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32,346,559 | The Tory leader is in Wales as the party prepares to launch its Welsh manifesto for the general election.
Mr Cameron has made Labour's record in office in Cardiff Bay a big part of the general election campaign, with references to the NHS's performance.
"The dragon on our flag may be red, but our country will always be better off blue," he will say.
"The people of Wales already know more than most the damage Labour can do.
"Cutting health spending and taking their eye off the ball on education.
"This is the way Labour treats the nation of Nye Bevan and Dylan Thomas.
"Seriously, where is it written that Wales votes Labour?"
Mr Cameron will say that jobs and the economy are the issues that matter most to voters at the election.
And he will use the growing aerospace industry as an example of Wales's economic success over the past few years.
In the next parliament, the Conservatives are pledging to increase the tax free personal allowance to £12,500, benefitting 1.4m tax payers.
Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb said this shows a Tory government will "get things done for Wales."
There is also a commitment to make people working 30 hours on the minimum wage exempt from paying income tax.
As part of the launch, the Tories will highlight their record in Wales during the last five years of government.
This includes 52,000 new jobs and 22,400 businesses created since 2010, as well as 1.2m people getting a tax cut.
Welsh Conservatives have also said that the £8bn extra pledged to fund the NHS in England will result in more money for the Welsh government.
Mr Crabb said: "By rolling up our sleeves and facing Wales' challenges head on, our ambitious programme for the next five years will create new and better jobs for Wales."
UKIP will also launch its Welsh manifesto on Friday. | People in Wales know "more than most the damage Labour can do", David Cameron will say today. |
36,600,616 | Gloucester Services, Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital and Stanbrook Abbey near York were three of 46 projects named on the 2016 Riba National Awards list.
The eclectic list includes a London museum and an Essex housing estate.
A "shimmering stainless steel library" in Oxford, designed by the late Dame Zaha Hadid's firm, also made the list.
The Sir John Soane Museum in Holborn, central London, is one of several cultural spaces honoured, alongside York Art Gallery, Manchester's HOME and the Portland Collection in Nottinghamshire.
Eleven higher and further education buildings and four schools received the accolade, including the Bob Champion Research and Education Building in Norwich, Poole's Drawing Studio, Davenies School in Buckinghamshire and the City of Glasgow College.
The Scottish college was one of only four non-English projects honoured, the other being a house in Edinburgh, a research building in Glasgow and a health centre in County Down.
Riba president Jane Duncan said huge investment in education was this year's "stand-out trend".
"It is encouraging to see so much emphasis placed on the power of architecture to help institutions to attract students and stand out from the mediocre," she said.
She also praised the "strong selection of new housing developments" on the list.
"Too often we see projects which have cut corners in quality, which fails the people these new homes are meant to serve.
"I hope these achievements in housing inspire other developers." | A grass-roofed children's hospital, an abbey, and a "tranquil" motorway services have been honoured by the Royal Institute of British Architects. |
39,586,672 | Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL), the company decommissioning the site, said it was because a number of projects were nearing completion.
All the plant jobs going are expected to be voluntary redundancies.
The Unite union said it was disappointed as it believed there was enough work to support all existing jobs at the site, near Thurso.
Off the 200 jobs, 150 are expected to be voluntary redundancies at the plant, and the other 50 are in the supply chain.
Managing director Phil Craig said: "This voluntary programme will help us ensure that we have the right balance of skills to deliver the remainder of our decommissioning programme safely and securely while protecting the environment.
"The site and local community have long planned for such reductions, with more than £10m invested by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Dounreay in projects that are helping to create new and sustainable local jobs.
"We will work with our staff and their representatives along with our supply chain partners to ensure everyone is treated fairly and with respect throughout the process."
Built in the 1950s, Dounreay was an experimental nuclear power site.
The clean up operation is currently scheduled for completion by 2029. | About 200 jobs are expected to go at the Dounreay nuclear site in Caithness over the next year. |
30,049,351 | Johnson, 33, also won cricketer of the year in 2009 and is only the second player after Ricky Ponting to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy twice.
England batsman Gary Ballance won the emerging cricketer of the year award.
England wicketkeeper-batter Sarah Taylor was named the women's one-day international cricketer of the year.
During the voting period between 26 August 2013 and 17 September 2014, Johnson claimed 59 Test wickets at an average of 15.23, with best bowling figures of seven for 40 runs against England in Adelaide last December.
He is the third Australian after Ponting and Michael Clarke to win the Test cricketer prize.
In one-day internationals, Johnson took 21 wickets in 16 games.
"I'm very happy with where I am at the moment and I want to keep getting better as a cricketer," he said.
"This is something that I'll be able to look back on in time when my career is over and be exceptionally proud of."
Sri Lankans Kumar Sangakkara and Angelo Mathews were nominated for both awards.
Yorkshire left-hander Ballance, 24, made his Test debut in January in the final match of England's 5-0 defeat in Australia.
He scored a century in his first home Test against Sri Lanka at Lord's and made two other hundreds and three half centuries last summer.
England Women's captain Charlotte Edwards missed out on the people's choice award, which went to India seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Stuart Broad and Joe Root were named in the Test team of the year, but no England players featured in the ODI XI.
Englishman Richard Kettleborough claimed the umpire of the year for the second consecutive year, while England pace bowler Katherine Brunt won the spirit of cricket award.
Brunt ran out South Africa's Matshipi Letsoalo in a Twenty20 international in September but called her back and told the on-field umpire she was not sure if the ball was definitely in her hand when she dislodged the bails.
Having checked the television replay, the third umpire subsequently reversed the decision and Letsoalo continued her innings.
International Cricket Council awards
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC cricketer of the year: Mitchell Johnson (Aus)
Test cricketer of the year: Mitchell Johnson (Aus)
ODI cricketer of the year: AB de Villiers (SA)
Women's ODI cricketer of the year: Sarah Taylor (Eng)
Emerging cricketer of the year: Gary Ballance (Eng)
Associate and affiliate cricketer of the year: Preston Mommsen (Scot)
Twenty20 international performance of the year: Aaron Finch (Aus) - 156 v England
Women's T20I cricketer of the year: Meg Lanning (Aus)
ICC spirit of cricket award: Katherine Brunt (Eng)
ICC umpire of the year (winning the David Shepherd Trophy): Richard Kettleborough
People's choice: Bhuvneshwar Kumar (India)
ICC Test team of the year: David Warner (Aus), Kane Williamson (NZ), Kumar Sangakkara (Sri), AB de Villiers (SA), Joe Root (Eng), Angelo Mathews (Sri) (capt), Mitchell Johnson (Aus), Stuart Broad (Eng), Dale Steyn (SA), Rangana Herath (Sri), Tim Southee (NZ). 12th man: Ross Taylor (NZ)
ICC ODI team of the year: Mohammad Hafeez (Pkn), Quinton De Kock (SA), Virat Kohli (Ind), George Bailey (Aus), AB de Villiers (SA), MS Dhoni (Ind, capt & wk), Dwayne Bravo (WI), James Faulkner (Aus), Dale Steyn (SA), Mohammad Shami (Ind), Ajantha Mendis (SL). 12th man: Rohit Sharma (Ind) | Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has been named both the cricketer of the year and Test cricketer of the year by the International Cricket Council. |
30,980,321 | The country's economic crisis was caused in large part because its government had taken on excessive debts.
So at the time the crisis began in earnest, at the end of 2009, its debts as a share of GDP were 127% of GDP or national income - and rose the following year to 146% of GDP.
As a condition of the official rescues, significant public spending cuts and austerity were imposed on Greece. And that had quite an impact on economic activity.
The country was already in recession following the 2008 financial crisis. But since 2010, and thanks in large part to austerity imposed by Brussels, GDP has shrunk a further 19%.
GDP per head, perhaps a better measure of the hardship imposed on Greeks, has fallen 22% since the onset of the 2008 debacle.
So austerity has certainly hurt. But has it worked to get Greece's debts down?
To the contrary, Greek debt as a share of GDP has soared to 176% of GDP, as of the end of September 2014.
Now it has fallen a bit in absolute terms. Greek public sector debt was 265bn euros in 2008, 330bn euros in 2010 and was 316bn in September of last year.
But it is debt as a share of GDP or national income which determines affordability. And on that important measure, Greece's debt problem is worse today than it was when it was rescued.
To state the obvious, it is the collapse in the economy which has done the damage. And although Greece started to grow again last year, at the current annual growth rate of 1.6% (which may not be sustained) it would take longer than a generation to reduce national debt to a manageable level.
Little wonder therefore that a party - Syriza - campaigning to end austerity and write off debts, has enjoyed an overwhelming victory in the general election.
That it appears to be two seats short of a clear majority in the Athens parliament should not disguise the clear message sent by Greek people to Brussels.
Or perhaps it would be more apt to talk of the message being sent to Berlin - since it is Germany which has been the big eurozone country most wedded to the economic orthodoxy that there's no gain without austerity pain.
As for investors. there are two reasons why Syriza's victory is significant.
First, and as I've mentioned, its leader Alexis Tsipras has a clear mandate to negotiate an easing of austerity imposed by Brussels and the IMF, and a write-off of at least some of the country's massive public sector debts.
At the moment, he and his colleagues are stressing that they want to negotiate and are sending out emollient signals. But the Germans are saying that the deal done with Greece in the rescue is the deal that holds.
So compromise may prove impossible - Greece rudely ripped from or bolting from the eurozone is not an impossibility,
The second reason the victory is significant is that younger anti-austerity parties are on the march all over Europe, and are doing especially well in France and Spain.
If Syriza were to win its negotiations with the rest of the eurozone these other anti-austerity parties would look more credible to voters. The victory of protectionist, nationalising Marine le Pen in France's presidential election would be an interesting test of markets' sangfroid (ahem).
And if Syriza were to lose in talks with Brussels and Berlin, and the final rupture of Greece from the euro were to take place, investors might well pull their savings from any eurozone country where nationalists are in the ascendant.
So why aren't investors in a state of frenzied panic? Why have the euro and stock markets bounced a bit this morning? One slightly implausible explanation is that investors believe the eurozone would actually be stronger without Greece, so long as no other big country followed it out the door.
More likely is that they believe reason will prevail, and Berlin will sanction a write-off of Greece's excessive debts.
Here is the important point: outside of Germany it is almost impossible to find an economist or central banker who believed that the previous reconstruction of Greek debt was ever going to work.
So just maybe, after Greeks have made a colossal and some would say pointless economic sacrifice, Germany will allow a rescue that permits the country a fighting chance of crawling out from beneath its colossal debts. | The Greek people don't seem desperately grateful for the 240bn euros in bailouts they've had from the eurozone and IMF - and here is one way of seeing why. |
35,661,457 | The Scottish SPCA was called when the exhausted bird was spotted at Traprain Terrace in Haddington on 2 February.
Staff traced it back to its owner and the racing pigeon has now been returned to the royal loft at Sandringham estate in Norfolk.
The bird was identified by a ring number on its leg.
Connie O'Neill, Scottish SPCA animal rescue officer , said: "I've rescued many pigeons during my career with the Scottish SPCA but this was certainly a first for me.
"I was really excited when I found out it was one of the Queen's racing pigeons.
"We were able to identity where the pigeon had come from using the ring number on its leg and arrangements were made for it to be collected.
"The poor bird was exhausted and it was a cold, dark and windy night when it was found. Thankfully someone contacted us as it would have been very easy prey for a cat.
"It's quite common for racing pigeons to lose their way and become too tired to take off again. I'm really glad we were able to help in this instance." | Animal welfare officers who rescued a lost pigeon in East Lothian were surprised to discover it was owned by the Queen. |
36,449,294 | The Claim: Vote Leave campaigners say if the UK left the European Union a points-based immigration system could be introduced.
Reality Check verdict: The UK already has a points-based system for non-EU migrants and it is not clear why inventing a different system - with less flexibility - would be a good idea.
The UK already has a points-based system for most migrants coming from countries outside the EU. But instead of just starting to treat EU citizens - who currently enjoy freedom of movement - in the same way, campaigners say all migrants should be subject to a new, simpler system.
While details are sparse, the proposal is that by 2020 migrants would only be let into the UK "on the basis of their skills", and that those moving for work reasons would "have to be suitable for the job in question". For some, that will mean being able to speak good English.
In Australia, applicants for skilled visas must score enough points for youth, qualifications, and superior English-speaking ability, among other things. Unless they're being sponsored by an employer, they must also have a job from a list set out by the Australian government. There are caps for each job - this year there are plenty of spaces left for nurses, plumbers and secondary teachers, but auditors are out of luck.
In theory, if the UK left the EU and stayed out of the European Economic Area (which, like the EU, requires freedom of movement between member states), it could introduce a similar system, but would it?
Vote Leave hasn't said that it aims to cut migration through this proposal. Instead it talks about "control" and allowing "politicians to keep their promises on migration", which is a reference to David Cameron's 2010 and 2015 manifesto pledges to cut net migration to the tens of thousands, which have not been met.
It's not clear what the effect has been in Australia itself. Migration figures have fluctuated since the points system was introduced, and the permanent skills visa - with its complicated points system - accounts for only a small proportion of arrivals.
Migration Watch - a think tank calling for reduced levels of migration to the UK - has dismissed the idea of introducing a points system in the UK, saying it's designed for a country like Australia that wants to boost immigration, and criticising it for its inflexibility.
Oxford University's Migration Observatory, on the other hand, says campaigners refer to an Australian-style points system more as a byword for toughness on immigration than because they want to copy their rules exactly.
So the UK could design its own points-based system, which could look very different to the one they have in Australia.
While Vote Leave says an overhauled system would "end discrimination" against immigrants from outside the EU, it's unclear whether it would be worth the cost and effort of essentially replacing one points-based system with another.
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate | Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, and Gisela Stuart have been saying that if the UK votes to leave the European Union, EU citizens wanting to move to the UK would be subject to an Australian-style, points-based immigration system. |
38,443,919 | Glasgow University and Glasgow Caledonian University published a study in BMJ Open about how the media reports drinking habits.
More than 300 articles published in UK national newspapers were analysed.
The findings suggested women's binge drinking was given more coverage, despite men drinking more in reality.
The researchers looked at 308 articles published over two years in seven newspapers.
They found that as well as misrepresenting differences in the amount that each gender drinks, the articles depicted women's and men's binge drinking in very different ways.
The academics said the articles typically linked women's binge drinking to impacts on personal appearance and presented them as haggard, vulnerable, socially transgressive and a burden to their male drinking companions.
They suggested these portrayals could give readers an inaccurate understanding of what binge drinking is and what its effects are, and how to lower their own health risks.
Chris Patterson, from the public health sciences unit at the University of Glasgow, said: "Media coverage of women's binge drinking isn't just about health or public disorder; it also performs a moralising, paternalistic role, reflecting broader social expectations about women's public behaviour.
"As well as unfairly stigmatising women, media coverage of binge drinking is problematic in terms of communication information about a serious health issue to the public.
"Evidence suggests that the public view binge drinking as a masculine activity and statistics tell us that men do drink more than women in reality, but the media are depicting a different story."
He added: "It's vital to clearly define unhealthy behaviours so that we can address them. What is binge drinking, and why is it a problem? If the media feel a responsibility to inform the public, they might seek to help us understand what constitutes harmful drinking, and what the risks of it are, without promoting harmful stereotypes that get in the way of evidence-based facts."
Dr Carol Emslie, from the school of health and life sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University, said "In the UK, men still drink more than women and are more likely to die from alcohol-related causes.
"However, the media's disproportionate focus on women's drinking, including the headlines and images used, may lead the public to think that it is primarily young females who are the problem drinkers.
"Alcohol is more freely available, more affordable and more heavily marketed today than it has been for decades, and excessive drinking affects all sections of the population." | Women who binge drink are portrayed more negatively by the media than men who do the same thing, according to new research. |
32,380,929 | The party said that is the amount of spending power Stormont power-sharing ministers have lost over the course of the last parliament.
The comments were made at the launch of the party's general election manifesto.
It was chaired by Michelle Gildernew, who is defending the most marginal seat in the UK, Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
Deputy leader Martin McGuinness said that he does not believe any of the main parties in Northern Ireland will play a role in the formation of the next government and that any claims to the contrary were "misleading".
He said Sinn Féin would resist further austerity and cuts to welfare.
The party's manifesto said it would "return economic powers for a fair recovery".
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The document added: "We are seeking full control over income tax, national insurance, corporation tax, capital gains tax, borrowing powers and the setting of the minimum wage.
"Financial benefits flowing from such decisions must be retained and reinvested here."
The Stormont House Agreement was signed between the five main Northern Ireland parties in December, and Prime Minister David Cameron said extra "firepower" had been agreed for the devolved administration.
Key to that was implementing welfare reform, but Sinn Féin said not enough money was available to protect the disabled and others from benefits cuts.
Sinn Féin has pledged to increase the participation of women in politics and said it would lobby for a bill of rights for Northern Ireland and an Irish Language Act.
Sinn Féin also said Ireland's place was within the European Union.
Other policies
Sinn Féin secured five seats in the last election, but refuses to take its seats in the House of Commons. | Sinn Féin is to seek an extra £1.5bn for Northern Ireland in negotiations with an incoming government. |
36,150,328 | Richella Heekin saved for two years for a surprise £1,200 holiday for boyfriend Ben Marlow's 30th birthday last month.
But the excited couple arrived to find the airline's desk closed.
Staff confirmed the BHM airport code on their tickets meant Birmingham Alabama, not the UK's second city.
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The airport code for the British Birmingham is BHX.
"Richella's face has just gone red and she's in tears," said Mr Marlow.
"I was like - we're not going to Vegas then.
"I was more gutted for Richella than myself because it was a surprise."
Ms Heekin revealed the surprise to her boyfriend at a party in front of family and friends, with those who knew they were due to head to the US giving dollars as a present.
But the couple, from Sutton Coldfield and both carers for children with special needs, were devastated when they turned up to see no flights on the board.
The couple thought they were flying from Birmingham - in the West Midlands - to Dallas and on to Las Vegas.
"I looked at the departure board and there's no flights," 26-year-old Ms Heekin said.
She said the error occurred after she spent time "doing a lot of clicking" on lastminute.com searching for flights, dates, prices and hotels.
"When I got my confirmation, I was checking my email. I checked the times and the code [BHM] was there," she said.
Ms Heekin said they contacted the website when at the airport, but the company said there was nothing that could be done.
Frustrated and with time booked off work, the couple used a new credit card to buy two late flights to Amsterdam instead - exchanging the gifted dollars for euros.
Lastminute.com said although it was not its error, the firm tried to find them alternative flights and contacted the airline and hotel for a refund, but one could not be provided.
Since attracting media attention, the couple have been offered a free five-day holiday to Las Vegas by Virgin Holidays. | A woman booked a dream holiday to Las Vegas, only to discover when she and her boyfriend arrived at Birmingham Airport she had mistakenly booked to fly from Birmingham Alabama. |
34,463,822 | Agreed sales rose throughout Scotland in September, with 32% more chartered surveyors reporting an increase.
Scotland posted one of the sharpest rises in activity in the UK last month as the British market saw sales growth hit a 16-month high.
The report was compiled by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Its latest UK residential market survey suggested the stronger sales trend was broadly reflective of an upturn in demand, which has been visible in the Scottish market for much of the year.
The number of new buyer inquiries rose in September, with 23% more chartered surveyors reporting a rise in demand.
In addition to activity picking up, September also saw a net balance of 16% more respondents in Scotland reporting an increase in properties being put on the market.
However, the survey indicated supply was still falling behind demand and Scottish house prices continued to rise.
Sarah Speirs, director of Rics in Scotland, said: "Activity is now picking up which is encouraging and we are seeing slight improvements in stock coming on to the market, although this is still falling short of demand.
"Against this backdrop, we expect prices to move higher over the coming months." | House sales picked up across Scotland last month following a "modest" rise in the number of properties coming on to the market, according to a report. |
33,581,052 | They are accused of plotting suicide attacks on security forces and mosques in various parts of the country.
Most of the suspects are Saudi citizens, but they also include people from six nationalities, including Yemen and Syria, the interior ministry said.
Saudi Arabia is part of a US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against IS militants in Syria and Iraq.
In its statement, the interior ministry said the suspects were planning suicide operations targeting mosques "on every Friday timed with assassinations of security men" in the east.
"Terrorist plots to target a diplomatic mission, security and government facilities" the southern province of Sharurah were also thwarted, the ministry added.
In April, Saudi authorities said they had arrested 93 IS suspects and foiled planned attacks on targets including the US embassy in Riyadh. | Saudi security forces have arrested 431 suspected members of the Islamic State militant group, officials say. |
39,768,661 | Long-term leaders Jonas Blixt and Cameron Smith took a four-shot lead into the final round of fourballs.
But Kisner and Brown birdied 10 of the first 11 holes and Kisner then chipped in for an eagle at the last.
Smith had to birdie the last to join them at 27 under and the four men will return for a sudden-death play-off.
Australian world number 112 Smith holed from two feet for the closing birdie, but darkness following a delay of more than six hours because of thunderstorms at TPC Louisiana midway through the round meant the play-off could not take place on Sunday.
Sweden's Blixt - the world number 256 - and Smith had led outright after the second and third rounds and did not drop a shot throughout the 72 holes, with each round in the revamped team format alternating between foursomes and fourballs.
The final tee time was moved forward to 8:16am local time (14:16 BST) in an attempt to beat the predicted bad weather and despite the intense thunderstorm, it appeared the tournament - the first official PGA team event since 1981 - would be completed.
But Kisner's 31-yard chip, close to 12 hours after his group had teed off, rattled the pin and dropped into the cup, meaning the players will return to the par-five 18th to begin the play-off at 9am local time (15:00 BST) on Monday.
"Well, we knew we had to have it," Kisner said. "All I was trying to do was make sure I didn't leave it short, and I couldn't see much. I knew it was breaking a little right, and when it hit the flag, I said, 'Don't you come out of there.'
"Someone had to get hot in order to catch us today, and they did," said Blixt, a two-time PGA Tour winner. "We just have to leave this behind and try to go out there and make birdie or eagle on 18 tomorrow and try and win this tournament," he added of the better-ball play-off.
Americans Kelly Kraft and Kevin Tway were third after combining for a 61 that left them on 23 under.
Former world number one Jordan Spieth and fellow Texan Ryan Palmer were a further stroke back after posting a 64.
Find out how to get into golf with our special guide. | Americans Kevin Kisner and Scott Brown carded a 12-under final round of 60 to take the Classic of New Orleans team event into a play-off on Monday. |
39,463,793 | US customs officials say Jose Aguilar was arrested by federal agents who found four illegal migrants from China in the boot of his car.
The lawyer representing Mr Aguilar, Jeremy Warren, said the case had nothing to do with the famous singer.
"Jose Aguilar is a young man who will address this matter in court, not with the press," he said.
The arrest took place two weeks ago - but details, including Jose Aguilar's involvement, emerged on Friday.
US Customs and Border Protection said Mr Aguilar was arrested at the border in San Diego after a sniffer dog alerted federal agents to the stowaways in the boot of his car.
The migrants reportedly said they had agreed to pay Mr Aguilar between $3,000 and $60,000 (£2,390 and £47,830) to be smuggled into the US.
Mr Aguilar, who is a US citizen, was released on bail pending his arraignment.
His father, Pepe Aguilar, is one of Mexico's most popular mariachi singers.
He has won four Grammy awards and four Latin Grammy awards and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. | The son of the popular Mexican singer Pepe Aguilar has been arrested in California for people smuggling. |
29,820,472 | The hosts of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and Britain's Got Talent take over from actor James Corden, who hosted the event from 2011 to 2014.
"We're really excited to be hosting the Brits again next year," the duo said. "It is undoubtedly the biggest night in the British music calendar."
Brits chairman Max Lousada said it was "a real honour" to have them back.
"Ant and Dec are two of the most popular TV broadcasters this country has ever produced," he said.
"It's great that these two pillars of British TV will be part of a night about celebrating icons in British music."
The return of Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly comes in the wake of them reaching number one last year with Let's Get Ready to Rhumble - a re-release of their 1994 hit.
The duo said they would be offering attendees advice on "how to have a number one hit, as long as they're prepared to wait 19 years for their records to top the chart like ours did".
The 2015 Brit Awards take place on 25 February at the O2 Arena in London, where winners will receive trophies designed by artist Tracey Emin.
Previous incarnations of the Brit statuette have been designed by Sir Peter Blake, Damien Hirst and Dame Vivienne Westwood.
The last time Ant and Dec hosted the Brits, staged at London's Earls Court, Robbie Williams took home three awards and U2 collected two.
It was also watched by an average audience four million higher than this year's show. Some 4.6 million tuned in to watch the ceremony in February - the lowest since 2006. | TV duo Ant and Dec are to host the 2015 Brit awards, 14 years since the last time they presented the ceremony. |
34,999,297 | The Swede, who has "been in bed with flu for three days" said he had "only a five per cent chance of playing" after pulling out of Tuesday's pro-am.
Stenson leads with South African Jaco van Zyl after both had bogey-free 66s.
Defending champion Danny Willett of England is third after having five birdies and no bogeys in his 67.
Willett, who finished second to Rory McIlroy in the Race to Dubai, said: "I don't think he (Stenson) can be ill. He played brilliantly.
"You've got to think that if you can stay close to him over the next few days you'll be doing well. Not too close though, he can keep his virus away!"
However, Stenson, who had all six of his birdies in his opening 10 holes, said: "From the 14th onwards my legs were like jelly and it was a real struggle.
"I completely ran out of energy. I missed a couple of chances coming in, but I would've taken one under standing on the first tee."
South Africa's Branden Grace and Open runner-up Marc Leishman are two shots off the pace in the 30-man event on four under, while last year's runner-up Ross Fisher, his fellow Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick and Scotland's Russell Knox are on three under.
Knox, who is making his first appearance as a full European Tour member and hoping to qualify for his first Ryder Cup appearance in 2016, said: "The number one reason I'm here is because I've had a great season, so it's nice to reward myself.
"It's a huge bonus and I'm not going to stress out." | Henrik Stenson overcame illness to take a share of the lead on six under after round one of the Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City. |
30,794,143 | Councillor Olwyn Peters, a council cabinet member, said a "culture of bullying" exists in the local party.
It comes after the party was reviewed in 2012 due to complaints of bullying and intimidation between members.
A Labour spokesman said the party has made a "number of changes" to the way the group operates since then.
The BBC published details of the internal Labour Party report that described the Redcar Council group as being "dysfunctional" and having "serious failings".
The report, written in 2012 by Darlington councillor Nick Wallis, found that a culture of "group bullying" existed within the council group and that he received reports of members "physically intimidating" each other.
Ms Peters, who is a former ceremonial mayor of Redcar, recently passed an initial selection process to stand as a Labour candidate in this year's local council elections.
She said she wants to stand as a candidate who believes in "openness and transparency".
"Let's make it absolutely clear. It makes me cringe when people say that the Labour group in Redcar and Cleveland is dysfunctional. I would just like to clarify that it is not," she said.
"There are a handful of people in that group that are dysfunctional and are all out to cause trouble, not the Labour group.
"The culture of bullying within the group is very much alive and well, people are almost being silenced."
A Labour party spokesman said: "Since the Wallis report was written The Labour Party has worked with the Redcar Group to implement a number of changes in the way the group operates.
"Nobody has yet been selected as a candidate to stand, this will be done by local members over the coming weeks.
"We are confident that local Labour members will select a united and talented team of candidates who will put the interests of the people of Redcar and Cleveland first in the elections this May." | A leading member of the Redcar and Cleveland Council Labour Party says she suffered a "mental breakdown" due to internal party fighting. |
27,718,596 | Tests have confirmed that 15 of the birds - 12 red kites and three buzzards - had eaten an illegal poison.
Police have been investigating the discoveries of dead birds since March.
A reward for information leading to a prosecution has been added to by donations from RSPB Scotland, landowners, farmers and the public. | Police have made a fresh appeal for information following the deaths of 22 birds of prey in Ross-shire in the Highlands. |
33,034,253 | Mary O'Callaghan, 50, now faces up to three years in jail. She has pleaded not guilty and is expected to appeal.
The case centred on a video recording, showing O'Callaghan hitting 35-year-old Alesia Thomas in the throat, abdomen and groin during the arrest in 2012.
Ms Thomas later lost consciousness and died in hospital.
A post mortem examination found traces of cocaine in her body, but the cause of death was listed as undetermined.
The jury in Los Angeles, California, reached the guilty verdict after two days of deliberations.
The police officer - who has been relieved of duty without pay after the incident - is now expected to be sentenced on 23 July.
Her lawyer Robert Rico said her client would appeal.
The defence team acknowledged that the footage showed an "ugly" scene, but said their client's use of force was "reasonable, justified and necessary" because Ms Thomas was not complying with the officer's orders.
The lawyers also stressed that O'Callaghan had an exemplary record during her 19 years of service.
The police woman went to arrest Ms Thomas on suspicion that she abandoned her two children.
The incident was caught on video by a dashboard camera in a police car.
O'Callaghan was not charged with killing Ms Thomas.
The US has recently seen a number of controversial cases when police officers used excessive force.
Recent data collected by the Washington Post newspaper suggests the number of people shot by US police is twice as high as official figures claim.
The paper said that during the first five months of this year, 385 people - more than two a day - were killed.
The number of black people was disproportionately high among the victims, especially unarmed ones. | A jury in Los Angeles has convicted a female police officer of assault for repeatedly kicking a handcuffed woman who died soon afterwards. |
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Murray, the 2013 and 2015 winner, took Olympic gold, claimed his second Wimbledon title and became tennis' world number one in a remarkable 2016.
Triathlete Alistair Brownlee was second and show jumper Nick Skelton third.
"It's been a great year for British sport and I am so proud to have been a part of it," said 29-year-old Murray as he accepted the award from Miami.
In front of a 12,000-strong audience at Birmingham's Genting Arena, Murray accepted the award via video-link from Florida, where he is preparing for the 2017 season.
As he took the prize from former British boxing world champion Lennox Lewis and gathered members of his training team around him, he added: "I'd like to thank everyone who voted - I really appreciate your support."
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Brownlee, 28, became the first man to retain the Olympic triathlon title at Rio 2016, finishing ahead of brother Jonny, who claimed the silver.
The Yorkshireman later made headlines across the world when he selflessly helped his exhausted brother over the line in a dramatic end to the Triathlon World Series in Mexico.
Skelton, 58, claimed individual show jumping gold at Rio 2016, becoming Britain's second oldest Olympic gold medallist, 16 years after initially retiring with a neck broken in two places.
In his acceptance speech, Scot Murray said: "I'd also like to thank my family. I think my mum is in the crowd there [in Birmingham]. I'd like to thank my dad as as well, who just got married 10 days ago. I miss you guys.
"A huge thanks to my wife and my daughter - she won't know what this means yet, but maybe in a few years she will.
"Actually, I've got a bone to pick with my wife because about an hour ago she told me she'd voted for Nick Skelton. Not smart from her with Christmas coming up."
Murray received 247,419 votes, Brownlee 121,665 and Skelton 109,197.
Skelton was asked whether he was aware Murray's wife had voted for him, and responded: "I'm very pleased with her actually. But she didn't vote enough times."
Young Sports Personality of the Year: Ellie Robinson: the Swimmer claimed gold in the S6 50m butterfly final with a Games record at the Rio Paralympics, aged 15.
Team of the Year: Leicester City: the Foxes stunned the world with their shock Premier League triumph last season.
Coach of the Year: Claudio Ranieri: Leicester's Italian manager was named top coach after overseeing the remarkable campaign.
Lifetime Achievement: Michael Phelps: the record-breaking American swimmer, 31, won his 23rd Olympic gold in his final Games in Rio in August.
Overseas Sports Personality of the Year: Simone Biles: the 19-year-old American broke new ground with a series of dazzling routines as she secured four gold medals at the Rio Olympics.
Sport's Unsung Hero: Boxing club founder Marcellus Baz provides free classes to hundreds of young people at his Nottingham School of Boxing, with some even dreaming of reaching the Olympics.
Helen Rollason: Ben Smith: the charity runner completed 401 marathons in 401 days after battling back from injury to pass his fundraising target of £250,000.
Helen Shaw: Well done Andy Murray. Well deserved. As is Alistair Brownlee in second place.
Sideburns Kev: Great to see Nick Skelton and Alistair Brownlee being recognised.
Allan Blair Beaton: Nice waaaaaan @andy_murray! Another #SPOTY for the cupboard. Well done!
Mark Haggan: So many fantastic British sport stars this year who have done incredible things. Amazing to see.
Stu: Well done Andy Murray never thought I'd see the day where we had a British world no1, Wimbledon winner & gold medal winner.
Former British number one Annabel Croft on BBC Radio 5 live:
Andy Murray's never worried what people thought of him and he's become one of the most popular sportsmen in the country.
Andy has continued to strive and something has switched in him. Now he is the hunted, rather than the hunter, defending that number one spot.
The rivalry between Murray and Djokovic is phenomenal and I cannot wait to see how it develops in 2017.
It will be interesting to see how he responds to that but he looks relaxed. I expect a reaction from Djokovic as he will not like this one bit.
But I feel as if Murray can go on and dominate quite significantly in 2017.
Murray began the year by reaching the Australian Open final, but lost to Novak Djokovic in straight sets.
Murray was beaten again by Djokovic at the French Open final in early June, but within two weeks he was crowned Wimbledon champion for a second time, adding to his 2013 title, when he ended Britain's 77-year wait for a men's champion.
In August he defended his men's singles Olympic title with victory over Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro in an epic final in Brazil.
And another win over Djokovic at the ATP World Tour Finals - Murray's first title at the season-ending event - ensured he would end 2016 as world number one.
Speaking during Sunday's ceremony in Birmingham, before he won the award, Murray said 2016 had been "the best year in my career".
Asked about how becoming a father had affected him, he added: "I have loved it. It was a challenge obviously and it made me realise tennis isn't the most important thing.
"Away from the court I am a lot happier now I'm not thinking about tennis all the time as I used to and that's helped me on the court."
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Murray said the replica trophy he was presented with had been damaged. He will be presented with the actual trophy at a later date.
"The trophy is a bit broken. It's kind of stuck down with tape where the top bit of the camera is," he said.
"They didn't tell me how it got broken, and to hold it close to my body. After the problems me and Lennox had the last time [a botched handover when he was third in 2012], I listened to them." | Andy Murray has been voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year for a record third time. |
28,461,293 | These were just some of the strands to the colourful and exuberant opening ceremony at Celtic Park for the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Was Glasgow kissed by Caledonian Cool or did it deliver Tartan cringe amidst a haze of Scotch myth?
Here's what others thought...
Australia
Writing in The Australian, Wayne Smith said: "Name a Scottish icon, it got an airing, be it Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, Susan Boyle, tossed cabers or Rod Stewart, pumping out his signature "The Rhythm of My Heart".
Not that the Scots were showing their dour side, not on this night, even parodying their own weather in a cute takeoff of Men at Work's "Land Down Under".
India
The Times of India online edition said: "Scotland rolled out a spectacular opening ceremony on Wednesday with dazzling and colourful display of their unique culture and heritage on a breathtaking night, which also had some Indian flavour to set the stage for the 20th Commonwealth Games."
Canada
Writing in the Toronto Star, Rob Harris said: "The Loch Ness Monster, tartan-clad bagpipers and giant pieces of shortbread took the place of footballers on the Celtic Park pitch as the Commonwealth Games began with a celebration of Scottish mythology and traditions on Wednesday.
"Scotland is hosting the 20th edition of the games for former British colonies as its own future as part of Britain could be coming to an end.
"With an independence referendum coming on September 18, the issue of Scotland's national identity is in sharp focus, and organizers made light of perceptions of the country with a self-deprecating start to the ceremony attended by Queen Elizabeth II."
New Zealand
Writing in The New Zealand Herald, APNZ senior reporter Rebecca Quilliam said: "The 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow has opened today in Scottish style.
"Bagpipers, dancers and kilt-clad singers welcomed a packed stadium and millions of television viewers to Scotland...
"Hundreds of performers packed the stadium in a colourful display depicting Scottish life and the country's history."
United Kingdom
Writing in The Telegraph, Jim White said: "On a beautiful, balmy evening, in weather apparently borrowed wholesale from the World Cup host Brazil for the occasion, Glasgow produced a vibrant, joyous opening to the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
"Taking the lead from Danny Boyle's magnificent ceremonial launch of the London Olympics this was an event rich in humour, jollity and self-deprecation.
"Plus the magnificent Londoner Rod Stewart, warbling gleefully in the football stadium he cites as his spiritual home."
The Guardian's Lyn Gardner took a different view: "London 2012 got Danny Boyle; Glasgow 2014 got a clearly nervous Susan Boyle singing Mull of Kintyre and forgetting the words, and John Barrowman in an eye-watering haze of purple tartan.
"Those hoping against hope that Sean Connery and the Queen would parachute into Celtic Park in a cheeky Scottish nod to the James Bond sequence of the London Olympics Opening Ceremony were always going to be disappointed.
"The budget was never going to run to that kind of grandstanding, but there were times during David Zolkwer's oddly lacklustre and unfocused production when you wondered whether someone - maybe all those people who should have been sitting in the glaringly empty seats in the stands - had scarpered down the pub with the entire budget.
"Or maybe they were just hiding under the seats in mild embarrassment that this was how this great, gritty, glorious city was being portrayed to the rest of the world."
The Independent's Jonathan Brown said the opening ceremony gave an "exhilarating start" to the Games.
He said: "From the moment the giant kilt lifted to reveal pantomime star John Barrowman, it was clear that the wit as well as the famous wisdom of the Scots was being showcased. So too the irrepressible spirit of the people of Glasgow.
"Where else would the disfigurement of a national symbol (albeit an Anglo-Irishman) - the traffic cone which has repeatedly and drunkenly been used to adorn the head of the Duke of Wellington in Royal Exchange Square for the past 30 years - be celebrated as part of a national story before a billion-strong television audience?"
Referring to the ongoing Scottish referendum campaign, The Daily Mail's Robert Hardman said: "After the fractious introspection and months of angry debate about what it means to be Scottish, the people of Scotland enjoyed a well-deserved break from it all last night - as they welcomed the world.
"And by the end of an exuberant, good-humoured, periodically chaotic evening - starring everyone (and everything) from a giant haggis, cabers, golf clubs, a gay wedding, 41 Scottish terriers, Rod Stewart, rousing cheers for the Queen and lashings of self-deprecation - Scotland seemed to have answered her own question.
"All of the above, we can safely say, encompass what it means to be Scottish. Quite what last night's opening of the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow means for that referendum campaign, on the other hand, is anyone's guess." | Pipers, tartan, Scotty dogs, dancing teacakes, a gay kiss, self deprecating humour, a history of Scotland in song and a successful appeal to raise cash for children around the Commonwealth. |
34,038,928 | The work and pensions secretary says that the current system is too "binary" - with claimants deemed either fit or unfit for work.
Instead, claimants should be made to take up any work they can, even if it is just a few hours, he will say.
Labour says cutting benefits for people who are not able to work is punishing the disabled for government failures.
Mr Duncan Smith insisted that the "most vulnerable people in our society" will be protected under his latest reforms.
And despite the "scaremongering" of critics, he said, the UK spends more on the sick and disabled than the average of the other nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Mr Duncan Smith has also made his first public comments about revelations his department had used made-up stories from fictional sickness benefit claimants to demonstrate the positive impact of benefit sanctions.
The work and pensions secretary said the online examples were "drawn as a summary from real life cases but it wasn't a real life case".
He added: " It was quite wrong, those individuals [responsible] ultimately will face some form of disciplinary procedure."
Mr Duncan Smith's speech did not contain any policy announcements but aims instead to start a "conversation" about the next phase of welfare reform, according to DWP officials.
Mr Duncan Smith focused on the Employment Support Allowance, which is paid to those unable to work on health grounds. Those who receive the payment have their fitness to work tested under the Work Capability Assessment.
He believes those assessments should be more personalised, so if someone is able to work for a few hours they are helped to do so.
"It is right that we look at how the system supports people who are sick," he said.
Mr Duncan Smith argued what is needed is "a system focused on what a claimant can do and the support they'll need, and not just on what they can't."
He added: "Nearly 11 million adults in the UK have a common mental health condition and people are much more likely to fall out of work if they do.
"We also know that being out of work for four weeks or more can actually effect people's mental health, even if the original reason for ill health was a physical one."
Labour has condemned the proposals.
The shadow health secretary and Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham is set to condemn the approach.
Speaking at a campaign rally, he's expected to say: "It's clear that Iain Duncan Smith is now preparing a new attack on disabled people".
"Talk of cutting support for people who are simply not able to work will strike fear into the hearts of many vulnerable people.
"The cruel and crude approach of the Tories has already driven many people to despair and this new drive will cause even more anxiety."
The Work Capability Assessment has been controversial since it was introduced under Labour.
It was planned to reduce the number on incapacity benefits by one million, but since 2010 there has been a fall of just 90,000. | Iain Duncan Smith is planning a shake-up of the rules on sickness benefit to encourage more people into work. |
27,351,374 | The 29-year-old full-back, who made 15 appearances for the Reds last season, originally arrived in January and joins on a free transfer.
Fox began his career as a trainee at Everton and also played for Walsall, Coventry, Celtic and Burnley.
The Scotland international made 14 appearances for Forest as they finished 11th in the Championship.
He also played three Premier League games for Southampton earlier in the season, the last in a 3-2 home defeat by Tottenham last December. | Nottingham Forest have signed Danny Fox on a three-year deal from Southampton following a loan spell with the club. |
34,914,271 | Addison, 26, was a free agent after leaving Bournemouth in the summer, having spent much of last season on loan at Scunthorpe and Blackpool.
He only made 22 appearances in three years with the Cherries after joining from boyhood club Derby in 2012.
Samuelsen, 18, will be on loan with Posh until 2 January.
The Norway-born teenager made two substitute appearances for the Hammers in their Europa League tie against Birkirkara in July.
Addison, meanwhile, will provide cover for the injured Gabriel Zakuani and Shaun Brisley, and Jack Baldwin and Ricardo Santos, who are suspended.
He was named in the starting line-up for Tuesday's home game against Barnsley, with Samuelsen on the bench. | League One side Peterborough United have signed centre-back Miles Addison on a short-term contract and West Ham midfielder Martin Samuelsen on loan. |
37,592,121 | He was arrested for trespassing on a designated site as he dropped to the ground, police said.
The 21-year-old was not carrying an offensive weapon but inquires are continuing, police added. He has been taken into custody and will undergo a mental health assessment.
No members of the Royal Family are thought to have been at the palace at the time.
It is third time a person has tried to enter the palace grounds this year.
A 22-year-old man was spotted on CCTV in August after climbing over a security fence but he was stopped "within a security perimeter".
Several months earlier, a 41-year-old man spent seven minutes in the grounds before being arrested. | A man has been arrested after climbing over a gate at Buckingham Palace. |
40,206,768 | The 28-year-old, capped six times by his country, made 50 appearances for Darmstadt after joining in 2015.
But the midfielder was unable to stop his side from being relegated from Germany's top flight this season and has moved Norwich on a three-year deal.
He will officially join on Friday, subject to governing bodies' approval.
Norwich head coach Daniel Farke, who himself moved from Germany to Carrow Road in May, told the club website: "I've followed Mario's path for several years.
"He's a really smart technical player with a brilliant left foot. He will bring a lot of quality passing and special creativity to the team.
"In addition to that, he's a really good character and a very nice guy who will fit into Norwich. I'm really looking forward to working with him."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Norwich City have signed Bosnia international Mario Vrancic for an undisclosed fee from German side Darmstadt. |
39,057,039 | Former West Ham striker Simone Zaza opened the scoring for the hosts with a spectacular strike and Fabian Orellana doubled the lead before Cristiano Ronaldo pulled a goal back.
Ronaldo could have snatched a point late on, but failed to hit the target with his looping header.
Zinedine Zidane's side remain one point clear of Barcelona with a game in hand.
Italian Zaza, 25, failed to score in 11 appearances for the Hammers and broke down in tears at the weekend after his first goal since May. His fourth minute strike against Real at the Mestalla was brilliant, spinning in the area and shooting into the top corner.
Just five minutes later, Orellana finished off a flowing counter-attack, but just before the break Ronaldo's towering header - on his 700th club appearance in his career - from Marcelo's cross gave Los Blancos hope.
Welshman Gareth Bale came off the bench for just his second appearance after a three-month injury layoff for the final half hour and nearly scored, but his point-blank header was blocked by Enzo Perez.
Victory allows struggling Valencia to move up to 13th in the table, with boss Voro their third manager of the season.
Match ends, Valencia 2, Real Madrid 1.
Second Half ends, Valencia 2, Real Madrid 1.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by João Cancelo.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Carlos Soler.
Offside, Valencia. Daniel Parejo tries a through ball, but Munir El Haddadi is caught offside.
Offside, Real Madrid. Marcelo tries a through ball, but Cristiano Ronaldo is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Marcelo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Daniel Carvajal.
Attempt blocked. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Toni Kroos with a cross.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by José Gayá.
Daniel Parejo (Valencia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daniel Parejo (Valencia).
Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Sergio Ramos.
Attempt missed. Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Foul by Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid).
Diego Alves (Valencia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Real Madrid. Casemiro tries a through ball, but Gareth Bale is caught offside.
Offside, Real Madrid. Cristiano Ronaldo tries a through ball, but Gareth Bale is caught offside.
Foul by Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid).
Daniel Parejo (Valencia) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Offside, Real Madrid. Cristiano Ronaldo tries a through ball, but Sergio Ramos is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mario Suárez (Valencia).
Foul by Gareth Bale (Real Madrid).
João Cancelo (Valencia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Casemiro (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Lucas Vázquez replaces Luka Modric.
Foul by Luka Modric (Real Madrid).
Daniel Parejo (Valencia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Luka Modric (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by José Gayá (Valencia).
Substitution, Valencia. Mario Suárez replaces Simone Zaza because of an injury.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Nacho replaces Raphael Varane.
Attempt blocked. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Toni Kroos.
Offside, Valencia. Daniel Parejo tries a through ball, but Simone Zaza is caught offside.
Foul by Luka Modric (Real Madrid).
Carlos Soler (Valencia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Karim Benzema (Real Madrid).
Enzo Pérez (Valencia) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Leaders Real Madrid suffered just their second La Liga loss of the season in a shock defeat against Valencia. |
37,861,373 | The former Mercedes F1 boss denies having a formal job with new owners Liberty Media but admits he is interested in the possibility.
Brawn was talking in a wide-ranging interview with BBC Sport, in which he also discussed...
Brawn, 61, has had a fractious relationship with Ecclestone, 86.
"It would be a very interesting combination and it certainly wouldn't be a problem for me," said Brawn.
Brawn said he expected Liberty Media, which is in the process of finalising a $4bn (£3.2bn) deal to take a controlling stake in the commercial arm of F1, to take its time before deciding how the sport's management should change.
"When the day comes that Bernie eventually stops there won't be another Bernie," he said. "It will be a different structure and with Liberty Media getting involved there is speculation about how things will evolve.
"My role has solely been to give some consultancy to Liberty and help them to understand F1 and the business of F1 and the characters of F1 and just give them a bit of support in that respect.
"I don't want to go back to being in charge of a team. That doesn't really motivate me.
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"But what could motivate me is contributing some way to the future of F1 and how it can progress and meet the challenges it is facing today and that could be any number of roles.
"But Bernie is the ring master and he is the one who is going to decide how things play out in the next few years."
Brawn said parting with Ecclestone, who has run the sport for 40 years, would be a "brave move" from Liberty.
He added: "He has established the systems, negotiated all the contracts. He has done any number of things. So it would be sensible to proceed cautiously in that direction."
Brawn and Ecclestone clashed both when the former was boss of his own eponymous team and at Mercedes.
Brawn said: "The relationships are vital in any business. But I understand Bernie and I didn't make enough effort during that period to perhaps give him the respect that was due. He has achieved an enormous amount in F1."
Brawn is one of the few people with an insight into the condition of Schumacher, who is recovering from serious head injuries sustained in a skiing accident in 2013.
It was revealed at a court case in Germany in September that Schumacher cannot walk but the extent of his condition remains unknown to the public.
Brawn, who worked with Schumacher on all seven of his world titles, said: "The family have chosen to conduct Michael's convalescence in private and I must respect that.
"There are encouraging signs and we are all praying every day that we see more of them. So it is difficult for me to say very much and respect the family's privacy.
"All I would say is there is a lot of speculation about Michael's condition. Most of it's wrong and we just pray and hope every day that we continue to see some progress and that one day we can see Michael out and about and recovered form his terrible injuries."
Brawn laid the foundations for Mercedes' success when he was team boss from 2010-13, after the German company bought his Brawn team.
But he left at the end of 2013 following the introduction of a new management structure.
Brawn says it was Mercedes' recruitment of Paddy Lowe in the new role of executive director (technical) in January 2013 that was the final straw.
"The Paddy thing, in retrospect for all the people involved, was a bit unfortunate," he said. "I found out from [then McLaren team boss] Martin Whitmarsh that Paddy Lowe was joining Mercedes and that for me was unacceptable.
"That was the crunch for me when I thought: 'Maybe I have created this situation and I have to blame myself but still that's not something I am going to find very easy to live with.'
"In that period, in fairness, I had said to the board: 'I don't know how long I can commit to this. You are bringing people in. I don't know how we are all going to fit. I am not going to make any long-term commitments because I don't know how all this is going to work'.
"And the board took that as a message from me the I wasn't going to stick around. So I provoked some of the reaction that came. I blame myself for a large part of it.
"But once you have reached that stage when someone has been employed that you didn't know was coming, it's difficult to forget that."
Brawn says he takes "huge satisfaction" from the three consecutive title doubles Mercedes have achieved, and praises Toto Wolff and Lowe for "not dropping the ball - even though the team structure was there, they had to keep the consistency and improve it".
The 2016 championship will be won by either Nico Rosberg or Lewis Hamilton - both of whom were recruited by Brawn - over the final two races of the season.
Rosberg has a 19-point lead and will be champion if he wins in Brazil on 13 November.
Brawn says the German would be "a completely worthy champion" if that happened, regardless of the fact Hamilton would be leading at this stage had he not suffered worse reliability this season.
"The great thing about this year is that whatever driver wins it they will have deserved it," Brawn said. "We can talk about the reliability record but reliability comes and goes for every driver every year and you have to accept that's an unfortunate part of the business.
"Only for emotional reasons I would love Nico to win it because he is such a tough little nut. He has been bashed around so much by Lewis.
"Lewis is naturally talented, a better driver, he is slightly quicker than Nico. But Nico is so tenacious and has such good application that he is compensating for it."
Brawn's career is most synonymous with Ferrari, where working with Schumacher he won five consecutive drivers' titles and six constructors' titles.
After 10 years at Maranello, Brawn has a strong perspective on where Ferrari have gone wrong as their form has slipped in recent years.
He said: "It just needs to stabilise and work progressively and try to defuse a little bit of the pressure that is always on Ferrari from the media and the fans.
"Someone needs to be the firewall to stop that getting to the people, to enable them to do their job properly, to enable them to creative and productive without worrying overly about the consequences."
Brawn said it was "a great shame" technical director James Allison had left in the summer.
He added he felt it would be better if Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne was not taking such a close involvement with the team, which was not the case when Brawn was there under Luca di Montezemolo.
"It is a different approach to the one I would take," he said.
"If there is a vacuum in the middle, I guess people jump into it. If there is no structure there to give the confidence to senior management that the team is being handled properly then people's tendency is to get involved themselves.
"The great thing about Luca is he wanted to know what was going on and he was a very passionate person but he always kept his distance because he had the confidence we were doing then right things.
"I would prefer Sergio not to be doing that but I think he's doing it because he doesn't see an alternative. That is the natural consequence of a vacuum in the middle."
Media playback is not supported on this device | Ross Brawn says he would be happy to work alongside Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone if he was offered a job running the sport. |
38,400,920 | Matt Horn was bitten while trying to protect his boy, who was struck first, said snake catcher Mark Pelley. Both were treated in hospital and released.
Tiger snakes, found along Australia's coast, are one of the world's most venomous reptiles.
Local newspaper the Herald Sun said the boy, Braeden, who has autism, encountered the snake in a hallway.
"He had already started playing with it when my wife saw him out of the corner of her eye," Mr Horn told the newspaper.
"It struck him on the toe and inner leg."
Paramedics called Mr Pelley to the house at midnight on Wednesday.
"The father did the right thing, he saved his son and got bitten in the process," Mr Pelley told the BBC.
"I entered the room, found the snake, safely removed it, and the father was treated by paramedics."
Mr Pelley said the snake, a protected species, will be removed from populated areas and released into the wild.
"They are the fifth or sixth most deadly land snake on the planet and they've got very powerful venom that can take effect very quickly," he said.
"You can die within half an hour of being bitten by one of these guys."
Mr Pelley said snakes were not normally aggressive, but often entered homes to escape hot weather.
"I've caught snakes in dishwashers, refrigerators, beds, cars, inside walls. You name it, I've found a snake there," he said.
Melbourne's Austin Hospital said it discharged a man and boy on Wednesday after treating them for snake bites. | An Australian man and his 11-year-old son have been bitten by a tiger snake inside their home in Melbourne. |
10,334,914 | The charity, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, denies accusations that it is a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.
Punjab officials say the funds were humanitarian in nature and were not given directly to the charity.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa and four senior Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders were added to a UN sanctions list in December 2008.
They were accused of having links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The move by the UN Security Council came shortly after attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay), for which Lashkar-e-Taiba was blamed.
It is the first time that the authorities in Pakistan have formally admitted allocating money to institutions linked to Jamaat-ud-Dawa, BBC correspondents say.
The government has long been under international pressure to crack down on militants or groups suspected of supporting them. There was no immediate response from the government in Islamabad.
News that schools and hospitals run by Jamaat-ud-Dawa have received Pakistan state help is unlikely to go down well with the Indian or US governments.
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Profile: Lashkar-e-Taiba
Pakistan cleric to 'stay free'
Funding details came to light when the Punjab provincial government published spending figures for 2009-10.
"At least 80 million rupees [$940,000] have been allocated for the institutions [linked to Jamaat-ud-Dawa] during the current fiscal year," Rana Sanaullah, a senior Punjab minister, told the BBC.
However, he maintained that the institutions - which include two schools and a hospital - were no longer attached to Jamaat-ud-Dawa.
"The government has taken control of the schools and appointed an administrator to run each of them."
He said the UN had been notified as the issue was a humanitarian one.
"There was a boys' school with 400 students, a girls' high school with 350 students and a hospital which addressed the needs of the entire area in question.
"If we had closed down the institutions it would have proved counter-productive. It would have aggravated the sentiments of the people and made them sympathise with [Jamaat-ud-]Dawa."
When asked why the Punjab government had allotted money in the budget for institutions it managed, a spokesman for Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Hafiz Abdur Rehman, said: "The truth is that we are ourselves astonished at this."
He said the institutions in question were now being managed by the charity.
"When restrictions were initially imposed upon us, the Punjab government did appoint an administrator but it was neither liked nor accepted by our people.
"By the grace of God, now everything is running exactly the way it was running under the Jamaat's system."
Jamaat-ud-Dawa has frequently denied accusations that some of its schools are used as militant training camps.
Its leader is Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who set up Lashkar-e-Taiba, one of most feared groups fighting against Indian rule in part of the disputed territory of Kashmir.
After it was banned in Pakistan in 2002, the organisation divided itself into Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Lashkar-e-Taiba, correspondents say.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa now works as an Islamic charity all over Pakistan. It played a major role in relief efforts following the Kashmir earthquake in 2005.
Pakistan arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba's senior leaders after the Mumbai attacks. But most of them, including Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, were later freed on appeal. | Pakistan's Punjab province government gave about $1m (£674,000) last year to institutions linked to a charity on a UN terror blacklist, it has emerged. |
35,895,416 | Turkey has said it arrested and deported Brahim el-Bakraoui last June, warning Belgium he was a "foreign fighter" - but was "ignored".
The Belgian interior and justice ministers said they had offered to resign over this but added that the prime minister refused to let them.
Tuesday's suicide attacks in Brussels killed 31 people and wounded some 300.
They have been claimed by so-called Islamic State.
In separate developments on Thursday:
Why Brussels warning signs were missed
From Paris to Brussels: Why the attacks are linked
What we know so far
Why was Brussels attacked?
Victims and survivors
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that one of the Brussels attackers had been caught near Turkey's border with Syria in June 2015, and was deported, at his request, to the Netherlands.
Mr Erdogan said Turkey alerted both the Belgian and Dutch authorities, but "despite our warnings that this person was a foreign terrorist fighter, the Belgian authorities could not identify a link to terrorism".
Turkish officials later confirmed he had been talking about Brahim el-Bakraoui.
Dutch Justice Minister Ard Van der Steur on Thursday confirmed that Bakraoui had arrived from Turkey on 14 July 2015, but said he had a valid Belgian passport, was not on any wanted lists and so the Dutch authorities had no reason to detain him.
Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens said he had been made aware of the deportation but told public broadcaster VRT: "At that time, he was not known here for terrorism. He was a common law criminal out on parole."
Interior Minister Jan Jambon said he understood why there were questions to be answered over why "we missed the chance to seize him when he was in Turkey".
"In the circumstances it was right to take political responsibility and I offered my resignation to the prime minister," Mr Jambon said.
But he added: "The prime minister and the inner cabinet requested clearly this morning that I stay on, given the current situation, that in a war situation you cannot leave the field."
Brahim el-Bakraoui is one of three men - pictured in the middle on a CCTV image of them - who carried out the bombings at Zaventem airport that killed 11 people.
Unconfirmed reports say another of the airport attackers was the wanted jihadist Najim Laachraoui, whose DNA was found on explosives linked to last year's attacks in Paris. The third suspected airport attacker has not been identified yet and is on the run.
Bakraoui's brother Khalid struck at Maelbeek metro station, where 20 people died.
There are reports of a second suspect being sought for that attack. One source told AFP news agency that a man with a large bag had been seen beside Khalid el-Bakraoui on surveillance footage at the metro station.
Meanwhile, VRT reports that investigators are working on the assumption that the cell had been planning a far bigger attack, involving Paris-style shootings as well as suicide bombings.
Link are emerging with Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in last November's Paris attacks in which 130 people died.
Abdeslam was arrested and wounded in a police raid on a flat in the Forest area of Brussels last Friday - four days before the attacks in the Belgian capital.
On Thursday, his lawyer said he had changed his mind and would not fight extradition from Belgium to France.
Abdeslam, a 26-year-old French national born in Belgium, did not have prior knowledge of the Brussels bombings and had stopped co-operating with police following the attacks, his lawyer Sven Mary said.
A court hearing on Thursday on the detention of Abdeslam and two other suspects has been postponed until 7 April.
The director of the EU's police agency, Europol, has told the BBC the network of jihadists in Europe is "more extensive than perhaps we first feared".
Robin Wainwright said there were concerns over "a community of 5,000 suspects that have been radicalised in Europe, that have travelled to Syria and Iraq for conflict experience, some of whom - not all - have since come back to Europe". | Belgium has admitted that it made "errors" relating to one of the Brussels attackers. |
30,692,246 | Multi-millionaire Tony Smith is charged with being part of a conspiracy to kidnap a bank executive.
In December, police arrested Mr Palmer's media advisor Andrew Crook over his part in the alleged scheme.
Police said Mr Palmer knew nothing about the alleged conspiracy.
Tony Smith, who is also a former Australian footballer, is alleged to have organised the "very elaborate" and "bizarre" scheme, police said.
Mr Smith allegedly threatened to use corrupt police to have his former manager at National Australia Bank (NAB) jailed for life in Indonesia, local media reported.
Mr Crook, who has also worked as a publicist for Mr Smith, was allegedly an accomplice in luring the banker to Indonesia with a bogus offer of a job with Mr Palmer.
The banker was a witness in a legal case involving Mr Smith and NAB. The conspirators allegedly tried to get him to recant his evidence.
Police said the banker was held for several hours, and had his mobile phone, wallet and passport taken.
The charges came hours before a decision by Queensland Premier Campbell Newman to call a snap state government election for 31 January.
Mr Newman visited Government House this morning to meet Acting Governor Tim Carmody for the issue of writs for an election.
Mr Newman is a fierce political rival of Clive Palmer, a billionaire miner whose Palmer United Party's senators wield crucial swing votes in the federal parliament.
Mr Palmer said his party would stand candidates across Queensland. He described the snap election as a response to Mr Newman's deteriorating popularity as premier.
"Of course the polls have moved drastically against the government, more Queenslanders are moving against him and that's why he's moved so quickly, because he's running scared," Mr Palmer told ABC News.
Mr Palmer, who made his fortune in mining and won a seat in the lower house of parliament in 2013, said at the time of Mr Crook's arrest he did not know anything about the allegations.
But he appeared to suggest that the case could be politically motivated, saying that the Queensland government "don't like the opposition we've been giving them in the Senate".
"I'm personally very concerned because Mr Crook is our media advisor and if they wanted to attack me or our party they can do that," he said.
Police brushed aside Mr Palmer's claim the police investigation could be politically motivated, saying it stemmed from a pre-existing investigation connected to a civil matter dating back to 2012. | A developer accused of enlisting Australian politician Clive Palmer's media advisor in a criminal conspiracy has returned to Australia to face charges. |
19,108,656 | Glover, who grew up in Penzance, Cornwall and her rowing partner Heather Stanning won Team GB's first gold on Wednesday.
Royal Mail rushed the limited edition stamps out to 500 post offices.
But some Penzance branches had none, while the 80 sheets delivered to the main branch sold out in about an hour.
Trevor Churchfield, one of the last customers to successfully purchase the stamps from the main branch, said Royal Mail had grossly underestimated the demand there would be in Cornwall.
"I was about 25th in the queue and by the time I got to the counter there was only one sheet left," he said.
"At one point a teller came out to see if anybody wasn't waiting for stamps - and there was only one."
Resident Annie Prouse said she was bitterly disappointed at not being able to get her "little bit of history".
She ordered three first-day covers from her local branch at Heamoor, but when she went to collect them on Thursday, the postmaster said they had not been delivered.
Mrs Prouse tried two other branches without success before going to the main Post Office branch in Market Jew Street.
"I was told it had been a dreadful day with people queuing in the town and the 80 sheets of stamps they'd had delivered were sold in less than an hour," she said.
"Truro couldn't help me and I was told to phone the main stamp depot in Edinburgh, but the girl said it was nothing to do with them.
"The postmaster at St Clare said he was led to believe the bulk of the stamps had gone to Plymouth.
"Well, I'm sorry but Helen's a Cornish girl so why send them to Devon when we want them here - because it's really important to us."
Glover and Stanning - the first British women to win rowing gold - are the first all-female sports team to appear on a Royal Mail stamp.
The Royal Mail has pledged to issue a stamp for each Team GB gold medal during the London 2012 Olympic Games.
It said the "unprecedented levels of demands" for the gold medal stamps had exceeded its expectations, adding that a further 4,700 post offices would be supplied over the weekend.
A spokesperson said it had anticipated "significant" interest and so had supplied the main post ofice in Penzance with double the volume of the special stamps it received for the royal wedding last year.
"However, the level of demand from people in Penzance wanting to buy stamps to celebrate blew us away - with all the stamps selling out in an hour," a statement said.
"We have of course restocked the Post Office there and we are having to revise upwards our projections of demand for gold medal stamps by people in our Olympic heroes' home towns.
"We stand ready for our Weymouth and Poole sailors and of course in Plymouth next weekend for Tom Daley.
Branches which have the special edition stamps can be found on the Post Office website, where the stamps can also be ordered.
In further recognition of Glover's Olympic achievement - the 26-year-old only started rowing four years ago - a post box in Penzance's Quay Street has been painted gold.
Its original red colour will be reinstated in six months. | People living in the home town of Olympic champion Helen Glover have been unable to buy special stamps issued in her honour due to a shortage. |
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England boss Roy Hodgson said Rashford was in his thoughts for France after the striker, 18, scored four goals in his first two appearances for United.
But Butt said: "I think talk of England is well too soon for Marcus."
He said Rashford had "phenomenal potential" but an international call-up now could do "more damage than good".
The 41-year-old Butt, who made 387 appearances for United, said: "It could backfire on everybody and might not be the right thing for him.
"I'm not telling an England manager what to do; it's his job to pick whoever he feels.
"But for me he's a young boy who's still learning the game and has got a long way to go yet."
Rashford scored twice on his debut against FC Midtjylland and added another two goals in a 3-2 win over Arsenal but has since not scored for four games.
Former England international Butt was speaking at a Manchester United event with Gulf Oil International. | Marcus Rashford is still learning the game and might suffer if called up by England for Euro 2016, says Manchester United's academy chief Nicky Butt. |
26,116,389 | Pascal Mazurier, 40, who worked as a consular official, denies the charges.
He is set to file a petition with the High Court asking for the case to be dismissed for lack of evidence.
A lower court in Bangalore dismissed a similar plea and ordered police to go ahead and press formal charges. A date for the trial is to be set this week.
At the sessions court last month lawyers for Mr Mazurier argued there was insufficient evidence against him, but Judge Shubha Gowdar dismissed their arguments and ruled he should stand trial.
He was arrested in June 2012, after his wife filed a complaint. He spent months in jail before being released on bail. | A French diplomat has been formally charged with raping his three-year-old daughter, at a pre-trial hearing in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. |
39,097,283 | The 38-year-old shot a five-under-par final round of 67, including a birdie-birdie finish, to claim one of the three Open spots on offer.
He was set for a three-man play-off for the title until Darren Fichardt birdied the final hole to win.
Manley's Open debut will come at Royal Birkdale from 20-23 July, 2017.
That will also be his debut at one of golf's four major championships.
Manley said: "I'm really chuffed to be playing in my first Major, I'm really excited.
"I've been trying for many years through pre-qualifying so to get there I'm pretty pleased.
"The Open is massive and I can't wait to get my teeth stuck into that golf course. I've never experienced anything as big as The Open before, but I can't wait for it." | Welsh golfer Stuart Manley has qualified for The Open Championship for the first time after finishing joint second at the Johannesburg Open. |
21,980,535 | Chinese media said the first body had been found - but only 36 hours after the landslip - and that the chances of finding survivors were slim.
The miners' camp, 70km (45 miles) east of Lhasa, was destroyed by thousands of tonnes of rock.
Rescuers have been hampered by freezing weather, altitude sickness and risks of further landslides.
Xinhua news agency said that as of 10:00 local time (02:00 GMT) no survivors had been found and later reported that the first body had been discovered at 17:35 local time.
"The miners' survival chances were slim due to the scale of the landslide," it quoted one rescue worker as saying.
The landslide took place at 06:00 local time on Friday at the mine, which lies at an altitude of 4,600m (15,000ft), burying 83 workers.
Some 2,000 police, firefighters and doctors have been sent to the disaster site, setting up temporary accommodation at a safe distance. About 200 bulldozers have been deployed to shift rock.
Xinhua said cracks on nearby mountains suggested there could be further land slips.
"Temperatures as low as -3C have affected the sniffer dogs' sense of smell," it added.
More than 300,000 cu m of debris had been removed by midday on Saturday.
The mine in Maizhokunggar county, which produces copper, as well as some silver and gold, is operated by a subsidiary of state-owned China National Gold Group, China's biggest gold producer.
President Xi Jinping is said to have ordered authorities to "spare no efforts" in the rescue operation.
Most of the workers were ethnic Han Chinese from Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, with two reported to be ethnic Tibetans.
Police said the area that collapsed was up to 4 sq km (1.5 sq miles).
Chinese officials believe the Tibetan plateau has huge resources, including millions of tonnes of copper, lead, zinc and iron ore.
Critics claim that Beijing's interests are driven by a desire to exploit the region's rich mineral wealth.
The government argues its investment brings modernisation and better living standards for local Tibetans.
The landslip came on the same day as a gas explosion at a coal mine in north-eastern Jilin province.
Some 28 people were killed at the Babao mine in the city of Baishan.
Another 13 miners were rescued after the explosion. | Hopes are fading for more than 80 miners buried in a landslide on Friday in Tibet. |
37,418,085 | Antonio Christie and Levi Walker were part of a group convicted in 2008 over the murder of Kevin Nunes.
All five were cleared following an appeal in 2012.
Staffordshire Police confirmed a claim has been made against the force but said it could not comment any further on the case.
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A police investigation was launched after the body of 20-year-old Mr Nunes was found in a country lane in Pattingham, Staffordshire in 2002.
The Court of Appeal overturned the original convictions in 2012 after Lord Justice Hooper said a "very bad case of non-disclosure" over the credibility of a witness led to "what appears to us to be a serious perversion of the course of justice".
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) then launched an investigation into the conduct of current Staffordshire Chief Constable Jane Sawyers, Gloucestershire Chief Constable Suzette Davenport, West Midlands Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale and Adrian Lee, who retired as chief constable of Northamptonshire Police in 2015.
All four served with Staffordshire Police at the time of the investigation.
In March it was confirmed they would not face misconduct hearings over claims they failed to declare evidence in relation to the shooting, with the watchdog saying it found "no evidence of a cover-up or of wilful omission".
The IPCC said two detective constables were found to have a case to answer for misconduct, with one given management advice and the other retiring on health grounds. | Two men who were cleared of being involved in what was believed to be a gangland shooting have launched legal action against a police force. |
14,896,330 | The Skynet project involves using the spare processing capacity of computers as a giant, distributed supercomputer.
PCs joining Skynet will scour the data for sources of radiation that reveal stars, galaxies and other cosmic structures.
People who process the most data could win a visit to one of the observatories gathering data for the project.
The Skynet project is being run by the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and it is seeking the help of thousands of PCs to analyse data.
One of the sources of data will be the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) that will use thousands of dish antennas to create the most sensitive sky watching instrument ever made.
A decision about where to build the ??1.5bn SKA will be made in February 2012 and it will be sited in either Australia or South Africa.
While it will have its own cadre of supercomputers to analyse data, the SKA is expected to produce so much information that a system to filter this down to the most interesting samples will be needed. Skynet will be part of that large-scale filtering system.
"As we design, develop and switch on the next generation of radio telescopes, the supercomputing resources processing this deluge of data will be in increasingly high demand," said Professor Peter Quinn, director of ICRAR in a statement.
"SkyNet aims to complement the work already being done by creating a citizen science computing resource that radio astronomers can tap into and process data in ways and for purposes that otherwise might not be possible," he added.
Prior to the SKA being built and switched on, the computers joining ICRAR's Skynet will crunch data from current radio astronomy research projects.
Those signing up to help will download a small program that will get a computer looking through data when that PC is not being used for anything else.
ICRAR said the Skynet program was small and should not slow down any PC it is running on. Also, it said, data would be split into small packets to ensure it did not swamp a participant's net connection.
Distributed computing projects that harness idle machines are a well-established way of scouring through research data. One of the earliest looked through radio signals for evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence.
More recent projects simulate protein folding and help physicists search for the Higgs boson - the missing piece of what is known as the Standard Model, the most widely accepted theory of particle physics. | Idle home computers are being sought to help search through mountains of astronomical data. |
37,002,528 | The Met Office has a yellow "be aware" warning in place covering most of the country for Sunday, with winds expected to increase in some parts.
Forecasters said gusts of 50 to 60mph were expected over the far north and north-west and could reach between 40 and 50mph in other areas.
On higher ground, a gust of 103mph was recorded on the top of the Cairngorms.
On South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, a gust of 56mph was recorded, with 55mph recorded in Aultbea in the north-west Highlands.
Wind speeds have reached 53mph in Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve in the Highlands, and 46mph in Leuchars, Fife.
Wind warnings or restrictions have been put in place on bridges, including the A90 Forth Road Bridge, A87 Skye Bridge and A92 Tay Road Bridge.
The weather has also disrupted CalMac ferry sailings on the west coast, with some services cancelled or suspended.
The unseasonably windy weather also resulted in a historic boat, which was due to show at the Johnshaven Fish Festival in Aberdeenshire, being blown over.
The Reaper, which is one of the few of its kind to remain seagoing, was left partially submerged at Johnshaven Harbour.
Forecasters had said that while the expected gusts were not exceptional for some areas of the country, increased outdoor activity at this time of year meant there was a greater risk of disruption.
They said that the windy conditions were due to a relatively deep area of low pressure moving slowly eastwards between Scotland and Iceland.
The Met Office said: "The strongest winds are expected to be across northern and north-western Scotland, but some locally strong gusts are still possible even across south-eastern Scotland, particularly over and to the lee of hills.
"These strong winds will also generate very rough sea conditions near north and north-west Scotland."
Yellow "be aware" warnings from the Met Office are expected to remain in force until 23:55 on Sunday. | High winds have caused disruption in parts of Scotland, with gusts reaching nearly 60mph in the Outer Hebrides. |
37,360,138 | The former head of F1's governing body the FIA said Liberty "need" Ecclestone as it learns about its new acquisition.
"These people may take a more active role and they want to sort of run the business but that could bring them into conflict with Bernie," Mosley said.
But he added: "It is much more likely there will be a collaboration."
Mosley, an old friend and ally of Ecclestone, was talking in an exclusive interview with 5 live.
He said he expected F1 to continue as before under the new owners, despite the need for a succession plan for Ecclestone, who is 86 next month.
"There has to be a succession sooner or later unless Bernie's immortal, which I don't think he is," Mosley said. "So I guess this would be part of that process.
"But as far as the overall picture is concerned, I doubt very much that anything is going to change because they bring I would imagine certain sorts of expertise to the table.
"But Bernie on the other hand has this enormous big knowledge of F1 which they certainly won't have so they will need him.
"It is going to be very interesting to see what things they wish to do in addition to what has been done already."
Ecclestone, who said last week he had been asked to stay on for a further three years, has been criticised for failing to embrace the possibilities offered by the internet and social media to expand F1's audience and potentially its income.
Mosley said Ecclestone was "the first person to say he doesn't understand social media and he's not really into the digital age. On the other hand he is very good at keeping the whole structure going."
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Mosley said he believed Ecclestone and the new chairman of F1 Chase Carey, who has worked extensively for companies owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, would be able to work together.
"If Chase Carey is a person of real ability and he wants to understand and he's clever, I think he'll get along fine with Bernie," Mosley said.
"Most of the people Bernie has not been able to get on with, it's because they are not up to the level at which he operates."
Liberty has said that part of its plans to change F1 will be to offer the teams the chance to buy shares in the sport.
But Mosley, who was FIA president from 1993-2009, said he believed this was a mistake, saying that "every time that has happened in any other form of motorsport, it hasn't worked - you have examples of that in America".
"Really what you need (is) an independent body making and enforcing the rules and it is up to them to make it attractive to the teams on the one side and the spectacular on the other. So I think the teams having a say is wrong.
"And the big difficulty at the moment is that Bernie runs the commercial side of F1 and the sporting side is supposed to be run by the FIA. And from the outside - and I am not involved now - it would appear that the sporting side is not run quite as carefully and in such detail as perhaps it should be."
He criticised his successor as FIA president, Jean Todt, for not following through on a promise he made before being elected that he would introduce a commissioner for F1. | Bernie Ecclestone will "walk away" from Formula 1 if new owners Liberty Media interfere with his running of the business, according to Max Mosley. |
36,062,703 | Fire crews were called to the blaze at Rhostryfan, near Caernarfon, at about 19:00 BST on Saturday after a member of the public forced entry and discovered the property was smoke-filled.
North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the bodies of a man and a dog were found in the ground-floor bedroom.
The cause of the fire is being investigated but North Wales Police said it was not suspicious. | A man and a dog have died following a fire at a house in Gwynedd. |
37,315,488 | A 24-year-old Glasgow man was removed from the Orlando-bound flight at 16:45 local time (21:45 BST) on Thursday.
The man was taken off the flight half an hour after it made the unscheduled landing at Logan International Airport.
Massachusetts State Police said the man would appear in court accused of interfering with the flight crew of the Boeing 777, which flew from Gatwick.
A force spokesman said: "Customs and Border Protection took custody of the 24-year-old man from Glasgow, Scotland.
"Massachusetts State Police will be summonsing the man for interfering with a flight crew."
A British Airways spokeswoman said: "Our customers and crews deserve to enjoy their flights, and not to suffer any form of abuse.
"Disruptive behaviour will not be tolerated, and the appropriate action will always be taken.
"We'd like to apologise for the delay to the other customers on the flight." | A British Airways flight from London to Florida had to divert to Boston because of a "disruptive" British passenger. |
34,452,448 | Before going missing on 11 July Derek Serpell-Morris, 73, known as DJ Derek, made several return trips by bus to Thornbury, Travel Card data confirmed.
His family now believe he caught a second bus to Dursley after finding the map with a ring around the hospital.
They have asked for checks to be made to see if there is a connection.
Derek's great niece, Jennifer Griffiths, said she and her mother and father, Paula and Stuart Marks, went into his flat on Friday.
"He kept maps with pink and yellow markers (to gig venues) and all the bus numbers highlighted and all alphabetised," said Ms Griffiths.
"My dad spent hours at the weekend going through them but there was only one placed marked on the Dursley map and that was around an H with the name of the road highlighted."
The family has already walked around some of the fields surrounding the hospital but has found no trace of Mr Serpell-Morris.
Ms Griffiths said she and her parents had asked the hospital authorities to see if he was an outpatient there or if he was a visitor.
"This could be really significant," she said. | The family of a missing Bristol DJ have found a map in his home which they hope may provide a breakthrough in the inquiry into his disappearance. |
35,205,476 | The body of Katy Rourke, who was from Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was found at the flat in Minto Street, in Craigton, at about 17:05 on Wednesday.
Police Scotland said a 26-year-old man had been arrested and was detained in police custody.
He was expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on 2 January. A report will be sent to prosecutors.
Officers have been conducting door-to-door inquiries and reviewing CCTV footage. | A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a 25-year-old woman at a flat in Glasgow. |
38,090,710 | Bashir Naderi, 19, had his deportation stopped by a judge just hours before he was due to board the plane last month.
He has lived in Wales for nine years after his mother paid traffickers to bring him to the UK.
Mr Naderi said: "I just want to live a normal life, like a normal person".
His father was a policeman when Taliban fighters had control of the country, murdering him close to the family home.
Mr Naderi had been sent out to bring lunch to his father when he witnessed him being shot dead.
"I was nine years old. No one can forget something like that," he said.
"It happened right in front of me. If someone is being murdered right in front of you, you don't forget it."
After the death, his mother sold the family plot of land so her son could be smuggled out of the country and brought to the UK.
He told BBC Radio Wales' Jason Mohammad show he did not know if his mother was alive or dead.
Mr Naderi said he had no other family back in Afghanistan and feared for his own safety if he was forced to return.
"I would have nowhere to go, I don't speak the language - I belong here," he said.
"I just want to stay in this country. This is my home town where I belong with my family.
He was arrested in October after reporting for a monthly sign-in at the Home Office and taken to a detention centre in Oxfordshire to await deportation.
He was given an initial 14-day reprieve just hours before he was due to be forced on to a plane, after a judge ordered his release.
More than 14,000 people have signed a petition organised by his girlfriend demanding he is allowed to remain in Wales, backed by celebrities including the singers Cerys Matthews and Charlotte Church.
His case has also won cross-party support from AMs and backing by MPs.
"If they knew Bash like the rest of us, there could be no way they could send him back," said his partner, Nicole Cooper.
"He wouldn't fit in - he would stand out, especially with the Cardiff accent he has. It's traumatising - it's not fair."
Mr Naderi, who has been studying decorating at Cardiff and Vale College, said he had been overwhelmed by the support he has had.
He still has to report to the Home office every week while his case is being reviewed.
"Every time I go in I am scared, I am frightened I am not going to come out again," added Mr Naderi.
The Home Office said it did not comment on individual cases. | A Cardiff student fighting deportation to Afghanistan said witnessing his father's execution by the Taliban was a "nightmare that is with me always". |
40,795,040 | The 38m (124.6ft) Mark II radio telescope is the smaller of the two large dishes at the observatory site.
The Lovell telescope, the other dish originally known as Mark I, was given the same status in 1988.
Historic England said the listing celebrated the Cheshire observatory's history and its impact on the world.
Other buildings and structures at the site that played a pioneering role in the early days of radio astronomy have also been recognised.
Four buildings and part of a converted ex-army radar antenna, known as the Searchlight Aerial, have been given Grade II listing.
They include the Park Royal building, the Electrical Workshop, the Link Hut and the Control Building.
Jodrell Bank Observatory dates from the start of radio astronomy soon after World War Two.
It was pivotal to developing the new science, which involves capturing light at invisible radio wavelengths to "see" celestial objects that would otherwise be hidden.
The site was bought by the University of Manchester in 1939 and was first used for radio astronomy in 1945 by Sir Bernard Lovell and his team.
The Mark II telescope was built between 1962-64 to the specifications of a design developed jointly by Sir Bernard and structural engineer Charles Husband.
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Crispin Edwards, listing adviser at Historic England, said: "Jodrell Bank is a remarkable place where globally important discoveries were made that transformed radio astronomy and our understanding of the universe.
"We are celebrating the history of the site and its impact on the world by increasing its recognition on the National Heritage List for England."
Prof Teresa Anderson, director of the Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, said: "Science is a hugely important part of our cultural heritage and we are very pleased to see that recognised, and protected, with these new designations." | Jodrell Bank's second largest radio telescope has been given Grade I listed status for its pioneering role in radio astronomy. |
34,932,882 | John Cleese based the TV sitcom on the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay after staying there with the Monty Python team in 1973.
Churchill Retirement Living will convert the site after its plans were approved by Torbay Council.
Former owner Donald Sinclair unwittingly became the inspiration for Cleese's character Basil Fawlty.
The 41-bedroom hotel ceased trading early this year and Churchill Retirement Living applied to use the site for 36 retirement apartments.
Torbay Council's development management committee originally denied the application as they felt it was "too large and unsympathetic to the area".
A smaller, revised scheme was accepted by the council.
It will involve knocking down the three-star hotel and building 21 one-bed and 11 two-bedroom apartments, with a guest suite and two communal lounges.
Planning officers allowed the change of use of the site from tourist accommodation to residential as the former hotel was found to be "commercially unviable".
Fawlty Towers, voted number one in the British Film Institute's 100 Greatest Television Programmes in 2000, ran for just 12 episodes. | The hotel that inspired Fawlty Towers is to be knocked down and replaced with retirement flats. |
17,550,407 | Rebels staged an uprising in early 2001, demanding greater rights for the ethnic Albanian minority. The conflict created a wave of refugees and the rebels made territorial gains.
After months of skirmishes, EU and Nato support enabled the president, Boris Trajkovski, to strike a peace deal. Under the Ohrid agreement, Albanian fighters laid down their arms in return for greater ethnic-Albanian recognition within a unitary state.
The country's name remains a contentious issue. It is still referred to as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) at the United Nations.
International recognition of the country's split from Yugoslavia in 1991 was held up over Greek fears that its name implied territorial ambitions toward the northern Greek region of Macedonia.
Population 2.1 million
Area 25,713 sq km (9,928 sq miles)
Major languages Macedonian, Albanian
Major religions Christianity, Islam
Life expectancy 73 years (men), 77 years (women)
Currency denar
President: Gjorge Ivanov
Professor Gjorgje Ivanov was sworn in as Macedonia's fourth democratically-elected president on 12 May 2009, following his victory in the second round of the presidential election.
He was re-elected in April 2014, beating the Social Democratic Union candidate in the run-off.
Although he was put forward as a presidential candidate by the governing VMRO-DPMNE party, he is not a member.
President Ivanov, who was born in 1960, has spent most of his professional life as a university law professor.
His predecessor, Social Democrat Branko Crvenkovski, who was elected in 2004, won praise in the West for supporting reconciliation with the substantial Albanian minority.
Macedonia's presidents are directly elected for a five-year term. The president appoints the prime minister, and legislative power is vested in parliament.
Interim prime minister: Emil Dimitriev
Emil Dimitriev was sworn in as interim prime minister in January 2016, following the resignation of Nikola Gruevski.
Early elections scheduled for June 2016 were postponed to December, amid prolonged political turmoil triggered by a wiretapping scandal.
Television is Macedonia's most popular news medium. Public networks face stiff competition from commercial stations, which dominate the ratings.
Some key dates in the Macedonia's history:
1913 - Ottoman rule in Europe ends after five centuries. Macedonia is partitioned between Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece. What is now FYROM is incorporated into Serbia.
1914 - First World War. Macedonia is occupied by Bulgaria.
1918-19 - Macedonia becomes part of Serbia again. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is founded, and is renamed Yugoslavia in 1929.
1945 - Establishment of Yugoslav socialist federation, comprising six republics, including Macedonia, with Tito as president.
1980 - Death of Tito, rise of nationalism among federation's constituent republics.
1991 - Declaration of independence. International recognition is slow because Greece objects to the use of the name Macedonia, the same as one of its own provinces.
2001 - Uprising by ethnic Albanians. Rebel militia engages in skirmishes which bring country to brink of civil war. Peace deal involves greater recognition of ethnic Albanian rights in exchange for rebel pledge to lay down arms. | Macedonia was spared the inter-ethnic violence that raged elsewhere in the Balkans following the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s but it came close to civil war a decade after independence. |
34,912,419 | Bailey, 31, left Castleford at the end of last season after making five appearances, having joined them in March after playing once for Hull KR.
The Leeds-born Great Britain and England international spent 12 years at his home town club where he worked with current Wolves coach Tony Smith.
"I am really excited by my move," Bailey told the Warrington website.
During his time at Headingley he won six Grand Finals and one Challenge Cup, but was also involved in disciplinary incidents on and off the field.
"It is no secret that Ryan has had a chequered past," Smith said.
"However he is fully aware of the special conditions set out within his contract and the standards expected of all Warrington Wolves players.
"During my time coaching Ryan at Leeds we had a fantastic relationship and I never experienced any issues." | Warrington have signed former Leeds Rhinos prop forward Ryan Bailey on a one-year deal. |
30,576,919 | Yet despite Facebook turning 10 and Twitter becoming a boisterous eight-year-old, there are still some stars, companies and politicians who've suffered embarrassing trip-ups.
As Instagram entered its fourth year, it gained more users than Twitter, meaning there are even more ways to humiliate yourself online.
The worst bit about #socialmediafails?
There's always someone ready to screenshot your error and pass it on.
That might be a good thing though. Some of these social media users should be stopped.
If you missed this one, be thankful.
The former England Test cricketer and Test team captain appeared to have tweeted a naked photograph, with the caption "What are you thinking...xx" from his account @beefybotham.
The 58-year-old was alerted to the tweet by footballer Robbie Savage, who said: "Mate, think you been hacked."
The cricket commentator said "not very funny" but later appeared to see the bright side, tweeting "I would like to thank the hacker....I've just got 500 hits in 20mins!!"
He later retweeted this cricket pun to his 320,000 followers.
Too many tweets makes a t....
Despite once warning of the dangers of social media by saying that "too many twits might make a..." the PM has had a few social media slip-ups himself.
Perhaps the most meme-d this year was this post.
Such is the nature of politicians on Twitter that David Cameron is mercilessly trolled whatever he puts up.
However this time, a few famous faces joined in.
Shortly after David Cameron's tweet, US comedian Rob Delaney posted this.
And then Sir Patrick Stewart, aka Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Professor Charles Xavier from X-Men, posted this.
Mr Cameron wasn't the only politician having a social media nightmare. MPs from other parties also got into hot water on social media.
Labour MP for Islington and formerly shadow minister Emily Thornberry lost her job because of this tweet:
This picture of a white van parked on the drive of a house in Rochester, with the St George's cross flag flying from the windows, was seen as a Labour politician being snobby about working people her party is supposed to represent.
She has since claimed she was simply surprised at the sight of a house covered in three St George's flags.
It didn't stop critics concluding that this tweet proved Labour is out of touch with ordinary voters.
American Pie actor Jason Biggs was the centre of a Twitter storm after making a joke about MH17, the Malaysia Airlines plane that was shot down over Ukraine, killing 298 people.
Hours after the disaster, the Orange Is The New Black actor tweeted: "Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?"
After a social media backlash Biggs sought to defend his comments, saying that Twitter users didn't have to follow him. He later apologised, sending a series of tweets in an attempt to clarify his post.
Meanwhile, British comedian Richard Herring decided to tweet the following about Robin Williams, and the reaction from his followers was definitely not lol.
One person tweeted back "Because the hell of #depression and the loneliness and desperation of #suicide is so funny" while another said "that's brave".
He tried to defend his joke, saying that he suffers from depression himself and that "the best way out of it is to laugh in the face of this awful world."
He added: "humour is subjective" and that he would be happy for people to laugh about his death.
A 14-year-old Dutch girl learned this the hard way after tweeting American Airlines the above message.
The airline responded accordingly, followed by a series of panicked tweets from Sarah: "I'm so sorry I'm scared now" and "I was kidding pls don't I'm just a girl pls."
She later tweeted: "I always wanted to be famous, but I meant like Demi Lovato famous, not Osama bin laden famous."
The girl was arrested before being later released by Rotterdam police. Her Twitter account was deleted.
A year of selfie mistakes...
Politicians, stars and, um, everyone failed to resist the allure of the selfie.
However it was a school trip selfie too far for one student from Alabama, after she decided to pose with a corpse during a trip to her local university's biology department.
The sheet was removed from the body, which was being used by the university for research.
While the image was taken down from Instagram, that didn't stop it from being splashed all over local news. We're not including the picture here.
But she wasn't alone in misjudging when it's appropriate to take a selfie. NBA player Danny Green of the San Antonio Spurs posted one from the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. He quickly deleted the post and tweeted an apology.
However the best accidental "selfie" award has to go to this elderly woman at the Sochi Olympics.
How unfortunate. Especially when you are cross-posting from Instagram, duplicating the mistake.
The model later apologised for her post, congratulating Malala Yousafzai instead.
Rita Ora was mocked on social media after a tweet saying that she would release new music if she got 100,000 retweets only got 2,000 retweets. It was seen of a bit of an embarrassment for the 23-year-old who has almost four million followers.
However she categorically denied sending the tweet, posting: "By the way my Twitter got hacked somebody is threatening to release new music I've worked really hard on.
"Nothing comes out until I'm ready.
"When it's ready we will drop music! Luckily I caught the hacker really quickly and deleted the post. Thank you!!"
However many on Twitter were sceptical, with one posting: "Remember when Rita Ora threatened to release new music? that was so scary"
Another posted:
The British embassy in Washington appeared to misjudge the national mood on 4 July, tweeting a picture of a White House cake surrounded by sparklers, "commemorating" the burning of the building 200 years ago.
The US presidential residence was set on fire by British forces in 1814 during the "War of 1812" with the United States.
A number of Twitter users said the embassy's tweet was "in poor taste".
The embassy later apologised for its earlier tweet. Luckily another war with the US was averted.
Telling porky pies becomes a little harder in the age of social media.
It's all too easy to forget your earlier post, but your followers won't.
Sam Smith got caught out during his tour in October, apologising to fans for leaving his gig without coming out to meet them.
"Still not feeling 100% and need to sleep" he tweeted.
Six hours later however, it seems he decided to go out after all.
"Best night EVER at Karaoke bar in Nashville!!!" he wrote on Instagram, posting a picture of himself.
Fans were not impressed.
Mistakes can happen to anyone.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | The year of 2014 has been a wondrous time to be tweeting, Snapchatting, filtering and tagging. |
32,540,229 | A batch was printed with incorrect numbers which would invalidate the vote, Durham County Council said.
New voting packs will be delivered to affected residents in Sherburn, Barnard Castle, Willington, Hunwick, Ferryhill and Sherburn.
They should be used instead of - or, if already posted, as well as - the original papers, a spokesman said.
Only the second, correct, set of papers would be recorded, he said.
Acting returning officer Colette Longbottom said: "There are only around 265 postal ballot packs believed to be affected and anyone who has been sent one of these packs will receive a new one with a letter advising them to use the replacement.
"No other packs have been affected." | Postal voters in parts of County Durham could have to vote twice after a printing error on ballot papers. |
20,028,502 | The Da Vinci robot is remotely controlled by surgeons who are given a high definition view of the heart through a sophisticated camera.
Natalie Jones, of Stourbridge, 22, was the first patient to have the procedure to have a hole in her heart repaired.
Doctors claim the operation is safer for patients than conventional surgery.
Normal heart surgery involves cutting open the breast plate, but the robotic arms are inserted by making cuts between the patient's ribs.
A surgeon is given a 3D, high-definition view of the heart and can move the arms using a control panel.
Each time they move their hand 3mm, the robot arm moves just 1mm.
Heart surgeon Stephen Billing said: "There is less pain and patients are able to return home to their normal activities far sooner."
Mrs Jones had a 3.5cm (1.3in) hole in her heart repaired during surgery which lasted nine hours.
She said she wanted the procedure so she could get back to looking after her 21-month-old son, Dillon, as quickly as possible.
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She said: "I was scared, but I chose the robot surgery because I didn't want to have a large scar and I liked the idea of being the first."
A more complex procedure - a mitral valve repair - was carried out on 43-year-old Paul Whitehouse from Halesowen.
Doctors said that Mr Whitehouse might be able to go back to work as a self-employed builder after two months instead of the normal six months recovery time.
New Cross Hospital hopes to carry out 30 mitral valve repairs a year using the robot that is already employed in other operations at the hospital.
The UK is the third country in Europe after Sweden and Finland to perform open-heart surgery using robots.
Surgeons Moninder Bhabra and Mr Billing and their team underwent extensive training in Finland before the first procedure.
But Mr Bhabra accepts that the robot can only be used sparingly, because it is expensive.
Each of its four arms has tools costing £2,000 that have to be replaced after 10 operations.
"I accept money is tight within the NHS, but we can't be left behind by the rest of the world in developing what we are doing in surgery and other aspects of health care," said Mr Bhabra. | Surgeons have carried out the first ever robotic open-heart operations in Britain at the New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton. |
35,549,169 | Checks on the border with Denmark, accusations of migrant sex assaults being covered up, a killing in an asylum centre and an anti-corruption investigation into a senior politician are just some of the stories that have made headlines.
The minority government, which includes the Green Party, was elected in September 2014, and since then has been faced with managing a migrant crisis that has impacted sharply on public opinion.
A January poll put the governing centre-left Social Democrats on its lowest ratings since surveys began in 1967.
"Since the election it has been a horrifying journey," said Marja Lemne, a political scientist at the University of Stockholm.
Prime Minister Stefan Lofven once declared that "My Europe doesn't build walls." But only months later Sweden introduced border checks as it struggled to cope with up to 10,000 new arrivals every week.
More than 160,000 asylum seekers arrived in Sweden in 2015, more per capita than any other country in Europe, and far more than officials had predicted.
Magnus Hagevi, an associate professor of political science at Linnaeus University, said it is hard to judge whether a different government would have fared any better in the circumstances, but what made the current government's position particularly susceptible to criticism is the disparity between what it originally said and its current policies.
The prime minister made a speech earlier this week which focused on issues which are more traditionally associated with the Social Democrats: Care for the elderly, education and social welfare.
Ms Lemne called it "some kind of crisis handling" and an attempt to mobilise members of the Social Democratic party.
Jonas Hinnfors, a professor of political science at Gothenburg University, says the governing parties have also underestimated the importance of issues they have traditionally focused on, such as unemployment, welfare and schools.
He says the decline in support for the Social Democrats is part of a long-term trend, with voters being attracted to the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, which is now the third biggest party in Sweden.
A more recent polls, however, suggested that tougher rhetoric from the government and the main opposition Moderate party was having the effect of reducing support for the Sweden Democrats.
Interior Minister Anders Ygeman recently caused a stir saying Sweden may reject the asylum applications of up to 80,000 migrants and should prepare to deport them.
His comments sounded harsh and some commentators put it down to a clumsy attempt at explaining how the asylum system worked.
"It might have been bad communication or he could have done it on purpose," says Mr Hinnfors.
"Who was the intended recipient of the message? Did he think of it in terms of we have to tell the general public that we are dealing with these issues, let's frame it in a slightly crude way. We come up with the 80,000 and it sounds like we are going to expel people."
Issues preoccupying the government do not begin and end with migration - among other things, there are warnings of a house price crash and the ongoing investigation into whether there was any impropriety in the way Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom obtained a flat in Stockholm.
But few observers doubt that the way political leaders handle the migrant crisis will be of huge importance to their reputation, and the way voters respond, in the months and years ahead.
More than 160,000 asylum seekers arrived in Sweden in 2015, more per capita than any other country in Europe
By contrast, from 1850 to the 1930s, 1.5 million people emigrated
In the decades following World War Two, migrants seeking work arrived from Italy, Greece, Balkan countries and Turkey
The rise of asylum seekers began in the 1980s when Sweden saw some of its highest immigration from the Arab world, Eritrea and Somalia, as well as South American countries with repressive governments
The 1990s conflicts in the Balkans brought massive immigration, with over 100,000 Bosnians being granted asylum alongside 3,600 Kosovo Albanians
Every sixth person of the current Swedish population was born in another country
Besides numbers, the debate focuses on how best to integrate migrants from different countries into the Swedish workforce and society.
Source: Sweden official website
More: Listen to Keith Moore's documentary Europe: Strangers on My Doorstep - A Swedish Tale. | Sweden has found itself in the unusual position of being in the international spotlight in recent months. |
39,647,007 | The 23-year-old has enjoyed a terrific start to the campaign, taking 18 wickets in the opening two County Championship matches.
"I put in a lot of hard work over the winter and it's coming good for me," he told BBC Look North.
"I never thought I'd have this kind of start to the season."
Coad added: "I'm not setting any targets but hopefully I can keep this momentum going for as long as possible and I'll see where it takes me.
"The last two weeks have been surreal." | Yorkshire bowler Ben Coad has signed a one-year contract extension, keeping him at Headingley until the end of the 2018 season. |
39,445,924 | David Davis was speaking in the Commons as he outlined the government's new Great Repeal Bill.
At the same time, Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, was telling Holyrood that the Conservatives were planning a "power grab" after Brexit.
But Mr Davis told MPs his preference was for more devolution, not less.
The repeal bill will see thousands of EU laws on everything from workers' rights to the environment scrapped or replaced with UK equivalents.
But it has not yet been decided which of these new powers will be kept at Westminster, and which will devolved to other parts of the UK - including Scotland - after the UK leaves the EU.
The Scottish government has repeatedly claimed the prime minister is planning a "power grab" because she has not confirmed that all of the powers associated with devolved areas, such as fishing and agriculture, will be handed to Holyrood once they return from Brussels.
Ms Sturgeon told the weekly first minister's questions session at Holyrood that the Scotland Act meant the powers should "automatically come to this chamber".
But she said nobody in the UK government, including during her talks with the prime minister on Monday, had given her that guarantee.
The first minister said this "leads me to suspect that what the Tories are actually planning is a power grab on this parliament, and that will be absolutely unacceptable."
A Scottish government spokesman later indicated that it would not give its legislative consent to the Great Repeal Bill unless all powers over fishing and agriculture were given to the Scottish Parliament.
However, it is not yet clear whether Holyrood will need to give its consent - although the Scottish secretary has previously said he thinks it will.
Adam Tomkins of the Scottish Conservatives claimed that the SNP was "complaining about the return of substantial new powers which, under its plans, would remain in Brussels. If ever people needed to see their utter hypocrisy, this is it."
Ms Sturgeon suspects that the EU leg of powers presently devolved, such as agriculture and fishing, may return initially to Westminster - and might get stuck, to some extent.
Mr Davis and other Conservatives say that is nonsense. They say agriculture and fishing will be devolved - but within a broader UK framework, replicating to some extent the common standards current promulgated by the EU.
That will allow, UK Ministers argue, the maintenance of a UK market in food products. It will help the economy, they insist. Scottish Ministers remain, well, suspicious.
Might that suspicion extend into Holyrood action to thwart the process of Brexit? It might, although we have yet to learn the full extent to which the Scottish Parliament will be involved.
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Mr Davis was pressed on the issue by Labour's shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer, who warned him that "Brexit should not be an excuse to hoard powers in Whitehall".
Sir Keir added: "There has to be a heavy presumption that devolved matters remain devolved as powers and responsibilities transfer from the EU to the UK."
Mr Davis repeated the government's pledge that "no powers currently exercised" by the devolved administrations would be taken away.
He said: "We also expect there to be a significant increase in the powers exercised by the devolved administrations.
"But I say this - we have to maintain the United Kingdom internal market too. That is four times as important to Scottish businesses, for example, as the European market."
Mr Davis later added: "We will have serious discussions with them about this, because my preference is for more devolution rather than less - that is my simple viewpoint.
"The constraint on that, however, is where it has direct effect on the whole United Kingdom's interests.
"So that is the United Kingdom's market - it would be very bad for Scottish farmers and for Scottish producers if the United Kingdom market became separated from them."
Highlighting other areas, such as national security and international obligations in environmental law, Mr Davis said there were "plenty of areas" where it was "clear that we need to have a UK-wide framework".
The draft repeal also says the devolved governments will be given powers to amend devolved laws that will no longer operate appropriately after Brexit.
It is currently unclear whether Holyrood will need to give its consent for the Great Repeal Bill - with Mr Davis saying he does not know at this stage.
The Scottish secretary, David Mundell has previously said he expects there will be a need for consent. | The UK's government's Brexit secretary has insisted the Scottish Parliament will have "significant new powers" after the country leaves the EU. |
28,285,039 | Speaking to BBC Radio 4's World This Weekend, Wood said the industry had been "struggling for many, many years".
Despite many more channels, "the number of people who commission in a serious way have disappeared", she added.
Earlier this month, the head of TV regulator Ofcom said children's TV is "not as good as it would ideally be".
Jo Killingley - who created the shows Big Cook, Little Cook and Get Squiggling! - agrees the market has become tougher.
"I think in the past channels like Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV had quotas they had to meet," she said. "Now they have gone.
"It would be brilliant if they were brought back as it would bring the kids' industry to life again."
Killingley said her company Dot-To-Dot had been "lucky" this year - they are about to start filming a new live-action series called Art Ninja - but she has experienced periods when "literally nothing" was being commissioned.
Since Teletubbies was created 18 years ago, the amount of new children's TV programmes aired by public service broadcasters has dropped dramatically.
In 1998, repeats made up 38% of all children's programmes. In 2011, the figure was 91%, according to Ofcom.
Some argue that the ban on junk food advertising has decreased the revenue available to commercial broadcasters - but the BBC is also forecast to cut its spending.
Pact, the industry body for independent television producers, has recently called for a tax break for children's programmes.
"Our children's television production is respected worldwide and we hope that ministers will agree that this is a special part of cultural heritage that is worth government's support," said chief executive John McKay.
Pact says a tax relief scheme would boost co-production opportunities, particularly with the US market, and would improve exports of home-grown shows.
The body claims that only one in five of all children's programmes aired on British TV is made in the UK.
Ann Wood agrees that a "frightening proportion" of children's TV is now imported.
But for her, tax breaks are only part of the solution. She says a fundamental re-examination of the market is required.
"The health of the sector requires there to be more places where you can be properly commissioned - so if one channel doesn't take your work, you have at least got somewhere else to go with it because children are not getting diversity".
ITV rejected the criticisms, saying that "whilst new commissions are commercially challenging, we do commission original UK children's content as part of our programming mix".
The broadcaster pointed out that its children's series this year have included "a 14-week run of Scrambled!, a fifth series of Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge and a further series of Horrid Henry, which will air later this year."
The BBC added: "BBC Children's works hard to support UK creative industries and is by far the biggest commissioner of UK kids' content from UK producers.
"Our television channels and websites continue to champion home-grown output and around three quarters of our output is British-made."
The government says it is committed to supporting the creative industries and it has already introduced three new tax reliefs for animation, video games and high-end television.
On the issue of tax breaks for children's programming, the Treasury says that: "Any proposal for new relief must be assessed for its effectiveness, wider economic impact, ability to stand-up against abuse and the cost to the exchequer." | Home-grown children's television programming is now in long term decline according to the creator of the Teletubbies, Anne Wood. |
35,211,773 | The hosts could have taken the lead when Andy Little advanced on goal, but his effort went wide from close range.
Leitch-Smith needed two attempts to put Vale ahead, with his initial header from Byron Moore's cross saved by Colin Doyle before bundling home the rebound.
Goalkeeper Jak Alnwick ensured maximum points, denying Danny Philliskirk from close range late on. | AJ Leitch-Smith scored the only goal of the game as Port Vale overcame League One strugglers Blackpool. |
40,332,646 | John Cunningham came to Boston in 1999. Like many Irish immigrants to the US, he arrived on a 90-day visa for summer work. But then he settled in, worked as an electrician and ran his own company, remaining in the country without authorisation.
"All of a sudden you turn around, so much time has gone by, and you start to realise what is going to be in store for yourself for the future," Cunningham said in a March interview with the Irish Times.
On 16 June, nearly two decades later, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents came to his home to arrest him. He was deported to Ireland on 5 July. Because he arrived in the US under the visa waiver programme, one commonly used by European immigrants, he had waived his right to a hearing.
Ronnie Millar, who runs Boston's Irish International Immigrant Center, thinks Cunningham's decision to share his experiences and speak out for the rights of unauthorised immigrants in the United States made him a target for deportation.
ICE would only confirm that his arrest was due to his visa overstay.
Cunningham became the first high-profile Irish immigrant deported under President Donald Trump, and it's created a chilling effect in Boston.
"There were shock waves sent through the community, a disbelief that this was actually happening," said Millar, a close friend of Cunningham's.
It is a chill felt by people like Jerry. He asked to be identified by only his first name because he remains unauthorised to live in the US and fears deportation. When Jerry first arrived in the US on a three-month visa waiver in the summer of 2011, he hadn't made up his mind about returning to Ireland. "The lifestyle, the work, everything was just better here at the time. So things just kind of happened," he said. "I had a return ticket booked. I just never got on the plane."
The Migration Policy Institute estimates there are 16,000 undocumented Irish living in the US. The Irish Embassy in Washington puts that number closer to 50,000. Most live in Boston, New York or Chicago.
Like Jerry, many are hiding in plain sight, navigating a difficult world of privilege and panic as white, undocumented immigrants.
"I don't think anyone is outright targeting people who look like me," Jerry said, "But there's still a fear. You could be walking in the street and bump into the wrong person, you can get pulled over while driving, walk into the wrong building or show the wrong ID."
"Most people think undocumented and they think people who come across the southern border," Cunningham said in an interview with this reporter a year before his arrest. "They're not thinking about the Irish guy who lives right next to them."
Jerry, Millar and Cunningham all acknowledged that, as white men, they can fly under the radar of those who associate unauthorised immigrants with Mexico and Central America.
Cunningham recalled local police and immigration officials not questioning his status during stops. He felt that he was given a pass because of his Irish accent. He wondered if the officers would have treated him differently if he were black or brown.
As a whole, white and other non-Latino immigrants are targeted for arrest and detention at disproportionately lower rates, says Randy Capps of the Migration Policy Institute.
"It's the Latino immigrants from Mexico and Central America that are overrepresented in terms of arrests and deportations," said Capps.
Accusations of unequal treatment and racial profiling among immigrant communities have also sparked criticism in Boston about local media attention to Cunningham's arrest. Carol Rose, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said that for every one story of a white immigrant who faces deportation, there are many other stories of non-white immigrant experiences not told.
Rose points to Boston's Francisco Rodríguez, a Salvadoran immigrant who, after two denied asylum requests, had been granted a stay of removal every year since 2011.
That changed this year under President Donald Trump, who greatly broadened which immigrants the government considers a priority for deportation. Rodriguez was arrested when he arrived for a check-in with immigration authorities in June and remains in custody while fighting his deportation to El Salvador.
Critics also point to racial bias in how Cunningham's story was told. Julio Varela, co-host for Futuro Media's In the Thick podcast and a Boston native, has often challenged what he calls an "Irish immigrant privilege" in local media. In a column on the Latino Rebels blog he argues Irish and other white immigrants like Cunningham are more often portrayed as model community members undeserving of deportation.
It's why the Irish International Immigrant Center offers its legal and social services to more than Irish immigrants. Christina Freeman, a lawyer at the centre, said their "know your rights" workshops often include talk about racial bias and law enforcement. The participants "know there is a racial bias, they've experienced it".
"You look around the room and see who's in there and there's not one white face in the crowd," Freeman said. "It's because the teenagers being stopped the most often are teenagers of colour."
While white undocumented immigrants may benefit from blending in, there is still an impact.
Millar recalls his centre aiding an Irish woman so embarrassed to reveal her immigration status to her American-born family that when a parent died back in Ireland, she instead stayed in a hotel in the US to give her family the illusion she went home, rather than admit that she's undocumented and risk not gaining re-entry into the US.
Following Trump's electoral victory, Millar said there was an increased fear that Boston's previously welcoming stance toward Irish immigrants would soon change. Those fears were compounded following Cunningham's arrest, he adds.
"We are not in a good place as a society," Millar said. "As a nation, we've really lost our way, who we are and our values - being a country that's made up of immigrants."
The World is a co-production of the BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH. You can listen to more here. | After a high-profile deportation, undocumented Irish immigrants are on edge, and trying to help Latino immigrants who are more likely targets for immigration officials. |
34,525,832 | Climate Energy Homes ran the Warm Up Bristol scheme for the local authority, but it has gone into administration, affecting about 2,500 customers.
The firm carried out energy-saving upgrades to people's homes including loft and cavity wall insulation.
George Ferguson said he "guaranteed" no-one would be left out of pocket.
The mayor said: "Either those people [who signed up for the scheme] will get their deposit back or the work will be completed.
"I am defending the interests of all those customers that are involved."
Mr Ferguson said he hoped funding for compensation would come from administrators for the energy firm.
However, he warned those customers affected there would be a delay while Bristol City Council seeks new contractors to take over the scheme. | People in Bristol who signed up to a council-backed home improvement initiative that collapsed will not lose out, the city's mayor has said. |
38,754,014 | Interior Minister Mario Fernandez said two police officers were found in the Maule River, adding to the deaths of four firefighters.
A giant Boeing 747 super tanker plane has been loaned from the US to battle the forest fires, Chile's worst in decades.
A state of emergency has been declared south of the capital, Santiago.
Chile's National Forestry Corporation said multiple blazes had affected 238,000 hectares (588,000 acres) and were increasing.
On Wednesday, a firefighter died after getting stuck while trying to help a family escape from their home near the city of Constitucion.
Three others have died and three were injured over the past week. More than 4,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.
The plane can carry 22-times more water and fire-retardants than more common single-engine air tankers.
The cost is being met by the Walton Family Foundation, created by Walmart founders Sam and Helen Walton.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet also asked for help from French counterpart Francois Hollande, who was visiting Chile.
The authorities also requested planes and helicopters from the US, Canada and Mexico and neighbouring Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Peru.
The blazes spread quickly in the dry and particularly hot summer that many South American countries are experiencing.
They have struck mainly in sparsely populated rural areas in the central regions of O'Higgins and El Maule. | Six people have now been killed fighting vast forest fires in central Chile, officials have said. |
37,430,938 | The Dundee musician is accused of shouting and swearing at passengers and making a homophobic remark to a cabin crew member.
The incident is alleged to have happened on board a Jet2 flight between Reus Airport in Spain and Glasgow International Airport in June.
Mr Falconer, 29, was not present at the hearing at Paisley Sheriff Court.
The case was continued without plea for further investigation until 12 October.
A solicitor told the court that it had to be established which country's air space the plane was in at the exact time of the alleged offences.
Mr Falconer faces two charges of alleged threatening and abusive behaviour.
He is accused of behaving "in a threatening or abusive manner which was likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm" by shouting, swearing and acting aggressively towards other passengers "whilst in possession of two bottles".
The singer is also accused of uttering a homophobic remark on the flight. | An air rage court case against The View singer Kyle Falconer has been adjourned again until next month. |
38,127,948 | 28 November 2016 Last updated at 14:31 GMT
Sixteen-year-old actress Auli'i Cravalho is the voice of Moana. It's her first film and she told Newsround: "I'm living my dream."
The cast also includes Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger.
Leah went to meet Auli'i to find out what's it's like acting only using your voice... | The animated movie Moana hits cinema screens this week, following the journey of a Polynesian teenager Moana on a quest across the Pacific Ocean to save her people. |
40,288,125 | The 5-3 vote by the Bank's policymakers was the closest for a rate rise since 2007, and comes with inflation close to a four-year high of 2.9%.
Inflation is now well above the Bank's target rate of 2%.
News of the vote pushed the pound up by more than a cent against the dollar, although it fell back later.
Ian McCafferty, Michael Saunders and Kristin Forbes were the three members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) who voted for an increase. Ms Forbes had been the sole vote in favour of a rise at the MPC's previous two meetings.
However, the decision of Mr Saunders and Mr McCafferty to back an increase as well surprised economists.
"The more hawkish tone of the MPC appears to reflect some concern about inflation - which has accelerated faster than it expected over recent months and is now forecast to exceed 3% this year - as well as the strength of employment that is continuing to erode slack in the labour market," Capital Economics said.
Hargreaves Lansdown senior economist Ben Brettell said it appeared that the "willingness of the MPC to 'look through' higher inflation and leave rates on hold is wearing thin, and if inflation continues to surprise we could see higher rates by the end of the summer".
Sterling, which had been trading below $1.27 before the minutes were released, surged to almost $1.28 in response, while the FTSE 100 share index was down more than 1%.
In the minutes of its meeting, the MPC said the "driving force" behind the recent pickup in inflation had remained the depreciation of sterling that followed the Brexit vote in June last year.
However, it added that a "number of indicators of domestically generated inflationary pressure" had also increased in recent months.
The committee said inflation could exceed 3% by the autumn and was expected to remain above the 2% target for an "extended period" as the weaker pound pushed up prices while pay growth remained "subdued".
The three MPC members who voted to raise rates were swayed by the inflation fears, and also took into account growth in "business investment and net trade" which appear "on track" to compensate for weaker consumption. They also thought that interest rates would still leave monetary policy "very supportive".
However, the five committee members who voted to leave rates unchanged took into account the recent slowdown in consumer spending and economic growth as a whole. They said "it was too early to judge with confidence how large and persistent", that would be.
"It is as yet unclear to what degree weaker consumption would be offset by other components of demand". the minutes said.
While different members of the MPC placed different weights on these arguments, the minutes said that "all committee members agreed that any increases in Bank Rate would be expected to be at a gradual pace and to a limited extent".
Kallum Pickering, senior UK economist at Berenberg, said: "This gradual shift in stance represents the MPC's efforts to foretell and communicate a forthcoming hike. Don't ignore it."
However, other economists said it could still be some time before the Bank votes to rise rates.
"It is far from certain that interest rates will rise in the near term," said Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club.
"There is the potential for the balance of views to alter, with the imminent changes in the MPC's membership. Kristin Forbes who has been a strong advocate of raising interest rates is now leaving the MPC, while another member is due to appointed as the committee is currently one short." | UK interest rates have been kept on hold at 0.25%, but in a surprise move three of the Bank of England's rate-setting committee backed a rate rise. |
33,883,698 | Rene Wiese, 31, suffered fatal injuries when his Kawasaki ZR800 and a JCB Backhoe tractor crashed on the A27 at Ashcombe, near Lewes on Thursday.
The German national, who lived in Alice Street, Hove, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sussex Police has appealed for anyone who saw the crash to contact officers.
The 20-year-old man from Plumpton, near Lewes, who was driving the tractor, was uninjured. | A motorcyclist who was killed when his bike collided with a tractor and trailer near a roundabout in East Sussex has been named by police. |
32,199,649 | Jordy Hiwula fired past Brian Jensen to open the scoring before doubling the lead with a curling second-half strike.
Kieron Morris powered in a third for the home side two minutes later, then defender Andy Taylor's shot was deflected past Jensen for the fourth.
Substitute Jordan Cook slotted in a fifth in stoppage time as Crawley dropped into the relegation zone.
Walsall's second home win in four days lifts them seven points above the final relegation spot with four games to play.
Walsall manager Dean Smith told BBC WM 95.6:
"It was an excellent performance from start to finish. Everyone involved can be pleased with their contribution. And we've scored five goals without Tom Bradshaw getting on the scoresheet.
"To score five goals at home will have put smiles on the faces of the supporters and there were some good finishes amongst them too.
"I don't know how it was only 1-0 at half-time such was our dominance, but justice has been done as we deserved to win at their place earlier in the season and came away with nothing."
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Crawley Town boss Dean Saunders told BBC Surrey:
"We are obviously disappointed and it looks like an absolute pasting but they've scored four unbelievable strikes, three of them were amazing. The defence I put out tonight, three fullbacks and Sonny Bradley and that's what's killed us really, they were just better then us."
"I've had to change the shape of the team twice to try and stem the flow and we gradually got back into the game but really we've got a left back whose never played left back for us before. I've got Lewis Young playing at right-back whose a midfielder and I've got Lanre Oyebanjo playing centre back. We are struggling for defenders."
"I'm hoping Darren Ward is going to be fit for the weekend but we've lost Richard Wood and Dean Leacock as well. We've lost four centre halves in three months and it's caught up with us." | Walsall eased their relegation concerns with their best win of the season at home to League One strugglers Crawley. |
34,479,116 | Lee Hollender, 39, smashed a Boots store window in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, before filling the bin.
He was caught after leaving blood at the scene on 28 August.
Hollender, from Birmingham, previously admitted burglary but an arrest warrant was issued on Thursday when he failed to turn up at Caernarfon Crown Court for sentencing. | A thief who stole £9,000 worth of perfume by loading it into a wheelie bin is wanted by police. |
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16,681,106 | This means the soap and the materials that it dissolves can be removed easily by applying a magnetic field.
Experts say that with further development, it could find applications in cleaning up oil spills and waste water.
Details of the new soap, which contains iron atoms, are reported in the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie.
It is similar to ordinary soap, but the atoms of iron help form tiny particles that are easily removed magnetically.
"If you'd have said about 10 years ago to a chemist: 'Let's have some soap that responds to magnets', they'd have looked at you with a very blank face," said co-author Julian Eastoe of the University of Bristol.
He told BBC News: "We were interested to see, if you went back to the chemical drawing board with the tool-kit of modern synthetic chemistry, if you could...design one."
Soap is made of long molecules with ends that behave differently: One end of the molecule is attracted to water and the other is repelled by it.
The "detergent" action of soap comes from its ability to attach to oily, grimy surfaces, with the "water-hating" end breaking up molecules at that surface. The soap molecules then gather up into droplets in which all the "water-loving" ends face outward.
Prof Eastoe and his team started with detergent molecules that he said were "very similar to what you'd find in your kitchen or bathroom" - one of which can be found in mouthwash.
The team found a way to simply add iron atoms into the molecules. The droplets that the soap formed were attracted to a magnet, just as iron filings would be.
But single iron atoms would not behave as tiny individual magnets, so some other process had to be at work. To get a look at what was going on in the chemical process required a view at the molecular level.
So the team sent their samples to the Institute Laue Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France, where an intense beam of the sub-atomic particles known as neutrons shed light on the matter.
They saw that the iron particles were clumping neatly together into iron nanoparticles, tiny clumps of iron that could in fact respond to a magnetic field.
Prof Eastoe said the research was still at the laboratory stages but was already the subject of discussion.
"The research at the University of Bristol in this field is about how we can take the ordinary and give it extraordinary properties by chemical design," he said.
"We have uncovered the principle by which you can generate this kind of material and now it's back to the drawing board to make it better." | An international team of scientists has demonstrated the first soap that responds to magnets. |
36,735,378 | The Spanish right-back, 35, was an ever-present in the league last season and takes over from Gordon Greer.
"Bruno is hugely respected by everyone in the squad, throughout the club, and by the fans," manager Chris Hughton told the Seagulls' website.
"He's a fantastic professional and sets a superb example on and off the pitch. He stood in for Gordon Greer last season and he was the obvious choice."
Bruno was signed by Albion in 2012 after leaving Valencia and has made 148 appearances for the Sussex club.
"I'm really proud and it's a big responsibility for me," he said.
"It's about being an example for the young lads and the rest of the players." | Bruno has been installed as Brighton's captain for the coming season. |
34,118,564 | Nightclub owner David West, 70, of Piccadilly in central London, was stabbed on 12 December.
His 45-year-old son, of the same name, admits killing his father but denies murder, saying he "lost control" because of his father's behaviour.
The Old Bailey heard the pair had a turbulent relationship and Mr West Sr sacked his son the day he was killed.
The court heard Mr West Jr allegedly drank several glasses of whisky on 12 December before taking a large knife from his flat and going to his father's house.
Before the killing, jurors were told, the defendant told his girlfriend "a lot of people need sorting out and it's going to be tonight" while afterwards he allegedly told police "I had the guts to stand up to him".
Prosecutor Aftab Jafferjee QC told the court: "He took the largest kitchen knife from his flat - provided by his father - and went next door to where his father had been taken by his assistant, and left at the bottom of the stairs as he was too drunken to climb them.
"He then stabbed his father... leaving the knife embedded there."
At the time of his death, Mr West Sr's business - including the restaurant Abracadabra and nightclub Hey Jo in Mayfair - was in serious financial trouble with "large debts", the court heard.
Mr Jafferjee told jurors: "David West Sr rightly or wrongly saw his son as someone who was no longer able to match up to the demands of the state of the business.
"The defendant, who was in awe of his father, felt that his efforts were rarely, if ever, appreciated by his father."
The case continues. | The son of a tycoon killed his "drunken bully" father because he wanted to "go out with a bang", a court has heard. |
38,474,505 | Midfielder Beram Kayal could return after more than three months out but defenders Sebastian Pocognoli (thigh) and Liam Rosenior (ankle) are out.
MK Dons, 18th in League One, have defender George Baldock available after hamstring trouble.
Top scorer Dean Bowditch (calf) remains sidelined along with Scott Wootton.
The Dons reached the fourth round of the FA Cup last season, eventually losing 5-1 to Chelsea.
Brighton boss Chris Hughton told BBC Sussex:
"We will use the squad. It is quite difficult to speak about the values of the FA Cup, as it is the way the game is these days.
"There is no doubt our focus is the league, as it is with many other clubs.
"It is a competition we want to go through in, because of the history, as it gives us more games. It will be a tough challenge as they have players who have played in the Championship and they will raise their game." | Championship leaders Brighton are without suspended pair Lewis Dunk and Kazenga LuaLua, with Connor Goldson set to replace Dunk at centre-back. |
34,151,551 | It was discovered at Oakvale Terrace in Upperlands on Friday.
The area was cordoned off and a number of homes evacuated for a time while an Army bomb team examined the object.
Residents have been allowed to return to their homes and all roads reopened. | A suspicious object that caused a security alert in County Londonderry was a hoax, police have said. |
41,029,334 | Bronze, 25, signed a three-year deal with the French champions on 18 August.
"Any player in Europe, female or male, would say the Champions League is the goal," she told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I've come here wanting to win the Champions League. At the age I'm at, and with the injuries that I have, I can't take my time for granted."
The former Liverpool Ladies player added: "I've got to seize any opportunity that I have to play at the highest level. For me, Lyon is playing at the highest level."
Lyon, who saw Germany forward Pauline Bremer move in the other direction as part of Bronze's deal, won their second consecutive European title in Cardiff in June and have lifted 11 domestic league titles in a row.
City - winners of the English Women's Super League in 2016 - reached their first-ever Champions League semi-final in 2016-17, losing 3-2 to Lyon on aggregate.
"It's not to put City down, because City are an unbelievable team," added Bronze. "They are going to develop and grow to hopefully be similar to Lyon.
"It took me a week or so to really think about what I wanted. I was kind of divided, whether to stay and continue to grow the club and maybe become a team level with Lyon, or whether to go to Lyon now and really push myself.
"But I thought about when City played Lyon, and how much of a challenge it was to mark some of these players who are consistently named among the world's best.
"I just want to be around that every single day, and push myself to be on a level with the likes of (France captain) Wendie Renard and (Germany's) Dzsenifer Marozsan.
"My game needs to improve. My technical ability probably needs the most work, and the French are known for being one of the best technical teams in the world. Trying to emulate the things they do is going to push me on."
The former Sunderland and Everton full-back, who turned down the offer of a new deal at City which would have made her the highest earner in Nick Cushing's side, is not ruling out a return to English club football in future.
"I would never say never to coming back to England, but at the same time I would never say never to staying in Lyon or going to Spain or Germany," she said.
"I want to have won the Champions League at least once, and improve as a player. I've not quite hit my peak yet.
"The next two years especially are huge because the 2019 World Cup is in France. In the back of my mind, I'm preparing for that.
"Hopefully, if England make the World Cup final, it'll be in a place that's very familiar."
Lyon's Parc Olympique Lyonnais is set to host the final of the World Cup. | England right-back Lucy Bronze says she left Manchester City for Lyon to improve her technical skills and try to win the Women's Champions League. |
30,900,885 | Craig Stevens, a former chairman of the UK Star Wars Fan Club, has been collecting the toys since he was seven years old.
One of the most prized collectables being sold through Vectis Auctions in Stockton is a figure of bounty hunter Boba Fett valued at up to £15,000.
Mr Stevens said he is selling to fund a new home.
Speaking to BBC Tees' Neil Green, the collector from Croydon, who also works as a Lego artist, said: "I live in a flat, have the rent to pay and a tough wife, so I thought why not sell?
"I'm looking to start a new life, buy a new house and I think the time is right."
The figures were made by Palitoy, a toy maker based in Coalville, Leicestershire, and were released to coincide with the original Star Wars trilogy hitting the cinemas.
Vectis Auctions valuer Kathy Turner said a collection in such a good condition was highly unusual.
She said: "I've not sold something like this before. I very rarely call something actually mint but some of these are in as perfect a condition as you could hope to find them.
"With this type of toy the packaging is of paramount importance."
She said their future value could be much higher, adding: "The market for Star Wars has not peaked, there are only ever more collectors coming in but only a finite number of collectables for them to buy.
"Craig paid £50 for the Boba Fett figure and it could now be worth £15,000, who knows what it could be worth in the future.
"People used to laugh at toy collectors but these are serious investments." | A Star Wars fan is selling a collection of 70 toys estimated to be worth up to £100,000. |
36,687,419 | Beattie was named Stanley boss in May 2013, before leaving the League Two club in September 2014, having won only 16 of his 58 games in charge.
The 38-year-old worked under Leeds boss Garry Monk at Swansea, but left in December following Monk's dismissal.
Meanwhile, defender Giuseppe Bellusci, 26, has joined Empoli on a season-long loan with a view to a permanent deal.
Bellusci made 61 appearances for Leeds after signing from Catania in August 2014, but has returned to Italy because of family reasons. | Former Accrington Stanley manager James Beattie has been appointed first-team coach at Championship side Leeds. |
36,810,788 | A number of services on Saturday and Sunday will be cancelled or reduced, although ScotRail has claimed that 76% of routes will operate as normal.
The industrial action is over the union's concerns about trains operating without guards.
On driver-only-operation trains, the driver is asked to close the doors at stations, instead of a conductor.
ScotRail has said it would ensure a second member of staff was scheduled to be on board every train to assist the driver in emergencies.
However, the company has accepted there are occasions when a ticket examiner does not turn up for work that a train could run with only a driver and Scotrail has said it has union agreement for this.
The union believes the absence of a dedicated guard would make trains less safe.
ScotRail has predicted that this weekend's strike will not affect services to Troon, where the Open golf championship is being held. | RMT union members working for ScotRail have started another two days of strike action. |
40,121,113 | But most people in this parliamentary constituency live north of the peninsula in a seat which includes former industrial areas up to Clydach in the Swansea Valley.
Changes to its economic profile have changed its politics too, and in 2015 it provided the shock result in Wales.
The Conservatives took the seat after a century with a Labour MP - their majority of 27 votes is the narrowest in the UK.
Theresa May's snap election means Conservative Byron Davies is back on the road in his campaign taxi much sooner than expected.
The former policeman's black London cab is adorned with slogans urging the people of Gower to back him on June the 8th.
He says he's "hopeful" of holding on to the seat rather than "confident", and does not take too much notice of the polls.
Sitting in his black cab he says: "I get my vibes off the street, and I have to say - my vibes are good".
Mr Davies admits the prime minister's difficulties over social care in England have been raised by some on the doorstep but he believes that people understand the issue has to be addressed.
The handling of Brexit - unsurprisingly - is prominent in his campaign.
Almost 5,000 people voted for UKIP in Gower in 2015 putting them third last time - votes Byron Davies thinks he can attract this time.
"Many, many, many of those that I've spoken to have said that they can only see Theresa May as the person that will now take it forward," he says.
"So I'm confident that we'll have quite a number coming over ... and maybe even actually some people who may have been Labour voters who voted Brexit."
Labour candidate Tonia Antoniazzi is a Llanelli schoolteacher who used to represent Wales at rugby.
Canvassing in Gorseinon, I ask her whether there's anything she can transfer from the rugby pitch to the campaign trail.
"Stamina is one of them", she says, and "teamwork - it's a massive team effort".
Ms Antoniazzi blames the UK government for the "real poverty" she sees when knocking doors - "it really, really upsets me".
"Seven years ago when we had the Conservatives in Westminster my life changed massively," she says.
"I'm a schoolteacher and I was on my own ... I do have a good wage but I was feeling the pinch.
"I never imagined that I would be putting myself forward to be an MP but that's how angry I was."
UKIP's candidate is Dr Ross Ford, a researcher for the party in Cardiff Bay.
The party did well in Gower two years ago but the polls suggest they are struggling to hold on to support since the referendum on membership of the European Union.
"I think it's important in Gower that we have a very, very strong UKIP vote", he says.
"I think UKIP has done extremely well by winning a referendum but it is only an advisory referendum.
"All we've had since is the triggering of Article 50 - that alone is simply a useless piece of paper unless it's acted upon.
"I believe only a strong UKIP vote will actually achieve that."
Plaid Cymru candidate Harri Roberts insists that though the Conservatives and Labour are battling to take this seat, voting for his party can send a strong message.
"What the Conservatives want with their hard Brexit is absolutely alien to what is good for Gower and for its people," he says.
"We want an open market, we want access to Europe so that our trade can succeed", he says.
"She may suit the bankers in London but it does not suit us at all and I think people are listening to that argument."
Leafleting in Clydach, Liberal Democrat Howard Evans also says there's more to the election locally than the Labour-Conservative battle.
He is "offering a choice to the electorate" he says, having decided to stand for the first time since 1999 because of his concerns about the future since the referendum on Europe.
The party's central pledge is a referendum on the Brexit deal, but Mr Evans says voters are also talking about health, education and fly-tipping.
Those are council and assembly responsibilities but he says "the monies come from the UK government".
"We're pledging to put a penny on income tax to allow for more monies to go to the NHS to be given to the Welsh Government to actually allocate in that way", he says.
The sixth candidate in Gower is Jason Winstanley, standing for the Pirate Party which campaigns for civil liberties.
After such a close result last time, there will be no let-up in campaigning before polling day.
And in this constituency, more than any other, every vote really does count.
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Enter a postcode or seat name | When you think Gower you might think sea, spectacular scenery, and sometimes even sun. |
36,643,314 | The payout by the estate, which owns London's Regent Street and the entire UK seabed, was up from £285m.
It comes ahead of a review of the Sovereign Grant - taxpayers' money given to the Queen by the Treasury.
This year the Queen received a grant of nearly £43m, currently calculated as 15% of the Crown Estate's profits.
The Sovereign Grant, which is paid two years in arrears, is reviewed every five years.
In the coming months, the government and a senior royal official will carry out a review of the grant, which was set at 15% in 2012.
If the formula is unchanged, the grant will rise to more than £45m next year, up from £31m in 2012.
This year, the Crown Estate has reaped the benefits of a regeneration programme of London's Regent Street and St James's, where it lets out shops.
The estate brought in £22.9m over the year from leasing the country's seabed to offshore wind farms, a rise of nearly 20%.
How rich is the Queen?
The Sovereign Grant's annual report for 2015-2016 shows the monarchy cost the Treasury £40.1m, of which:
During a briefing to launch the report, Sir Alan Reid, Keeper of the Privy Purse, highlighted the large amount of funds spent on the upkeep of royal palaces.
Spending on property maintenance was up close to 40% on the previous year, he said, yet the condition of the estate was deteriorating at a faster rate than they have been able to respond to.
Sir Alan said a "significant amount" of the rise in this year's Sovereign Grant of £42.8m would be used to tackle the backlog in essential maintenance.
BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt said it was now unlikely - as had been suggested last year after the publication of the Sovereign Grant's annual report - that the Queen would have to vacate Buckingham Palace during refurbishment.
Source: The Crown Estate
Meanwhile, Prince Charles's private income from his Duchy of Cornwall estate, a portfolio of land, property and financial investments, rose by 3% to £20.5m during the last financial year, and his tax bill increased by £531,000 to just over £5m.
The Duchy of Cornwall, which includes assets such as London's Oval cricket ground and has the Isles of Scilly among its possessions, funds the private and official expenditure of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall.
The estate is given to the heir to the throne and comprises 53,628 hectares (132,518 acres) of land in 23 counties, mostly in the south-west of England.
The prince also received £1.4m in funding from the Sovereign Grant and government departments during the period. | The Crown Estate has delivered a record £304.1m to the Treasury after the value of its portfolio rose 9.7% to £12bn. |
12,621,373 | The National Coal Board Club and the old general hospital building are among those seen at risk.
Organisers of Wednesday's meeting say the hope it will galvanise the town into drawing up an action plan.
The town was the home of Aneurin Bevan, who created the National Health Service in 1948.
The summit has been called by the town council with representatives from the Welsh heritage agency Cadw, the Aneurin Bevan Health Board and Blaenau Gwent council due to attend.
Town council leader Malcolm Cross said: "Far from sitting back and waiting for our town to crumble we have set up this summit... to save our history and our heritage.
"We now need to work together to find solutions for all our buildings at risk.
"We need experts to survey and record them in case they get lost.
"We need to protect those that are of value and we need to secure funding to conserve those in use."
He said there was particular concern about the condition of a number of buildings in an area known as The Circle.
They include the National Coal Board (NCB) Club which was originally built as the town hall.
It was there a victorious Aneurin Bevan was returned as local MP in front of a rapturous crowd.
The stone facade of the listed building recently crumbled off and emergency repairs were carried out by the council, but the club is in receivership and the building's future uncertain.
Two other pubs in The Circle have been closed and need repairs. The building that housed Tredegar Medical Aid Society is no longer in use.
There are also concerns over the general hospital building that closed after the new Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan opened in Ebbw Vale last year.
Mr Cross said there were good news stories, with Blaenau Gwent council undertaking a £5.6m refurbishment of Bedwellty House and Park in the town.
The former ironmaster's residence is scheduled to reopen this year and will house the town's register office and become a heritage centre.
But he said it was important those interested in preserving the town attended the meeting.
It takes place at Tredegar Rugby club on Wednesday at 1900 GMT. | People in Tredegar are being urged to attend a "heritage summit" to discuss how to save the town's crumbling listed and historically significant buildings. |
38,445,575 | In a tense first half, during which Leicester's injury-plagued England winger Manu Tuilagi limped off, the scores were locked at 6-6 as Farrell traded penalties with Owen Williams.
Farrell scored and converted the only try after adding a further penalty.
Williams kicked two penalties to ensure Leicester took a losing bonus point.
Leicester pressed until the final moments as they looked to avoid just their second defeat in 15 home games in all competitions, but two missed penalties from Williams proved costly.
In a game England boss Eddie Jones watched from the stand, much attention was focused on centre Tuilagi, who was called up on Saturday for a national team training camp.
But it proved little more than a cameo showing by the 25-year-old as he was forced off with an apparent right knee injury, suffered as he came down in a tackle.
Saracens were dealt a setback of their own as winger Chris Ashton - making his first start in 15 weeks after serving a suspension for biting - was forced off after a clash of heads with Jack Roberts.
However, despite losing the prolific Ashton, Saracens came up with the game's only try soon after - Brad Barritt collecting the ball from Williams after a poor Ben Youngs pass before Farrell threw a dummy to race clear.
Saracens did enough to hold on for the win, moving them to within one point of Wasps at the summit.
Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill:"It was tight, we played very well, they played well. We defended outstandingly well and our set-piece was dominant.
"Saracens' pack don't get dominated very often but we dominated their pack today. Our boys were fantastic.
"There are a lot of positives. I know we are five points from the top four but we were playing the best side in Europe last season.
"If we can play like that away we will win more than we lose and we will keep in the mix."
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall: "We are chuffed to bits to come here and win where they have not lost this season.
"Not everything in our game was perfect, far from it. But what was tremendous was the fight we had and the effort we showed all the way through the game.
"We had to win without a platform because our scrum today was poor. To get a result without a scrum is tough."
Leicester Tigers: Burns; Betham, Roberts, Tuilagi, Thompstone; O. Williams, B. Youngs; Genge, T. Youngs (c), Cole, Slater, Fitzgerald, M. Williams, O'Connor, McCaffrey.
Replacements: McGuigan, Cilliers, Bateman, Kitchener, Evans, Harrison, Worth, Brady.
Saracens: Goode; Ashton, Bosch, Barritt (c), Maitland; Farrell, Spencer; Barrington, George, Figallo, Skelton, Itoje, Rhodes, Burger, Wray.
Replacements: Brits, Thompson-Stringer, Lamositele, Hamilton, Brown, De Kock, Lozowski, Earle.
Ref: JP Doyle
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | Owen Farrell scored all of Saracens' points against Leicester, but victory was not enough to return the London club to the top of the Premiership. |
38,450,583 | The child was taken to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow, from a house in Cambuslang, following the alleged incident on 21 December.
His condition was described as serious.
The Crown Office said that David McMullan, 32, appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court last Friday where he made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody.
Mr McMullan was charged with attempted murder and assault to severe injury, permanent impairment and danger to life. | A man has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a two-year-old boy in South Lanarkshire. |
37,989,038 | Former Wales manager Speed died, aged 42, in November 2011, having previously played 678 games for Leeds, Newcastle, Everton, Bolton and Sheffield United.
Fans will honour his memory with a minute's applause on 11 minutes, the shirt number he wore for both clubs.
Members of Speed's family will be attending the game.
"We ask supporters of both Leeds United and Newcastle United to join together in a minute's applause as we near the fifth anniversary of Gary's passing," a Leeds statement read.
Speed was in the Newcastle side that last visited Elland Road in 2003, with the teams playing out a 2-2 draw.
He had made his name at Leeds and played a key role as United won the First Division title in 1992. | Leeds United and Newcastle United fans plan to pay tribute to late midfielder Gary Speed at Sunday's Championship match at Elland Road. |
39,502,195 | The metro mayor role covers Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset council areas.
The £62,000 salaried post is part of government efforts to devolve more power to the regions over key issues such as planning and roads.
There is one independent and candidates from the Conservatives, UKIP, Green Party, Labour and Liberal Democrats.
The candidates are:
Bath and North East Somerset Council, which is organising the election, has said those registered to vote will receive a mayoral election booklet and a campaign statement from each of the candidates.
As part of the devolution deal, the four councils will be given £1bn over 30 years to help plan new homes, regional transport and business growth. | Six candidates have put their names forward for the upcoming West of England metro mayor elections in May. |
35,809,439 | Students will be able to work on Morgan racing cars and alongside traditional craftsmen on a range of vehicles made by the Malvern-based firm.
The university has invested £12m at its Telford Innovation Campus to support students' work on Formula 3 and Morgan racing cars, a spokesman said.
Motor racing workshops and car bays will be created at its Priorslee site.
Morgan managing director, Steve Morris, said: "Without a doubt the combined expertise of craftsmanship working alongside engineering students on a number of projects will bring added benefits to both parties, whilst affording students an invaluable insight into the world of car manufacturing and racing."
The car maker was founded by HFS Morgan in 1909.
It began producing three wheeler cars in 1910, but the firm's reputation is based on hand-built small sports cars. | A classic car company is to help train engineering students at Wolverhampton University. |
34,638,325 | David William Black is alleged to have grabbed a prisoner by the neck and kneed him in the face in October 2013.
The 48-year-old, whose address was given as the Tayside Division Bell Street police headquarters in Dundee, pleaded not guilty to two summary charges at Forfar Sheriff Court.
A trial date was set for February 2016.
Fiscal depute Mohamad Sadiq said the case was "sensitive" and that it was anticipated the trial would run for two days. | A Police Scotland officer is to stand trial accused of assaulting a man in a cell at Arbroath Police Office. |
24,566,691 | The journey is seen as one of the five pillars of Islam, central to the faith.
Pilgrims spend five days praying both in Mecca and the surrounding desert.
It is a spiritual pilgrimage that every adult Muslim must perform at least once in their lives if they can afford it and are physically able.
In order to be closer to God, they wear simple clothes, aren't allowed to argue and perform rituals such as throwing stones at pillars to symbolise rejecting evil. | Every year, millions of Muslims travel from around the world to Saudi Arabia to complete the Hajj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca. |
38,186,798 | On Monday, Sheridan made all his first-team available for a reserves game, which was later called off.
"These are decisions I don't really want to make, but I think hopefully they'll work out," he said.
Sheridan has also said that players were paid late last month, but they have all now been given their wages.
The Magpies were handed their second winding-up petition of the year by HM Revenue and Customs on 23 November, with a hearing scheduled for 19 December.
Former Oldham boss Sheridan said that his players have not been distracted by the club's off-field issues, and said they have responded well to his recent decisions.
"Whatever decision I make I don't think it's a punishment, no way is it a punishment, and I don't care what the players think," he told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"I think the players know it's not a punishment anyway, so the players have responded the way I want them to respond. I don't think they see it as a punishment, I think they actually agree with me.
"They know we've got to get things right, so I don't see it as a problem whatsoever, and hopefully it'll work out the way we want it to work out." | Notts County manager John Sheridan has cancelled his players' Christmas party after a five-match winless run in League Two. |
35,526,487 | Tuesday marked the day on which they had to say whether they would sign the agreement and continue with the freeze on council tax.
Both Stirling Council and South Ayrshire Council confirmed their "reluctant" acceptance.
It had been claimed Scotland's 32 local authorities would have to make £350m in cuts to make the deal work.
None of the country's councils is expected to reject the offer on the table.
However, every local authority not run by the SNP branded the deal as unacceptable.
And a number of them are looking at the possibility of a legal challenge on some of the details.
The Labour leader of Stirling Council, Johanna Boyd, said it was "with a heavy heart and under duress" from the government that she had been "forced" to accept Scottish government's funding settlement.
South Ayrshire Council leader, Conservative Bill McIntosh, said he believed local communities would bear the brunt of the financial settlement.
He said: "Like many colleagues across the country, we have no choice but to reluctantly accept this brutal settlement from the Scottish government, which will undoubtedly have dire consequences for our finances and the services we currently provide.
"The Scottish government has made a very clear choice to allocate its funding in a way that lets the axe fall on local government and this means it's our people and communities who will bear the brunt."
Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland, the SNP leader of Clackmannanshire Council Les Sharp said he thought the deal was fair given the circumstances.
He said: "What John Swinney, and the Scottish government, have done is mitigate local authorities against the huge cuts that have been imposed on the local councils down south.
"What he is trying to do is to protect local government by looking at how we perform in our local areas. I think the way he's looked at the money and how we can change things is the right and proper thing to do."
The terms of the deal on offer make it even harder than before to propose putting up the council tax as any rise would need to be large to be effective.
Last week Moray Council dropped a proposal for an 18% increase.
It would be astounding if any council actually rejected the Scottish government's funding offer.
Councils are heavily dependent on the Scottish government for their money - to say no at this stage, with no prospect of a significantly better offer, would plunge them into crisis.
But this year's budget offer has strained relations badly between non-SNP councils and the Scottish government.
The immediate concern is straightforward. Many councils argue they will receive less than they had anticipated so are now contemplating bigger cuts and savings than they had forecast.
The government offer, as ever, includes money to compensate councils for not putting up the council tax.
The government points to research which demonstrates that, if anything, councils have been over-compensated for freezing the council tax which last went up in 2007.
Read more from Jamie | Scotland's local authorities have begun accepting the Scottish government's funding deal. |
37,703,366 | The move by Citizens UK comes ahead of the demolition of the Calais camp, which is due to take place on Monday.
The charity says the government has failed to bring the children over and will launch legal action if the process does not begin promptly.
The Home Office said the process to move children to the UK was under way.
Children have begun arriving from Calais this week, but there have been questions raised over whether some are over 18.
Citizens UK told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme it is prepared to launch legal proceedings against the government for failing to introduce an "actual process" to facilitate the transfer of child refugees under the Dublin regulation.
It said that the government "has not set up a system for bringing the most vulnerable children who have no family in the UK", despite it being required to arrange the transfer of such children under an amendment to the Immigration Act.
"There is no functioning state system and what system there is, is currently almost entirely dependent on private actors," the charity added.
It said it passed the details of 30 "fully assessed" children to the Home Office on Tuesday with a deadline of Thursday to respond.
The UK's Immigration Act 2016, passed earlier this year, included an amendment, originally put forward by Labour peer Lord Dubs, placing a legal requirement on the government to arrange unaccompanied refugee children from Europe to be transferred into the UK.
This is known as the Dubs amendment and is in addition to the EU's Dublin regulation, which allows unaccompanied refugee children to be placed in a country where they have a relative who can be responsible for their care.
Lord Dubs told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that the Home Office has been "very slow" in organising the transfer of children into the UK.
"We'd hoped something would start way back in May or June, when Parliament passed the amendment," he said.
"They're beginning to move, they're beginning to do the right things, but they should have got on with this a long time ago.
"What we're worried about is that the camp will be demolished and some of the children with no family here will be stuck without safety."
Lord Dubs also said his amendment did not say the UK should take in all the migrant children, but that "we should take our share".
Ealing Council has pledged to take in 10 unaccompanied children from the Calais camp.
Its leader, councillor Julian Bell, has visited the camp and is calling on other councils to take in migrant children.
He said: "If every council took five or 10, like my council's willing to do, then we'd more than deal with the problem."
Mr Bell also said Hammersmith and Fulham Council is willing to take 15, while Hounslow Council has agreed to admit five children.
Immigration minister Robert Goodwill said the process to transfer "as many eligible children as possible" from Calais to the UK, before the start of the camp clearance, was "under way".
He added: "We are working extremely closely with the French authorities and charities and NGOs on the ground to make this happen.
"Our focus remains to ensure the vulnerable minors who are eligible to come here arrive safely. Ultimately it is up to the government, who is admitted to the UK and under what terms. This must be done through an agreed and proper process and with the agreement of the French."
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel. | A charity has demanded a rapid response from the government to allow 30 unaccompanied children from the "Jungle" camp in Calais into the UK. |
36,265,397 | Culture Secretary John Whittingdale is expected to set out a tougher regime for the broadcaster in plans for a new royal charter for the next 11 years.
Reports have claimed the BBC will scale back online services, including losing recipe pages and magazine content.
The BBC said it was reviewing online services but such claims were "speculation".
The royal charter expires at the end of December and a public consultation into its future was launched last year.
Earlier in May, Labour accused Mr Whittingdale of "meddling", following reports he would allow commercial broadcasters to challenge the BBC over peak-time scheduling, a claim that was denied.
Mr Whittingdale, speaking in the Commons on Wednesday, said media reports ahead of the publication of the paper had ranged from "complete fantasy" to "quite well-informed", adding: "But certainly not informed by me or my department."
A government source told the Sunday Times the White Paper was intended to "set a broad set of principles and guidelines".
"How that is applied to individual programmes and scheduling is a matter for them. But they will be subject to external regulation."
The Guardian has claimed the licence fee would be subjected to "top-slicing", with a portion of it being handed to commercial rivals in areas such as children's programming.
Newspapers have also speculated Mr Whittingdale will make the BBC publish how much it pays top talent earning more than £150,000.
At Sunday night's TV Bafta awards, Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminsky was one of a number of people who spoke out against alleged government plans.
He claimed ministers were trying to "eviscerate" the BBC and that now was "a dangerous time for broadcasting in Britain".
In a speech at the British Museum, Prime Minister David Cameron said the broadcaster was one of the "most recognised brands on the planet", while Liberal Democrat peer Lord Lester of Herne Hill warned a public protest march would follow any "stupid" decisions in regards to the BBC's future.
The White Paper is also expected to address the conclusions of Sir David Clementi's report into the BBC Trust, which recommended "fundamental reform" of the body.
The document follows 2015's Green Paper, which was a consultation paper about the future of the corporation.
In that paper, Mr Whittingdale said there was a "need to ask some hard questions in charter review if we are to ensure the future success of the BBC and, indeed, UK broadcasting".
"I believe the BBC can continue to thrive. But to do that it will need to evolve," he said.
In an email to staff, BBC director general Tony Hall said the White Paper "must give us a mandate for a secure future".
He said he would address staff following the paper's publication.
Lord Hall wrote: "It's a big moment. Of course, every Charter matters - but perhaps this one even more so, as it's taking place in the middle of a global media revolution."
He said the BBC must have a "certainty of funding, as well as control over its own revenue streams".
"This debate should lead us to a position where our creativity can flourish rather than be constrained...
"We need to change the way we're governed to make it simpler and clearer. But, any changes must protect the independence of the BBC."
Meanwhile, the corporation has announced the commissioning, publishing and some of the production of BBC Three's short-form content is to move from London to Birmingham by 2018.
The TV channel, which became online-only in February, will create new commissioner and assistant commissioner roles in the city.
Birmingham will also be the home of a team within BBC News supplying content for BBC Three's Daily Drop web stream.
The BBC said its proposed partnerships with local news organisations are also expected to be based in Birmingham, alongside the existing English Regions HQ. | Proposals for the renewal of the BBC charter will be published in a government White Paper later. |
36,505,176 | Aberdeen City Council said there were 134 empty teaching posts in the city.
The council admitted consideration would have to be given to shutting the worst-affected schools after the summer unless the situation improves.
The Scottish government said education secretary John Swinney would be in Aberdeen on Monday to hear directly from those involved in education.
Aberdeen education convener Angela Taylor said: "This is a national problem but there is no doubt that Aberdeen is a special case because of the high cost of living plus the oil and gas crisis.
"The first minister seems to concede that this city is a special case but as far as I'm concerned, Aberdeen is being left to twist in the wind given the precious little support we have been given.
Ms Taylor called on the Scottish government to act urgently.
She added: "If they continue to ignore our pleas for action, there is a danger that after the summer holidays we may have to consider closing those schools worst affected by this crisis."
The Scottish government said it wanted all schools to have access to the right number of teachers so every child has the opportunity to fulfil their potential.
A spokesman said: "Last year we invested £51m to safeguard teacher posts and increased student teacher numbers in each of the last five years, specifically targeting places at the University of Aberdeen."
He added: "Through the Transition Training Fund we are committed to helping oil and gas sector staff move to a career in teaching, particularly in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects, and we are supporting the University of Aberdeen's distance learning teacher education programme, which allows council employees to retrain as teachers while staying in work.
"Mr Swinney will be in Aberdeen on Monday to hear directly from education directors, head teachers and teachers from Aberdeen and other parts of the north of Scotland to hear about the challenges they're facing and opportunities moving forward." | A warning has been issued that some schools in Aberdeen may close because of a "crisis" in recruiting teachers. |
32,273,750 | He described the meeting on the fringes of the Summit of the Americas in Panama as "candid and fruitful".
Mr Obama said that the former foes would continue to have differences but could advance mutual interests.
The meeting was the first formal talks between the two countries' leaders in more than half a century.
"What we have both concluded is that we can disagree with a spirit of respect and civility," said President Obama. "Over time, it is possible for us to turn the page and develop a new relationship between our two countries."
His remarks came at the end of a regional summit which has been dominated by the historic thaw between US-Cuba relations.
Cuban leader Raul Castro said that the two countries had "agreed to disagree" when necessary.
"We are disposed to talk about everything, with patience," he said. "Some things we will agree with, and others we won't."
Earlier, the Cuban leader referred to Mr Obama as an "honest man" after a lengthy speech largely taken up with the history of the relationship between the US and Cuba.
"When I talk about the revolution, the passion oozes out of me," the Cuban leader said. "I have to ask President Obama for forgiveness. He is not responsible for the things which happened before his time."
Latin American and Caribbean leaders at the summit in Panama have welcomed the reconciliation.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff hailed it as a courageous effort to end the last vestiges of the Cold War, which she said had caused great damage in the hemisphere.
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina gave the main credit to Cuba, saying it had fought with unprecedented dignity against the US blockade.
This summit was always going to be about the interaction between President Obama and Raul Castro.
The White House had hinted that they were interested in a one-to-one meeting although none had been officially scheduled.
In the end, it took place in a small nondescript room in a Panama City conference centre.
The two leaders did not look exactly at ease, sitting on small chairs slightly angled towards each other, but their tone was cordial.
Mr Obama called the meeting "historic". Mr Castro said he would continue taking steps to normalise relations between the two former foes.
The meeting was in essence symbolic. With the cameras flashing away, no decisions were made.
But its message was clear: we have our differences, but we can do business with each other.
When 'historic' seems apt
The US broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1959 after Fidel Castro and his brother Raul led a revolution toppling US-backed President Fulgencio Batista. The Castros established a revolutionary socialist state with close ties to the Soviet Union.
Mr Castro has called for the lifting of the US economic blockade on Cuba and the country's removal from Washington's list of state sponsors of terrorism.
For Washington, political reform and human rights in Cuba are key issues. Mr Obama is expected to remove Cuba from the terrorism list in the coming days.
The Summit of the Americas brings together the leaders of North, Central and South America. This, the seventh, is the first which Cuba attended.
Attempts to improve relations between the US and Cuba began in December when Mr Obama declared Washington's approach "outdated".
As US ties with Cuba improve, those between Venezuela and Washington remain fractious.
The US imposed sanctions last month on a group of Venezuelan officials it accuses of human rights abuses. Mr Obama also issued an executive order declaring Venezuela a threat to US national security.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has described the order as "disproportionate".
President Maduro spoke briefly at the summit to President Obama, who stressed that the US was interested in supporting and not threatening Venezuela.
The Venezuelan leader disputed that view, but according to a tweet from one of his aides "there was a lot of truth, respect and cordiality" during the short conversation.
The summit also highlighted differences between President Rafael Correa of Ecuador and the US.
Mr Correa said the US had failed to live up to its ideals: "Let's talk about human rights. In Ecuador we don't have torture, the death penalty or extrajudicial renditions."
In response, Mr Obama said the US does not claim to be perfect. "We make a claim to being open to change," he said. | US President Barack Obama has said his meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro will help both countries "turn the page" after decades of hostility. |
31,801,540 | He warned the latest dispute could have "profound implications" for Northern Ireland's political institutions but what are those implications?
BBC News NI looks at what is at risk of stalling if the deal breaks down.
Corporation tax is a tax on the profits made by companies. The current rate paid by businesses in Northern Ireland is 21%, compared to 12.5% in the Republic of Ireland.
The government intended to allow Stormont to set its own rate of the tax before May's general election. On Friday, Peter Robinson said he expected the bill to be passed by the Lords on St Patrick's Day.
But the Stormont House Agreement explicitly ties the devolution of corporation tax to getting a welfare bill through Stormont.
A week ago, the new Civil Service voluntary redundancy scheme opened - by the end of the week more than 3,200 had expressed interest.
The scheme was another of the measures agreed as part of the Stormont House talks. The aim is to lose the equivalent of 2,400 full-time civil service posts, saving around £90m from the civil service's annual pay bill.
This was to be paid for out of additional borrowing and spending powers agreed as part of the Stormont House Agreement.
However, Northern Ireland's Finance Minister Simon Hamilton said he will now have to clarify with the Treasury if no welfare reform bill will mean no loans for the voluntary exit schemes.
Stormont has so far resisted the introduction of measures such as a welfare cap, the reform of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and the spare room subsidy, also known as the bedroom tax.
The delay was due to opposition from Sinn Féin and the SDLP.
During the Stormont House Agreement talks, MLAs struck a deal to create a fund that would assist benefit recipients who will lose money as a result of the reforms.
The Westminster government and the DUP had warned that an unreformed system would leave Northern Ireland with its own welfare arrangements, which would have escalating costs and complexity.
Stormont's block grant - the money Northern Ireland gets from the Treasury - has already been reduced as a penalty for not implementing welfare reforms passed by Westminster.
The reductions , referred to as Treasury 'fines' by some commentators, have cost Stormont £100m to date.
A further £114m is due to be taken out of the block grant this year, but that figure was set to be proportionately reduced if MLAs implemented welfare reform in time.
But if the Stormont House Agreement falls apart, the full penalty is likely to be re-imposed.
Passing the budget was a key requirement of the Stormont House Agreement, but to balance their books, some Northern Ireland departments face cuts of about 10%.
Ministers have been faced with "tough choices" as they decide where the axe will fall.
Last week, Education Minister John O'Dowd warned 500 teachers and 1,000 support workers could lose their jobs as a result of cuts to his budget.
The PSNI's Chief Constable said he will have 200 fewer officers than he needs next year and Regional Development Minister Danny Kennedy said he does not have enough money to fund basic services like traffic light repairs.
On Friday, public sector workers, including health staff, teachers, bus and rail drivers, plan to strike in protest against the cuts and job losses already announced.
Stormont's financial situation is unlikely to improve as a result of the latest political crisis.
A new independent body, the Historical Investigations Unit (HIU), was to be set up to carry out fresh investigations into unsolved Troubles-related deaths.
A previous body, the Historical Enquiries Team (HET), had been undermined by an inspection report that found it investigated state killings with "less rigour" than those carried out by people who were not members of the security forces.
The HET wound up late last year and the PSNI's new Legacy Investigations Branch (LIB) has now taken on the cases, until legislation is passed to create the HIU.
Last month, Chief Constable George Hamilton said he expected this process could take 18-24 months, so it would be two years before the HIU could start work.
A failure to implement the Stormont House Agreement will mean further delay and uncertainty for the families seeking independent investigations into their loved ones' deaths. | Stormont is facing another crisis, according to Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, after a public row over welfare reform. |
38,614,104 | Daw penderfyniad Mr Law yn dilyn ymddiswyddiad y prif weithredwr, Don Bircham a chyfarwyddwr y clwb, Barry Horne gyda'r clwb yn 15 safle yn y Gyngres.
Mae Ymddiriedolaeth y cefnogwyr yn berchen ar 100% o'r clwb ond dywedodd Law ei fod yn parhau i gefnogi "delfryd yr Ymddiriedolaeth ond rwyf yn dechrau meddwl tybed a yw'n gweithio yn y ffordd orau i'r clwb."
Roedd Mr Law yn llywydd ymddiriedolaeth y cefnogwyr ers 2010. | Mae llywydd Ymddiriedolaeth Cefnogwyr clwb pêl-droed Wrecsam, Bryn Law, wedi camu i lawr ac wedi cwestiynu perchnogaeth y cefnogwyr o'r clwb. |
35,851,018 | Police seized £200,000 worth of suspected herbal cannabis after a car was stopped on the M2 motorway around 12:00 GMT on Friday.
Properties were searched at Shore Road, Belfast, and in Newtownards, County Down, as part of the investigation.
A further £200,000 worth of suspected herbal cannabis was seized in Antrim.
Police said both seizures were "being investigated to establish the existence of any links". | A man and a woman in their 30s have been arrested following the seizure of £400,000 worth of suspected herbal cannabis. |
40,525,507 | A survey showed tourism businesses in Wales saw a 32% rise in visitors during the May half term compared to in 2016.
In June Cardiff hosted the UEFA Champions League Finals and on Sunday about 10,000 cyclists will take part in the Velothon.
Mr Skates said a "summer of sporting legends" was boosting the industry,
"Already this year we have successfully hosted the giants of Real Madrid and Juventus on the UEFA Champions League Final and welcomed the ICC Champions trophy to Wales," he said.
"The Seniors Opens is yet another opportunity for Wales to demonstrate our capabilities in hosting world class sporting events, a real summer of sporting legends."
According to the recent Wales Tourism Barometer - which surveyed 884 industry representatives - 87% of businesses feel confident about trade ahead of the summer holidays.
Out of these 33% said they felt "very confident" about the season.
Meanwhile 33% of businesses are reporting profits are up in 2017 compared to the previous year.
Out of those surveyed 18% of businesses said the reason for the increased profits was because more people were holidaying in the UK rather than going abroad. | Major sporting events have boosted Welsh tourism ahead of the summer holidays, Economy Secretary Ken Skates has said. |
39,822,355 | The three-page message urges voters to consider their Christian heritage and "obligations to future generations".
It also calls on politicians to "renew and re-imagine" the UK's shared values amid divisions of recent years.
There needs to be "serious solutions" to home-building and a "flourishing" health service, the letter says.
In the pastoral letter to parishes and chaplaincies, the Church of England's most senior clergymen -the Most Reverend Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Most Reverend John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York - allude to the UK's negotiations with the EU over Brexit.
The letter says the election "is being contested against the backdrop of deep and profound questions of identity.
"Opportunities to renew and re-imagine our shared values as a country and a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland only come around every few generations...
"If our shared British values are to carry the weight of where we now stand and the challenges ahead of us, they must have at their core, cohesion, courage and stability."
The letter refers to the benefits of "education for all, the need for urgent and serious solutions to our housing challenges, the importance of creating communities as well as buildings, and a confident and flourishing health service that gives support to all - especially the vulnerable - not least at the beginning and end of life".
The archbishops go on to call for a "just economy" - one not over-reliant on debt that "risks crushing those who take on too much".
They add: "Courage also demands a radical approach to education, so that the historic failures of technical training and the over-emphasis on purely academic subjects are rebalanced."
The Church leaders also say that refugees and migrants should be given a "generous and hospitable" welcome but politicians should not be "deaf to the legitimate concerns" of communities.
And they say the religious faith of election candidates "should not be treated by opponents as a vulnerability to be exploited".
A letter to parishioners published in the run-up to the 2015 general electionattracted criticism and claims of pro-Labour bias after it called for a review of the UK's nuclear weapons. | The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have raised concerns about housing, the NHS and poverty in a general election letter to Anglican churchgoers. |
35,797,395 | A number of roads were closed and parking restrictions put in place due to the size of the event.
Comedian Russell Howard, rugby star Lewis Moody and swimmer Sharron Davies MBE were among those taking part.
Kenyan athlete Robert Mbithi won the race in a course record time of 1:01:45.
He was nearly four minutes quicker than last year's winner, Paul Martelletti.
The sporting spectacle raised a record £2.1m for charity in 2015.
This year's race was the last on the current course as in 2017 the first change in 10 years will be introduced due to redevelopment of the Green Park area.
For Johnny Reynolds ,from Radstock, Somerset, the race was his thirteenth out of 14 half marathons inside 60 hours.
He is fundraising for charity and said he was determined to complete the challenge although it had been gruelling.
"It's one of those things where you have to be really disciplined with yourself to make sure you keep going right the way through the night," he said.
"When it's really cold and at two in the morning your body is screaming at you to stop. But you can't as you have another twenty miles to do." | Some 15,000 runners turned out for the 35th annual Bath Half Marathon, with 30,000 spectators filling the city to watch. |
40,984,253 | The 20-year-old fired in the opener from outside the box after 26 minutes, before the Buddies twice struck the woodwork.
Morgan doubled his side's lead three minutes into the second half with a curling effort into the bottom corner.
And former Ross County midfielder Ian McShane's first St Mirren goal sealed the win with 12 minutes to play.
Jack Ross' men join United and Queen of the South on nine points, and sit third in the Championship table, while the Terrors' inferior goal difference means they drop to fourth.
Match ends, St. Mirren 3, Dundee United 0.
Second Half ends, St. Mirren 3, Dundee United 0.
Stewart Murdoch (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Kirkpatrick (St. Mirren).
Mark Durnan (Dundee United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ross Stewart (St. Mirren).
Foul by Scott McDonald (Dundee United).
Gregor Buchanan (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Ross Stewart replaces Gavin Reilly.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Darren Whyte replaces Lewis Morgan.
Paul Quinn (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gavin Reilly (St. Mirren).
Attempt saved. Stewart Murdoch (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Jordan Kirkpatrick replaces Liam Smith because of an injury.
Patrick Nkoyi (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gregor Buchanan (St. Mirren).
Foul by Jamie Robson (Dundee United).
Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! St. Mirren 3, Dundee United 0. Ian McShane (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Lewis Morgan.
Attempt missed. Scott McDonald (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Billy King (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gregor Buchanan (St. Mirren).
Foul by Stewart Murdoch (Dundee United).
Cameron Smith (St. Mirren) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Cameron Smith (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Mark Durnan.
Foul by Willo Flood (Dundee United).
Cameron Smith (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Cameron Smith (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Paul McMullan (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Adam Eckersley (St. Mirren) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Paul McMullan (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Eckersley (St. Mirren).
Substitution, Dundee United. Patrick Nkoyi replaces Fraser Fyvie.
Attempt missed. Samuel Stanton (Dundee United) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Stephen McGinn (St. Mirren) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Willo Flood.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Fraser Fyvie.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Jamie Robson.
Corner, Dundee United. Conceded by Cameron Smith. | Lewis Morgan's double helped St Mirren end Dundee United's winning start to the Scottish Championship season. |
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