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When former five-weight boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather and UFC lightweight title-holder Conor McGregor step into the ring at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on 26 August, some 20,000 people will be in the arena. The scrap for tickets during Monday's release was intense, short-lived and disappointing for the majority. But will anyone be willing to shell out $150,000 (£115,000) to be there? Ticket resale website StubHub has tickets on sale at that price, with several others at a comparatively cheap $100,000 (£75,000). American Mayweather, 40, will come out of retirement to face McGregor in the 29-year-old Irishman's first professional boxing bout. McGregor's lack of experience has led to some criticism of the bout, from which both men are expected to earn as much as $100m (£78.4m). UFC president Dana White wanted to avoid a repeat of Mayweather's 2015 bout with Manny Pacquiao, for which many tickets fell into the hands of brokers. His solution was to sell seats through Ticketmaster, with each purchase limited to two tickets, and any transaction only possible with a code issued to Ticketmaster members. But codes - priced at $200 (£153) - were quickly available to buy on Ebay, allowing non-members to access Ticketmaster, where prices ranged from £385-£7,706. StubHub is yet to sell any of the tickets listed by users at $150,000, and told BBC Sport $3,265 (£2,500) is the average price at which seats have changed hands. The cheapest ticket available on the site - for a position in the upper tier, in a row yet to be determined - is $1,875 (£1,433). Speaking earlier this week, White said: "A lot of shady things can go on with tickets, as if they aren't expensive enough. "The fight is making enough money, you don't have to go around and sell the tickets to brokers. Everybody is making enough money - stop. "I wanted everybody to buy their own tickets. I'm buying my own, as are Conor and Floyd." Mayweather Promotions has negotiated a deal to broadcast the fight in 400 cinemas across the US - and organiser Fathom Events told BBC Sport it expects "sold-out auditoriums" at an average cost of $40 (£31) a seat. It is estimated the combination of pay-per-view revenue, ticket sales, sponsorship, merchandise sales and receipts from cinema ticket or closed circuit television venues will generate about $600m. The number of pay-per-view buys will prove pivotal in whether the bout becomes the richest of all time. Mayweather's bout with Pacquiao - regarded as the richest in history, with total revenue of about $623m (£476m) - had 4.6 million buys.
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The Labour leader said the election was "not a clash of two nations but a clash of two visions".
His party has been attacked by the Tories over potential alliances with the SNP in a hung parliament.
The Conservatives said it was a legitimate argument because Labour "can't get a majority without the SNP".
And Labour former Scottish first minister Henry McLeish said Mr Miliband may have little choice but to negotiate with the Scottish Nationalists.
"At the end of the day, Ed is not going to exclude himself from being prime minister by not talking to anyone," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme
'No child benefit cuts'
In an appeal on the last weekend before the 7 May poll, David Cameron urged people not to vote tactically, but to "vote for your preferred prime minister".
"Don't take a risk thinking 'I'll vote Liberal Democrat and hope I get the prime minister I want' or vote UKIP and hope somehow it emerges," he told BBC Breakfast.
"If you want me to carry on leading the country, making sure we have that stability and security in our economy, vote accordingly because we are only 23 seats short from that overall majority."
He also insisted there would be no cuts to child benefits as part of Conservative plans to shave £12bn off the welfare budget.
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The prime minister spoke out as Mr Miliband continued to insist he would not lead a government if it involved any deal with Nicola Sturgeon's party.
In an interview with the Guardian, Mr Miliband accused the prime minister of having "entirely withdrawn from the central issues facing the country... in a bid to distract voters from the big choices".
The Labour leader also told the Guardian that 10 of his manifesto proposals would be introduced as bills by the end of May if he formed a government.
These include a "strong economic foundation bill; freezing energy prices until 2017; banning recruitment agencies from hiring only from overseas, and cutting university tuition fees in England to £6,000.
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Mr Miliband has urged voters in Scotland not to "gamble" with the SNP, but the Conservatives insisted the SNP would be "the monkey on Labour's back".
However, Mr Miliband insisted: "What this election really comes down to is not a clash of two nations but a clash of two visions.
"Two different plans ideas about how our country succeeds."
He said the Conservatives would offer "huge tax cuts" for the "rich and powerful", whereas Labour thinks "Britain succeeds when working people succeed".
Mr Cameron highlighted his party's commitment to the "triple lock" on state pensions, which means they rise by whichever is higher out of inflation, average wages, or 2.5%.
He said the triple lock - which Labour says it is also committed to - would take the annual pension to £7,000 a year by 2020.
The prime minister also outlined other previously announced proposals including the protection of benefits such as free bus passes and TV licences, and giving people more freedom to invest and spend their pensions.
He suggested a Labour government "would mean a return to higher taxes, spending and borrowing and pensioners would be particularly vulnerable because many of them do not have the option of increasing their incomes".
Labour has claimed the Tories plan to cut child benefit as part of their planned £12bn welfare savings.
The Tories say they will freeze working-age benefits, including child benefit, for two years. There is some speculation that freeze could last the duration of the next Parliament.
On BBC Breakfast, Mr Cameron was asked if there would be no increases to child benefit cuts if he resumed office.
The PM said: "That's right, I've said it stays as it is. I've been very clear on child benefit. I could not have been clearer."
He said: "It's very important for family's budgets to be able to plan, and they can know with me that it stays as it is - and we've been very clear about this."
He said "billions of pounds" would be raised by freezing in-work benefits, like unemployment benefit.
"I think that's right because we should be making sure you're better off in work," he said.
The best of BBC News' Election 2015 specials
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Security sources say gunmen seized the woman and her Yemeni driver on Tuesday morning as she was going to work. The French foreign ministry, which closed its embassy in Sanaa in February, said it was trying to locate and free the woman. It gave no further details, but urged French citizens to leave the country. Yemen is a base for al-Qaeda-affiliated militants and foreigners have been targets of kidnappings in the past. The security situation in the country sharply deteriorated after President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi resigned in January following a takeover by a Shia militia group, the Houthis. On Saturday he escaped his house arrest and fled to the southern city of Aden where he has since said he is withdrawing his resignation and resuming his duties, and has branded all measures adopted by the Houthis "null and illegitimate". In its first official statement since the Mr Hadi's departure from the capital, the Houthi group said the president had lost his legitimacy as head of state and was being sought as a fugitive of justice. The political turmoil which followed the takeover caused several countries, including France, to close their diplomatic missions, withdraw staff and call on their nationals to leave the country.
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The 82-year-old, who has had health problems in recent years, reportedly does not wish to remain emperor if he has to reduce his official duties.
But a palace spokesman denied that there is any official plan for the monarch to abdicate in what would be an unprecedented move in modern Japan.
Crown Prince Naruhito, 56, is next in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
An unnamed government source told Japan's Kyodo news agency that the emperor, who plays a largely ceremonial role but is respected deeply by many Japanese, has been contemplating the move for about a year.
His family had accepted his decision, an unnamed palace source told NHK.
However, both palace and government sources say the Imperial Household Law would have to revised to allow for the abdication to take place.
A change to the Imperial Household Law, which stipulates the rules of succession, would require approval by Japan's parliament.
Despite a categorical denial of the reports by imperial palace spokesman Shinichiro Yamamoto, the emperor's reported wishes are being given prominent attention in the Japanese media.
Emperor Akihito has been admired for distancing the monarchy from its association with the aggressive nationalism of World War Two.
In 1989 he succeeded his father, Hirohito, who had had the status of a living god in Japan until he was stripped of that role by the victorious Americans who wrote the country's post-war constitution.
Emperor Akihito had surgery for prostate cancer in 2003 and a heart bypass operation four years ago.
In 2011, he took the highly unusual step of making a televised national address following the devastating earthquake and tsunami at Fukushima.
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Only 50.5 overs were possible at the MCG, but Australia still got wickets at regular intervals with Jackson Bird taking two for 53.
Azhar's 110-ball half-century saw him pass 1,000 Test runs in 2016.
Australia lead the three-Test series 1-0, having beaten Pakistan by 39 runs in the opener at the Gabba.
Sami Aslam was undone by Nathan Lyon after making just nine and, after Azhar and Babar Azam batted through the remainder of the morning, Azam edged the last ball before lunch from Josh Hazlewood to give Steve Smith his second catch.
Misbah-ul-Haq scored 11 off 13 balls with a four and a six before being brilliantly caught at short leg by Nic Maddinson off Bird.
Bird bowled Younus Khan off an inside edge to end a third-wicket stand of 51.
The wicket came shortly before the scheduled tea break and the weather meant that interval came early and play never resumed.
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Kent County Council said the continuing flow of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) from across the English Channel had left it with no choice.
The authority currently has 924 such children in its care, compared with nearly 630 at the start of last August.
Councillor Peter Oakford said it was "not a position we want to be in".
The cabinet member for specialist children's services said Kent County Council had seen a 30% rise in looked-after children in the past seven months.
Other authorities elsewhere in the UK have accepted full responsibility for 56 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
Mr Oakford told the children's social care and health cabinet committee: "This has affected our ability to place citizen children within Kent ourselves.
"We have had to place Kent children outside of Kent due to the influx of UASC, which is not a good position to be in and is not a position we want to be in.
"It's actually costing us more financially because we have had to place, I think, six children into residential care either short-term or longer term, which is far more expensive than normal foster care."
The council's services have been stretched since the start of the migrant crisis last summer as Kent is the closest British county to Calais and Dunkirk.
The number of child asylum seekers coming into its care has slowed to about 15 a week during the winter, but Mr Oakford said if that increased with the arrival of the warmer months the authority would be "in significant difficulties".
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The 28-year-old has spent the past four years with Danish top-flight club AGF Aarhus.
Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson said: "He's got experience, a good grounding and is a great character.
"We watched a lot of him on video, spoke to various people about him and got good reports and he's impressed in the time he's spent with us."
He works hard and wants to do well
Scotland Under-21 international Kevin McHattie is Hearts' first-choice left-back.
Neilson said: "It's great to get both cover and someone to challenge Kevin."
Eckersley, capped by England Under-18s, made a solitary first-team appearance while at Old Trafford, and had loan spells at Royal Antwerp, Brondby, Barnsley and Port Vale.
The latter resulted in a permanent move to the Valiants, but he switched to Horsens in the Danish top flight in 2008 before moving to Aarhus two years later.
He won the Danish First Division, the country's second tier, with both clubs.
"He works hard and wants to do well," said Neilson on Hearts' website.
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Alex D'Acol headed the hosts ahead early on from Ali Crawford's corner.
Inverness had the chance to level after Darian MacKinnon fouled Billy Mckay in the box but Greg Tansey's penalty was saved by Gary Woods.
Grant Gillespie converted Rakish Bingham's pass to double Accies' lead and Bingham added a goal of his own.
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The visitors had been boosted by former striker Mckay's loan signing from Wigan being completed shortly before kick-off to allow him to play, but it was Accies who dominated as they welcomed back the experienced Mikey Devlin and Massimo Donati after injury.
Both sides had been struggling to find a win, and the lack of confidence was evident for most of the first half, although Mckay blasted a volley into the side netting to give the small band of away fans some early hope.
Before the match Hamilton boss Martin Canning had said the first goal would be hugely influential and it was his side who grabbed it with a well rehearsed move from Crawford's corner.
D'Acol got away from his marker on the near post and his glancing header found the net past Owain Fon Williams for his seventh goal of the season.
Caley Thistle then blew a major opportunity to equalise after referee Euan Anderson had pointed to the spot on 26 minutes. Woods guessed right, diving right to produce a superb save to deny Tansey.
Accies then lost Crawford to injury just after the half-hour, with new signing Blair Adams taking his place and Gillespie taking on Crawford's midfield responsibilities.
That move paid off after the interval when Bingham drove down the left, crossed low into the box and Gillespie timed his run superbly to send a side-foot shot past Fon Williams.
Bingham then produced the best moment of the night, smashing a terrific 18-yard effort high past the Welsh goalkeeper for his fourth goal of the campaign, the Caley Thistle defence ripped apart and their fans starting to dread the long, late trip home.
It was a first league win in 12 for Hamilton and only their third in the division this season. Meanwhile, Richie Foran has a major task ahead to convince his men that they can stay in a top flight becoming tougher and tougher as Inverness' winless league run stretched to the dozen mark.
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Hamilton player-manager Martin Canning: "The performance was similar to Saturday, but there were key moments there with the penalty save and the second goal, because we have not been taking the opportunity to get the second goal when we have had the chance so far this season.
"If we continue to make the big moments go in our favour and capitalise on them, then we can move up the table and continue to win games.
"We haven't punished teams, but tonight we did and we make it comfortable for ourselves and that should have probably happened four or five times this season.
"The league is so tight, we have gone from joint bottom to four points off the top six and it gives us a great incentive to go on and try to do something against Kilmarnock on Saturday."
Inverness manager Richie Foran: "That puts us into a relegation battle now - forget about top six, we are in a relegation battle now.
"Some of our players have not got the bottle, they showed that today. We might have been the better side in the first half and their keeper pulled off a great save from the penalty, but some of our boys are hiding and we are in for a fight now.
"I told them straight, 'I can see who is bottling it, I can see who does not want to take the ball'. It is not them all - I thought Billy Mckay was excellent - but it makes it a massive game for us now on Saturday against Dundee.
"That was our worst defeat of the season. I'll take my share of the blame, but the players now need to stand up and be counted."
Match ends, Hamilton Academical 3, Inverness CT 0.
Second Half ends, Hamilton Academical 3, Inverness CT 0.
Attempt missed. Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Massimo Donati (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dean Ebbe (Inverness CT).
Foul by Blair Adams (Hamilton Academical).
Larnell Cole (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Brad McKay.
Foul by Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical).
Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Blair Adams (Hamilton Academical) header from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Blair Adams (Hamilton Academical) header from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Eamonn Brophy replaces Alejandro D'Acol.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Scott McMann.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Dean Ebbe replaces Henri Anier.
Attempt missed. Michael Devlin (Hamilton Academical) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by David Raven.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Steven Boyd replaces Rakish Bingham.
Attempt saved. Larnell Cole (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Gary Warren.
Attempt saved. Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Hamilton Academical 3, Inverness CT 0. Rakish Bingham (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Darian MacKinnon.
Alejandro D'Acol (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Brad McKay (Inverness CT).
Substitution, Inverness CT. Larnell Cole replaces Ross Draper.
Massimo Donati (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Henri Anier (Inverness CT).
Attempt blocked. Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Henri Anier (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical).
(Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by David Raven.
Attempt saved. Billy McKay (Inverness CT) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Blair Adams (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Goal! Hamilton Academical 2, Inverness CT 0. Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Rakish Bingham.
Attempt saved. Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Second Half begins Hamilton Academical 1, Inverness CT 0.
First Half ends, Hamilton Academical 1, Inverness CT 0.
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The body of Jeremy Dickinson, 57, was found at his house on Albemarle Road in Seacombe, Merseyside in March. A post-mortem examination revealed he died after being hit over the head. Lyndsey McCool, 37, of Whetstone Lane, Birkenhead admitted murder and was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court to life in prison. She was told she would serve a minimum of 17-and-a-half years. Det Insp Paul Lamb of Merseyside Police said: "This was a horrific attack carried out by McCool on Mr Dickinson in his own home, where he had every right to feel safest."
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The owner of the Thomson and First Choice brands said it expected underlying profit growth of at least 10% in the current financial year. Tui reported a 32% rise in net profit to €577.5m ($634.2m; £418.2m) for the year to the end of September. In June, 33 of the 38 tourists killed in Tunisia were on Tui holidays. More recently, flights to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh were suspended by many countries following an attack on a Russian tourist flight. However, Tui said its upbeat outlook "demonstrates the resilience of our business model, against the backdrop of the tragic events in Tunisia in June 2015 and geopolitical turbulence in some of our other destinations". It added that it had seen a good start to trading for its summer 2016 programme, with bookings from Britain up 11%. Tui's latest update on how much the Tunisia attack had cost it was €52m. Of that, about €26m came from the impact of events there during the year, with another €17m provision against advanced payments the group had made for accommodation in the area that would now not be used.
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A total off 110 people were sentenced to a restriction of liberty order in 2014-15, compared to 44 in 2010-11. The Scottish government said the increase could reflect a greater emphasis on tackling the problem from police and prosecutors. The Conservatives said it should not be an alternative to jail for abusers. The party's justice spokesman Douglas Ross, who requested the data from the Scottish Parliament, said: "Domestic abuse is a horrendous crime and the punishment handed down by the courts must protect both victims and the public." He added: "Electronic tagging is certainly a useful tool in the box in this regard, but we need to avoid a situation where it is being used as a means to reduce the prison population when even a short custodial sentence might be more appropriate. "The Scottish government also needs an integrated approach to domestic abuse offenders which focuses on public protection on the one hand, and rehabilitation on the other." The Scottish government said an extra £20m was being invested over three years in addition to £11.8m annual funding to tackle violence against women, including domestic abuse. A spokesman said: "This has already boosted resources to courts and crown to reduce court waiting times for domestic abuse cases while we have also extended measures to support vulnerable witnesses, such as giving evidence via video link, with automatic access to such support for alleged victims of domestic abuse. "Evidence indicates that community sentences, including electronic monitoring, are more effective at reducing reoffending than short prison sentences, part of the reason why Scotland currently has the lowest reconviction rate in 16 years. "Clearly, we are listening to the views of family members affected by people who are tagged as we consider how to take forward electronic monitoring in Scotland."
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Darren Eadie said he wanted to create a centre on the coast where players can speak with "like-minded people who have been through it themselves". "I know there are a lot of people who have suffered in the past and suffering right at the minute," he said. He is hoping to get support from the Professional Footballers' Association. "[Football] is a highly pressured environment, not just for the 90 minutes on a Saturday but throughout the week - you're constantly scrutinised by the press and fans," Eadie said. "There's not many environments you can be in where you get that much stick week in, week out. "You're under constant pressure to be role models for people." Eadie said the "macho environment" of football changing rooms makes it difficult for players. "It's not one of the places you would often get players admitting to those kind of situations," he said. But he hopes providing a specialised clinic in a serene Norfolk setting will give players and their families vital support. "You'd rather speak to someone who is in our kind of environment who has played the game rather than ringing up someone from a national charity and speaking to them," he said. "It's about making it comfortable for them."
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Mr Byrne was shot dead in the Regency Hotel during a boxing weigh-in in the north of the city in February.
This is the second search to be carried out in a week.
RTÉ has reported that searches are being carried out on ten houses and flats in Dublin's south inner city.
The operation began at around 06:30 local time on Friday morning.
It is understood that over 80 armed gardaí are involved in the investigation, as well as the Emergency Response Unit, the Drugs and Organised Crime unit and the Criminal Asset Bureau.
On Wednesday, Irish authorities seized over 1m euros (£770,000) worth of luxury cars, cash and other valuables.
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Mr Watson secured the seat he has held since 2001 with a 7,713 majority over Conservative candidate Emma Crane. In a shock result, the West Midlands' longest serving MP David Winnick lost his seat. The Labour candidate, 83, who has held his Walsall North seat since 1979, lost out to Conservative Eddie Hughes by more than 2,000 votes. There are 62 constituencies in the West Midlands region and they have all now declared. The Conservatives have 39 seats, Labour 24 and the Liberal Democrats have none. Following his defeat, Mr Winnick said it had been an "honour and privilege" to have served his constituents. The 83-year-old candidate congratulated his opponent and said: "Democracy works in various ways. Rough with the smooth. It's rough for us tonight." Labour held Birmingham Ladywood with Shabana Mahmood securing a majority of 28,714, with 34,166 votes, followed by Conservative Andrew Browning with 5,452 votes. Preet Gill became the first female Sikh to be elected and held Labour and Co-operative for Birmingham Edgbaston, while Labour held Northfield with Richard Burden securing 23,596 votes - a majority of 4,667. Labour retained Dudley North by 22 votes, as Ian Austin, with 18,090, held off the challenge of Conservative Les Jones and UKIP's Bill Etheridge. Jack Dromey held Birmingham Erdington for Labour with a majority of 7,285 and said the Tories "failed" in Labour heartlands. Elsewhere, Steve McCabe held the Birmingham Selly Oak seat for Labour, taking double the number of votes as his Tory counterpart, Sophie Shrubsole, while Jess Phillips held her seat in Birmingham Yardley with 25,398 votes, followed by Conservative Mohammed Afzal with 8,824. In Wolverhampton, Labour held all three of the city's seats. Emma Reynolds held Wolverhampton North East with a majority of 4,587 after securing 19,282 votes, while Pat McFadden held Wolverhampton South East with a majority of 8,514 votes after gaining 21,137 votes. Newly-elected Eleanor Smith held Wolverhampton South West for Labour with 20,899 votes, a majority of 2,185, followed by Conservative Paul Uppal who secured 18,714 votes. Mr Watson's majority was down by 1,757 from 9,470 in 2015. Liberal Democrat Karen Trench was third with 625 votes. Mr Watson got 22,664 votes and Ms Crane had 14,951 votes - more than 13,000 votes than the Tories received two years ago. The Green Party's John Macefield was fourth with 533 votes and Colin Rankine of UKIP gained 325 votes. Mr Watson said after the ballot: "The next few hours, maybe the next few days look very uncertain but one thing can be sure, Theresa May's authority has been undermined by this election. "She is a damaged prime minister whose reputation may never recover." He added the public had "responded to a positive campaign". "We don't yet know how this election will turn out, but we know the people voted for hope." Sorry, your browser cannot display this content. Enter a postcode or seat name
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The prince visited the Mants'ase Children's Home in Maseru, Lesotho.
"Festive cheer! Despite it being 32 degrees, someone gave out Christmas hats and inevitably one found its way on to my head," he wrote.
"All the children, orphaned for one reason or another, absolutely loved the hats and balloons."
Prince Harry was supporting the charity Sentebale which assists projects that work with disadvantaged children, many of whom have Aids or have become orphans because of the disease.
He was also photographed participating in the building of Mamohato Children's Centre.
This will give emotional and psychological support to young people affected by HIV and Aids.
The prince visited a Mamohato Network Club in Maseru and said: "These are children who have never had the chance to talk about their illness, and who had no idea that they were one of so many in their age group.
"It was really emotional watching them interact with each other. Some really outgoing chatty kids, others slightly overwhelmed, but all with huge smiles.
"This confirmed to me again that what we're doing is going to change thousands of children's lives, and hopefully save a generation."
Prince Harry also revealed his own love of photography and shared some images that he had taken.
"I have always enjoyed photography and the challenges that come with trying to capture the perfect shot, although privately I don't take many photos," he said.
"The best photos I have are in my head - I have some very special memories, mostly from Africa.
"But on this visit, I had the time and opportunity to be on the other side of the camera and take some photos in the stunning country of Lesotho for my charity, Sentebale."
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Japan's Nikkei 225 closed up just 0.12% at 20,407.08. But on Thursday, the benchmark index marked its biggest percentage gain in four months. "It's interesting to see that US retail sales are up," economist Tony Nash told the BBC, "as we've seen Asian exports down for the past several months." "The real question for Asia is whether the US up-tick is a trend and if that will flow upstream to exports in Asia any time soon," said Mr Nash, managing partner of Complete Intelligence. In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 closed down 0.21% at 5,545.30, while South Korea's benchmark Kospi index closed down 0.22% at 2,052.17. South Korean shares ended a four-day losing streak on Thursday after the country's central bank cut interest rates to a record low, citing a deadly outbreak of Mers as a concern for the economy. In China, markets were setting a more positive trend, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index up 0.5% at 27,043.43 in afternoon trade and the Shanghai Composite up 0.72% at 5,158.40. Chinese markets experienced mixed trading on Thursday following data that showed both retail sales and industrial production rose in May from a year earlier, in line with expectations. But fixed asset investment grew more slowly than forecast in the first five months of the year compared to a year ago. Earlier this week, China's National Development and Reform Commission said that it had given approval for seven big new projects, including an airport expansion on Hainan - an island destination that is growing in popularity with holidaymakers. Mr Nash said he expected fixed asset investment in China to see stronger growth in early 2016 in light of the Commission's announcement.
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Webb, 50, has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges connected with world football's governing body. He is under house arrest in New York after securing the $10m (£6.4m) bail. Among the items Webb put up as bond were 11 luxury watches - including a Cartier Roadster - three cars and his wife's diamond wedding ring. According to an order filed on Monday setting the conditions for his release, the vehicles were a 2015 Ferrari, a 2014 Range Rover and a 2003 Mercedes-Benz. Webb, from the Cayman Islands, also provided a $400,000 (£256,000) account in the name of his wife, Dr Kendra Gamble-Webb. He is accused of accepting bribes worth millions of dollars in connection with the sale of marketing rights and was detained in Switzerland in May, along with six football officials. On Monday, Fifa announced a programme of reforms to address accusations of corruption within the organisation.
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They voted unanimously to ask pub firm Punch Taverns to not allow The Corn Exchange pub in Crickhowell to be turned into a convenience store.
The town has only one national chain - Boots chemist - while all other businesses are family run and independent.
Last week 200 people attended a protest over the plan.
The final decision on the application will be taken by Brecon Beacons National Park Authority.
Neither the park authority nor Punch Taverns were represented at the meeting.
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Swansea City pair Jay Fulton and Adam King were among those called up by the former Sunderland manager the day after Billy Stark stood down as team boss. Sbragia, who is national Under-19 coach, will take charge for the friendly against Switzerland in Thun. "Not at all," he replied when asked if it was a job he wanted full-time. "I've agreed to take this game and this is far as it goes from there." Stark's departure closely followed the resignation of Mark Wotte as the Scottish Football Association's performance director. But Sbragia insisted that the national body's youth system would carry on as normal. "It just goes on," he said. "Scot Gemmill's moved up to the 19s and I have been asked to take the 21s for the one game." Sbragia had not anticipated Stark's departure after six years in charge and had no in-depth knowledge of the former Queen's Park manager's reasons for leaving. "I was looking forward to doing the work for the Holland game at under-19 level and Billy's decision to leave took me much by surprise," he said. "He has been six years here and might have felt it was time to leave and start somewhere else afresh. "He's obviously produced a lot of teams for the A squad and, looking at the squad here, they are very young and they have come through the system at 17s and 19s and they have bridged the gap to 21s." Sbragia does not think the departures were indicative of a failure of Scotland's youth system. "We always knock the youth side of Scotland down, but I think it's progressing," he said. "I do think the results at international level have been better." Sbragia on this occasion has been denied the services of Rangers midfielder Lewis Macleod, who will join the senior squad for matches against Republic of Ireland and England. The coach thought it was "fantastic" for the 20-year-old to be given such experience, just as Sporting Lisbon midfielder Ryan Gauld had been in Gordon Strachan's previous squad. Gauld is back with Sbragia's squad this time along with nine players who have yet to be capped at under-21 level. Along with the two Swansea midfielders, Liverpool goalkeeper Ryan Fulton, Norwich City midfielder Cameron King and Reading striker Harry Caldwell make their first appearance in an under-21 squad. Two of Caldwell's club-mates - goalkeeper Jonathan Henly, who is currently on loan to Welling United, and defender Dominic Hyam - have also yet to play for the under-21s Hearts midfielder Sam Nicholson and Aberdeen forward Declan McManus, who is on loan to Greenock Morton, are the others who will hope to make their first appearances in Thun. The squad will use the match in Switzerland to prepare for the 2017 European Under-21 Championship qualifiers, which begin next year. Goalkeepers: Ryan Fulton (Liverpool), Jack Hamilton (Heart of Midlothian), Jonathan Henly (Reading) Defenders: Stuart Findlay (Celtic), Stephen Hendrie (Hamilton Academical), Dominic Hyam (Reading), Jordan McGhee (Heart of Midlothian), Callum Paterson (Heart of
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A number of neighbourhood teams have relocated into nearby local community bases with "lower running costs". The new sites, which are based in the "heart of the community", are "better value for money", the force said. The buildings up for sale include Market Street and Pilgrim Street in Newcastle, which were replaced by a new £38m complex in Forth Bank in 2014. Other sites include an office in Bentinck Road which has been empty for several years and one in Bellingham, the force said. A Northumbria Police spokesman said: "Many of the older police buildings have been expensive to run and it's important the force gets value for the money and all savings are reinvested back in to policing."
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West Texas Intermediate fell below $28 a barrel for the first time since September 2003. Brent Crude prices made a slight recovery, but that did little to boost investor sentiment. The Nikkei 225 closed down 3.71% at 16,416.19 points. The index had not seen a one-day drop as sharp since late September. One of the biggest losers was Sony, which fell 8%. Softbank Group fell 7%. The International Energy Agency said on Tuesday that with the return of Iranian oil, the market "could drown" in oversupply. Prices of oil have fallen by more than 70% in the last 18 months. In China, markets were also down after a positive day on Tuesday. Markets in Hong Kong and on the mainland had welcomed China's latest growth numbers - which were in line with expectations. The world's second-biggest economy grew by 6.9% in 2015, compared with 7.3% a year earlier, marking the country's slowest growth in a quarter of a century. However, on Wednesday, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was down 3.44% at 18,960.99 points in afternoon trade, while the mainland's Shanghai Composite was down 1.21% at 2,971.56. In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 closed down 1.26% at 4,841.50, dragged lower by energy-related shares. In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index closed down 2.34% at 1,845.45 in line with the rest of the region.
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But real life moved from Grimm to gruesome for one 38-year-old woman in the US who had a giant 15 cm hairball in her stomach. She is one of only a handful of documented cases of "Rapunzel syndrome", which is caused by people plucking and eating their own hair. Their once glorious locks build up in the digestive system where they can eventually have a devastating effect. The woman, who is anonymous, developed sudden vomiting and constipation. Meanwhile her stomach swelled as it filled with liquids and gas. She had gone off food for a year, lost 15 pounds in the previous eight months and by the time she reached hospital was unable to keep down any food. Doctors in Arizona, writing in the BMJ Case Reports, initially gave her donor blood to tackle her anaemia. But when they performed abdominal surgery they uncovered a 6x4in (15x10cm) ball of densely packed hair in the stomach and then another 1.5x1in (4x3cm) hairball in the small intestines. Trichotillomania - the irresistible urge to pull out hair Trichophagia - compulsively eating hair The blockages were safely removed and the woman was given a diet high in protein to help her recover. There have only been 88 other reported cases of Rapunzel syndrome. In some the hair snakes all the way through the digestive system from stomach to large intestines. Most cases are in childhood - with 40% of Rapunzels under the age of 10. Follow James on Twitter.
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Oxfordshire County Council said two independent studies found having one organisation to run all services could save £100m over five years.
But the plan is opposed by the county's five district councils, who have argued in favour of three councils instead.
All the authorities have been criticised for engaging in a "turf war" over their rival devolution plans.
County council leader Ian Hudspeth said public money should be spent on providing services, rather than running "six separate organisations".
The district councils have argued the county needs an elected mayor, rather than fewer councillors, to get more money from Whitehall.
Oxford City Council leader Bob Price said the county's plan was "the wrong proposal at the wrong time".
He added: "For the people of Oxford, a unitary council would be a disaster.
"The needs of a multi-ethnic and socially mixed urban community are very different to the more rural parts of the county."
Leader of West Oxfordshire District Council James Mills said the aim of the district councils' devolution bid was to get more money from central government.
He said: "A mayor gives a strong voice to Oxford, single point of contact to government and is accountable to the people of Oxfordshire."
But Mr Hudspeth said the proposal was needed because the county council "cannot continue to make savings without further cuts to local services".
He said: "One council for Oxfordshire would be more efficient and simpler for residents, with one phone number, one website and one point of contact."
Residents are being asked for their views before the final proposal is considered by the county council's cabinet on 14 March.
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13 August 2016 Last updated at 14:23 BST It's believed that around one in 10 people are left-handed. But no-one really knows why left-handed people like to use their left hands. Left-handed Martin's been looking at some of the theories, and how life's not always been easy for lefties...
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The 22-year-old agreed a four-and-a-half-year deal with the Italian club and completed a medical on Wednesday.
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"I will always have a very special place in my heart for City, it's a great club with a great future," he told the Manchester club's website.
"I thank them for all of their support of me. Maybe one day we will see each other again."
City signed Balotelli from Inter Milan for £24m in 2010 and he scored 30 goals in 80 appearances for the club.
He helped City to the Premier League title last season, but has managed only three goals in 20 matches this time round.
"I think to win the Premier League was a very special moment, and I am proud to have been a part of that," he added.
The forward also revealed he bid farewell to his team-mates at the pre-match dinner before the 0-0 draw at QPR.
I love Roberto, he has been very important for my career, and I will always thank him for having trust and faith in me
"Yes, I said goodbye to everyone at the meal in London before the game at Queens Park Rangers. It was very emotional for me," Balotelli continued.
"I spoke with [manager] Roberto [Mancini] before I went to speak to the players. We spoke for some time about lots of things. He was sad, and I was too. But it was a good conversation. I love Roberto, he has been very important for my career, and I will always thank him for having trust and faith in me.
"Being at City was an important part of my life and career. I needed to grow up like a player and as a person and it has been a very good experience for me."
Balotelli flew to Milan by private jet on Wednesday afternoon with the Italian club's vice-president Adriano Galliani.
Galliani said: "With his arrival, we have reinforced our team a lot. He's a dream come true, wanted by [AC Milan president Silvio] Berlusconi and the club.
"Mario has been in our hearts for many years and finally we've managed to get him."
Milan reached an agreement with City on Tuesday and Balotelli will sign a four-and-a-half-year contract, subject to passing his medical.
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The US president-elect said Chuck Jones had done a "terrible job" for workers at Carrier, moments after Mr Jones had criticised Mr Trump on CNN. Mr Trump had wrongly claimed 1,100 jobs in Indiana were saved, said Mr Jones. Earlier in the week Mr Trump attacked Boeing, hours after its boss criticised his trade policy, but he denied a link. Shortly after Mr Trump's tweet attacking Mr Jones on Wednesday night, the union leader started receiving phone calls threatening his children, he said. "Nothing that says they're gonna kill me, but, you know, you better keep your eye on your kids," said Mr Jones. Keeping jobs from migrating to lower-wage countries was a central plank of Mr Trump's successful election campaign. And he claimed a victory last week when he struck a deal with Carrier's parent company, granting them $7m in tax cuts and incentives over 10 years. In the CNN interview that preceded the enraged tweet by the president-elect, Mr Jones disputed Mr Trump's claim on the job figures because 550 jobs were still going overseas. Using stronger language when speaking to the Washington Post earlier this week, Mr Jones said the billionaire businessman had "lied his ass off". On Thursday morning, the union boss admitted his choice of words was unwise but he stood by his accusation. "Trump didn't tell the truth and I called him out," he said, saying the president-elect "overreacted". He said that while the union was grateful to have 730 of its members keeping their jobs, Mr Trump had raised false hopes for hundreds of others when he wrongly claimed 1,100 jobs were not moving abroad. Mr Trump's tweet sparked a back and forth on Twitter with the union, which sprang to Mr Jones's defence by saying he worked tirelessly to save "all jobs". Mr Trump responded by tweeting that the union was to blame for jobs going abroad and it should reduce its dues. The union fired back by saying its dues helped the union save jobs, adding the hashtag #imwithchuck The spat is the second time this week that the president-elect has attacked an organisation that has criticised him. On Tuesday, he threatened to cancel a huge government contract with Boeing after the chief executive made pro-trade remarks that were reported in the Chicago Tribune. But Mr Trump said he had not seen the article in question. The Republican president-to-be has been assembling his administration team in preparation for assuming office on 20 January. On Wednesday there were four new additions: Trump picks border hawk for security job Trump picks climate sceptic Pruitt 'Old friend of China' to be US envoy The people around Donald Trump
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Mr Blair, who had strained relations with the unions when he was prime minister, said he trusted Mr Miliband would handle it in the "right way".
The Labour leader is expected to set out changes to limit union influence in candidate selection on Tuesday.
He says he wants to "mend", not end, links but insists he runs the party.
Labour has referred allegations of union malpractice in the process to select a 2015 election candidate in Falkirk to the police.
An internal party inquiry found evidence union officials signed up new members without their knowledge, breaching party rules, to try and get their favoured candidate elected. Unite leader Len McCluskey has said he has "no trust" in the probe.
Labour has insisted the episode is a one-off but said it showed the need for wider reforms to candidate selection, including a cap on how much any candidate can spend to limit the influence of wealthy backers - whether unions or big business.
There has also been talk of greater use of open primaries to select election candidates - where everyone living in a constituency is eligible to vote whether they are a party member or not.
And some have called for a more fundamental review of Labour's historic financial links with Unite, its biggest backer, and other unions.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Blair - who clashed with the unions over a range of issues during his 13 years as leader - said it would be wrong for him to be drawn into the dispute.
"I think he (Mr Miliband) is going to make a speech on this and the last thing he needs is advice from me.
"One of my experiences is, when you are about to make a major initiative as leader of the party, the last thing you need are voices off... if you forgive me I am not going to queer his pitch."
Asked whether he was worried the dispute would re-open old divisions in the party and undermine Mr Miliband's leadership, Mr Blair said he was "sure he will deal with it in the right way".
Speaking on Sunday, former home secretary Lord Reid - a close ally of Mr Blair - said the dispute was a battle for the direction of the party, suggesting Mr McCluskey and other union leaders wanted to take Labour back to the 1970s and 1980s.
"I am in no doubt that the leader of Unite wants to impose an ideological direction on the Labour Party that would lead us into political oblivion, as it did in the 1970s and 1980s, and that's why this is a political struggle," he told the BBC.
"Ed Miliband didn't particularly go looking for this fight. This fight came to him," he added.
"But I think he understands, as everyone else in the Labour Party does that a struggle of this nature, which is in essence political, is a determining struggle about the direction of the Labour Party.
"And I have no doubt in my mind that the direction in which Ed Miliband wants to move, which is as I said an open, modern, relevant party."
The Conservatives have said Labour must publish the Falkirk report and refuse to take any more money from the unions until an entirely new system of funding is agreed.
The Conservatives have also asked the Metropolitan Police to investigate claims of criminal wrongdoing in the selection of candidates at two more Labour Party branches.
Party vice chair Bob Neill has written to Met commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe claiming there is evidence that "merits investigation".
But Unite said the Conservatives were wasting police time and in a "disgraceful political witch-hunt".
"We strenuously reject any suggestion of criminality or that we have broken Labour party rules. Using the police to score political points and diverting their attentions away from making our communities safer is obscene."
And Billy Hayes, the general secretary of the CWU union, said the Conservatives and a "gang of uber-Blairites" were using the dispute to have a go at the unions.
"There's a problem in one contest that needs to be sorted out," he said. "But I'm getting fed up learning through the papers that this or that aspect of the Labour Party's constitution is going to be reformed."
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The unions ASLEF and RMT have ramped up their action to short of a strike, and drivers are not taking out trains they say have not had proper safety checks. London Underground (LU) has countered that and said the trains are being prepared safely, in some cases by managers. It said it would send home any driver who refuses to take out a train. Today, according to ASLEF, seven Tube drivers have been sent home without pay. That might not seem a huge development, but the consequences could be dramatic. So what does this mean? Sending home union drivers will rapidly raise the temperature around this dispute. Talks are deadlocked and progress has been slow. A 24-hour strike is planned to begin on the evening of 5 August. Now industrial relations have got really ugly and this is yet another area that will need to be resolved. Remember this is not just about Tube drivers. This is about all Tube employees of four unions - ASLEF, TSSA, RMT and Unite - across all grades. And there is a lot of anger - even more now drivers have been sent home. The issues are many and range from night working on the Tube, work-life balance, to pay and conditions, and station staff deployment following the cuts as ticket offices close as part of the Fit for Future programme. There is also considerable anger about LU trying to change 'framework protections' - they are agreements in place about where and how staff can work. That means there are lots of areas for the talks to sort out. If the dispute is not resolved by next Wednesday then you can easily see more strikes across the Tube network. Commuters and politicians from all sides will want this settled. Steve Griffiths, LU's chief operating officer, said: "We are working closely with the unions to resolve the dispute on pay and the Night Tube and we are committed to continuing constructive discussion. "Safety is never compromised and the safety of our customers and staff is our top priority at all times. "Our measures to mitigate industrial action by union members include experienced managers undertaking some of their staff's duties if required. "Any suggestion that we would use inexperienced staff is completely false."
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The River Haven in Boston burst its banks at about 19:00 GMT on Thursday, flooding nearby streets and properties. Boston Borough Council said the majority of those affected were staying with friends and family, with some being put up in local hotels. The authority said it was working with other councils to provide accommodation while repairs were carried out. On Friday, people in nearby Wyberton were also told to prepare to leave their homes after damage to the flood defences was identified. However, engineers managed to repair the damage ahead of the evening's high tide. The Environment Agency said Boston was one of the worst affected areas, with 300 homes flooded. It described the tidal surge, which affected the east coast, as "the most serious" for more than 60 years. The MP for Boston, Mark Simmonds, has called for £100m to be spent on a new flood barrier for the town. Volunteers calling themselves the Boston Clean Up Crew have been on the streets supporting the clear-up operation. Insp Mark Garthwaite, from Lincolnshire Police, said it was thought Boston had seen more flooding than coastal areas because The Wash acts as a funnel where pressure builds up as the waterway gets narrower along the River Haven. Leigh Edlin, from the Environment Agency, warned people not to risk their lives by going into flooded areas. He said: "The key concern now is around the safety and risk to people living near flood water and dealing with the aftermath." Resident Neil McCafferty said water was "literally pouring down the streets" on Thursday. "It is like a tidal wave coming down. It is something else," he said. Mayor of Boston Paul Kenny said: "It's an experience that I hope we don't ever see in Boston again. "Hopefully we can get people's lives back together in the run up to Christmas." The town's St Botolph's church, also known as the Boston Stump, was severely damaged. Fundraising manager Peter Coleman said the church, which had recently undergone a major renovation project, had about 2ft (0.6m) of water inside and 4ft (1.2m) outside the building. "It's a rather devastating situation," he said. Sea defences in Mablethorpe were also breached by the high tide. In Skegness, crowds gathered by the sea walls to watch and take pictures of the storm surge.
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The Toffees skipper says he tried to speak to Atkinson to discuss City's dubious second goal but was surprised at the official's response. "He told me my defending was brilliant," said Jagielka. "It's difficult when things start going the wrong way and they become a little bit arrogant." Everton were eventually beaten 3-1 on the night to lose the tie 4-3 on aggregate and therefore miss out on a League Cup final against city rivals Liverpool. But City's second goal was scored by Kevin de Bruyne after the ball appeared to go out before it was cut back by Raheem Sterling. "The replays show it's not just an inch or so out," said Jagielka. "You expect the officials that are supposed to be of a high standard to spot that, but this obviously wasn't one of those nights." The England defender was also "baffled" by the decision to penalise Everton for a foul throw in the build-up to the second goal. Atkinson took action when Toffees defender John Stones had not even thrown the ball in by the halfway line. "He told me it was a foul throw, but I don't understand how it can be a foul throw if you've not actually thrown the ball in," said Jagielka. BBC Sport contacted Professional Game Match Officials, the body which represents Premier League referees, but it declined to comment.
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Since late November, Scotland's five mountain resorts have attracted 373,782 customers.
The ski season is estimated to have attracted £37.5m into the local economy.
With fresh snow on the slopes, CairnGorm Mountain expects skiing during the first weekend of June.
Recent figures from Ski Scotland showed that this season's figures were better than the last bumper season of 2000-2001.
Chair of Ski Scotland Heather Negus said: "All winter, we realised we were heading for a great season.
"We had hoped to match the figure for 2001, but didn't realise we had beaten it until recently, when everything was added up - and of course, CairnGorm Mountain is still operating, so we're still counting."
It is estimated that for every pound spent on the slopes another £3 is spent in the local economy with more than £28m being spent this winter in local accommodation, cafés, bars, restaurants, shops and filling stations.
Ms Negus added: "All the ski areas have been delighted to see other local businesses thriving this winter.
"Everything really came together for us - we had lots and lots of superb snow, which kept on coming, some truly amazing overhead weather giving 'bluebird' conditions, and, because there was also snow elsewhere in the UK, people realised that the Scottish Highlands did have skiing and snow boarding to rival the best and they came here to enjoy it."
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Dentsu is accused of violating labour standards after Matsuri Takahashi, 24, killed herself in 2015.
Her friends said Ms Takahashi - who had been at the firm for less than a year - claimed to be so busy she slept just 10 hours a week.
Death from overwork is relatively common in Japan, where it has its own word: karoshi.
Ms Takahashi is reported to have worked 100 hours of overtime a month for some time before her death.
She died on Christmas day 2015. According to reports, a note left behind for her mother included the line: "Why do things have to be so hard?"
The Asahi Shimbun newspaper said the company was being charged over illegal overtime, and that prosecutors were seeking a fine.
That would effectively end the investigation, Kyodo news agency reported.
The case against Dentsu targets the corporate entity, but not any individuals.
But Kyodo news agency quoted Ms Takahashi's mother as saying she was "unconvinced" about the lack of charges for her daughter's superiors.
The high-profile case has led to renewed calls for changes to Japan's notoriously long working hours and illegal unpaid overtime.
Officially, there are several hundred cases of karoshi each year, although campaigners say the real number is even higher.
Dentsu has made a number of reforms in the aftermath of Ms Takahashi's case, reported to include turning off the lights at 22:00 every night in a bid to force employees to leave.
The agency's chief executive, Tadashi Ishii, offered his resignation last December over the controversy.
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Under the deal, Baosteel is to take over its smaller competitor Wuhan Iron and Steel.
Both companies are majority-owned by the state.
The announcement comes as Beijing tries to overhaul the steel industry, one of the country's bloated state sectors.
The merger will create a new company, China Baowu Iron and Steel Group. Based on data from 2015, the two firms together have an annual production of about 60 million tonnes a year, which would make it the country's largest steelmaker.
Globally, it would be second only to Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal.
Baosteel's net profit tumbled 83% to 1bn yuan ($150m) last year, while Wuhan lost 7.5bn yuan, a sharp drop from its 1.3bn yuan net profit in 2014.
Steel demand in China, as well as worldwide, has slumped in the past year as the country's economic growth has slowed.
The resulting overproduction has seen steelmakers around the world suffer huge losses. China has been accused of price dumping - selling its steel cheaply overseas in order to clear its stocks.
In April, China promised to reduce its steel output, following a crisis meeting attended by 30 nations.
Over the past 25 years, Chinese steel production has expanded hugely with output growing more than twelve-fold.
China produced more than 822 million tonnes of steel in 2014 and is expected to produce even more this year. However, projected demand for its steel in 2016 is only 672 million tonnes.
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The 22-year-old made her debut against Italy in the 2015 championship and featured as a replacement against Spain in November. Number eight Jade Konkel returns to the Scotland side after missing the 64-0 hammering by England. Sarah Bonar and Lindsey Smith drop to the bench. The inclusion of full-time player Konkel means a reshuffle, with Bonar making way for an all-Hillhead Jordanhill back row including Jemma Forsyth and Louise McMillan. Scotland go into the game at Broadwood Stadium, Cumbernauld, seeking their second win in the tournament following their one-point victory over Wales. Italy are yet to win a match in this year's competition. Scotland head coach Shade Munro said: "We are aiming to end this year's Six Nations campaign on a positive note with a strong performance against Italy. "It's been pleasing to see the squad improve in many aspects, but there is more work to be done to reach our full potential. "We need a consistent and solid performance at Broadwood as Italy are a very good side and have been improving with every game in the tournament." Lichfield hooker Rachel Malcolm returns to the bench after recovering from an injury picked up in the opening match against Ireland. Melrose wing Lauren Harris also comes on to the bench. Chloe Rollie (Murrayfield Wanderers), Megan Gaffney (Edinburgh University), Lisa Thomson (Edinburgh University), Lisa Martin, capt (Murrayfield Wanderers), Rhona Lloyd (Edinburgh University), Helen Nelson (Murrayfield Wanderers), Sarah Law (Murrayfield Wanderers/Edinburgh University), Tracy Balmer (Worcester), Lana Skeldon (Hillhead Jordanhill), Katie Dougan (Edinburgh University), Emma Wassell (Murrayfield Wanderers), Deborah McCormack (Aylesford Bulls), Jemma Forsyth (Hillhead Jordanhill), Louise McMillan (Hillhead Jordanhill), Jade Konkel (Hillhead Jordanhill). Replacements: Rachel Malcolm (Lichfield), Heather Lockhart (Hillhead Jordanhill), Lindsey Smith (Hillhead Jordanhill), Sarah Bonar (Lichfield), Lyndsay O'Donnell (Worcester), Jenny Maxwell (Lichfield), Lauren Harris (Melrose), Eilidh Sinclair (Murrayfield Wanderers).
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But that requires a very patient man or woman to select the most important periods of play.
Now scientists in Spain are trying to make that work easier by getting a computer to do it.
The technology is being designed to automatically edit a whole game down to the key moments.
The people behind it at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia have been working on it for a few years and have just published 18 pages of exactly how it works.
Arnau Raventos is the lead professor on the project.
He tells Newsbeat they have "been working with the local television companies in Spain in order to try to make the job easier for the person who manually does the summaries currently."
Without having to read the full report (we did that for you) - in short - it analyses what are known as key-frames.
So, every part of the match is looked over by the computer to spot tell-tale signs of when something interesting is happening.
That might be lots of players grouped together, lots of zoomed-in action, extra noise from the crowd or the sound of the referee's whistle.
Arnau calls them "occasions".
"We want to find specific combinations of moments in a football match. A goal is an occasion."
We thought of an example: if a defender goes down in the penalty box, everyone groups around them, you'll hear a whistle, there's lots of faces in the shot and a penalty happens. In theory, the technology should capture that.
There is a long way to go though.
The technology could frustrate even the most lukewarm of football fans because it hasn't quite nailed exactly the magic moment - when the goal goes in.
In a test on five matches, the technology detected 70 per cent of the total goals.
"We need to be sincere," says Arnau. "We need to say that at the moment it's not possible to perform a complete automatic summary just yet. It's difficult to detect all the goals."
"However, we think it's very easy to discard those moments that are not important. For example, the panoramic views. They are easy to detect and to discard them so that already makes the job of the editor easier."
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Fans will be able to access club-branded apps to get news, social media content, highlights and betting. However access to the wider internet would not be possible. The Football League said "the majority" of clubs had signed up to participate in the deal. A full list of confirmed participating clubs will be announced after 30 June. British wi-fi provider Intechnology will implement the service. In an online article, the Football League said the service would "deliver the complete digital match day experience to supporters". The free wi-fi would come as a boon to fans who had been frustrated with overloaded mobile networks at half-time, according to Intechnology chief executive Peter Wilkinson. Having to use 3G or 4G services could also be expensive, he added. However, wi-fi at sports events does not always prove popular with fans. In 2014, supporters at PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands protested against the introduction of wi-fi at their club's stadium, saying spectators should pay attention to what is happening on the pitch, not their smartphones.
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Luke Judge, from Cornwall, learned of Rufa Fahmi's plight after meeting her uncle while volunteering in Greece.
Mr Judge, 34, said the 11-year-old, who previously raised money for cancer patients in Yemen, needed surgery urgently.
He spent ??25,000 of his own savings to fund treatment in Paris.
Mr Judge said her story had "inspired" him.
"When Rufa was nine years old she raised $2,000 (??1,400) for cancer patients in Yemen by selling her paintings.
"So for [her] not to get treatment after raising that sort of money was just too much to walk away from," he said.
Mr Judge, from Hayle, said hospitals in Yemen did not have the resources to manage Rufa's condition.
He secured a visa for the youngster to be treated in Paris after pooling his life savings and raising an additional ??10,000 by calling on "everyone in my network - doctors, politicians and businessmen."
"She's been discharged from hospital, is learning to walk again, is learning to eat properly and getting some strength back before her next operation," he said.
"We have limited conversation because we don't speak a common language.
"She's always smiling, waving and you can tell she's full of love and energy. She's so inspiring."
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The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) plans to move out of the 19th Century Inverness Castle to the new building by the summer of 2018. Work on the site next to Burnett Road Police Station could start this year. The castle in Inverness city centre is to be transformed into a visitor attraction. It could accommodate a museum and an art gallery. SCTS said the Inverness Justice Centre would accommodate courts and tribunals and also provide support services for witnesses, victims, accused and those convicted in courts. The Scottish government is backing the project and the plans to turn Inverness Castle into a tourist site. Sheriff Principal Derek Pyle described the proposed new justice centre as an important development for SCTS. He said: "We have an exciting opportunity to create a pioneering, state-of-the-art justice centre, which will house justice partners and third sector organisations in the same building. "It will deliver a range of services for offenders, providing the environment for problem solving approaches to help reduce re-offending, and offer specialist facilities, support and advice for victims and witnesses of domestic abuse, sexual violence and child abuse." Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: "I am delighted that the development of the new Inverness Justice Centre, made possible with funding from the Scottish government, has taken a step forward today. "We are now closer to delivering a facility which is accessible and modern, supporting the delivery of justice in the north of Scotland." The sandstone Inverness Castle was built in 1836 to plans drawn by architect William Burn. It was constructed on a mound overlooking the city and the River Ness. In 1848, a building known as the North Block was added and served as a prison. But a castle had occupied the site from possibly as far back as the 11th Century. Over the centuries, the fortification fell under the control of the forces of Edward I, Robert the Bruce and James I, II and IV. In 1562, it was attacked and damaged by soldiers loyal to Mary, Queen of Scots, before it was almost destroyed by Royalist troops in the 1600s. Bonnie Prince Charlie's forces blew the castle up in 1746 to prevent it from falling into the hands of government troops. It was said that a French sergeant, who had brought his poodle with him to Scotland, set off the explosives. The soldier was caught in the blast, and his body was blown across to the opposite side of the River Ness. His dog was also hurled over the river by the explosion. It survived, though it lost its tail. Tourism Minister and co-chairman of the Inverness Castle Working Group, Fergus Ewing said relocation of court services from Inverness Castle offered an opportunity to develop a "world-class tourism attraction". "Tourism is not just a key part of the local economy but a key driver of growth across Scotland and I am very keen that the castle finds a new life that benefits the Highlands and Scotland as a
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It comes after a dispute over whether Wales had the power to set minimum wages, or if that right laid with the UK government.
UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve originally blocked a law passed by AMs last year, saying it was not within the assembly's powers.
UK ministers said they were grateful for clarity on the issue.
The dispute arose after the assembly passed a law last year to set minimum wages, and the terms and conditions, of agricultural workers in Wales after the UK government abolished the Agricultural Wages Board, which had regulated the sector.
On Wednesday, First Minister Carwyn Jones said the "significant" Supreme Court judgment "goes some way to clarifying the complexities of the current devolution settlement".
The Welsh government said it could now create an Agricultural Advisory Panel to set minimum wage levels and "promote skills development and career progression" in farming.
But the first minister warned "we cannot continue to have bill after bill" referred to the Supreme Court "with all the time, cost and uncertainty that involves".
He called for Wales to move to a form of devolution where powers are assumed to rest with the assembly in cases like this, unless legislation specifically rules this out.
Welsh Secretary David Jones said UK ministers were "grateful to the Supreme Court for providing clarity on this issue" and they would "study the judgment in detail and consider its implications".
"In its judgment, the court has favoured a broader interpretation of the provisions in the Government of Wales Act that govern the assembly's competence," he said.
David Jones said UK ministers would "continue to make every effort to ensure that the legislative arrangements for Welsh devolution work effectively."
Assembly Shadow Rural Affairs Minister Russell George blamed "rushed" legislation for much of the confusion over the agricultural bill producing "sloppy law-making, doubts over competence, and months of uncertainty for Welsh farmers".
Plaid Cymru agriculture spokesman Llyr Gruffydd said: "The case for moving to a reserved powers model has been made and has been accepted by all parties in the assembly, and adopting this model would avoid these unnecessary delays."
Liberal Democrat Eluned Parrott agreed Wales should move to a form of devolution more like the Scottish system that had received "no legal challenges at all to Scottish legislation" since 1999.
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The £155,000 Bike2Go project was the first of its kind in Scotland and it was hoped it could go into other areas.
However, Dumfries and Galloway Council is not including the scheme in a planned regional rollout of initiatives to reduce car journeys.
Since its launch in September 2010 the bikes have been hired 2,270 times - a daily average of about two rentals.
The scheme was set up to encourage people to get "out of their cars and onto their bicycles".
It provides bikes free of charge to subscribers at 11 locations across the town.
It is based on similar schemes in Paris, Barcelona, Stockholm and one in London which clocked up one million journeys in its first 10 weeks.
The Dumfries project has struggled to increase rental levels since it started.
After 10 weeks they averaged about 20-a-week, with winter weather being blamed for the low uptake.
The council promised a marketing campaign to encourage increased use of the bikes.
A poor summer was again blamed for low uptake in 2012.
Plans were then proposed to make the bikes available to all council staff when on business in Dumfries.
However, some councillors questioned the value of the scheme which has 171 members on latest figures.
One suggested it would have been cheaper to buy them all a bicycle and said the project was "in danger of becoming an embarrassment".
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Mohammed Sufiyan Choudry and Zaiur Rahman, both members of the Luton chapter of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun, were caught in an undercover police operation in 2015.
Choudry, 23, from Maidenhead, and Rahman, 39, of Luton, were found guilty at the Old Bailey after a retrial.
They will be sentenced at a later date.
The pair were among a group of five covertly recorded when an undercover officer infiltrated their Luton-based group over a 20-month period before police arrested them.
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Bedfordshire Police said the five men attended meetings at a church in Luton and a marquee in Rahman's back garden, during which members praised IS and urged others to support the terror group and travel to Syria to fight.
The meetings were attended by up to 80 people including young children.
The Old Bailey heard that, during a July 2015 gathering, Choudry spoke of "40 trucks driving down Oxford Street full of explosives".
He also said: "A wave is coming. Either be a part of it or you drown.".
The five men were arrested by officers from Bedfordshire Police and the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command in December 2015.
Three were convicted by a jury in August.
Mohammed Istiak Alamgir, 37, Yousaf Bashir, 36 and Rajib Khan, 37, all from Luton, were convicted for their roles in spreading IS ideology.
Choudry and Rahman faced a retrial after the jury was unable to reach a verdict.
Choudry was found guilty of one count of encouraging support for a proscribed organisation while Rahman was convicted of three counts of arranging/assisting in, arranging/managing a meeting to support a proscribed organisation.
All five are expected to be sentenced together at a later date.
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The Scottish National Party had argued that its Commons leader enjoyed the support of more MPs than Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
There are currently 54 SNP MPs but only 40 of Labour's 229 MPs expressed support for Mr Corbyn on Tuesday.
Speaker John Bercow said he had sought expert advice.
He said Labour "currently constitutes" the official opposition and its leader is recognised by the Speaker "for statutory and parliamentary purposes" as the leader of the opposition.
Mr Bercow was replying to a point of order raised by SNP MP Pete Wishart, who told the Speaker that Labour had lost two-thirds of its shadow cabinet and its leader no longer commanded the majority of his backbench MPs.
The SNP MP said: "It can now longer provide shadows for large departments of State. It is in clearly in no shape to assume power and meet these key responsibilities and obligations as outlined in Erskine May (the parliamentary rulebook)."
The SNP said it would be able to fill all of the relevant shadow posts to the government.
Mr Corbyn has still not appointed a shadow Scottish secretary.
The previous incumbent, Ian Murray, has not been replaced after becoming one of more than 20 members of Labour's shadow cabinet to quit earlier this week in an effort to force Mr Corbyn to resign.
Mr Corbyn subsequently lost a vote of no confidence by 172 votes to 40 but said the ballot had "no constitutional legitimacy" and that he would not "betray" the members who voted for him by resigning.
His allies have challenged Mr Corbyn's critics to trigger a formal leadership contest if they want to replace him.
Earlier, Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell - who has remained loyal to Mr Corbyn - said the SNP would "always play a few stunts and you can't blame them for that".
The SNP won 56 seats at last May's election, but Michelle Thomson and Natalie McGarry have since withdrawn from the party whip amid police investigations.
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The number of alleged offences reported to police in England and Wales rose from 5,215 in 2013 to 9,290 in 2016. Barnardo's chief executive Javed Khan said such abuse "may become the next scandal in our society". The National Police Chiefs' Council said the increase was down to "more awareness and greater victim confidence". The figures, obtained by Barnardo's under the Freedom of Information Act, showed there were 32,452 reports to police of alleged sexual offences by children on other children over the four-year period - an average of more than 22 every day. Seven of the 43 forces in England and Wales either did not respond or provided a partial response. The number of reported cases more than doubled in 12 areas, including by 521% in Warwickshire and 371% in Norfolk. The Metropolitan Police (5,470), West Yorkshire (3,192) and Greater Manchester (3,024) had the highest number of reported cases in the country. These forces also have the highest populations. Mr Khan said the figures represented "another wake-up call". He said such abuse could happen because perpetrators had been "abused themselves and may not have received the right support". National Police Chiefs' Council Lead for Child Protection, Simon Bailey, who is also the chief constable of Norfolk Police, said it was important to "build resilience in young people and educate them about sexual relationships". He said officers in Norfolk were working with schools to raise awareness of abuse. Conservative MP for Wealden, Nusrat Ghani, who chaired a cross-party inquiry on Harmful Sexual Behaviour last year, said: "In this smartphone age, parents must also play a vigilant role in protecting their children from harmful sexual behaviour and images."
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Militants armed with guns and grenades gained entry after one detonated explosives at a hospital gate and then opened fire on staff and patients.
Commandos who landed on the Sardar Daud hospital roof killed all four attackers after several hours of fighting.
The so-called Islamic State (IS) group has claimed the attack.
The Taliban has denied any involvement.
More than 50 people were also wounded, the defence ministry said.
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President Ashraf Ghani said the attack at the 400-bed hospital "trampled all human values".
"In all religions, a hospital is regarded as an immune site and attacking it is attacking the whole of Afghanistan," he said.
The attack began at 09:00 local time (04:30 GMT). One hospital staff member who was able to get out saw an attacker "wearing a white coat holding a Kalashnikov and opening fire on everyone, including the guards, patients and doctors".
One employee wrote on Facebook: "Attackers are inside the hospital. Pray for us."
The hospital attack marks a change in approach by so-called Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan - it's the first time they have engaged directly with security forces in the capital.
Previously they have targeted civilian gatherings, mainly of Shia Muslims, as well as causing carnage at the Supreme Court last month.
But at the hospital they used an approach more commonly associated with the Taliban - blowing the gates open to allow gunmen to enter. This suggests they now have the resources and the military training to expand their attacks.
If that's the case, the security forces could face more such assaults in the coming months.
In the two years since it announced its presence in Afghanistan, IS has mainly engaged with Afghan forces - and more powerful, rival Taliban fighters - in the east, near the Pakistan border. It has failed so far to widen its base in the country - one reason, observers suggest, it may now be mounting more headline-grabbing attacks.
The government claims it has rooted out IS militants from a number of bases in the east - but has yet to dislodge them from mountainous areas they control.
TV pictures showed people hiding from the gunmen on ledges outside windows on upper floors of the building.
More than six hours after the attack began, interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi tweeted that special forces had ended their operation and all the attackers were dead.
The IS-affiliated Amaq news agency shared two images via the Telegram messaging app that appeared to show one of the militants taking part in the assault and a number of dead bodies.
Afghanistan's de-facto deputy leader Abdullah Abdullah also condemned the attack on Twitter and vowed to "avenge the blood of our people".
IS announced it was moving into Afghanistan and Pakistan when it declared its so-called Khorasan Province in 2015 and has since carried out a number of attacks.
In July 2016, a suicide bomb attack on a rally in Kabul killed about 80 people.
Three months later, two similar attacks during the religious festival of Ashura claimed about 30 lives and in November 2016 an attack at a mosque in Kabul killed more than 30.
IS also claimed a suicide attack at Kabul's Supreme Court last month that killed 22 people and has stepped up activity in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The Taliban has also been carrying out attacks, killing 16 people in Kabul in suicide attacks a week ago, after beginning its Spring offensive early.
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They remain open until Tuesday 12 April, and candidates have to pay a deposit of £150. The elections are being held on Thursday 5 May when 108 MLAs will be elected to serve at Stormont, six for each of the 18 constituencies. Information about the election and how to register to vote can be found on the Electoral Office website.
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The move, agreed with leaders of the region's 10 councils, will give local politicians greater control over billions of pounds of public money, The mayor will oversee policies such as transport, social care and housing as well as police budgets. The announcement comes two years after people in the city of Manchester voted against having an elected mayor. The chancellor described the deal as "a massive moment for the north of England". "I have reached agreement with the civic leaders of Greater Manchester to create the first metro-wide elected mayor outside of London," he said. "This will give Mancunians a powerful voice and bring practical improvements for local people, with better transport links, an Oyster-style travelcard and more investment in skills and the city's economy. "I want to talk to other cities who are keen to follow Manchester's lead - every city is different and no model of local power will be the same. "Giving cities power is part of our long-term economic plan to reduce the decades-old gap between north and south; London and the rest," he said. The first mayoral election is expected to take place in 2017. The mayor will lead Greater Manchester Combined Authority, chair its meetings and allocate responsibilities to its cabinet, which is made up of the leaders of each of the area's 10 local authorities. Greater Manchester's leaders have always rejected the idea of a Boris-type elected mayor, but it appears the deal on the table was too good to turn down. It involves control of budgets and power to decide what happens with transport, housing, planning and policing. One politician told me they were "amazed" at the amount of powers being released to them. The concern was about one person having all the power over an area where different places have different needs. So what Wigan and Oldham need might be very different to what Manchester needs or wants. But in order to introduce major changes, the mayor will still need the support of two thirds of the combined authority's leaders. One council source told me this effectively "puts the brakes" on the kind of elected mayor they were worried about. Find out what the people of Manchester think Councils in Greater Manchester currently control £5bn of public money each year. This deal would give them control over a further £2bn. The deal was agreed less than two weeks after details emerged of an alternative plan for devolution in the region, which did not feature a mayor. Sir Richard Leese, vice chairman of Greater Manchester Combined Authority, said: "It was clear that an over-centralised national system was not delivering the best results for our people or our economy. "We are extremely pleased that we can now demonstrate what a city region with greater freedoms can achieve and contribute further to the growth of the UK." Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said: "This landmark agreement shows how serious we are about moving powers out of Whitehall and reinforces the significant authority and finance already
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But if you want to see how important robotics and artificial intelligence can be to a business Ocado is a good place to start. "Without it we simply couldn't do what we do at this scale," the online retailer's chief technology officer Paul Clarke told me. With margins in the supermarket business wafer thin, continually bearing down on costs and waste has been vital. At its Hatfield distribution centre I got a glimpse of how far the process of automating the sorting of thousands of grocery orders has come. For now, you will struggle to spot a robot - unless you count a machine that inserts plastic shopping bags into crates - but software is doing a very complex job of sending the right goods in the right crates to the right human pickers. "This warehouse is crammed with machine learning and algorithms that are controlling all manner of operations that are invisible to the human eye," Mr Clarke explains. But in one corner of the warehouse is the robotics lab where the next stage of automating Ocado is under way. A group of some of the smartest robotic engineers from across Europe are at work on their latest project which could replace human pickers one day. It's a robotic hand sensitive enough to pick up a piece of fruit without damaging it. "The overall challenge is to develop robotic systems that can pick and pack the full range of items," explains head of robotics Alex Harvey. The robot hand won't be ready to start work for a while but at Ocado's newest warehouse in Andover, Hampshire, a robotics project that the company believes is unequalled in its sophistication has already been deployed. Swarms of robots move across a grid, collaborating with each other to collect groceries stored beneath them and then bring them to a human picker. Showing me some video of the warehouse, Paul Clarke explains the technical challenge: "Controlling thousands of robots in real time has required not only building a very sophisticated AI-based air traffic control system but also we've had to evolve a new communications systems to talk to all those robots 10 times a second." But seeing all those swarming robots with not a human in sight sparks an obvious thought - what about the impact on jobs? Ocado says despite the onward march of automation its workforce has continued to grow. "We have no choice both as a company and as UK PLC but to invest in this technology," says Mr Clarke."We are a net employer of 12,000 people, none of whom would have a job at all if it weren't for our use of automation because this has been our differentiator as a business." Economists disagree on the scale of the threat to employment. An Oxford study which predicted that more than 40% of occupations could be threatened by automation over the next two decades is now seen by many as far too pessimistic. That is certainly the view of Laura Gardiner,
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The unexpected setback for Hinkley Point came because the UK government said it wanted to delay its final decision on the project. It would be the UK's first new nuclear plant in decades. But Wales' Economy Secretary Ken Skates is concerned about the impact on Wylfa. He said the UK government has a "responsibility not to damage confidence levels of key developers". "Any review must not derail the important Wylfa development," he added. Business Secretary Greg Clark has said the UK government will "consider carefully" the Hinkley Point plans before backing them. There have been concerns that difficulties with Hinkley Point C's project would affect Wylfa Newydd's ability to attract investors. Mr Skates said: "Following the UK government's decision to undertake a further review of the Hinkley project I have written to the Secretary of State Greg Clark seeking urgent clarification that this will not impact on the Wylfa Newydd development in North Wales. "Wylfa Newydd is an important strategic infrastructure project for Wales which will help to create high quality jobs as well as be important to the future of steel in Wales. "The UK government have an important responsibility not to damage confidence levels of key developers such as Horizon Nuclear Power and their Tier one supply chain to invest in Wales." The UK government has been asked to comment.
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Events took place in various cities on Monday to show solidarity and support for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people worldwide. Hundreds gathered in Glasgow's George Square, while Soho in London was packed with people paying their respects. US authorities say gunman Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to so-called Islamic State shortly before Sunday's attack. Meanwhile, UK police are reviewing security for large-scale public events following the killings. Home Secretary Theresa May told MPs it was right to examine security for forthcoming Gay Pride celebrations but said there were no plans for events to be cancelled. At the scene: Soho pays tribute Live updates: Orlando shootings How attacks unfolded Who was Omar Mateen? Some 600 people gathered in Glasgow's George Square, where floral tributes and lit candles were placed. A rainbow flag was flown at half mast on Glasgow City Chambers. Organiser Ciara McGuire said: "We're from Free Pride which is an LGBT community group in Glasgow and we just felt we needed a place where people could come and be around friends, and show solidarity with the people in Orlando as well." In London, huge crowds gathered in Old Compton Street, at the heart of the capital's gay community. The normally lively street fell silent at 19:00 BST as a sign of respect, after which 49 balloons - one for each person killed - were released into the air. The BBC's Rebecca Cafe, in Soho, said: "Some hugged those close to them while others bowed their heads in memory of those who died in Orlando, and also in other attacks on gay communities around the world. "It was billed as being a two-minute silence, but it went on for far longer. Afterwards, people cheered and clapped before chanting: 'We're here, we're queer, we will not live in fear'." Jennifer Dean, from Bromley, south-east London, said she just had to come to the vigil. "I had to attend here and be counted and to show support, and let Orlando know that they're not alone," she said. "I've experienced hatred and it was an attack on friends." Nicholas Hall, an American who is studying in London, used to live in Miami and knew people who had witnessed the shooting. "I had many acquaintances in the Pulse nightclub, four of five of my friends and a lot of people they knew," he said. "Seeing the victims' ages, in their 20s, 30s - my age - brought it much closer to home." The vigil was attended by a number of politicians, including the new London mayor, Sadiq Khan, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. The US ambassador to the UK, Matthew Barzun, was also there. Old Compton Street is home to many gay bars, including the Admiral Duncan, where three people were killed and many more injured in a nailbomb attack in 1999. Vigils were also held in Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff, Brighton, Leeds and Nottingham, with more planned in the coming weeks. In Manchester, hundreds of people held hands and
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Police spotted his car heavily laden with sacks of grain in Luton and advised him to split the load. However, he was spotted later and fined £300. "The driver found he could buy 20kg (44lb) bags of rice from a cash and carry for £15.49 so bought 40 bags totalling 800kg (1,764lb)," police said. The cut-price rice and fine cost £920. Officers from Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire road policing unit stopped the car in Dunstable Road on Friday night. More news from Bedfordshire The driver was advised to remove the sacks of basmati and either split the load or find a more suitable vehicle. However, he chose to ignore the advice and continue with his basmati booty. The vehicle was stopped a second time and taken to a weighbridge where the driver was fined. He then arranged for a friend to help him move the sacks safely. The force later tweeted: "If you need to carry 800kg of rice, choose a suitable vehicle. This isn't it. Dangerously overweight."
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Kirkliston Village Hall Association has received £56,500 to buy land in the village near Edinburgh. The Pairc Trust has been awarded £50,261 to help fund an affordable housing project in Gravir on Lewis. Cairndow Community Childcare has won £37,000 to help pay for a new centre in Clachan, Argyll, and Crossroads Community Hub £30,517 for a planned community-led farm shop in Ayrshire. The Scottish Land Fund is funded by the Scottish government and delivered in partnership by the Big Lottery Fund and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
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They say the man coded a backdoor into the sites he built for businesses, to harvest their customers' data. He then used the credentials to make online purchases, open gambling accounts and impersonate victims' family members, police allege. Credentials for more than 20,000 people were found on the suspect's computer. "He has worked for various companies building websites with online shopping functionality," police said in a statement in October, when they first revealed their investigation. "It is suspected that he was able to capture usernames and passwords by installing a special script." The 35-year-old suspect was arrested last July and the investigation is continuing. The police have emailed the people whose contact information was found on the suspect's computer, encouraging them to change their online passwords. They said it was not possible to identify whether all the credentials had been abused. However, the force has also warned that opportunistic scammers are impersonating the police and are sending out rogue attachments. The genuine email from the Dutch police did not have an attachment. "Never download files in emails if you do not know the sender," the police force advised.
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The site's new owners, City & Country Group, have invited people to share their thoughts on what should happen to the 220-year-old building.
Some 320 inmates were held inside until March 2013 when it closed.
Helen Moore, from City & Country, said they wanted to deliver a new scheme which would play "a significant role in the greater regeneration" of the area.
Previous suggestions for the site, which is in the heart of the city and adjacent to Gloucester Docks, have included housing, a museum and a hotel complex.
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But in the aftermath of a bitterly contested presidential election, the rifts laid bare by that campaign have refused to close - one nation under God, perhaps, but one riven with division. And it is not only adults who have noticed. Children across America have been writing letters to President-elect Donald Trump calling for kindness, compassion and unity. Molly Spence Sahebjami, a mother from Seattle, started the campaign with a Facebook group. Launched the day after Mr Trump's victory, the private group's membership has now swelled to more than 10,000. The idea was sparked following a conversation with her own young son, a kindergarten student, she told the Washington Post. After her son expressed concern about some of the comments Trump has made about Muslims - Molly and her family have relatives of Iranian descent - she encouraged him to write to the President-elect. "Why don't you talk to him about why it's important to be kind?" the Washington Post reports her as asking him. Now, children from across the world have followed suit and their parents have been sharing the images on social media using the hashtag #KidsLettersToTrump. Alison and her son Tommy, 9, followed the election closely from the UK. "We encourage him to make up his own mind about things," Alison told the BBC. "As a thoughtful, kind young boy he has been upset by some of the language and views he has heard during the election. "His letter is in his own words and the drawing his own expression of what he hopes from his new president." Lara and her family live in Texas. Her 13-year-old daughter decided to write a letter to Mr Trump the day after his election. "She had a lot of questions about why someone would vote for him despite how he spoke about women, minorities and the disabled," Lara said. "I didn't have a lot of answers for that question other than to say that people felt strongly that he would do a better job running the country. "I tried to explain to her that just because we had different opinions about how to run the country did not mean that we did not support the country and wish him success. "I suggested that she write down her feelings. She chose to put them in a letter and she blew me away." Campaign organiser Molly said: "I set up the page because where I live, and among many of my Facebook friends from across the country, there's a very prevalent feeling among kids that Trump is 'the mean man' and they were confused about why he won." She hopes that children from all sides of the political spectrum will write positive letters to Mr Trump. "We're also encouraging kids who are Trump supporters to submit letters if they'd like to congratulate him and give him some advice about being more kind. Nobody's perfect and I think that aside from politics and policies, we can all agree that our new President-elect needs
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Budge will seek election at the annual general meeting on July 20 Celtic chief executive Peter Lawell and Partick Thistle managing director Ian Maxwell also intend to stand. However, Rangers managing director Stewart Robertson has decided not to vie for one of the three available positions. Robertson, who joined the Rangers board just over a year ago, said after "much thought and consideration" he would not seek election. In a statement on the Rangers website, the club said they were "confident its views are being listened to and treated with the utmost respect" by other Premiership clubs. They added "it is accepted that Rangers' voice is being heard within Hampden, both at SFA and SPFL levels." Dundee United's Stephen Thompson beat Budge to the Premiership position last year after three rounds of votes, but quit the board in protest at the club's three point deduction and fine for fielding ineligible players in a match against Inverness in May. He will seek election for one of the two vacant positions in the Championship alongside Hibernian's Leeann Dempster and Eric Drysdale of Raith Rovers. In Leagues 1 and 2, from which there will be one position, Brechin City's Ken Ferguson is the sole nominee.
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The Treasury says abolishing the grants, or bursaries, will allow many more nurses to be trained.
But a Royal College of Nursing survey claims two-thirds of nurses wouldn't have studied nursing without them.
They say it would make an existing staff shortage even worse.
Bursaries are a means-tested allowance paid to those healthcare students who qualify, to help with living expenses during their training.
Plans to scrap them were outlined by Chancellor George Osborne, as part of the government's Spending Review in November 2015.
At the time he said the move would free up around £800m a year in government spending and create up to 10,000 new training places.
But since then, nurses and other health workers have been campaigning against the axing of bursaries.
Student nurses are also going to have start paying tuition fees for their courses in the same way as other undergraduates - meaning they will have to take out a student loan.
First year student nurse Ellie Archer has told the BBC that the bursary was vital in allowing her to pursue her dream career.
She already has one sizeable student loan from another undergraduate degree and says: "I really wanted to be a nurse and I can say without a doubt that if I had had to take out a loan to study to become a nurse, I would not have done it."
Ellie believes the intensity of a nursing degree means students need extra support.
"Because of the amount of time spent on a placement it is very, very difficult to pick up second jobs, so there isn't really any other way of getting an income other than having the bursary in place."
There is already a model of what a future without bursaries may look like at Chorley Hospital in Lancashire, which is part of the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Student nurses there, who are on a course run in conjunction with the University of Bolton, are the first in England to pay their own way and once they have successfully completed the course, they are guaranteed a job.
The trust's director of nursing and midwifery Gail Naylor explains: "We had 800 applicants for 30 places, so I think what that tells us is, there really is the demand out there.
"Students are looking for different ways to train and we've been really successful in that."
The Lancashire course is not alone in being oversubscribed.
In 2014, there were 57,000 applicants for places on nursing degree courses, but the NHS in England could fund only 20,000 places.
The Royal College of Nursing says a survey of 17,000 nurses reveals that two-thirds of them would not have studied nursing if faced with the prospect of taking out a student loan.
RCN chief executive Janet Davies says: "We're concerned that perhaps we won't get the same diversity of people coming into nursing that we have currently, that having to take out a loan will put people off, particularly those people who are more mature, who may have had a career previously and who are coming into nursing as a second career."
However, many of those who run nursing training courses believe there is a case for change.
Dame Jessica Corner, chairwoman of the Councils of Deans of Health which represents the universities that train nurses, says: "This change actually enables universities to open up training places.
"At the moment they are capped, really on the basis of affordability and estimates of what the NHS might need, which have clearly been wrong over many years.
"So over time we think training places will be expanded and that will be good news for the NHS with more nurses and allied health professionals graduating."
There is a shortage of qualified NHS nurses right across the UK.
So far these changes are only being proposed in England.
But faced with similar problems, politicians in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be watching very carefully to see what impact these changes will have.
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Russia's Interfax news agency said on Monday that Bastion missile-launchers had been sent to Kaliningrad.
In a statement to the Associated Press, Nato said the move "does not help to lower tensions or restore predictability to our relations".
The Kremlin has accused Nato of stoking tensions by expanding eastwards.
Kaliningrad is a Russian exclave sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania.
Baltic warning over Russian move on Nato
Missile deployment in Kaliningrad ups the stakes for Nato
In October, Russia sent nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad, a move Poland described as of the "highest concern".
Russia said the deployment was part of military exercises and had happened before.
The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad represents an important military outpost between Poland and Lithuania with its coastline on the Baltic Sea.
The accumulation of radars and air defence systems, as well as coastal anti-shipping missiles, all form part of Moscow's developing "anti-access and area denial strategy", which in essence seeks to push Nato forces away from Russia and to make it very difficult to reinforce Nato members in the Baltic region in the event of a crisis.
However, in a separate statement on Monday, the RIA news agency quoted Russian defence committee chairman Viktor Ozerov as saying Iskanders and S-400 surface-to-air missiles were deployed in Kaliningrad to counter a planned US missile defence shield in eastern Europe.
The Bastion system fires Oniks cruise missiles, which have a range of up to 280 miles (450km). Russia has already used them in the Syrian civil war where it is supporting President Bashar al-Assad.
On Tuesday, Nato urged greater transparency on military activities "to avoid incidents and the risk of misunderstandings".
US state department spokesman John Kirby also called the latest Russian moves "destabilising to European security".
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"Russia has made threats to move its Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad for the past decade in response to a variety of developments in Europe, none of which demand such a military response," he said.
"We call on Russia to refrain from words or deeds that are inconsistent with the goal of promoting security and stability."
His comments brought a stinging rebuke from the Russian defence ministry, which said that "all recent threats to European security" were a consequence of US military policy.
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It is one of the most complete sets ever found in the state. The animal was an adult male in its 40s, and researchers excavated its skull, tusks, vertebrae and other bones, says the Detroit Free Press. The discovery was an accident. The farmers were digging a drainage ditch when they hit what they first thought were large pieces of wood. University of Michigan researchers say there is evidence the mammoth lived 11,700-15,000 years ago. It may have been killed by humans and left in a pond for storage. Dr Dan Fisher, director of the university's Museum of Paleontology, told reporters that the bones could help scientists determine when the first humans arrived in the area. The landowner could only give researchers a single day to unearth the bones because of a tight harvest schedule, so excavators worked feverishly until sundown on Thursday. Only 30 mammoths have been discovered in Michigan, and it is extremely rare to find a skeleton as complete as this one, says Fisher.
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The 29-year-old joined the English Championship club in 2013 after leaving Motherwell. But he made the last of 14 appearances this season in October. Humphrey told Hibs' website: "They're a big club and it will be great to play at Easter Road again. They are pushing hard for promotion and I'll hopefully be able to help us achieve that." The winger, who has 12 caps for Jamaica, spent four years at Fir Park after joining Motherwell from Shrewsbury Town. Humphrey helped Preston win promotion from League One via the play-offs in 2015 but has struggled for game time this season, making only seven starts. He made 134 appearances for Preston, but the English club announced on their website that: "Chris Humphrey has agreed a mutual cancellation of his contract with immediate effect." Following Saturday's 2-1 win that took Hibs back to the top of the Scottish Championship, manager Neil Lennon said: "Hopefully he'll be in on Monday." Lennon did not expect to make many more changes to his squad during January. "Not many unless there's a bit of to and fro-ing out of the squad to bring players in" he said. Lennon pointed out that midfielders John McGinn and Fraser Fyvie, plus goalkeeper Ofir Marciano, were close to returning from injury to bring his squad back to full strength.
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Two-thirds of motorists asked in the RAC survey said they thought parking was pricier. But the group representing councils said parking charges were not being used by authorities to raise money. Two-thirds of drivers also thought spaces did not take into account new, wider cars with side-impact protection. Following publication of the survey of 1,526 motorists, the RAC said that councils should make parking easier and cheaper. The survey pointed to suggestions that some parking spaces that had been free now carried a fee. The RAC accused local authorities of using parking charges as a means to fill gaps in their budgets, a suggestion that was denied by a council body. "This 'report' further peddles the myth that councils are using parking charges to raise money. The reality is that the average motorist is paying 30 times more to Whitehall in charges and taxation every year than they do to their own town hall through parking," said a spokesman for the Local Government Association. "Councils are on the side of hard-pressed motorists by keeping a lid on parking charges. They do not make a profit from parking. All income from charges and fines are spent on running parking services and any surplus goes on running essential transport projects such as bringing our dilapidated road network up to scratch."
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Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) led the international investigation.
Security sources have told the BBC that the NCSC believes that a hacking group known as Lazarus launched the attack.
The US Computer Emergency Response Team has also warned about Lazarus.
The same group is believed to have targeted Sony Pictures in 2014.
The Sony hack came as the company planned to release the movie The Interview, a satire about the North Korean leadership starring Seth Rogen. The movie was eventually given a limited release after an initial delay.
The same group is also thought to have been behind the theft of money from banks.
In May, ransomware called WannaCry swept across the world, locking computers and demanding payment for them to be unlocked. The NHS in the UK was particularly badly hit.
Officials in Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) began their own investigation and concluded their assessment in recent weeks.
The ransomware did not target Britain or the NHS specifically, and may well have been a money-making scheme that got out of control, particularly since the hackers do not appear to have retrieved any of the ransom money as yet.
Although the group is based in North Korea the exact role of the leadership in Pyongyang in ordering the attack is less clear.
Private sector cyber-security researchers around the world began picking apart the code to try to understand who was behind the attack soon after.
Adrian Nish, who leads the cyber threat intelligence team at BAE Systems, saw overlaps with previous code developed by the Lazarus group.
"It seems to tie back to the same code-base and the same authors," Nish says. "The code-overlaps are significant."
Private sector cyber security researchers reverse engineered the code but the British assessment by the NCSC - part of the intelligence agency GCHQ - is likely to have been made based on a wider set of sources.
America's NSA has also more recently made the link to North Korea but its assessment is not thought to have been based on as deep as an investigation as the UK, partly because the US was not hit as hard by the incident.
Officials say they have not seen any significant evidence supporting other possible culprits.
North Korean hackers have been linked to money-making attacks in the past - such as the theft of $81m from the central bank of Bangladesh in 2016.
This sophisticated attack involved making transfers through the Swift payment system which, in some cases, were then laundered through casinos in the Philippines.
"It was one of the biggest bank heists of all time in physical space or in cyberspace," says Nish, who says further activity has been seen in banks in Poland and Mexico.
The Lazarus group has also been linked to the use of ransomware - including against a South Korean supermarket chain.
Other analysts say they saw signs of North Korea investigating the bitcoin method of payment in recent months.
The May 2017 attack was indiscriminate rather than targeted. Its spread was global and may have only been slowed thanks to the work of a British researcher who was able to find a "kill switch" to slow it down.
The attacks caused huge disruption in the short term but they may have also been a strategic failure for the group behind it.
Researchers at Elliptic, a UK-based company which tracks bitcoin payments, say they have seen no withdrawals out of the wallets into which money was paid, although people are still paying in to them.
Those behind the attack may not have expected it to have spread as fast as it did.
Once they realised that their behaviour was drawing global attention, the risks of moving the money may have been seen as too high given the relatively small amount involved, leaving them with little to show for their work.
The revelation of the link to North Korea will raise difficult questions about what can be done to respond or deter such behaviour in the future.
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Mike Coupe said the set-up pegged to property valuations was "archaic" and ignored the rise of online shops based in out-of-town warehouses. His comments came after business groups urged ministers to lessen the impact of April's revaluation in England. The government says the majority of firms will pay the same or less. Properties concentrated in the South East of England and urban centres are said to be disproportionately impacted by the first revaluation since 2010, with retailers in some areas facing rises of up to 400%. There is a similar debate taking place in Scotland and Wales where rates are also being reassessed after April. Reality Check: Are there more winners than losers on business rates? Mr Coupe, the boss of the UK's second-largest supermarket chain, urged the government to undertake a wide-ranging review of the way businesses are taxed, highlighting changes in retailing culture. Mr Coupe said: "The way it currently stands, there is an advantage for those without bricks and mortar operations, so there's a strong case for a level playing field in business rates and taxation more generally. "Businesses like ours with lots of property and employees face a bigger burden than others." Referring to the revaluation plans, he said: "As it stands, we could see High Streets face serious challenges and ultimately more closures. It could impact investment in places that most need it, in areas of the country where there is already a marginal call on investment." Rates are calculated by multiplying the rateable value of a property by a multiplier set by the government. But as property values change over time, rateable values need to be reassessed periodically - usually every five years. However, this update to property values is two years behind schedule, making it a harder pill to swallow in areas where the price of real estate has been rising. According to analysts, Sainsbury's will see its annual rates rise to £500m, up from £483m, while internet giant Amazon will see its bill cut. Pubs, NHS hospitals and hotels in some areas are also said to be facing increases in their business rates. On Friday, business groups - including the British Retail Consortium and the CBI - signed a letter urging the government to drop the revaluation plans. Pubs and restaurants have also called on the chancellor to dilute the impact of the changes by providing more transitional relief for the sector. Meanwhile, the Sunday Telegraph has reported that ministers considered extra financial support to ease the impact of business rates before the general election in 2015. According to the paper, the Department for Communities and Local Government worked with the Treasury to protect the sector, but eventually decided to adopt more modest reforms. A government spokesman said: "Nearly three quarters of businesses will see a fall, or no change, in their business rates as a result of the revaluation. "The generous reliefs we are introducing mean that 600,000 small businesses are paying no rates at all - something we're making permanent
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The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the Norwegian authorities have allowed flights to resume if operators meet new safety conditions. A crash involving the helicopter off the coast of Norway killed 13 people, including Iain Stewart from Aberdeenshire, in April 2016. The Unite Union has expressed concern about the decision. CAA head of airworthiness John McColl said: "This is not a decision we have taken lightly. It has only been made after receiving extensive information from the Norwegian accident investigators and being satisfied with the subsequent changes introduced by Airbus Helicopters through detailed assessment and analysis. "The safety of those who travel on offshore helicopter flights is a key priority for both the UK and Norwegian aviation authorities. "We would not have made this decision unless we were convinced that the changes to the helicopters and their maintenance restore the required airworthiness standards." The CAA said that helicopters would not begin flying immediately. A plan of checks, modifications and inspections will be undertaken before any flights take place. These include: Mr McColl added: "We continue to work with the helicopter operators, the offshore industries, international regulators, unions and pilot representatives to enhance offshore safety standards still further and all these parties are actively involved in ongoing discussions." The Unite Union has expressed concern at the decision, saying its members were "very nervous" about flying in the helicopter. The union's regional organiser in Aberdeen, Tommy Campbell, said Unite was still waiting to see a full analysis of the April 2016 accident and its causes. "The offshore work force have been surveyed, they've been surveyed by the unions, they've been surveyed by magazines in the industry and there is a lack of confidence," he told the BBC. "There's a significant issue and it's very understandable. Offshore workers - or any workers - want to go to their work and come back home safely and there's been far, far too many deaths now as a result of helicopter accidents." Les Linklater, executive director of the offshore industry safety group, Step Change in Safety, said: "At this time, there is an ongoing Airbus survey for pilots and passengers regarding these specific helicopters' flight safety and comfort, which was issued just one week ago. It's our understanding that this survey still has a further three weeks to run. "Given the importance of the workforce's opinion regarding this highly emotive subject, we do not feel it's appropriate to make any further comment until Airbus has gathered, and shared, the survey's results and can demonstrate how they intend to address any concerns raised by the workforce. "We would encourage all members of the workforce to participate and have their voices heard."
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Figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws showed 5,992 crashes were recorded between 2012 and 2014. During that period, Birmingham student Xuanwei Zhang died after being hit by an unmarked police car in Birmingham in April 2012. Also in 2012, two men had to dive out the way after a fire engine smashed into a phone shop in Birmingham. Owner, Jamil Mahmood, said: "There was a fire engine doing a three-point turn and it crashed into the shop, narrowly missing one of my customers and a family member. "It missed them by inches, they had to jump out the way." West Midlands police, fire and ambulance services recorded 2,728, 281 and 81 crashes respectively, the figures show. Police figures showed 64 of the force's vehicles were written off in crashes. More than 350 people suffered injuries ranging from broken ribs, whiplash and a ripped spleen, it also confirmed, but the figures did not include the death of Mr Zhang. In one crash in Dudley last year, two police officers were injured when a man drove into the side of a police car. An inquiry is also taking place into the death of Harry James Kirkham. Mr Kirkham was hit by a police car in Birmingham in March this year, although this is outside the timeframe for this data. West Midlands Fire Service said most accidents involved vehicles travelling at "slow speed". "We continue to implement measures and awareness campaigns to reduce these," it said in a statement. The ambulance service said crews are highly trained but rely on the help of other road users. "The majority of collisions are down to drivers either panicking when they hear a siren or see a blue light, or not being aware of blue-light vehicles using the road," a spokesman said. A police spokesman said it was not clear why Mr Zhang's death had not been included in its figures. Staffordshire Police recorded 912 while Staffordshire Fire service recorded 120. Staffordshire Police Supt Mick Boyle said they constantly monitored the driving standards of employees. The county's fire service has declined to comment. In Warwickshire, there were 546 crashes involving police vehicles and 102 involving fire vehicles. West Mercia Police recorded 1,143 crashes while Shropshire Fire and Rescue recorded 68. A spokesman for both police forces said officers are sent for retraining on a regular basis if required, and future driving performance is monitored to ensure no further incidents are recorded. The spokesman added that due to the nature of the role of the police, damage was inevitable. He added that in the future, the fleet would be fitted with a telematics system which will mean accidents and incidents can be monitored in greater depth.
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I don't remember my first Wales match. The Welsh team of my youth may have had Mark Hughes, Ian Rush, and Neville Southall but they never seemed that important to me or anyone around me. In the rural Pembrokeshire setting I grew up in, it was international rugby and first-division English football that people were interested in. Even supporting Swansea City had a touch of the exotic about it. Wales' repeated failures to qualify for a major tournament thus didn't hurt me that much. It was just what I expected. Even when Paul Bodin missed the 1993 penalty that might have put us through to the World Cup, it somehow seemed inevitable. It was shortly after this that I started regularly attending Wales games but I did so because by then I had moved to Cardiff and matches were on my doorstep. I still never expected much and I was at least partly attracted by the sense of masochism that watching Bobby Gould's Wales sometimes offered. Of course, it wasn't like that for everyone. Football supporters are not a homogenous group. I watched the 1993 match in a house in the shadow of the old national stadium. You could hear the crowd noise inside. Afterwards, I saw people who looked like their world had fallen in. For many of them, it was the latest chapter in a long history of near misses that cumulatively gave hardcore Welsh fans a sense of frustration, injustice and marginalization. Not only did they repeatedly miss out on the tournaments that represented the pinnacle of the international game, they were also underappreciated in their own nation. The Welsh media, they not unreasonably felt, was obsessed by the oval ball, and matches were overly concentrated in the capital. Of course, for some this did not matter but Welsh international football support draws disproportionately on the north. Similarly, many Swansea fans felt uncomfortable attending games in Cardiff, especially when some locals insisted on wearing Bluebirds shirts and even booing players with strong Swansea connections. These feelings did dissipate somewhat in Mark Hughes' era as manager. Wales then briefly attracted gates of over 70,000 for qualifiers at the then Millennium Stadium. But the failure to qualify for the 2004 Euros after a lacklustre performance in the play-offs against Russia killed that optimism. Actively following Wales again became a minority pastime that was not really suited for those who thought that football was just about winning games. One of the real achievements of the Football Association of Wales in the last few years has been to bring back the sense of optimism and togetherness. Attendances have not just risen because of improved results. Tickets for Euro 2016 home qualifiers were set at just £20 for adults and £5 for children. Games had a sense of occasion to them that managed to appeal to both families and supporters seeking a more traditional atmosphere. Neither 'Gogs' nor 'Jacks' seemed to mind visiting Cardiff City's stadium any more. No Cardiff fan minded
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The cornerstone of treatment, anti-retroviral therapy, kills the virus in the bloodstream but leaves "HIV reservoirs" untouched.
The study, published in PLoS Pathogens, showed the drug was "highly potent" at reactivating hidden HIV.
Experts said the findings were interesting, but it was important to know if the drug was safe in patients.
The power of the HIV reservoir was shown with the case of the Mississippi baby.
She was given antiretroviral drugs at birth. Despite appearing to be free of HIV for nearly two years after stopping treatment, she was found to be harbouring the virus.
A strategy known as "kick and kill" is thought to be key to curing HIV - the kick would wake up the dormant HIV allowing the drugs to kill it.
The team at the UC Davis School of Medicine investigated PEP005 - one of the ingredients in a treatment to prevent cancer in sun-damaged skin.
They tested the drug in cells grown in the laboratory and in parts of the immune system taken from 13 people with HIV.
The report said "PEP005 is highly potent in reactivating latent HIV" and that the chemical represents "a new group of lead compounds for combating HIV".
One of the researchers, Dr Satya Dandekar, said: "We are excited to have identified an outstanding candidate for HIV reactivation and eradication that is already approved and is being used in patients.
"This molecule has great potential to advance into translational and clinical studies."
However, the drug has still not been tested in people who are HIV-positive.
Prof Sharon Lewin, from the University of Melbourne, said the results were "interesting" and marked an "important advance in finding new compounds that can activate latent HIV".
She told the BBC: "This study adds another family of drugs to test to potentially eliminate long-lived forms of HIV although much more work needs to be done to see if this works in patients.
"Although PEP005 is part of an FDA approved drug, it will first take some time to work out if it is safe to use in the setting of HIV."
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The album shifted more copies than the next 86 albums in the chart combined, and has become the first album to sell more than 100,000 downloads in a week. In fact, 252,423 of the album's 800,307 sales were digital with the rest on CD. Official Charts Company chief executive Martin Talbot said: "The statistics surrounding the album are staggering." He added: "No album has ever sold 800,000 copies to reach number one in the history of British music." The previous record was held by Oasis's Be Here Now, which reached number one with sales of 696,000 in 1997. However that album only went on sale three days before the end of the chart week. Martin Talbot said: "What the future holds for 25 will unfold over the coming weeks and months, of course - but we can all be absolutely sure that more records will be toppled as Adele fever grips the nation in the run-up to Christmas." Adele's third album has also "has done the seemingly impossible", according to Billboard magazine, and sold more than three million in one week in the US. That is the highest one-week US sales since data tracking began in 1991, overtaking the previous record of 2.4 million set by N'Sync's No Strings Attached in 2000. The singer has also just announced her first tour since 2011, playing in arenas across Europe from next February. Adele's song Hello is at number three in the UK singles chart, while Justin Bieber has three tracks in the top five for the second week in a row.
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Satellite images taken on 14 February appear to show two batteries of eight missile launchers and a radar system on Woody or Yongxing Island in the Paracels.
The presence of missiles would significantly increase tensions in the acrimonious South China Sea dispute.
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said reports were a Western media invention.
But Mr Wang defended "the limited and necessary self-defence facilities" on islands inhabited by Chinese personnel as "consistent with the right for self-preservation and self-protection.... under the international law".
Asked about the reports, US Secretary of State John Kerry attacked China's increased "militarisation" of the contested region, saying it was a "serious concern".
Taiwan's defence ministry said it had "learned of an air defence missile system deployed" by the Chinese on Woody Island.
It would not say how many missiles had been deployed or when, but told the BBC they would be capable of targeting civilian and military aircraft.
The commander of the US Pacific Fleet confirmed the deployment to Reuters news agency.
Adm Harry Harris said such a move would be "a militarisation of the South China Sea in ways" China's President Xi Jinping had pledged not to make.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said there were "serious concerns" over China's "unilateral move to change the status quo" in the region, and "we cannot accept this fact".
China has been carrying out extensive land reclamation work in the region, which it says is legal and for civilian purposes.
But the work has angered other countries which also claim the territory, and there is growing concern about the implications of the area becoming militarised.
The latest images of Woody Island were captured by ImageSat International.
They show a close-up of a section of beach, the shape of which resembles the northern coastline as it appears on other images, and point out two missiles batteries. Each battery is made up of four launchers and two control vehicles.
Two of the the launchers appear to have been erected, says the report.
An image taken of the site on 3 February shows the beach empty.
Fox News quoted a US defence official as saying the missiles appeared to be the HQ-9 air defence system, with a range of about 200km (125 miles).
China's deployment of long-range surface-to-air missiles to the South China Sea is a clear escalation, but it is not a surprise.
Nor is it China's first deployment of advanced military technology to Woody Island (Yongxing Dao). Last November, photos appeared on the internet of Chinese J-11 fighter jets landing on the newly-enlarged runway there.
Sending the missile batteries now could be a warning to Vietnam, or a response to the US Navy, which sailed a missile destroyer past Woody Island at the end of January.
So far Beijing has been careful not to put any weapons on its newly-constructed islands further south, in the Spratly group. That would be much more provocative.
Last month Beijing even sent two civilian airliners to land on its newly-completed runway at Fiery Cross Reef.
It was a good publicity stunt. But no one should be in any doubt that the true purpose of those new islands and their new runways is also military.
The news comes as South East Asian regional leaders end a two-day meeting in California where South China Sea had been a topic of debate.
US President Barack Obama said the members had discussed the need for "tangible steps" to reduce tensions, including "a halt to further reclamation, new construction and militarization of disputed areas".
Rival countries have wrangled over territory in the South China Sea for centuries, but tension has steadily increased in recent years.
Its islets and waters are claimed in part or in whole by Taiwan, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.
China has backed its expansive claims with island-building and naval patrols, while the US says it opposes restrictions on freedom of navigation and unlawful sovereignty claims - by all sides, but seen by many as aimed at China.
The frictions have sparked concern that the area is becoming a flashpoint with global consequences.
Although largely uninhabited, the Paracels and the Spratlys may have reserves of natural resources around them. There has been little detailed exploration of the area, so estimates are largely extrapolated from the mineral wealth of neighbouring areas.
The sea is also a major shipping route and home to fishing grounds that supply the livelihoods of people across the region.
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Teenagers will be introduced to a new list of 10 classical pieces from "a wide range of styles and eras". They include Haydn's Trumpet Concerto, Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries and Bernstein's Mambo from West Side Story. Chart stars Clean Bandit, violinist Nicola Benedetti and cellist Julian Lloyd Webber are backing the scheme. They join composer and musician Nitin Sawhney as ambassadors for the project. "Children need to challenge their imaginations and a formal education in the arts instils children with confidence and an ability to learn through intuition as well as intellect," said Sawhney. "It empowers children to understand their own identity and emotions." Trombonist Peter Moore, 19 - a former BBC Young Musician of the year who is now part of the London Symphony Orchestra - is also an ambassador, along with BBC 6 Music presenter Cerys Matthews and Radio 3's Suzy Klein. More than half of the UK's primary schools have taken part in Ten Pieces since it launched last year. "I'm so proud of this campaign," said BBC director general Tony Hall, calling it "the biggest commitment the BBC has ever made to music education in our country". A special film featuring the BBC Philharmonic playing the 10 selected pieces of music has been made by music video director Nick Wickham, who has previously worked with Rihanna, Katy Perry, Foo Fighters and Madonna. Teachers and students from the age of 11 will be able to watch the film in cinemas across the UK from October. It is hoped the initiative will be "a spring-board for creativity", inspiring school projects in dance, animation, performance poetry, composition and digital art. "The glowing success of Ten Pieces is a testament to the dedication and passion of its executive producer, Katy Jones who sadly passed away earlier this year," said director of BBC Music, Bob Shennan. "It's a fitting tribute to her that we now launch Ten Pieces Secondary featuring a diverse and entertaining range of pieces which Katy herself loved." BBC Radio 3 and Radio 2 will join forces to present a special two-week long Ten Pieces season in September. Two special Ten Pieces Proms concerts are taking place at the Royal Albert Hall in July as part of this year's BBC Proms line-up.
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Persistent showers fell through the first half and the rain became extremely heavy during half-time and in the early stages of the second half.
Puddles appeared on the pitch but play continued and the rain finally stopped.
Zambia's Evans Kangwa missed a great chance late on while Antonio Varela earlier headed over at the other end.
Cape Verde missed out on qualifying on goals scored after only finding the net once in three matches, with a penalty, compared to DR Congo's two strikes.
The weather will be the main talking point in a match from which either side could have qualified for the quarter-finals.
Tunisia's first-half goal against DR Congo left Cape Verde, who only needed a draw to go through, in pole position but the equaliser in that match meant that both teams progressed.
Zambia, winners in 2012, needed a victory to progress and Rainford Kalaba came close to putting his side ahead in the 24th minute when he cut inside and hit a shot which deflected past the post.
Seven minutes later, Zambia failed to clear a free-kick which was hit deep into their penalty area and the ball broke to Calu who blazed over the bar.
Kalaba caused Cape Verde more problems three minutes before half-time when his free-kick from 25 yards forced goalkeeper Vozinha to punch the ball away.
But the Blue Sharks nearly went ahead seconds before the interval when Varela stooped to meet a free-kick six yards out but could only head over the top.
The early stages of the second half were farcical with players struggling to keep their footing and pass the ball more than a few yards at times.
But the match continued and as the rain stopped falling, the conditions eased for the players.
Cape Verde substitute Djaniny tried his luck from 20 yards out midway through the second half but Zambia goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene was equal to it.
Djaniny caused more problems nine minutes later when he combined with fellow substitute Odair Fortes but he could not quite beat Mweene.
Zambia's moment arrived in the 78th minute when a lovely centre from Chisamba Lungu set up Kangwa but he somehow missed the target from 10 yards.
Cape Verde coach Rui Aguas:
"I'm very sad and disappointed with the result but not with my players. They did all they could.
"We missed a lot of chances in three games but we gave 100 per cent, we gave our all.
"Zambia and us were the best teams in the group. For Congo there is happiness. One goal makes all the difference, one miss makes all the difference. Football is often cruel and it is now our turn to feel it."
Zambia coach Honour Janza: "It is sad but let us be positive that the future looks bright for our team, the young boys we came with here will be a force in African football in the next two to three years."
Match ends, Cape Verde Islands 0, Zambia 0.
Second Half ends, Cape Verde Islands 0, Zambia 0.
Attempt missed. Mukuka Mulenga (Zambia) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Offside, Zambia. Emmanuel Mbola tries a through ball, but Rainford Kalaba is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Calú (Cape Verde Islands) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Héldon (Cape Verde Islands) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Héldon (Cape Verde Islands) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stoppila Sunzu (Zambia).
Offside, Cape Verde Islands. Rodrigues tries a through ball, but Fernando Varela is caught offside.
Calú (Cape Verde Islands) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mukuka Mulenga (Zambia).
Attempt saved. Rainford Kalaba (Zambia) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mukuka Mulenga.
Rodrigues (Cape Verde Islands) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Patrick Ngoma (Zambia).
Substitution, Zambia. Mukuka Mulenga replaces Given Singuluma.
Kuca (Cape Verde Islands) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Davies Nkausu (Zambia).
Gegé (Cape Verde Islands) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Patrick Ngoma (Zambia).
Offside, Cape Verde Islands. Rodrigues tries a through ball, but Odaïr Fortes is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Stoppila Sunzu (Zambia) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Chisamba Lungu with a cross.
Substitution, Cape Verde Islands. Kuca replaces Carlitos.
Corner, Zambia. Conceded by Fernando Varela.
Attempt missed. Evans Kangwa (Zambia) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Patrick Ngoma.
Offside, Cape Verde Islands. Carlitos tries a through ball, but Héldon is caught offside.
Evans Kangwa (Zambia) is shown the yellow card.
Evans Kangwa (Zambia) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Substitution, Cape Verde Islands. Odaïr Fortes replaces Toni Varela.
Offside, Cape Verde Islands. Fernando Varela tries a through ball, but Héldon is caught offside.
Hand ball by Nuno Rocha (Cape Verde Islands).
Attempt missed. Patrick Ngoma (Zambia) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Rainford Kalaba with a cross.
Foul by Rodrigues (Cape Verde Islands).
Donashano Malama (Zambia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Zambia. Patrick Ngoma replaces Lubambo Musonda.
Stopira (Cape Verde Islands) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lubambo Musonda (Zambia).
Attempt missed. Nuno Rocha (Cape Verde Islands) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Toni Varela.
Héldon (Cape Verde Islands) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Donashano Malama (Zambia).
Stopira (Cape Verde Islands) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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The airline posted a better-than-expected operating profit of €816m (£613m), compared with a €129m loss for 2014. The results sent shares up more than 10% to €8.22 in late trading in Paris. However, the company warned that lower ticket prices would erode the benefits of cheaper fuel this year. "The global context in 2016 remains highly uncertain regarding fuel prices, the continuation of the overcapacity situation on several markets, and the geopolitical and economic context in which we operate," Air France-KLM said. Cheaper oil reduced the annual fuel bill by 6.7% to €6.18bn, with a 20% fall in the fourth quarter, although existing hedging contracts limited some of the savings. The November terror attacks in Paris cut revenue by an estimated €120m in the fourth quarter as tourists stayed away from the French capital. Despite the attacks, revenue for the three months to 31 December rose 2.2% to €6.3bn. The airline is cutting labour costs and restructuring its network to compete with fast-growing Gulf airlines and European low-cost carriers. Air France-KLM lowered net debt by €1.1bn to €4.3bn and pledged to reduce the figure further this year. Chief executive Alexandre de Juniac said the company continued to negotiate new agreements with staff to improve its competitiveness. Last year, the airline was embroiled in often bitter talks with staff as it sought to impose its "Perform 2020" growth plan. In October, six workers were arrested after staff ripped off executives' shirts in an angry protest over 2,900 planned redundancies. That figure was later revised down to 1,600 voluntary departures by the end of 2017, union officials said. Air France-KLM pays 30% of overall revenue in wages, compared with 24% for Lufthansa and about 12% for a budget airline such as Ryanair.
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It serves as a daily reminder that there are opportunities for those who apply themselves diligently at this tiny school of 81 pupils in a remote Amerindian village in Guyana.
Sometimes, though, the lack of modern teaching aids is a source of concern for long-time head-teacher Stephen Demetro.
"We have no internet and no computers, so we are at a disadvantage. It makes me feel guilty at national assessment time... we just don't have the resources," he said.
"Even the newspapers we get here can be a week late," he added, holding up a dated copy of the Stabroek News.
Home to 400 Macushi people - one of Guyana's nine Amerindian tribes - Moco-Moco is a sleepy conglomeration of traditional thatched-roof homes.
In this part of the Rupununi Savannah, scarlet macaws squawk from palm trees and tapir, deer and paca - which villagers still hunt using bows and arrows - roam wild.
Cassava crops, a staple food for millennia, fringe the settlement, which is linked to the nearest town by a long road dotted with potholes. On either side, giant termite mounds hold sway over the windswept plains like silent sentries.
Amerindians may have been the first people to inhabit Guyana and they still make up nearly a 10th of the six-race nation's population. But they are also among the country's most marginalised.
Sparse infrastructure and employment opportunities are obvious side-effects of life in isolated locations. Some say they are discriminated against as well.
Others describe a loss of identity, as a rich culture dating back 11,000 years is gradually eroded.
On top of that, there are increased threats to Amerindians' agrarian lifestyle from climate change, and encroachment on their historical land from the mining industry, a bulwark of Guyana's economy.
Thomas George, a former "Toshao" or village chief of Moco-Moco, says the lack of jobs drives "young brain-boxes" to the city, diminishing the community's strength.
One plan to combat that is the establishment of a cassava factory to create employment, along with saleable products made from the root vegetables such as tapioca, farine, a type of flour, and cassareep, a popular condiment.
But changing weather patterns pose a constant threat to agriculture. "When we expect sun we get rain, and when we expect rain we get sun. That affects food supplies," Mr George said.
"If the season changes and the floods come, it all goes down the drain."
Indigenous cuisine is something of a dying art in Moco-Moco, as are traditional crafts and even dialect.
A recently-opened youth centre aims to teach young Amerindians about their heritage, with classes on everything from the Macushi language to cooking pepperpot - an indigenous meat stew and Guyana's national dish.
"The school follows the national curriculum and that doesn't cater much to indigenous culture," Mr Demetro said. "It's up to teachers to find our own ways of integrating culture into it."
This year, nearly a billion Guyanese dollars (£4m) has been budgeted by the government for youth training programmes in 106 Amerindian communities across the country, according to Valerie Garrido-Lowe, the junior minister for indigenous people's affairs.
"Parents find it difficult to pay for basic items their children need in secondary school, so many pupils get despondent and leave," she said. "This money will support school dropouts, single parents and young adults who need a second chance in life."
In addition to remedial maths and English, and vocational skills like joinery, carpentry and dressmaking, participants will have the chance to learn about eco-tourism and hospitality in a bid to woo more visitors to Guyana's pristine hinterlands.
"It's about reviving our culture too," said Sydney Allicock, Guyana's first indigenous vice president. "Tourists are usually sympathetic to Amerindians and are interested in hearing our languages and being part of our activities. We want to share our ecosystem with them.
"This programme will help us teach them about jungle survival and traditional medicine; we'll take them hiking and birdwatching."
Mr Allicock says the government is also looking into renewable energy, like solar, wind and biogas, to lessen the impacts of global warming.
"We are seeing the effects in river levels, loss of wildlife, and trees losing their fruit because the temperature suddenly changes," he said. "From time immemorial, Amerindians have been the caretakers of the Earth, working alongside nature, yet we are the hardest hit by climate change."
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This is the new Virtual Reality (VR) version of Google Earth, as seen through the HTC Vive headset.
The way the HTC Vive's works means that as well as moving your head around to get different views, you can walk around your surroundings, try to see into Buckingham Palace or fly up to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
But while Google Earth's coverage of many of the Earth's cities and famous landmarks look great in VR, if you just wanted to explore your street, the VR experience might not be so good... yet...
The HTC VIVE is one of the latest VR headsets on the market, and we asked Newsrounders to check some of them out.
Virtual reality is still pretty new, and scientists aren't sure how it will affect people's health in the long-term, especially eyesight.
So most VR makers have guidelines which recommend that only people over the age of 13 play them.
Some people have also reported feeling a bit seasick whilst playing on them.
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Almost 3,000 cases were diagnosed in the capital out of a total of 5,042 in the country in 2015, figures from Public Health England (PHE) show.
Since 2010 the number of cases among Londoners has risen by 163%, with 90% of those reported in 2015 among men who have sex with men.
PHE said people were "putting themselves at risk through unsafe sex".
Syphilis is a bacterial infection that initially causes highly infectious sores but can go on to cause serious conditions such as heart problems.
In most circumstances it can be treated with antibiotics but in extreme cases, the sexually transmitted infection can prove fatal.
2,811
cases in the capital in 2015
2,406 cases recorded among men who have sex with men (MSM)
36 median age of MSM diagnosed
74% of MSM diagnosed were white
44% of MSM diagnosed were born in the UK
There are about 54.7m people living in England, 8.7m of which live in London according to the Office of National Statistics.
In 2015, syphilis was diagnosed in all London local authorities with the highest numbers in Lambeth, Southwark, Tower Hamlets and Westminster.
The number of cases among heterosexual men and women has risen slightly but there was a much larger increase among men who have sex with men.
The group, which represents about 2% of the total London population, accounted for 2,406 of 2,811 cases in the capital.
Dr Yvonne Doyle, regional director for PHE London, said it was "worrying to see such alarming rises in syphilis year on year".
She said: "We are seeing large increases in cases of syphilis among men who have sex with men and they now represent 90% of syphilis cases in London.
"Although diagnoses among heterosexuals in the capital are more stable they too continue to be higher than we would like given the effective preventative measures in place."
She called on people to practise safe sex, "including using condoms, regularly being tested and avoiding overlapping sexual relationships".
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The Glasgow club said the employee, who is now dead, had worked at Partick for two years.
When the alleged abuse was raised in 1992, he was dismissed "with immediate effect", the club said.
Police Scotland and the Scottish Football Association have been informed.
In a statement, Partick Thistle said: "As far as Thistle's current management can ascertain, no other allegations were made to the club at that time with regard to him or any other employee.
"The club has contacted the SFA and Police Scotland to advise them of what they know to date and will fully comply with any investigation."
"In the meantime, Partick Thistle would urge anyone who may have been affected to contact Police Scotland, the SFA, the club or the NSPCC helpline (0800 0232642) set up to support and advise victims of abuse.
"In the last 24 hours, we have been approached by an anonymous individual asking for advice on who to contact with concerns relating to historic events. No details were given. The club advised he ring the NSPCC hotline in line with SFA guidance."
The club added that it regarded the safety and wellbeing of the children and young people who have contact with the club as being of "paramount importance".
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The Welsh Amateur Boxing Association (WABA) says the audit found no evidence of fraudulent activity,
But its chairman said it would take all the steps recommended to put things right.
Sports Wales said it would continue funding the association, but it had put special measures in place.
The report into the activities of the Welsh Amateur Boxing Association (WABA) was commissioned by the association, alongside the Welsh government and Sports Wales which oversees and promotes sport and advises the government.
The audit was carried out by accountancy firm, KTS Owens Thomas.
In their report, which has been published in a redacted form on WABA's website, the auditors said: "It is our view that in its current state WABA is not fit for purpose and does not qualify to receive public money.
"Sport Wales must consider the implications of this finding.
"We consider that with the implementation of the recommendations set out in this report, WABA will become fit for purpose and qualify to receive public money."
In 2012, WABA received grant support from Sports Wales of just over £190,000 - more than double its £89,000 grant in 2006.
The audit report lists a series of financial concerns:
The report also raises issues over the way the association has been run since becoming a limited company in 2003.
It noted: "Some members have expressed concern that WABA is not open to constructive challenge and there appears to be divisions in the membership.
"Overall, we have found corporate governance to be poor and dysfunctional. We consider that it is improving, but has not reached an acceptable level."
The auditors make 38 recommendations for the sporting body's future, including measures to tighten financial controls, banking systems, and expenses management.
Their report also calls on the board to "improve the culture at WABA", and to work with Sports Wales to ensure it follows an action plan to implement the recommendations.
'Simply not acceptable'
Responding to the report, WABA chairman Terry Smith told BBC Wales: "Obviously we are very disappointed, but we will take all the steps recommended to put things right as quickly as possible."
He said much of the organisation was run by unpaid volunteers who did not have formal financial training.
But he disputed some of the report's findings, including the issue of unsupported spending.
Sports Wales said WABA's failures were "simply not acceptable".
Chief executive, Sarah Powell, said an action plan was now in place to resolve the issues at WABA.
She added: "In the best interests of the sport's grass-roots participants and elite competitors, Sport Wales has decided to continue funding WABA, but has put in place special measures to protect public funds, until such time as satisfactory progress has been made on the recommendations."
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The Better Perth group has blamed online shopping and "inertia" for dwindling profits.
More than 50 traders will open later night with special events and promotions to tempt shoppers back into the city centre.
Perth and Kinross council is backing the event.
Private car parking company Smart Parking said it would be waiving charges on Thursday and Friday afternoons in the run up to Christmas as its way of supporting the campaign.
The traders said their "First Thursday" promotion could be a model that other "blighted" towns and cities in the UK could adopt.
Businesses involved in the Better Perth group range from small independent boutiques and cafes to big department stores
Hairdresser Charlie Taylor said: "Perth is a beautiful city that has been laid waste by the growth in out-of-town developments and online shopping.
"After years of city-centre decay, business owners have had enough and are doing things for themselves. We want to reinvigorate Perth and reawaken the sense of community that has been gradually ebbing away over the past years."
Perth and Kinross Council said it was pleased to work with businesses to help promote economic growth.
A spokeswoman added: "This project is a good example of how businesses and the council can work together to enhance Perth's reputation as a visitor destination, and also to celebrate the diversity of what the city has to offer in terms of retail and food and drink, with many award-winning businesses involved.
"Research has shown that consumers want to be able to shop at times convenient to them and the First Thursday campaign is a great way to provide a set late-night opening that people can put in their diaries."
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Council finance convenor Willie Young claimed pulling out could have cost the authority £100m in cancellation fees. The council later said there would be no financial penalty. SNP Aberdeen Central MSP Kevin Stewart said he had written to council chief executive Angela Scott calling for an investigation. Mr Young said earlier this week of his original comments: "It's unfortunate when I said that I wasn't in possession of all of the facts. As far as I'm concerned, having spoken to our officers, that was exactly the position that I was advised." Planning permission for the development was granted in October. Developer Muse has said it would be a "world-class development", but protesters fear it will block the view of the historic Marischal College and Provost Skene House.
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But she insisted that plans to publish the results of new national school tests had not changed. The Scottish Conservatives claimed the first minister was backtracking from the proposals. The exchange came during the first session of first minister's questions since May's Holyrood election. For the first time, the session was extended to 45 minutes rather than the previous half hour. Ms Sturgeon was challenged on the results of the latest Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN) by both Conservative leader Ruth Davidson - whose party is now the second largest in the parliament - and Labour's Kezia Dugdale. The survey found that the the proportion of P4 and S2 students performing "well or very well" in maths had fallen between 2013 and 2015, Referring to the figures, Ms Sturgeon said: "I have made clear, as has the education secretary this week, that the findings of the SSLN survey are not acceptable to me." Ms Sturgeon said it was the responsibility of herself as first minister, as well as the Scottish government and councils, to ensure that standards were rising and the inequality gap closing. She added: "That is what we are determined to bring about, which is why we have embarked on a programme of reform and improvement in our education system," The provision of better data was a "key part" of that, she said. She added that the SSLN is "limited in its coverage", saying the information is drawn from a sample that includes just four pupils per primary school and 12 pupils per secondary. The first minister said: "It doesn't enable us to tell school-by-school how schools are performing, that is why the National Improvement Framework will lead to more comprehensive school-by-school data that allows us to target our efforts more closely." Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said Scotland's main teaching union, the EIS, had published an advice note saying the Scottish government had "watered down" its plans for standardised assessments. The assessments are being brought in for youngsters in P1, P4, P7 and S3, with SNP ministers arguing the data is vital in helping them close the attainment gap in schools. But critics have warned publishing the results of the tests, as outlined in the Scottish government's National Improvement Framework, could lead to a return to school league tables. Ms Davidson said the EIS now claimed to have "forced changes" so that "standardised test scores will not be collected or published". She added that the teachers' union also said "there is actually no need for all pupils to sit assessments in the first place". Ms Davidson said: "The first minister said publishing more information and more data was vital if we are to improve our schools, but it now appears she is backing off from her own original plans, why hasn't she stuck by them?" But Ms Sturgeon said: "The leader of the main opposition party may have changed but there doesn't appear to be any greater ability on that leader's part to adapt her questions
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Microsoft has just launched its first wearable health gadget, the Band, in the US ahead of its global launch.
Similar products from Samsung and Google are already on the market and early next year the much-hyped Watch from Apple will go on sale.
Millions of us are going to be having our most intimate bodily functions monitored by these gadgets, creating more health data than has ever existed before.
Why do these machines help us stay fit and more importantly what happens to all that information we are generating and sharing?
Before the giants of the tech world realised that wearable, health-focused gadgets were the new big thing the market was already thriving.
In March the European Commission published its green paper on mobile health, which contained some mind-boggling statistics.
It suggests that 97,000 apps are on sale in the mobile health sector, which includes tracking apps but also apps that help patients make appointments and keep track of medication.
It predicts that by 2017 more than 1.5 billion people around the world will be using these apps, generating total revenues of £14.5bn ($23bn).
In the EU alone it is estimated that these apps and gadgets could reduce health costs by £77.5bn (99bn euros).
Most of the growth has come from start-ups that saw the potential early and now face a competitive onslaught from the big technology companies.
Five years ago French firm Withings launched its wireless scales - the device feeds data back to you, by plotting a graph of your weight over time.
"It started with the scales because we thought that was the one dimension that would make sense for people to track," Julien De Preaumont, chief marketing officer at Withings, says.
"The first rule of data is to make people aware of their health to make them realise how their weight is evolving.
"The curve reveals the impact of life changes, it will show how a divorce, a diet or a new job will affect your weight."
After the scales took off, Withings launched wearable gadgets that track your movement, heart rate, blood pressure and sleep.
The company maintains that the data it collects belongs to the user only.
But it has published reports revealing the most obese cities in France and the US, as well as another study showing sleep patterns across Europe.
Withings says this does not compromise the privacy of the individual user's data because it is aggregated and anonymised.
While Withings has grown to be a global business, US firm Fitbit has also seen its business thrive beyond its borders.
Founded in 2007 Fitbit offers wireless scales, wearable devices that monitor movement, heart rate, sleep and blood pressure, and is evangelical about the motivating power of targets and data on our health.
Fitbit also offers companies its gadgets and software for corporate use.
Its "corporate wellness" scheme started in the US and companies can use the scheme to get a rebate on their taxes.
Clients so far include blue-chip multinationals such as BP and Time Warner.
Employees can sign up and different divisions can compete against each other over the number of steps taken or stairs climbed.
"The key is to make the product sticky," says Gareth Jones from Fitbit, and the key to that is gamification.
"Our software incorporates challenges like daily showdowns and weekend warriors which motivate people and keep them coming back."
But should employees be worried about sharing their every movement, 24 hours a day with a corporate scheme?
"We don't have data about this, it's very much a choice of the individual as to whether they sign in for the programme. We see the result of that as purely the people who agree to participate and the people who don't," says Mr Jones.
"We might share with the corporate administrator information that 50 people have been invited and 45 have said yes. How the company uses that information is up to the company."
The potential of all the data that is now being collected is huge, both for business and for public health bodies.
Imagine going to the doctor and being able to show them how much exercise you do, how much sleep you get and your blood pressure for the last year.
While the insurance industry is using mobile applications for arranging appointments and giving health information, they are yet to fully embrace the use of wearable devices and the data they collect, though it is a development that could completely change their business as many research papers suggest.
Can big data really revolutionise our world? We explore how the explosion of information and analysis will impact our lives and our privacy.
Power of big data
Meanwhile the use of the data for medical research is also a long way off.
Professor John Newton from Public Health England would like to see a more joined-up approach.
"We've got the world of apps, a huge investment from the technology companies, but the healthcare sector hasn't made the link," he says.
"If you were able to make the link between a hospital service like a diabetic clinic with a patient's mobile phone data, they could tell immediately whether that person's diabetes was going out of control."
His message is clear: "Put the data into the hands of the people who can use it to make a difference."
Like all the new data that is being recorded and analysed the possibilities are massive but the ethical and privacy issues surrounding our personal information will not go away quickly.
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Judge Thokozile Masipa did the same for the lawyers on Thursday, urging them to make good use of the upcoming fortnight break for the Easter holidays.
In that spirit, here are a few questions that have been niggling me in recent days.
Tweet your thoughts and suggestions to @BBCAndrewH. I will be taking a week off and then focusing on South Africa's general election before returning to the hard benches of Courtroom GD on 5 May.
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The public inquiry, led by Robert Francis QC, was triggered by a higher than expected number of deaths at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. Mr Hunt provided a break down of the cost of providing evidence, in a written statement to Parliament. It showed the majority of the £6m total (£5,227,000) was spent on legal advice. The remainder covered the cost of dedicated staff working to prepare the evidence, their travel and subsistence expenses, and "other directly related costs". Mr Francis's inquiry looked at why the scandal at Stafford Hospital - where there was a higher-than-expected number of deaths as a result of abuse and neglect in 2005-08 - was not picked up earlier. The inquiry ran for a year between 2010 and 2011, and took evidence from more than 160 witnesses over 139 days, at a cost of £13m. More than a million pages of evidence were submitted. The report concluded that patients had been "betrayed" because the NHS put corporate self-interest ahead of patients. It argued for "fundamental change" in the culture of the NHS to make sure patients were put first. In his written ministerial statement, Mr Hunt told Parliament officials had compiled the cost of submitting evidence to the inquiry. "I can now report to the House that the expenditure incurred by the Department and NHS organisations in their role as witnesses amounted to £6m." He said the government would publish a further response to the Francis report this autumn. The findings of the Francis report into failings at Mid Staffs prompted a separate review of 14 NHS hospitals in England with high mortality rates. As a result of that review, 11 of the hospitals have been placed in "special measures" for "fundamental breaches of care".
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He said the prime minister's position owed less to "great philosophers" than the hapless sidekick from the 1980s BBC TV show Blackadder.
Mrs May noted Sir Tony Robinson, who played Baldrick, was a Labour member.
Sir Tony later described the pair as "a beardy man and a grumpy lady".
During Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Corbyn and Mrs May argued over the government's yet-to-be-announced stance for when negotiations for leaving the European Union begin next year.
The Labour leader accused the prime minister of presiding over a "shambolic Tory Brexit" and called for clarity and warned of the effect of it might have on the Irish border.
Mrs May pledged no return to the "borders of the past", saying a Common Travel Area had existed since 1923, and accused Mr Corbyn of trying to "frustrate the will of the British people" over the EU referendum.
The government has said it will formally trigger Brexit talks by the end of next March, but has consistently refused to offer a "running commentary" on its negotiating stance.
Prime Minister's Questions took an unusual turn when Mr Corbyn made reference to Baldrick, the turnip-loving and intellectually challenged servant to Rowan Atkinson's 1980s historical comedy character Edmund Blackadder.
He said: "When you're searching for the real meaning and the importance behind the prime minister's statement (on the recent European Council summit), you have to consult the great philosophers.
"The only one I could come up with is Baldrick, who says, 'Our cunning plan is to have no plan."'
This was a reference to Baldrick's frequent claim to have a "cunning plan" to deal with the trickiest situations, but which nearly always turned out to be less than brilliant.
Mrs May responded: "I'm interested that you chose Baldrick. Of course, the actor playing Baldrick was a member of the Labour Party, as I recall."
Sir Tony is a long-serving activist who has chaired proceedings at the party's annual conference - he has also been a recent critic of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.
The reference prompted him to tweet, mocking Mrs May's oft-used pledge that "Brexit means Brexit", by saying "Baldrick means Baldrick".
"I'm in the hairdresser's," he later added. "Suddenly a lot of people seem to want to talk to me!"
Returning to his put-upon alter-ego, he wrote: "I never said nuffin' at PMQs, it was the beardy man and the grumpy lady. Baldrick x"
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The aeroplane is a larger version of its new CSeries aircraft.
The Montreal-based plane and train maker is under pressure to bring the CSeries into service after years of cost overruns.
The smaller CS100 started testing in 2013. The wings and engine covers of the CS300 jet are made in Belfast. The aerospace company is one of Northern Ireland's biggest employers.
About 5,000 permanent employees and about 1,000 temporary and contract staff work at its Belfast base.
Michael Ryan of Bombardier Belfast said: "It is another testament to the skills of our workforce, and our design and manufacturing capabilities, which are helping bring a step change in aircraft wing technology."
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Severn Trent has agreed to buy Dee Valley Water for about £78.5m. The company has now suspended talks on an alternative takeover bid with the investment firm Ancala, which had bid roughly £71.3m. Severn Trent said it would invest in the firm and help vulnerable customers but MPs in the area have raised concerns about the takeover. Wrexham MP Ian Lucas said: "Dee Valley Water has been a small and quietly efficient company, which has gone about its business serving our area well in the past few years. "It is now facing a takeover by a multinational company and I am concerned that profits, rather than service, will be put first." Clwyd South MP Susan Elan Jones said it was "vital that reassurances are given about people's jobs and that local people's concerns are listened to - and acted upon". Severn Trent played down the concerns. A spokesman said: "Customers will share in half of any wholesale cost efficiencies achieved, which will be reflected in future bills."
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The hosts needed only 66 minutes and 82 deliveries to take the remaining seven England wickets in Centurion.
Kagiso Rabada, 20, became the youngest South Africa bowler to take 10 wickets in a match, and finished with 6-32 to add to his first-innings 7-112.
Morne Morkel claimed 3-36, with James Taylor's 24 the highest score for England, who won the series 2-1.
England, beaten 2-0 by Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates earlier this winter, next play Test cricket against Sri Lanka at Headingley on 19 May.
Having reduced England to 52-3 on Monday, South Africa hurried through the rest of the order thanks to some splendid bowling on a wearing surface.
In all, England lost their last seven wickets for 43 runs in 10.5 overs as any hopes of batting out the day vanished amid a flurry of reckless strokes.
Here's how the collapse unfolded:
Fittingly, the lithe paceman, in only his sixth Test match, took the final three wickets as England were skittled out before a drinks break was required.
That gave Rabada match figures of 13-144, the best by a South Africa bowler on home soil and the second-best in their history.
The man of the match, who was also the leading wicket-taker in the series, said: "It was a bit up and down so the key was the hit the deck and bowl the ball in a good area and I believed you'd get your rewards."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan told BBC Test Match Special: "England have batted on a pitch with a bit of spice and they have shown no heart.
"It's almost like the white towel has been thrown in. It was a really feeble way to finish the tour."
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott: "Get your head down and save the match. But there was no effort this morning.
"Coming out and playing shots, does that excuse you after winning the series? No. There's no excuse for that. You have to be professional. That's not good enough."
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England captain Alastair Cook: "We always try and play positively but on certain wickets you have to play a different way. We didn't get the balance right.
"Whether that's the end of the tour mentality I don't know. If you'd offered me 2-1 before the series I would have snapped your hand off."
England face a South Africa Invitation XI in a warm-up game on Saturday before a five-match one-day series against South Africa gets under way on 3 February.
Proteas pace bowler Dale Steyn will play no part in the ODI campaign as he continues his recovery from the shoulder injury which kept him out of the third and fourth Tests.
The sides also meet in two Twenty20 internationals on 19 and 21 February.
Listen to Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott review England's final-day collapse in the TMS podcast
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The visitors went ahead when Gary Roberts won possession and found Michael Smith to slide the ball home.
Wimbledon made a better start to the second half and Andy Barcham fired over, before dragging a shot wide.
Barry Fuller's goalline clearance stopped Kal Naismith from scoring Pompey's second.
Roberts also had chances in the second half but fired over the bar, before shooting wide when one on one with Kelle Roos.
Wimbledon still require two points from their last two matches to cement their spot in the play-offs.
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Victoria Gayle, 31, was charged with preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body after police discovered the remains of a baby at her home last month.
Ms Gayle, previously of West Hendon, north London, appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Monday afternoon.
She spoke only to confirm her name, address, and date of birth.
The court heard a post-mortem examination took place at Great Ormond Street Hospital on 2 June but the cause of death could not yet be determined.
Ms Gayle was also charged with perverting the course of justice.
She was not asked to submit a plea and will appear at Kingston Crown Court on 8 July.
The charge follows a case review of an investigation into a child who went missing in 2004, which was sparked by the death of another child at an address in Barnet in 2015.
The investigation led to the arrest of a 50-year-old woman in Fryent Crescent, West Hendon in north London.
A 52-year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of preventing a lawful and decent burial.
Both were bailed until mid-July.
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British armed forces are to take part in "three additional operations" aimed at supporting Nato allies, it said. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond added recent unrest in Ukraine had caused "great concern" and it was right to provide "reassurance" to partners in Eastern Europe. The annual operations are US-led. HMS Montrose, a Type 23 frigate, will take part in a two-week long security exercise which will begin on Monday. Exercise Baltops, the largest multinational maritime exercise in the Baltic Sea this year, will test the maritime capabilities among Baltic sea countries and allied nations. More than 100 British soldiers will also take part in live-fire training in Estonia and Latvia as part of exercise Sabre Strike, which began on Sunday. They join personnel from the US, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Norway. Mr Hammond said: "The situation in Ukraine continues to be of great concern to the international community and it is right that Nato members and partners publicly demonstrate our commitment to the collective security of our Nato allies. "The UK continues to play a central role in providing reassurance to our allies in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states. "Our contribution to these exercises builds on other action we have taken, including the deployment of RAF Typhoons to the Nato air policing mission in the Baltic states." Meanwhile, around 200 British infantry troops will take part in a live fire exercise in Poland in September, along with up to 7,000 personnel from the US and Canada. It follows action already taken by the UK to reassure Nato's Eastern European members, the MoD said. In April, four RAF Typhoons helped to carry out Nato's air policing role of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as part of a long-standing rotation. And in May, British soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment joined 6,000 troops from Nato states in Estonia for a training exercise. A bloody insurgency has gripped Ukraine's eastern provinces since Russia annexed the Ukrainian territory of Crimea in March - which followed a controversial referendum on joining Russia.
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The security forces are reported to have used tear gas against stone-throwing protesters.
They also surrounded the hometown of Burhan Wani, 22, who was killed fighting Indian troops last year.
Separately seven people are reported to have been killed in shelling across the Line of Control that divides Indian and Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
Officials on the Pakistani side told Reuters that five people died in Indian shelling, while Indian officials say two people were killed by Pakistani fire.
There has been an armed revolt in the Muslim-majority region against rule by India since 1989, although violence has waned in recent years.
The disputed region is claimed by both India and Pakistan in its entirety. India blames Pakistan for fuelling the unrest, a claim denied by Islamabad.
Burhan Wani is credited with reviving the image of militancy in Muslim-majority Indian-administered Kashmir, becoming a figurehead for young people.
Saturday's violence started as people tried to walk to his home in Tral - where he died in a shootout with the army last July.
His death led to a wave of protests during which dozens of people were killed.
The Indian authorities imposed heavy restrictions in the Kashmir valley for the anniversary, stopping internet access and sealing off Tral.
There have also been reports of army personnel being injured in a militant attack overnight on Friday.
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It said Supt Sean Memory, who is investigating claims of historical child abuse against the late Sir Edward Heath, is off work "through sickness". But it added the probe did not relate to Operation Conifer or his work as the senior investigating officer. The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation is confident the former Tory prime minister's name would be cleared. The force issued the statement following "a number of approaches from the media" regarding Operation Conifer. Supt Steve Kirby will become the lead officer in the investigation in Mr Memory's place, Wiltshire Police said. The force said the investigation against Mr Memory "is not an indication of guilt" but "a process which has to be followed as laid out in the Police Regulations". It also confirmed the "conduct under investigation" does not warrant suspension, "therefore Supt Memory is not suspended from duty". Operation Conifer began in 2015 after claims were raised in an inquiry by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). Information from a retired officer had sparked concerns that Wiltshire Police had deliberately caused a criminal prosecution against a suspected brothel keeper to fail in 1994. Last year the IPCC said it had found no evidence that the case was dropped because the woman threatened to make allegations against Sir Edward. But Wiltshire Police has said Operation Conifer is also investigating a number of separate allegations made by persons who came forward. It said the inquiry additionally aims to safeguard children and vulnerable adults who may be at risk of abuse today. Mr Heath died at home in Salisbury in July 2005, aged 89.
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Nottinghamshire Police said it would expand its categories to include misogynistic incidents.
It means abuse or harassment which might not be a crime can be reported to and investigated by the police, and support for the victim put in place.
Nottingham Women's Centre said it hopes it will help give more victims the courage to report incidents.
Chief Constable Sue Fish claimed it will make the county a safer place for women.
"What women face, often on a daily basis, is absolutely unacceptable and can be extremely distressing," she said.
"Nottinghamshire Police is committed to taking misogynistic hate crime seriously and encourages anyone who is affected by it to contact us without hesitation."
Work on the idea first started with the Nottinghamshire Safer for Women Conference last year, co-hosted by the police with the Nottingham Women's Centre.
BBC TV reporter Sarah Teale was harassed in the street while reporting on the conference.
The force defines misogyny hate crime as: "Incidents against women that are motivated by an attitude of a man towards a woman and includes behaviour targeted towards a woman by men simply because they are a woman."
The classification now means people can report incidents which might not be considered to be a crime and the police will investigate.
Nottingham Women's Centre has been helping train call centre, force control staff and officers on the beat to recognise misogynistic hate crime and ways to tackle it.
These officers will also examine if and how a victim can be supported or if anything can be done to help prevent them being targeted again.
Domestic abuse will not be recorded as a misogyny hate crime because it has its own procedure, the force said.
Melanie Jeffs, centre manager at Nottingham Women's Centre, said: "We're pleased to see Nottinghamshire Police recognise the breadth of violence and intimidation that women experience on a daily basis in our communities."
She added: "Recording this as a hate crime will give us a detailed picture of how often, when and where it is happening. It has been very difficult to build that picture before but we will now get detailed data to analyse.
"Showing that the police take it seriously will also give people the confidence to come forward and report offences."
A crime that the victim or any other person perceives to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards any aspect of a person's identity.
Police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland annually monitor five strands of hate crime:
Forces can include their own definition of a hate crime with several recently adding sub cultures.
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The Premier League club say the 22-year-old left-back is expected to be sidelined for "up to eight weeks" after the knock in a 6-1 loss to Bournemouth.
"The Scottish international damaged his calf during the second half of the defeat," said a club statement.
Scotland will face England in World Cup qualifying Group F on 11 November.
Gordon Strachan's side sit three points behind leaders England after three games.
The Scotland head coach had remarked before this month's 1-1 draw with Lithuania that his squad had "incredible" strength in depth at left-back.
Robertson started at Hampden but picked up a knock and Celtic's Kieran Tierney took over for the 3-0 defeat in Slovakia.
Hull were 3-1 down at the Vitality Stadium when they lost Robertson to injury after 63 minutes, defeat knocking them down to 16th, two places and one point above the relegation spots. The game was Mike Phelan's first since his appointment as head coach until the end of the season following a spell as caretaker.
The left-back said on Twitter: "Looks like I'll be a supporter for the next few weeks! Hopefully the lads can kick on."
Robertson's Scotland team-mate, goalkeeper David Marshall, has endured a miserable spell since his transfer from Cardiff City, conceding 15 goals in his first four outings for the Tigers.
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Karen Seldon, 44, of Abercarn, Caerphilly county, was cleared of four counts of sexual activity with a minor at Newport Crown Court.
Ms Seldon said she was "angry" that the boy said she sent him provocative pictures of herself on Facebook.
Speaking after the trial, the mother-of-two said the case had been a nightmare for her and her family.
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The 20-year-old, who can also play as a winger, has come through the academy at the Premier League club and played for the under-23 side in the EFL Trophy.
"I'm very excited to be playing under Keith Hill, who is a great manager," he told the Dale website.
"I know that he puts his trust in young players, so I feel like he'll put his trust in me and I will repay him."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here.
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It comes after Denbighshire council was granted permission to compulsorily purchase the former North Wales Hospital in Denbigh.
Owner Freemont (Denbigh) Ltd had opposed the compulsory purchase.
There has been a long-running dispute between both sides concerned about the future of the historical building.
The Rightmove website advert said the council "does not intend to develop the site but to work with a third party/developer that will".
The council had agreed to pass ownership of the building to the North Wales Building Preservation Trust, a non profit-making organisation which will receive support from the Princes Regeneration Trust.
The property is set for auction later this month.
A Denbighshire council spokesperson said the owners had the right to try to sell it as the hospital site has still not been transferred into the ownership of the council.
He said the authority would still continue with the compulsory purchase process.
"The High Court's ruling in March means that we are one step closer to handing over the site to the trust.
"However, there are many issues to be resolved before the council can take ownership and for the council to pass the ownership on to the trust.
"If the site is sold in the meantime, the council would need to negotiate with the new owner."
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The play is based on the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian writer's Elfriede Jelinek book Princess Dramas: Death and the Maiden I-V. Members of a Catholic organisation tried to stop people getting in. The government's new culture minister, Piotr Glinski, had called for the show to be cancelled. It premiered on Saturday at the Polski Theatre in Wroclaw. A new conservative pro-Catholic government took power in Poland last Monday. The theatre's website describes the play as being about the relationship between a torturer and victim. The protesters in Poland said they objected to the presence on the stage of porn stars and sexually explicit scenes. Glinski's opponents have said his attempt to stop the performance amounts to a violation of freedom of speech. Theatre director Krzysztof Mieszkowski said he plans to file an official motion in parliament calling on Glinski to be removed from his post, but given the ruling party - Law and Justice party - has a majority in parliament, that is unlikely to succeed. Mieszkowski also said that protesters threw eggs and tomatoes at his mother's home.
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Repainting girders below the bridge deck will mean lifting the footway clear of the girders and closing it to pedestrians for several months. Masonry will also be cleaned and re-pointed and repairs carried out to the roof of the Leigh Woods tower. The bridge will be closed to vehicles and cyclists from 14 to 16 March to allow scaffolding to be erected. During the bridge closures a diversion route will be signed, using Bridge Valley Road, Brunel Way and A369 Rownham Hill. Protective sheeting will also be installed to prevent debris and dust contaminating the Avon Gorge below. Work on the first of the two Clifton towers was completed in 2015.
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Nicole Clark used her mother Avril Stewart's bank details to set up online accounts.
The 30-year-old, from Woodside, admitted stealing the money between 8 August and 26 August last year.
Depute fiscal Robbie Brown told Perth Sheriff Court that the accused's mother had not recouped any of the stolen money.
Sheriff William Wood deferred sentence for the preparation of social work reports.
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XSUM Calibration Set for Membership Inference Attacks
This dataset contains a calibration set for training membership inference attack (MIA) classifiers.
Dataset Information
- Total Samples: 500
- Members: 250 (sampled from training data)
- Non-members: 250 (sampled from unseen test split)
- Balance: 50.0% members / 50.0% non-members
Data Sources
Members (label=1)
- Source: 10K training data (excluding eval set)
- Dataset: mia-llm/xsum-raw-MIA (10K training samples)
- Filtering: Excluded samples that appear in evaluation set
Non-members (label=0)
- Source: Unseen test split
- Original Dataset:
- AG News:
fancyzhx/ag_news(test split) - XSum:
EdinburghNLP/xsum(test split) - WikiText:
Salesforce/wikitextwikitext-2-raw-v1 (test split)
- AG News:
Usage
Load Dataset
from datasets import load_dataset
# Load calibration set
dataset = load_dataset("h0ssn/xsum-calibration-mia")
# Access data
calibration_data = dataset['train']
print(f"Total samples: {len(calibration_data)}")
print(f"First sample: {calibration_data[0]}")
Train MIA Classifier
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
import numpy as np
# Load calibration set
calibration_data = load_dataset("h0ssn/xsum-calibration-mia")['train']
# Extract features (example: using loss and gradient)
# You need to compute these features using your target and reference models
features = extract_features(calibration_data['text']) # Your feature extraction
labels = calibration_data['label']
# Train classifier
scaler = StandardScaler()
features_normalized = scaler.fit_transform(features)
classifier = LogisticRegression(max_iter=1000, random_state=42)
classifier.fit(features_normalized, labels)
# Now use this classifier to predict membership on unknown samples
Data Fields
text(string): The text contentlabel(int): 1 for members, 0 for non-memberssource(string): Origin of the sample ('10k_train' or 'unseen')
Verification
✅ No overlap between members and non-members: All samples have been verified to ensure no duplicates exist between the member and non-member sets.
Citation
If you use this calibration set in your research, please cite:
@dataset{xsum_calibration_mia,
title = {XSUM Calibration Set for Membership Inference Attacks},
author = {h0ssn},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Hugging Face},
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/h0ssn/xsum-calibration-mia}
}
Related Datasets
- Evaluation Set:
mia-llm/xsum_benchmark_roya(700 samples) - Training Set:
mia-llm/xsum-raw-MIA(10K samples)
License
MIT License - Free to use for research and commercial purposes.
Notes
- This calibration set is designed to be used SEPARATELY from the evaluation set
- No samples from this calibration set appear in the evaluation set
- Recommended split: Use this for training MIA classifiers, use evaluation set for testing
- Random seed: 42 (for reproducibility)
Contact
For questions or issues, please open an issue on the dataset repository.
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