Salon Privé has relocated from London to Blenheim Palace for its 10th anniversary, and the three-day event culminates with a "public day" on Saturday. Co-founder David Bagley described the cars on display as "amazing". They include the Aston Martin DB10, only 10 of which were made, soon to be seen in James Bond movie Spectre. However, 007's car can only be seen by premium ticket holders. Mr Bagley said: "It's the first time we've had a public day. "For me it's a real opportunity for dads and their lads. All kids love cars. "The cars we bring here, half of them will have never been seen before. There's going to be a lot of noise, a lot of atmosphere." There are supercar and hypercar models on show by Ferrari, Koenigsegg, Pagani, McLaren, Zenvo, some of which are worth in excess of £1.5m. The top tier hypercar category is one increasingly used by car aficionados, and refers to the most expensive and highest-performing supercars. The event is usually targeted at private buyers, collectors and enthusiasts, but "outgrew" its original locations in Hurlingham and Syon Park. Mr Bagley added: "As beautiful as they were, Blenheim now offers us an opportunity to create a lovely private event on the south lawn and a public event on the Great Court." The public part of the show will include a grand parade of more than 60 supercars from 1975 to the present day. Jamie Spencer-Churchill, the 12th Duke of Marlborough, said it was an honour for the palace to be involved. "My wife, and son The Marquess of Blandford, and I are personally looking forward to the event as big motor enthusiasts," he added.

Summary: A prestigious motor show for rare and luxury cars is to open to the general public for the first time.


The German, in a 2015 Ferrari for the first time after his move from Red Bull, headed Sauber's Marcus Ericsson. The new Mercedes made an ominous debut, with Nico Rosberg third fastest after completing a remarkable 157 laps. Fernando Alonso managed only six laps as McLaren began their engine partnership with Honda. Alonso was 18 seconds off the pace as the team struggled to get the car and engine running together - just as they had when they tried to run the engine in a 2014 car at a post-season test in Abu Dhabi in November. McLaren played down the situation, saying the car had been kept in the pits by "a few niggly problems". Alonso seemed unperturbed, writing on his Twitter account: "First laps. So proud of my team. Happy." The two-time champion hands over to Jenson Button on Monday as the two McLaren drivers alternate throughout the four days of the test. Meanwhile, McLaren chief executive Ron Dennis added that the car's livery - standard silver and black for now - would change at some point during the year, although he would not say when. Vettel's fastest time was a one minute 22.620 seconds lap and his position at the top of the time sheets was a mirror of the same test last year, when his new team-mate Kimi Raikkonen set the pace for Ferrari. The Italian team went on to have their worst season for more than 20 years, precipitating a series of sackings of top managers. The team lost its president, two team principals, and several senior design engineers by the end of 2014 and are not expecting to be competitive at the start of this year. Ericsson's pace for the struggling Sauber team underlined the relative meaninglessness of headline times in testing, when it is impossible to know what specification the cars are running in. But there was no escaping the fact that Mercedes had a successful first day. Rosberg completed more than twice as many laps as any other driver and was able to lap at will in the one minute 23 second bracket. World champion Lewis Hamilton was not allowed to drive as each team is only allowed to run one car per day. The team that dominated last season, winning 16 of the 19 races, is again a strong favourite this year. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was fourth fastest, 0.232secs behind Rosberg, but Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey said he did not expect the team to be able to challenge Mercedes for the championship this season. "It was a decent first day, usual new car niggles, a battery issue and an engine problem, but nothing major so far," Newey said. He said the Red Bull, running in a temporary camouflage livery, was "hopefully a decent step forward from last year", but he added that a title challenge would be "extremely difficult, in truth. "The Mercedes power advantage was about 10% last year and that is not something Renault can close in one season. we are still going to be on the back

Summary: Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel set the pace on the first day of pre-season testing as Mercedes impressed and the new McLaren-Honda struggled.


Carbon nanotubes have long been known to have electronic properties superior to current silicon-based devices. But difficulties in manipulating them have hampered nanotube-based chips. The experiments, reported in Nature Nanotechnology, show a kind of two-part epoxy approach to individually place the nanotubes at high density. The race is on in the semiconductor chip industry to replace current silicon technology - methods to make smaller and therefore faster devices will soon come up against physical limits on just how small a silicon device can be. Study co-author James Hannon, a materials scientist at IBM, said that there are few realistic successors to silicon's throne. "The problem is you have to put it in to production on a 10- or 15-year time scale, so the kinks have to be worked out in the next few years," he said. "If you look at all the possibilities out there, there are very few that have actually produced an electronic device that would outperform silicon - there are exotic things out there but they're all still at the 'PowerPoint stage'." Though single nanotubes have shown vastly superior speed and energy characteristics in lab demonstrations, the challenge has been in so-called integration - getting billions of them placed onto a chip with the precision the industry now demands. Current chips are made using lithography, in which large wafers of silicon are layered with other materials of different electronic properties and then devices are simply "etched" out using a focused beam of electrons or charged atoms. To address the integration challenge, Dr Hannon and his colleagues came up with a solution - two of them in fact. The first was a chemical that coats nanotubes and makes them soluble in water. The second was a solution that binds to the first chemical and to the element hafnium, but not to silicon. The team used standard techniques to etch a pattern of channels in hafnium deposited on silicon. Then they simply "double-dipped" the chip into the two solutions - one chemical stuck to the hafnium, and the other chemical acted as the second part of a two-part epoxy, tightly binding nanotubes to the hafnium regions on the chip but not to silicon. The result was a series of neatly aligned nanotube devices, already wired up within the pattern, at a density of a billion per square centimetre. "That's one nanotube every 150 or 200 (billionths of a metre) or so," explained Dr Hannon. "That's not good enough to make a microprocessor yet - it's a factor of 10 away. "But it's a factor of 100 better than has been done previously." The demonstration is a "huge improvement", but Dr Hannon said several issues are still to be solved. They incude finding more efficient ways to sort through nanotubes - which are made in a wide variety of sizes and types - to select in large quantity and high accuracy the kind suitable for devices. The etching process that sets the ultimate size of a transistor on the chip must also be improved. For now, the team has modelled what it

Summary: Scientists have demonstrated methods that could see higher-performance computer chips made from tiny straws of carbon called nanotubes.


Jodie Simpson, 38, fell into a vegetative state after taking an overdose of drugs at her home in Barrow, Cumbria, in 2012. She died in June after her family fought for a legal ruling to withhold nutrition and hydration. The coroner ruled she died of a brain injury resulting from the overdose. Ms Simpson's brother Michael Devlin told the inquest his sister had a history of drink and drug use and had been on a "weekend bender" before he found her collapsed at her home. She ended up in a vegetative state with no sign of consciousness. She was able to breathe without assistance but needed to be fed and given liquid through a stomach tube. Her mother Jean Simpson said: "I knew from the beginning there was no hope, my worst fear was that she was actually minimally unconscious. "No one would want to live like that." Doctors agreed there was no chance of recovery yet the legal application to allow her to die was subjected to years of delay. She told the inquest her family was "treated as insignificant" by the authorities and she had lost faith in professionals. Cumbria Care Commissioning Group has since apologised for the process taking so long. The coroner said looking back to the events of 2012, there was no evidence Jodie Simpson intended to take her own life.

Summary: A woman who spent four years trying to get permission to allow her daughter to die has told an inquest the delay was "excruciating".


The three sides will play two matches apiece in the series, which will help New Zealand and Bangladesh prepare for the ICC Champions Trophy in England. "Gone are the days, we hope, of being starved of the matches we deserve," said Cricket Ireland's Warren Deutrom. Dates and venues for the series - in May 2017 - are yet to be confirmed. "Rather than getting nine or 10 ODIs in the four years between World Cups, we aim to play at least that number annually," added chief executive Deutrom. "For years now, we have been asking for more matches to test our players, to raise the profile of our sport, to bring in new fans, and to attract more investment." Ireland have a busy schedule of home fixtures arranged for this summer, with two games against Sri Lanka in June, a five-match series against Afghanistan in Belfast in July plus two encounters with Pakistan in August. The Irish will also take on South Africa and Australia in South Africa in late September. Earlier this week, the ICC announced it had given both Ireland and Afghanistan more than £340,000 to help the two countries arrange more matches as they attempt to improve their world ranking and secure places at the 2019 World Cup. Next year's New Zealand games will see Ireland coach John Bracewell face his native country. "We are now getting the volume of cricket that the team needs to take their cricket to the next level," he said. "With home advantage in at least 13 ODIs we'll certainly have plenty of opportunities to test ourselves against quality opposition." Ireland defeated Bangladesh at the 2007 World Cup but then lost against them four years later in India. The Irish lost their first one-day international against New Zealand at the 2007 World Cup in Guyana and were beaten again in their only other meeting in Aberdeen a year later.

Summary: Ireland will host New Zealand and Bangladesh in a one-day tri-series next year as they continue their efforts to play more games against full members.


Opposition MPs physically tried to stop the vote in a legislative committee by jostling around the chairman and trying to snatch his paperwork and microphone. The committee's vote clears the way for the bill to go to the upper house of parliament for final approval. The opposition says it will continue to try to delay the vote. The bill would allow Japan to defend its allies overseas even when it is not under attack. The bill is not widely supported by the country at large. Thousands of protesters rallied outside the parliament in Tokyo as the committee debate was under way. Opposition lawmakers tried to physically prevent the debate from taking place. In rare heated scenes, jostling members of the upper house surrounded the chairman of the security committee, Yoshitada Konoike, as he opened the debate on Wednesday and again on Thursday morning as the vote was taking place. The opposition had also tabled a no-confidence vote against Mr Konoike. Wednesday night's session was abandoned in the early hours of Thursday after opposition lawmakers blocked entry to a room where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other ministers were waiting to discuss the bill. The bill has already been approved by the government-dominated lower house. It is expected to be passed in the upper house because the ruling coalition has a majority there - this was why opponents were keen to prevent the committee from approving the legislation. It is thought Mr Abe's government wants to pass the bills before the country goes into a five-day holiday on Saturday, which could provide an opportunity for even bigger protests. If the upper house does not pass the bills within 60 days, they will have to be returned the lower house. It is a step Mr Abe is thought to be willing to take. His Liberal Democratic Party-led bloc has a two-thirds majority in the lower chamber, the House of Representatives. Despite his majorities in both houses, the controversial bills, and Mr Abe's determination to push them through despite vocal opposition, appear to have damaged his popularity. Polls have consistently shown a majority of the public are opposed to the changes, and relatively few strongly support them. Japan's post-World War Two constitution bars it from using force to resolve conflicts except in cases of self-defence. Mr Abe's government has pushed for security legislation that would allow Japan's military to mobilise overseas when these three conditions are met: What's behind Japan's military shift? The government says Japan needs to pass the bills, which are welcomed by the US, to ensure regional peace and security in the face of rising Chinese assertiveness. It also says they will allow the country to participate more widely in global peacekeeping missions. But opponents say the legislation violates Japan's post-war pacifist constitution, and could lead to it being dragged into US-led conflicts. Despite the likelihood of eventual defeat, opposition to the bills has been credited with helping reverse decades of youth disengagement from politics in Japan. Students in particular, have been closely involved in leading protests once dominated by trade unionists

Summary: A controversial bill to expand the role of Japan's armed forces has cleared another hurdle in parliament, but sparked scuffles among lawmakers.


Moses John, 14, and Pauline Watson, 46, vanished in May 2015 from their home in Northampton. It is believed Ms Watson has links to various parts of London. Moses, who has special educational needs, was at the centre of family court proceedings, in which children are not normally identified. For more stories, visit BBC Northamptonshire Live Northamptonshire County Council, which has responsibility for Moses's welfare, said the judge, Mr Justice Michael Keehan, had agreed to disclose the identity of the boy because of the level of concern about his well-being. Police said Moses was about 5ft 9ins (1.75m) tall, while his mother was about 5ft 7ins (1.7m) tall. The pair had a "very close relationship" and were rarely seen apart. Police say Ms Watson has links to London boroughs including Croydon, Islington, Merton, Sutton, Southwark and Lambeth. Speaking at the High Court, Mr Justice Keehan said: "I am gravely concerned for his welfare so long as his whereabouts, presumably in the care of his mother, remain unknown."

Summary: A teenage boy who disappeared with his mother a year ago has been named by a High Court judge in an "exceptional" attempt to trace him.


Russell Crow was rescued from the road by Helen Motteram and now lives in her home as one of the family. When the Gladiator star saw their story online, he took to Twitter to say how "cool" it was and offer "some new songs" for the bird. He tweeted: "Haha cool, what a nice lady Helen is to look after the poor blighter." With crooked feet and unable to fly, the bird was at first mistaken for a crow and named in honour of the actor. Since then, the cheeky rook has taken over Helen's home - sleeping in her bedroom, stealing her phone chargers and hiding her jewellery. But his antics, and jealousy of Helen's husband, have also made him a minor celebrity - with his fame now reaching the Hollywood star himself. Helen said she was "amazed" when she found out Russell Crowe was a fan. "I tweeted Russell about a month ago saying Russell [the rook] would love to hear from him - but I didn't hear back," she said. "I love his films and we named Russell after him so I've going to tweet him back to say he would love to meet him in person or get an autograph." The bird, she said, can "print with his feet" and "hold a pen" so if the actor would like an autograph in exchange, it could be arranged.

Summary: Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe has tweeted support for his namesake - a disabled rook from Gloucestershire.


April Jones was playing with friends near her home in Machynlleth but was seen getting into a grey or light coloured van at 19:00 BST on Monday. Around 200 people helped in a search of streets, farmland and woodland through the night. April was last seen wearing a purple knee-length coat with a fur hood, white school polo top and black trousers. The Ysgol Gynradd Machynlleth pupil had been playing on her bicycle with friends near her home on the Bryn-y-Gog estate. Dyfed-Powys Police said all the witnesses to her suspected abduction were children. Det Supt Reg Bevan said getting information from the children would take time. "It's a delicate and difficult process interviewing young children who were the witnesses to this," he said. "That's continuing - it commenced last night and it will continue this morning and hopefully I will have more information for you later." A hotline number has been released for people to call with information - 0300 2000 333. Det Supt Bevan added: "We're liaising with our colleagues, neighbouring forces, [getting] specialist advice. By Cemlyn DaviesBBC Wales I've already heard shouts and cries of 'April' as the search resumed this morning. I'm standing near the spot where the five-year-old was last seen around half past seven on Monday evening. The community has really pulled together and that was clear last night. A few hundred people gathered at the town's leisure centre. I was there to watch them come together. They divided themselves into groups to go out into the town to keep searching for April. This morning, I've spoken to the local councillors who have said they will do everything possible to help April Jones's family at this very, very difficult time. They've described the family as a wonderful family who play their part in the community, and they'll do everything they can to help find April safe and sound. "We've got specially trained family liaison officers supporting April's family." He also praised the "tremendous response" from the community. Local people gathered at Machynlleth Leisure Centre on Monday evening to help look for the girl, as news of her disappearance spread on social network sites. Posters of April were also circulated and put up around the town. Police also set up road blocks to check vehicles, while the street where April disappeared has been cordoned off. Det Ch Supt Simon Powell of Dyfed-Powys Police said officers were "becoming increasingly concerned for her safety". He said the force had launched an "intensive search and criminal investigation" into the abduction. "April was last seen playing on a bicycle near her home address and was seen getting into what we believe was a light-coloured van which then drove off," he added. Insp Kevin Davies said the fire service and police dog teams had been mobilised, and vehicle check-points set up. "There is mention of a grey van, we're looking at that as one of the angles of inquiry," he said. "Nothing is being overlooked. It's an angle, it's an inquiry that we're pursuing along with other angles. "We're searching the area.

Summary: Police are treating the disappearance of a five-year-old girl in Powys as a suspected abduction.


BBC News NI will provide audiences with its most extensive election coverage to date on our news website. Users will be able to follow live feeds of what is happening in their own constituencies, with stage by stage results for every seat. Live streams across all 18 battlegrounds will deliver the latest audio, video and news updates from the count centres. Also on our news website we'll have Northern Ireland-wide results, infographics and analysis from BBC News NI's team of political correspondents; social media updates from every count; and we will stream audio and video feeds of our television and radio output to ensure no election action is missed. As well as our website coverage, special live programming will start on BBC One NI at 14:30 BST on Friday, 6 May and continue throughout the day as results start to come in. Coverage will move to BBC Two NI from 19:00 to 22:00 BST, before returning to BBC One NI from 22:35 BST. The election results breakdown coverage will continue on Saturday, 7 May from 10:30 BST. From 14:00-22:00 BST on Friday, May 6 and 10:00 to 13:00 BST on Saturday, 7 May, BBC Radio Ulster will bring listeners news and analysis on all the latest election results and hear the action from the constituency count centres. On Friday, 6 May, Radio Foyle will feature an election special from 16:00-22:00 BST, co-presented by Enda McClafferty at the count centre in Londonderry and Elaine McGee in the BBC Radio Foyle studio. On 8 May, an hour-long special Sunday News at 13:00 BST, will bring listeners all the latest election news. "BBC News NI reporters will be at every count to bring you the results as they come in and, for the first time, you will be able to follow the stages of every count on BBC News NI Online," Kathleen Carragher, head of BBC News NI, said. "We'll also have political reaction and analysis from the politicians themselves and from commentators. And the audience can, of course, join the debate through texting and social media."

Summary: With the assembly election now upon us, BBC News NI 's multi-platform coverage will be bringing you all the results as soon as they come in.


The development was announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during a visit to the yard on Monday. She said the contract would create new jobs at Ferguson and secure employment for the existing 150-strong workforce. The yard went bust a year ago, but was taken over by entrepreneur Jim McColl who plans to invest up to £65m. The deal, when finalised, will see the Ferguson yard build two vessels for the Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd's (CMAL) fleet. Ms Sturgeon said: "This is an excellent result for Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited and I am delighted to name them as preferred tenderer for the contract to build two new ferries, the largest commercial vessels to be built on the Clyde since 2001. "This contract will see the 150-strong workforce retained and more staff taken on at the shipyard, underlining our commitment to creating the vital jobs needed to boost local economies and help stimulate growth across Scotland. "The Scottish government is committed to supporting ferry users around Scotland by providing safe and reliable services, and this is the latest step to ensuring we have a fleet that continues to deliver for the communities that depend on it."

Summary: The Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow has been named as the preferred bidder for a £97m contract to build two ferries to operate in Scotland.


The foreign ministry said it acknowledged a "miscommunication" with Iraq over the deployment of its forces. It comes a day after US President Barack Obama urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to "de-escalate tensions" with Baghdad. Turkey sent at least 150 troops into northern Iraq earlier this month saying they were to protect military trainers. Turkey has deployed troops at the Bashiqa camp near Mosul - a city controlled by Islamic State (IS) - since 2014 to train Iraqi Kurdish forces. But the Iraqi government said the latest move had been carried out without consultation and violated national sovereignty and international law. "Turkey... acknowledges the miscommunication with the government of Iraq over the deployments of Turkish protection forces," the Turkish foreign ministry said in the statement. "Turkey, in recognition of the Iraqi concerns and in accordance with the requirements of the fight against Daesh [IS], is continuing to move military forces from Nineveh province that were the source of miscommunication." The statement did not say how many troops would be moved or where they would go to. On Monday, Turkey's state-run news agency quoted military officials as saying a 10 or 12-vehicle convoy had left Bashiqa camp and was moving north. It came days after Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu's office said it had decided to reorganise its military personnel at Bashiqa following talks with Iraqi officials. The Turkish government enjoys close relations with the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in Iraq. But it considers the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) - whose Popular Protection Units (YPG) militia is a key ally of the US-led coalition against IS - as an enemy because it is an offshoot of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Summary: Turkey says it will pull more of its troops out of northern Iraq, following a partial withdrawal earlier this week.


The midfielder, 32, twice won the league during a nine-year spell at Stamford Bridge, including one success under Jose Mourinho in 2006. Essien thinks Mourinho could do it again with his side top of the table. He told BBC Sport: "There is still a long way to go but I'm sure they are in a good position and once Jose is ahead it is very difficult to overtake him." Essien, who now plays for AC Milan, sees similarities between the current Chelsea side and the one he played for when Mourinho signed him from Lyon during his first spell in charge in 2005. In an interview with BBC Sport, the Ghana international - who also played under Mourinho during a loan spell at Real Madrid - assesses the qualities of his former boss and Chelsea's prospects. He also discusses his work with the #UnitedAgainstEbola project, a campaign for Health Africa International launched to try and combat the threat of ebola and the potential impact of the disease on the up-coming Africa Cup of Nations. Essien on Chelsea: "It's not a big surprise they are doing so well. Whoever works under Jose will tell you that he is the sort of man who always gets the best out of his players. "The way they are playing now reminds me of when I first came to Chelsea. We were very hard to beat and we won most of our games and they are doing it this year. "They have a lot of young players who can step up. I think they are going to become like Chelsea of years ago. And they will win trophies for their club." Essien on Mourinho: "He is very close to his players and he knows how to talk to them. Sometimes he might ignore you a little bit just to get you a little bit angry and then go out there and perform. So he has his little ways to keep his players going. "He is not scared of anyone. Sometimes he is too honest, but you don't have to take it personally. You have to prove to him that when you are on the pitch you are better. And that's what he wants." Essien on United Against Ebola: "There was a joke about me on the internet that I have got ebola. I said this in not a joke and I came up with this campaign to try and educate people in Africa about the disease. "I was not worried. I had not travelled to Africa. I was fine. I was in good health. People around the world were more worried about me so I tried to calm everybody down. "I'm still working on it to try and get some of my team-mates and people I know to get involved and to promote this campaign and try to raise awareness and to raise money for those who need it. "The most important thing is when someone has the virus how to deal with the person and how to go close to the person. Essien on the impact

Summary: Michael Essien believes former club Chelsea will be hard to catch in the Premier League title race.


A further 26 people were injured when the two-storey factory, under construction in the Sao Mateus neighbourhood, collapsed. Two of the 36 people who are believed to have been working in the building at the time are still unaccounted for. It is not yet clear what may have caused the collapse. According to city officials, the construction work did not have the necessary permits and two fines had been issued already in relation to the work carried out. Edilson Carlos dos Santos, a lawyer for the owner of the site, blamed the engineering company hired to work on the building for the collapse. Mr Santos said the company, Salvatta Engenharia, had been installing lift shafts and staircases at the time of the collapse on Tuesday. The engineering company denied the allegations, saying in a statement that it had not yet received the keys to the building "because the works he [the owner of the site] had agreed to carry out had not been completed". Some 60 rescue workers continue to search the site with sniffer dogs. They dug holes into concrete walls with sledgehammers and removed metal sheeting in their attempt to find the missing construction workers. Building collapses of this kind are common in Sao Paulo - Brazil's largest city - and particularly affect structures that are either poorly maintained or still under construction. Home to 11 million people, Sao Paulo is one of 12 Brazilian host cities for next year's World Cup.

Summary: Firefighters searching the rubble of a collapsed building in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo have found another body, taking the death toll to eight.


Ian Duncan, who is expected to be appointed as a Scottish Office minster, said the devolved nations should be able to "see exactly what is going on". UK Brexit Secretary David Davis said he was in a "constructive" frame of mind as talks with the EU began on Monday. But First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called for a more inclusive approach to the negotiations, And she said warned Mr Davis that a failure to pursue the "common-sense" objective of keeping the UK in the single market would put jobs, investment and living standards "on the line". Voters in Scotland backed the UK remaining in the EU by 62% to 38% in last year's referendum, but in the UK as a whole voters supported leaving by 52% to 48%. Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Duncan was asked whether Ms Sturgeon or Holyrood's Europe Minister Mike Russell should have a seat at the negotiating table for the Brexit talks. He replied: "Yes, I have no problem with that. I think that should be a common approach to all the home nations so that they can see exactly what is going on." The politician added: "But more importantly, they need to make sure that they have a seat at the discussion point in London when these positions are being hammered out because that is where the detail will be determined not actually inside the room." Mr Duncan stood in the general election in Perth and Perthshire North, where he lost to the SNP's Pete Wishart by 21 votes. He is expected to be appointed to the House of Lords and made a Scotland Office minister, with Tory sources saying he will bring a wealth of fishing and farming experience to the UK government as Brexit talks begin. It is not clear if he will stand down early from the European Parliament. As the began talks in Brussels, Mr Davis said he was determined to build a "strong and special partnership" with the EU. Subjects for the negotiations include the status of expats, the UK's "divorce bill" and the Northern Ireland border. The UK is set to leave the EU by the end of March 2019 following last year's referendum vote. The Scottish government wants Scotland to remain in the EU - and in particular the single market. But the UK government has insisted that Scotland will leave alongside the rest of the United Kingdom. Speaking during a visit to University of Strathclyde research centre, Ms Sturgeon said it was "troubling" that the UK government had "no authority and no clear idea even amongst its own ranks of what it's trying to achieve" as the negotiations began. She said: "We need to see a different approach to these negotiations if they are not going to end up being damaging to our economy. "We need a more inclusive approach that involves voices from every part of the UK, including the Scottish government, and we need an approach that has a common-sense objective. "In my view, that common-sense objective should be keeping the UK

Summary: The Scottish government should have a seat at the Brexit negotiating table, a Conservative MEP has said.


Tigers were awaiting official clearance from the French Rugby Federation and the 30-year-old, who has won 35 Test caps, is now able to cover for injured duo Manu Tuilagi and Matt Toomua. Head coach Aaron Mauger said: "We are missing two big players in midfield. "We're very happy to be able to bring in a player of Maxime's style, quality and experience."

Summary: Leicester have completed the signing of France centre Maxime Mermoz from Toulon until the end of the season.


A senior official at the Tunisian interior ministry told the Associated Press that Rezgui had been in Libya in January, the same time as two men who attacked a Tunisian museum in March. Most of the dead in Sousse were foreign tourists, including 30 Britons. The Islamic State group (IS) has claimed the attack as its own. "The attacker trained in Libya with weapons at the same period as the Bardo [museum] attackers," Rafik Chelli from the interior ministry told AP. IS also said it was behind the Bardo museum attack in Tunis that left 22 people dead. Mr Chelli said that Rezgui had travelled to the Libyan town of Sabratha at the same time as the Bardo attackers. "He crossed the borders secretly," Mr Chielli told AP. IS has a significant presence in Libya, Tunisia's eastern neighbour, and is thought to control the major towns of Derna and Sirte. The Tunisian authorities have released photos of two suspects, Bin Abdallah and Rafkhe Talari - friends of Rezgui that the police have yet to locate. Rezgui, 23, was radicalised while studying engineering. The Tunisian authorities have already arrested several suspected accomplices. However, Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has admitted that the security services were not prepared for an attack of this kind. He said extra security had been put in place at other locations during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, but nobody had expected beaches to be a target. The UK Foreign Office has updated its travel advice to warn that further terrorist attacks in Tunisia are possible, and has urged people to be vigilant. Tour companies have laid on extra flights and about 10,000 British tourists have flown home from Tunisia since Friday, according to the Association of British Travel Agents. The repatriation of bodies of Britons killed in the attack will begin on Wednesday, Downing Street has said. Twenty-one Britons have been identified as victims, with nine more believed to be among the dead, it added. Three Irish tourists, two Germans, a Belgian and a Portuguese national died in the attack. The repatriation process is expected to take several days and will be followed by a joint inquest into the deaths of all the British victims. The RAF flew the last four of the seriously injured back to the UK on Tuesday and they are now in hospital undergoing treatment. In other developments: The names of those killed in the attack are slowly emerging. Here's what we know so far about those who lost their lives, as well as those who are injured and missing. Some survivors have also been speaking out about their ordeal.

Summary: Seifeddine Rezgui, the Tunisian man who killed 38 people at the beach resort of Sousse, is thought to have been trained in Libya, security sources say.


The Dame Janet Smith review identified a total of 72 victims, including eight who were raped. Her report said BBC staff had known of the complaints about Savile but did not inform senior management. BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead said the corporation had failed the victims. Dame Janet's review found many, but not all, of the most serious incidents of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault were carried out by Savile at his own premises and not at the BBC. But she said Savile would also "gratify himself sexually" on BBC premises whenever the opportunity arose, and that she had heard of incidents which had taken place at the corporation's Glasgow studios as well as in cities including London, Manchester and Leeds. Dame Janet said Savile, who had a cottage in Glen Coe before he died at the age of 84 in 2011, and another former BBC presenter, Stuart Hall, were "serial sexual predators" and the BBC missed five opportunities to stop their misconduct. She detailed an incident involving a 12-year-old girl, who travelled from Scotland to visit her aunt in London in December 1973. According to the report, the girl persuaded her aunt to take her to see a recording of Top of the Pops, which Savile was presenting while dressed in a Womble outfit. It said she became separated from her aunt inside the studio, and after the show finished she and a 10-year-old boy were asked by a man whether they would like to meet Savile. They were taken to his dressing room, where they were offered fizzy drinks and biscuits by the man, before Savile came in, still wearing his Womble suit but without the head. After chatting with the two children, the girl watched as Savile raped the boy, who was saying "don't, don't". Savile then told the children "It's OK. It's our special secret", before sexually assaulting the girl. The report said the girl later walked to the tube station, and told her aunt that she had seen Slade and had had pop and biscuits with Savile himself. It added: "She did not tell anyone what had happened. She thought it was her fault and that she might go to hell for what she had done. "Of course, she was a child in a vulnerable situation and what happened to her was not in any way her fault." In April 2014, the victim saw a newspaper advertisement placed by a firm of solicitors asking for anyone who had been attacked by Savile to come forward. She contacted them, and it emerged that the boy who was raped while she watched had also contacted the legal firm. In his lifetime, millions knew Jimmy Savile as an eccentric TV personality. He was one of Britain's biggest stars, a larger-than-life character who was known for tea time TV favourites such as Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It, as well as stints on BBC Radio 1. He was also, to some, Saint Jimmy, a diligent fundraiser who raised Â£40m for charity. But, a year after his death in

Summary: Jimmy Savile abused some of his victims at the BBC's studios in Glasgow and also sexually assaulted a Scottish girl who had travelled to London to watch Top of the Pops, a report has found.


David McLean, 30, and Ryan Gilmour, 24, deny the charge, allegedly committed at Banner Drive in Glasgow on 23 October last year. They have lodged court papers blaming another man for the crime. The men are accused of reversing a Nissan Quashqai at PCs Deborah Lawson and Robert Fitzsimmons and repeatedly striking them. The charge further states that the police officers were trapped behind the open driver's door and dragged backwards and knocked to the ground. It is claimed that Mr McLean and Mr Gilmour then drove forwards at PC Lawson, who was lying injured in the road, causing her colleague PC Fitzsimmons to seize her and drag her out of the path of the car to avoid further injury. The men also deny later setting fire to the Quashqai at Lennox Gardens in the Scotstoun area of the city and attempting to defeat the course of justice by doing so. It is also alleged that the car had false plates and had been reset by means of theft. Mr Gilmour is also accused of driving while disqualified and having no insurance. Both men are also alleged to have committed a breach of the peace in Banner Drive by brandishing bottles, shouting and swearing, attempting to force entry to a flat and pouring liquid through a letter box. Mr McLean and Mr Gilmour deny all the charges against them and trial was set for June at the High Court in Edinburgh. Both men have lodged special defences of incrimination. The trial is expected to last for eight days.

Summary: Two men are to face trial accused of attempting to murder two police officers by driving a car at them.


Durant, 28, limped out of Tuesday's game after team-mate Zaza Pachulia fell on his left leg and caused a sprained medial ligament and leg bruising. It is hoped he could return before the end of the regular season on 12 April. The 2014 NBA Most Valuable Player joined the Warriors this season in a deal worth a reported $54.3m (£43.9m). Durant had spent the previous eight seasons at Oklahoma City Thunder, where he was a four-time NBA scoring champion. Western Conference leaders Warriors went into the game with a league-best 50-9 record and have already booked their place in the play-offs.

Summary: Golden State Warriors' top scorer Kevin Durant will be out "indefinitely" after injuring his knee in his side's 112-108 loss at Washington Wizards.


Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness was speaking ahead of Saturday's meeting by his party's ard chomhairle (national executive) to discuss the crisis. He said he was told the UK government plans to impose £12bn in welfare cuts. He said Tory ministers plan a further £13bn in cuts across UK government departments. The issue of welfare reform and its impact on Northern Ireland's budget has caused serious political difficulties at Stormont in recent years. The crisis deepened earlier this week when the Welfare Bill was blocked by Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the Green Party's only MLA. The welfare legislation was an important part of last December's Stormont House Agreement, and would have provided a number of mitigation measures to protect people on benefits who may otherwise lose out under planned welfare changes. Some of the reforms are already in force in other parts of the UK, but speaking ahead of this party's meeting in Dublin, Mr McGuinness said Northern Ireland was different from the rest of the UK. "I am not prepared to reside over the austerity agenda that the British government are inflicting on our executive. My conscience would not allow me to do it. "So I think what we have to do is rally the forces, both in Dublin, in the United State of America, and make it clear to David Cameron that this approach is folly of the worst kind," he said. But First Minister Peter Robinson, who leads the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), said there would be no renegotiation of the Stormont House Agreement. He warned that failing to implement welfare reform would result in "£600m of cuts to vital public services". Mr Robinson was interviewed at the Irish Open golf tournament, during his first public appearance since suffering heart attack last Monday. "I've had the experience of being in hospital, talking to medical staff, knowing the difficulties that they're facing, the fact that without the funds that they presently have there would be loss of life, it would be an issue for public safety," Mr Robinson said. "So, we do have to deal with all of these issues, but if they can't be dealt with then Her Majesty's government is going to have to step in and deal with them themselves." On Wednesday, Northern Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers said she could not rule out Westminster having to step in to legislate on welfare matters in Northern Ireland.

Summary: Northern Ireland's deputy first minister has described the political situation at Stormont as "very grave" due to the row over welfare reform.


It excludes the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, and, according to its terms, other UN-designated "terrorist" organisations, while including all warring parties that agree to it. The Syrian government says it will observe the cessation of hostilities, but insists that it will continue to fight IS, al-Nusra and "other terrorist groups linked to them". The Higher Negotiation Committee, which represents most of the main rebel factions, has given "preliminary approval" to the agreement, and is expected to announce its final position soon. Syria's Kurdish groups say they will still fight Islamic State, al-Nusra and the Ahrar al-Sham Islamist group, without clarifying their stance on the ceasefire agreement. Islamic State and al-Nusra control large tracts of land across Syria, where fighting will continue. The city of Raqqa, Deir al-Zour province and parts of neighbouring Hassakeh province, which both border Iraq, are under IS control, and it has a presence north and east of Aleppo, in particular in Al-Bab, Manbij, and Jarablus. In May 2015 it captured the city of Palmyra and extended its control into eastern Homs province, and has a limited presence in the rural areas of eastern Hama. The group is also present in the strategically important Qalamoun mountains north-east of Damascus, where it has clashed with al-Nusra. Al-Nusra Front is present in Aleppo and areas to the south and north-west of the city. It also controls parts of Qalamoun region and Hama province. Unlike IS, al-Nusra is willing to conclude tactical alliances and go into coalition with other groups, such as with the Islamist Jaish al-Fatah in Idlib Province. A question mark remains over the status of these allied groups under the ceasefire terms. No. Russia, Iran and the Syrian government regard Ahrar al-Sham and Jaish al-Islam as terrorist groups. Ahrar al-Sham is likely to be excluded from the ceasefire, given its alliance with al-Nusra in Aleppo and Idlib. But Jaish al-Islam, which controls large areas of the Damascus countryside, has closer ties to the broader Syrian opposition, and any attack on its positions might therefore endanger the ceasefire. The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and Women Protection Units (YPJ) are simultaneously fighting various Islamist groups as part of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) campaign. They are fighting IS in Hassakeh province, and al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham around Aleppo. The ceasefire will not have a direct impact on these theatres. 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: The partial ceasefire for Syria brokered by the United States and Russia is scheduled to come into effect on 27 February.


First floated in January and included in the Conservative manifesto, the cap would apply to central and local government and other public bodies. The BBC, Channel 4, Bank of England, the Armed Forces, Royal Bank of Scotland and other taxpayer-owned banks would be among organisations exempt. But ministers said they would expect such bodies to introduce "their own, commensurate cap on exit payments". The government says it wants to significantly reduce the cost to the taxpayer of public sector pay-offs, which totalled about £6.5bn between 2011-12 and 2013-14. "It's not right that highly-paid public sector workers should receive huge taxpayer-funded payouts when they're made redundant," said Chief Secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands. "The cap we are bringing into law will mean no more six-figure pay-offs in the civil service, local authorities and the NHS. We also expect other bodies who rely on taxpayers' money to follow suit." Under its plans, which would apply to bodies whose remuneration is determined at a UK level, any eligible organisation which wanted to exceed the cap would have to seek permission from ministers. The Treasury-led consultation, which will seek views on the scope, level and design of the proposed cap, will close on 27 August. Union leaders criticised the exclusion of RBS and the firms which manage the remaining publicly owned assets of Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley. They claim the cap will potentially affect nurses, teachers, firefighters and police officers on relatively modest incomes. "Ministers are portraying this as being aimed at highly paid public servants who enjoy 'golden goodbyes'," said Mark Serwotka, from the Public and Commercial Services Union. "But the reality is that capping the redundancy payments at the proposed level will impact on long-serving, loyal staff earning just above the average civil service pay who have built up pensions and other entitlements under their terms and conditions." The BBC introduced a £150,000 maximum limit on redundancy payments in 2013 following criticism of severance packages paid to some departing senior executives.

Summary: Ministers are to consult on plans to cap public sector pay-offs at £95,000.


Carla McGurn, 20, had been accused of assaulting the two-month-old boy on various occasions between January and February 2015 at a house in Fife. She denied the charge, which was found not proven by a jury after a trial. Miss McGurn, from Burntisland, had been accused of assaulting the boy by seizing hold of him and shaking him repeatedly. It had been alleged that she inflicted "blunt force trauma" to the boy's head and body by "means unknown to the prosecutor", and that the assault had been to the child's "severe injury" and to the "danger of his life".

Summary: A woman has been acquitted of assaulting a baby boy to the danger of his life.


Exam board Pearson has confirmed plans to develop a new history of art A-level for teaching from next September. October's decision by the AQA board to drop the subject provoked an outcry from experts who argued "society had never required its insights more". "It's amazing - just about in the nick of time," said teacher Sarah Phillips. Ms Phillips, from state sixth form Godalming College, developed the new syllabus with AQA and added: "Now we need to get the message out to Year 11 students as soon as possible." Subject to approval by Ofqual, Ms Phillips says she expects Pearson to build on her work which has been made available to the Department for Education by AQA. "It is a global specification. Students won't just study the work of dead white men," she said. "They will have the opportunity to study Islamic architecture and work by men and women of all colours and creeds. The support has been overwhelming," she added. In October, top experts signed an open letter to AQA condemning the decision not to offer the A-level to new students after this year. AQA was the last board to offer the subject and the decision represented "a vital loss for students", they argued. At the time AQA said the change "was not about money or whether history of art deserves a place in the curriculum", but said that it feared the new qualification was so wide-ranging that accurate marking would be impossible. Pearson, which also announced plans to take on AS and A-levels in statistics, also dropped by AQA, said awarding organisations, government and schools should work together in the interests of students to secure the future of important qualifications. "The response from the public, from teachers and from young people shows many people have a real passion for these subjects. We're happy to help make sure they remain available," said the company's president, Rod Bristow. The move was welcomed by leading academics and museum directors as well as by Turner Prize winners Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker and Jeremy Deller. Mr Kapoor said it was "a huge relief" while Mr Deller called it "a good day for art and culture" and added: "Art history is the study of power, politics, identity and humanity, it makes perfect sense to keep the exam." Ms Parker said she had studied art history "as a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners... It has hugely enriched my life". The Association of Art Historians hopes the battle to save the A-level will boost the subject's popularity, particularly in the state sector. "The threat to the A-level has galvanised support for art history, which will, I hope, provide a platform for a concerted effort to ensure that more people get the opportunity to study a subject that will enrich their lives," said Dr Ben Burbridge of Sussex University who was central to the campaign to save the A-level.

Summary: Campaigners for art history A-level say they are "absolutely thrilled" by a late decision to save the subject, which was set to be discontinued.


However, when you're at the very top of an organisation and juggling multiple demands it's even tougher. To drive their organisations to success, chief executives need to be crystal clear about their goals. They also need to not get distracted when carrying them out. The key to keeping on top of your workload and not getting overwhelmed includes: Delegating work, keeping meetings fairly short and working intensely in only short bursts. You should also remember to stay focussed, and keep a decent work-life balance otherwise you will risk burning out. Here some of the world's top business leaders share their secrets to not getting bogged down by the details. "You really have to evolve into a headset where you're only going to hold yourself accountable for the things you can control. If you bear every burden of the world, you're going to die a young death as a CEO. "If you're going to say, 'Oh my god, what am I going to do about the French economy? It's so terrible right now' - you can't do a damn thing about that and you can't worry about that. You just have to hold yourself accountable for those things you personally can have an impact on and leave the rest behind." "I think you can either delegate or you can't, and my whole modus operandi is to get it off my desk as quickly as possible onto someone else's desk. "It's a really good policy. I recommend it to any chief executives. Just get rid of the email onto someone else if you can." "It's managing your time and making sure you have energy left over. It's very hard to travel halfway around the world and land and visit 10 hotels and sit across the table from owners and make sure that you're sharp the whole time. Taking care of yourself and pacing yourself is actually important. "I'm not terribly good at saying no. If someone feels like I can help them somewhere, my first bias is to try to get there to do that, and there are just points where you have to say if I try to do too much, I'm not going to be good at what I need to do." "We can only can function at an optimum level for about 90 minutes. In other words we can do intense work for about 90 minutes and then we need to do something else. "And if you try to keep focusing you'll notice there's some long meetings, people begin to wander, their attention can't be focused and you get to this real point of diminishing returns. "You'll find you can do your best work in these sort of short bursts and you have creative 'oh my gosh' epiphanies and things are coming and you get it down. But then you've got to go renew yourself." "The most important thing in life is to have a balance. Just being a CEO and just constantly being under pressure and working and driving yourself, at the end of the day you'll be no good

Summary: Getting things done can be hard for anyone.


The European Tour's 'links swing' of seaside golf begins with the Irishman's home open at Portstewart. After this week's Irish Open, it is the Scottish Open at Dundonald before The Open itself at Royal Birkdale. Three consecutive weeks of golf in its most traditional form, which demands shot-making skills, imagination, power and touch. Over the years, Harrington has been blessed with all these attributes and this forthcoming spell concludes at the venue where he won the second of his two Opens, a place where he played the golf of his life. Now 45, this most articulate of golfing ambassadors is one of the senior figures on tour, blessed with rare intelligence and perspective. He thinks golf is harder than ever for the younger generation because of the depth of talent around these days. But he still believes Rory McIlroy, whose charitable foundation backs this week's Irish Open, can win up to 10 majors. And for someone who has practised tirelessly his entire career, Harrington says he will return to Birkdale later this month feeling a sense of contentment, happy for the memories of 2008 to come flooding back. Indeed, he has already returned to the Southport course with his club sponsors to help reignite thoughts of what was a remarkable title defence after initially winning it at Carnoustie in 2007. "Content is the word. I come back here and I know that I've done it," Harrington told BBC Sport over a cup of tea in Birkdale's distinctive art-deco clubhouse. "When I come back for The Open I have to make sure I take time to take a deep breath and look round and enjoy everything. I'm not saying I'm retired now but anything I do now in the game of golf will be a bonus. "I'm on the ultimate busman's holiday at this stage and I intend to embrace that." It was a different story in 2008, when it took generous assistance from rival Phil Mickelson to help Harrington be fit enough to tee up for his title defence. The Irishman injured his wrist practising at home the weekend before The Open. "I was doing some speed work, hitting an impact bag one-handed," Harrington told me. "I'd just hit a golf ball at 177mph one-handed and then hit into the bag and tweaked something in my wrist. "I couldn't swing the golf club Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday without some pain. I was getting physio all day, every day, and in the evening I was going over to Phil Mickelson's hotel. "He had one of these laser-like treatment machines and I was leaving no stone unturned. "We'd have this 45-minute chat every night as I sat there lasering my wrist in his hotel. It was a small room too," Harrington added, with his infectious giggle. "Phil is that type of guy. He's got a good sense of the game. He wants to beat the hell out of you on the golf course but he'd like you to be playing your best while he's doing it." Despite his lack of practice, Harrington was able

Summary: Three-time major champion Padraig Harrington will be relishing the prospect of this phase of the golf season probably more than any of the other top stars in the game.


The 49-year-old man sustained a head injury following the incident at about 09:00 on the Loan Footpath, at its junction with Fergus Avenue. He was taken to the Western General where his condition is now considered to be serious. Police Scotland are trying to trace the cyclist, who did not swap details with the jogger at the time. Sgt Neil Inglis said: "We're eager to trace the cyclist, described as a man in his early 20s, and any witnesses, as soon as possible in the hope that they can help us establish the full circumstances surrounding this incident." Police are also appealing for witnesses to a collision between a motorbike and car in East Calder. A Kawasaki motorbike and a Kia Ceed collided at about 17:15 on Friday on the A71 junction with the B7031 Camps. The A71 was closed for about an hour while the road was cleared. A 41-year-old man was taken to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with serious injuries, which are not thought to be life-threatening.

Summary: A jogger has been seriously injured in a collision with a bicycle in Livingston.


The Â£25,000 prize went to London-based architecture and design collective Assemble, who have overhauled 10 houses in the area. Judge Alistair Hudson said they were "part of a long tradition of art working in society". But some questioned whether they should have been eligible for the prize. Speaking after the announcement on Channel 4, author and broadcaster Muriel Gray said: "I think it's changed the nature of the Turner Prize because I don't think it is modern art. "I think it's socially responsible, beautiful architecture. But it's a very peculiar year." Assemble comprise between 14-18 members and were joined by Liverpool residents at the ceremony in Glasgow. They were presented with the prize by Kim Gordon from US band Sonic Youth. Faced by the collective's massed ranks on stage, she joked: "I'm not sure who to give the cheque to." Assemble were surprise inclusions on this year's shortlist and now join the likes of Damien Hirst, Grayson Perry and Steve McQueen among the ranks of Turner Prize winners. Will Gompertz, Arts Editor Assemble winning the Turner Prize last night points to a trend happening in the art world, which connects to Theaster Gates winning the Artes Mundi prize earlier in the year. Both are trading in the name of "art" to fulfil a community-based social enterprise. They are leveraging the value we place on the word "art" and work artists produce, to enable them to raise the funds to do the regeneration work that motivates their activities. Gates is trying to regenerate Chicago and Assemble are tying to do something similar in Toxteth. Is it art? Does it matter? If somebody turning on and off lights can win the Turner Prize, why shouldn't somebody trying to re-energise a neglected part of an inner city win? Assemble are all in their mid-20s and all but three members studied architecture together. Group member Lewis Jones has described the collective as "the real antithesis of the conventional model of a Turner Prize nominee being a single genius artist". They have impressed the Turner Prize judges and Liverpool residents alike by working closely with locals to develop imaginative designs for the interiors of the terraced houses in the Granby Four Streets area of Toxteth. They have created mantelpieces using brick and rubble construction waste from the streets; ceramic door handles fired in barbecues fuelled by sawdust left over from building work; as well as hand-decorated tiles and hand-pressed terracotta lamps. Working with the Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust, those fixtures and fittings have been used to refurbish 10 derelict houses on Cairns Street. Jones said: "Only a few years ago you'd go around and stuck on the front of each house would be a sign saying, 'All objects of value have been removed from this property.' So I guess this has been part of putting those things back in." They have even proposed turning one ruined house into a glass-roofed winter garden. Assemble arrived after "20 or 30 years of cynical, top-down regeneration attempts", he said. They have also used the profile of the Turner

Summary: A regeneration scheme for derelict houses in Toxteth in Liverpool has won Britain's leading contemporary art award, the Turner Prize.


Andrew Bedford, 27, from Huntingdon, was last seen at 18:20 BST on Friday, 28 September 1990 at Factory Bank, off Great Whyte, Ramsey. Three people were arrested at the time but no-one was charged. Specialist equipment is being used to identify disturbances in the earth near Stocking Fen Road in Ramsey. The investigation into Mr Bedford's disappearance was re-launched as a murder inquiry on Friday. Police now believe he was shot dead sometime during the evening he was last seen. Det Sgt Gordon Blair said: "New intelligence has allowed us to pinpoint this area [Stocking Fen Road] as a viable place to search with a view to recovering potential evidence. "This could include evidence of how Andrew was killed or where his remains are today." Mr Bedford was last seen eating a takeaway in a light blue Ford Cortina car. He was wearing overalls, a khaki jumper, jeans and trainers. He was described as 5ft 8in (1.72m), medium build with mousey blond, curly, shoulder-length hair and had a number of tattoos. The prime suspect for the shooting is now dead, "but others who were involved have never been brought to justice", a police spokesman said.

Summary: Officers investigating a cold case murder of a Cambridgeshire man 25 years ago have started digging an area near to where he was last seen alive.


It follows reports in a German paper of repeated clashes between Theresa May and Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker at a Downing Street dinner. EU sources claimed UK misunderstanding of the talks process, and ignorance about how Brussels works, could lead to no deal being agreed on the UK's exit. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the reports were "tittle-tattle". She said the emergence of the reports was "not the right way" of negotiating, but the UK was committed to negotiating in "good faith". According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine, the prime minister and Mr Juncker reportedly clashed over Mrs May's desire to make Brexit "a success" and whether the issue of protecting the rights of expat UK and EU nationals could be agreed as early as June. The newspaper claimed Mr Juncker said: "I leave... 10 times more sceptical than I was before." In a speech later on Tuesday, Mrs May - who has dismissed the account as "Brussels gossip" - will cite the need to stand up to the other 27 EU countries "We have seen in recent days, it will not be easy," she will say. "The negotiations ahead will be tough. Across the table from us sit 27 European member states who are united in their determination to do a deal that works for them." The German newspaper's report of the dinner last Wednesday, which looks to have come via European Commission sources, said that after the PM said she wanted to "make Brexit a success", Mr Juncker's response was: "Brexit cannot be a success. The more I hear, the more sceptical I become." And when she said the UK owes no money to the EU, the president informed her that she was not leaving a "golf club". The article said that, after last week's dinner, Mr Juncker was shocked at Mrs May's suggestion that a deal on citizens' rights could be achieved so quickly. The German newspaper report also suggested Mr Juncker said there would be no trade deal between the UK and the rest of the EU if the UK failed to pay the "divorce" bill which it is expected to be asked for. Reports also claim that the morning after the dinner last Wednesday Mr Juncker told German chancellor Angela Merkel that Mrs May was "on a different galaxy". A senior Conservative source told the BBC that the party would "rise above" all the media coverage but rejected accounts of the dinner, saying: "We really, really do not recognise those reports." Ms Rudd said the UK would not be responding to the claims but the government had set out a clear plan and priorities for the talks and Mrs May was the best person to negotiate a Brexit deal that was in the UK's "national interest". "Once you start engaging in gossip, in tittle-tattle in this way, it (will) carry on and who knows where it will lead?" she told BBC Breakfast. "Nobody knows how much truth there is in gossip. But there are ways of conveying what is going on and this is not the right way.

Summary: The UK will not enter into "a briefing war" with the European Commission over Brexit talks, Tory sources have said.


The facility is its second in Europe, after Brussels, and promises to provide faster access times to nearby clients. Google is currently the third most capable cloud computing service provider, according to a recent study. But the report, by Gartner, suggested Amazon and Microsoft had a clear lead. The technology consultancy added that in terms of sales to the "cloud infrastructure as a service" market, Google's share was also a "distant third". Until now, the search giant has focused on opening data centres for its cloud computing platform in the US and Asia, where it has bases in Singapore, Taiwan and Tokyo. But in announcing the London centre, it also disclosed plans to open facilities in Finland, the Netherlands and Frankfurt. "GCP [Google Cloud Platform] customers throughout the British Isles and Western Europe will see significant reductions in latency when they run their workloads in the London region," said product manager Dave Stiver, referring to processing delays caused by the distances data has to travel. "In cities like London, Dublin, Edinburgh and Amsterdam, our performance testing shows 40% to 82% reductions in round-trip latency when serving customers from London compared with the Belgium region." A spokeswoman for the company added that the decision to build a London centre had been taken before the Brexit vote and was therefore unrelated to speculation that the UK's data privacy laws may diverge from the EU's in the future. Google's platform allows clients to offload data processing tasks and information storage, including support for apps they may offer to the public and analysing feedback gathered from internet-connected devices. By charging customers for the amount of compute time they use rather than a flat rate, Google seeks to provide IT departments with a cheaper alternative to maintaining their own data centres. The company's existing customers include the Telegraph newspaper, Coca-Cola and the online education service Khan Academy. At present, GCP offers fewer features than Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, but it is catching up, according to Gartner. "Google uses deep discounts and exceptionally flexible contracts to try to win projects from customers that are currently spending significant sums of money with cloud competitors," its June report said. And that had led some companies to use Google to supplement their use of Amazon or Microsoft's rival platforms. Gartner added: "GCP is increasingly chosen as a strategic alternative to AWS by customers whose businesses compete with Amazon." Last month it emerged that Wal-Mart had urged its IT vendors not to use Amazon's service because it did not want its "most sensitive data... sitting on a competitor's platform". Google does not disclose revenue for its cloud platform, but analysts estimate that it generated about $1bn (Â£776m) of sales last year and forecast it will double that amount in 2018. By contrast, market leader AWS generated $12.2bn of sales in the past financial year, and is more profitable than Amazon's better-known retail business. Microsoft will update investors on Azure's performance when it posts its full year's results next week. On Monday, it announced a new hybrid service that would allow

Summary: Google has revealed it has built a London data centre for the cloud computing services it rents to third parties.


Milk will replace sugar as the treat's main ingredient, as the white stuff content is boosted from 26% to 37.5%. Nestle said the new recipe bars - with sugar cut by 0.7g - will be in stores by the end of the month. It follows a similar move with its KitKat recipe, which increased the milk and cocoa content. The Milkybar recipe has been the same since the bar first came into production in 1936, but is being changed as part of Public Health England's drive to reduce the amount of sugar consumed in the UK by 20%. In April Nestle reduced the amount of sugar in its fruit pastilles by 30%. A spokesman said the reductions in sugar would make "a positive step overall to removing sugar from the nation's diet while maintaining the taste"

Summary: Milkybars are about to get milkier, as the recipe changes for the first time in 81 years.


About 15 students, from the 'Fossil Free QUB' group, have been occupying part of the university's administration building since Friday. A QUB spokesperson said a review of its investment policy is taking place. The review will be completed next spring. The spokesperson added that the university is happy to hold discussions with Fossil Free QUB, but there would be no immediate decision taken on its investment policy outside of the review. The Green Party Northern Ireland, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) Alliance Party, Sinn FÃ©in and People Before Profit have all expressed support for the fossil free campaign. Belfast city Green Party NI councillor Ross Brown was at the demonstration at Queen's, and called for the university to disinvest in fossil fuels. "There are investment indexes that exist now that exclude fossil fuels, so there's no stopping Queen's choosing those indexes and taking their money out of fossil fuels." The Sinn FÃ©in MLA Chris Hazzard also said the university should take action now, rather than waiting for the results of a review. "Other universities around the world, including Sheffield, have recently done this, so it's time for Queen's to do that too," he said. Meanwhile, freedom of information requests carried out by the Fossil Free QUB organisation - and seen by the BBC - show that some of Queen's money is subsequently invested in; However, these types of investments are not unusual, according to a wealth management expert. Ewan Boyle, director of Johnston Campbell financial advisors, told the BBC that many organisations had diverse portfolios. "If we look at the top 100 companies in the UK, around 25% of those have a bias towards mining or oil, so avoiding those companies if you are a large investor is virtually impossible" he said. "Queen's are passing their money to fund managers, who are responsible for investing that money, and their primary objective is to get the best returns they possibly can." "It's what many pension funds, and many large organisations are doing," Mr Boyle added. "Mining and oil have been huge growth areas in recent years, so that's where the fund managers are investing to get those returns." A Queen's spokesperson said that university business was continuing as normal, although a small number of staff in the finance office had been relocated.

Summary: A number of politicians have attended the protest calling for Queen's University, Belfast (QUB) to sell shares it holds in fossil fuel firms.


The 1-0 win, courtesy of Nicky Cadden's penalty, kept Livi a point clear of Airdrieonians, who have a game in hand and beat Peterhead 4-2 away. Queen's Park moved above Albion Rovers into fifth place by beating Brechin. The Spiders, who won 2-0, are now five points behind third-placed Brechin, with Alloa, who are fourth, inactive. The Wasps, like Stranraer, East Fife and Stenhousemuir, were not in league action, though Stenny beat Forres Mechanics in the Scottish Cup. At Cliftonhill, Ross Dunlop fouled Dale Carrick in the box and Cadden converted the spot-kick in the penultimate minute. There was further misery for the hosts as Alan Reid was sent off in stoppage time following his second booking. Airdrie raced into a three-goal lead at Balmoor with Andy Ryan's strike, Sean McIntosh's header and Iain Russell's finish all coming within the opening 20 minutes. Nicky Riley replied for the hosts before half-time and Leighton McIntosh's penalty following Jack Leitch's foul on Riley further reduced Peterhead's arrears. But Ryan's second effort of the match deep into stoppage time clinched the visitors' win. Brechin City lost ground on the top two after losing at Hampden. Ross Millen opened the scoring from the penalty spot after a first-half foul by goalkeeper Graeme Smith on Dario Zanatta and Ryan McGeever headed home a late Sean Burns corner.

Summary: Livingston maintained their slender advantage at the top of Scottish League One with a narrow and late victory over Albion Rovers.


The Tonga-born flanker or number eight won 17 Test caps for the All Blacks between 2005 and 2008. In 2012, it was reported Lauaki - who played for Super Rugby club Chiefs as well as French sides Bayonne and Clermont - had been suffering from heart and kidney problems. "The thoughts of everyone are with the family of Sione Lauaki. Gone too soon. RIP, Wax," tweeted the All Blacks. The Chiefs were playing in the Brisbane Global Tens rugby tournament on Sunday and dedicated their victory to their former player. "We lost a brother today,'' outside back Shaun Stevenson said after the Chiefs won the Brisbane title. Earlier in the day, Chiefs coach Dave Rennie said his side would dedicate the to the tournament to the memory of Lauaki. "There's a number of guys who played a lot of footy with Wax,'' Rennie said, referring to Lauaki's nickname. "There's a lot of motivating factors. Not everyone knows Wax, but he played a lot of footy for the Chiefs and he's certainly highly respected among his mates.'' This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser

Summary: Former New Zealand forward Sione Lauaki has died at the age of 35.


The programme will be back on BBC One next month after a nine-year break. The new titles show the main characters Jack and Victor, played by Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, from the 1960s, 70s and 80s to the present day. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra have also made a new recording of the iconic title music. Filming on the new series, once again written by Kiernan and Hemphill, has been taking place on a purpose-built set at BBC Scotland's Dumbarton Studios and around Glasgow. Still Game follows the antics of pensioners Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade and ran for six series between 2002 and 2007. The new series will also see the return of Sanjeev Kohli as Navid, Gavin Mitchell as Bobby, Paul Riley as Winston and Mark Cox as Tam. Reruns of the show have proved popular with audiences and it has also attracted new fans on TV streaming service Netflix.

Summary: The titles and theme tune for the popular comedy Still Game have been revamped ahead of the launch of a new series.


In a BBC interview, he denied any link with fighting that began on Sunday and accused President Salva Kiir of "inciting tribal and ethnic violence". The UN says hundreds have died and has warned of a descent into civil war. Mr Kiir's government said its forces were in control of all cities, but he has offered to talk to Mr Machar. Mr Kiir said a group of soldiers supporting Mr Machar had tried to take power by force on Sunday night but were defeated. He said the clashes began when uniformed personnel opened fire at a meeting of the governing party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). But Mr Machar told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme on Wednesday: "There was no attempted coup." What is behind South Sudan army clashes? The whereabouts of Mr Machar are unclear. He told the BBC he was still in South Sudan and was "not going to leave the country". He blamed Sunday's fighting on a conflict between members of the presidential guard, and said it spread across parts of the capital, Juba. He added that government troops used the incident to arrest some of his supporters on Monday, and that he himself escaped. "Salva wanted to frame me," he said. "I had to flee. They are hunting me down." Mr Machar said his disagreement with Mr Kiir was on reform of the SPLM, which the president had rejected. "So we are asking him to resign and leave the presidency," Mr Machar said. Mr Kiir said he was willing to enter into talks with Mr Machar but said he did not know what the result would be. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed the offer, saying he was "deeply concerned" about the situation in the country. He said that this was "a political crisis that needs to be dealt with through political dialogue" and that there was a risk of the violence spreading further. Mr Ban confirmed that some 20,000 people had taken refuge in the UN mission in Juba, and several hundred more in Jonglei state. French UN ambassador Gerard Araud, who holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council, said the conflict had "the potential of a civil war" between the two main ethnic bodies, the Dinka - Mr Kiir's group - and the Nuer, from which Mr Machar hails. Information Minister Micheal Makuei Lueth confirmed to the Associated Press that at least 500 people, mostly soldiers, had been killed. There were reports that fighting had continued on Monday and Tuesday near the presidential palace and many other areas of Juba. On Wednesday a businessman living in Juba, Muhammad Waqas ur-Rehman, told the BBC the city was tense and that he and many others were trying to leave. There were also reports of people fleeing clashes in Bor, the capital of Jonglei state, about 150km (90 miles) to the north. The South Sudan Red Cross Society said at least 19 people were killed in overnight fighting there. However, presidential spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny told the BBC that government forces were in full

Summary: Fugitive former South Sudanese vice-president Riek Machar has denied government allegations that he tried to stage a coup at the weekend.


The online retail giant reported a $92m profit compared to a $126m loss for the same period a year ago. Sales also rose 20% to $23.2bn in the second quarter to the end of June, boosted by strong growth in the US. Its shares, which fell 1.3% during the day, leapt 18.5% to $571.24 a share in after-hours trading on Wall Street. The firm was also upbeat on its prospects for the current third quarter, forecasting sales would grow between 13% and 24% compared to last year, much higher than analysts had predicted. Sales in North America rose 25.5% to $13.8bn in the second quarter, driven by purchases of electronic goods and general merchandise, helping to drive the strong performance. Its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, also made a contribution, with sales up 81% compared to the same quarter last year. It said its widely promoted "Prime Day" on 15th July - which offered special deals to customers who signed up to its fast delivery service - had been a success with more new members trying it globally than any other day in the firm's history. Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos credited hard work for the results: "The teams at Amazon have been working hard for customers," he said. Throughout its history, Amazon's revenue has climbed while its profit has hovered around or below zero. On Thursday evening, the e-commerce company reported a profit. As customers in North America bought electronics and others products, sales in its biggest market rose more than 25% compared to last year. And if you thought Microsoft's cloud computing business did well, then take a look at Amazon web services which includes its cloud business - revenue soared more than 80 percent. The only slight negative was that sales growth outside the US wasn't nearly as impressive. Still after years of ploughing its cash into new technology , mostly aimed at making it easier and faster for customers to get what they want, the results are starting to pay off - at least in the eyes of Wall Street

Summary: Amazon shares have surged more than 18% in after-hours trading after it reported a surprise profit and better-than-expected sales figures.


Officers described the incident near Blairhill Station, in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, on Sunday night as "stupid and dangerous". The shopping trolley was hurled through overhead power lines which could have electrocuted the person. A train hit the trolley, but there was no serious damage to the vehicle or any injuries on board. British Transport Police have appealed for anyone with information to contact them. PC Mark Harrington said: "We believe the trolley was thrown onto the tracks before the train struck it. "It's incredible that whoever threw it was not electrocuted, as the trolley has gone between the overhead wires. "This was a stupid and dangerous thing to do and could have had very serious consequences, not only for the person throwing the trolley but also for the driver and all the passengers of the train that collided with it. "This happened in a residential area so it is likely that someone will have seen or heard people by the tracks around the time of the incident. "I would like to speak to anyone who has any information that could help with this investigation."

Summary: A person who threw a trolley onto train tracks is lucky to be alive, transport police have said.


Research for the British Polling Council followed the widespread failure to predict May's majority Tory win. Surveys did not accurately sample the UK population, and over-represented Labour voters, it says. The BPC has recommended a series of changes, saying pollsters may wish to randomly select participants in future. It says "probability sampling" may be a more accurate way of gauging voters' intentions than the current practice of recruiting people in advance to take part on the basis of their likely voting habits. The majority of polls taken during the five-week general election campaign indicated the Conservatives and Labour, led by David Cameron and Ed Miliband respectively, were neck-and-neck. This led to speculation that Labour could be the largest party in a hung parliament and could potentially have to rely on SNP support to govern. However the Conservatives secured an overall majority for the first time since 1992, winning 99 more seats than Labour, their 6.5% margin of victory taking nearly all commentators by surprise. The BPC, which represents the major survey bodies and issued an interim report into the findings in January, says the Tory win was not foreseen due to "systemic" errors. The inquiry said unrepresentative sampling was the primary cause for the polling failures. It cited the over-representation of Labour voters and under-representation of Tories, with Conservative voters apparently being harder to reach. There was, it added, an over-reliance on more willing survey respondents and said that too few elderly people being polled could have also played a part. It also said an inaccurate expectation of a hung parliament may have influenced the result of the election itself. The report makes 12 recommendations to the way polls are conducted in future. These include a call for measures to be taken to make sure samples are more representative, and a review into the way in which "don't know" voters are allocated in the results. It says BPC members should state clearly which variables were used to weight data and detail the adjustments made in between polls. BPC president John Curtice said the organisation will look to implement the report's recommendations on transparency but cannot compel members to comply with following a specific type of methodology. But he said the BPC will issue a report ahead of the general election in 2020 detailing how companies have changed their sampling and weighting procedures. "The BPC recognises that simply saying 'well okay, it's all fine, everybody go off and do their own thing' may not be thought of as an adequate response to what happened in 2015," Prof Curtice said. Southampton University professor of research methodology Patrick Sturgis, who chaired the research for the BPC, said the report should not be used to "bash the polls". He said "we still think that the polls are really the only show in town for forecasting election results".

Summary: Opinion polls before the 2015 election were among the most inaccurate since surveying began more than 70 years ago, an industry-wide review has suggested.


The number of Welsh seats in the House of Commons would fall from 40 to 29, with the size of Westminster constituencies increasing. Labour - which won 25 Welsh seats at the last election - is likely to feel the biggest impact. Voters have been invited to have their say during a 12-week consultation, with the final report due in 2018. The new constituencies have been drawn up by the independent Boundary Commission for Wales under a formula set down under the previous Tory-Lib Dem coalition government. Constituency boundaries will change across the UK, reducing the size of the Commons from 650 to 600 seats. But Wales will see the biggest proportional cut among the four nations. All of the new constituencies must have at least 71,031 voters. At present in Wales, all but one of the existing seats have electorates smaller than that. If introduced in time for the 2020 general election, the review would mean the Commons and the Welsh Assembly no longer share the same constituencies. The Boundary Commission said it had tried to preserve community links, but did not take political considerations into account. Steve Halsall, secretary of the Boundary Commission for Wales, said it was an initial set of proposals. "It has also taken into account other relevant factors and has sought to identify the solutions most suitable to local needs within Wales," he said. Welsh Labour accused the Conservatives of "trying to stack the deck in their favour" by pushing ahead with the new boundaries. The party claimed these did not take into account the millions of extra people who registered to vote in the EU referendum. Labour MP Stephen Kinnock, whose Aberavon constituency would be split up, called the proposal a "bare-faced gerrymander". Conservative MP Glyn Davies, whose Montgomeryshire seat would also disappear, said it was "massively disappointing" for him personally but that, in general, the changes were "pretty well inevitable". He said he was concerned that rural MPs would "lose the familiarity with their constituents" if their seats grow bigger, "bit like MEPs at the moment". "No matter how hard they work people in my constituency just don't know who they are," Mr Davies said. "Indeed, assembly members will become the dominant representative." Boundaries for Welsh Assembly elections will remain as they are now. Plaid Cymru's leader at Westminster, Hywel Williams, said Wales "should not disproportionately lose out" in the Parliamentary changes. "As it stands, Welsh powers are far weaker than those of both Scotland and Northern Ireland," he said. "Westminster is still responsible for major areas of policy affecting Wales and our nation will have less of a voice if these proposals go through." Tory peer Lord Hayward, a boundary review expert, said Wales was in effect receiving a double hit at once in terms of its reduction. "We have an oversized legislature, by any measure," he said. "Both the House of Commons and the House of Lords are too big. "Wales is hit particularly hard because, whereas Scotland's representation at Westminster was reduced in 2005 when it got its own parliament, Wales

Summary: A new Parliamentary map outlining plans to cut the number of Welsh MPs by more than a quarter has been published.


Spanish Trade Secretary Jaime Garcia Legaz said the EU would intervene over Argentina's seizure of the controlling stake in YPF from Spanish firm Repsol. Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also offered support. But Argentine officials said they were not worried by possible reprisals over the nationalisation. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced the measure on Monday, saying she was asserting sovereignty over Argentina's energy resources. Her government is taking 51% of YPF, wiping out Repsol's 57.4% majority stake. The move has wide support in Argentina but has provoked outrage in Spain, which has threatened reprisals. The Spanish government will consider what measures to take at a cabinet meeting on Friday, and has also been rallying international support. "There are going to be very clear interventions on the part of the European Union," Trade Secretary Jaime Garcia Legaz said, without revealing further details. It is not clear what any reprisals might involve. EU foreign ministers are expected to discuss the issue at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday. Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said Spain would also raise the issue with the IMF, the World Bank and the G-20. "We will try to pressurise Argentina so that it sees that this road is going nowhere," he said after meeting Hillary Clinton. He added that Spain and the US had agreed to work together to "re-establish international legality". But the Argentine government says it will not back down in its decision to nationalise YPF, which it says is a lawful action taken in the national interest. "The government takes its decisions thinking about the Argentine people and not what the US or the Spanish government think," Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo said. "We are not worried about any kind of reprisals," he added. Repsol has said it wants around $10bn for its stake in YPF, but Argentina has said it does not accept that valuation. It says YPF did not invest enough to increase output from its oil fields, forcing Argentina to rely on imports. YPF, Argentina's biggest oil company, was privatised in 1993. Last year it announced huge new finds of shale oil and gas.

Summary: Spain says it is rallying international support against Argentina's nationalisation of the oil firm, YPF.


The gelding won 23 of his 41 races, including five King George VI Chases. The 15-year-old moved to dressage after retiring from racing in 2012. His rider Laura Collett said: "Devastated to announce Kauto Star sustained injury in the field, with his best interest at heart a decision was made to put him to sleep." Owner Clive Smith told BBC Radio 5 live: "It is really devastating - he was looking fit and well at Laura Collett's yard. The main injury was to the neck, as it gets worse it attacks the spinal cord. He also fractured his pelvic bone. A really sad time indeed. "He had a great talent for never giving up. He wanted to win. With jockey Ruby Walsh riding him, he put this massive effort in at the end of races. He had a heart of a lion." He added: "The vets made him comfortable but the kindest thing was to euthanise him. It was a horrible moment. He was such a wonderful horse, but he did not suffer." Paul Nicholls, who trained Kauto to his famous victories, told BBC Somerset: "Kauto was such a big part of that team. We'll never have one as good as him. Sixteen Grade One wins on all those plaques [referring to those honouring the horse at his yard]. "He touched a lot of hearts. People like to follow a horse and they could do that with Kauto a number of years. You can see the reaction on social media - it's absolutely incredible." And 20-time champion jump jockey AP McCoy told BBC Radio 5 live Kauto Star was the "complete horse". Edward Gillespie, who was in charge of Cheltenham Racecourse during Kauto's successes in 2007 and 2009, told BBC Radio Bristol: "I was at Paul Nicholls' yard yesterday and saw the plaques for winning horses - Kauto has an entire wall. "Some of us are old enough to remember three-time Gold Cup winner Arkle. Kauto is the only horse you can talk about in the same breath as Arkle. Racing will be mourning today." Kauto Star became the first horse to regain the Cheltenham Gold Cup after losing it to Denman in 2008, and also made history by winning a fifth King George VI Chase, on Boxing Day in 2011. Walsh, who guided Kauto Star to 17 of his 23 career wins, said he had felt honoured to ride him. "He's the horse of my lifetime. I'm very lucky to be the one who got to ride him," he said after Kauto's retirement in 2012. "He was an amazing horse to ride and an amazing horse to be part of and I loved every minute of riding him."

Summary: Two-time Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Kauto Star has been put down after suffering neck and pelvis injuries in a fall.


The sell-out Barbican show has nine nominations, including best actor for the Sherlock star. Musicals Kinky Boots and In The Heights also have nine nominations each. The winners, chosen by public vote, will be announced at an awards concert on 21 February 2016 at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Hamlet's nominations include supporting actor nods for Ciaran Hinds, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Sian Brooke and Anastasia Hille, while Lyndsey Turner is shortlisted for best director. The production made headlines this summer after it shifted the position of Hamlet's famous "to be or not to be" soliloquy. Cumberbatch had also made a plea to fans during early performances not to film his performance. The 39-year-old actor faces competition in the best actor category from James McAvoy (The Ruling Class), Bradley Cooper (The Elephant Man), Mark Rylance (Farinelli and the King) and Alex Hassell (Henry V). Nicole Kidman is nominated for best actress in a play for her part as a pioneering scientist in Photograph 51. She is up against Rosalie Craig (As You Like It), Denise Gough (People, Places, Things), Harriet Walter (Death Of A Salesman) and Lia Williams (Oresteia). Photograph 51 and Farinelli and the King are both nominated for best new play, along with Oppenheimer, People, Places and Things and Hangmen. The recently-opened Elf the Musical is up for best new musical category in competition with Kinky Boots, Bend It Like Beckham, Beautiful and In the Heights. THE 16TH ANNUAL WHATSONSTAGE AWARDS NOMINEES IN FULL: Best Actor in a Play: Best Actress in a Play: Best Actor in a Musical: Best Actress in a Musical: Best Supporting Actor in a Play: Best Supporting Actress in a Play: Best Supporting Actor in a Musical: Best Supporting Actress in a Musical: Best New Play: Best New Musical: Best Play Revival: Best Musical Revival: Best Direction: Best Choreography: Best Set Design: Best Lighting Design: Best Off-West End Production: Best Regional Production: Best West End Show:

Summary: The blockbuster production of Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is the most nominated play at the WhatsOnStage awards.


The 31-year old joins from Gloucester City and reunites with boss Graham Westley for a third time. Reid scored 66 goals in 112 appearances for the Exiles between 2008 and 2011, helping them win the 2010 Conference South title, before Westley paid £100,000 to take him to Stevenage. Newport have also re-signed former club captain David Pipe. Defenders Mark O'Brien and Sid Nelson have also arrived at Rodney Parade. "I am delighted to confirm I have signed a contract back at Newport County, the club I enjoyed so much success with," Reid wrote on Facebook.

Summary: Newport County have re-signed striker Craig Reid, the fourth signing made by the Exiles in 24 hours.