Burke became the most expensive Scottish player ever when moving to Germany from Nottingham Forest for £13m last month. The 19-year-old winger came on for his Leipzig debut with 21 minutes left. He set up a great chance that Timo Werner missed moments before crossing for fellow substitute Keita to score. Leipzig are fifth and Dortmund eighth in the early Bundesliga table, with most teams having played twice. Match ends, RB Leipzig 1, Borussia Dortmund 0. Second Half ends, RB Leipzig 1, Borussia Dortmund 0. Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Marvin Compper. Attempt blocked. Adrián Ramos (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by André Schürrle. Corner, RB Leipzig. Conceded by Marc Bartra. Attempt blocked. André Schürrle (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Willi Orban. Goal! RB Leipzig 1, Borussia Dortmund 0. Naby Keita (RB Leipzig) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Oliver Burke. Hand ball by Adrián Ramos (Borussia Dortmund). Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Adrián Ramos replaces Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Substitution, RB Leipzig. Naby Keita replaces Dominik Kaiser. André Schürrle (Borussia Dortmund) hits the bar with a left footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Lukasz Piszczek. Foul by Ousmane Dembélé (Borussia Dortmund). Marcel Halstenberg (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Offside, RB Leipzig. Diego Demme tries a through ball, but Emil Forsberg is caught offside. Attempt blocked. Marcel Halstenberg (RB Leipzig) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dominik Kaiser with a cross. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Marvin Compper (RB Leipzig) because of an injury. Corner, RB Leipzig. Conceded by Roman Bürki. Attempt saved. Timo Werner (RB Leipzig) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Oliver Burke. Attempt missed. Timo Werner (RB Leipzig) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right. André Schürrle (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Diego Demme (RB Leipzig). Ousmane Dembélé (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Diego Demme (RB Leipzig). Offside, Borussia Dortmund. Lukasz Piszczek tries a through ball, but Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is caught offside. Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Ousmane Dembélé replaces Gonzalo Castro. Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Raphael Guerreiro replaces Mario Götze. Corner, RB Leipzig. Conceded by Lukasz Piszczek. Attempt blocked. Timo Werner (RB Leipzig) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dominik Kaiser. Substitution, RB Leipzig. Oliver Burke replaces Yussuf Poulsen. Substitution, RB Leipzig. Emil Forsberg replaces Marcel Sabitzer. Attempt missed. Marvin Compper (RB Leipzig) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Dominik Kaiser following a set piece situation. Marc Bartra (Borussia Dortmund) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Marc Bartra (Borussia Dortmund). Yussuf Poulsen (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick on the right wing. Attempt

Summary: Scotland's Oliver Burke marked his RB Leipzig debut by setting up a late goal for Naby Keita to secure a 1-0 win over Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga.


The site, on Newington Causeway near Elephant and Castle, will contain 38 flats and three floors of shops. Southwark Council's planners approved the scheme by four votes to three. The club said it was "extremely disappointed" and thought the decision was "wrong". It had fought the proposals, fearing people moving into the flats could submit complaints about noise levels which might lead to the venue closing. The council said the new block was in "a prime location" in central London and part of the regeneration area around Elephant and Castle. "Any improvement to this area would be of great benefit to local people," said Councillor Fiona Colley, the borough's cabinet member for regeneration. "We appreciate that the Ministry of Sound is a valued club, business and local employer which we have no intention of seeing close. "I believe the club can and will remain open alongside new residential developments," she added. But Lohan Presencer, the venue's chief executive, said his firm was taking legal advice "and will be doing everything we can to prevent this catastrophic threat to the future of our business". "We believe that the council has mishandled this application, failed to understand or acknowledge its implications at every turn and that they have now misdirected their councillors to the wrong decision," he said. The club collected 25,000 signatures when opposing the previous development, which proposed 315 homes on the same street. The musician Example was among those speaking out about the proposal, which the council rejected on the grounds of noise and as it did not meet requirements for affordable housing.

Summary: A 22-storey tower block has been approved close to the site of the Ministry of Sound nightclub in south-east London, three weeks after another development nearby was rejected.


There's a growing impatience within the EU about the lack of clarity and lack of sense of urgency from the British cabinet. A European commissioner has warned the British government that it needs to make a strategic choice - whether it wants to stay inside the single market or not. Valdis Dombrovskis, commissioner for the euro, told the BBC there had been mixed messages from Mrs May's government - on the one hand wanting to stay in the internal market, on the other had not respecting freedom of movement. Mrs May has made it clear she wants some curbs on immigration from the EU. But Mr Dombrovskis told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend there can't be cherry picking, and the commission is waiting for a formal notification of what the UK wants. He was speaking at a conference in Italy organised by an Italian think tank called the European House - Ambrosetti. It is like a European Davos, a gathering of business leaders and bankers, politicians past and present - in short, the European elite. Most of the sessions are private but we spoke to a number of senior figures on the record. Former Irish Taoiseach John Bruton expressed incredulity that Mrs May doesn't want to start negotiations until next year. "There's a lot of surprise in European capitals that a party that had promised a referendum in its manifesto hadn't decided in advance what it would look for if people voted to leave," he said. "One would have thought they would have prepared, but they don't appear to have done that." Former head of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet told us there would be a period of uncertainty. "I would call for this period to be as short as possible, and for the position of the British government to be as clear as possible, as soon as possible," he said. Greek Economy Minister Giorgos Stathakis told us: "The hard part of the story is that the EU is quite strict - free trade means free movement, it is difficult to find a compromise." I asked him if he would back such a compromise. "We wouldn't - whatever compromises take place will include reduction in access to trade," he said. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, leading plans for Brexit alongside Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, has let it be known that he hopes the UK can become the EU's "best friend". But he's warned the split-up should happen as soon as possible - and it will be impossible for the UK to keep all the advantages of membership. Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti told me that if Britain was given concessions over free movement it would mean the end of the free market. He said he would swear on oath that other countries would also want to cherry pick, and that would be devastating and lead to the collapse of the single market. He also said there could be one positive outcome from the "disgraceful" Brexit - other leaders may be warned off attacking the EU to strengthen

Summary: The view from the calm shores of Italy's Lake Como is clear - Mrs May needs to hurry up and make it plain what Brexit means, apart from Brexit.


But the focus on the manhunt - and the shock and grief inspired by the attack - cannot hide the fact that there are also major questions about the atrocities and the response which lie unanswered. One set of questions relate to whether France could have detected such a large plot. After attacks in the UK, there are often questions about "intelligence failures". The 7/7 attacks in 2005 sparked multiple investigations after it emerged that some of those responsible had been "on the radar" of the security services and police. Similar questions were asked after the killing of Lee Rigby in May 2013. The cell behind the Paris attacks appears to have been built around individuals who had gone from France and Belgium out to Syria, received training and then been sent back. Former French intelligence officials acknowledge in this case that there was a failure. Men who were known to the authorities managed to travel and plan and then carry out a deadly attack. Who were the attackers? What is 'Islamic State'? But the reasons for this partly lie in the scale of the challenge France faces. The authorities say they are dealing with 11,000 extremists on their radar. Working out who to follow amidst so many is a challenge for any security service. The problems with travel into and inside Europe's Schengen area pose an additional challenge, along with that of weak information-sharing amongst countries. In the past, attacks were inspired by the so-called Islamic State (IS) but this one was different - it was directed and organised by the group. From the start it was clear that it was highly organised and sophisticated - not the work of so-called "lone actors", but a group working together. Abaaoud may have been the ringleader but it is not clear yet if there was further supervision and direction from the top of IS. Learning that could help the process of discovering whether there are other cells who have been sent to undertake similar operations in France or other countries. France does have experienced security services because it has been dealing with the threat of jihadism longer than most. The legacy of the conflict in Algeria always made it a target. In the mid-1990s, a series of attacks rocked Paris with bombs on the subway. These were linked to Algerian groups whose reach often extended to the UK. With figures like Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza radicalising and preaching, the French christened the British capital "Londonistan" and chided it for offering a safe haven so long as no violence was directed its way. France sent its spies undercover to try to penetrate the groups in Britain and pushed for more action. British officials only understood the danger after 9/11 though and belatedly began acting. Meanwhile France managed to successfully avoid major attacks in those years at the same time as London and Madrid were hit. Special report: In-depth coverage of the attacks and their aftermath The French Security Service enjoyed a robust reputation for running extensive networks of informers across mosques and the

Summary: There was applause for the French security services and police in the National Assembly on Thursday when it was announced that they had caught - and killed - the planner of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.


The screenwriter died surrounded by his family in California on Monday after several weeks of hospice care. His widow Rita Hudis said in a statement: "He died peacefully at home with myself and Stephen and Kevin, his two sons. "He did well to reach 93. We will miss him. Our 60th anniversary would have been on the 28 April." Hudis was born in London and began his career as a journalist before writing for stage and screen. He wrote the first Carry On film, 1958's Carry On Sergeant, when he was 34. The cast included future Doctor Who actor William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques. Hudis went on to pen Carry On Nurse, Teacher, Constable, Regardless and Cruising - the first Carry On film in colour. Carry On films - the Norman Hudis years Carry On Sergeant - 1958 Carry On Nurse - 1959 Carry On Teacher - 1959 Carry On Constable - 1960 Carry On Regardless - 1961 Carry On Cruising - 1962 Carry On Nurse was inspired by stories from his wife, a former nurse. In a BBC interview in 2008, Hudis said: "I used to call downstairs to Rita and say 'put on the old nurse's cap and tell me something funny'." In 2008, Hudis published an autobiography titled No Laughing Matter: How I Carried On. In it, he revealed that he continued to write Carry Ons after he left the series in the early 1960s in the hope that he might be asked back one day, drafting Carry On Under the Pier If Wet and Carry On Shylock Holmes. After moving to the US, his TV writing credits include The Wild Wild West, The Man From UNCLE and Hawaii Five-O. Morris Bright, chairman of Elstree Studios and a close family friend, said: "Without him we wouldn't have had the Carry On films, because he wrote the first six - and look what that spawned over the years. "We owe the man a lot. He leaves a great legacy of joy, entertainment and laughter - something we can look back on and say, 'We're very grateful for him'. "He was a great guy, I shall miss him a great deal." Hudis is survived by his widow, two sons, and two grandchildren, Veronica and Cameron.

Summary: Norman Hudis, best known for writing the first six Carry On films, has died at the age of 93.


The podium in Melbourne had a very familiar feel - a Mercedes one-two, with Nico Rosberg leading Lewis Hamilton home after the world champion made a poor start, and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel third - but it was a race Ferrari let slip through their fingers. Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene was asked directly whether he viewed it as a race the team had lost through their own decisions, and he said: "No." Others were less charitable. "They messed it up," said a senior figure from a rival team. After a flying start, Vettel was leading the race until it was stopped after 18 laps following a terrifying accident from which McLaren's Fernando Alonso mercifully emerged unhurt despite barrel-rolling following a 180mph impact with Esteban Gutierrez's Haas. Vettel had only recently stopped to fit a fresh set of super-soft tyres and Ferrari chose to remain on them, knowing there was no hope of making it to the end of the race and that the German would have to make an extra stop. Mercedes took a different route, one that one engineer said was "a no-brainer". Hamilton, stuck in traffic after a bad start, had already been put on mediums at his stop with the aim of going to the end of the race on them. The red flag gave Mercedes strategists, led by James Vowles, the chance to put Rosberg on the same strategy. It was borderline, but they were confident they could make it work. Sure enough, Rosberg lost almost no time in the 17 laps before Vettel's final pit stop and when the Ferrari peeled into the pits, the race was in the bag. In one decision, Ferrari had turned a victory into a third place. Vettel came back at Hamilton in the closing laps but passing was always going to be difficult on this track and it became impossible when he spun with two laps to go. The Ferrari party line was clear after the race. "If you want to look at the glass not half-empty," Arrivabene said. "We were there [with Mercedes]. This is the news." Arrivabene did have a point, though. "The pace in the race was very good," he said. "We need to continue to push because every race has its own story." After qualifying, it would have been easy to jump to the conclusion that the pre-season indications that Ferrari had reduced their deficit to Mercedes were wrong - Hamilton was 0.8 seconds up the road from Vettel and there was an all-Mercedes front row. But there were extenuating circumstances. Ferrari had chosen to do only one run on the softest tyres in the final part of the controversial new qualifying format, preferring to keep a new set of super-softs for the race. It was a fateful call, as it seems to have influenced their thinking on strategy, as we have seen. But it also influenced the final gaps, because both Mercedes drivers did a second run, and both improved. Before that, Vettel was only 0.5secs behind Hamilton - which is twice as close as he

Summary: The silver Mercedes train marches on, but the first grand prix of the 2016 Formula 1 season will be remembered as one that Ferrari threw away.


The computer, about the same size as a credit card, was first released in 2012 and is widely used as an educational tool for programming. However, it can also be used for many practical purposes such as streaming music to several devices in a house. A new starter kit for Raspberry Pi, including a keyboard and mouse, has been released to celebrate the success. The kit also includes an SD storage card, official case, power supply, HDMI cable, mouse, keyboard and guidebook - it costs Â£99 plus VAT and will be available in the coming weeks. The Pi, which is manufactured in Wales, has been adopted by pupils, programmers and inventors around the world. Many have received versions for free via the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a charity. British astronaut Tim Peake even took two to the International Space Station. "We thought our lifetime volumes might amount to 10,000 units - if we were lucky," wrote founder Eben Upton in a blog. "There was no expectation that adults would use Raspberry Pi, no expectation of commercial success and certainly no expectation that four years later we would be manufacturing tens of thousands of units a day in the UK and exporting Raspberry Pi all over the world." The latest sales figures were "fantastic", said tech industry analyst Chris Green - who owns four of the computers himself - at business consultancy Lewis. "It's more than just a geeky coding tool - it's increasingly proving itself as a useful computer," he told the BBC. The Raspberry Pi Zero, a version of the computer that costs Â£4, was ideal for use in developing countries, he added. "They can run off batteries so where there isn't an abundance of electricity you still have a computer that can be used for teaching." Although the Raspberry Pi has been used in many schools, it was more complicated for children to get to grips with than the BBC Micro Bit, argued Bethany Koby, co-founder of education-focused start-up Technology Will Save Us, which helped design the BBC's device. "[The Raspberry Pis are] incredibly powerful but they're hard to use," she told the BBC. "That being said, the resources are amazing." One million BBC Micro Bit computers were delivered free to every Year Seven student in England and Wales earlier this year.

Summary: The Raspberry Pi has sold 10 million units - continuing its success as the most popular British computer ever.


NHS Highland has confirmed that plans to add an extra 150 spaces at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness were in the early stages. Parking has been a long-running issue at the hospital. It has been claimed it is being used as an unofficial park and ride facility with people able to park there for free and then take a bus into the city. NHS Highland said: "We have identified funding which we will use to create up to 150 extra spaces on the site and we will also be reintroducing entrance and exit barriers to the car park."

Summary: Additional car parking could be provided at the biggest hospital in the Highlands.


Two vessels are being deployed initially, in what the government says is an operation to help the Libyan coastguard and target people smugglers. Italy is the main recipient of migrants making the dangerous crossing from Libya. Earlier Italy impounded a German rescue ship on the island of Lampedusa. The crew on board the Iuventa, operated by German NGO Jugend Rettet, is being questioned on the orders of the Italian prosecutor. While the NGO said the check was "standard procedure", police said the ship was seized due to evidence of "facilitating illegal immigration". Two Syrian migrants were taken ashore from the vessel, Italian media reported. Lampedusa, a tiny Italian island near North Africa, has struggled to house boatloads of migrants in recent years. Jugend Rettet is one of several search-and-rescue NGOs operating in the Mediterranean that has rejected an Italian code of conduct, which had just come in to play to deal with the issue. The NGOs object to the requirement for armed police to board their ships and for rescuers to stop transferring migrants from one ship to another. They want to minimise their trips back to port, because those trips cost them precious time and money. Soon after the Italian parliament's vote, a patrol boat entered Libyan waters and headed for the capital Tripoli. The Italian Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti stressed the mission would not be a "blockade" preventing migrant boats from leaving. However, rights groups have warned that those sent back to Libya face abuse at the hands of traffickers. Italy says its naval deployment is being negotiated with the UN-recognised Libyan government in Tripoli, led by Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj. Mr Sarraj said his administration had agreed to receive only training and arms from Italy. "Libya's national sovereignty is a red line that nobody must cross," he said. More than 94,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Italy so far this year, according to the UN - a record number. More than 2,370 have died trying to reach Italy. Arrivals in July though were down dramatically on the same month last year - 11,193 compared with 23,552, according to the Interior Ministry. Migrants picked up in Libyan coastal waters - and not international waters - can be legally returned to Libya, but aid workers say conditions in migrant reception camps there are dire. Since 2015 as many as a dozen NGO aid ships have been patrolling off Libya to pick up migrants in distress. So far this year they have handled 35% of the rescues, Italy's coastguard says. A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.

Summary: Italy's parliament has approved a plan to send naval boats to Libya as part of efforts to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea.


Bolt is expected to be named in the 4x100m relay squad when the official announcement is made on Wednesday. He had previously ruled himself out of the 100m and 200m individual races as he was recovering from a foot injury. The 27-year-old won gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. I have received lots of requests, invitations and messages of support from my fans in Scotland who are looking forward to a great event Bolt announced last week that he intended to make himself available for the Games despite an injury-disrupted season. "I am available for selection for the Commonwealth Games and have submitted the relevant documentation," he said in a statement on his website. "I do not wish to take the place of anyone who qualifies in an individual event, but am available for relay duty if the selectors feel I can be an asset to the Jamaican team in Glasgow," Bolt added. "I have received lots of requests, invitations and messages of support from my fans in Scotland who are looking forward to a great event." Bolt did not attempt to qualify in the 100m and 200m at the Jamaican Championships, which took place last weekend, as he has not yet returned to full fitness. He has never raced in the Commonwealth Games, having missed the events in Melbourne in 2006 and Delhi four years ago. However, speaking at the IAAF Centenary Gala in Barcelona last November, he declared his interest in competing in Glasgow. "That's the only title I don't have, so I think it's something I'd like to go for, even if I do just one event," Bolt said. Jamaica took silver behind England in the men's 4x100m relay in 2010 but, led by Bolt, won the World Championships last year. The heats of the event will be held at Hampden Park on Friday, 1 August, with the final the following evening. The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has been lobbying for Bolt to compete. Peter Murphy, a spokesman for the CGF, said in January: "We're in constant touch with his management. "The case we'll make is that the Games offers an opportunity to break records that have been standing for decades. "Usain has won medals at every major event, except the Commonwealth Games. He will get an unbelievable welcome. Glasgow will grind to a halt." Glasgow 2014 ambassador Sir Chris Hoy echoed that view. The six-time Olympic gold-medal winning cyclist said: "I think it's crucial to the success of the Games when the big names turn up and support them. "It's still a big deal for them to be Commonwealth champion. I'm sure Usain wants to be here and take the medals back to Jamaica."

Summary: Six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt has been selected in the Jamaica team for this summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.


He has longer to wait. People in Sunderland don't always do as they are told; before the vote on Britain's membership of the European Union, the Nissan chief executive urged people to vote to remain, stressing the advantages to Nissan, the region's biggest employer, of staying in the single market. They ignored him, with just under two-thirds of the Sunderland electorate voting to leave. Paul Watson, Labour and Co-operative leader of the city council since 2008, says people value Nissan's contribution to the local economy - it is the region's largest employer, providing work for 7,000 people - but that Sunderland is used to the vagaries of the world economy having big effects at home. The coal industry here powered the empire, employing hundreds of thousands to work the Durham field in scores of pits. The industry still shapes the local culture; Washington, the new town beside the Nissan plant, remains in reality an amalgamation of about a dozen pit villages, where people still identify with their immediate area rather than the wider north east. When the pits closed in the 1980s - a victim of high costs relative to imported coal and a protracted battle for supremacy between mining unions and the Thatcher government - people learned the hard way that the tide of global commerce can go out quickly. In Washington, they do not bemoan the loss of the pits themselves, as they brought their own horrible legacy of occupational diseases, but they rue the lack of something to replace them. Shipbuilding was Sunderland's other great loss. At one stage the River Wear, which divides the city, could boast that it accounted for one-quarter of the world's new ships. Only 50 years ago it was still an international force, but now there are few signs the industry ever existed. Mr Watson says the real dark days for Sunderland - the 1980s, when the town reeled under the combined closures of pits and shipyards - are now behind it. The economy has been reinvented, with call centres, Nissan and now a burgeoning tech scene picking up the slack. "The big monolithic industries have gone," said Mr Watson, who once worked in a shipyard, "but other things have come in. It is about having a strategy, and our strategy is simply to make Sunderland prosperous." At Sunderland Software City, a tech hub that would not be out of place in London's Silicon Roundabout, part of that vision is coming true. There are special effects firms, web designers and games makers. David Van der Velde, managing director of Consult and Design, a digital agency based in the centre, says people in the North East have a natural inventiveness that lends itself to technology companies. "Sunderland has always been a place where people make things, people are inventive. We've moved from making things out of steel to making things out of software, but we're still making things"

Summary: When Carlos Ghosn made his not-very-veiled threat about the future of the giant Nissan plant in Sunderland last week, he might have thought locals would have quailed and rallied to his cause.


Media playback is not supported on this device A feeling every professional footballer has when thinking about pre-season is pure dread - even while the tans are being topped up on a beach far, far away from a sweaty British gym or open field. Just how hard can it be, though? Are they just overpaid moaners or are they athletes pushed to their absolute limit? To find out, some idiot from BBC Sport (me) did the same test many footballers up and down the country are doing for their fitness. I'm a 24-year-old occasional runner, casual cyclist and failed box-to-box midfielder with severe weaknesses for chicken wings, chocolate milkshake and custard doughnuts. That makes me decidedly 'average' with a body to match - a perfect comparison between the everyday individual, whatever that is, and finely tuned athletes. With trepidation, I travelled to the University of Essex on one of the warmest weeks of the millennium to take a test "to the point of exhaustion" alongside players from League One side Colchester United. The test I did was very similar to the notorious VO2 Max test, in that you run on a treadmill with incremental speed increases until you can literally go no longer - the only difference being I was not wearing a Bane-like oxygen mask so would not find out what my VO2 Max was. "The players don't like it because they don't want to be taken out of their comfort zone," said U's sports scientist Stefano Russo. "But for us, we get to see blood lactate measurements which we can compare to the end of the season to see where they are at and what they've been doing. "We also measure their maximum heart-rates so we can monitor their training and make sure training loads aren't pushing them too hard." Russo talked about blood lactate - but what is it and why is it important to test? "During exercise, lactic acid is broken down into lactate and a hydrogen ion," explained Chris McManus from the University of Essex. "It is this lactate that accumulates in the blood and is reflective of the intensity of the exercise bring completed. "Well-trained athletes are able to maintain a lower level of lactate accumulation during exercise at higher intensities." If pain is your thing, you can have a go at it yourself. Start the treadmill at about nine kilometres per hour and increase it every three minutes, with a 45-second break in between. You also need someone to take a blood sample during that short haven when you can suck in some oxygen. For the footballers and I, however: "We start at 11 kmh, and they typically last up to 18-19 kmh," said McManus. "We could all probably jump on the treadmill and run at 20 kmh for a couple of minutes, but these guys are starting at 11 and every three minutes it goes up by around 1.5 kmh." Sounds great, doesn't it? So great that it was the only thing that the players - and therefore myself - were allowed to do

Summary: Profusely sweating, panting for air and feeling lunch turning in my stomach - I thought to myself 'Why did I volunteer for this?'


Media playback is not supported on this device The hosts recovered from Guilhem Guirado's early try to lead 18-5 after Stuart Hogg and Duncan Taylor tries, the latter a superb individual effort. Gael Fickou's score reduced France's half-time deficit, and two Maxime Machenaud penalties made it 21-18. But Hogg's brilliant overhead pass saw Tim Visser's try secure victory. Greig Laidlaw's penalty with five minutes left added further gloss to a rapturously received triumph, their first over France since 2006. It also ended a demoralising sequence of seven straight home Six Nations defeats at Murrayfield over three years since Ireland were beaten in 2013. Scotland's victory confirmed England, who beat Wales on Saturday for their fourth straight win, as Six Nations champions, the first time the title has been decided with a round to go. The Scots may have started brightly, confidence buoyed by their 36-20 win in Rome a fortnight ago, but their momentum was checked inside five minutes. France set Murrayfield alight with some of the flair which appeared to have disappeared from their game, resulting in a try for their admirable captain Guirado. The hooker set Virimi Vakatawa away down the right, and after the wing slipped the ball inside to Wesley Fofana, Guirado was there to collect the scoring pass and plunge over. Fly-half Francois Trinh-Duc, on his return to the side, missed the conversion from a wide angle, and then what should have been a straightforward penalty attempt. So instead of a 10-0 deficit, within five minutes Scotland had turned the game on its head with two Laidlaw penalties, the second earned by a scrummage which continued to provide sustenance. It was an admirable response having lost Finn Russell to a head knock - the fly-half collided with flanker John Barclay's outstretched leg - in the build-up to France's try. But Russell's replacement Peter Horne stepped into the breach superbly, and his half-break and offload to Richie Gray after a dozen phases allowed Hogg to dart over in the 33rd minute. Within four minutes. Murrayfield was on its feet again after a stunning solo score from Taylor. Taking a quick tap penalty 10 metres inside his own half, the Saracens centre sped up the right touchline, bulldozing through the attempted tackle of Vakatawa. As space opened up in front of him, the 26-year-old motored on, eluding Wenceslas Lauret before touching down for a thunderous try. Referee Glen Jackson did consult a television replay after a suspicion Laidlaw had impeded Lauret with a tug of his shirt, but was satisfied the Frenchman's momentum had not been checked. Laidlaw added the conversion for an 18-5 lead, but a penalty conceded by Barclay with two minutes of the half left allowed France to strike back. The visitors kicked the penalty to touch on the right flank, launched a line-out drive and several phases later, Fickou sliced his way through in the left corner. Machenaud, taking over the kicking duties from Trinh-Duc, made it a six-point game at the interval. Hogg's monster 54-metre penalty early in the second half made it 21-12,

Summary: Scotland ended a 10-year winless streak against France to record back-to-back Six Nations victories for the first time in three years.


Opposition lawmakers tried to block discussions on the introduction of manual vote-counting for next year's presidential election. The government wants a back-up to the electronic system but the opposition says it is a way of rigging the poll. Kenyan politics is known to be highly partisan and this is not the first physical fight. In 2014, four lawmakers were assaulted and one had his shirt torn. Africa Live: BBC news updates The live video feed from parliament was cut after the fight broke out on Tuesday evening and journalists were ordered out of the press gallery. After an earlier highly charged discussion over the proposed changes to the electoral law, opposition MP Millie Odhiambo attacked President Uhuru Kenyatta, calling him "extremely stupid". Mr Kenyatta gave his initial response to that attack at an event to usher in the festive season, saying "some idiots continue to insult me" but added that it was part of their freedom. But Mr Kenyatta seems to have now ended his war of words with Ms Odhiambo, as a local media station on Wednesday shared a picture of a Christmas card from the president addressed to the MP.

Summary: A parliament session in Kenya has descended into chaos, with rival MPs trading punches.


The man, in his 20s, suffered life-threatening injuries when he was hit by the train at Stockwell, south London, on Friday. British Transport Police said that while he remained critical, his condition was now considered "stable". Transport for London (TfL) said the station was not overcrowded. Nick Brown, from TfL, said the accident involved a train entering the Northern Line platform of the underground station at about 09:00 BST. He said the organisation had "established that, while the station was busy, the platform was not overcrowded". Eyewitnesses described the incident as "horrific". Twitter user Super D said he saw the man get hit by the train "as he bent over to get his bag". Others said people were screaming when they heard the impact and saw others attempting to help him before paramedics arrived.

Summary: A man struck by a rush-hour Tube train when it is believed he bent down to pick up a bag is in a stable condition in hospital, police have said.


Police tried to arrest opposition MP Albin Kurti, who has led a series of protests in parliament against agreements made with Serbia. Mr Kurti was reportedly not at home when masked police entered his flat in the capital Pristina on Wednesday. Another opposition MP, Donika Kadaj-Bujupi, was arrested for letting off tear gas in parliament. Scores of opposition supporters gathered in front of the government headquarters in downtown Pristina for a second day, throwing stones and paint at the building. Police arrested at least 13 protesters, the AFP news agency reported. A grenade also went off outside the constitutional court in Pristina as the raid on Mr Kurti's flat took place. But there was no confirmation that the explosion, described by police as "controlled", was connected. For weeks, Mr Kurti, a former leader of the Self-Determination Party, has spearheaded opposition to a deal with Serbia, mediated by the EU in August, that hands greater autonomy to Kosovo's ethnic Serb minority. The opposition also objects to a border demarcation deal with Montenegro that it says hands Kosovan territory to its neighbour. Police spokesperson Baki Kelani told reporters on Wednesday that they were "acting upon four detention warrants from the public prosecutor for four MPs". He said one - Ms Kadaj-Bujupi - had been detained "while we are still looking for three others". Kosovo, which has an ethnic Albanian majority, declared independence from Serbia in 2008 but has never been recognised by the Belgrade government. The split came a decade after a conflict between Serb forces and Kosovan Albanian rebels. A Nato bombing campaign against Belgrade in effect forced Serbia to cede the state. The constitutional court in Pristina last week suspended for two months the government's deal providing greater power to Serb-run municipalities pending a review. But the opposition sees the court as too close to the government. Seven people, most of them police, were hurt during protests outside the Kosovo parliament on Tuesday. Petrol bombs and stones were thrown outside the building as pepper spray and tear gas were sprayed inside the chamber. The violence broke out as King Abdullah of Jordan was on a visit to Kosovo.

Summary: Kosovo police have used tear gas to disperse protesters objecting to arrest warrants issued for opposition MPs.


Researchers say the 1,000-year-old object with a swastika on its stomach is made from a rare form of iron with a high content of nickel. They believe it is part of the Chinga meteorite, which crashed about 15,000 years ago. The findings appear in the Journal, Meteoritics and Planetary Science. The 24cm (9-inch) tall statue is 10kg (22lb) and is called the Iron Man. The story of this priceless object owes more perhaps to an Indiana Jones film script than sober scientific research. It was discovered in Tibet in 1938 by German scientist Ernst Schafer. His expedition was supported by the Nazis, in particular by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS. Himmler was said to believe the Aryan race originated in Tibet and was keen to recover objects from the area. Brought back to Germany, the statue became part of a private collection and disappeared from view until 2007. A new owner then sought scientific advice on the origins. He turned to Dr Elmar Buchner from the University of Stuttgart. "I was absolutely sure it was a meteorite when I saw it first, even at 10 metres" said Dr Buchner. He said that the clue was in small, thumb like impressions caused by the melting of the surface. Further analysis showed that it was a rare ataxite class, a type of meteorite not often found on Earth. "It is rich in nickel, it is rich in cobalt. Less than 0.1% of all meteorites and less than 1% of iron meteorites are ataxites, so it is the rarest type of meteorites you can find." Meteorites have been seen as a sign of divine activity across many cultures since the dawn of time. Knives and jewellery were made from iron meteorites by ancient Inuit. But tracing their exact origins is often extremely difficult. The German and Austrian scientists who worked on the Iron Man with Dr Buchner were surprised to be able to trace the statue to a specific event in meteorite history. The researchers believe it was carved from a piece of the Chinga meteorite that fell in the border region of eastern Siberia and Mongolia about 15,000 years ago. The debris from the crash was only discovered in 1913 by gold prospectors, but the individual fragment from which the statue was carved was collected many centuries before. "We were quite astonished by the results," said Dr Buchner. "OK, it's a meteorite but what amazed me was that we could also say it was from Chinga, that we could find the provenance, that was really astonishing for me." The statue is believed to portray the god Vaisravana. The researchers think it belongs to the pre-Buddhist Bon culture that existed in Asia about 1,000 years ago. "If we are right that it was made in the Bon culture in the 11th Century, it is absolutely priceless and absolutely unique worldwide," observed Dr Buchner. Neither the person who carved it or the Nazis had any idea it was made from such a rare substance, he said. In keeping with the Hollywood element in the

Summary: An ancient statue that was recovered by a Nazi expedition in the 1930s was originally carved from a highly valuable meteorite.


"Using horse-driven carriages only for joyrides solely for human pleasure is an avoidable activity," the order said. The court agreed with animal rights groups that the practice was cruel. Reports say that around 700 families depend on Victoria carriages for their livelihood. Monday's court order came on a petition filed by animals rights groups which said the horses were often malnourished, denied adequate rest and care. The Bombay high court in the city of Mumbai ordered that all stables where these horses are kept must be closed down and directed the authorities to come up with a scheme to rehabilitate those involved in the trade. Styled on open carriages used during Queen Victoria's times, these horse-drawn carriages have been seen on Mumbai's streets since British times and a ride on them has been one of Mumbai's most-popular tourist attractions for decades. The drivers of these carriages say that "Victorias are a key part of Mumbai's cultural image" and some of them say they are sceptical about the government's rehabilitation plans. Usmaan, who is 60, has been working with a horse-drawn carriage since he was 12, says it is going to be difficult for him to adapt to a new job and that he feels like his "hands have been cut off". The court has also ordered that all horses should be rehabilitated at a care centre. "The government shall also formulate a rehabilitation scheme for the horses. If any reputed animal welfare organisation comes forward to take care of these horses, then the state government is free to consider the same" the Hindustan Times quotes the court as saying.

Summary: A court in India has ruled that Mumbai's famous horse-drawn carriages, popularly known as "Victorias", are "illegal" and must go off the city streets in a year.


Bristol Crown Court heard that Vielstone and Gatooma homes in Devon had a room where residents were left alone, often without food and water. Paul Hewitt, 70, denies charges of conspiracy to detain and falsely imprison residents. Mr Hewitt also said he was unaware that residents missed meals and he would have "made sure" they were fed. The court heard that a woman resident said she had been tied up in the room at Gatooma in Holsworthy Mr Hewitt, from Teignmouth, said he would not approve of this, telling the court: "Absolutely not. Mechanical restraint was a no no." He also denied stopping residents making home visits as a punishment. Mr Hewitt said he purchased Gatooma in 2004 for residents with behavioural issues. "It was about giving them a better quality of life," he said. "They had been in hospital or locked units. We wanted them to be free to be part of a community set up and be free to go to the shops or the pub." Mr Hewitt, founder of Atlas Project Team Ltd, ran the two care homes for adults with learning disabilities. He sold the business in 2006 but continued to be in charge, the court heard. Mr Hewitt and employees Lee Farrant, 30, James Lawson, 41, Julie Barlow, 51, and Aaron Jones, 33, all from Devon, deny a series of charges against seven residents at Vielstone near Bideford and Gatooma in Holsworthy between 2010 and 2011. Mr Lawson denies eight charges of false imprisonment, Mr Farrant six charges of false imprisonment and Mr Jones and Ms Barlow three charges each of false imprisonment. The trial continues.

Summary: The boss of two care homes said he was unaware vulnerable residents were being locked in so-called punishment rooms.


The investigation by the Press Association news agency found some are now charging £4 for a one-hour stay. It showed most trusts did not increase their charges, but the average rise among the third that did was 15%. The analysis combines figures obtained from NHS trusts and data submitted to statistics body NHS Digital. The most expensive trust in the country for a one-hour stay is the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, where patients are forced to pay £4 for any stay up to two hours. Deputy chief executive Alf Turner said the charge was necessary to cover running costs and fund the expansion of the car park that is taking place. "I do not like having to charge people for car parking and in an ideal world we would not have to," he added. At the other end of the scale, car parking at Trafford General Hospital in Greater Manchester is free for up to three hours. Some trusts allow patients and visitors to park for free for the first 30 minutes before charges start. But others have scrapped cheaper charges for short stays, meaning people have to pay a flat fee covering up to three hours even if they are only staying for 45 minutes. Of the 209 hospital trusts that reported figures to NHS Digital for both 2014/15 and 2015/16, a third showed an increase in their average charge for a three-hour stay. Some 60% showed no change over the year, while 7% showed a decrease. Some 38% also said they also charged for disabled parking. England is the only part of the UK where hospitals routinely charge patients and visitors for parking. Laura Keely, campaigns manager at Macmillan Cancer Support, said charges are particularly unfair on cancer patients. "They often need to make frequent trips to hospital. They should not be left out of pocket in order to receive life-saving treatment." Some NHS trusts offer concessions to visitors whose loved one is terminally ill and also discounts or weekly tickets for lengthy courses of treatment. Last December, figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Press Association revealed that some NHS trusts are making more than £3m a year from car parking fees. Of more than 90 trusts that responded to the FoI request, half were making at least £1m a year.

Summary: A third of hospital trusts in England have increased their car parking charges in the last year, it is being reported.


Dutch customs officials discovered a parcel containing two handguns, ammunition, herbal cannabis and GHB, also known as liquid ecstasy, addressed to a location on Merseyside. The seizure was referred to the National Crime Agency. Officers raided two addresses in St Helens earlier, arresting a 22-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman.

Summary: A couple have been arrested on suspicion of allegedly importing firearms and drugs into the UK.


A special service was held at St George's Hall on Wednesday evening to remember the 96 football fans who died in 1989. These people tell us why they came to pay tribute. Two of the messages... "I pray that all those who were lost in the Hillsborough accident are always remembered and respected. I also pray that the innocent fans who got the blame will get justice." "We will never forget you. You will never walk alone." Libby says: "Everyone is overwhelmed and so happy about the outcome. They want everyone to know that it wasn't the fans' fault." Joe says: "He's always cried because it's such a touching story." Zac says: "They've been waiting for justice for a long time and they've finally got it... It's important for them to never forget about what happened."

Summary: Children and teenagers have been among the thousands of people remembering the Hillsborough disaster victims in Liverpool city centre.


The Highlands and Islands have been enjoying a lengthy spell of fine, sunny weather. Michael MacDonald, of Invergordon RNLI, captured the calm conditions and sunset on Monday during a training session for the crew. The training in the Cromarty Firth took the volunteer crew close to a number of North Sea oil and gas rigs and platforms anchored in the firth.

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Agricultural produce and cosmetics sold in EU member states must now have clear labels showing their place of origin. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said the EU "should be ashamed of itself". The EU considers settlements built on territories occupied by Israel in 1967 to be illegal under international law, but Israel disputes this position. The EU says settlements constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict impossible. Mr Netanyahu, who was in Washington on an official visit, called the decision "hypocritical and a double standard". The Israeli foreign ministry has summoned the EU ambassador to Israel and said it would suspend diplomatic dialogue in the coming weeks. At a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, the European Commission adopted an "interpretative notice on indication of origin of goods from the territories occupied by Israel since June 1967". The Commission says the territories comprise the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, which were captured from Syria. Mandatory indication of origin applies notably to fresh fruit and vegetables, wine, honey, olive oil, eggs, poultry, organic products and cosmetics. Voluntary indication of origin applies to pre-packaged foodstuffs and the majority of industrial products. For products from West Bank or the Golan Heights that originate from settlements, the expression "Israeli settlement" or equivalent needs to be added, in brackets, for example. So, "product from the Golan Heights (Israeli settlement)" or "product from West Bank (Israeli settlement)" could be used. Products from the West Bank not originating from settlements could be labelled "product from Palestine" or "product from West Bank (Palestinian product)". Source: European Commission factsheet Since 2009, the UK has implemented voluntary guidelines for labelling, which distinguishes West Bank produce made in Israeli settlements from Palestinian West Bank produce. Similar guidelines have been put in place by Denmark and Belgium. An EU source told the BBC that the labels would have to include the word "settlement", as under EU consumer law it would be misleading to simply mark them as products from Israel or from the Palestinian territories. The source said this was not a new obligation or a political decision, but designed to clarify member states' obligations to ensure consumers are fully informed. The EU, the source added, does not view the occupied territories as legally part of Israel, so products from there cannot be labelled as from Israel or benefit from preferential trade agreements. Since 2004, produce from settlements have not benefited from trade preferences, and EU law already requires the places of origin of fruits, vegetables and honey to be labelled. Israel's economy ministry estimates that the impact of Wednesday's decision will be about $50m (€47m; £33m) a year, according to Reuters. EU imports from Israel were worth around €13bn ($14bn; £9bn) in 2014. "We regret that the EU has chosen, for political reasons, to take such an exceptional and discriminatory step, inspired by the boycott movement, particularly at this time, when Israel is confronting a wave of terrorism targeting any and all of its citizens," Israel's foreign ministry

Summary: The European Commission has issued new guidelines for the labelling of some products made in Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian and Syrian land.


John Bainbridge, 54, denied one count of rape via video link at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday. The offence is alleged to have taken place in Vernon Road, Basford, in May 1986. Mr Bainbridge, of Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, is set to stand trial on December 12. He was remanded in custody following the hearing.

Summary: A man has pleaded not guilty to the rape of a woman which took place 30 years ago.


The vehicles, which come in various sizes, will distribute post from the central London depot. They were produced by Oxfordshire-based carmaker Arrival, which recently opened a new factory in Banbury. Another batch of 100 electric vans for Royal Mail has also been ordered from Peugeot. Having already been trialled by Royal Mail, these will enter service in December. Arrival says the nine vehicles it has supplied come in sizes of three and a half, six and seven and a half tonnes. Although the current prototype versions of the vans are fitted with wing mirrors, a spokeswoman for Arrival told the BBC they will be removed from the final design - as cameras will be used to monitor traffic to the rear instead. Royal Mail was "delighted" to be collaborating with Arrival, said Paul Gatti, Royal Mail Fleet's managing director. "We will be putting them through their paces over the next several months to see how they cope with the mail collection demands from our larger sites," he added. Royal Mail's fleet comprises about 49,000 vehicles in total. "European postal providers, starting with DHL in Germany, have been taking this approach for a while now," said Ananth Srinivasan, a mobility expert with research consultancy Frost & Sullivan. He added that five countries - the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain - had the potential to convert significant proportions of their fleets to electric vehicles in the coming years. "Our research indicates that by 2025 these countries may have 100,000 postal service vehicles going electric between them," he told the BBC.

Summary: Royal Mail is beginning trials in London of nine fully electric vans with ranges of up to 100 miles.


The Radio 2 jockey and former Newsnight anchor will be joined by Radio 1 Newsbeat presenter Tina Daheley when the programme returns in September. They will replace Kirsty Young, Matthew Amroliwala and Martin Bayfield, who have all left the show. The programme will be shown in a new regular weekly slot, with each episode broadcast live from a "mobile incident studio" near the scene of a crime. The changes are billed as a revamp for the show, which has been appealing for viewers' information about unsolved crimes since the first episode aired in 1984. The first four-week series will begin in early September, followed by another block of episodes in early 2017. Sophie Raworth and Jason Mohammad co-presented episodes earlier this year, but they will now make way for Vine and Daheley. Crimewatch executive editor Joe Mather said Vine had "the perfect mix of serious journalism alongside genuine empathy towards the victims of crime and their families". Viewers also know Vine from shows including Points of View, The Politics Show, Panorama and Eggheads, plus as the king of the swingometer in the BBC's election coverage and from his stint on Strictly Come Dancing. He said: "I grew up watching Crimewatch. It is one of the most powerful programmes the BBC has ever broadcast, with the power to change and save lives, and of course to solve crimes." Daheley added: "I feel very privileged to join a programme that's allowed ordinary viewers to help bring criminals to justice and make our communities safer. "Young people often suffer most from crime, so I'm especially keen to use my journalistic skills and experience engaging young audiences at Radio 1 to make sure they feel part of the new-look show." Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

Summary: Broadcaster Jeremy Vine is to be one of the new hosts of BBC One's Crimewatch.


Lewis White, Michael Jones, Rebecca Redfern, Ellie Robinson and Zara Mullooly are all in the 25-strong team. Bethany Firth, Jonathan Fox and Steph Slater, who missed last summer's World Championships because of injury, return to the international scene. The competition takes place from 30 April-8 May in Funchal, Madeira. The GB team also includes Paralympic champions Ollie Hynd, Jessica-Jane Applegate and Josef Craig, as well as world champions Tully Kearney and Hannah Russell. However, a number of GB swimmers, including Ellie Simmonds and Sascha Kindred, have not been included as the event comes straight after the Rio Paralympic trials, which take place in Glasgow from 23-27 April. GB team: Josef Craig, James Crisp, Jonathan Fox, Thomas Hamer, Ollie Hynd, Michael Jones, Andrew Mullen, Scott Quin, Lewis White, Matthew Wylie, Jessica-Jane Applegate, Claire Cashmore, Bethany Firth, Charlotte Henshaw, Tully Kearney, Harriet Lee, Amy Marren, Stephanie Millward, Zara Mullooly, Rebecca Redfern, Eleanor Robinson, Susie Rodgers, Hannah Russell, Stephanie Slater, Alice Tai.

Summary: Five Para-swimmers will make their senior Great Britain debuts in April's IPC Swimming Open European Championships.


Finance Secretary John Swinney has vowed not to increase taxes for low paid workers. His draft budget is being debated for the first time at Holyrood. Both Labour and the Lib Dems have called on him to increase income tax in Scotland to 1p above the UK rate. The budget for 2016-17 marks the first time Holyrood ministers have been required to play a part in determining income tax rates in Scotland. The two opposition parties said a rise was necessary to provide almost £500m of additional funding for education and other services. With the Scottish rate of income tax due to come into effect from 6 April, Deputy First Minister Mr Swinney has pledged to keep payments in line with the rest of the UK. In addition, he said his draft budget would give up to 51,400 low paid workers a pay rise, by uprating the living wage and extending this to social care workers as part of the local government settlement. Speaking ahead of the budget debate, Mr Swinney said: "I will not penalise those on low incomes, and I certainly won't increase their tax bill. "Our budget will see an additional £250m invested in social care, around £13bn for health, it will freeze council tax for a ninth consecutive year, protect police budgets, invest £690m in housing, allocate over £1bn for higher education, and protect the pupil-teacher ratio, helping improve attainment." Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has tabled an amendment to the budget, calling for the Scottish rate of income tax to be set at 11p, a penny more than the rate proposed by the SNP administration. Labour argues this cash would help avoid cuts to schools and other vital local public services, with Ms Dugdale insisting the new tax raising powers must "not lie unused on the shelf". She has written to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying she is willing to work together on the issue. Labour's plans for a 1p rise in income tax were unveiled days after the Scottish Liberal Democrats proposed increasing the levy to help fund education. The party's leader Willie Rennie said: "As it stands, this SNP budget will deliver the harshest cuts to education in a decade and responsibility for those will lie squarely on the shoulders of John Swinney and his SNP colleagues. "John Swinney has spent all of his political life calling for increased powers for the Scottish Parliament. Well now he has them. Now he could use them. But instead he's decided to undercut George Osborne on tax." The Scottish Conservatives have said they would resist an increase in taxes in Scotland. The Scottish Greens said Labour's plan was "complex and costly". Read more here

Summary: MSPs will take part in a showdown vote later on income tax as opposition leaders challenge the Scottish government to raise extra money to protect public services.


An early Conor McAleny double and Josh Ruffels' second-half header did the damage and lifted the U's to ninth. Despite early pressure from the hosts, the U's took the lead after five minutes when McAleny fired in from the edge of the box. The winger, on loan from Everton, then doubled the lead, cutting in from the left and curling into the far corner. Neither side could muster another shot on target during a frustrating first half for the hosts. Steve Morison was put clean through on the hour mark but fired straight at Simon Eastwood, and Oxford sealed victory when Ruffels nodded in Chris Maguire's 70th-minute corner at the far post. Millwall are one point above seventh-placed Southend. Match report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Millwall 0, Oxford United 3. Second Half ends, Millwall 0, Oxford United 3. Attempt missed. Lee Gregory (Millwall) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Attempt missed. Ben Thompson (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Substitution, Oxford United. Robert Hall replaces Marvin Johnson. Substitution, Oxford United. Kane Hemmings replaces Chris Maguire. Attempt missed. Steve Morison (Millwall) header from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Substitution, Millwall. David Worrall replaces Aiden O'Brien. Substitution, Oxford United. Joe Rothwell replaces Canice Carroll because of an injury. Delay in match Canice Carroll (Oxford United) because of an injury. Attempt missed. Steve Morison (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Goal! Millwall 0, Oxford United 3. Josh Ruffels (Oxford United) header from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Chris Maguire with a cross following a corner. Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Shaun Williams. Foul by Byron Webster (Millwall). Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Joe Skarz. Foul by Jed Wallace (Millwall). Curtis Nelson (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Steve Morison (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Curtis Nelson (Oxford United). Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Joe Skarz. Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Jordan Archer. Attempt saved. Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Foul by Ben Thompson (Millwall). Conor McAleny (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt saved. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Foul by Aiden O'Brien (Millwall). Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Jed Wallace (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Charlie Raglan (Oxford United). Ben Thompson (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Marvin Johnson (Oxford United). Jake Cooper (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Marvin Johnson (Oxford United). Attempt missed.

Summary: Millwall slipped to a disappointing defeat at home to Oxford but remain in the League One play-off places.


Hundreds of people criticised the Magical Journey, at the Belfry Golf Club near Sutton Coldfield, for being overpriced and unfinished. Bosses shut the attraction at the weekend to resolve the issues. They have banned the media from attending the reopening saying it would "create anxiety for visitors". A statement said: "The Magical Journey team are hugely grateful for the support we have received from broadcast media and regional papers. "So it is with huge regret that we have decided not to open the event up to press on our reopening day. "Please understand that everything we have done, we have done in order to create a truly magical journey for the parents and specifically the children visiting. "And we feel that camera crews, reporters and journalists are only going to take away from that experience and possibly even create anxiety for our visitors." Hundreds of messages were posted on the Magical Journey's Facebook page after it opened. A number of users complained about the price of admission - the top price for a child is Â£22.50 - and accused the management of misleading the public. Refunds are being offered. Mother-of-four Michelle Guarini, from Stourport-on-Severn in Worcestershire, said she had paid Â£150 for her family to visit. She said: "They made out it was going to be a fantastic, Narnia-like experience - and there were workmen wandering around with cigarettes. "The Christmas market was about six shacks and there were some elves who didn't seem to know what they were doing. The kids were bored. It was appalling." A post on the attraction's Facebook page said reports Father Christmas had sworn at a customer and that a reindeer had bitten a child were untrue. It said it was possible some elves had been seen smoking in the staff rest area and said extra screening had been put up. Event director Paul Dolan said work had been "severely hampered" by bad weather and the opening should have been postponed. He told BBC WM they had now managed to do "all the work they wanted to do". "It's looking magnificent," he said. Mr Dolan said "over 500" people had visited the attraction since it reopened. "Everyone has felt the scrutiny we have been under, but the team have performed brilliantly and today there were lots of smiling faces," he said. In a post on Facebook Rachel Cannon said: "Just got back... and what a brilliant afternoon. A truly magical time! Well done for turning it around." Gemma Fenton posted that her children "really enjoyed it" and commented that the staff were "brilliant". But one father told the BBC even though his children enjoyed their visit it was "probably not worth the money you pay".

Summary: A Christmas attraction created with the help of flamboyant designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has reopened after closing because of complaints.


Hansen has made six changes as New Zealand play for the first time since beating Australia 34-17 in the World Cup final. Wales have not beaten the Kiwis in more than 62 years, a fact Hansen believes provides extra motivation. "They are desperate to re-write some history so that makes them a really dangerous beast I think," Hansen said. The Welsh run of 26 consecutive defeats against New Zealand includes three when Hansen was Wales coach between 2002 and 2004. He added: "They see us as the team they want to beat and you know there's enough history been written about how long it's been - and it's going to happen one day. "This is a really good Welsh side and it could happen this weekend if we don't turn up and play as well as we can." Wales were outscored by five tries to one in a 27-13 defeat by England the last time they played, and coach Warren Gatland has made five changes from that match. But Hansen believes the result was a reflection of Wales' lack of match-fitness rather than the quality of their performance. He also thinks Wales are adapting their game to match the greater speed of matches in the southern hemisphere. Media playback is not supported on this device "The northern hemisphere are starting to realise they have to change their game and we saw that against England," said Hansen. "They hadn't played for some time ahead of that game and for the first 30-40 minutes against England they played really well. "They fell away a little bit due to lack of game time in the second half so they have changed their game a little bit."

Summary: All Blacks coach Steve Hansen says Wales are a "dangerous beast" ahead of Saturday's first test in Auckland.


The newspaper said it fixed the error before its second edition. The Times was criticised along with the Sun, which also left news of the inquest verdicts off its front page. The Sun published an article titled "The Truth" days after the tragedy in 1989, alleging fans were to blame - but the inquest's jury exonerated Liverpool supporters. The Times and the Sun - which both covered the story with double-page spreads inside - are part of News UK, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp group. There was no mention of the inquest on the Sun's Facebook page, but people used comment threads on other stories to vent their anger. One of the most-shared tweets was from actor Stephen Mangan, who wrote: "Wait - neither The Sun nor the Times mention Hillsborough on their front pages?" He described them "disgraceful" and "contemptible". Football commentator Gary Lineker said it was "as disgusting as it is unsurprising". Liverpool fans renewed their call for a boycott of the Sun. People have been using hashtags such as #dontbuythesun #shutthesun and #shutthesundown to show their anger on Twitter. Actor Jamie Lee-Hill was among those suggesting people should boycott media companies owned by Mr Murdoch. The paper apologised for its coverage in 2004 and again in 2012. In its Tuesday edition, The Sun said: "We apologised prominently 12 years ago, again four years ago on the front page, and do so unreservedly again now." The Sun's front page four days after the tragedy included quotes by an anonymous policeman who alleged fans had "picked pockets of victims" and "urinated on cops". Speaking to the BBC on Wednesday, the Sun's editor at the time, Kelvin MacKenzie, said: "Do I wish to God that I had never done that front page? I absolutely do, but I was duped." Asked if the Hillsborough inquest findings should have been included on the front page, he said: "That's not a decision for me. "I'm not the editor of the Sun. He [the Sun's editor-in-chief Tony Gallagher] is a very successful guy, former editor of the Daily Telegraph. He makes pretty good decisions." The Sun's political editor, Tom Newton Dunn, said he could understand if people were still angry over his paper's reporting of the disaster. "We deserve everything that is thrown our way," he told Sky News. The Times changed Wednesday's front page in a second edition which included a photograph of victims' families outside the Warrington court room. The Times' Merseyside football writer, Tony Barrett, has apologised to his Twitter followers, apparently referring to the anger over his paper's front page. After hearing more than two years of evidence, the jury on Tuesday concluded the fans in the 1989 disaster were unlawfully killed. The jury found match commander Ch Supt David Duckenfield was "responsible for manslaughter by gross negligence" due to a breach of his duty of care.

Summary: The Times says it made a "mistake" in not having the Hillsborough verdicts on the front page of its first edition.


However, flanker Tom Wood has been left out of the 25-man training squad. Fiji-born soldier Rokoduguni replaces Marland Yarde at right wing, while Nathan Hughes will come in for Wood if he recovers from a leg injury. It is understood last season's Premiership player of the season Alex Goode will start in place of regular full-back Mike Brown. Goode last appeared for England from the bench in their Six Nations win in Italy in February. Hughes, also born in Fiji, could make his first start if he overcomes a minor niggle, with Teimana Harrison set to step in if the Wasps player fails to recover. Head coach Eddie Jones is seeking an 11th straight victory since taking charge of the side. England are now ranked second in the world and face Argentina and Australia on consecutive weekends after the visit of Fiji, who are ranked 10th. Elsewhere, with lock Dave Attwood ruled out though injury, his Bath team-mate Charlie Ewels is set to make his England debut from the bench. It is also thought Jonathan Joseph is being considered for a return to the starting XV at the expense of Elliot Daly, after the Bath centre trained in the number 13 position on Tuesday. Number eight Billy Vunipola recovered from upper body soreness to take a full part in the training session. Wood started for England for the first time since the Rugby World Cup in Saturday's 37-21 victory over South Africa, but has now returned to his club Northampton. He is not injured so his release comes as a surprise. England will confirm their match squad on Thursday. Forwards: Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers), Charlie Ewels (Bath Rugby), Jamie George (Saracens), Teimana Harrison (Northampton Saints), Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints), Nathan Hughes (Wasps), Joe Launchbury (Wasps), Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints), Joe Marler (Harlequins), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins), Kyle Sinckler (Harlequins), Billy Vunipola (Saracens), Mako Vunipola (Saracens) Backs: Mike Brown (Harlequins), Danny Care (Harlequins), Elliot Daly (Wasps), Owen Farrell (Saracens), George Ford (Bath Rugby), Alex Goode (Saracens), Jonathan Joseph (Bath Rugby), Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby), Semesa Rokoduguni (Bath Rugby), Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs), Ben Te'o (Worcester Warriors), Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers)

Summary: Wing Semesa Rokoduguni is set to make his first England appearance since 2014 against Fiji at Twickenham on Saturday.


Hilary McClintock was elected as mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council on Monday. The SDLP's Jim McKeever is the new deputy mayor. In 2012, the DUP mayor of Londonderry Maurice Devenney refused to hand his chains to Sinn Féin's Kevin Campbell. Mayor McClintock said it was "significant" but things had moved on. "Its part of the process towards normality, the same thing happened in Belfast council a few days ago," she said. "It was something that we discussed locally and it wasn't really a big deal so we're quite happy to accept it (mayoral chains) from the outgoing mayor." The Drumahoe based councillor said that during her term she wants more investment because people in the north west feel like "second class citizens". "I don't want us to be second class I want us to punch a bit higher and I will hopefully lead on that," she said. "I don't think it's even a party thing. I think west of the Bann we sometimes do feel neglected. "There's a lot more that can be done for the city, in terms of unemployment we have absolutely woeful figures. "We do need to bring more jobs and more infrastructure," she added. Family, friends and councillors from different parties clapped and cheered as former mayor Elisha McCallion placed the mayoral chain around Mrs McClintock's neck. The former mayor told BBC Radio Foyle she was delighted to be able to do so. "I'm delighted everything went well for the new mayor and I want to wish her all the best for the future, and the deputy mayor as well," Mrs McCallion said. "Its a very symbolic day because that was actually the very first time a DUP mayor has accepted a chain from a Sinn Féin ex-mayor. "It just goes to show you where we are as a society here in this city so I was delighted to do that honour," she said. Mrs McClintock, who is married with two daughters, has previously worked as a civil servant and a classroom assistant.

Summary: For the first time in Londonderry an outgoing Sinn Féin mayor has placed the chains of office around the neck of a DUP successor.


Stoneman, 28, has scored 14 centuries in 118 first-class matches, but is yet to receive a call-up for England. "He's scored a 1,000 runs two years in a row now and people are just starting to mention him." Onions told BBC Sport. "His volume of runs have made him basically selectable. You have to pick him - pure volume of runs." Newcastle-born opener Stoneman was named the club's batsman of the year last season, having been one of only five Durham players to feature in every championship game. "People don't even talk abut him really. He's been on no Lions tours, he hasn't even been involved in any kind of squads," 33-year old Onions added. "It might be quite hard for him to take that." But Onions, who has nine Test caps for England, is confident Stoneman will be considered for selection this year, and could put fellow batsmen under pressure. "I think Mark Stoneman is certainly one of the guys that England will be looking at," he added. "Whether or not [Alex] Hales is under a little bit of pressure - I think he'll go into the start of the season in a couple of months really having to score as many runs as he possibly can."

Summary: Durham bowler Graham Onions says teammate Mark Stoneman has to be picked for international honours based on his "pure volume of runs".


The "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity has attracted applications from more than 226,000 people. The random selection process to choose the 50,000 successful entrants is now under way with the winners being chosen by computer. People will know by 13 July. The Queensferry Crossing Experience takes place on 2 and 3 September. The vast majority (97%) of entrants have Scottish addresses with 51% hailing from postcodes near the bridge. About 5,180 people entered have postcodes from elsewhere in the UK and the remaining 437 are from the rest of the world, including the United States, India and one single entrant from Slovakia. Economy Secretary Keith Brown said: "We're delighted with the response to the Queensferry Crossing Experience, it really proves just how strongly the new bridge has captured the imagination of the public in the past decade of consultation, development and construction. "The process to randomly select the lucky 50,000 is now under way and we would ask everyone who has entered to keep their eyes on their email inboxes as, if selected, you only have 48 hours to confirm your attendance. "It is also pleasing to see the large amount of ballot entries hailing from local postcodes which should ensure local communities are well represented over the weekend. "To have a walking event of this scale is fantastic for all those successful in the ballot, providing a close-up view of the impressive new crossing and a unique way for people to be physically active."

Summary: The online ballot to select 50,000 people to walk across the new Queensferry Crossing has now closed.


Pedro Caixinha has recruited eight players so far in the transfer window - seven from overseas. Ferguson, who had two spells at Rangers, says new players may be taken aback by the Scottish environment and the level of expectation on them. "These guys will need to get up to pace pretty quick," Ferguson told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound. "There's no doubt in my mind that they're good players. "It's a bit easier to a certain extent at Ibrox where there's a bigger pitch and you've got 50,000 fans behind you but when you go to the smaller grounds, where it's tighter, the pitches aren't as good, they get the fright of their life. "It's 100-mile-an-hour stuff. If you're not up for the fight, when you got to places like Easter Road or Tynecastle or Fir Park, these guys are going to run over the top of you. "They're used to a different type of football. Scotland is a tough, tough, tough place to play football." Portuguese defenders Bruno Alves and Fabio Cardoso and compatriots Dalcio and Daniel Candeias, who play in wide attacking roles, as well as Colombian striker Alfredo Morelos and Mexican duo Carlos Pena and Eduardo Herrera - a midfielder and a striker - have joined Scottish midfielder Ryan Jack in moving to Ibrox this summer. "I don't know too much about most of the signings," said Ferguson. "Obviously, I know Bruno Alves, who has got 90-odd caps for Portugal. I've seen him play quite a bit. He's an experienced centre-half and a really good player. And Ryan Jack, I know obviously [from his time at Aberdeen]. "I've got to take my hat off to Pedro Caixinha. He's come in and he's identified that he's needed quite a lot of players. He's done his homework early and he's made a lot of signings pretty early as well. "My only worry is, there's quite a lot of foreign players. In my time when foreign players came in to Rangers, they got the shock of their lives with demands that are put on them, the pace of Scottish football. "It'll be interesting to see how they settle in. I still believe that you've got to get a spine at least of Scottish players. I know he's after Graham Dorrans, who I think's a fantastic player - and obviously, I saw yesterday, Kenny McLean as well. "You can't lose your identity. You've got to have Scottish players. "Many a player's come in who had 30-, 40-odd caps, who had played in big leagues over in the continent and they couldn't believe the pressure that they were under. When you play at Rangers, you're expected to win every single game. "I believe that you've got to give him two or three months and you've got to give these players two or three months to settle in but again you don't get much time when you play at a club like Rangers."

Summary: Former Rangers captain Barry Ferguson believes the club's new signings will need to adapt pretty quickly.


Quoting banking officials, the agency said the gang behind the raid used stolen credentials to make requests to transfer cash look legitimate. If all the requests had gone unchallenged, the gang would have got away with about $1bn. However, the transfers were stopped when the volume of requests raised suspicions at other banks. The computer hackers behind the breach are believed to have got away with about $80m - one of the largest known bank robberies in history. To commit the attack, which took place about a month ago, the gang spent time studying the internal processes of Bangladesh's central bank so they could convincingly pose as officials when requesting the transfers. However, said Reuters, the sheer number of transactions and a spelling mistake helped alert bank staff to the theft. The spelling mistake in the name of one recipient of funds led Deutsche Bank, which was helping route the cash, to ask for clarification from the central bank, which then stopped the transaction. Around the same time, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had alerted the Bangladesh central bank to a series of suspicious requests to transfer money. The requests are believed to have been flagged because they were to private accounts rather than other banks and because there were so many of them. If all the transfer requests had been fulfilled, the thieves would have got away with about $950m. The $80m the hackers did steal ended up in accounts in Sri Lanka and the Philippines, said Reuters. The central bank has started proceedings to recover the cash. Bangladesh's government has publicly blamed the New York Fed for not spotting the suspicious transactions earlier. Earlier this week Bangladesh's Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said it might launch legal action against the US body to help recover the money. "The Fed must take responsibility," he said. The New York Fed said its system had not been breached by the hackers and added that it was working with Bangladesh's central bank to investigate what happened. Security and forensics firm Mandiant is also helping the Bangladeshi investigation into the theft.

Summary: Cyberthieves who targeted Bangladesh's central bank tried to get away with $1bn (Â£700m), reports Reuters.


Georgina Le Fjord was out with a friend celebrating the end of her exams when the accident happened on Llantwit Major beach, Vale of Glamorgan, in June. The inquest in Cardiff heard she would have died instantly. Assistant coroner Thomas Atherton recorded a conclusion of accidental death, calling it a "terrible tragedy". Ms Le Fjord - who grew up in Salisbury, Wiltshire, but had been living in the area - was "the happiest she had ever been" after suffering from depression, the inquest was told. That day, she was with her friend Martha Ormerod, 25, marking the end of her A-levels when debris from a cliff gave way. In a statement read to the hearing, Ms Ormerod said they were sat about 15ft (4.5m) away from the rocks. "As we were sat down enjoying our picnic I heard a sudden noise behind me. I turned around and saw Georgie lying on her front," she said. "At first I thought she had managed to dive out of the way." Eyewitnesses tried to help Ms Ormerod administer first aid. One, Claire Louise Hobson, said there had been a rock fall there a few days before. "I think perhaps about three or four large rocks hit her. At the time I did not think that she was that badly hurt," she added. PC Mark John, who later broke the news to boyfriend Paul Biggs, said it was the most distressing incident he had seen in his police career. Ms Le Fjord's mother Jackie Cleary, 53, described her daughter as inquisitive with a passion for knowledge, adding: "The last few years of her life she was truly at her happiest." Reaching his conclusion, Mr Atherton said the death served as a reminder of how dangerous rocks near cliffs can be, especially as they can fall "without warning".

Summary: A 23-year-old woman killed by a falling rock on a south Wales beach was "in the wrong place at the wrong time", an inquest has heard.


Fly swarms from the Shows Waste Management site in Slack Lane, Derby, have left residents facing difficulties cooking and cleaning for weeks. The Environment Agency said 2,200 tonnes of waste has now been moved and "the fly issue...has been resolved". The site has been ordered by the agency to move all waste by 7 July. The agency had started a criminal probe into the fly infestation, and a spokesman added they would "seek to take the appropriate level of enforcement action against relevant parties" once their investigation into the cause of the plague is over. "We can confirm that the fly issue on the site has been resolved with no reported issues from the community since early June," an agency spokesman said. "We will continue to monitor and assess the situation until our requirements have been fully met." About 3,000 households and businesses are in the affected areas. One resident, Melissa Marriott, previously told the BBC she has been unable to have a bath without flies getting into the water, and had to resort to buying an electric fly killer which "gets 50 flies a day". Another resident, Jenny Warren, said the flies had been "all over the food and you can't open windows". On 17 May, Shows Waste Management was given a suspension order by the agency and told no further waste would be accepted on site. The waste company has said it was in the current situation because of a dispute with another firm.

Summary: Residents whose homes have been filled with hundreds of flies from a Derbyshire recycling site have been told their misery is over.


A team from America have looked at how ants have evolved and found that the insects had complex underground farms, growing different types of fungi. Not only that, the ants had taken fungus from its natural environment to nests in much drier climates. The fungus couldn't survive without the ants so it is a very early example of agriculture. Agriculture is what we call the practice of farming. Such as preparing soil for growing crops and raising animals for food and other products such as wool. Dr Ted Schultz who specialises in ants and works at the Museum of Natural History said that "Ants have established a form of agriculture that provides all the nourishment needed for their societies using a single crop that is resistant to disease, pests and droughts at a scale and level of efficiency that rivals human agriculture." There are many species of farmer ant, over 250 have been found in tropical forests, deserts and grasslands in the Americas and the Caribbean.

Summary: Scientists have found out that ants began farming millions of years before humans did.


The man, in his late 40s, was involved in a housing dispute with bailiffs at the property on Stapleton Hall Road in Stroud Green. Police officers were called to the scene at midday after receiving reports the man was armed with a weapon. Shortly after they arrived the explosion took place, leaving him with severe burns. Three police officers sustained minor injuries. The basement and parts of the ground floor and shed in the back garden were on fire for several hours. No neighbouring houses were damaged. The cause of the explosion is not yet known and there have been no arrests. The Met said it was not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident. Witness Paul Pixton tweeted: "Something massive is happening on my street, some kind of altercation on street followed by loud explosion."

Summary: A man has been critically injured in an explosion at a house in north London.


The 19-year-old centre, a graduate of the Exiles' academy, has scored four tries in his first three appearances. Two of those came on his Premiership debut against Wasps in front of a crowd of more than 42,000 at Twickenham. "Scoring at Twickenham, it's something I've dreamed about since I started playing at the age of six," he said. But, the Reading-born inside centre is keeping his feet firmly on the ground as he targets both a continued run in Tom Coventry's side and a first Premiership win of the season for Irish. "We've been unlucky with injuries in the centre and I've been given a shot," he told BBC Sport. "I know those players are coming back and they're fantastic, but I'd love to keep the number 12 shirt and I hope I do. "For me, it's about getting this experience and trying to be the best player that I can." Williams, who has already represented England at under-17 and under-18 level, is now hoping to break through into the under-20 squad. His brace against Wasps caught the national for the first time, but he still found fault in his own performance. "I don't think I carried the ball as much as I have in previous games," Williams said. "I made a lot of tackles as we spent a lot of time without the ball. It was a fantastic occasion with lots of friends of family, but it was a shame about the result."

Summary: Johnny Williams knows he has a fight on his hands to keep hold of the number 12 jersey at London Irish, despite a whirlwind start to his senior career.


The error was made by RingGo payment system, which is managed by City of Edinburgh Council's contractor NSL. Motorists who tried to use RingGo on Tuesday will have their tickets cancelled. The council said it clearly stated on its website and parking machines that 27 December was a paid parking day. The council said about 300 motorists had been affected by the blunder. A council spokeswoman said: "Details relating to parking restrictions during the festive period are advertised very clearly through our website and social media and are provided on ticket machines throughout the city. "We are aware, however, that there was an error for a time with the RingGo payment service managed by our contracted partner NSL. "We are liaising with NSL to ensure that RingGo users who were issued with a parking ticket, due to the system failure on Tuesday, have their tickets cancelled." An NSL spokesman said: "NSL has confirmed that parking restrictions and charges in the city of Edinburgh do apply on Tuesday 27 December and Monday 2 January as stated on all Pay and Display machines and on the City Of Edinburgh Council's website. "Full enforcement procedures apply on both dates in order to maintain safe and fair access for anyone visiting the shops and facilities in and around the city centre. "The company has confirmed that it has been made aware of an incorrect instruction on the RingGo app and RingGo website and has asked for the instructions to be amended as a matter of urgency."

Summary: Hundreds of drivers have been issued parking tickets after an app wrongly told them they could park for free in Edinburgh on the day after Boxing Day.


Gary Boyce uncovered the 8th Century cemetery six months ago in Great Ryburgh, Norfolk. He had been carrying out work to build a fishing lake. Mr Boyce has been given a £90,000 grant from England Heritage, but feels there should be more support for landowners who find themselves in his position. Landowners are responsible for the initial exploration costs of excavations found on their property, and the cost rises if human remains are discovered and have to be excavated. Mr Boyce told BBC Inside Out: "History has been changed (by the discovery) but you've seriously got to weigh up the costs. To nearly lose your house, that's massive." Will Fletcher, inspector of ancient monuments for Norfolk, Suffolk and Bedfordshire for Historic England, said: "We tried to operate as quickly as we could and provide some support to Gary because obviously he was in a very difficult position." Tim Pestell, the curator of Archaeology at Norwich Castle, said it was an unusual discovery. "Because the site was so unique, it is nationally significant. Great Ryburgh will go down in the academic textbooks as an example of an early Christian community," he said. "The landowner got unlucky because it was so wonderful, it wasn't expected. That's why Historic England has put thousands of pounds into rescuing that site." It is hoped that some of the artefacts will eventually go on display at Norwich Castle along with one of the coffins, after it has been sent to York for conservation. See the full story on Inside Out BBC ONE East Monday 19:30 GMT.

Summary: A developer says he has had to remortgage his house to pay the £250,000 excavation costs after finding 81 Anglo-Saxon coffins on his land.


And the world of Formula 1 is no different - some drivers have consistently excelled while others have had a campaign to forget. A record 21-race season gives us plenty to reflect on as the year draws to a close, so we want you to tell us your top three heroes and villains from the past nine months. Hamilton in Monaco? Rosberg in Singapore? Verstappen, um, everywhere? You decide... We've asked BBC F1 experts to give us their three best and three, well, most disappointing drivers of 2016. We will reveal their views, alongside the collective results of what you all thought, later. Who were the best during 2016? Who were the biggest underachievers during 2016?

Summary: It's safe to say 2016 been a truly memorable year for a whole host of reasons - some very good, some utterly awful.


The win took Warriors 12 points clear of bottom club Bristol, who will be relegated back to the Championship if they lose to leaders Wasps on Sunday. Bath led 10-6 at half-time, helped by winger Matt Banahan's try. But Josh Adams and Wynand Olivier both crossed for the hosts and ex-Bath lock Will Spencer completed victory. George Ford kicked a late penalty to earn fifth-placed Bath a losing bonus point, but with two games left to play they are four points behind Leicester, who hammered Newcastle at Welford Road. Warriors were good value for their fifth home league win of the season, with their excellent record at Sixways likely to be enough to keep them in the top flight. Bath had appeared set for their first Premiership away win since 30 October when, against the run of play, Jonathan Joseph fed Banahan for the only try of the first period. However, two penalties from Ryan Mills - the second a huge kick from well inside his own half - kept the hosts in touch at the halfway point. England's Ben Te'o and fellow centre Jackson Willison superbly created Adams' try and replacement Olivier put Worcester in front for the first time, before Spencer rounded off a long spell of Worcester pressure by touching down against his old club. Worcester director of rugby Gary Gold: "Bristol have got two home games out of three left, so under no circumstances am I going to sit here and say we are safe. They beat Bath at home and ran Exeter close at Sandy Park. "If we are able to get through this fight, then I will definitely look to chat to the club to see what the plans are for next season. "I am elated and very proud of the guys. They stuck in for the full 80 minutes against a quality Bath team." Bath director of rugby Todd Blackadder: "It is so disappointing. We are up and down, up and down. "Our (defensive) exits were really poor. We just gifted the ball back to Worcester, who played really well, and in the second half, unforced errors killed us. "We knew what was at stake today, which makes it even more disappointing, but we are not going to give up hope. There is still too much to play for and a lot can happen." Worcester: Pennell; Humphreys, Willison, Te'o, Adams; Mills, Hougaard; Bower, Taufete'e, Alo, O'Callaghan (capt), Spencer, Vui, Lewis, Mama. Replacements: Singleton, Grant, Milasinovich, Potgieter, Fa'osiliva, Baldwin, Lamb, Olivier. Bath: Watson; Rokoduguni, Joseph, Tapuai, Banahan; Ford (co-capt), Fotuali'i; Catt, Batty, Palma-Newport, Ewels, Stooke, Ellis, Louw (co-capt), Faletau. Replacements: Charles, Obano, Knight, Denton, Z Mercer, Cook, Priestland, T Homer. For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.

Summary: Worcester Warriors defeated Bath at Sixways to almost guarantee their Premiership survival and dent the visitors' hopes of a top-four finish.