Doctors had said Ontlametse Phalatse would not make it past the age of 14. President Jacob Zuma was among those who conveyed their condolences to the family of "the special child of South Africa". She was known as the "First Lady" by her friends and family. Local broadcaster Enca called her the country's "champion of positivity". Africa Live: More updates on this and other stories In a tribute her family wrote: "We will miss you sorely, Tsontso, our first lady. May you find eternal peace among the angels. Rest in Peace". She called herself the first lady because she was the first black woman in South Africa to be diagnosed with progeria. Ontlametse loved life, lived it to the full, and never wished that she was born in any other way. This is what South Africans will remember her for. She rose to prominence a few years ago when a documentary was made of her life. Ms Phalatse used her new-found fame to motivate people to get on with their lives. In the process, she touched the hearts of many South Africans. The country got to share in some of her special moments and milestones - her 16th birthday, a school graduation ball and more recently her 18th birthday party spent with President Jacob Zuma. Ontlametse died surrounded by her family, who described her as having a "courageous spirit". Her legacy at 18 is not taking life's precious moments for granted. President Zuma led a minute's silence for Ms Phalatse on his 75th birthday and said he had planned to give her a car. "A brave young fighter has fallen. May her spirit inspire all others living with disabilities or facing any difficulty, to soldier on as she did and live life to the fullest. We are really proud of her," he said in a statement. Sources: Medical News Today, US National Library of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Summary: A woman who captured the hearts of many South Africans for her brave battle against premature aging disorder progeria has died aged 18.


The men, from 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, were on duty on Tuesday morning in Nahr-e Saraj, Helmand province, when the Afghan opened fire. One is believed to be a Nepalese Gurkha and the other two were UK nationals. Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the "appalling" killings, but said UK and Afghan troops should work together. The Taliban has claimed the Afghan soldier had joined its insurgency. An investigation is under way and next of kin have been informed. Meanwhile, in a separate incident a Royal Marine from 40 Commando was killed in Helmand, the MoD said. Family have been told. He was shot dead on Tuesday while on foot patrol in the Sangin district. The number of British military personnel killed on operations in Afghanistan since 2001 now stands at 318. Mr Cameron said the current strategy of working alongside local security forces should go on. "It is absolutely essential that we don't let this terrible incident change our strategy. It is the right thing to do to build up the Afghan national army," he said. He went on: "We need to make sure that we build up that army because that, in the end, is the way that we are going to be able to bring our troops back home." Similarly, Defence Secretary Liam Fox said: "Training and developing the Afghan National Security Forces is vital to the international mission in Afghanistan and today's events will not undermine the real progress we continue to make. British and Isaf forces are working shoulder to shoulder with Afghans and will continue to do so undeterred." Afghan President Hamid Karzai has apologised to the UK after the incident and a defence ministry spokesman said a soldier from the Afghan National Army (ANA) was being sought. By Jonathan BealeDefence correspondent, BBC News This is not the first time this kind of incident has happened. Last November a member of the Afghan National Police opened fire on British soldiers he was serving alongside. He killed five and seriously injured half a dozen others. But the Ministry of Defence is anxious to highlight how rare these kinds of incidents are. Since 2006, British forces have trained 130,000 Afghan troops. Some 5,000 of the 10,000 British servicemen currently deployed in Afghanistan are working alongside members of the Afghan Security forces day in and day out. The training and mentoring of Afghanistan's army and police is essential to the goal of eventually leaving an Afghanistan capable of looking after its own security. That is why Liam Fox is stressing that, despite this tragedy, British forces will "continue to work shoulder to shoulder with the Afghans" and will not be deterred. Royal Marine dies in Afghanistan Mr Cameron said he spoke to President Karzai on Tuesday morning and both men agreed that an urgent investigation was required. President Karzai's spokesman, Waheed Omar, said the Afghanistan government was also investigating the killings and the government would "do everything to ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice". The BBC understands that one of the soldiers killed was shot and the

Summary: Three British soldiers have been killed and four injured by a renegade Afghan soldier in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.


Hewlett died at the age of 58 last month, having shared his experience of coping with cancer on BBC Radio 4. He was told of the honour in January, saying he was "touched" by the accolade. Awards chair Stewart Purvis said he had "achieved so much". A scholarship has been launched in his name to help students from lower income families studying broadcast journalism. One recipient each year will be presented with the Steve Hewlett Scholarship, which has been set up by the RTS and The Media Society. As well as a financial contribution to their studies, the recipient will be mentored by RTS members and former colleagues of Hewlett. Hewlett's sons collected the judges' award on his behalf. The Media Show presenter and Guardian journalist married his partner Rachel Crellin earlier in February, after being told he did not have long to live. Hewlett had spoken movingly about his cancer journey on the PM programme with Eddie Mair, who announced his death on the show on 20 February. Purvis said: "The panel chose a winner who achieved so much on screen and off screen, over the course of his career and very particularly in the past year. "I phoned the winner and that's how I got to tell Steve Hewlett that he had won the judges' award. Steve told me he was honoured and touched to have won. He looked forward to receiving it on 1 March. "I don't think there has ever been anybody in broadcasting quite like Steve Hewlett. And probably never will be again." RTS Television Journalism Awards winners Full list of winners Two of the awards went to Syrian film-maker Waad al-Kateab, who was granted a visa by the Foreign Office to travel to the UK after leaving her home country. She won the young talent of the year award and was named camera operator of the year, the first time that award has been given to a woman. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

Summary: Broadcaster Steve Hewlett has posthumously been given a top honour at the Royal Television Society awards.


Lorraine Kirkwood, 37, was last seen with a man as they got on to a bus in the East Dunbartonshire town. Police had appealed for other passengers to contact them.

Summary: A Kirkintilloch woman reported missing, after last being seen on Saturday night, has been found safe and well.


Media playback is unsupported on your device 30 January 2015 Last updated at 11:48 GMT But visitors to Niagara Falls in North America got a shock when they saw adventurer Will Gadd climbing UP a frozen section. Niagara Falls is actually a collection of three waterfalls - he made it up an icy part of Horseshoe Falls, the biggest one. Will said: "I've been ice climbing for 30 years now and this is the coolest thing I've ever done." Watch Hayley's clip to see Will in action.

Summary: When you think of waterfalls, you tend to picture stuff going down...


The move reflects concerns from local residents and businesses about air quality, Westminster City Council said. A team of traffic marshals will patrol the borough and ask car idlers to switch off their engines, it said. The London Taxi Drivers' Association (LTDA) said the move would not help abate London's air pollution problem. The penalties will come into force on 1 May, as a "last resort". The new policy follows Camden Council's fines for buses which idle for too long, introduced in 2011, and Islington Council's fines for idling vehicles introduced in August last year. Westminster has the highest proportion of deaths attributable to air pollution, excluding the City of London, in the country, a report by the council said. An air pollution monitoring station in Oxford Street, in the borough, recorded the acceptable limit set for air pollution - 200 micrograms per cubic metre - was broken 1,503 times in 2014. A comparable station in Sutton did not break the limit at all last year. Steve McNamara, general secretary of the LTDA said the fines were "absolute tosh" and a public relations and money raising exercise from the council. He said: "It is not going to do anything constructive to tackle the pollution crisis in London. When was the last time you saw someone idling in the city? It doesn't happen. "One of the real problems is cars stuck in traffic - research has shown pollution is up by 30% in areas of heavy traffic. Do something to help get the traffic moving." Mr McNamara said another key factor was the number of diesel cars in the capital which emit greater levels of nitrogen oxides - which can cause health problems. He said the move was "ironic" considering Chancellor George Osborne's incentives to diesel vehicles which were exacerbating the problem. Neil Greig, director of policy and research at the Institute of Advanced Motorists, said the "key issue" would be how the marshals enforced the fines. He said: "If they target private car drivers pulling up for a moment in relatively clean, modern cars in a draconian way - whilst ignoring old buses, coaches, large trucks, utility company vans or taxis idling for long periods - then it will quickly be seen as yet another revenue-raising exercise."

Summary: Motorists in Westminster who sit in a stationary car with the engine running and refuse to turn it off are to be fined £20.


Plymouth-born centre-back Ellis, 28, has made just 12 appearances since joining the Cumbrians from Shrewsbury on a permanent basis last summer. It is his second spell at the New Lawn, having spent the 2009-10 season with Rovers on loan from Torquay United. The deal follows fellow defender Charlie Clough's move to Barnet for an undisclosed fee on Monday.

Summary: Carlisle United have loaned defender Mark Ellis to Forest Green Rovers for the remainder of the season.


That was just below its record performance achieved the previous year, although 2015 included a one-off gain from licensing fees. Turnover was up 14% to £447m while employee numbers were up by 12% to almost 4,000. Almac operates across the world, with more than half its staff based in Craigavon. The company said 2016 had seen "significant investment" on expanding its US HQ at Souderton, Pennsylvania. Almac also recently announced a £5m investment at its global HQ campus in Craigavon to build an additional lab and office facility. Further investment is being planned as part of its global expansion strategy and will be announced throughout the year. In January the firm bought a factory in the Republic of Ireland as a direct result of Brexit. A major part of the Craigavon-based business is making products for big drugs firms. It told a Commons committee its customers need it to have a guaranteed presence in the EU for regulatory reasons. Group chief executive Alan Armstrong said: "2016 was a very successful year for Almac as we continued to deliver upon our global expansion strategy including investment of around £31m in new facilities, equipment and resources."

Summary: Almac, the Craigavon-based pharmaceutical firm, made a pre-tax profit of almost £27m in 2016.


The service said it had a shortage of 24 staff - the equivalent of 12 ambulance crews - that could have led to delays for "less serious calls". It said support was sought from voluntary and private ambulance crews. The shortage was due to a factors including rostered leave, sickness, vacant shifts and cancelled overtime. John McPoland from the NIAS said the shortage left the service about 20% down on the usual 60 crews it expected to have in place for a Saturday night shift. He added that the staff shortage was an ongoing issue. "We are experiencing difficulty at the weekend and we have been relying on the voluntary crews and on the private ambulances," he said. "We also rely on our staff coming in and doing overtime. "We have been dealing with situations like this for quite a while now. "We're absolutely not happy about it but we will take steps to try to address it." He added that the reduced service would mostly be felt by patients "whose situation is not immediately or potentially life-threatening".

Summary: The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) has said it had to operate a reduced level of cover on Saturday night due to a shortage of staff.


Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis made his comments during a weekend TV programme. Stocks on Greece's ATG index closed 3.11% lower at 814.06. Greece still needs to strike a deal with its creditors in order to release €7.2bn (£5.1bn) in remaining assistance. "The four instalments for the IMF in June are €1.6bn, this money will not be given and is not there to be given," Mr Voutsis said. The country's finance minister meanwhile has told the BBC on Sunday that progress was being made. "Greece has made enormous strides at reaching a deal," Yanis Varoufakis told the Andrew Marr Show. Other benchmark indexes across Europe have also fallen. The IBEX closed down 2.01% to 11,322.3 after Spain's voters punished the ruling Popular Party (PP) in local and regional elections. "Sunday's losses by the ruling party are seen as a protest against the country's economic hardship, which is shown most clearly in an unemployment rate of 23% - and more than double that among young people," said BBC economics correspondent Andrew Walker. Financial markets were unsettled by the vote against an economic strategy that many investors broadly support, he added. France's Cac-40 closed down 0.5% to 5117.1, and Italy's MIB closed down 1.94% to 23,305. Stock markets in London and Germany were closed for public holidays.

Summary: European stocks have fallen after a Greek minister said that Athens would struggle to meet its upcoming debt payments.


Media playback is not supported on this device The story of how the clubs intertwine is well documented but takes its roots from 2002, when second-tier side Wimbledon were without a permanent home and deep in financial uncertainty. A consortium led by Pete Winkelman decided to take the club from south London to Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire - after having the controversial move approved by an independent commission. Since then a lot of water has passed under the bridge and neither side can agree on everything that actually happened. But what is true is that the club set up by Wimbledon supporters 14 years ago in protest to the move now finds itself in the same division as Winkelman's MK Dons. More than that, the phoenix club AFC Wimbledon are above MK Dons in the League One table ahead of their first-ever league meeting. They have played against each other in the FA Cup, League Cup and Football League Trophy - but there is something different about a league match. So BBC Sport wanted to find out what fans of both clubs feel going into Saturday's match at Stadium:MK. Media playback is not supported on this device A win could take AFC Wimbledon into the third-tier promotion places - but even a match of this importance cannot tempt some into travelling north for the game. Simon Wheeler, chairman of Wimbledon Independent Supporters' Association, has proclaimed he will never set foot in Stadium:MK, even organising boycotts for teams other than AFC Wimbledon playing in Milton Keynes between 2003 and 2006. Wheeler, who has met Winkelman on a number of occasions, is one of several AFC fans wanting MK Dons to drop the final part of their name, but insists it is up to individual fans whether or not they choose to go to the match. "Initially with the FA Cup game [the first meeting in 2012], MK were making a big thing about it and trying to build up a rivalry," he told BBC Sport. "Us Wimbledon supporters were saying it's not a rivalry; they have done a lot of damage, caused a lot of pain and done a lot wrong with the way they got their formation. "Now we are in the same league as them, we are competitive in that league and, more importantly, above them. "They are effectively having a club set up by the fans, because of the theft of Wimbledon's Football League place, sitting above them in the same league as them. It must be incredibly embarrassing." A prominent feeling among AFC Wimbledon fans is to question why Winkelman did not start with a club in non-league and, like them, work their way up. AFC began in the Combined Counties League in 2002, after trialling players on Wimbledon Common, and 14 years later find themselves in League One. "They were presented with a place in the Championship, a brand new stadium and an eight-division head start over us, all on a plate," said AFC Wimbledon season-ticket holder Chris West, another who will not be going to the game. "Catching

Summary: Two teams that need no introduction to each other are AFC Wimbledon and MK Dons.


Thousands upon thousands of local council jobs look like getting the axe due to the spending squeeze, yet 270 jobs rolling steel slabs get a task force, all hands are on deck to find a buyer, while the opposition calls for nationalisation. It's not hard to see why. Nostalgia is part of it, these being the remnants of a once great and noble industry, around which large parts of Lanarkshire was built. It's partly because Clydebridge and Dalzell are symbolic of the impact of globalisation, forcing transition on workers and communities at a local level as the price of enriching the broader economy. Other parts of Britain and Europe feel the strain of in-migrating people. In Motherwell and Cambuslang, the concern is about out-migrating jobs. But it's also because there's discomfort that the new economy and the new labour market is unplanned and haphazard, buffeted by market forces and lacking in the security of big plants with jobs-for-life. It is not always easy to appreciate that Britain has grown quite successfully in recent years by retreating from the making of things. The service sector makes up 75% of the economy, and while it ranges from high-value finance and professional roles to burger-flipping and care homes, it lacks that noble quality with which the old heavy (and dirty) industries are seen in hindsight. There is widespread agreement that Britain needs to think again about manufacturing. On the freer market end of things, George Osborne coined the evocative ambition for there to be a "march of the makers". The rhetoric hasn't always matched the policy outcomes. Industrial policy at Westminster now consists of a push towards a more technically literate workforce, and incentives aimed at 11 chosen sectors, ranging across aerospace and automotive to nuclear and wind power, life sciences and professional and business services. There are also 'catapult centres' for propelling ideas towards the market in robotics, synthetic biology and better batteries. If you want to see what British manufacturing looks like these days (under German management and with a lot of robots), I'd highly recommend 'Building Cars Live' on the BBC iPlayer for two more weeks. We could do worse than make it required viewing for all secondary school pupils, particularly those with a bad experience of work placements. Meanwhile, the recent success of Jeremy Corbyn in winning the Labour leadership points to a desire, in some quarters, for a more interventionist government, willing to take control of strategic industries to serve a social purpose in addition to the shareholder one. So is this time to think again about an industrial policy? Even the Confederation of British Industry, which was closely aligned with the free market orientation of recent governments, wants to see a lot more intervention. Without it, Mr Osborne may find the makers are marching backwards. Wood Mackenzie, the economic consultancy based in Edinburgh, this week issued its projection of future manufacturing sectors in Europe. Largely because oil and gas is in decline, it showed Britain as one of only two countries, with Italy, where production is on track to

Summary: There's a retro vibe afoot: the planned mothballing of two steel plants in Lanarkshire brings back the 1980s as if it were... well, 30 years ago.


Andrea Albutt wrote an open letter after recent violence at prisons in Hertfordshire and Wiltshire. She said the unrest was causing "grave concern" - adding that governors faced "unacceptable stress and anxiety". The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said action had been taken to increase prison officer numbers. But Ms Albutt said her members had seen "nothing tangible" from the MoJ to ease population pressures in prison, and the burden on staff. She said recruitment remained in a "critical" condition, with a net increase of just 75 officers in the year 2016/17. Training was "poor" and "unsuitable people" were being selected, she added. The BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the Prison Governors Association had "traditionally been a voice of moderation". "The criticisms are unlikely to be brushed aside," he said. Data released last week from the MoJ showed a rise in violence in prisons, with 26,643 assaults in the year to March 2017 - 20% more than the previous year. Of these, a record 7,159 were attacks on staff - equivalent to 20 every day. Ms Albutt went on to describe the government's decision earlier this year, to separate operational control of the prison system from responsibility for policy, as "madness". But an MoJ spokesman said the Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) - which replaced the National Offender Management Service - would "help to create a distinct, professionalised frontline service". The spokesman added: "We know that our prisons have faced a number of long-standing challenges, which is why we have taken immediate action to boost prison officer numbers and have created Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service. "We need to create calm and ordered environments to help ensure effective rehabilitation, and we continue to work closely with the unions and all staff to help achieve these vital reforms and make prisons places of safety and reform." In July, the union representing prison workers called for the resignation of prisons' boss Michael Spurr. The general secretary of the Prison Officers Association, Steve Gillan, said his members had "lost patience" and accused the management of HMPPS of trying to "paper over the cracks". This followed the revelation that Mr Spurr had received a bonus of up to £20,000 in 2016-17 on top of his annual salary of around £150,000. The bonus was "awarded" in the previous year when the chief inspector of prisons said many jails were "unacceptably violent and dangerous".

Summary: The president of the Prison Governors Association has attacked the government's management of prisons in England and Wales.


The Met told BBC Panorama it was also "speculation" to suggest Masood had been radicalised while in prison. Masood killed three people when he drove a car into pedestrians on Wednesday. He then fatally stabbed a police officer before being shot dead. Police believe he drove up to 76mph as he crossed Westminster Bridge. The attack took place within 82 seconds. The Islamic State group has previously said it was behind the attack. But Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said while Masood "clearly had an interest in Jihad", police had so far found no evidence of an association with the group or al-Qaeda, or that he had discussed his plan with others. He said: "His methods appear to be based on low sophistication, low tech, low cost techniques copied from other attacks, and echo the rhetoric of IS leaders in terms of methodology and attacking police and civilians, but I have no evidence or information at this time that he discussed this with others." Mr Basu said there was also no evidence Masood was radicalised in prison in 2003. He said Masood had not been a subject of interest or part of the current domestic or international threat picture for either the security service or counter-terrorism policing. There is also no evidence or intelligence that he was a subject of interest or a national security threat in security service or counter-terrorism police investigations connected with Luton or the long-banned al-Muhajiroun network. He added: "I know when, where and how Masood committed his atrocities, but now I need to know why. Most importantly so do the victims and families." It is understood the car Masood used was seen driving in the area around the bridge at some point before the attack. It may have been on the day or before that, although it remains unclear what the purpose of this was. Masood's victims were PC Keith Palmer - who was stabbed outside Parliament - Aysha Frade, who was in her 40s and worked at a London sixth-form college, US tourist Kurt Cochran, 54, and retired window cleaner Leslie Rhodes, 75, from south London. Thirteen people are understood to remain in hospital. On Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said they believed Masood acted alone but they were also "determined" to find out whether he had been inspired by terrorist propaganda. However, Scotland Yard said it was possible they would "never understand why he did this". It is understood Masood's phone connected with messaging app WhatsApp minutes before the attack, which police say started at 14:40 GMT. An image of Masood's Whatsapp status shows that he was "last seen" on the messaging service at 14:37. The revelations have prompted a debate about the responsibilities of messaging services. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said encrypted messages must be accessible to intelligence services fighting terror, stressing there must be "no place for terrorists to hide". She is holding talks with other EU ministers in Brussels to discuss ways of preventing further attacks and will later this week meet technology firms. A WhatsApp spokeswoman said the company was "horrified at

Summary: No evidence has been found of a link between Westminster attacker Khalid Masood and so-called Islamic State or al-Qaeda, Metropolitan Police say.


A court hearing to decide how long Ciarán Maxwell will serve in prison is under way at the Old Bailey. In February, Maxwell, 31, admitted a number of offences, including bomb-making and storing stolen military weapons. The County Antrim man also pleaded guilty to drugs and fraud charges. The hearing is expected to take up to three days. Maxwell is not in court, but is appearing via video link from Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes. According to the charge details, he had a stash of explosives in 12 purpose-built hides in England and Northern Ireland. DNA evidence found at one of the County Antrim hides led to Maxwell's arrest. On Wednesday, the court heard that Maxwell told police he had taken a member of the Continuity IRA to a hide where he had stashed pipe bombs in Northern Ireland. The court was told the man he took to the hide was Niall Lehd, convicted in 2014 of possession of an explosive substance with intent to endanger life. Maxwell, who is originally from Larne, had handwritten "to-do lists" mentioning "targets, dummy runs and recces" and a number of towns in Northern Ireland. The exact details were redacted by the court, but the targets included a Territorial Army centre and substations. There was also reference to a loyalist group, the need to notify news agencies and the words "test pipe bomb and car bomb". In one of his hides, Maxwell placed a modified booby-trapped torch which, when armed, would explode if turned on. Maxwell lived in Exminster, County Devon, and was based with 40 Commando in Taunton, Somerset. He never served in Northern Ireland. He was arrested last August and a search near Exeter found hides with a range of explosive substances, as well as ammunition, weapons and tools for making bombs. Along with the 14 pipe bombs, the court heard Maxwell also stashed: On Wednesday, prosecutor Richard Whittam QC told the court: "Across 14 of the locations involved in the investigation, Mr Maxwell had in his possession, or had constructed, 14 pipe bombs... four have been deployed in Northern Ireland. "It is our case that some of the items inevitably must have been taken from the UK to Northern Ireland by this defendant." He added: "It may be that, when travelling between England and the UK, bearing in mind the identity cards he would have had, and his position, his passage would have been easier than others to take items with him." The court heard dissident republicans have carried out more than 160 terrorist attacks since 2010, including the deployment of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) such as pipe bombs. Mr Whittam said: "Whilst attacks are mainly directed at members of the police, military and prison service, the nature of the attacks leaves members of the public at risk." The court heard that Maxwell "appeared shocked" when he was arrested. After his arrest, drugs were found in locker at the camp, including herbal cannabis, cannabis resin, and hallucinogenic drugs DMT and LSD. In March 2016, police said bomb-making parts had been found in barrels

Summary: A Royal Marine with links to dissident republicanism made 14 pipe bombs - four of which were used in Northern Ireland, a court has heard.


The sum is half the record Lotto jackpot win - shared with a couple from Hawick who claimed their prize within days of the 9 January draw. A spokesman for organisers Camelot urged players to "check, double-check and triple-check" their tickets. The ticket had the winning numbers 26, 27, 46, 47, 52 and 58. Updates on this story and more from Worcestershire Camelot said the exact location where the ticket was purchased could not be revealed but it hoped that by naming the area where the ticket was bought it could increase local interest and help find the winner. The area has not been narrowed down further to preserve the winner's anonymity, they said. It is not known if the winning ticket was bought by an individual or a syndicate. David and Carol Martin, both aged 54, received a cheque for £33,035,323 after claiming their share of the record jackpot, that occurred after 14 successive rollovers. Even though the prize total was shared, the sum is still the biggest win since the National Lottery was launched in November 1994. However, the sum is dwarfed by the the biggest UK win in the Euromillions lottery, a draw where prize money comes from ticket sales in several European countries. Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs in North Ayrshire, collected £161.6m in 2011.

Summary: An unclaimed National Lottery jackpot winning ticket that could earn the winner £33m was bought in the Worcester area, it has been revealed.


Back in 2005, the then 16-year-old was annoyed that his Norfolk secondary school had put strict blocks on its computer network, to prevent the pupils from accessing music and games websites. So, as a keen computer programmer he decided to use his knowledge to hack the system. "I thought it would be fun to bypass the school's filters, says Mr Cator, now 26. To do this he used a website which disguises a computer's digital fingerprint, by rooting it through a remote server, typically located abroad, allowing a user to surf the internet privately and anonymously. Such websites provide users with something called a virtual private network (VPN). Mr Cator got it to work, and soon instead of using a school computer to research his homework, he could watch his favourite music videos. But unhappy with the qualities of the then VPN providers, which he said weren't easy to use and carried too much advertising, Mr Cator decided to build his own. This took him just one afternoon sat on his parents' sofa, and he gave the website a tongue-in-check name - Hide My Ass (HMA). Fast forward 10 years, and Mr Cator has just sold the business - of which he was the boss and sole owner - for £40m. HMA, which Mr Cator turned into one of the world's largest VPN companies without the need for any outside investors, has been bought by global software group AVG. For its money, AVG is getting a company with more than two million customers, an annual turnover of £11m, and yearly profits that exceed £2m. And Mr Cator is to continue at HMA's chief executive. Despite being a 16 year old school boy a decade ago, Mr Cator already knew enough about the dark arts of promoting websites, and making money from the internet, to realise that HMA could be a commercial success. So he started to promote the website on interested internet forums to build up some buzz. HMA would make money from something called "affiliate marketing". In simple terms this means that Hide My Ass gets a commission from a retail website whenever someone clicks through to it via HMA and buys something. Within a month HMA had hundreds of thousands of users around the world, and revenues of £15,000 per annum. Mr Cator says: "I was so surprised that it went viral so quickly. I never wrote a business plan or anything. "I just launched the whole site in one afternoon. [But] if people think it's a good cause, they will share it." With the business earning Mr Cator rather a lot of pocket money, he stay on at school and went to college in Norwich to do computer studies. But in 2009 he decided to drop out to run HMA full-time, adding a paid service which now has more than 200,000 subscribers. These are in addition to the two million people who now use its basic free version. To help grow the business Mr Cator realised he needed staff, which he employed on a freelance basis. To begin with

Summary: There are not many people who have become multimillionaires as a direct result of misbehaving at school, but Jack Cator is one of them.


Wirral Council has said it is looking for investors to develop areas around the Woodside ferry terminal, the town centre and Hamilton Square. It revealed the plan at MIPIM, Europe's largest property expo in Cannes. An earlier scheme was abandoned in October as the authority sought "more ambitious" plans. Council leader Phil Davies said there was "global interest" in the proposals. "I can only report that I've never had so much interest in the last year or so from people who want to invest in Wirral, particularly in Birkenhead," he said. "We've had an incredible amount of interest." The proposal includes money for outlying areas, with plans to redevelop the Woodside waterfront and build residential accommodation with views over Liverpool also announced.

Summary: A £1bn plan to regenerate Birkenhead has been unveiled, five months after a previous £30m development plan was scrapped.


Some German newspapers criticised the cartoon, while the German vice-president of the European Parliament called it "tasteless". The cartoonist, Edel Rodriguez, said the image represented "the beheading of democracy". US-German relations have deteriorated under President Trump, who has criticised the policies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He said last month that her policy of welcoming masses of migrants who arrived in Germany had been a "catastrophic mistake". His trade adviser also recently attacked Germany for gaining unfair trade advantages from a "grossly undervalued" euro. The front cover image is similar to one that appeared on the front page of the New York Daily News in December 2015, also showing Mr Trump beheading the Statue of Liberty but in a less gory fashion. Mr Rodriguez, who arrived in the US as a political refugee from Cuba in 1980 told the Washington Post that he wanted to make a comparison between the Islamic State and Donald Trump, saying "both sides are extremists". Der Spiegel editor Klaus Brinkbaumer wrote in an editorial that Mr Trump was "attempting a coup from the top" and wanted to "establish an illiberal democracy". White House: Media coverage is 'demoralising' How the media helped Trump The White House has accused liberal media groups of false and irresponsible reporting designed to smear President Trump and the new administration. Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, a member of the Germany's Free Democrats and vice-president of the European Parliament, said the cover said more about Der Spiegel journalists than Mr Trump. "The cover plays on the lives of terror victims in a very nasty way," he told Bild. Several other magazines are using the front covers of their next editions to comment on the US president and his policies. Bloomberg Businessweek shows Mr Trump holding an executive order, which says: "(Insert hastily drafted, legally dubious, economically destabilizing executive order here)." British weekly The Economist, which has endorsed both Republican and Democratic presidents, pictures President Trump throwing a molotov cocktail. The New Yorker, a liberal magazine which endorsed Hillary Clinton, shows the Statue of Liberty's flame extinguished. The conservative National Review's cover story defends nationalism, which it says critics of Mr Trump's inauguration speech wrongly see as dangerous.

Summary: Germany's influential weekly news magazine Der Spiegel has come under fire for a cover image showing US President Donald Trump beheading the Statue of Liberty.


An international team of researchers found that the region was, in total, home to an estimated 390 billion trees. Writing in Science, they added that the rarest 11,000 species made up only 0.12% of tree cover. However, they added that the new data could help unlock ecological secrets held by the biodiversity hotspot. The results were based on a survey of 1,170 plots and half-a-million trees across the six-million-square-kilometre area, often described as the lungs of the world. The authors said that the underlying cause of the hyper dominance of the 227 species, which accounted for 1.4% of the estimated number of species in the region, remained unknown. "We knew that, normally, a few species dominate ecosystems, but if you have a system that has 16,000 tree species but just 227 make up half of the trees, that was pretty surprising even for us," said lead author Dr Hans ter Steege from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands. He told the Science podcast: "We don't really know why these species are so incredibly dominant because they do not have any particular ecological feature that stands out." In the paper, Dr ter Steege and the team of more than 100 scientists wrote that there was no evidence that two key functional traits for trees - seed mass and wood density - played a part in determining what species dominated the landscape. "The 227 hyperdominant species include both shade-tolerant, typically large-seeded climax species with dense wood and shade-intolerant, small seeded pioneer (species) with light wood," they observed. The most dominant species was indentified as Euterpe precatoria, a palm tree native to central and southern America, with a mean estimate population of more than five billion individuals within Amazonia. Conversely, the researchers noted that the rarest 5,800 species had communities with fewer than 1,000 individuals, adding: "which is sufficient to classify those that are endemic as globally threatened". They suggested further analysis would show that the species identified as hyperdominant would be "disproportionately resistant to pathogens, specialist herbivores and other sources of frequency-dependent mortality". Dr ter Steege said the data could also be used by conservationists to find out what species were found in protected areas, such as national parks, and what ones were located in unprotected areas, and were therefore vulnerable to threat such as deforestation.

Summary: Despite being home to about 16,000 tree species, just 227 "hyperdominant" species account for half of Amazonia's total trees, a study suggests.


Ford, like most of its rivals, is seeking ways to profit as the industry moves toward driverless technology and ride-sharing. The company also added it would move all of its small-car production from Detroit to Mexico within three years. Shares of Ford dropped more than 1.5% after it announced its 2017 outlook. The share price has not recovered since it fell more than 8% in late July when Ford said the industry was going into a gradual decline. Last week, Ford lowered its 2016 pre-tax profit forecast to $10.2bn from at least $10.8bn because of an expanded vehicle recall. It had initially forecast a profit equal to or better than last year, but pulled back after announcing a $640m recall of 2.4 million vehicles. Ford currently makes some Fiestas in Mexico, but has kept production for some of its Focus and C-Max models in suburban Detroit. The company is building a new $1.6bn assembly plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. It will make small cars there starting in 2018. The move has drawn criticism from presidential candidate Donald Trump, would complained about a loss of US jobs. Ford chief executive said during an investor day on Wednesday that the company had to stay competitive. Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant will be getting new products under a contract signed last year with the United Auto Workers union.

Summary: US carmaker Ford has said it expects pre-tax profits to fall next year as it increases spending on projects such as self-driving and electric cars.


10 August 2016 Last updated at 17:14 BST The hashtag, #Olympics_Women_Don't_Represent_Us, opposing women's participation in the games in general, garnered over 100,000 tweets. But an Egyptian beach volleyball team was also mocked and humiliated on Arab social media for wearing long-sleeved T-shirts and leggings. While many came out in their defence, there seems to be a minority set on criticising women in sport regardless of how they act. Produced by Julie Wall, Mohamed El Assar and Alma Hassoun BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.

Summary: Social media users have harshly criticised female athletes in various Arab delegations for showing too much or too little skin.


It follows the death of 17-year-old Adam Owens in Newtownards, County Down, on Monday. His family blamed his death on an addiction to "legal high" drugs and has called for a ban on them. Mothers Against Drugs said it is concerned about how effective the law is at tackling legal highs. Donna McMenamy helped to found the group after her 12-year-old son became addicted to the drugs in 2012. He is currently receiving treatment for his addiction, and is not using drugs at the moment, but she said more needs to be done to help ensure he does not start again. "He has got fed up and went back onto drugs again in the past," she said. "The system's very slow, there is no money, no resources and that really needs to change. When people put their hands up for help it needs to be there for them." Mrs McMenamy said those responsible for selling legal highs were "animals". "They don't care what it's doing, not just to the person themselves but the surrounding families and the effect it's having on the community too." Randox Laboratories in County Antrim is a specialist hub for "legal highs" drugs analysis. Toxicology manager Mark Piper said long-term use of legal highs could have serious consequences. "There are lots of negative effects," Dr Piper said. "Besides the short-term stimulation, it can lead to extreme violence, extreme apathy and can really affect people's personalities." He added that the use of legal highs is continuing to increase across the UK. "We are one of the biggest marketplaces for these substances within Europe, and we're continuing to see a rise of these being sent to Randox." Fra Stone works with the Falls Community Council's drugs programme. He said Northern Ireland's government needs to "pick up the pace" and enforce new legislation on legal highs. "The wheels are grinding too slowly," he said. "We need to toughen up. In the Republic of Ireland they had a ministerial order and were able to ban these overnight. In the jurisdiction we're in, it's a deferred matter that has to go to Westminster." Several deaths in the UK have been linked to legal highs. More than 200 of the substances have been banned since the coalition government came to power in 2010. In the Republic of Ireland, "legal high" drugs are banned by law. Emergency legislation was put forward in March after a loophole in the law meant that it was legal to possess drugs such as ecstasy, crystal meth and ketamine.

Summary: A Belfast based anti-drugs group has called for tougher laws to be introduced to deal with the sale of "legal high" drugs.


Sheffield Eagles said it had failed to find a venue in the city for the 2017 season but had reached agreement to use Wakefield Trinity's Belle Vue Stadium. The Championship club has been without a permanent home since the 2013 demolition of the Don Valley Stadium. Sheffield City Council said it was working with the club to secure its future in the city. The move to Wakefield is subject to approval by the sport's governing body. Read more about this and other stories from across South Yorkshire The club said season ticket prices would be reduced and it was investigating introducing some form of subsidised transport for fans. Mark Aston, head coach, said the club had tried everything to stay in the city. He said: "We have tried everywhere, every single football club and every ground we can think of. "It is a crying shame, it is a slant on a great city that we cannot get the support in our hour of need." The club had hoped to eventually move into the Olympic Legacy Park in Attercliffe but Mr Aston said delays are damaging the club's ability to attract investors. Sheffield City Council said the club had been told the pitch at the Olympic Park would be available for most of their 2017 games. "However, the council has always been clear that spectator facilities around the pitch will have to be provided by a private investor," a spokesman added. "We know that the Eagles continue to work on securing an investor which could potentially help them invest in the Olympic Park facilities."

Summary: A Rugby league club said it has been forced to move almost 30 miles (48km) away from its home city.


Crowds lined the route of the 24-hour torch relay which began in Stoke Mandeville on Tuesday night. The relay ran more than two hours late but reduced breaks made up time. A splinter flame was taken to the Stadium in case the delays were not overcome but the opening ceremony ran late and the flame made it on time. A late-finishing ceremony in Stoke Mandeville and the time required for multiple exchanges of the flame between team members were blamed for the timing slipping throughout the relay. Organisers Locog cut down on breaks and reduced the number of photo opportunities and a late-running opening ceremony meant the the flame was used to light the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium. Crowds gathered in the market square in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, to watch the start of the relay and thousands more turned out overnight along the route to cheer on the torchbearers. After arriving in London, the flame, which is being carried by 580 torchbearers, was taken up the steps to Britain's first traditional Hindu temple, the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir temple in Brent, where a torch was lit at about 08:30 BST. Barry Gardiner, MP for Brent, took part in a ceremony which involved pulling apart string made up of different threads and colours to "allow" the Paralympic torch through. He said: "It was a very special moment. We have been waiting since 6.30am and the thrill and excitement is just fantastic. I don't think there has ever been a setting like this, for an Olympic or Paralympic flame." By Damon RoseBBC News The Paralympic Games are being talked-up a lot this year. Channel 4 has put a lot of marketing and production effort into bringing the Games to a wider audience than before, with over 500 hours promised to UK viewers. Important figures in sport and politics have stepped up to tell us that the Games will "dazzle" and "inspire". Seb Coe said those watching the sports would be "blown away". But will we all want to see TV coverage of the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi? Or the next summer Games at Rio 2016? And is there a worldwide clamour to push this recently unearthed disability agenda across the globe, or are we just feeling it more because it's our Games? The significance of London 2012 Paralympics will be in the legacy and it might take a little while before we can fully appreciate the impact of that. Read more on BBC Ouch! disability blog In Maida Vale a team of torchbearers was cheered by crowds as the flame was carried over the Abbey Road crossing, made famous by The Beatles album cover. At London Zoo in Regent's Park the flame was held aloft in the penguin enclosure by torchbearers Adam Hollick, John Craig, Fiona Forsyth, Charlie Humphrys and Aruna Mahtani. All members of the team, who were previously unemployed and have disabilities including spinal cord injury, blindness and impaired mental health, have trained and qualified as gym fitness instructors. Former boxer Michael Watson, wheelchair racer Dame Tanni Grey Thompson and Paralympic swimmer

Summary: Thousands of people turned out to welcome the Paralympic flame as it travelled to the Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremony of the Games.


So far most of the ground troops deployed are there to protect the airbase, but satellite evidence suggests that at least two other Syrian bases are being prepared to receive additional Russian troops. The Russian build-up is being closely monitored - not least by the Israelis, who have been flying intelligence-gathering aircraft off the coast between Cyprus and Lebanon on a regular circuit. Most of the information available to the media comes from images from civil satellites, but of course US military satellites will also be watching developments, seeking any detail that might give a hint of Russian intentions. Imagery analysts will be looking for evidence of weapons stores; of munitions being loaded on to aircraft or for any other signs of jets being prepared for operational sorties. The electromagnetic spectrum will also be monitored from Western bases in Cyprus and from Israel, where the military has no shortage of Russian speakers. Reports suggest that some of the Russian aircraft have already been undertaking familiarisation flights in Syrian airspace. But the question remains - what will Moscow do next? Is this all preliminary to a direct Russian intervention in the fighting? Or is this something else - military theatre on a grand scale to achieve wider diplomatic objectives? What President Vladimir Putin appears to be doing in Syria is to use at least the threat of military force to pursue his wider diplomatic goals. To see what is going on, one must pull back from the close-up images of Russian warplanes on the tarmac and look at the wider diplomatic picture. Russia - isolated and confronting Western sanctions due to its behaviour in Ukraine - is genuinely concerned about the rise of Islamist fundamentalism, which threatens to spread ever closer to Russia's own borders. It wants to see the so-called Islamic State defeated and some order restored in Syria, where it has long maintained a strategic interest. It believes Western policy in the region has been self-serving and wildly naive. Existing regimes have been toppled leaving little more than chaos in their wake. With the UN General Assembly in New York fast approaching, Mr Putin is eager to embark upon a new initiative on the world stage; one that will highlight Russia's distinctive voice, but one that also will underline what he sees as Moscow's irreplaceable role in the international system. So seen in this light, the Russian deployment to Syria may already have achieved much of what Mr Putin is seeking. For a start Russia has demonstrated that it is a strategic player in the region and is prepared to put its military might behind its diplomacy. It has also demonstrated that its support for President Bashar al-Assad, at least for the short- and medium-term, is solid and a factor with which all other actors must contend. On the purely diplomatic front, the US has reopened military talks with Moscow. Mr Putin is due to meet President Barack Obama shortly - an encounter that will have been highly unlikely if Ukraine alone was top of their agenda. Even more significantly, key

Summary: With some 24 strike- and close-support aircraft and about a dozen attack helicopters on the ground at its new airbase outside Latakia, Russia is poised to be able to make a significant impact on the fighting in Syria if it so wishes.


Willett, 29, was due to partner Lee Westwood when the 72-hole tournament begins in Melbourne on 24 November. But the Masters champion does not want to risk aggravating the issue that saw him miss October's British Masters. "Considering everything, including the amount of travel involved and extra strain, I decided that it was not in my best interests," Willett said. The four-day competition would have been the fifth tournament in consecutive weeks for Willett, who has dropped out of the world top 10 for the first time since his Masters victory in April. Willett is second in the Race to Dubai and is tied for 54th in the penultimate tournament, the Nedbank Golf Challenge, after a round of 74 at Sun City. We've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here.

Summary: England's Danny Willett has withdrawn from the World Cup in Australia to avoid aggravating his back problem.


The producers of Spectre have confirmed that the screenplay was taken as part of a cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in November. In a statement on the film's official website, Eon Productions said they were concerned the script may be published online. Spectre is due to be released in November 2015. The statement said: "Eon Productions, the producers of the James Bond films, learned this morning that an early version of the screenplay for the new Bond film SPECTRE is amongst the material stolen and illegally made public by hackers who infiltrated the Sony Pictures Entertainment computer system. "Eon Productions is concerned that third parties who have received the stolen screenplay may seek to publish it or its contents." Filming for Spectre began this month after the title and cast were unveiled in London. A new car was shown off, but few details were given about the plot for the film. A Sony spokesman denied reports that the cyber attack had forced the studio to stop production. "Productions are still moving forward," Robert Lawson told the Reuters news agency. The Bond franchise is a valuable asset for Sony Pictures, with Skyfall making $1.1 billion (Â£640m) worldwide. On November 24 hackers disabled the computer network at California-based Sony Pictures. They also released salary and Social Security numbers for thousands of Sony employees - including celebrities North Korea has denied being behind the attack in retaliation for a film depicting the country's leader but praised it as a "righteous deed". The FBI has confirmed that it is investigating.

Summary: An early version of the script for the new James Bond film has been stolen by hackers.


Last year, National Grid said it would use underground cables instead of pylons between Anglesey and the mainland in Gwynedd. It said this would protect the Menai Strait's natural beauty. The tunnel will be based on a network of power tunnels in central London. Plans to connect Wylfa Newydd at Cemaes Bay to a substation at Pentir, Gwynedd, have been controversial, with campaigners concerned about the impact of pylons. Aled Rowlands, external affairs manager for National Grid, said: "We are going to be using the same type of technology [that we are using under the River Thames] to go underneath the Menai. "When we've listened to local people and to those specialist bodies, they've asked us to preserve the natural beauty that's already there. "This option is more expensive than just putting cables across the top, but we think it's worth it. "We are looking at probably over £100m just for this cable tunnel to take the link from Anglesey over to the mainland and into the National Grid. "Here in London, we are digging through London clay. There are very different conditions around the Menai, with some rock and some limestone and some other things, so it's going to be a real engineering challenge for us. "But at National Grid we do have an expertise in that. "This project for 34km [in London] has taken about eight years. We think it will be... four or five to build those 4km from Anglesey across to Gwynedd." Plaid Cymru MP for Arfon Hywel Williams and AM Sian Gwenllian have met with National Grid bosses to push for undergrounding the remaining 1km of electricity connection, for which pylons are currently proposed. The National Grid has published an interactive map showing the proposed routes of the power cables.

Summary: A tunnel under the Menai Strait, which will contain cables linking Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station to the National Grid, is set to cost £100m and take up to five years to complete.


Committee chairwoman Bethan Jenkins said it would "better reflect Welsh life" and AMs were pleased it was being considered by the corporation. AMs also called for an extra Â£30m to be spent each year on BBC English-language drama and broadcasting about Wales. The BBC said plans for more spending would be announced "in due course". The broadcaster has previously conceded aspects of Welsh life had not been "sufficiently captured" by its TV services in Wales. During its inquiry into the state of the broadcast media industry in Wales, BBC Director General Lord Hall told the Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee that putting Wales-based news bulletins on Radio 1 and 2 was being discussed as part of a review. Ms Jenkins said her committee believed "flagship stations such as Radio 1 and Radio 2 should carry Wales-specific opt-outs for their news programmes to better reflect Welsh life". AMs were "pleased to hear" this was being seriously considered, she added. The committee's report said there should be no more funding cuts for S4C until an independent review of the channel had been completed. It also called on ITV Wales to take a more proactive approach to getting its programmes broadcast across the ITV network. A BBC spokeswoman said: "We've said that improving how we portray and represent the different nations of the UK - including Wales - on our UK-wide services is a priority for the new Charter period. "As part of this we've committed to spending more on English-language television programming in Wales and will set out the proposals in due course."

Summary: Welsh listeners to BBC Radio 1 and 2 should hear news bulletins about Wales at certain times of the day, according to the assembly's culture committee.


City went ahead in the 27th minute when Rhead headed down Paul Farman's free-kick and Adam Marriott turned his marker to fire home a left-footed effort. The hosts were level two minutes after the break when Ismail Yakubu prodded home from close range after a corner had been flicked on at the near post. Lincoln retook the lead in the 60th minute as a quick free-kick from Alex Woodyard found Jack Muldoon and his cross picked out Rhead, who made no mistake in beating Michael Poke. Rhead then wrapped up victory from the penalty spot in the 72nd minute after Jonny Margetts was tripped. But he missed the chance of a hat-trick seven minutes later when Poke tipped a second penalty around the post after Bradley Wood was bundled over. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Woking 1, Lincoln City 3. Second Half ends, Woking 1, Lincoln City 3. Substitution, Lincoln City. Elliot Hodge replaces Taylor Miles. Taylor Miles (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Substitution, Lincoln City. Taylor Miles replaces Nathan Arnold. Brian Saah (Woking) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Substitution, Woking. Max Kretzschmar replaces Ben Gordon. Goal! Woking 1, Lincoln City 3. Matt Rhead (Lincoln City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot. Penalty conceded by Nathan Ralph (Woking) after a foul in the penalty area. Penalty Lincoln City. Matt Rhead draws a foul in the penalty area. Sam Habergham (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Substitution, Woking. Charlie Penny replaces Dennon Lewis. Substitution, Lincoln City. Jonathon Margetts replaces Adam Marriott. Corner, Woking. Goal! Woking 1, Lincoln City 2. Matt Rhead (Lincoln City). Corner, Woking. Jamie McCombe (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Goal! Woking 1, Lincoln City 1. Ismail Yakubu (Woking). Corner, Woking. Substitution, Woking. Ismail Yakubu replaces Fabio Saraiva. Second Half begins Woking 0, Lincoln City 1. First Half ends, Woking 0, Lincoln City 1. Corner, Lincoln City. Joey Jones (Woking) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Goal! Woking 0, Lincoln City 1. Adam Marriott (Lincoln City). Corner, Lincoln City. Corner, Lincoln City. Corner, Woking. Corner, Lincoln City. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.

Summary: Matt Rhead's second-half brace ensured Lincoln started the National League season with a 3-1 victory over Woking at Kingfield.


Police said accelerant was poured through the letter box of a house at St Agnes Place and set alight at about 22:30 BST on Wednesday. The fire was put out before emergency services arrived. It damaged the front door and caused some smoke damage to the house. The children, and two women aged 23 and 61, were unharmed. Police said they are working to establish a motive for the attack and want to hear from witnesses. Detectives can be contacted at Musgrave Police Station by calling 101.

Summary: Three children aged between four and six and two women have escaped injury in an arson attack in west Belfast.


Daniel Mason, who works for William Graham, said he had not "fully understood" the meaning of the speech. Mr Powell was sacked as shadow defence secretary after his 1968 speech criticising the level of immigration. In a Facebook post, Mr Mason asked if Mr Powell had been a "mad racist" or a "visionary". The post was removed. A Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West, Mr Powell spoke of his concerns about immigration, claiming that "British" families could lose out on matters such as housing, resulting in racial tension. Quoting Virgil's Aeneid during a speech in Birmingham, he said: "As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'." The then Tory leader Edward Heath sacked Mr Powell from his front bench team, telling the BBC: "I believed his speech was inflammatory and liable to damage race relations." Despite widespread condemnation, the MP said he received about 100,000 letters from ordinary people backing his comments. Mr Mason had written on Facebook: "Enoch Powell gave a speech 'Rivers of Blood'.. worth reading today.. 'blood on the streets' the rantings of a mad racist? or a visionary?" He later said: "I want to apologise unreservedly for this Facebook post. "Ignorance is no excuse but had I fully understood the meaning behind the speech I would never have shared it." A spokesman for Mr Graham said: "This misinformed, disappointing and deeply disrespectful post is unacceptable and totally at odds with the views of any right-thinking person. "Clearly this is a matter for William as the employer and he will be taking appropriate action."

Summary: An aide to a Tory AM has apologised for a social media post after the Paris attacks referring to Enoch Powell's notorious "rivers of blood" speech.


Shiyi Ying, 25, was given permission to take to the stage towards the end of the ceremony at Southampton University to pop the question to Yu-Yen Ou, 24. He said: "Deep inside I know you are the only one I can share the rest of my life with," before she accepted. Vice-Chancellor Professor Don Nutbeam said it was "certainly a first" in his 25 years attending graduations. Both students were receiving their masters degrees. Mr Ying, from Beijing, had studied for an MSc International Management and Ms Ou, from Taipei, had studied MSc International Financial Markets. After Ms Ou said yes the couple hugged - prompting applause from fellow graduands, guests and staff gathered inside the theatre. Prof Nutbeam said: "I'd like to offer the couple huge congratulations and every best wish for the future."

Summary: A university student has proposed to his girlfriend during a graduation ceremony.


Crutchley, who will also lead Great Britain at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, replaces Jason Lee after he was named head coach of the women's squads. "There will be new coaches coming in as well as a number of new players," Crutchley told BBC Radio Berkshire. "Following a home Games the turnover of players will be significant, so the team will change on and off the pitch." Crutchley will lead England in the European Championships this year and also in 2015, as well as in the Commonwealth Games, which Glasgow hosts in 2014. He will also coach the GB men in the Olympics, where they will be looking to improve on a fourth-placed finish at London 2012. Previous head coach KLee took the team from 11th in the world to fourth, but Crutchley faces a huge challenge to improve on that. Earlier this month Ben Hawes, Mark Pearn and Ken Forbes retired from the men's squad but despite failing to win a medal in London, funding from UK Sport has increased slightly thanks in part to the bronze medal won by the women's team. The 42-year-old former international forward, who won 80 England caps and a bronze medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, will be at the helm when England play in the FIH Hockey World League semi-final competition that runs from 29 June to 7 July in Malaysia. And Wirral-born Crutchley says he is excited about what he sees as a new era for the men's game. "I will have a slightly different style to Jason [Lee]," he said, "We've been looking at the next group of players since London. We are pretty aware of the talent coming through and are positive of getting them up to speed with international hockey relatively quickly. "There has been a lot of interest in hockey after the Olympics and the challenge is to keep the momentum going. "It will be challenging to stay at the top. We are ranked fourth in the world and I'm confident we can be competitive in Rio."

Summary: England's new men's hockey head coach Bobby Crutchley says there is likely to be a significant overhaul of the squad.


And to be fair, he was telling them in a state where anyone who tried to do so would probably be arrested, or at least stared down. He told his crowd of supporters to do that because - he said - the votes would not be properly counted. His line throughout this campaign has been that the system is skewed against him and that he would be cheated out of a win. The line would sound shocking if it weren't vintage Trump. The candidate for president has said he will decide on the day whether to accept the results of the actual election. But curiously, the call to "re-vote" is not as crazy as it sounds. There are seven US states in which the practice is perfectly legal. In Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York and Connecticut. If you have a change of heart, you can go back and do it again. There are some restrictions. In Minnesota, it must be done by the week before. In Wisconsin you can only (only) go three times. In Pennsylvania you can change right up to election day itself - but you have to do so in person. Few people make use of this curious loophole, but Donald Trump wants to exploit it to the full - telling Democrats who already voted for Clinton before the FBI reinvestigation to "go back and vote again". Presumably he has thought through the ramifications. It works both ways after all. Emily Maitlis is presenting BBC Newsnight's coverage of the US presidential election. You can follow her on Twitter and watch more of her reports here,

Summary: The first time I heard Donald Trump in Colorado call on voters who had already voted to go back and vote again, I nearly fell off my chair.


Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Thomas Winsor said forces had mainly "done well" with 20% cuts in four years and more savings were likely. Sir Thomas said a "smaller service" would have to "work smarter". In December, the chief of the Met Police warned public safety would be at risk unless radical measures were taken to deal with funding cuts. But speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend, newly knighted Sir Thomas said: "Austerity is here to stay. "The police have already made, and done it well in the main, cuts of 20% in the last four years and they are facing cuts of a further 5% next year. "There will inevitably be a time where they can't take any more but let us remember that measured crime has fallen dramatically - but so have the demands made on the police." Asked if there was room for further cuts, Sir Thomas said: "In some respects there are further efficiencies to be obtained, that is undoubtedly the case. "They [police forces] need to work smarter because they will be working smaller." Sir Thomas said forces had not done enough work to analyse new demands being made on them, particularly with regards to cyber crime. He also said that while any crime reported to the police had to be taken seriously, there were some crimes that were "more serious than others". "Nobody would argue that shoplifting is as serious as a violent assault and therefore the police need to look for the crimes that matter most to people, that do greatest harms to communities - serious and organised crime, drugs, violent offences, the grooming and sexual exploitation of children," he said. Last month, Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said that unless police "act fast" and with "courage" to implement far-reaching reforms, the cuts would endanger public safety. He suggested police forces in England and Wales should merge and share resources with other emergency services. Sir Hugh Orde, the Association of Chief Police Officers' president, has also recently warned that police forces were struggling to deal with reductions in funding.

Summary: Police cuts in England and Wales are "here to stay", the head of the police watchdog has said.


The supermarket chain said like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, rose 0.2% in the nine weeks to 3 January. Analysts had expected a fall in sales at Morrisons, which has been under intense pressure from rivals. It is the first time the supermarket has reported a rise in sales for more than a year. The results sent shares in Morrisons up sharply, and they closed more than 8% higher at 165.5p. Paul Thomas, an analyst at Retail Remedy, said Morrisons' sales had been expected to fall by between 2% and 3%. He said the UK's fourth-largest supermarket chain was clearly focusing on "its core market and core product" and that the sales figures were evidence that the new strategy was "paying off". David Potts, who became chief executive of Morrisons in March last year, said he was pleased with the performance over Christmas: "While there is of course much more to do, we are making important progress in improving all aspects of the shopping trip." He sold its 140 M Convenience stores at a loss of £30m in September and has also embarked on a cost-cutting and store closure programme. Last year, Morrisons reported a 52% drop in annual profits to £345m - its worst results in eight years. The retailer also dropped out of the FTSE 100 list of the UK's biggest companies in December. The increase in sales came as Morrisons continued to cut prices - by 3.2% in the last year and 7% over two years. It said customers were also returning, with transactions up 1.3% in the period. However, total sales were down 1.2%, which Mr Thomas said suggested that customers were buying fewer items. Morrisons maintained its profit forecast, saying it expected full year underlying profit in the region of £295m to £310m, before £60m of restructuring and store closure costs. According to new figures from research firm Kantar Worldpanel, Morrisons' share of the overall grocery market was 11% in the 12 weeks to 3 January, down from 11.3% a year earlier. Sainsbury's was the best performing of the "big four" supermarkets - which includes Tesco, Sainsbury's Asda and Morrisons. Its market share rose 0.1 percentage points to 17% compared with the same period in 2014, making it the only one of the big four to increase its share. Discount chains Aldi and Lidl, as well as the Co-operative and Waitrose, were the other chains to increase their market share in the 12-week period. Tesco kept the number one slot, with a 28.3% share, although this was down from 29.1% a year earlier. Overall, the value of sales in the 12-week period was down 0.2% due to continued price deflation, Kantar said. Analysts reacted to Morrisons' sales figures with surprise, with Nick Bubb tweeting: "Wow Morrisons was actually up 0.2% LFL at Xmas". Morrisons is the first of the "big four" to release Christmas sales figures, with Sainsbury's publishes its third-quarter results on Wednesday, followed by Tesco on Thursday. Walmart-owned Asda does not release its figures until February, but it has predicted another year of "intense pressure". Last week,

Summary: Morrisons has reported better-than-expected sales over the Christmas shopping period compared with a year earlier.


The towns of Virginia Water and Cobham, in Surrey, have become Britain's first million pound towns - where average house prices are more than £1m. Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire is also in the millionaire's club, according to research by Lloyds Bank. They are the first towns outside London where prices have hit seven figures. The research was based on data from the Land Registry for the first half of 2015. Prices in Virginia Water - home to the likes of Sir Cliff Richard and Sir Bruce Forsyth - average no less than £1.169m, making it Britain's most expensive town outside the capital. No wonder that the town's famous golf course, Wentworth, feels able to charge joining fees of £125,000. That is on top of the annual membership fee of £16,000. Cobham - familiar to Chelsea footballers and their WAGS - has average prices of £1.043m. And anyone wanting to buy in Beaconsfield can expect to pay £1.003m. "We're seeing the emergence of towns where the average price is at least £1 million," said Sarah Deaves, private banking director at Lloyds Bank. "Whilst there are several London neighbourhoods where prices are already at this elevated level, outside of the capital this is a first." However the figures also show a sharp slow-down in the number of homes sold for more than £1m. In the first half of 2015 there were 5,599 such sales, down from 6,303 in 2014. That amounts to an 11% fall. One reason for that is the change in Stamp Duty rates, introduced in December 2014. The buyer of a £1m house will now pay £43,750 in Stamp Duty, up from £40,000 previously.

Summary: One has a golf course that charges £125,000 to become a member, and the other has a post office said to stock bottles of Bollinger and Dom Perignon.


In a series of tweets, Nicola Sturgeon said she would set out the way forward "in due course after talking to people across the SNP". And she insisted she would take decisions in the best interests of Scotland, and not just her party. She will face calls at Holyrood later to abandon her plans for a referendum. MSPs are expected to use a debate on the economy to argue that the continuing prospect of another vote on independence would cause damaging uncertainty for businesses. But Scottish government ministers, who did not discuss an independence referendum in their first cabinet meeting since the election, will argue that the main threat to the economy is Brexit. Ms Sturgeon has previously said she will "reflect carefully" on her plans after the SNP lost 21 seats in the general election, but had conceded that her call for a second vote on leaving the UK was a factor in the result. She had called in March for a referendum to be held either towards the end of next year or the spring of the following year, "when the terms of Brexit are known". On Wednesday morning, the first minister tweeted that much of the media speculation about the implications of the election result for her referendum plans was "nonsense". She added: "I'll set out way forward in due course after talking to people across @theSNP. "I'll take decisions in best interests, not just of @theSNP, but of Scotland...and not be dictated to by demands for quick headlines!" She went on to say that her government would focus on trying to influence Brexit talks - and repeated her claim that a "Tory led hard Brexit is simply not acceptable" in the wake of the election result. Will the SNP abandon independence? No. Will they abandon a referendum as the conduit through which independence is achieved? Absolutely not. So what are they doing? Well, they may need to change the nature of the language. I think they feel that they didn't get across sufficiently the point that the referendum they want on independence is at the end of the Brexit process. They kept saying: "When the prime minister says there shouldn't be a referendum now, we agree". So I think they will try and re-emphasise that. That will not be sufficient for their pro-Union opponents, who will say they don't care how it is rebranded or that it is being placed in contradistinction to Brexit - it is not wanted and it is not needed. Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, who saw the number of Scottish Tory MPs rise from one to 13, has claimed that the SNP's losses in the election meant that "Indyref2 is dead". In what will be the first formal chance for MSPs to debate the general election result, the Tories, Labour and the Liberal Democrats will call on the SNP to shelve plans for another referendum. The Holyrood debate on "opportunities for growth" follows publication of the State of the Economy report by the Scottish government's chief economist. The report confirmed growth overall in

Summary: Scotland's first minister has branded speculation about the impact of the general election on her plans for an independence referendum as "nonsense".


The decision comes after a report by the UN cultural agency Unesco said the area "should be off-limits to commercial logging in its entirety". The Tasmanian Wilderness covers about a fifth of the island and is one of the world's last big temperate forests. Conservation groups have welcomed the Unesco report and the logging decision. In 2014 the Australian government asked the agency to revoke the special status of the forest to open up parts of it to logging in order to boost the island's economy, where unemployment is above the national average. But the move - by the government of former PM Tony Abbott - attracted much opposition from environmental groups. The Unesco report released on Saturday said the organisation "does not consider a World Heritage property recognised for its outstanding cultural and natural values the place to experiment with commercial logging of any kind". The Tasmanian Wilderness is home to ancient forests, some of the tallest flowering plants in the world and is a stronghold for several animals that are either extinct or threatened on Australia's mainland. Both the Australian federal and the Tasmanian state government have said they will abide by that recommendation.

Summary: The Australian and Tasmanian authorities are abandoning their bid to have logging permitted in the Tasmanian Wilderness, a World Heritage site.


Gibbs had the upper hand and was serving at 7-5 2-6 2-1 when the players were called off on Sunday evening. Their match will resume on Monday following the conclusion of Grigor Dimitrov's contest against Viktor Troicki, which was due to start at 10:00 BST on court three, but has been delayed by heavy rain in Paris. Kyle Edmund was among a host of players scheduled to begin their campaigns on day one but who must now wait on the weather. Edmund will now be third on court six against qualifier Nikoloz Basilashvili, while fellow Briton Naomi Broady plays Coco Vandeweghe on court four. British number one Andy Murray is scheduled to face 37-year-old Czech Radek Stepanek in the fourth game on Philippe-Chatrier Court, but, with more rain expected, it is likely they will play on Tuesday. Australian Nick Kyrgios and two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova both progressed before the rain delays on Sunday. Kyrgios overcame a first-set code violation to beat Italy's Marco Cecchinato 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (8-6) 6-4. The men's 17th seed picked up the warning for screaming at a ball boy for a towel during the first-set tie-break and then accused umpire Carlos Ramos of "unbelievable bias" for his punishment. Tenth seed Kvitova needed three sets to get past Danka Kovinic of Montenegro 6-2 4-6 7-5. Lucie Safarova, last year's losing finalist, breezed through to the second round with a 6-2 6-0 victory over Russia's Vitalia Diatchenko.

Summary: Britain's number two Heather Watson fought back against American Nicole Gibbs at the French Open before play was suspended because of rain.


The draw was made at Hampden on Sunday evening following Aberdeen's 1-0 quarter-final win over Partick Thistle at Pittodrie. Celtic sealed their spot by coming from behind to beat St Mirren 4-1 earlier in the day. On Saturday, Rangers beat Hamilton 6-0 and Hibs saw off Ayr United 3-1. The semi-final ties will be played on April 22/23. Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes expects a tough match against Neil Lennon's Hibs, but admitted to a slight sense of relief over the draw. "If we are all being honest, Celtic are the strongest team by a long way," he told BBC Radio Scotland. "So it is a good draw and Hibs will probably see it as a good draw. "Hibs have done really well and are holders and this is the type of game you want to be involved in. "If you look at the level of player Hibs have got, the experience of the manager and the fact they won the cup last year and have that experience, there shouldn't be too much between the teams. "If we are deemed to be favourites, so be it and we just have to do our business on the pitch." Celtic and Rangers meet in the league on Sunday, with Brendan Rodgers' team having won the three matches between the sides so far this season. They followed a 5-1 win at Celtic Park with a 1-0 League Cup semi-final win and a 2-1 Premiership victory at Ibrox. Hibs beat Rangers 3-2 in last season's final to lift the Scottish Cup for the first time in 114 years. They have played Aberdeen 32 times in the Scottish Cup, winning nine times, losing 13 times with 10 matches ending in draws.

Summary: Celtic and Rangers will meet in the Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden, while holders Hibernian face Aberdeen in the other last four match.


Media playback is not supported on this device The winger, 22, was dismissed after appearing to react to Stephen Mitchell's award of a foul throw. Cathro had said after the game he would review the incident. "We see and Sam accepts he has been foolish, acted stupidly inside his own frustrations, and has since apologised to his team-mates," Cathro said. Immediately after the match Cathro appeared to back his player but the Tynecastle outfit decided not to appeal against the red card shown to Nicholson. And the head coach now accepts his player was guilty of a "stupid, rash action" that made the game more difficult for the Hearts players left on the pitch. "He has apologised to myself for that," Cathro added. "That situation is completely unacceptable to me because it impacts on the strength of the team. "That is the responsibility of every player: to make sure they are always adding to the strength of the team and never getting caught in any frustration or moments that lead to us being weaker. That is something we will deal with privately." Nicholson is banned for the visit of Dundee on Saturday and the trip to Kilmarnock. And Cathro hopes that the player is now able to put the incident behind him. "I would also like to add that Sam is a young, talented Scottish player who in this case has been guilty of a foolish, stupid action, but I don't consider he is guilty of any more than that," he added. "Now, that's bad enough as it is and I would say it's completely unacceptable to himself, to me, to the team, and to the club. However I urge us to not push that any further than what it is." Media playback is not supported on this device

Summary: Hearts head coach Ian Cathro admits Sam Nicholson was "foolish" to spit in the direction of an assistant referee in the defeat at St Johnstone.


It showed many people use computers instead of memorising information. Many adults who could still recall their phone numbers from childhood could not remember their current work number or numbers of family members. Maria Wimber from the University of Birmingham said the trend of looking up information "prevents the build-up of long-term memories". The study, examining the memory habits of 6,000 adults in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, found more than a third would turn first to computers to recall information. The UK had the highest level, with more than half "searching online for the answer first". But the survey suggests relying on a computer in this way has a long-term impact on the development of memories, because such push-button information can often be immediately forgotten. "Our brain appears to strengthen a memory each time we recall it, and at the same time forget irrelevant memories that are distracting us," said Dr Wimber. She says that the process of recalling information is a "very efficient way to create a permanent memory". "In contrast, passively repeating information, such as repeatedly looking it up on the internet, does not create a solid, lasting memory trace in the same way." Among adults surveyed in the UK, 45% could recall their home phone number from the age of 10, while 29% could remember their own children's phone numbers and 43% could remember their work number. The ability to remember a partner's number was lower in the UK than anywhere else in the European survey. There were 51% in the UK who knew their partner's phone number, compared with almost 80% in Italy. The study from Kaspersky Lab, a cybersecurity firm, says that people have become accustomed to using computer devices as an "extension" of their own brain. It describes the rise of what it calls "digital amnesia", in which people are ready to forget important information in the belief that it can be immediately retrieved from a digital device. The study highlights how, as well as storing factual information, there is a trend to keep personal memories in digital form. Photographs of important moments might only exist on a smartphone, with the risk of their loss if the device is lost or stolen. "There also seems to be a risk that the constant recording of information on digital devices makes us less likely to commit this information to long-term memory, and might even distract us from properly encoding an event as it happens," said Dr Wimber.

Summary: An over-reliance on using computers and search engines is weakening people's memories, according to a study.


Ji Zhongxing, 34, was being prevented by police from handing out leaflets at the airport which described the desperate story of his life. Witnesses said that Ji then shouted out: "I have a bomb, stay away from me!" And then he set off the device. He blew off his own hand and slightly injured one policeman. Witness accounts immediately appeared on social media. The mayhem after the blast was described by East Asia analyst Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt on Twitter who was there at the time: "Huge explosion followed by panic, smoke and dust at Terminal 3." On Tuesday 15 October Ji was sentenced to six years in prison for his act. His actions were condemned as reckless and the court said that he had to be held accountable, but Ji Zhongxing has nonetheless attracted a great deal of sympathy and struck a chord with China's legions of microbloggers. One user posted: "The court believes that he must take legal responsibility for his action. But who should take legal responsibility for what had driven Ji Zhongxing to do all this?" If the world has now forgotten about what drove him to detonate the bomb on 20 July, China's blogging public has not. His story is seen as typical of China's most marginalised and unfortunate members of society; petitioners driven to desperate measures when faced by an apparently unyielding bureaucracy. Petitioners are people who believe they have been wronged by lower levels of government and bring their grievances to the attention of the higher authorities. Although they are officially allowed to do this, rights groups say the government does prevent petitioners speaking out about their treatment and allege there is an entire underground system of surveillance and so-called "black jails" used to silence them - the authorities routinely deny such allegations. But what is clear is that Ji Zhongxing had been campaigning for years to have his story heard - to little avail. It all centres around one incident on 28 June 2005 and there are two versions of what really happened that night. At that time Ji had a day job as a security guard for a firm in Dongguan in south China's Guangdong province. By night he drove an auto-rickshaw to ferry passengers around to supplement his income. He wanted to save money to marry his girlfriend - who was also a migrant worker in the city. In the early hours of that morning members of a local security force, known as zhianduiyuan, employed by the government to maintain order, approached Ji who was driving his rickshaw and demanded to check his documents. Their job included tackling unlicenced vehicles such as his. Ji says that he was chased by the officials and once he was caught he received a brutal and sustained beating that left him paralysed in his lower limbs. The officials say he was injured after he fell from his vehicle. On his microblog (which has now apparently been deleted) he said: "seven or eight zhianduiyuan blocked the road - iron bars in their hands. As I was about to stop,

Summary: When a man in a wheelchair detonated a small home-made bomb in Beijing's international airport in July, he momentarily captured the world's attention.


Jihadist propaganda was posted on the station's website in April by individuals claiming to represent Islamic State. A police investigation is now focussing on a group of Russian hackers called APT28, according to French media. The group has tried to hack the White House in the past, L'Express reports. It has also targeted the computer systems of Nato members, Russian dissidents and Ukrainian activists, according to the newspaper. A judicial source told AFP that investigators were narrowing the search by probing the IP addresses of computers used in the attack. TV5 Monde was forced to broadcast pre-recorded programmes after the hack, which it described as "unprecedented in the history of television". A message warning French troops to stay away from Islamic State was published on the station's Facebook page. The hackers also posted documents purporting to be ID cards of relatives of French soldiers involved in anti-IS operations.

Summary: A cyber attack on the French television network TV5 Monde may have been carried out by Russian-based hackers, police believe.


Sam Cataki, 36, who has lived in Neyland for the past five years, has also been told he can no longer work. He lost his job at Milford Haven Port Authority on Wednesday and, with two young children aged one and five, said he fears for his family's future. The Home Office has been contacted for comment. Before he left the Army in 2013, Mr Cataki said he applied for citizenship in the UK but believes he was rejected because of three points on his driving licence. "They say it doesn't count as 'good citizenship' which is one of the criteria," he explained. He was given further leave to remain until his points cleared and told he would then be able to re-apply for citizenship. "I applied again last year but that's when they told me it was void. They're telling me to re-apply for settlement [with] Armed Forces indefinite leave to remain but I'm still waiting," he said. "I normally don't complain about anything but I have followed every procedure they've asked. "After serving they should be giving more to ex-servicemen but it's like they have neglected and left me. They thank you for your service and then you're forgotten about." Mr Cataki had been working in Milford Haven for two years and said the situation was also putting his wife Seini's visa status at risk. "We really enjoy it here, we just want to work," he added. "I've spent about Â£5,000 on applying for visas but without a job it will be difficult to afford applying again." Stephen Crabb, MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire, has been assisting Mr Cataki since 2014. In a message on Facebook on Friday, Mr Crabb said: "Lots of strong support from our local community for Sam Cataki over his visa application. He is a lovely guy and served in our Armed Forces for more than a decade. "I have briefed the immigration minister and requested that the Home Office treats this as an urgent case. I have also asked for them to restore his right to work in the UK immediately. "Having strong immigration rules is important but clearly the system should work better for our ex servicemen and women from Commonwealth countries." A petition set up by the Neyland community in support of Mr Cataki has attracted nearly 20,000 signatures.

Summary: A Fijian father who served in the British Army for 12 years says he feels "neglected" after being refused UK citizenship.


The polls are currently neck-and-neck between the left-wing Syriza, led by former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and the right-wing New Democracy, led by Vangelis Meimarakis. The vote was called by Mr Tsipras last month in an attempt to give him a popular mandate following his controversial agreement with European creditors in exchange for a vital third bailout package. However, with any future Greek government now committed to those agreed austerity measures, the main feature of this election is indifference and confusion among the electorate. The elections are also taking place in a climate of economic malaise, with the economy having suffered substantially in the first half of 2015 due to political uncertainty and consumer anticipation of further austerity. This election, organised by a caretaker government, will take place under a closed-list system, meaning individual candidates do not campaign, since the order of preference in constituency lists is determined by party leaders. Under Greek electoral law, 250 of the 300 seats in parliament are allocated, according to proportional representation, to each party that clears a 3% threshold, with the winning party receiving a 50-seat bonus. If all parties running were to clear the threshold, a vote share of about 40% would be needed to gain an outright majority (151 seats). But the share needed for a majority drops according to how many parties fail to enter parliament. Based on previous Greek elections, it is expected that about 10% of votes will go to parties that remain outside parliament, reducing the majority vote share to about 36%. It seems very unlikely that any of the two major parties will manage to cross this threshold. Polls close at 19:00 local time (17:00 BST), after which all major Greek TV stations will broadcast their exit polls. Unless results are very close, it will be safe to gauge the critical aspects of the result (which party comes first, which parties enter parliament, distribution of seats) by about 22:00 local time. When the elections were called, a Syriza majority was not out of the question. However, the party suffered a split following its pro-austerity turn, giving rise to a new anti-austerity party - the Popular Unity (LAE) - which competes with the Communist Party (KKE) for the vote to the left of Syriza. Mr Tsipras, the dominant figure in Greek politics since he came to power, has been tarnished by disagreements with his old comrades, making a further split in his party a possibility after the election. The pro-European centre-left is less fragmented than in recent years, as the party of former Prime Minister George Papandreou will not contest these elections. This leaves PASOK and To Potami as the sole representatives of this camp. The right wing of the political spectrum includes: New Democracy has conducted a much more enthusiastic campaign than many expected and is benefiting from the down-to-earth style of its interim leader, Vangelis Meimarakis. Opinion polls paint an image of a neck-and-neck race. However, most voters who have not declared their intention yet are old Syriza voters and it would be a major surprise were

Summary: The Greek election on 20 September will be the third vote in 2015 (after the general election of January and the referendum in July) and the fifth general election in six years.


Last month's blast at Wood Treatment Ltd reduced the Bosley mill to rubble. Will Barks, Derek Moore and Dorothy Bailey were identified as victims, but Jason Shingler, 38, remains missing. While Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service say they have now handed the investigation over to police, a search and rescue team will stay at the site. Small fires were still burning at the site until last week, but a fire service spokesman said these have now been extinguished. He added that crews would return to the area if any hidden or smouldering fires were uncovered. Temperatures reached 1,000C in the blast and it was described by rescue workers as the "worst incident of its kind" in a decade. The Bosley Disaster Appeal Fund has raised more than Â£53,000 for the families of the victims and workers left without jobs. In a statement last week the mill's owners said they "could not predict" when the factory would be operational again. An investigation into the cause of the explosion continues.

Summary: Firefighters have left the site of the Cheshire wood flour mill which was destroyed in an explosion that left three people dead and a fourth missing.