the manager ins and outs as well as listing all the current bosses in the Premier League, Scottish Premiership, English Football League and National League.


The UK's advertising watchdog has upheld a complaint that the electronics chain had encouraged viewers to believe they could watch ultra-high definition broadcasts of the Euro 2016 football championship. It follows an earlier rebuke about an advert shown in 2014. Content in 4K is still relatively uncommon, posing a challenge to stores. The format is marketed as providing four times as much detail as 1080p high definition transmissions, because the screens have that many times more pixels. Sky's recent launch of its Ultra HD service last week has improved matters. But until then, BT was the only broadcaster transmitting 4K content to UK audiences and its offering was often limited to one football match a week. Other alternatives include a limited number of shows and films on streaming services including Netflix, Amazon Instant Video and YouTube. Currys PC World - which is owned by DSG Retail - screened the most recent of the two offending adverts on 4 June, six days before the Uefa (Union of European Football Associations) competition began. "We know some people will do whatever it takes to watch the football on the right TV," stated the voiceover, before providing details of two 4K televisions. The advert did not explicitly refer to Euro 2016, but the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) noted that it had contained a graphic of a rotating football made up of the flags of the various competing teams. Part of the store's defence was that, even though the Euro 2016 games were not broadcast in 4K, the TVs had the ability to "upscale" the footage to improve picture quality. This involves using software to infer what each of the extra pixels should show, rather than just making each square of four pixels the same colour. The technique cannot put back the original detail because it was never included in the lower-resolution broadcast, but algorithms can try to deduce what would have been shown. The retailer's ad had been submitted to Clearcast - a clearance service for advertisers. That firm defended its decision to approve the contents on the basis that the TVs had been described as being 4K-ready. This, it explained, implied there was no guarantee that consumers would actually be able to see content in the format. However, the ASA rejected these responses saying it still felt consumers were likely to have believed they could watch the matches in "genuine 4K definition". Its verdict followed an earlier ruling against a Currys PC World ad that had said Ultra HD TVs allowed families to watch their "favourite Christmas movies in greater detail". The firm had again justified its description by pointing to the sets' upscaling abilities. But the ASA said it believed viewers had been misled to believe they would be able to see the films in "full" 4K quality and added that if the firm meant to refer to upscaling, it should be clearer about the fact.

Summary: Currys PC World has been reprimanded for a second time about broadcasting misleading adverts for 4K televisions.


The 29-year-old Rangers captain was called up on Tuesday but will not travel for the World Cup qualifying campaign opener. Manager Gordon Strachan will make no further additions. Celtic's Leigh Griffiths and Kieran Tierney dropped out of the original squad with knocks, along with midfielders James McArthur and Kevin McDonald. Hearts forward Tony Watt was drafted in at the same time as Wallace, who won the last of his eight caps in 2013. Hull's Andy Robertson is now the only recognised left-back in the squad of 24 for Sunday's game at the Ta'Qali Stadium. Striker Griffiths came off injured after scoring in Celtic's 4-1 defeat of Aberdeen on Saturday. The 26-year-old netted 40 times last season and has seven goals so far this term but has yet to score in seven appearances for Scotland. Steven Fletcher, yet to score for new club Sheffield Wednesday, was Scotland's main striker in their unsuccessful Euro 2016 qualifying campaign, while Chris Martin and Steven Naismith also featured in attack for Gordon Strachan's side. That trio and Watt make up the forward contingent of Strachan's revised squad. Midfielder Robert Snodgrass is optimistic about being fit, despite a painful collision with a goalpost during Hull City's defeat by Manchester United at the weekend. It will be Scotland's first game since midfielder and captain Scott Brown retired from international football. West Brom's Darren Fletcher - a former national team skipper - could resume the armband duties. Strachan's pool also includes winger Oliver Burke, who joined German side RB Leipzig from Nottingham Forest on Sunday in a £13m deal - making him the most expensive Scottish player.

Summary: Full-back Lee Wallace has withdrawn from the Scotland squad to face Malta.


The chancellor claimed Britain was "walking tall again" after five years of austerity. He also cut 1p from beer duty, 2% from cider and whisky and froze fuel and wine duty. Cigarettes will go up by 16p a pack as earlier planned. Labour leader Ed Miliband said Mr Osborne had "failed working families". "This a Budget that people won't believe from a government that is not on their side," Mr Miliband told MPs. The Lib Dems - who will set out their own tax and spending plans on Thursday - claimed credit for coalition plans to raise the personal income tax allowance to £10,800 next year, more than previously expected. Users of the BBC News app tap here for the Budget Calculator. Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable told BBC News: "Where we differ from the Conservatives... is that we don't believe you can deal with this deficit problem simply by cutting public spending. "Many of our public services are already under a lot of pressure so we will be arguing for a different mix." In his final set-piece pitch to voters before May's election, Mr Osborne announced that if the Conservatives win power the first £1,000 of savings interest would be tax free - meaning 95% of savers would pay no tax. He also said savings put aside for a deposit by first-time buyers would be topped up by the government - to the tune of £50 for every £200 saved - in a move that will come into force this Autumn. The new Help to Buy ISA accounts will be made available through banks and building societies. Other measures include: Mr Osborne hailed slightly better than expected growth figures, which suggest the economy will expand by 2.5% this year, rather than 2.4% and described his economic package as a "Budget for Britain - a comeback country". He said the government had met its 2010 target to end this Parliament with Britain's national debt falling as a share of GDP, meaning the "the hard work and sacrifice of the British people has paid off". Most computers will open PDF documents automatically, but you may need Adobe Reader Download the reader here Setting out his plans in the Commons, Mr Osborne said: "We took difficult decisions in the teeth of opposition and it worked. Britain is walking tall again. "Five years ago, our economy had suffered a collapse greater than almost any country. "Today, I can confirm: in the last year we have grown faster than any other major advanced economy in the world." He said he would use a boost in the public finances caused by lower inflation and welfare payments to pay off some of the national debt and end the squeeze on public spending a year earlier than planned. In 2019/20 spending will grow in line with the growth of the economy - bringing state spending as a share of national income to the same level as in 2000, the chancellor told MPs. The BBC's Robert Peston said this was a move aimed at neutralising Labour's claim that the

Summary: George Osborne has announced tax cuts for first-time buyers, workers and savers in his final Budget before May's general election.


The Heritage Lottery Fund said the project lacked backing from Conwy council and was deemed "high risk". The council has applied to have the Grade II-listed structure demolished. However, a protracted legal dispute over the ownership of the pier is still rumbling on between businessman Steve Hunt and the council. The bid for lottery cash from the HLF was made by the Colwyn Victoria Pier Trust, who described the request as a "last chance" for the pier. Announcing that the funding bid was unsuccessful, HLF's chief executive Carole Souter said: "HLF takes its role of investing National Lottery players' money extremely seriously and we only support projects that we are confident can deliver long-term benefits. "Unfortunately, we have not had a clear enough indication of strong support from Conwy County Borough Council. "In light of this as well as the absence of other confirmed financial support and the potential for increased costs, the application was deemed high risk." The campaigners trying to save the pier said on Wednesday they were "bitterly disappointed" by the decision. Conwy's council leader Dilwyn Roberts said he realised the pier trust would be disappointed, stressing that the authority would continue to talk to the trust and Colwyn town council and "would welcome talking to them further about proposals for legacy". However, restoration is not on the council's agenda following the HLF announcement. "As the application was unsuccessful, the council's application to demolish the pier will continue through the planning process," said the council leader.

Summary: Colwyn Bay's Victoria pier has failed to win a £9.6m bid for lottery heritage restoration cash and now faces demolition.


Media playback is not supported on this device Richard and Peter Chambers, Rob Williams and Chris Bartley won Britain's third rowing medal, with defending champions Denmark taking bronze and Australia fourth. Media playback is not supported on this device The Chambers duo became the first British brothers to win an Olympic medal since Greg and Jonny Searle took bronze in the coxless four at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Richard Chambers said: "That was really, really brutal. We were just fighting, fighting through the whole thing to get ourselves back into contention. "We struggled to keep with the pace of the other crews in the first quarter of the race but we dug our heels in and fought really hard." Peter Chambers said: "We are gutted. We were unlucky to get a silver with those conditions. We're delighted with silver but we wanted to get gold. "Fair play to the South Africans, they won that fair and square." Williams said: "We wanted to win. We have to be happy to get a medal at our home Olympics. It's a shame we didn't win but what can you do? It's a shame." The British quartet, who took bronze at last year's World Championships, arrived having won at the They followed up an where they overhauled Australia in the final 250m, with the fastest time in the semi-finals to progress to the final. They were slow out of the blocks and were down in fifth as Denmark took an early lead at 500m. The British boat fought back and were close to level with Denmark and a resurgent South African crew as they entered the final 500m. But they just missed out on the final push, getting pipped on the line by South Africa. It was the first Olympic rowing gold for South Africa and the first medal of any kind for the Chambers brothers, Williams and Bartley.

Summary: Great Britain's lightweight men's four won silver as South Africa beat them to gold by just a quarter of a second in a thrilling final at Eton Dorney.


The Fawlty Towers and Monty Python star was quoted in a magazine interview last year as saying "there's no way I want to work in TV, especially at the BBC". In recent years, the 74-year-old British actor has mainly concentrated on voiceover roles. But BBC comedy head Shane Allen told the Daily Telegraph Cleese is a "comedy god, and the door is always open". "We're in discussions about a piece that he might be in. It's a sitcom and it's very early days," Mr Allen said. Cleese, who appeared on the big screen in A Fish Called Wanda and two Harry Potter films, did take on small appearances in US TV sitcoms Whitney and Entourage between 2010 and 2013. He also reunited with his Monty Python co-stars in 2013 for live shows to pay an Â£800,000 legal bill after losing a royalties case. And following his divorce from third wife Alyce Eichelberger in 2008, he performed in a comedy show dubbed the Alimony Tour. In last year's interview with Shortlist magazine, Cleese said he felt the BBC's commissioning editors had "no idea" what they were doing. He also said he had been offered "cliched" roles by ITV. Referring to Cleese's possible BBC sitcom return, Mr Allen told the Telegraph: "There are certain people who have earned their badges, who have got the right to do what they want." He was speaking to the Telegraph before the first episode airs on Sunday in the BBC's "landmark sitcom series". The series features modern remakes of Are You Being Served?, Porridge, Till Death Us Do Part, Steptoe and Son, and Up Pompeii! Mr Allen said it was "insulting" to suggest the BBC's new comedies were not as good as the past but added: "This is a chance to try to reclaim that and say these are titles and writers and pieces of work that are proven, and hallowed, and it's a chance to introduce them to a new generation." A BBC spokeswoman said: "We would love to work with John Cleese. However nothing is confirmed at this stage and we do not comment on developments."

Summary: John Cleese is reported to be in talks to return to the BBC for a sitcom which has been written specifically for him.


Mr Varoufakis, 53, is not only a well-respected political economist, but a charismatic man and natural charmer. A few weeks after his appointment, he has become something of a global celebrity. That is hardly surprising for Greeks - after all, Mr Varoufakis got more votes than any other candidate in the 25 January general election that swept the leftist Syriza party into power. In the wake of victory he immediately embarked on a European tour that took him to London, Paris, Rome and Berlin. The sight of a shaven-headed, athletic minister refusing to tuck his shirt into his trousers or wear a tie - even while visiting 11 Downing Street - fascinated business reporters, fashion editors and gossip columnists. Even the German media - among Greece's sternest critics - seemed impressed. ZDF television anchor Marietta Slomka said "he is someone you could imagine starring in a film like Die Hard 6", and conservative daily Die Welt ran the headline "What makes Yanis Varoufakis a sex icon". In his home country, a new word was coined - "Varoufitses" - to describe women who idolise Mr Varoufakis. At the time of writing, Mr Varoufakis had 128,000 Twitter followers, a number of devoted fan pages on Facebook, and he has inspired a video game "Syrizaman Vs Troika". His eurozone colleagues may not find him quite so charming. In his first meeting with them on 11 February he refused to approve a common statement by the Eurogroup that implied Athens would seek an extension of its bailout. "Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one," he wrote in a blog entry back in May 2010. Varoufakis soundbites Mr Varoufakis showed signs of defiance and non-conformism from a very early age. That includes deliberately misspelling his name Yanis, writing it with only one "n" since elementary school. "I had an aesthetic problem with the double "n"," he said. "So I decided to write my name with one. My teacher gave me a bad grade, which made me very angry and I've kept writing my name with one "n" ever since." Mr Varoufakis was born on 24 March 1961 in Athens. He is a graduate of the Moraitis private school, which has nurtured many members of Greece's political and economic elite. His father, 89-year-old Giorgos Varoufakis, is chairman of Halyvourgiki, a Greek industrial giant. This background of relative privilege did not prevent Mr Varoufakis from becoming a libertarian Marxist, who has said that "Karl Marx was responsible for framing my perspective of the world we live in, from my childhood to this day". After receiving his doctorate from the University of Essex he spent a couple of years teaching there and at the University of East Anglia. But Margaret Thatcher's third election victory in 1987 proved too much to bear for Mr Varoufakis, who started to "plan his escape" from Britain. His escape destination was not Greece, but Australia, where he taught economics at the University of Sydney. He finally returned to Athens

Summary: Greece's left-wing Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis is leading the offensive to persuade the nation's creditors to end austerity and forgive part of its debt.


Mark Jennens, 40, was accused of manslaughter when his mother died after a row at their West Midlands home over Christmas dinner in 2015. The prosecution argued he threw her to the floor causing a fractured hip. But after a jury cleared him, he said: "For the first time in 18 months I can look myself in the eye in the mirror." Mr Jennens, of Brierley Hill, was the carer for his 78-year-old mother, who suffered from lung cancer. He admitted the pair had a difficult relationship. "She was a Jekyll and Hyde. She could be lovely or she could be evil, you never quite knew what you were getting," he told the BBC. Describing what happened on Christmas Eve, he said she fell after he picked her up by her arms in a "tragic accident" following their dispute. "My mother has been a difficult character and I'd been her sole carer for 10 years," he said. "She was being aggressive as per usual. Thousands of times she has been aggressive before. "And this one time I wanted to cry to be quite honest. So I went to pick her up to put her outside the door for two minutes so I could sit there and have a sob. "Well she went [fell] over and I phoned the police and ambulance." His mother was taken to Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, but later contracted pneumonia and died on 18 January 2016. Mr Jennens said he was "absolutely gobsmacked" after he was arrested shortly after. "Next thing you know I'm being done for manslaughter," he said. During his trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court, it was reported the prosecution described what happened as "a cascade of events all led from a fractured hip which she suffered at her son's hands." But Mr Jennens' defence barrister argued there had been a "break in the chain of causation" when Hazel was incorrectly administered Salbutamol in hospital two days before she died. The jury cleared Mr Jennens in less than 90 minutes. "It was never prison that bothered me," he said. "No matter how difficult a relationship you've got with your mum you are always going to love them. "My mum had terminal lung cancer," he said, adding the family didn't know that his mother had been told a year before she died she had six months to live. He believes the case should never have been brought and that there were many gaps, including unanswered questions about her medical care. "Now the jury has come back unanimously after an hour-and-a-half it confirms there was no case to answer," he said. Mr Jennens said his family had "never doubted me for a second" and shared his relief. "I'm more relieved for my sisters because in hindsight I think they have suffered more than me," he said. He said he had been under enormous stress looking after his mother and has called for changes to aspects of social care. His mother had refused help from social service which meant he was not able to get a "vital bit

Summary: A son cleared of killing his mother has spoken of his relief, saying: "Who wants the stigma of being known as 'the bloke who kills their mum?'"


Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, 36, will be flown on a chartered plane to Mumbai where bariatric surgeon Dr Muffazal Lakdawala plans to operate. The Indian embassy in Cairo initially denied her visa request as she was unable to travel there in person. After the surgeon tweeted to India's foreign minister that changed. India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who is herself in hospital awaiting a kidney transplant, was quick to respond with an offer of help. Ms Abd El Aty's family says she hasn't been able to leave home for 25 years now and claims she weighs 500kg. If the claim about her weight is true, then that would make her the world's heaviest woman alive as the current Guinness record holder is Pauline Potter of the United States who weighed 292kg (643lb) in 2010. Dr Lakdawala, who has performed weight reduction surgeries on Indian minister Nitin Gadkari and Venkaiah Naidu, told the BBC that from looking at Ms Abd El Aty's medical reports and photographs, he believes that she weighs at least 450kg. Ms Abd El Aty's family says she weighed 5kg (11lb) at birth and was diagnosed with elephantiasis, a condition in which a limb or other body parts swell due to a parasitic infection, Dr Lakdawala told the BBC in a phone call from Mumbai. "They said when she was 11, she had gained immense weight because of which she could not stand up and would crawl. "And then she suffered a stroke which left her bedridden and she has not been able to leave home since then." Ms Abd El Aty is cared for by her mother and sister. Dr Lakdawala said Ms Abd El Aty's sister got in touch with him in October and he began raising money to bring her over to Mumbai as her family was too poor and unable to bear the costs of chartering a flight. "We are expecting to fly her to Mumbai next week as soon as the formalities are over," he said. Dr Lakdawala believes that Ms Abd El Aty does not have elephantiasis, but suffers from obesity-related lymphoedema which causes gigantic swelling of legs. "She would need to remain in Mumbai for two to three months for the surgery and treatment after which she would be able to return home, but it would take two to three years to bring her body weight under 100kg," the surgeon said. "I'm hopeful that I will be able to help her, I won't say I'm confident because I think that would be an exaggeration," he added. Bariatric surgery, also known as weight loss surgery, is used as a last resort to treat people who are dangerously obese and carrying an excessive amount of body fat. In the UK, this type of surgery is available on the NHS only to treat people with potentially life-threatening obesity when other treatments have not worked. Around 8,000 people a year in the UK currently receive the treatment. The two most common types of weight loss surgery are: Where are you on the global fat scale?

Summary: An Egyptian woman, believed to be the world's heaviest woman at 500kg (1,102lb), will soon be flown to India for weight reduction surgery.


RAF serviceman Corrie Mckeague went missing after a night out in Bury St Edmunds in September. After a high-profile missing persons campaign, police revealed in March he may have ended up in a bin lorry. About 4,430 tonnes of waste have been searched so far at a landfill site at Milton, Cambridgeshire. On Monday, Suffolk Constabulary announced it would be continuing its search for the missing 23-year-old. A police spokeswoman said: "The work is constantly being reviewed and, as the search team are still finding items from the right time frame that are identifiable as coming from the town, the search will continue on a week by week basis. "Throughout the search officers have been working to understand exactly where waste was deposited and how it may have been spread out during the process. "This week police will be bulk-moving further material to allow the work to continue." The force said it had carried out further work based on the GPS data from the refuse truck which brought the waste to the landfill site. This information, the spokeswoman said, meant the area being searched at the tip had been expanded.

Summary: Police searching a landfill site for a missing airman have said they are finding "items from the right time" and place of his disappearance.


25 November 2015 Last updated at 12:29 GMT The waiters had to balance trays of glasses and bottles filled with water, while running down a 300 metre course. The waiter who won, Kento Sasamoto, took just 49 seconds to complete the race. Watch this clip of the waiters racing.

Summary: More than 120 waiters have taken part in this year's Waiters' Race in Japan.


It warns about what it calls "medium-term" dangers in both emerging and developed economies, in its twice-yearly report. It expresses particular concerns about Europe, Japan and China. On a more positive note, the fund does say that short-term risks have abated since its previous assessment of global financial stability in April. Pressures on emerging markets have eased, the report says. Rising commodity prices (though they are still relatively low) have helped and so has the reduced uncertainty about China's prospects in the near term. The report says investors were taken by surprise by the result of the British referendum on the European Union, but the political shock was absorbed by markets. They passed what it calls "this severe stress test". But looking further ahead, the IMF sees growing risks. A key factor is bank profits. The good news is that banks are in some respects stronger than they were before the financial crisis. They have more capital, a kind of financial buffer that enables them to survive losses. Their liquidity has improved, which means they have more chance of coping if they suddenly have to find funds quickly. But they are struggling to make money. Weak profitability makes it harder for them to build up their capital (which they can do by holding on to some profit rather than giving it all to shareholders as dividends). It also makes it harder for them to expand lending to business and consumers, as is needed to support economic recovery. The problems partly reflect the very low interest rate environment that developed-country banks have to operate in. The struggle to make profits also reflects the persistent economic weakness in the developed world, which means weaker demand for credit. Some banks in the eurozone have a burden of problem loans, which are not being repaid and that they have still not dealt with. The report identifies Italian and Portuguese banks as facing serious challenges of profitability and capital levels. There is also a warning about Japanese banks and their expansion overseas, which the report says is the result of economic weakness and very low interest rates in their home market. That leaves them exposed to some risk in terms of access to the foreign currency funds they need to maintain that business. The report warns about pension funds and insurance companies, whose position is also undermined by persistent low interest rates. Outside the rich countries, China is seen as a potential trouble spot. The report says that rapid credit growth and the expansion of "shadow banking" (lending done by firms that are not banks) "pose mounting risks to stability". The rapidly growing financial system in China is becoming increasingly "interconnected", the report says. The extent to which firms in the sector are interconnected - that is, have transactions with one another - was identified as a key factor in the financial contagion that was a feature of the international financial crisis. The IMF's recommended medicine for these mounting risks is partly about generating a stronger economic recovery, including reforms to underpin growth. There are also calls

Summary: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that risks to financial stability are growing.


The plan also pledged to free up hospital beds by cutting the number of patients staying longer than they need. And it set out commitments to recruit more GPs and nurses and regionalise some hospital services. It follows Audit Scotland saying the NHS had met only one of its eight waiting time targets. The public spending watchdog also said the health service needed to make unprecedented savings next year, and that NHS funding was not keeping pace with increasing demand on the service. The government's Health and Social Services delivery plan said Scotland needed a "fundamental move" away from a "fix and treat" approach. Instead, the focus will be on preventing people becoming ill in the first place, and then intervening as quickly as possible to prevent their conditions becoming more serious. The key to this will be attempting to create a culture in which healthy behaviours are the norm, starting from the earliest years and persisting throughout people's lives. The document also said mental health should be given equal importance to physical health, and stressed the need to address the underlying conditions that affect health. And it said that, when people do need hospital care, the aim should be for day surgery to be the norm, with people who need to stay longer discharged as quickly as it is safe to do so. The delivery plan said it aimed to reduce unscheduled bed-days in hospital care by up to 10% (about 400,000 bed-days) by 2018, through reducing delayed discharges, avoidable admissions and inappropriately long stays in hospitals. Once they are discharged, patients should get "more appropriate care in a more homely setting", with good quality community care in place to ensure people only stay in hospitals for as long as they need specific treatment, the plan said. And it also said that some acute local hospital services should be transferred to larger regional - or even national - centres of excellence, where patients can receive the best possible treatment. The plans said: "Ultimately, individuals and where appropriate, their families - should be at the centre of decisions that affect them. They should be given more freedom, choice, dignity and control over their care". Among the other commitments were: Announcing the plan, Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "We want more services and more care delivered closer to home. "And when someone does require specialist care in hospital we want it to be delivered in a centre of real expertise that is underpinned by our unswerving commitment to patient safety." She added: "The plan I am setting out today puts actions and timescales to an already established direction of travel which we know has the broad support of healthcare professionals, charities and patient groups. "It recognises that we must up the pace of change if we're to deliver modern, sustainable health services and that local health boards and integration partnerships have an important role to play in taking this forward over the next year and beyond."

Summary: The Scottish government has published its blueprint for the future of the NHS, with a focus on treating people closer to home rather than in hospital.


Lord Janner died at the end of last year, shortly after a judge had ruled that the he was not fit to stand trial for alleged child sex offences. But a leading lawyer has told the BBC he sees "a danger" that the inquiry into Lord Janner's case may contravene the principles of a fair trial. As part of her wider inquiry, Dame Lowell, who served as a judge in her native New Zealand, will investigate the way public bodies handled child sex abuse claims. She will be holding further preliminary hearings this month into allegations of child sexual abuse involving the Anglican Church, Lambeth Council and a number of institutions in Rochdale. The inquiry will consider the prevalence of abuse and the adequacy of child protection policies. At this stage, though, it will not hear from witnesses. Instead, Dame Lowell has designated 17 complainants in the case as core participants, giving them access to relevant evidence and the opportunity to make opening and closing statements. Core participants will be able to ask for particular questions to be put to witnesses by the inquiry panel but they will not be allowed to question the witnesses directly. In setting out the scope of the investigation, Dame Lowell says she will consider whether or not the allegations against Lord Janner are "well-founded". It is only if particular allegations meet this test that she will go on to consider whether the various authorities concerned had failed in their responsibilities. This suggests that she intends to hold what amounts to a trial without a defendant. Last April, her team said: "If the evidence permits findings of fact to be reached concerning the allegations against Lord Janner, the inquiry will record and publish these findings." If Lord Janner's criminal trial had gone ahead, prosecutors would have had to prove the allegations against him beyond reasonable doubt. However, it is thought that the Goddard inquiry will regard the allegations as well-founded if they can be proved on the balance of probabilities - the lesser standard of proof required in civil claims. Another question for the inquiry is whether witnesses who claim they were abused by Lord Janner should be cross-examined, as they would have been at a criminal trial. Unless lawyers for the various core participants are willing to challenge the evidence given by individual witnesses, Dame Lowell may have to consider appointing independent lawyers for the purpose. That's because the inquiry's findings may have a bearing on civil claims being made against the estate of Lord Janner and against the various public bodies that are accused of failing in their safeguarding duties. Prof Sir Ian Kennedy QC, who chaired the public inquiry into child deaths at Bristol Royal Infirmary which reported in 2001, said there was a danger that Lord Janner's case would become something like a trial. In an interview for BBC Radio 4's Law in Action he said: "The difficulty is that it can't really be a trial, as we would recognise it, because the person who is centre stage is no longer there. "And

Summary: Dame Lowell Goddard's independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has begun hearing legal submissions about the scope of her investigations into the late Labour peer Lord Janner.


Four police officers were injured in the incident on Friday night. A man, aged 19, and a boy, aged 16, have been charged with six counts of aggravated vehicle taking. They are due to appear before Belfast Magistrates' Court on Monday. The 19-year-old man has also been charged with driving while disqualified and using a motor vehicle without insurance.

Summary: Two teenagers have been charged in connection with an incident in west Belfast in which a car collided with two police vehicles.


Gary Carter, a freelance rugby reporter who works for The Sun, was found with head injuries outside Bethnal Green station at 01:00 GMT on 6 November. The Met Police said they had been called to an altercation between two men. Mr Carter, 36, is in a critical condition in hospital. James Flanagan 35, of Marsden Street, has been charged with grievous bodily harm. Mr Carter's wife, Gemma Carter, tweeted "Pray for my husband #rflfamily" referencing his role within the rugby league community. She also thanked well-wishers for their "amazing support during this very difficult time" and added "[I'm] praying @GaryCarter_1979 will pull through". A 22-year-old man was also arrested in connection with the incident for affray towards attending paramedics. He has been bailed.

Summary: A sports journalist is in a critical condition after an attack in London.


The Virgin East Coast driver sheltered next to his cab just three seconds before the high-speed train passed. The 3 August incident happened 12 miles (19.7km) north of York station. A report said it was the result of a lack of "clear understanding" between the driver and a trainee signaller over whether a line blockage was in place. Live updates and more from across North Yorkshire The Rail Accident Investigation Branch report said the driver was attempting to carry out tests on the 07.55 BST Inverness to London King's Cross train when it experienced a loss of power at Kyle Beck, near Tollerton. It said the driver contacted the signaller - a trainee working under the guidance of an experienced colleague - to request trains on the adjacent lines be stopped in order to carry out the checks. After communicating the request, the signaller said he would call the driver back to confirm the line blockage. But, the report found, the driver stepped down from his cab before receiving the confirmation. A CCTV image taken from the front of the passing train showed the driver sheltering next to his vehicle. The driver was unhurt. "It is possible the driver may not have heard what the trainee signaller said or that he had misunderstood what he was being told," the report said. "The driver and the trainee signaller did not reach a clear understanding about stopping trains on the adjacent lines and the driver subsequently alighted from the driving cab of his train, incorrectly believing it was safe to do so."

Summary: A train driver narrowly avoided being hit by a second train travelling at 105mph (169km/h) when he was investigating a power failure.


Mitch Garbutt opened the scoring for Leeds, but Dorn's treble and tries from Denny Solomona and Joel Monaghan made it 30-6 to Cas at the break. Solomona added his second after a mistake from Ash Handley, who soon crossed for Leeds, but Gadwin Springer and Ben Crooks extended the lead. Grant Millington took Cas past 50 points after fine work from Luke Gale. The defeat was the 11th of the season for the reigning Super League champions and the second time they had conceded 50 points this campaign following their 56-12 loss to Widnes in February. Rhinos had few answers to deal with Tigers' veteran full-back Dorn in his first game back following two months out with a hamstring injury. The 33-year-old collected Junior Moors' offload to cross for his first before collecting Gale's kick into space to score under the posts. The Australian then completed his hat-trick just after the 30-minute mark as Mike McMeeken's pass left him with a simple finish. Castleford move above Wakefield and Widnes to sixth in the table. Leeds Rhinos: Golding; Handley, Watkins, Keinhorst, Hardaker; McGuire, Lilley; Galloway, Burrow, Garbutt, Jones-Buchanan, Ferres, Cuthbertson. Replacements: Mullally, Sutcliffe, Achurch, Walters. Castleford Tigers: Dorn; Flynn, Crooks, Monaghan, Solomona; McShane, Gale; Patrick, Milner, Jewitt, McMeeken, Moors, Massey. Replacements: Cook, Millington, Springer, Tickle. Referee: Richard Silverwood

Summary: Luke Dorn scored a first-half hat-trick as Castleford Tigers thumped Super League's bottom side Leeds Rhinos.


The 26-year-old Scot finished in 43.590 seconds, ahead of second-placed Choi Min-jeong of South Korea (43.612secs). Christie won the event at the World Cup opener in Calgary, Canada. She set a 500m world record in the quarter-finals at the second World Cup in Salt Lake City, USA but fell in the final. Christie won a silver and three bronze medals at the World Championships in March and competed at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.

Summary: British short track speed skater Elise Christie won 500m gold at the third World Cup event of the season in Shanghai, China.


Galit Nakash is to take a DNA test to determine if the girl is her biological daughter, following a court hearing. If the results are negative, authorities say they will return the child to Sri Lanka straight away. Ms Nakash was stopped when airport officials found she had used another child's passport to leave Sri Lanka. She says she gave birth at a hospital in Sri Lanka during a business trip but that her visa application for the baby, named Tahel, was turned down. On Tuesday a court in Tel Aviv accepted her request to undergo a DNA test in Israel. Ms Nakash's lawyer, Matan Hodorov, said his client and the one-year-old child are being moved to a facility at Ayalon prison in Ramle until the results of the test are known on Friday. Mr Hodorov said Ms Nakash, 49, turned down an Israeli request to take a DNA test while she was in Sri Lanka because she did not trust the process there. He said when Ms Nakash, who runs an export business and comes from Tel Aviv, re-entered Israel, the passport she used for Tahel carried the name of a different child. However he said he was "confident the DNA test will prove Galit is the mother [of Tahel]. "We have all the correct medical documents from the hospital in Sri Lanka where she was born," he told the BBC. The Israeli foreign ministry said Ms Nakash was denied a visa for Tahel because officials had doubts about her story. "There were a few indications which raised a certain amount of suspicion," spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said. "That is why we did not allow the child and Galit to enter the State of Israel. "It doesn't mean she is wrong but we have a legal duty to check it out. If the DNA tests show she's the mother then that's wonderful and the problem is over. If not, the child will immediately be sent back to where she came from, as required under the Hague Convention [on child abduction]," Mr Nahshon said. "Nobody is trying to take the child away or create a tragedy, but the circumstances are extremely suspicious."

Summary: An Israeli woman and a baby who returned from Sri Lanka have been kept at Tel Aviv airport since Saturday amid questions over the child's origins.


Eastmond, capped six times, previously played for St Helens and the England rugby league team before switching codes to join Bath in 2011. The 27-year-old made 72 top-flight appearances for Bath, scoring 16 tries, including two last season. "Kyle has already shown his international class and still has plenty of potential to fulfil," Wasps director of rugby Dai Young said. Wasps have not disclosed the details of Eastmond's contract at the Ricoh Arena. He had agreed a new deal at Bath in January. Eastmond, whose last international appearance for England came against South Africa in November 2014, becomes Wasps' 12th signing ahead of the 2016-17 season. "Kyle is one of the most exciting centres in the Premiership," Young told the club website. "We're really looking forward to adding his talents to an already impressive group of backs at the club."

Summary: Wasps have signed England centre Kyle Eastmond from Premiership rivals Bath.


The agency said almost 20 hectares of forest would have to be felled to try to stop the disease spreading. Phytophthora ramorum is a fungus-like pathogen that can kill or severely damage larch trees. Forest Enterprise Scotland (FES) is also asking woodland visitors to help prevent the spread of tree disease. It called on people to brush mud and forest debris from boots, walking poles and bike tyres when leaving and entering wooded areas. All the new sites are close to existing infected sites. FES confirmed the locations as: Fraser McDonald, a forester with the FES team in Cowal said: "Everyone has a part to play in helping prevent the spread of tree diseases and it's simply a matter of making sure that you arrive at a forest with clean boots, bike wheels - and even dog's paws. "Our Keep it Clean campaign promotes good biosecurity practice and explains that it only takes a few minutes to brush off any mud or forest debris from boots, walking poles or bike tyres. "It may not seem much but tree diseases can be carried from site to site in mud or on twigs leaves and others forest debris, so those few minutes can make a big difference." Mr McDonald said Scotland's forestry was a valuable resource for recreation and the economy of Scotland. He added: "It's important that everyone does there bit to look after Scotland's forests and help to prevent the spread of tree diseases."

Summary: A deadly pathogen that kills larch trees has been discovered in seven new locations across Argyll and Stirling, Forest Enterprise Scotland has warned.


She had arrived at a running club meeting in Kings Heath when three men demanded she hand over her car keys before using a stun device on her, police said. She alerted a passing van and the men ran away. She was left "shaken, bruised and with burns", the club said. There were similar reports between 5 and 10 February. Read more Birmingham and Black Country stories. West Midlands Police said there were six reports of alleged assaults involving "small stun devices" in Moseley, Kings Heath and Acocks Green. It is not yet clear whether the incidents are linked. Four teenage boys, two aged 15 and two aged 16, were arrested and bailed in connection with a robbery in Acocks Green on 5 February. Witnesses are being urged to come forward. A post on Kings Heath Running Club's Facebook page said: "There was a serious incident prior to club run last Thursday. "It was an attempted car theft by three young men who demanded a runner's car keys. "She refused and an electric Taser device was used on her during a physical struggle. "She was shaken, is bruised and has seen a doctor who has assessed the burns left by the Taser. "This was a random event - the runner took no risks in parking her car on a well-lit road next to the school."

Summary: A woman was attacked with a stun device during a car-jacking in Birmingham - the sixth such attack in as many days.


England's Charley Hull, Georgia Hall, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Mel Reid and Florentyna Parker all qualified automatically for the 12-strong team. Six-time Solheim Cup veteran Paula Creamer, who sunk the winning putt for the Americans two years ago, was not selected as a wildcard by Juli Inkster. The event takes place at the Des Moines Country Club in Iowa on 18-20 August. The United States lead 9-5 after winning 14½-13½ in Germany, although Europe won for the first time on US soil in 2013. Europe captain Annika Sorenstam had four wildcard choices and picked fellow Swedes Anna Nordqvist and Madelene Sagstrom, along with Germany's Caroline Masson and Emily Pedersen of Denmark. Sagstrom and Pedersen are both rookies, while Masson secured her place with a tie for third in the British Open. Austin Ernst and Angel Yin were the wildcard choices picked by United States captain Inkster, meaning Creamer - the 2010 US Women's Open champion - has missed out. Creamer, 31, has fallen out of the world's top 100 in recent months, leading to Ernst, whose only LPGA tour win came in the 2014 Portland Classic, and 18-year-old Yin being preferred. Europe: Charley Hull, Georgia Hall, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Mel Reid, Florentyna Parker, Carlota Ciganda, Karine Icher, Suzann Pettersen. Wildcards: Anna Nordqvist, Caroline Masson, Emily Pederson, Magdalene Sagstrom. USA: Lexi Thompson, Stacy Lewis, Gerina Piller, Cristie Kerr, Jessica Korda, Danielle Kang, Michelle Wie, Brittany Lang, Brittany Lincicome, Lizette Salas. Captain's Picks: Austin Ernst, Angel Yin. Find out how to get into golf with our special guide.

Summary: Europe and the United States have confirmed their teams for the upcoming Solheim Cup in Iowa.


Infrastructure Minister Chris Hazzard said the Â£45m investment project would deliver a modernised ticketing system which would "transform travel" and lead to more people using public transport. Almost 300 new ticketing machines will be installed at bus stops and train halts. The scheme is expected to be put in place in 2018. Mr Hazzard said the new programme for government envisages increasing the number of people using public transport. "A high quality public transport infrastructure is fundamental to encouraging people to use our buses and trains," said Mr Hazzard. This innovative ticketing system will deliver long term benefits and transform how we access public transport across the region," he said. "The current ticketing system was introduced 15 years ago and serves around 80 million passenger journeys every year. "This programme will deliver a modern, efficient and convenient ticketing system that will benefit passengers and lead to greater efficiencies. It will improve the passenger experience." The minister added it was expected the scheme would begin to be implemented in 2018 with the new Bus Rapid Transit System. "In 2019 we plan to introduce contactless payments for Metro and Ulsterbus services and customers will enjoy further technology enhancements as we phase in this new era in Translink ticketing which will attract more people to use the bus and train as travel options," he said.

Summary: A new smartcard is to be introduced to make buying bus and train tickets quicker and easier in Northern Ireland.


The Orange Order says flagship parades in Portadown and Kilkeel will provide "an enhanced cultural experience" for spectators. The parades mark the 326th anniversary of King William III's victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Here are all the details of the 12 July celebrations, including parade locations and routes. Portadown - Flagship Twelfth The Orange Order expects 5,000 members to take part in the parade, along with 80 bands. The main parade will commence at 10:15 BST, and proceed through the town centre via Bridge Street, High Street, Market Street and Church Street to the demonstration field on the Armagh Road. Kilkeel - Flagship Twelfth One thousand Orangemen are expected to take part, with 14 of the 15 lodges accompanied by their own band. Kilkeel lodges will leave Kilkeel Orange hall at 09:30 BST and walk several miles to the Council Road on the outskirts of the town. Here they will be joined by other district lodges. The parade will then proceed via Newcastle Road, Newcastle Street and Greencastle Road, to the demonstration field at Manse Road. Belfast This year's Belfast parade will leave Belfast Orange Hall, at Carlisle Circus, at 10:00 BST, making its way along Clifton Street, Donegall Street, Royal Avenue, Castle Junction, and Donegall Place to Belfast City Hall. A wreath-laying ceremony will take place at the Cenotaph in the grounds of the City Hall. This year the service marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and those who served with the 36th Ulster Division. At 10:40 BST, the parade will then proceed via Donegall Square West, Bedford Street, Dublin Road, Shaftesbury Square, Bradbury Place, Lisburn Road, Balmoral Avenue and Malone Road to the demonstration field at Barnett Demesne. Around 60 bands will walk the six-mile route, traditionally the longest of all the Twelfth demonstrations. The parade is due to leave the field for the return leg at 16:15 BST. Maguiresbridge Orangemen from Donegal, Leitrim, Cavan and Monaghan will join 90 lodges and 70 bands from Northern Ireland. This year, to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme the parade will be headed by soldiers dressed in First World War period costume. Lodges and bands will move off at 12.30 BST from the assembly point at Killyshambley on the Tempo Road before proceeding through the village to the demonstration field on the Lisnaskea Road. Limavady The Limavady demonstration will be the largest Orange parade in County Londonderry. Approximately 3,000 Orangemen, representing 60 lodges, will be accompanied by over 50 bands. The main procession will commence at 12:00 BST from Church Street. It will move through the town centre via Ballyclose Street, Main Street, Linenhall Street, Catherine Street, Roemill Road, William Street, Protestant Street, Catherine Street, Irish Green Street and Roemill Gardens to the Limavady Orange field. Castledawson Up to 50 bands will accompany around 60 Orange lodges as the village hosts the Twelfth for the first time since 2001. The main parade will set off at 12:00 BST from the Hill Road. It will then proceed across the River Moyola and

Summary: A total of 18 demonstrations are being held as part of the Twelfth of July commemorations on Tuesday.


This comes after a public outcry following revelations in November that a neo-Nazi cell had apparently been able to go on a nationwide spree of racially motivated murders over several years, under the noses of the German intelligence services. The group of three are being held responsible for the deaths of eight Turkish and one Greek immigrant between 2000 and 2006, as well as a German policewoman in 2007. Yet the existence of the group, dubbed the Zwickau cell after the name of the town where they spent most of their time in hiding, only came to light in November when two of its members died in an apparent joint suicide or murder-suicide and the third handed herself in to the authorities. The NPD has been linked to the group, though the allegations have yet to be accepted in a court of law. The trio had made a DVD in which they boasted of the killings and said they had acted to serve the German nation and its people, describing themselves as the National Socialist Underground - echoing the national socialism (Nazism) of Hitler's Germany. The story of the killers has dominated headlines in Germany for months now and given rise to one of the biggest scandals in post-war Germany. It turns out intelligence agencies had had the group under surveillance for years, and even found a bomb-making factory in their garage back in 1998. So why were the trio not stopped earlier? Why were they allowed to disappear and then stay underground? And why was it that security services blamed the murders on the Turkish mafia at the time? A right-wing motive was never investigated. The failures have prompted some to ask whether there is more than incompetence to blame, whether Germany's police and security services contain elements sympathetic to the far right - an accusation the institutions vehemently deny. A parliamentary inquiry is currently under way into their activities, and Newsnight has seen a secret internal report revealing serious blunders by law enforcement agencies. When we spoke to Peter Altmaier, a senior official in Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat party, he admitted that mistakes had been made: "You have to know Germany is a federal state, and competencies are shared and divided between federal and state levels... and because we have drawn the lessons from the Nazi dictatorship, we have very limited powers of police and security institutions. "There have been hints and indications of right-wing extremism that were not taken seriously enough, and therefore we have put this very high on the political agenda." Another question that now worries many Germans is just how big a threat the far right poses. Human rights groups say more than 180 people have been killed in right-wing attacks in Germany over the last 20 years. Neo-Nazis have murdered more people in post-war Germany than any other single group, including Islamists and the far left. But this is not yet reflected in official data. Could it be that Germany's sensitivity to its history has made it want to play down modern-day right wing

Summary: The security services in Germany are scrambling to track down and arrest far-right fugitives and Germany's federal and state interior ministers have announced they are taking concrete steps towards banning the country's far right National Democratic Party, the NPD.


The exhibition called Metamorphosis is divided into seven ages, which is a reference to the "Seven Ages of Man" speech from the play As You Like It. Visitors to the university's Senate House Library can see some of the sources of inspiration for Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. They can also examine his four folios and consider how he became such a cultural giant, the world over. When Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616 there were no officially recognised versions of his plays or sonnets, Senate House librarian Jackie Marfleet said. The first time his works were collected together and published as a printed volume (folio) was in 1623. The first folio is believed to be based on play manuscripts and memories of his performances. By 1685 a fourth edition had been published with some 3,251 changes from the original, aimed at making his work easier to read for a wider audience. Modern scholarship now suggests seven plays contained in the third and fourth folios were not in fact penned by Shakespeare. Towards the end of the 18th Century, Samuel Johnson, author of the Dictionary of the English Language, produced his own edition of the Plays of William Shakespeare that included details of Shakespeare's will. It also elevated the importance of the first folio which he said was closest to the author's original text. Meanwhile on stage, Shakespeare's plays were being purged of regional accents and were held up as "a paragon of phonetic propriety". The practice contributed to the establishment of a standard English accent, Sonia Massai, professor of Shakespeare studies at Kings College London said. In print, Victorian readers became acquainted with illustrations by John Gilbert which brought to life many scenes that had not been sketched before. He illustrated other renowned literary works but his Shakespeare illustrations earned him by far the greatest fame. As Shakespeare's fame grew, collectors sought to buy editions of his books primarily to display, as opposed to read. Ernest Nister's edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1888 was produced on pages as thick as cardboard with 28 sepia illustrations and gilt edges. His appeal has endured and modern audiences can access Shakespeare online. A first folio was found in St Omer, northern France, in 2014 and has been digitized to give free access to all. You can also see it the old fashioned way, with your own eyes and in person. The free exhibition runs until 17 September.

Summary: A collection of 30 rare Shakespeare texts on display at University of London offer an insight into how his work has evolved in the four centuries since his death.


The company's roots date back to the 1930s, when Greece's National Radio Foundation was set up. The many decades of history behind ERT have made it a well-established national institution respected by many. It began airing television programmes in the 1960s, remaining the country's only TV broadcaster until the advent of private TV channels in 1989. Since then, ERT has undergone several major overhauls to keep up with fierce private competition. These efforts were not entirely successful, and a fall in the company's ratings in the mid-1990s triggered a long-running debate about its cost and efficiency. Eighty per cent of the company's funding came from a licence fee included in electricity bills, and some of it was sourced from advertising revenue. Many Greeks objected to funding ERT through the licence fee, claiming that the company was too unpopular and too expensive. The broadcaster was also criticised for its openly pro-government reporting, especially since the start of the financial crisis in 2009. At the time of closing, ERT operated three main TV channels and more than a dozen national and local radio stations. ERT World TV catered for the Greek diaspora across the globe. The company's programming included news as well as factual and entertainment programmes. It claimed to broadcast more highbrow programmes - such as world cinema and documentaries - compared to the generally more light-hearted entertainment offered by its privately-owned rivals. The company's audience share in 2013 was relatively low at below 20%, with most Greeks preferring commercial broadcasters. The government's surprise decision to shut down ERT was, however, met with fierce criticism from the public. Even though most agreed that a restructuring and cost-savings were required at the company, its immediate closure was branded "dictatorial" by some. While most Greeks will continue getting their news and entertainment from private TV and radio stations, those in the east and some islands - where signal coverage is poor - may have to rely on Turkish broadcasters across the border. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.

Summary: On 11 June, the government in Athens unexpectedly announced it was suspending the country's Radio and Television Company, abbreviated to ERT in Greek, as part of drastic budget cuts.


The boys, aged 13, 15, and 16, are among those charged with possession of a Class A drug with intent to supply. Fifteen people have been remanded in custody and are due to appear in court on Thursday. Gwent Police raided 35 addresses in the city and made 25 arrests. Three people have been released with no charge and two are awaiting questioning.

Summary: Twenty people, including three teenage boys, have been charged following a drugs raid in Newport on Wednesday.


TV network NBC announced Sir Elton will host and perform on stage with fellow musical guest and collaborator Leon Russell on 2 April. It is the singer's first return to the show in nearly three decades. Meanwhile, Dame Helen will make her debut as host a week later with musical guests Foo Fighters. Sir Elton last appeared on Saturday Night Live in 1982 when he performed Empty Garden and Chain in a show hosted by Johnny Cash. He recorded his latest album, The Union, with American musician Russell. Dame Helen will be soon be seen on screens opposite Russell Brand in the remake of Dudley Moore film, Arthur. Brand also hosted the show for the first time last month. Saturday Night live is one of the longest-running programmes in the US with nearly 700 episodes broadcast over 36 series.

Summary: Sir Elton John and Dame Helen Mirren have been lined up to host episodes of US comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live in April.


The flight from Gatwick to Newquay was an estimated 300ft (90m) off the ground when the wild animal was spotted. Passenger Pete Atkinson said there was a tense five-minute gap between the aircraft climbing sharply away from the runway and the pilot announcing the badger's presence. The airport said it was a case of being "cautious in the interest of safety". Mr Atkinson, a freelance cameraman, said: "We were on the final approach when all of a sudden the under-carriage was lifted back up and the engines revved up. "People went quiet and started to look out of the window as we headed out over the sea." About five minutes later, the pilot announced the diversion of the aircraft carrying about 60 people was due to a badger being seen on the runway. Mr Atkinson said passengers then laughed and made jokes about roadkill. FlyBe flight 806 was due to land at 21:15 GMT on Sunday was delayed by around 15 minutes. A spokesman for Cornwall Airport Newquay said there was "a suspected badger sighted on the runway by the bird control unit". The spokesman said the aircraft landed safely following a full check of the runway.

Summary: A badger on an airport runway forced a passenger plane to abort its landing.


In recent weeks, there has been an upsurge in campaigning comments on popular microblog Sina Weibo, where users are encouraging victims of sexual assault, domestic violence and rape to make their voices heard. Rape can be taboo in China and victims are often afraid to come forward. Domestic violence can also be stigmatised, and China only passed its first domestic violence law in December 2015. Moreover, women's rights activists in China have sometimes struggled to speak out. In 2015, five prominent activists were arrested, prompting international online campaigns using the #FreeTheFive hashtag. One of the biggest stories dominating social media in recent days has been the alleged rape of a female intern at a Chinese media company. Police in southern Guangzhou say they have arrested a reporter working for the Southern Daily newspaper. Two other interns have said they were sexually harassed by the individual. The #OnlineFeverThatJournalistRapedFemaleIntern hashtag has been trending for the past two days and social media users have been particularly interested in an exclusive interview conducted with the alleged victim by the Women Awakening rights group. Using the pseudonym Little Flower, she said she initially "didn't realise it was rape" and had thought of rape as "a stranger in the street... using violence, a knife to force you". She added that she didn't think much would come of the case, as she described her alleged attacker as "well-known". Weibo users have also been following an incident of alleged domestic violence in northern China. The hashtag #BeatenBecauseBoyfriendSuspectedCheating has been trending after images circulated of Beijing-based user "YuzuSama" with black eyes and bruises. After the images gained traction online, YuzuSama said she had been encouraged to go to hospital and to contact the police. Weibo users told her "not to be afraid" after she posted from the police station that her boyfriend had been arrested. She told users on 30 June: "When I saw him, I was still terribly scared." Thousands of female users have also been making their voices heard against other, more routine, offences. In the past month, Weibo campaigns including #ShanghaiMetroWolf, #NowAWretchedManOnChengduMetro and #TwoWomenMolestedonMetroLine13 have been trending, after a number of women decided to "out" men who had touched them inappropriately on crowded subways. In April, Zhengzhou in eastern China introduced its first women-only bus in an attempt to reduce the number of sexual assaults. The concept of single-sex transport is relatively new to China and sparked debate on social media, with some welcoming the idea, and others asking whether such measures are divisive. "Not all men are bad, but aren't all men being discriminated against here?" one asked at the time. First Lady Peng Liyuan is a special envoy for the Advancement of Girls' and Women's Education at Unesco, and has spoken at the United Nations about women finding empowerment through education. Yet there are still challenges within the education system about how sex education should be taught, with social media users saying that attitudes towards sex are outdated. Weibo users reacted angrily in late June to a sex education textbook which described girls who have premarital

Summary: Chinese women are increasingly taking to social media to speak out against sexual harassment.


South Korea has returned from a public holiday. At the end of the session, the Kospi index closed up 1.75% at 2,015.93. In Japan, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index ended the Thursday session higher by 3.2% at 16,911.05. That is the highest closing level for the index this month. The Japanese currency has steadily weakened to a one-week low against the US dollar. Overnight, the yen was at 109.21 against the US dollar, after trading at about 107 earlier in the week. A weaker Japanese currency would be welcomed by many Japanese exporters, as that would make their goods cheaper and more competitive overseas. Shares in electronics giant Panasonic closed up by 4.1%. Shares of car manufacturer Toyota gained 3.25%, while its rival Nissan saw a 2.5% gain at the close of trade. In Hong Kong, the benchmark Hang Seng index added 0.89% or 187.71 points to 21,346.42. On the mainland in China, the Shanghai Composite index edged up 0.06% to 3,068.58. In Australia, the benchmark S&P ASX 200 closed up 1.3% - or 63.95 points - at 5,118.6, rounding off three days of gains. Mining stocks led the rally in Australian markets, following a jump in iron ore prices. Shares of BHP Billiton surged by 5.3% at the close, while shares of rival Rio Tinto were up by 2.5%. Data from Australia showed the economy added 26,100 jobs in March. That led to a dip in the unemployment rate to 5.7% - the lowest rate since September 2013. In February, the unemployment rate was at 5.8%. The latest data could ease pressure on the Australian central bank to lower interest rates further, to help spur economic growth. The central bank's key lending rate is currently at a record low of 2%. The last rate cut was in May 2015. US markets closed positive overnight, led by gains in shares of financial institutions. JPMorgan shares surged by more than 4% after it reported a quarterly profit that beat market expectations for the three months to March. JPMorgan is the biggest US bank by assets.

Summary: Asian stock markets held on to gains in Thursday trading, following the positive trend from US and European markets.


Halsey said on Twitter that he had "seen an incident and been told to say I haven't seen it". He spoke out after Manchester City's Sergio Aguero received a retrospective three-game ban for violent conduct. However, the Professional Game Match Officials Limited said: "There is no pressure to include or omit anything." The body's statement continued: "Match officials submit their reports, including critical incidents, directly to the FA. "Match officials ensure that their reports are a full and accurate description of the incident." Halsey, who retired in 2013, also pointed out these were issues he had previously mentioned in his autobiography three years ago. He later added: "To be fair to the FA... it's not them, it comes from within the PGMOL." Formed in 2001, the PGMOL was established when referees turned professional and aims to improve standards across the Premier League, Football League and FA competitions in England as well as training and development. Had the incident that saw Aguero banned by a Football Association panel for elbowing West Ham's Winston Reid been witnessed by a match official, including referee Andre Marriner, the retrospective punishment would not have been possible. Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville said Halsey's claims were "too big" to avoid a full investigation.

Summary: Former referee Mark Halsey's claims that he was told to lie after a game have been denied by the body which oversees match officials.


A spokesman said the woman's attacker covered her mouth and dragged her backwards in Spotland Road, Rochdale at about 06:45 BST on Tuesday. He said she lost consciousness and woke up on the floor having been raped. She then walked to a nearby butchers' shop and told staff she had been assaulted. Supt Alistair Mallen said it was "vile, wicked and despicable crime". The woman's attacker was described as white. Officers are reviewing CCTV footage, speaking to people in the area and carrying out forensic tests. "I am sure the entire community will share our revulsion at this," Supt Mallen said. "I now want people... to imagine if that had been your mum or grandma. "I want to harness these feelings and use them to help the police do their job - catch this man and put him before the courts."

Summary: A 90-year-old woman was dragged off a street and raped in Greater Manchester, police have said.


The body of Sinead Wooding, 26, was found by joggers near Alwoodley Crags car park in Stairfoot Lane on 14 May. Vicky Briggs, 25, of Throstle Road, Middleton, appeared at Leeds Magistrates' Court accused of assisting an offender. She was bailed to appear at Leeds Crown Court on 16 June. Two people have previously been charged with murder. A 20-year-old has also been charged with assisting an offender.

Summary: A woman has appeared in court charged in connection with a body found in woodland near Leeds.


A US team of researchers found that forecasted shifts in climate by 2070 would occur too quickly for species of grass to adapt to the new conditions. The species facing an uncertain future include wheat, corn, rice and sorghum, which provide almost half of the calories consumed by humans. The findings appear in the Royal Society Biology Letter journal. Not only does the grass family (Poaceae) of more than 11,000 species form the staple of people's diets across the globe, natural grasslands cover about a quarter of the planet's land area and provide a home to a rich diversity of dependent flora and fauna. The team from the University of Arizona, US, observed: "Thus, if climate change has strong negative impacts on grasses, there might be significant consequences for both global biodiversity and for humans." In order to gain an insight into the impact of projected climate change on the world's grasses, they estimated the rates of climate change niche change in a representative sample of 236 grass species and compared these rates with rates of projected climate change by 2070. "A climatic niche is basically the temperature and precipitation conditions where a species occurs," explained co-author John Wiens from the university's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. "What is important about it is that if you are thinking about one species living in one place and it can only survive under a limited set of conditions then, as the climate changes, it either has to shift its climatic niche or it is going to go locally extinct." He told BBC News: "In other words, it either has to accommodate those new conditions or it will not be able to survive there any more." The team examined how quickly the grass species' climatic niches were able to change, based on they had changed in the past. "What we found was that they do not change all that much - a few degrees Celsius over a million years. There are just small changes over long time scales," Dr Wiens observed. "In some ways, that is the most important part of the story; these climatic niches generally seem to change relatively little and relatively slowly. "Then we looked at future climate projections for a range of localities, and we asked how much they were going to change." The team found that the difference between the rates of change in the study's grass species' climate niche and projected changes in a location's climate was often "20,000-fold". "The findings are similar across all the groups so they could be applied to wild species as well as to the cultivated ones. There is no way that cultivated species are somehow exempt from our findings," Dr Wiens added. These finding present a bleak outlook; apparently squashing the hope that crop species would be able to cope with a warming world. The study does not show species going globally extinct, rather it highlights how conditions are projected to change in a way that is beyond the climate niche of species, therefore species are likely to disappear from that location.

Summary: A study has highlighted the risk posed by projected climate change on the world's ability to grow enough food.


Tim Farron said he was "ruling nothing in and ruling nothing out" but was "determined to play a big role". Mr Farron held his Westmorland and Lonsdale seat with an 8,949 majority. Mr Clegg resigned in the aftermath of his party's crushing general election result, where it was left with just eight MPs from the 57 it had in 2010. Other possible replacements are Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael, who was Scotland secretary under the last government, and Norfolk North MP Norman Lamb, who was care minister. Speaking on Sky News, Mr Farron said the Lib Dems had gained 2,500 new members since polling day. Who will replace Nick Clegg as leader? "History will be kinder to the Liberal Democrats than perhaps folks have been in the past few days," he said. Mr Farron said the party needed a "fresh start", and said he wanted to speak to "members, councillors and activists" before deciding on his role. Pressed on his intentions, he said he was "determined to play a big role" in making sure the party "survives and thrives". In his resignation speech on Friday morning, Mr Clegg said the results were "immeasurably more crushing" than he had feared, saying it had been a "huge honour" to lead the party. "It's simply heartbreaking to see so many friends and colleagues who have served their constituents over so many years abruptly lose their seats because of forces entirely beyond their control," he said.

Summary: One of the favourites to replace Nick Clegg as Liberal Democrat leader says he will decide whether to put himself forward "in the next few days".


Most are tourists looking up in awe at the LED screens that dominate the landscape. Nobody notices the tiny dark figure 350 feet above the pavement clinging to the side of the century old Times Building, home of the New Year's Eve Ball. Jeff Rolfe is a cross between Spider Man and Guy Fawkes, gingerly making his way up and down the side of the building with a bitter winter wind attacking him from every angle as he dangles. In his arms are pre-configured wooden racks full of small explosives. He has to install enough to put smiles on a billion TV viewers worldwide. Thankfully these are the finishing touches to a display of fireworks that in just over 24 hours will hopefully also elicit oohs and aahs from a million New Years Eve revellers in the Square. For almost everyone the thrill of fireworks is an experience that can be traced back to childhood. Yet if you were able to time travel backwards two, three or four decades into history and stand once again in front of your local town display, you would likely be disappointed. Mr Rolfe, from Fireworks By Santore, says few people realise that fountains, rockets, wheels and bursts have all taken a huge step forward thanks to technology. "The shows used to be much much longer, over an hour in duration. But attention spans are shorter now," he says. "Today, 30 minutes is considered a very long display. Technicians used to manually shoot big shells from steel tube mortars that would need to cool down before the next ones could be fired. It was more relaxed. Now we shoot multiple smaller shells per second from several locations, remotely." Songs were played in their entirety rather than the mixed snippets that are favoured today. And any notion of syncing the beats to the bursts was usually a happy accident rather than anything pre-planned. New software and hardware means shells and cannons can be fired remotely up to two miles away and timed to within 1/100th of a second. And in a world full of giant LEDs, laser beams and light shows, fireworks are frequently asked to become team players, which is why "syncing" is one of the most sought after skills in the industry. "Using computer software, we mark where we want the highs and lows of the display to be in relation to the music," says Mr Rolfe. "And then we backtrack all the timings, and create digital cues alongside the music track for the firing sequence in an FSK (Frequency Shift Keying) file. When you hear it, it sounds like the noise made by an old modem." Big events, especially those on live TV are usually produced using "timecode". A highly accurate digital clock signal is generated from a central source and every person, computer, device and camera at the event uses it as their only time reference. Music tracks, lighting and fireworks can be pre-programmed digitally to flow together perfectly. But it can take months of work by specialist designers to produce a dazzling display.

Summary: Every year, on the evening before New Year's Eve, thousands of people in New York City amble through the neon glow of Times Square.


Media playback is not supported on this device The result means Liverpool will top the table at Christmas - ahead of the Gunners on goal difference - as two teams with title pretensions of their own produced a spectacle almost devoid of entertainment and quality. Frank Lampard came closest to breaking the deadlock when he hit the woodwork in the first half, while Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud wasted two good opportunities late on to claim the win that would have seen the Gunners leapfrog Liverpool. "Credit has to go to Blues boss Jose Mourinho for getting his tactics spot on. Chelsea crowded the midfield, had a solid defence and looked dangerous on the counter-attack. Mourinho came for a point and got one." How Mourinho's tactics keep Chelsea in title race Instead, referee Mike Dean's final whistle produced a chorus of boos and chants of "boring boring Chelsea" from Arsenal fans frustrated at their team's failure to lay a glove on Jose Mourinho's team. There were some moments to debate in a match that was a niggly, messy affair played out in dreadful conditions, although arguably the biggest news of the night came further up the Seven Sisters Road where Tottenham named Tim Sherwood as Andre Villas-Boas's full-time successor. John Mikel Obi could easily have seen a red card for a shocking first-half challenge on Mikel Arteta that went unpunished by referee Dean and Arsenal were convinced they should have had a penalty when Theo Walcott tumbled after Willian stepped on his foot just before the interval. An undistinguished first half finally burst into life when Lampard found space on the end of Eden Hazard's clever flicked pass but saw his powerful effort bounce off the underside of the bar to safety. The second half, if it was actually possible, opened in even more scrappy fashion and Arteta was the victim of another poor challenge from Ramires, which finally persuaded Dean to show Chelsea's midfielder a yellow card. Mourinho made his first change with 17 minutes left, somewhat surprisingly choosing to replace Hazard with Andre Schurrle, who was soon followed into the action by Oscar, on for fellow Brazilian Willian. Jose Mourinho is now unbeaten against Arsenal in all 10 competitive matches as Chelsea manager (all against Wenger), winning five, with five draws. As a tortuous evening entered its final 10 minutes, Arsenal finally created a chance when Aaron Ramsey found Giroud with time and space but he sent a hopeless angled finish into the side-netting. The France striker was then played in again at the near post by Kieran Gibbs but he was blocked by a combination of Chelsea keeper Petr Cech and his defenders. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger declined to make any changes when the game appeared to be crying out for the invention of Spanish playmaker Santi Cazorla - resulting in a draw that was unfulfilling for both teams. Match ends, Arsenal 0, Chelsea 0. Second Half ends, Arsenal 0, Chelsea 0. Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Tomas Rosicky. Attempt blocked. David Luiz (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box

Summary: Arsenal failed to reclaim top spot in the Premier League as they played out a dreadful stalemate with Chelsea at Emirates Stadium.


Wright, 53, has achieved three successive top-six finishes in the Premiership with Saints and led them to Scottish Cup glory in 2014. Rangers parted company with former boss Mark Warburton earlier this month. "I don't think there's anybody in a job or out of a job that wouldn't want to take that call," said Wright. "Yeah, I would speak [if the call came in from Rangers] because it's a big club but it's all hypothetical. "That call hasn't happened as from other clubs it hasn't happened so I'm still happy here." Wright and Aberdeen counterpart Derek McInnes are the Scottish Premiership managers that have been linked with Rangers since Warburton's departure. Former Ibrox boss Alex McLeish and ex-Rangers defender Frank de Boer have also been mentioned in connection with the post. Rangers have reportedly held interviews to fill both the manager's job and a director of football post. Under-20s coach Graeme Murty continues in interim charge of the first team for a third successive game away to Inverness Caledonian Thistle on Friday evening. Saints host Kilmarnock on Saturday before visiting Ibrox on Wednesday, having drawn 1-1 on their two previous meetings with Rangers this season. Last term, St Johnstone knocked Warburton's Rangers out of the League Cup. The full interview with Tommy Wright will be aired on BBC Sportsound on Sunday from 12 noon.

Summary: St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright has indicated he would be interested in the Rangers job but insists such a scenario is "all hypothetical".