Charlotte Bevan, who had schizophrenia, walked out of St Michael's Hospital in Bristol in December 2014 with daughter Zaani Tiana Bevan-Malbrouck. Their bodies were found in undergrowth in the Avon Gorge days later. The serious case review also found the lack of a lead clinician overseeing Ms Bevan's care led to confusion. The Bristol Safeguarding Children Board's report said there was a system for controlling entry to the ward "but mothers and babies were allowed free access throughout the hospital". It went on to say that, "this allowed CB [Charlotte Bevan] to leave the ward with ZBM [Zaani Tiana Bevan-Malbrouck] unnoticed and unchallenged". The report said once the alarm was raised that Ms Bevan and her four-day-old daughter were missing, there was a quick response. However, it said the safeguarding concerns were "everybody's business" as Ms Bevan was "able to walk outside at night, in unsuitable clothing, carrying a newborn baby, in a public place unchallenged by anyone". Since their deaths, the report said ward security had been "reviewed and improved" and changes had been made to the reception area. Charlotte's mother Rachel Fortune, who contributed to the review, said in a written statement "no single thing, action or person was to blame". In the statement, released jointly with her daughter Janet, she said there were eight main findings which offered "clear, constructive learning", including how to manage long-term mental health in pregnancy, "honest, accurate and timely communication" and how several agencies could work together with a lead clinician. She added: "This was a particularly difficult case to manage as long-term ill mental health and pregnancy came together. It's our hope now that any families and individuals facing such difficulties will have a multi-agency team with accountable clinicians in each service, as they now do in Bristol." The review also found Ms Bevan's explanation for stopping her medication due to breastfeeding concerns was not followed up with a pharmacist until after she had given birth. She later revealed she had not been taking medication for the last five months of her pregnancy, which the review team speculated was a sign of "disguised compliance". The report said: "It is notable that it was not until CB [Charlotte Bevan] had given birth to ZBM [Zaani Tiana Bevan-Malbrouck] that any professional contacted a pharmacist to confirm the safety of her medication on ZBM when breastfeeding or otherwise." There was also confusion over who was leading, co-ordinating and overseeing Charlotte's overall care, the report found. In some cases, it found, health professionals assumed it was the Mother and Baby Unit Doctor, the mental health care co-ordinator or her GP. The report also found there was confusion over the terminology in describing her mental health condition. It found that describing her as "well" meant there was no clarity in what this meant in mental health terms. Independent chair of the Bristol Safeguarding Children Board, Sally Lewis said: "This review provides constructive learning for many agencies and professionals working in Bristol and beyond. "A great deal has already changed in local professional practice since this tragic incident, some

Summary: A mother who jumped off a cliff with her baby was able to leave a maternity ward unchallenged as she had "free access" in the hospital, a report said.


Researchers at St Andrews University said a method using a small circular hole could have wide implications for 3D technology. The study, published in Psychological Science, also has implications for people who have just one eye or difficulties with double-eye vision. The method was said to create 3D similar to effects used in film-making. Researchers said that current thinking was based on the need for two visual images - one from each eye - to be combined in the visual cortex, creating a sense of depth. But Dr Dhanraj Vishwanath, a psychologist at the university, believes both eyes are not necessary for this "3D experience". Dr Vishwanath said: "We have demonstrated experimentally, for the first time, that the same 'special way' in which depth is experienced in 3D movies can also be experienced by looking at a normal picture with one eye viewing through a small aperture (circular hole). "While this effect has been known for a long time, it is usually dismissed. "Now we have shown that it is in fact real, and the perceptual results are exactly like stereoscopic 3D, the kind seen in 3D movies. "Based on this finding, we have provided a new hypothesis of what the actual cause of the 3D experience might be." The university said the 1838 invention of the stereoscope - the technology behind 3D film-making - brought with it the assumption two eyes were necessary for 3D vision. Dr Vishwanath said: "This work has significant implications for people who don't have normal binocular vision. "First it could help them experience what it means to see in 3D. Second, it could encourage them to seek therapy to try to regain two-eye 3D vision (which produces the strongest 3D effect in everyday life) once they can see first-hand what 'seeing in 3D' is really like." Dr Vishwanath and his colleagues are now testing the method with a large group of strabismics, people with misaligned eyes. He said that nearly 15% of the population, including Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, may have some form of misalignment. The psychologist also believes his theory suggests a 3D experience could be induced simply by increasing resolution, using ultra-high definition (4K) televisions. Seeing in 3D with just one eye: Stereopsis without binocular vision is published by Psychological Science. Further research is due to be published later this year.

Summary: The effect of "vivid 3D vision" can be experienced with just one eye, a study has suggested.


The Ministry of the Defence (MoD) has had a tracking station on the isle since 1957. It is linked to a missile range controlled from a military site on Benbecula in the Western Isles. The National Trust for Scotland, which manages St Kilda along with the MoD, said the planned new buildings were "sympathetic and sustainable". St Kilda lies about 40 miles (64km) west of North Uist, the nearest inhabited place to the archipelago. The last islanders left St Kilda in 1930 and people only now live on Hirta on a temporary basis to work at the military site, or on wildlife conservation projects. The MoD, working with its defence contractors QinetiQ and Skye-based architects Wittets, has submitted a planning application to Western Isles local authority, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, for a redevelopment and environmental upgrading of its 50-year-old St Kilda facilities. Galliford Try International and Hugh Broughton Architects have been appointed to develop the design of the new buildings. NTS said the firms would be using expertise gained through building similar facilities in environments with challenging climates, including work for the British Antarctic Survey. Lower parts of the new buildings would be "curtained" with stone walls designed to blend into the St Kildan landscape. Wood panelling over the exterior walls will attain colours through weathering that will complement the surrounding scenery and roofs will be planted with native St Kildan grasses, said NTS. Susan Bain, the trust's property manager for St Kilda, said: "We have been very impressed by the extent to which the MoD and its partners have gone to make sure they come up with proposals that will enhance the existing site and are both sympathetic and sustainable in the vitally important context of St Kilda. "Most traces of the buildings from the 1960s will be removed and their replacements will be entirely appropriate to the setting in terms of design profile and best environmental practice. "Every detail has been considered, down to ensuring that there is no chance of contaminant flora or fauna from the mainland being brought to St Kilda during the construction phase." She added: "The military has a long association with St Kilda going back to the First World War and we are very pleased to have worked in partnership with the MoD since 1957. "This has been entirely beneficial to our conservation activities on St Kilda and we look forward to this relationship continuing well into the future."

Summary: New military facilities are to be built on the island of Hirta in the remote St Kilda archipelago.


The Shakespeare Schools Festival - an initiative which inspires schoolchildren to perform abridged versions of the playwright's famous work. From small beginnings, the initiative has grown into the UK's largest youth drama festival. And as the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death is marked on 23 April, we take a look back at its inception. "It all started with the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989," co-founder Chris Grace explained. As S4C's co-founder and director of animation, he had already made a name for himself kickstarting the Welsh animation industry with SuperTed and Fireman Sam. But as eastern Europe opened up, he was inspired by innovative Soviet techniques which used models, drawings and oil on glass. "I knew there was a Soviet tradition of animation which was totally different to Disney and it opened my eyes to new ways of making content accessible," he said. "I saw that Shakespeare could be a bridge between east and west; between Soviet tradition and western tradition." Working in Moscow, he helped to create 12 half-hour abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays - not an easy task when trying to maintain the original dialogue - with each one costing £500,000 to make. It was a turbulent time, with production surviving two attempted presidential coups - against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991 and Boris Yeltsin in 1993. On one occasion, filming had to be stopped as tanks rumbled by outside, shaking the studio. On another, the studio came under fire from rebels, with bullet holes peppering the walls. "It was very exciting on one level because it was a new Europe," he said. "But it was also fearful. You didn't know the price of bread let alone what the cost of production was. "Despite this, we established a really strong production and international friendship between Wales and Russia." The 12 films, known as S4C's Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, were created in Welsh and English. Initially launched at the Royal Academy in London and City Hall in Cardiff, they went on to be released in 70 countries and won three Emmy awards. By the late-1990s, the films had a "huge up-take" in schools, introducing pupils to Shakespeare "for the very first time". "Everybody wants something new, especially critics, and animation had never been seen in this way before," Mr Grace said. "Part one was making Shakespeare accessible through a contemporary medium and part two was to take those films being used by schools and make Shakespeare accessible to young people through performance. "I thought, 'if they're watching them, why can they not perform them?'" And so, in 2000, the festival was officially launched. Living in Pembrokeshire, he arranged for eight schools to perform at the Torch Theatre in Milford Haven. Each performed a half-hour play to sell-out audiences over two nights. "It's not often we get things first in Pembrokeshire, so being the venue for a national debut felt like a major honour. "Our director was a bit individual, not to mention notorious in my family for constantly giving me detentions, and she decided to set a Japanese theme around

Summary: What links William Shakespeare, the fall of the Berlin Wall, coups in Soviet Russia and eight schools in west Wales?


The 33-year-old suffered several broken bones after suffering an accident while leading the Superbike race at the Ulster Grand Prix last weekend. Despite his injuries it has been reported that Martin has already signed himself out of hospital in Belfast. A spokesman for Triumph said Martin was "central" to their record attempt. The TT racer and television personality from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, is planning to beat the current 376.363mph record (605km/h) in Triumph's 1,000 bhp Rocket III Streamliner. A spokesman for Leicestershire-based Triumph said: "Guy is a unique talent and having such a pilot is absolutely central to our attempt. "We wish him a full and speedy recovery and will confirm a new date for our 2016 bid as soon as we can." On Monday, Martin tweeted: "I'm on the mend - few upgrades to me hand& back but feel right enough. All part of the job. Thanks very much for the support as always." He is reported to have fractured a vertebrae, his sternum, and a number of ribs in the 100mph crash as well as damaging his throttle hand.

Summary: A British team has postponed its bid to break a 400mph land speed record after pilot Guy Martin crashed during the world's fastest road race.


Marine Scotland staff have complained of being paid less than those in comparable jobs in other publicly-owned organisations. Unite said it was disappointed the situation had reached this stage. The Scottish government said talks aimed at averting the strikes were continuing. Unite has said a chief steward can earn up Â£29,579-a-year at Marine Scotland but Â£37,675 at ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne, which is also owned by the Scottish government. Last December, the Scottish Parliament passed a motion put forward by Scottish Labour, stating that Marine Scotland staff should receive a fair pay settlement that recognises their experience and skills. Unite regional officer Sandy Smart said: "Our members do a difficult and dangerous job ensuring that the fishing grounds around Scotland are protected. We are very disappointed that things have got to this stage despite the Scottish Parliament passing a motion to support a fair pay award. "The first minister also pledged to look at this issue yet our members have been rewarded with a pay cut. Industrial action is always a last resort and even at this late stage we hope that we can reach a solution but this requires movement by Marine Scotland and the Scottish government to properly award the seafarers. Marine Scotland vessels carry out protection and research work in the seas and fisheries around the country. There are five vessels in total and five sets of two-day strike action are scheduled to take place on 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 25 and 26 August. A Scottish government spokesman said: "We wish to avert industrial action and will continue our discussions with Unite. It would be inappropriate to comment further while these discussions are under way."

Summary: Members of the Unite union working for Scotland's fisheries protection fleet are set to walk out on a series of strikes in a dispute over pay.


Dean Price went into the River Esk at Longtown after his seven-year-old daughter, Delilah, slipped and fell into the water on 30 June. The 32-year-old, from Walsall, got into difficulties and disappeared. His body was found hours later following an extensive search of the river. The South Cumbria coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death. Geoff Maxwell, an off-duty retained firefighter who was working nearby, managed to rescue the girl. He was praised by coroner David Roberts, who said: "On behalf of the public generally, I would like to thank you for your selfless act."

Summary: A man drowned while trying to rescue his daughter from a river in Cumbria, an inquest has found.


Lengthy time losses for rain ensured the Welsh county had to settle for bowling practice, eight days before their Championship season starts. David Lloyd and Michael Hogan took two wickets each. Glamorgan second XI player Jeremy Lawlor hit 50 not out and Academy opener Connor Brown 33. Meanwhile, South Africa fast bowler Marchant de Lange could still be signed in time for the opening competitive game at Northants. Seamer Ruaidhri Smith has been ruled out for six weeks with an abdominal tear, while Will Bragg (back), Timm van der Gugten (shoulder) and Graham Wagg (groin) are set to miss their final warm-up friendly against Nottinghamshire on Sunday 2 April. Glamorgan coach Robert Croft told BBC Wales Sport: "Any opportunity we get to get in the middle is good, it got some of the competitive juices going though there are percentages to go up against first-class opposition. "Jacques played well, it's nice for him, for the team and the supporters. "The three injuries are being monitored day by day, it's unlikely all three will be fit for Northampton. "We hope as many as possible of them will be fit, but if they're not, the players in those positions have had opportunities throughout pre-season."

Summary: Glamorgan's opening first-class match of the season against Cardiff MCCU drifted to a tame draw as the students battled to 149-5 on the final day.


Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union will walk out on 19 May. In a ballot, 96% of the 150 affected members voted for strikes on a 53% turnout. 247 people are employed at the office in St Paul's Place. BIS said it will provide "comprehensive support" to affected staff. The government announced plans to shut the office by 2018 in January. Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, said: "This vote sends the clearest possible message to BIS ministers and senior officials that these plans are wrong and must be reversed. "The closure of this office is precisely the opposite of what the government claims to want for the North and the wider civil service." He said the union was also considering a timetable for further walkouts. Announcing the plans, permanent secretary Martin Donnelly said it was part of a move to create a combined central HQ and policy centre in London and establish six business centres across the UK. He said the decision was taken in an effort to "modernise the way we work, reduce operating costs and deliver a simpler, smaller department that is more flexible and responsive". A BIS spokesperson said: "Whenever a proposal such as this is made, people's livelihoods and families are directly affected, and these decisions are never easy. It remains our top priority that all our staff are fully briefed and consulted during the process. "We take their future and the contribution they have made very seriously, and will provide comprehensive support to all those facing a potential change or loss of job."

Summary: Civil servants at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) have announced plans to stage a 24-hour strike in protest at plans to shut the department's Sheffield office.


He has not scored the runs, and his technical difficulties around fourth stump have not withstood the severe cross-examination of the high-profile media pundits who fuel the opinions of so many others in and around the sport. It's a tough place to be - knowing you are good enough to excel but feeling so out of form, and feeling your chances of success are diminishing innings by innings, partly because of the unwelcome focus on you when the selectors' guillotine is hovering over your head. The only way to rid yourself of it is to score big runs. Hopefully Jennings can find his best form again for Durham and return for England's Ashes tour this winter. He may even discover that his style of play is better suited to Australian conditions. The England selectors will have debated whether or not to allow him an extended spell in the team. Maybe he would have come through the experience a better player? But playing with the axe hanging over you is not helpful to recovering your best form. I felt in May of 2013 that if Alastair Cook and I had the opportunity to open together for the whole summer, we could have made a real go of the job. The lack of backing I received was because of my poor performances against New Zealand, but I reckon if I could have been allowed to move through that challenging learning experience of my first real dip in form as an England player, I would have been better for it. After all, my partnership with Cook was a success in terms of the runs we put on together, and the team was winning matches and series. Moving through the difficult learning process of being a newcomer to Test cricket is not straightforward and, should a player receive the full support of selection when experiencing a dip in form, it offers a healthy return on the investment of your initial selection. Very few players experience a consistent graph of top performance in their first 15 Tests, but the best ones benefit from the exposure and learning over time. After all, South Africa's Jacques Kallis did not enjoy the best of starts to his Test career and look what happened to him. Now the focus of attention is on Mark Stoneman, who looks set to become England's oldest debutant this century when England face West Indies in the first Test at Edgbaston on Thursday. England's selectors have received much criticism for the number of players coming and going since the days of Geoff Miller when the panel embraced a 'consistency and continuity' policy. Rather than blaming the selectors, it is ultimately down to players to be in charge of their own destiny and make the most of any chance that comes their way. If anyone is looking for a scapegoat for England's recent problems at the top of the order, then I can recommend pointing the finger at me. If I had taken my first chance with both hands in 2013 as Andrew Strauss' replacement, none of

Summary: I watched England's final Test against South Africa and really felt for Keaton Jennings.


Poplars Medical Practice in Low Hill was rated by Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors who looked at how safe, effective and well-led it was. They inspected 45 GP surgeries across England. Two were rated as outstanding, in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, and Oldham. Inspectors said staff at the Hall Practice, Gerrards Cross routinely referred to national health guidelines, received appropriate training and GPs' special interests and expertise were utilised. In Oldham, patients at Hope Citadel Healthcare rated the practice higher than others for almost all aspects of care, inspectors reported. Five others surgeries required improvements, inspectors found. The Low Hill surgery served more than 3,200 patients in one of the most deprived areas in the UK, the CQC said. Inspectors found systems to manage and address risks were not properly implemented, knowledge of and reference to national guidelines was inconsistent and there were no completed audits of patient outcomes. It was rated good in a category for caring but inspectors said it required improvement for providing responsive services. A CQC spokesman said further measures may be taken if sufficient improvement was not visible in the coming months. Prof Steve Field, chief inspector of general practice, said the vast majority of England's GPs provided a safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led service. "Patients should be able to expect high-quality and consistent care from every GP practice," he said. "Where we have required improvement, we will expect the practice to take the necessary steps to address the issue, and we will return at a later date to check that those improvements have been made." Practices put it into special measures got more support from NHS England to help them improve, he said.

Summary: A GP surgery in Wolverhampton has been put into special measures after being rated inadequate by a healthcare watchdog.


It happened at about 20:00 BST at Rafters bar and restaurant in Northland Road area on Wednesday. He was treated for a hand injury at Altnagelvin Hospital and discharged a short time later. It is understood the wedding involved members of the travelling community. A man was later arrested by Irish police in County Donegal. SDLP councillor John Boyle said a shotgun was used. "A weapon was discharged, I believe that weapon was a shotgun," he said. "At around 8.30pm, police told me, they received a report of an incident relating to some type of altercation at the Rafters bar and restaurant on the Northland Road, Ballymagroarty area," said Mr Boyle. "It's always very worrying when you hear about weapons being produced whether it be at a wedding, on the street or in someone's home, there is always the very real potential for death or serious injury."

Summary: A man in his 30s has been injured in a shooting at a wedding reception in Londonderry.


Lookman, 19, is expected to have a medical at Everton shortly, after terms were agreed between the clubs. Boss Ronald Koeman will then be keen to secure a deal for Schneiderlin, 27. The France midfielder, who played for the Dutchman at Southampton, has been told he can leave Old Trafford. Schneiderlin, who has also been linked with a return to France at Marseille, has failed to figure under manager Jose Mourinho. It is understood Everton have had a £19m bid turned down but it seems certain they will return with a renewed offer closer to United's asking price. United are keen to recoup most, if not all, of the £24m they paid Southampton in July 2015 and have also rejected an offer from West Bromwich Albion. Koeman wants early recruits with midfielder Idrissa Gueye, arguably Everton's most influential performer this season, now away on international duty with Senegal at the Africa Cup Of Nations, and James McCarthy out injured. Everton also retain an interest in another player marginalised under Mourinho at Old Trafford, Koeman's fellow Dutchman Memphis Depay. Forward Lookman is expected to be first in at Goodison Park, with director of football Steve Walsh making his signing a priority. Everton - with Walsh a key figure - are embarking on a policy of recruiting emerging young talent as well as established players. The Toffees signed teenage striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin from Sheffield United for £1.5m in August and the England youth international started the 3-0 win against Southampton on Monday after several appearances as a substitute but was forced to go off early on with an ankle injury. Charlton had hoped Everton would loan Lookman back to them for the rest of the season but he is seen as someone who could quickly play a part at Goodison Park.

Summary: Everton are close to completing an £11m deal for Charlton Athletic teenager Ademola Lookman - and will then intensify their interest in Manchester United's Morgan Schneiderlin.


The Taiwanese researcher found files left behind by the other intruder on a neglected Facebook server. The former hacker was using tools to scoop up login names of Facebook's net admin staff. Facebook said the traces were left by another security researcher also seeking loopholes in its systems. In a blog post, security researcher Orange Tsai detailed the way he found the vulnerable server and his realisation that someone else had been there before him. The earlier intruder had set up scripts to grab the login names and other credentials for Facebook employees. At first glance, he said it looked like a "pretty serious security incident". Mr Tsai, who works for security firm Devcore, reported his findings to Facebook so it could harden the server and clean out the login-sniffing scripts. He won a $10,000 (Â£7,000) bug bounty from Facebook for finding the vulnerable server. In a statement on the Hacker News site, Facebook said it was "really glad" that Mr Tsai reported his findings. "After incident response, we determined that the activity Orange detected was in fact from another researcher who participates in our bounty program," it said. Facebook described the discovery of the vulnerable server as a "double win" as it involved two competent researchers assessing its systems. Neither was able to get further than the server to get full access to the site's internal networks, it added. Paul Ducklin, writing on the blog of security firm Sophos, said anyone planning to do similar work on other net firms should be more careful. "We recommend that you don't go as far as either hacker in this case." he wrote. "Orange stretched the rules a bit; the earlier mystery hacker stretched them a lot." Going too far might introduce new weaknesses, warned Mr Ducklin. "You don't make security stronger by weakening it," he said.

Summary: A hacker looking for ways to breach Facebook's internal network has uncovered traces of another hacker who got there first.


The 23-year-old becomes the second youngest player after Tiger Woods to reach the landmark total since 1945. Berger began three shots behind Spieth but hit birdies in his last six holes for a three-under-par 67. Spieth, Masters and US Open champion in 2015, saved a par 70 with a superb chip that set up an easy putt on the 18th. The American then holed from the same bunker in the first round of the play-off to go one shot ahead. Berger had a chance to level and force another hole with a challenging putt, but the 24-year-old shot wide. "It was a battle. I got really lucky, but that was awesome," said Spieth. "The putter kind of let me down a little through the round but Michael (Greller, Spieth's caddie) kept me in it when I was losing it out there." Berger described the closing stages as "Jordan doing Jordan things". "I've played great today, but obviously I wanted to win. I'm kind of speechless right now," he added. England's Paul Casey scored a one-under-par 69 for a share of fifth, while Northern Ireland's four-time major winner Rory McIlroy capped a mixed showing over the four days with a six-under-par 64 for joint 17th. Defending champion Russel Knox of Scotland scored a final-round three-over-par 73 to finish level overall.

Summary: Jordan Spieth won the Travelers Championship by edging out Daniel Berger in a play-off with a chip shot from the bunker for his 10th PGA title.


The proposals are the brain child of Swiss businessman turned politician Thomas Minder, who runs a small family company producing natural cosmetics. Mr Minder wants shareholders to have a veto over managers' salaries, and to ban golden handshakes altogether. The "fat cat initiative", as it has come to be called, would, if approved, be written into the Swiss constitution, and would apply to all Swiss companies listed on Switzerland's stock exchange. Mr Minder, an outspoken man, says the culture of high salaries and high bonuses in Switzerland has got out of hand, pointing to the fact that huge sums have been paid out even when the companies concerned were doing badly. The bankruptcy of national icon Swissair back in 2001, and the subsequent huge payoffs to its failed boss Mario Corti, were the catalyst to Mr Minder's decision to act. "That really stuck in my throat," he told Swiss television. "It made me absolutely furious. "I'm still furious today, to think that a chief executive like Mr Corti could get five years' salary to go. I mean, the company was in a disastrous situation. At the end he wasn't even paying its bills. Swissair went bankrupt. The company doesn't exist anymore." Salaries for Swiss top managers are higher than most and their taxes are lower. These two things alone would not necessarily anger most voters, however. What has attracted support for Mr Minder's initiative has been a series of perceived disasters for major Swiss companies, coupled with salaries and bonuses staying high. The main example is banking giant UBS, which wrote off billions in the wake of the 2007 sub-prime mortgage crisis, and then had to be bailed out by the Swiss government. After that, the bank lost more billions because of a rogue trader, and announced thousands of redundancies. But high salaries and bonuses for the bank's top managers continued throughout. "The fat cats are getting fattest in the banks," says Edouard Dommen of the Swiss shareholders group Actares. "The other companies are getting fat, but not quite so grossly." Mr Dommen, who supports the new measures, believes voters are especially angry about UBS, because their own tax money had to be spent to bail out the bank. "People are fed up," he says. "They know that this is at their expense. "Small people had to dig into their own pockets to bail out these banks, and then see people, some of whom turned out to be literally crooks, walk off with their money, so of course they are angry." If passed, the measures would give Switzerland some of the strictest laws on executive pay in the world, far tougher than the limit on bonuses just approved by the European Union. Both the Swiss government and Swiss business leaders have been campaigning against the measures. The government says it understands that voters want some control over high salaries and has offered a milder alternative, but so far this seems to have attracted little interest. Meanwhile the Swiss Business Association has been arguing that the measures would undermine Switzerland's ability to compete.

Summary: Switzerland's voters go to the polls to decide on controversial proposals which would impose strict limits on the salaries awarded to top executives.


Investors Steve Kaplin and Jason Levien, who run sports teams in the United States, are drafting in the former Everton striker as an adviser. The £100m takeover was agreed subject to Kaplin and Levien passing a Premier League test for prospective owners. But Donovan, now 34, will not take part in Swansea's day-to-day activities. Current chairman Huw Jenkins and deputy Leigh Dineen will retain their roles when the Americans take control but Donovan is seen as ideal to have on the board with football and commercial expertise. Levien, the managing general partner of Major League Soccer side DC United, and Kaplan, head of a capital investment fund and vice-chairman of NBA franchise Memphis Grizzlies, lead a consortium which has bought a controlling stake of 60% in the club. Donovan, who was on loan at Premier League side Everton in 2010 and 2012, is his country's record goalscorer and the second most capped United States international. The former LA Galaxy and San Jose Earthquakes forward also had spells in the Germany Bundesliga with Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich.

Summary: Former United States captain Landon Donovan is to be part of the American investment group taking over Premier League club Swansea City.


Robert Lainsbury, 22, originally from Kidderminster, Worcestershire and Dwayne Edgar, 29 from Llanedeyrn, Cardiff, appeared before Cardiff Crown Court on Monday. They are charged with the murder of Lynford Brewster, who died from stab wounds in the Llanedeyrn area of Cardiff in June. The pair will next appear in court on 28 October.

Summary: Two men have pleaded not guilty to the murder of a 29-year-old man in Cardiff.


Malcolm William David Tinsley, 26, from St Helens, Merseyside, fell from the mountain's Pyg track on Monday evening. His body was recovered by Llanberis mountain rescue volunteers. The coroner for north west Wales launched an investigation into his death on Friday. Mr Tinsley was the second person in three days to have died on the Snowdonia mountain range after a man fell to his death on nearby Tryfan.

Summary: A man who died after falling more than 70m on Snowdon has been named.


The academy, in Africa's biggest city, is the first of its kind on the continent. It is modelled on Barcelona's flagship La Masia Academy in Spain which has produced stars such as Andres Iniesta, Lionel Messi and Xavi. Officially known as FCBEscola Lagos, the school is temporarily located at the multi-sports Teslim Balogun Stadium Complex in the sprawling Surulere suburb. A bright banner of the Spanish midfielder Iniesta greets you as you enter the main gate. Inside an assortment of big pictures of Barcelona star players Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar can be seen amongst commercial advertising boards. Imalashe Sulyman "Football is not only for boys...I want to become one of the famous football players and be as good as Messi" Children aged between five and 18 years old file into the stadium to get a football education the Barcelona way. About 400 fee-paying children are currently enrolled at the school, which costs $600 (Â£478) a year. They attend training sessions at the academy about once a week and all of them harbour hopes of making it to the big time at Barcelona's prestigious La Masia Academy in Spain. Among them is Imalashe Sulyman from Yaba in Lagos. She is one of just three girls at the academy. "I like being here because it is very friendly and fun to play," she says. "It doesn't bother me because football is not only for boys, it's for everyone to play. You shouldn't be treated differently anyhow because you are a girl. "I want to become one of the famous football players and be as good as Messi." The Lagos academy joins a growing list of other similar Barcelona football schools across Asia, the Americas and Europe. The Catalan club uses the schools to popularise its brand and transmit the club's philosophy and values to the rest of the world. The philosophy emphasise the importance of teamwork over the individual. Among the top 10 European clubs, it is the only one with a football academy on the African continent. Other top clubs such as Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Manchester City and Juventus have so far not done the same. The academy has already started attracting children from in and outside Nigeria. "This is a Nigerian fountain that is going to sprout. Like they say about great oak trees, it starts from a little acorn and that's the acorn you are seeing right now," says Leslie Oghomienor, Barcelona's partner and the school's administrator. "We don't just have children from Nigeria here, we have some from Spain, Taiwan, India, Greece and other Asian people. "We are going to give them international exposure. We are going to Barcelona in April to play against other people so that they can see what we are doing. The world has to know there's something good coming out of Africa in Lagos, Nigeria." Bernat Gorriz, Barcelona Lagos academy's technical director "I don't know if ever we will see another player like Messi but of course we are going to teach these kids how to be like Messi" The Barcelona

Summary: One of the world's biggest and most successful clubs, Barcelona, is launching a football academy in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial hub.


But a number of Leicestershire batsmen got starts and then got out as they lost wickets at regular intervals. Debutant Callum Parkinson took 3-64 as four Leicestershire men were out in the 40s, before Eckersley's patient innings helped them rebuild. He hit seven fours as Leicestershire ended the first day on 300-7.

Summary: Ned Eckersley hit an unbeaten 73 as Leicestershire enjoyed a decent opening day with the bat against Derbyshire at Grace Road.


Bedene, 27, forced eight break points in the match, converting three to beat the world number 77 in 65 minutes. The event is Bedene's first grass-court outing after a good clay campaign took him from 94th to 52nd in the world. He will play either fourth seed Gilles Muller or Italy's Andreas Seppi next. British and world number one Andy Murray will start his grass-court campaign at the Aegon Championships at Queen's Club next week alongside national number two Kyle Edmund. Davis Cup team-mate Dan Evans withdrew from the Nottingham Open on Monday with injury and is having treatment before the start of Wimbledon on 3 July.

Summary: British number four Aljaz Bedene made the quarter-finals of the Ricoh Open tournament in the Netherlands with a comfortable 6-3 6-4 win over the United States' Ernesto Escobedo.


Scottish Swimming said the government had pulled funding from its Â£1.72m programme to support school lessons. It said it was concerned it could lead to greater numbers of adults who lacked confidence in the water. The Scottish government said the top-up scheme had ended but swimming was still well-funded. Swimming is not a compulsory part of the curriculum in Scotland, unlike in England. The provision of primary school swimming lessons varies extensively between local authorities, with children living in the most socially deprived areas having the highest number of non-swimmers. Scottish Swimming claimed that as many as 40% of children, about 15,000 each year, headed to high school as non-swimmers. Its "Top Up" swimming programme supported local authorities to deliver swimming lessons for pupils. Scottish Swimming said "Top Up" helped up to 30,000 children to improve their swimming skills. Sports Minister Jamie Hepburn said: "The Top Up programme was designed to help develop a model to enable swimming clubs and local authorities to teach children to swim by providing some initial additional investment to assist local provision. The programme received Â£1.72m over four years. "Although the top-up programme has now ended, Scottish Swimming received more than Â£5m (over four years) in the latest funding round from sportscotland. This is the largest funding settlement of all the Commonwealth Games sports." Shelagh Dow, the head teacher at Granton primary in Edinburgh, said financial pressures stopped many families from going swimming. She said the loss of the programme would have an impact. "That is going to make a huge difference for them," Ms Dow said. "Swimming is ultimately a life skill and because a lot of them don't manage to pick up the swimming with the funded lessons that they have in primary 4 they really need that top-up. Quite often financial constraints stop them going swimming at other times." Sharon Macdonald, development officer for Scottish Swimming, said: "It is very concerning for us. The programme has been in place for the past four years. "We've seen a massive impact from the programme in the region of 25,000 to 30,000 children who have either improved their swimming or become what is our new national standard for school swimming.

Summary: The end of a scheme to improve the standard of swimming among primary school children has brought a warning from the sport's governing body.


McClaren, under pressure with the Magpies 19th in the Premier League, took training as scheduled on Tuesday. The board - minus the ex-England boss - met away from Tyneside on Monday. Newcastle are in danger of a second relegation in seven years after five defeats in six league games, including Saturday's 3-1 loss to Bournemouth. On Monday, managing director Lee Charnley, chief scout Graham Carr and club ambassador Bob Moncur discussed possible ways forward with 10 games of the season remaining. McClaren took over in the summer after leaving Championship side Derby but has only won six of his 28 top-flight matches in charge. Former club owner Sir John Hall claimed the 54-year-old should be sacked, while Alan Shearer, Newcastle's record goalscorer, has described the club as a "mess from top to bottom." The NUFC Fans' Forum - a representative body of supporters' groups - has called for action to be taken in an open letter to the club's hierarchy.

Summary: Steve McClaren remains in charge of Newcastle United, with a board decision on his St James' Park future expected in the next 48 hours.


With 196 teams left in the competition, non-league clubs up and down the country will look to continue their journey on the road to Wembley in the third qualifying round - and they are just two wins away from a potential televised first-round match against a Football League club. From a taxi driver who once outshone Wayne Rooney to a double hat-trick scoring 37-year-old and the son of a Champions League winner, BBC Sport takes a look at some of those aiming to keep their hopes of FA Cup glory alive. As Wayne Rooney prepares for England's Euro 2016 qualifier against Estonia on Sunday, Stefan Moore, a player once regarded as highly as the Manchester United striker, will be in FA Cup third qualifying round action for Conference North side Leamington, who host local rivals Worcester City. Moore, 31, played in the Premier League for Aston Villa and also turned out for Queens Park Rangers and Leicester City, but dropped into non-league football five years ago. Also the owner of a taxi firm, it is perhaps not the life Moore envisaged when he upstaged Rooney in the 2002 FA Youth Cup final between Villa and Everton. "You get a lot of negative articles about him being a taxi driver, but they always fail to mention that he owns the company," says Leamington boss Paul Holleran. "He is an excellent pro on and off the pitch. He is someone the players look up to, he is someone the fans enjoy watching and speaking to. "Probably the reason he dropped down the ladder as quick as he did is because he loves playing football. He didn't want to be in the reserves, he didn't want to be on the bench. He just loves to play." If ever there was proof that age is just a number, then Iyseden Christie's exploits in the FA Cup recently is it. The former Mansfield Town and Leyton Orient striker, who turns 38 next month, hit a double hat-trick for Halesowen Town - who play in the eighth tier of English football - in a 7-1 win against Ellistown & Ibstock United to secure his team's place in this weekend's third qualifying round. "Everything that came my way ended up going in," Christie says. "I scored with my head, left foot and right foot, so it was the perfect hat-trick, except it happened twice!" Christie's goal-scoring feat is reminiscent of George Best grabbing six in a FA Cup fifth-round win for Manchester United against Northampton 44 years ago. "Iyseden had scored three by half-time and when he went into the dressing room he looked at me and said 'don't take me off boss'," says Halesowen Town manager John Hill. "At that stage I reckon he was thinking about a double hat-trick. "It is good because it is special for him, and it has brought some great publicity to the club. "Every now and then people just need a reminder of how great the competition is and Iyseden scoring six goals at 37 does that." Media playback is not supported

Summary: A World Cup winner, the oldest club in world football and a team named after a country are just three of the 540 sides to have exited the FA Cup since qualifying got under way in August.


The Netherlands paceman led the way with his four-wicket haul. Surrey slumped to 93 all out with only the Curran brothers, Sam and Tom, reaching 20. Craig Meschede and Dean Cosker claimed two wickets apiece as Surrey fell apart and Glamorgan strolled to an eight-wicket win with 46 balls to spare. Glamorgan's new opener David Lloyd hit 31 and captain Jacques Rudolph was 34 not out. Surrey chose to bat but their opening stand of 28 was the highest partnership of the innings, with seven wickets then falling for 32. They were further hindered by veteran Pakistan all-rounder Azhar Mahmood retiring hurt with a calf injury without scoring. Glamorgan's next match is also in the T20 Blast, at home to Essex on 1 June, while Surrey travel to Somerset in the Championship on 28 May. Man of the match Van der Gugten told BBC Wales Sport: "I thought as a team we bowled really well, we kept them to a low total and our batters just did the job very professionally. "A couple of wickets went my way, anyone could have taken a bagful but luckily it was my night. [South Africa pace bowler] Dale Steyn coming will strengthen our group and we're looking forward to working with him." Glamorgan captain Jacques Rudolph told BBC Wales Sport: "The last two years we've come down here we've had very good performances, as far as clinical performances that's as good as you're going to get. Our bowling was outstanding and Timm van der Gugten again was unbelievable and we backed it up well with the batting. "Surrey's top three batters can be very dangerous, I continuously tried to attack and get wickets, and it's nice to get some confidence in the dressing room. "As far as I'm aware Dale Steyn [currently in India] is very keen to play on Wednesday (against Essex), Timm van der Gugten has shown with a bit of extra pace the kind of X-factor we need in our team. With him and Dale in the same team, we can be really excited about that."

Summary: Glamorgan won for the first time since July 2015 with Timm van der Gugten taking four wickets as they thrashed Surrey in their opening T20 Blast game.


Brian Pool, a third-generation beekeeper, says he was used to working bees in the countryside where you don't hear anything except the odd bird call. When he came to zoo he was in for a big surprise. "To be working bees with the roar of lions behind your head was something fantastic and I wasn't ready for it," he says. "It's quite moving. What an experience." Mr Pool's mission is to inspire others to follow his passion for bees. He says: "It's been a tendency in the past that beekeeping was something people took up in their retirement but because of the decline in beekeeping colonies we can't wait until people retire." The average age of Scotland's beekeepers is currently in the mid-60s. And bees have other problems too. It has not been much of a summer and while we may feel a bit sun-starved, the honey bees are in danger of actually starving. At the end of last month the Scottish Beekeepers Association bee health officer issued a starvation alert due to the bad weather. It prevented bees getting out at a time when they needed a lot of food to support large nests. Parts of August have been better and that has allowed many colonies to top-up their stores but starvation is still a possibility in some places. It is estimated that there are maybe about 3,000 beekeepers in Scotland. Bees of all kinds are hugely important pollinators but they face big challenges, including the weather, pests and loss of habitat. Over the next three days, Edinburgh Zoo is holding a Bee Festival, designed to raise awareness about the issues facing them. At a behind-the-scenes part of the zoo, a handful of hives nestles among tall vegetation. The honey season is coming to an end but there are still pickings to be had from thistles and willow herbs. The zoo itself sits in 84 acres with plenty of plants around and within the bees' three-mile flying radius there is a wider city from which to choose. "You've got to be able to know what's going on with nature to work with bees, you've got to know the flowers," says Mr Pool, explaining what has been a lifelong passion. "It's great to be able to wander around the zoo and see where the bees are working, and saying to people 'this is important. Do you realise what the bees are doing here? They're gathering a crop of honey'." The beekeeper-in-residence role is part of a clutch of residencies at the zoo designed to engage different audiences in its work. "It really is incumbent upon us to put the spotlight on a number of issues that we think people should be aware of," says Kathy Sorley, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's "thinker-in-residence," who is also head of the programme. She explains that the initial number of bees which arrived on site was 120,000 but that is estimated to have risen to about 400,000. "It shows that they're very happy here and the amount of honey they're producing against quite difficult conditions

Summary: Edinburgh Zoo's beekeeper-in-residence wants to use his role to get young people interested in bees and honey.


The varsity, which has educated more US presidents than any other, will take 50.8% of its freshmen from minority groups. That compares to 47.3% last year. Asian Americans make up 22.2%, followed by African Americans at 14.6%, Hispanic or Latino students at 11.6%, and Native American or Pacific Islanders at 2.5%. The milestone figures come just days after Harvard was drawn into a row over affirmative action between the US justice department and the New York Times. On 1 August, the paper claimed the justice department was preparing to sue campuses with affirmative action admissions policies, as it feels they are biased against white applicants. It said resources from the department's civil rights division would be used for the legal action, citing an internal memo. However, the justice department insisted it had no plans to investigate whether colleges pick their entrants based on race. It said the document seen by the paper, which referred to "a new project on [...] intentional race-based discrimination" was actually about a 2015 complaint by a coalition of Asian-American groups. The complaint accused Harvard and other Ivy League colleges of using quotas that keep out Asians with high test scores. Rachael Dane, a spokesperson for Harvard, said the university was "committed to enrolling diverse classes of students". "To become leaders in our diverse society, students must have the ability to work with people from different backgrounds, life experiences, and perspectives," she said. "Harvard's admissions process considers each applicant as a whole person, and we review many factors, consistent with the legal standards established by the US Supreme Court." The Supreme Court has outlawed the use of racial quotas in college admissions, but ruled that universities can consider race as part of a "holistic review" of applicants. Roger Clegg, president of the conservative Center for Equal Opportunity and a former top official in the justice department's civil rights division, told the BBC he felt affirmative action was outdated. "I understand the visceral sense that African Americans have been treated badly in this country for a very long time, and right after we got rid of Jim Crow [segregation laws], it wasn't such a bad idea to give special consideration over someone who was a recent beneficiary of Jim Crow. But now we're in 2017. Jim Crow is long gone and we're talking about giving Latinos a preference over Asian Americans. What possible sense does that make?" he said. An alternative view comes from Brenda Shum, director of the Educational Opportunities Project at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She told the BBC that students of all colours benefited from a more diverse college experience. "...We owe it to our students to provide them with integrated learning environments that are reflective of the world in which they're living," she argued.

Summary: More than half of Harvard University's next student intake will not be white, for the first time in its 380-year history, official figures show.


A sobbing Minami Minegishi apologised to her fans and said she did not want to leave the band AKB48, in the video seen by millions on YouTube. The production company behind AKB48 said Minegishi, 20, had failed to abide by its cardinal rule - no dating. But fans have defended her, saying she is entitled to a normal life. Head shaving is a traditional form of showing contrition in Japan. Minegishi's apology came hours after a tabloid newspaper published photographs of her leaving the apartment of her boyfriend, Alan Shirahama, a dancer in a boy band. In the video posted on AKB48's official website, she said she had made the decision to shave off her long hair to show contrition for her "thoughtless and immature" actions. "I don't believe just doing this means I can be forgiven for what I did, but the first thing I thought was that I don't want to quit AKB48," she said. At times sobbing and bowing her head during the nearly four-minute-long video, she also said: "If it is possible, I wish from the bottom of my heart to stay in the band. Everything I did is entirely my fault. I am so sorry." Minegishi was one of the original members of AKB48 when it was launched by producer Yasushi Akimoto in 2005. The band is made up of some 90 girls - whose ages range from mid teens to early 20s - who, in teams, appear daily in their own theatre and regularly on television, in adverts, and in magazines. They portray an image of cuteness known as "kawaii", and have become a huge phenomenon both in Japan and increasingly in other Asian countries, correspondents say. The condition for being part of such a successful act is that the girls must not date boys, so as not to shatter their fans' illusions. AKB48's management office said Minegishi had been demoted to a trainee team as punishment "for causing a nuisance to the fans". But author and critic Hiroki Azuma said it was "disgusting" that the star felt she should resort to a traditional act of contrition when the only rules she had broken were those of her band's. Some fans and commentators say Minegishi went too far with her public apology, and that it was unnecessary. "What's the point of this public execution show? It's like something from the war or a totalitarian state," one fan said on Twitter.

Summary: A Japanese pop star has shaved her head and offered a filmed apology after breaking her management firm's rules by spending a night with her boyfriend.


The EC135 helicopter pilot was forced to manoeuvre to the right during the incident over Perthshire on 25 March. The pilot was returning to base at Perth Airport after dropping off a patient in Glasgow. A UK Airprox Board (UKAB) report said that the two aircraft came within 200m of each other. The report said that the motor-glider had been invisible to the pilot due to being obscured by the windscreen pillar. The pilot of the glider has not been traced. The report noted that "flight crew situational awareness" was assessed as "ineffective" because there was no information available to the pilot to warn him about the motor-glider. It said that as the pilot was operating in Class G or uncontrolled airspace without a collision warning system. As a consequence "see and avoid" was his "only mitigation against mid-air collision". The report said: "The fact that he was conducting his arrival checks had understandably reduced his and his crewman's capacity for robust and effective look-out. "That being said, although it was a late sighting, he did see the other aircraft in time to take avoiding action, albeit achieving less separation than would be desirable." The charity leases the EC135 helicopter and pilots from Babcock Mission Critical Services (Onshore) Ltd. Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance chief executive David Craig said: "We are currently reviewing the report and the observations and recommendations contained within it. "I am meeting with our aviation providers Babcock Mission Critical Services (Onshore) Ltd. later this week to determine what steps, if any, we should be taking in response to this incident and the report findings."

Summary: Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance had to take evasive action to avoid a collision with a glider, a report has revealed.


But there was one sport notably absent from the party - swimming. When their competition began a week earlier the British team were aiming to beat the three medals (two golds and a bronze) that they achieved in the pool in Beijing four years ago. This was backed by strong performances at last year's world championships, but Hannah Miley, Ellen Gandy, Fran Halsall and double world open water champion Keri-Anne Payne all failed to deliver on their pre-Games podium potential. Michael Jamieson claimed a stunning silver in the 200m breaststroke and Rebecca Adlington delivered two bronze medals, but the British camp had little else to celebrate. BBC Sport assesses the performances of the British team in London. When a swimmer as experienced as Adlington admits that at times she found the passionate home support "overwhelming" it's easy to imagine that other British swimmers suffered anxieties. "With home advantage we're seeing people running, jumping, shooting out of their skins - if we're finding it a problem then the management need to look at that," said Athens bronze medallist and BBC analyst Steve Parry. Media playback is not supported on this device But British Swimming performance director Michael Scott said it was not something for which they could easily prepare. "There's not a mechanism, they have never stood in front of a crowd like this before," said Scott. "We can do all the training and all of the preparation, but the first time they get to experience it is when they walk out here. "Sometimes it's broader than the crowd, it's the public expectation, but our swimmers need to learn how to cope with that." Although there were near-misses - Halsall was denied 50m bronze by 0.08 seconds, while Elizabeth Simmonds and the men's 4x100m relay team both came fourth - too many swimmers failed to achieve either their personal best or even their fastest time this season. "I'm not here to make excuses, we had hoped to get more," Scott told BBC Sport. "We have to understand the reasons why we didn't convert final positions and we need to address them going forward." I was so confident [in GB swimmers] I had a little bet with Kelly Sotherton that we'd get more medals than the athletes Put simply, medals means money and without hitting their minimum target of five, British Swimming puts itself in significant danger of a cut from the £25.1m they have received over the last four years. The £264m UK Sport divides between all Olympic sports is expected to remain the same for the Rio 2016 campaign, but with the likes of judo and canoeing performing well in London, they can expect a larger slice of the funding pie. Parry admits he is concerned. "UK Sport operate a very objective system based on your targeted medals and how many you achieve. "The fact of the matter is that there are loads of other sports that are doing extremely well and there's only one pot of a certain size." Since Beijing, British Swimming has invested heavily in five International Training Centres

Summary: It was dubbed "Super Saturday" after Great Britain enjoyed their most successful day at the Olympics for more than 100 years.


Moi Ali, who quit the board amid a row over meetings being held behind closed doors, told Holyrood's public audit committee she felt she was bullied. MSPs and the police watchdog are looking into transparency at the SPA. Current board members defended Mr Flanagan, saying there was a "changing atmosphere". The public audit committee has held a series of sessions on transparency at the authority, with one MSP, Alex Neil, decrying an apparent "secret society" within the board. He previously told Mr Flanagan that "it's not the Kremlin you're running". In the latest session, witnesses included Derek Penman, HM chief inspector of constabulary in Scotland, Ms Ali, and a group of current board members. Ms Ali left the board amid a row with Mr Flanagan over whether meetings should be held behind closed doors. She said Mr Flanagan had told her that expressing disagreement publicly was a resignation matter, and told MSPs that her "removal from the board was straightforward punishment for speaking out". She said it had been a "really horrendous experience", and said she did not believe it would have happened to her if she was a man. Asked by Labour MSP Monica Lennon if she felt Mr Flanagan was fit to continue as chairman of the SPA board, she replied: "He's not fit to continue on any public board." However, board members defended Mr Flanagan and the authority, with Iain Whyte characterising it as "an improving board and an improving organisation". And George Graham said he didn't recognise the characterisation of the board presented, saying "we are listening and we are ready to adapt our approach". He said there was a "changing atmosphere" at the SPA since Mr Flanagan took over, saying the board was "much more engaged" with "a clearer sense of purpose". And he defended having meetings behind closed doors, saying there needed to be "clear space to discuss difficult and complex issues". He said: "If we got the balance wrong and we need to do more committee work in public then we will do that. But every board needs at least some private space to make decisions and discuss some of the difficult, complex issues policing is going to face." Mr Neil clashed repeatedly with the sitting board members, describing scrutiny by non-executive directors as "wholly inadequate". He said he was not left with a lot of confidence that the members were "doing the proper job" and holding the chairman to account. However, Mr Graham replied: "There are an awful lot of good things that we do. The focus on a singular point, or failure if you want to call it that, I think is a poor characterisation of what we're doing." SNP member Mr Neil also said he wanted Mr Flanagan to come back to give evidence to the committee again over what he called a "PR disaster". In the previous session, the chairman said the authority had made "significant steps forward" over the past year.

Summary: A former Scottish Police Authority board member has claimed its chairman Andrew Flanagan is "not fit to continue on any public board".


Crews were called to the market town's High Street just before 14:30 GMT. A number of people have been evacuated from nearby properties amid concerns the car could be fuelled by Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG). A fire service spokeswoman said: "We don't get many vehicle fires involving LPG but but it is explosive so we do take precautions."

Summary: Firefighters have been tackling a car blaze in the centre of Skipton.


Maurice Weir told a court he witnessed a "bloodbath" when hounds from a local hunt club attacked the birds on his land in Loughgall, County Armagh. He sued the Countryside Alliance over the intrusion by the Kinnego Grange and Canary Hunt Club's dogs in 2009. The judge rejected defence arguments that Mr Weir had fabricated the claim. Giving evidence to the High Court in Belfast, Mr Weir described how he emerged from having lunch on 7 February, 2009 to discover "a bloodbath" on his Kinnego Road property, with dead and injured birds lying on the ground and in dogs' mouths. He said up to 15 hounds had broken into his pigeon lofts and aviaries and attacked highly sought after homing pigeons, some who could make their way back to Northern Ireland from France, He had been planning to use the birds to set up a small stud business and sought damages for the killing of his pigeons, consequential loss, the cost of repairing his aviaries and a further payout for distress and injury to feelings. His barrister claimed the hunters were negligent in failing to control their dogs. Lawyers for the Countryside Alliance claimed that no hounds from the hunt came into contact with the birds on the day in question, but the judge ruled that that Mr Weir was an honest witness whose account was corroborated by others at the scene. She ruled that the hounds had been on his property, gained entry to the lofts and aviaries and, on the balance of probabilities, killed the pigeons. She awarded him £59,580 in damages and £2,500 for distress and injury to feelings. "To these figures will be added the appropriate interest on general and special damages together with costs," the judge ruled. The Countryside Alliance has six weeks to decide if it wants to appeal the verdict.

Summary: A pigeon fancier who lost 59 racing pigeons after hunting dogs strayed onto his property and killed the birds is to receive more than £60,000 in damages.


The men stole money from the TSB bank on Dunearn Drive on 29 January before escaping on bicycles. The six-minute film shows them pointing what appears to be a handgun at staff before filling green bags with cash. Officers have appealed for information about the two men, at least one of whom is believed to be Eastern European. Staff were threatened by the men with the gun and a crowbar, which can also be seen in the footage. No-one was injured in the raid. After leaving the bank at about 10:40, the two men cycled off along Alford Avenue and were spotted a short time later on Cawdor Crescent. Both were white, roughly 30 years old and were wearing dark-coloured baseball caps. One suspect, who was about 5ft 9in (1.75m) tall, was wearing dark blue jogging bottoms with a distinctive white logo, which police have established is that of Mordex, a Polish brand associated with bodybuilding. Det Insp Colin Robson, who is leading the investigation, said he hoped the footage could jog the memory of people in the area. He said: "I can reassure the local community that we're working tirelessly to track down these men and will exhaust all avenues of inquiry. "While the answer to their identity remains unknown, it may lie in the local community and I would urge anyone who views this footage, which is being shared nationally, and who recognises them or their description to contact police immediately."

Summary: Police have released the full CCTV film from a Kirkcaldy bank which was held up by two armed men in January.


Two years ago, that border comprised two parallel dirt tracks, one on the Bulgarian, one on the Turkish side. Now a razor-wire fence, 1.5m (5ft) thick, welcomes would-be migrants. Thirty kilometres is already completed, while 100km more remains under construction. "The purpose of the fence," says Philip Gunev, deputy interior minister, "is to divert flows of migrants towards border crossing points where our limited financial resources allow us to protect European borders in a more efficient way". Such official checkpoints, he insists, are safer for asylum seekers than trudging long distances, often with small children, over the rough, hilly terrain the fence now cuts across. Fixed and mobile cameras, mounted on four-by-four vehicles, complete the picture along the whole length of the border. In the past eight years, since joining the European Union, Bulgaria has spent €300m (£215m) of mostly EU money, reinforcing this border. Another €100m is available to complete the job until 2020. Only €2m will be received for the better integration of refugees in the same period. Krassimir Kanev, director of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights advocacy groups, is unhappy with the checkpoints. "The only way to get through is to pay smugglers," he says, arguing that only the richer migrants get a chance to try. "And there's nothing safe about being cramped in the hidden compartment of a truck in the heat of summer." About one third of Bulgaria's migrants are caught on the border with Turkey, another third as they head north or west inside Bulgaria, and the rest on the Serbian or Romanian borders, as they try to continue their journey towards Hungary on their way to Germany. Bulgaria has one of the highest rates of granting refugee status in the EU. Refugee status means they also receive a Convention Travel Document (CTD) and under the 1951 Refugee Convention they can travel on to anywhere in the EU and stay for up to 90 days. In practice, few ever come back, travelling to Germany or elsewhere. At the Harmanli refugee camp in south-eastern Bulgaria, two police buses bring more asylum seekers. Children wave happily, adults look more concerned. Conditions here are much better than they were in 2013, when overcrowding, appalling sanitary conditions, and the alleged cruelty of guards gave Bulgaria a bad name. Some asylum seekers still express frustration at delays with their applications. A group of men hold up a snake they killed in the camp the day before. But most acknowledge a big improvement in conditions for the 1,600 refugees here. Bulgaria is facing growing pressure from Western governments to identify exactly who they do let in. Ninety percent arrive with no documents whatsoever because they were taken by the smugglers who brought them this far. In an upstairs room at Harmanli, officers from the Bulgarian intelligence services cross-examine the refugees, most of whom are Syrian Kurds. While Harmanli is an open camp, those deemed suspect are taken to a prison at Busmantsi, near Sofia, where they can be detained for up to a year, while more investigations are carried out.

Summary: In the control room of the Bulgarian border police at Elhovo, set back from the country's 270km (165 mile) long border with Turkey, officers control banks of CCTV screens.


The 22-year-old former Bristol City trainee has scored four goals in 29 appearances for Gareth Ainsworth's Chairboys this campaign. He joins a Latics side currently 23rd in League One. "Aaron's been unhappy of late because he hasn't been able to force his way into the team, so this move is best for all parties," said Ainsworth.

Summary: Oldham have signed striker Aaron Amadi-Holloway on loan from League Two side Wycombe for the rest of the season.


Wildlife photographer Steve Trewhella shot footage of the rays earlier in August, confirming the site is a nursery for the endangered species. Marine awareness officer Julie Hatcher said rays reproduced very slowly. Nurseries are found in only in a couple of places along the south coast. Ms Hatcher said the trust had long been aware Studland Bay was a nursery area for rays, as in autumn and winter hundreds of egg cases, known as "mermaids' purses" are found along the shore. Volunteers have been collecting the egg cases, and the majority are those of undulate rays. However, the baby rays have not been photographed for a number of years: they are so well camouflaged, it is very difficult to spot them. Ms Hatcher said: "They are a very beautiful animal. "They have fantastic markings which looks a bit like Aboriginal art." The nursery is particularly important because rays only lay a few eggs which take a long time to hatch, and take a couple of years to reach maturity, making the species very vulnerable to over-fishing. Commercial fishing of undulate rays is prohibited, but they can be caught legally by recreational anglers.

Summary: Dorset Wildlife Trust says new footage of endangered undulate rays in Studland Bay is "exciting", and could add weight to its campaign to have it made a marine conservation area.


Sierra Leone and Guinea both recorded the lowest weekly total of confirmed Ebola cases since August. Liberia, which reported no new cases on two days last week, had its lowest weekly total since June. The death toll from the world's worst Ebola outbreak has reached 8,429 with 21,296 cases so far. According to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) report, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone now all have sufficient capacity to bury all the people known to have died from Ebola. But it said under-reporting of deaths meant that not all burials were being done safely. While cases were decreasing in Sierra Leone, it remained the worst-affected country, with western areas still reporting the most new transmissions, the WHO said. Last week, there were 59 new reported cases in the capital, Freetown. The spirit of Freetown seems to be back with residents in the capital celebrating, albeit quietly, the low Ebola infection figures. For over a week the reported daily infections have been in single figures and on Tuesday there were only two deaths. Like Premier League football fans, people converge at internet cafes and street corners to follow the daily updates. The usually grim faces are now grinning. The ubiquitous blaring of ambulance sirens has also reduced considerably. In fact, the national daily infection rate is around 20 - in November it was 60. "Ebola is in trouble," says Ahmed Turay, a teenager who has not been to classes since July. "I look forward to returning to school," he says, smiling broadly. The eastern district of Kailahun, which first recorded Ebola eight months ago, has had no cases for 35 days and the other former hotspot of Kenema has had only four cases since November. But the authorities are warning all to exercise caution, insisting Ebola is still here. Meanwhile, in Guinea it has been announced that schools and universities are to reopen next Monday after a five-month closure because of Ebola. The BBC's Alhassan Sillah in Guinea says the authorities there are also stepping up Ebola information campaigns as in some areas people are still suspicious of official attempts to fight the disease. Over the weekend, two policemen were killed by villagers who feared they had brought Ebola to the western district of Forecariah. Earlier this month, the outgoing head of the UN team fighting Ebola, Anthony Banbury, said he believed cases of the virus would be brought down to zero by the end of 2015. Ebola basics: What you need to know

Summary: New Ebola cases in the three West African countries worst affected by the deadly outbreak of the virus are declining, weekly UN figures show.


Doctors said Oshin Kiszko should undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy to treat his malignant brain tumour. But his parents, Angela Kiszko and Adrian Strachan, refused treatment because of the severe side effects. After a court decided in March that Oshin had to receive chemotherapy, a judge in September ruled he could be given palliative care. The Perth boy died early on Wednesday morning, his mother confirmed to local media. "My love Oshin took his last breaths peacefully as I lay cuddling him at 2am," Ms Kiszko told Seven News. "Oshin's journey has been extraordinarily traumatising for him and I am grateful he no longer needs to suffer through this nightmare." The legal fight began after Oshin underwent brain surgery at Perth's Princess Margaret Hospital in December 2015. Doctors recommended follow-up chemotherapy and radiotherapy, but Oshin's parents believed the side effects would ruin his quality of life. "I thought I could not put myself through it. Why could I put my son through it?" Ms Kiszko told Nine's 60 Minutes programme in April. Doctors took the matter to the West Australian Family Court, which ruled in March that Oshin must undergo chemotherapy. At a hearing in May, the court heard evidence that the boy would have at least a 30% chance of survival if he received both chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The matter was adjourned when Ms Kiszko and Mr Strachan committed to continuing chemotherapy only. In September, a judge ruled Oshin's cancer was so advanced he could be given palliative care. A court statement at the time said "specialist medical opinion confirmed that the delay in therapy had substantially reduced Oshin's chances of a cure, which are now remote".

Summary: A six-year-old boy whose cancer diagnosis sparked a high-profile legal battle in Australia has died.


Police say it was a suicide attack on a foreign military convoy which was travelling through the area. A health ministry official said nine Afghans were among the dead. A senior Nato official confirmed that three American contractors had been killed in the attack in the Macrorayan district. No group has said it carried out the attack, although in recent months Kabul has been regularly targeted by the Taliban in a series of bombings. The explosion took place not far from Kabul airport and the presidential palace. Witnesses said that children were among the injured and some foreigners were trapped in a destroyed vehicle. An interior ministry spokesman quoted by the AP news agency said the blast destroyed more than a dozen civilian vehicles. The bombing, close to a civilian hospital, is the latest in a series of recent deadly attacks following the announcement of a new Taliban leader. Earlier this month, a Taliban suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near the entrance to the international airport in Kabul, killing five people. Before that, there were three deadly attacks in the city - on a police academy, a Nato base and an Afghan army base that killed at least 50 people. The Taliban has stepped up its campaign of violence in recent months, taking advantage of the warmer weather of spring and summer. It has made some military gains, especially in northern Afghanistan.

Summary: An explosion has rocked the diplomatic area of the Afghan capital, Kabul, police have said, with at least 12 people killed and 60 injured.


Hussain, who won 2015's Great British Bake Off, will judge alongside chef and food writer Allegra McEvedy. CBBC's Junior Bake Off sees 40 youngsters aged nine to 12 competing for the title. Hussain said: "This time last year I was in the Bake Off tent and now I get to go back and help encourage the next generation to get their bake on." The contestants will each complete two bakes over 10 heats, including a technical bake and showstopper challenge, with four youngsters in the grand final. The CBBC show's previous judges have included Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood, James Martin and Graham Hornigold. Hussain, 31, has built a career since winning Bake Off which includes her first cook book, a column for The Times and a request from Buckingham Palace to make a cake for the Queen's 90th birthday. She will also present The Chronicles of Nadiya, a TV show tracing her culinary roots in Bangladesh. She won last year's final on BBC One after baking a "big fat British wedding cake" adorned with jewels from her own wedding day as the showstopper. It became the most-watched TV programme of the year with an average audience of 15.1 million people, according to consolidated figures, which include catch-up viewing. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

Summary: Former Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has said she is "excited" to be joining the show's junior version as a judge.


A hexacopter hovers 40m or more above the ocean, kitted out with a high-resolution camera to record valuable images of these huge beasts. Researchers can use these pictures to count the whales, but also to study their health and their behaviour. This will allow a thorough survey of the gray whales living off California. "We can't put a gray whale on a scale, but we can use aerial images to analyze their body condition - basically, how fat or skinny they are," said John Durban, a marine mammal biologist at Noaa Fisheries. Gray whales reach up to 15m in length and can live for more than 50 years. The amount of fat that they carry is crucial - especially for a mother nursing a calf. This is because the beasts don't eat during the long months they spend migrating. So they need a healthy stock of blubber if they are to reach their summer feeding grounds in the Arctic. Studying the animals from the air allows Dr Durban and his colleagues to compare their size, between different animals but also over time. "By studying the body condition of females, we hope to connect the dots between conditions in the Arctic one year and calf production the next," he explained. "Ultimately, we're trying to understand how environmental conditions affect the reproductive success of the population." These whale were hunted nearly to extinction but after legal protection was introduced in the second half of the 20th Century, they recovered. In 1994, the Pacific population of gray whales officially came off the US endangered species list. This makes them a valuable subject for research - since most other large whales are still threatened or endangered, there are very few opportunities to see how larger populations interact with each other and their environment. "With gray whales, we're just beginning to understand what a recovered population of large whales looks like," said Dr Durban. The team has also used drones to look at killer whales off the coast of British Columbia, in Canada. The height of the hexacopter is a key concern, because whales and other marine species are sensitive to disturbances in their environment. So the contraption is fitted with a precise altimeter to monitor how high it is. That helps with analysing the pictures, but also means it can keep a safe distance. The researchers keep their drone at least 40m above the water, and flying at that height requires a special research permit. For amateur drone or wildlife enthusiasts, regulations require a minimum distance of at least 300m.

Summary: Instead of standing on the shore with binoculars, scientists are turning to drones to monitor wild populations of whales off the US coast.


Media playback is not supported on this device Competitive video gaming generated £400m in revenue in 2016, has a global audience of about 320 million, and will be included in the 2022 Asian Games. "We have to look at it because we can't say, 'it's not about Olympics,'" Paris 2024 co-president Tony Estanguet said. "The youth are interested, so let's meet them," he told the AP news agency. "I think it's interesting to interact with the IOC and the esports family to better understand what the process is and why it is such a success. "There is some time to look at it, to interact, to engage. I don't want to say 'no' from the beginning." Media playback is not supported on this device Paris' hosting of the 2024 Games - and Los Angeles' in 2028 - is set to be officially ratified at an IOC congress in Lima, Peru in September. The 2024 programme will start to be shaped in 2019, and a decision on what sports are to be added in Paris will be taken after the 2020 Games in Tokyo. "We will spend some time after Lima to engage with new people and stakeholders," Estanguet said. "The IOC will have the last say if they want esports on the programme. Let's discuss among ourselves."

Summary: Esports could be added to the Olympic Games programme in 2024, with the Paris bid team keen to discuss the issue with the International Olympic Committee.


Prof Wendy Savage told the Mail on Sunday that withholding the information because of fears over sex-selective abortions was "outrageous". Some hospitals have a policy not to reveal the sex, but Professor Savage said it was a woman's right to know. She also said it was a "woman's right to decide" when to ask for an abortion. Speaking after MPs voted to introduce a bill to repeal an 1861 law criminalising abortion this week, she told the Mail on Sunday: "It's her body and her foetus, so she should have that information. Parents who want to find out the sex of their foetus can usually do so in a mid-term scan at about 20 weeks but some hospitals have a policy of not telling, according to the NHS Choices website. Some hospitals say they are too short-staffed to establish the sex and there have been concerns that the scans can sometimes be inaccurate. But experts have also claimed that the policies may be intended to prevent the risk of selective abortions. "She is the one taking the risks. "If a woman does not want to have a foetus who is one sex or the other, forcing her is not going to be good for the eventual child, and it's not going to be good for (the mother's) mental health," she added. Professor Savage, 81, a retired obstetrician and gynaecologist and a member of the British Medical Association's (BMA's) ethics committee, was speaking to the paper in a personal capacity. Under the 1967 Abortion Act in England, Scotland and Wales, a pregnancy can be aborted before 24 weeks if two doctors approve it. The law does not apply in Northern Ireland, where abortion legislation is based on the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. The majority of abortions in England Scotland and Wales take place before 24 weeks, and are allowed in exceptional circumstances after that time. More than 90% take place at 13 weeks or earlier, according to the BMA. Prof Savage added: "The foetus is a potential human life at that stage (in the womb); it is not an actual human life... I think you've got to concentrate on the (rights of the) woman." Prof Savage said in her long career she had "only a couple of cases" of being asked to approve an abortion past 24 weeks. "It's not something women tend to do," she said. "This is another myth propagated by the anti-abortion lobby, like women wanting sex selection." She also advocated making abortion pills, for early termination, available over the internet, without it being mandatory to consult an expert. MPs last week voted in favour of progressing the Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Bill. It would remove criminal sanctions over abortion for women and doctors in England and Wales. A spokesman for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children said although the comments came in a personal capacity they were in the context of the "BMA's exploration of further abortion liberalisation". And, he said, in light of a recent Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists event presenting

Summary: Women should be told the sex of the foetus when they are scanned during pregnancy, a senior, retired obstetrician has said.


Stargazers and photographers around the world have captured some stunning images of the spectacle in recent days. Here is a selection of their images: The Northern Lights are caused by the interaction of the solar wind - a stream of charged particles escaping the Sun - and our planet's magnetic field and atmosphere. Find out more about the Northern Lights. The lights themselves are often visible in Scandinavian countries, but also in northern parts of the US and Canada. The Northern Lights were also seen off the coast of Norfolk, England too. Thanks to Ben Gadsby-Williams for this time-lapse video. Thank you for sharing your pictures with us. You can email your pictures and video to yourpics@bbc.co.uk or upload them here. Compiled by Rozina Sini

Summary: The Aurora Borealis also know as the Northern Lights have been making an appearance across parts of the UK.


The resignations of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, newly-appointed Prime Minister Khaled Bahah, and the entire cabinet were quickly followed by reports that the parliament had rejected their requests. Given Yemen's mercurial political playing field, another new configuration could be just around the corner. The tension from four days of fighting and negotiation between the rebels and Yemeni security forces seemed to have reached a resting point, with President Hadi and Houthi leaders reaching an agreement on Wednesday. That agreement essentially saw Mr Hadi capitulate to rebels' demands in exchange for a ceasefire, release of a kidnapped presidential adviser, and the withdrawal of rebel forces from some key positions in Sanaa. Yet a day later, the presidential adviser had not been released and rebels still surrounded the presidential palace and Mr Hadi's private residence. Judging from their mass resignation, Mr Hadi and his government decided that operating under the rebels' thumb was untenable and found little reason to believe the Houthis would ever fulfil their end of the bargain. Either they have given up entirely, or they are now playing their strongest card. The Zaidi Shia movement, whose traditional stronghold is the northern province of Saada, led massive anti-government rallies over the summer and then suddenly infiltrated the capital with its heavily-armed militia and tribal supporters, taking de-facto control Sanaa by mid-September. The government, political parties, and the Houthi movement signed the Peace and National Partnership Agreement (PNPA) on 21 September, but it has largely gone unimplemented. Over the past year, Houthi leaders rightly concluded that they can use military might to change the political map and balance of power in their favour. The true extent of Houthi ambition is unclear; but the fact that they did not kick Mr Hadi out of the presidency or claim the premiership indicates they prefer to control from behind the scenes by placing their members in ministries and high-level government positions. This allows them to consolidate power, but without being saddled with ultimate responsibility. But the resignations of Mr Hadi and Mr Bahah now turn the table on their strategy. Sadly, the rebels' tactics affirm the power of the gun over the power of persuasion, and it marks a massive setback for the democratic transition process that began in 2011 with a youth-led uprising against longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a new government, and a successful National Dialogue Conference that produced agreement on the country's most pressing problems. The Houthis were included in the 10-month national dialogue process, and their representatives actually participated quite constructively in the working groups. But they were ultimately unhappy with the agreement of a six-state federal system they perceived would erode their power and autonomy. Since they did not win that fight politically, Houthi fighters set out to change the facts on the ground. They systematically pushed into new territory, aggressively picking fights with tribal militia, government forces, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) militants, and established some degree of control in at least nine of Yemen's 22 provinces. The latest conflagration in Sanaa was prompted by the newly-drafted constitution,

Summary: Less than 48 hours had passed after the latest agreement between the Houthi rebel movement and the Yemeni government, and the ground had shifted once again.


28 March 2016 Last updated at 14:18 BST Two motorists captured this footage of the koala taking a casual stroll along the road, stopping all the traffic. Watch the video of the police helping it to safety.

Summary: A koala has received a police escort to save it from being injured, after it wandered onto a busy road in Brisbane, Australia.


AFC Wimbledon were formed in 2002 by Wimbledon FC supporters dismayed by the Football Association's decision to allow their club to move to Milton Keynes. And the reformed club did not acknowledge the 'Dons' part of their opponents' name in the pre-match programme for Tuesday's League Two game between the two sides. This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser After a tense first half, Jake Reeves struck just after the hour mark before Lyle Taylor added a quick-fire second to record AFC Wimbledon's first league victory over the Dons. The hosts impressed in the first half, but had James Shea to thank on the half hour as he produced a brilliant save to tip away Harvey Barnes' curling effort from the left with Robbie Muirhead lurking. Neal Ardley's side then made the breakthrough on the hour with midfielder Reeves finding the net from close range as Andy Barcham headed Taylor's deep cross into his path. Taylor gave his side a two-goal cushion six minutes later as he latched onto a quick throw from the right before arrowing an unstoppable drive beyond David Martin. The visitors almost reduced the deficit moments later but Shea once again produced a smart reflex save to stop Kieran Agard's effort from creeping in at his near post. Match ends, AFC Wimbledon 2, MK Dons 0. Second Half ends, AFC Wimbledon 2, MK Dons 0. Foul by Tyrone Barnett (AFC Wimbledon). Ben Tilney (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the right wing. Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Ben Tilney. Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Tyrone Barnett replaces Tom Elliott. Stuart O'Keefe (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Attempt missed. Dominic Poleon (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Foul by Jonathan Meades (AFC Wimbledon). Ben Reeves (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Darren Potter. Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by George B Williams. George B Williams (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Andy Barcham (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by George B Williams (MK Dons). Attempt missed. Nicky Maynard (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Darius Charles. Attempt blocked. Ben Reeves (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Sean Kelly (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Nicky Maynard (MK Dons). Substitution, MK Dons. Nicky Maynard replaces Ed Upson. Ed Upson (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Dominic Poleon replaces Lyle Taylor. Dean Parrett (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Joe Walsh (MK Dons). Foul by Andy Barcham (AFC Wimbledon). Ed Upson (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Ben Tilney. Attempt missed. Stuart O'Keefe (MK Dons) right footed shot from

Summary: AFC Wimbledon claimed a historic victory on Tuesday as MK Dons' first visit to Kingsmeadow ended in defeat.


The protesters were also angered by CY Leung's recent comments, where he argued that poorer residents should not be given too much political influence. Pro-democracy protesters have been on Hong Kong's streets for three weeks, paralysing some key roads. Activists and government officials held talks for the first time on Tuesday. However, the first round of talks showed little signs of ending the impasse. Correspondents say about 200 protesters marched to Mr Leung's official residence, Government House, on Wednesday. Many were angered by Mr Leung's comments in an interview on Monday, where he said fully democratic elections would lead to populist policies, as poorer residents would have a dominant voice in politics. "If it's entirely a numbers game and numeric representation, then obviously you would be talking to half of the people in Hong Kong who earn less than $1,800 (Â£1,110) a month," he said. These startlingly frank remarks have not gone down well with many demonstrators, who see it as proof that the political system is rigged on behalf of the rich, the BBC's Juliana Liu in Hong Kong reports. It tallies with the narrative of the city as a place where the gap between rich and poor - which is one of the highest in Asia - is rising, our correspondent adds. On Wednesday, the government issued a statement saying that Mr Leung was required to "take into account the needs of all sectors with equal importance... instead of just the needs of the largest community". It added that he attached "great importance to the livelihood of the grassroots". The pro-democracy demonstrators are angered by a Chinese government ruling that said all candidates for Hong Kong's 2017 chief executive elections must be vetted by a nominating committee dominated by pro-Beijing groups. They have described this as a "fake democracy". The protests, known as the Occupy Central movement, drew tens of thousands to the streets at their peak. Numbers have dwindled since then, but hundreds remained at protest camps in the districts of Mong Kok, Admiralty and Causeway Bay. Local businesses and residents have criticised the disruption caused by the protests. On Wednesday, there were brief scuffles as a group of men tried to dismantle the barricades set up by protesters in Mong Kok, prompting the police to separate the two sides. A poll has suggested that public opinion on Occupy Central is split, with 38% supporting the protests, and 36% opposed, local media report (in Chinese). On Tuesday, government representatives met student leaders who were representing the protests for two hours of televised talks. Government negotiators said the protesters' demands were impossible, while student activists accused the government of being "vague". Hong Kong's Chief Secretary Carrie Lam told the students that the government would send a report to Chinese government officials reflecting the protesters' views, and set up a platform to facilitate dialogue on future constitutional changes. However, she stressed that Hong Kong could not "decide on its own its political development" because it was a special administrative region within China. The student leaders, meanwhile, argued that the public should

Summary: Pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong have marched to the residence of the territory's leader, criticising his stance on democratic reform.