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Farrell, 25, is set to move past 500 international points this weekend against Fiji, and is second in the England all-time list behind Wilkinson.
Asked whether Farrell could one day beat his record of 1,179 points, Wilkinson said: "I have no doubt.
"I would be very surprised if Owen Farrell didn't go on to score way, way more," he told BBC Sport.
"500 points for a guy who is 25 years old, you don't have to do the maths but if he plays until he is 35, he will be in a good place."
Wilkinson has been involved in the England camp this year as a kicking and skills consultant, and says he can identify with the way Saracens fly-half Farrell approaches the game.
"Sometimes when we are discussing things, you hear something that you definitely correspond with," said Wilkinson, who on Thursday became one of 12 new inductees into the World Rugby Hall of Fame.
"[Working with England] is a really exciting opportunity," Wilkinson, who scored the winning drop goal in the 2003 World Cup final, continued.
"But there is no telling or teaching, it's kind of a sharing, and therefore there has to be room in all of us to keep growing. I am also there to learn."
Wilkinson has also compared the current midfield combination of Farrell, who has scored 497 points for England, and fly-half George Ford to his partnership with inside centres Will Greenwood or Mike Catt.
"Both those guys were phenomenally important to me in my career, in the way they supported me, got the best out of me, and helped me to uncover more about myself," Wilkinson explained.
"With Owen and George, they are both very, very open individuals, both very humble - but not because they have been taught what to say, but genuinely it's who they are.
"There is not a script being followed here. They are following enthusiasm, passion and serious devotion.
"It's very similar when you mention names like Mike Catt and Will Greenwood, it all makes perfect sense. It's just about having good people in there."
You can hear more from Jonny Wilkinson on the Matt Dawson Rugby Show on BBC Radio 5 live from 19:30 GMT on Thursday, 17 November.
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World Cup winner Jonny Wilkinson has backed Owen Farrell to overtake his England points record.
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Some youngsters fail to achieve the grades they need to get into university.
Relatively few places are available to Scots through the clearing system which is designed to allocate "spare" places.
Yet a week or so later, they may feel aggrieved to find places are available to applicants from other parts of the UK.
The clearing system is a complex issue. It is far more subtle than a headline claiming a Scot is losing out to someone from England, Wales or Northern Ireland. It is the price of free tuition at Scottish university - a price the policy's supporters would say was worth paying.
To put this in context though, the number of places at Scottish universities available to Scots is at an historic high. By this week the number of Scottish applicants accepted to Scottish institutions had reached 30,400 - 4% up on this time last year.
However, this may be little consolation to those who have lost out on the course they actually wanted to do.
Essentially there are now three groups of students at Scottish universities.
This two tier system for Scottish and other UK students is the result of free tuition in Scotland.
But universities strongly contend that comparing students in the different categories is like comparing apples with pears.
They deny claims Scots are losing out to fee-paying students from elsewhere and say this shows a misunderstanding of the issue.
Realistically the only way to end the distinction would be if tuition fees were re-introduced in Scotland or if free tuition was brought back in other parts of the UK.
The former would mean Scottish universities would be free to take in as many Scots as they wanted. The latter could end the distinction in the clearing system.
Either would probably mean that there was no hard and fast distinction between Scottish applicants and prospective students from other parts of Britain.
Universities Scotland is calling for discussions with the government over the total number of places available to Scots.
It would like to see the overall number grow to ensure that more people from disadvantaged areas can get a place without making it harder for others. But this is a distinct issue.
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And concerns are growing that it could get much worse over the next two decades.
Road use is expected to grow 25-30% by 2030, according to government figures.
Which begs the question: what should the response be?
There are no simple answers to the question, but one thing is clear, according to business secretary Vince Cable: "The idea that we can build our way out of the problem is no longer credible."
The goal, therefore, will be to increase the capacity of the road network without increasing its physical footprint.
"We'll need to be more intelligent in managing the road network and the vehicles that use it," Mr Cable says.
The idea will be to bring together the motor industry, the telecoms sector, electronics companies and others to create an "intelligent mobility industry", Mr Cable explains.
Its task would be to tackle congestion, enhance road safety, improve air quality and reduce carbon emissions.
Moreover, Mr Cable insists, this "convergence of technology and transport" should create jobs and growth and bolster the UK economy.
Cars that communicate both with their drivers and passengers and with other vehicles will make up a cornerstone of intelligent mobility, according to former Ford executive Richard Parry-Jones, who co-chairs the UK's Automotive Council with Mr Cable.
"Designing cars that intelligently navigate their way through traffic is the kind of challenge that calls on the country's combined auto heritage and budding technological expertise," he says.
"Networked vehicles under digital control are going to become the future of car manufacturing."
Consequently, the UK's transport challenges should not be seen merely in terms of the costs of a necessary transition.
Instead, it should be seen as an opportunity for Britain, Mr Cable insists.
"Intelligent mobility could benefit the economy, allowing businesses to be more competitive, reducing logistics costs, giving more predictable journey times and reducing carbon dioxide emissions," he says.
It could also provide a draw for foreign investors, adds Mr Parry-Jones, who believes it "represents a chance for the UK's auto industry to bring more research and development investment into the country".
In turn, the government and industry figures envisage a future where UK companies will become exporters of techniques and technologies to help similar transport challenges elsewhere in the world.
The eventual outcome, the Automotive Council predicts, could be the emergence of "an industry employing some 20,000 skilled workers and turning over some £5bn within a decade", on top of the economic benefits that would arise from better traffic flows.
Mr Cable is exited about the opportunities.
"What we're seeing," he says, "is the beginning of something that could become very, very important."
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Traffic jams that waste time and money are a curse of modern life.
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The decision ends six years of composting household waste at sites in Farington and Thornton with the loss of about 250 out of 330 jobs.
The Labour-run council said it will no longer process food and green waste but store it for treatment elsewhere.
Tory councillor Michael Green said it was "a failure of catastrophic proportions costing millions".
Mr Green said, who represents Leyland South West, added: "We are being asked to believe it was the 'wrong kind of waste', which is what I have been told for the last six years.
"Surely someone should have done due diligence on the kind of waste it would process."
Lancashire County Council said the sites were no longer economical blaming changes in households attitudes and a drop in the amount of organic material to compost in the last 10 years.
Cabinet member responsible for environmental services, councillor Marcus Johnstone, said: "What we are left with is a high cost, high liability and highly complicated plant."
The two sites were built following a £2bn Private Finance Initiative (PFI) over 25 years with Global Renewables, an Australian-based company.
Composting began in 2010 but annual costs of £12m a year forced the council to scrap the contract in 2014.
On Friday 19 February, the council's executive decided that composting will stop immediately at Thornton with composting ending at Farington on 31 March.
Council leader Jennifer Mein said: "Lancashire is in a much better position than a number of other local authorities which also invested in PFI-funded mechanical and biological treatment facilities because we successfully restructured the financing for the sites in 2014 to make an annual saving on the contract of £12m."
A visitor and education centre at Farington will also close.
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A £2bn waste treatment scheme has been shut down by a county council to save £8.5m per year.
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The New Zealand spinner fell two runs short of a century when he was stumped off Jack Leach, who also finished with career-best figures of 7-106.
After bowling Warwickshire out for 324, Somerset then slumped to 9-3 as Keith Barker picked up three early wickets.
Patel's devastating spell saw the hosts bowled out for 110 at Taunton before Warwickshire closed on 20-0.
The 35-year-old's fine innings, which included eight fours and four sixes, took the visitors past an unlikely 300 after they were 120-7 at one stage on day two.
After resuming on 180-7, the Bears' recovery was aided by Laurie Evans who made 73, sharing an eighth-wicket stand of 166 with Patel.
On a third day pitch which had begun to turn, Patel had Jim Allenby caught at short leg, before Peter Trego and Luke Ronchi were both dismissed lbw. Lewis Gregory then could only pick out deep mid-wicket when he looked to launch the spinner over the boundary rope.
Having edged his way to 26 Tom Cooper was bowled to give Patel his third first-class five-wicket haul of the season.
Jamie Overton and Leach were both caught in the slips as Somerset were bowled out in just 34 overs, leaving Alfonso Thomas, in his final innings for the county, stranded on 13.
Varun Chopra and Ian Westwood saw off the final hour before stumps without trouble to leave the Bears requiring another 205 for victory.
Bears all-rounder Jeetan Patel told BBC WM:
"It didn't bother me falling two short of a century because I don't really worry about stats like that. The partnership with Laurie Evans was more important because it got us back in the game.
"The main thing is that it was a good day for the team. After seeing Jack Leach do so well for Somerset it was good for me to get some turn and take wickets. The ball is coming out well for me at the moment.
"We still have a lot of work to do to win the game because 200 more will take some getting on that pitch. Hopefully we can be proactive from the start tomorrow and finish the season with a win."
Somerset fast bowler Alfonso Thomas:
"It was emotional for me walking out to bat in both innings on my last appearance for the club because I have had eight great years here.
"There have been a lot of highlights. Taking four wickets in four balls in a Championship match was great for me personally, but there have been so many memorable times for the team while I have been here and a lot of great one-day occasions at Taunton.
"I still think we can win this game. The pitch is aiding spin, rather than seam, but hopefully I can chip in and we can support Jack Leach. If that happens, it won't be easy for Warwickshire to get 200 more runs."
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Jeetan Patel took a career-best 7-38 after hitting 98 as Warwickshire fought back against Somerset.
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Stormont has so far not put in place changes to benefits that have been implemented in other parts of the UK.
This has led to fines from the government.
Justin Welby told BBC Radio Ulster that there should be extra help to assist people here out of poverty.
"Should Northern Ireland itself be a special case?" he said.
"Yes it probably should, although not as a basket case or a charity case, but as a recognition of what has gone wrong in the past."
Secretary of State Theresa Villiers said the government continued to recognise Northern Ireland's special circumstances.
"That is why public spending per head is 23% higher here than the UK average," she said.
"When it comes to welfare reform Northern Ireland has much to gain from replacing a failed system that traps far too many people into dependency with a modern system that ensures work always pays."
The Northern Ireland parties had agreed on a welfare reform deal in December but Sinn Féin withdrew its support in March.
Inter-party talks in Northern Ireland began in September in a bid to resolve the current political crisis at Stormont.
The two key issues being discussed are the impasse over welfare reform and paramilitary activity.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has said he believes Northern Ireland should be treated as a special case when it comes to the issue of welfare reform.
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El Hadary, who has just turned 44, came off the bench in Tuesday's 0-0 draw with Mali when El Shenawy hurt himself.
In doing so he beat the age record of 39-year-old compatriot Hossam Hassan.
BBC Sport has learned El Shenawy is out of the finals with a hamstring tear and Ekramy is being treated for a hamstring strain, leaving Egypt with no back-up.
Ekramy suffered his injury during training on 14 January and is undergoing intensive treatment in the hope he can recover to play if required.
Despite the critical situation, BBC Sport has been told the Egyptian Football Association will not seek to call up another goalkeeper to the squad because it believes it is not permitted under the Confederation of African Football's tournament regulations.
Caf's rules state that a replacement player cannot be called up later than 24 hours before a team's opening game of the tournament.
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The oldest Africa Cup of Nations player Essam El Hadary is Egypt's only fit goalkeeper in Gabon after injuries to Ahmed El Shenawy and Sherif Ekramy.
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Cranie, who joined the Terriers in July 2015 following his release by Barnsley, was set to be out of contract at the end of the season.
The 30-year-old has made 50 appearances since signing for Town.
"I am delighted that we have agreed a deal to keep Martin at the club, as he is a very important player in our squad," head coach David Wagner said.
"I have always said that keeping our good players at the club is just as important as bringing new ones in, so I'm very happy."
Meanwhile, Wagner has revealed that on-loan Chelsea forward Kasey Palmer will be out for eight weeks with a hamstring injury.
The 20-year old suffered the injury in the first half of Town's 2-1 win over Leeds on 5 February.
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Huddersfield right-back Martin Cranie has signed a new contract to stay with the Championship club until 2018.
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The Ministry of Defence said the former dictator's complex in Mosul, north Iraq, was a "major" IS HQ and training centre for foreign recruits.
RAF Tornados used guided bombs in what Defence Secretary Michael Fallon called "emphatic" airstrikes on Monday.
Mosul, Iraq's second city, has been under IS control since June 2014.
The UK is part of a US-led international coalition conducting airstrikes on IS targets in Syria and Iraq.
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The Ministry of Defence has released details of a series of operations over the past week - including the bombing of a "safe house" for foreign fighters in Iraq, and IS "terrorist strongpoints" close to Syria's border with Turkey.
Two Tornado jets dropped the largest guided bombs they use, the Enhanced Paveway III, on Saddam's palace, a statement said.
"Extensive surveillance" of the complex, located next to the river Tigris, found the main palace building was being used as accommodation and a meeting venue for foreign IS recruits, while outbuildings were used for training, internal security and "repression", the MoD said.
Seven nations were involved in the attack on the complex on Monday afternoon, with initial indications suggesting the mission was successful, it added.
Details of the latest air strikes against IS, also known as Daesh, were given as the defence secretary visited the crews involved, who are based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.
Mr Fallon said: "Daesh has been losing followers and territory for months, and emphatic strikes like this show that we and the coalition will not waver.
"Daesh fighters, both foreign and home-grown, can see that they are targets inside this cult."
UK MPs approved UK air strikes in Iraq against IS in September 2014.
Mr Fallon said at the time that the parliamentary vote followed a request for help from the UN by the Iraqi government.
In December 2015, the UK also launched air strikes targeting IS in Syria after MPs voted for action.
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A palace built by Saddam Hussein which was being used as a training centre for so-called Islamic State (IS) has been bombed by UK and coalition forces.
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Wydad were 1-0 winners over 10-man Zanaco of Zambia to move top of the group, with record eight-time champions Al Ahly beating Cameroon's Coton Sport 3-1.
That put Ahly level on points with Zanaco, and with identical head-to-heads, Ahly went through, above the Zambians, on goal difference.
Zanaco knew a point in Casablanca would have been enough to put them into the last eight, but they were thwarted by a 68th-minute goal from Wydad's Achraf Bencharki in front of the 80,000-capacity stadium.
Bencharki's goal came nine minutes after Zanaco defender Taonga Bwenbya was sent off having been yellow-carded a second time.
It was the first Champions League loss suffered by Zanaco this season and only the third goal they had conceded after four wins and five draws in qualifying and group matches.
Al Ahly, who began their match against Coton Sport knowing only a win would take them through to the knockout stage for the first time since 2013, suffered an early setback.
They fell behind at the Borg El Arab Stadium in Alexandria after 12 minutes when veteran defender Ahmed Fathy conceded an own-goal.
Amr Gamal came to Ahly's rescue with an equaliser and he also scored the third Ahly goal after Abdallah El Said had given the Cairo club a 2-1 half-time lead.
It means four North African clubs have now reach the Champions League quarter-finals, with Esperance and Etoile Sahel of Tunisia already through.
There will also be at least two quarter-finalists from southern Africa - defending champions Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa and Ferroviario Beira of Mozambique who went through after Al Hilal and Al Merreikh were disqualified following Sudan's global Fifa ban.
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Al Ahly of Egypt and Wydad Casablanca of Morocco secured their place in the African Champions League quarter-finals on Saturday as North African clubs prevailed in the final Group D matches.
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China's economy is slowing, but the government says this is all part of the plan as it moves from exports to domestic consumption. But is it doing enough to help people spend?
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Asia Business Correspondent Karishma Vaswani is in Dalian, China, where the World Economic Forum is taking place later this week.
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The Resolution Foundation analysis shows the impact of the national living wage will vary considerably across Scotland.
A national living wage of £7.20 an hour for workers aged 25 and over will be introduced in April.
The UK government said millions of people will enjoy a pay rise.
The study said 500,000 employees in Scotland will be affected overall.
While one-third of employees in Clackmannanshire and Dumfries and Galloway will be affected, just 16% of employees working in Aberdeen are set to benefit.
Edinburgh (17%), Dundee (18%) and Glasgow (19%) are also significantly lower.
While strongly welcoming the new wage floor, the Foundation notes that implementing it will prove a greater challenge in lower-paying areas.
It calls on the Scottish government, the Fair Work Convention, local leaders and businesses across the country to work together to minimise any job losses and ensure large groups of workers do not get stuck earning only the legal minimum.
The Foundation also calls on employers to focus on boosting productivity in retail, hospitality, cleaning and care to ensure the national living wage is affordable for them.
The group states the UK government's new pay structure is not actually a "living wage", and calls for an expansion to the voluntary living wage of £8.25 across the country.
Conor D'Arcy, policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said: "The welcome new national living wage will have a huge impact on low pay, particularly towards 2020 as it approaches £9 an hour.
"While our analysis suggests the pay rise should be affordable for most firms, implementing the new wage floor will be challenging for some employers. That's particularly true in areas where wages tend to be lower.
"Politicians must work closely with employers to ensure that the national living wage is a success, particularly in low-paying sectors."
A UK government spokesperson said: "The government is making sure Britain gets a pay rise and that businesses have the skills they need to succeed. We are already seeing record employment rates and real wages growing to levels not seen since the recession.
"As the report itself highlights, workers in some cities will see even bigger benefits, reinforcing our drive to rebalance the economy through the northern powerhouse and the devolution of powers to local government and cities."
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About one-third of workers in Clackmannanshire and Dumfries and Galloway will benefit from the national living wage, according to research.
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The 32-year-old became Wales' first medallist at London 2012 when he won silver in the lightweight men's four after they missed out on gold to South Africa by less than a second.
Bartley, from Wrexham, was part of the men's four at Rio, but the team missed out on the medals, finishing seventh.
In 2010, Bartley won gold with the men's lightweight four at the World Rowing Championships in New Zealand.
"I've had quite a long career. I've been involved in the sport internationally for more than 10 years," he told BBC Radio Wales.
"I've got more than I ever thought that I would out of the sport and I thought it was the right time for me to call it a day."
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Olympic silver medallist rower Chris Bartley has announced his retirement.
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The Shanghai Composite fell a further 1.7% to 3,663.00, having sunk 8.5% on Monday - its biggest drop in eight years.
China has tried to calm investors by reassuring it will implement prudent monetary policy to stabilise markets.
The country's central bank said it would inject 50bn yuan (£5.2bn; $8.05bn) into the money markets.
The People's Bank of China also insisted that the country's main economic indicators were steadily improving.
Monday's dramatic drop had been triggered by weak economic data on profits at Chinese industrial firms, and a disappointing survey of the manufacturing sector on Friday.
The regulating authority, the China Securities Finance Corporation (CSFC), said there would be a crackdown on short selling.
It warned that, "any malicious trading will be investigated and severely punished".
In the wake of stocks tumbling more than 30% in June, the authority's rescue plan already included a crackdown on short-selling - betting on the decline of shares' values.
But analysts were hesitant to take much confidence from those measures.
Evan Lucas, market strategist with trading firm IG, said in a note that "clearly the Chinese markets are unable to support themselves".
"The mountain of leverage and the risks of margin calls are hitting market stability."
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index went against the trend set on the mainland, rising 0.6% to 24,503.94.
Elsewhere in Asia, stocks traded mixed, managing to withstand the downward pull from China.
Asia's largest stock market, Japan's Nikkei 225 finished unchanged at 20,328.89 points, recovering from losses seen earlier in the day.
Shares in camera maker Canon rose 0.5%. The increase came as a surprise after the firm cut its earnings outlook and reported a 16% fall in quarterly profit on Monday.
Sales have been hit by consumers increasingly using their smartphones rather than compact cameras.
In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi also ended flat at 2,039.08.
Relief for stocks came from Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-Ahn declaring the end of the deadly outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers).
Thirty six people died out of the 186 infected by the virus, following the first diagnosis on 20 May.
The outbreak had been a major strain on the country's economy, affecting domestic consumption and tourism. The quarantine of the last suspected patient was lifted on Monday.
Australia's ASX 200 share index closed down 0.2% at 5,580.50.
China is Australia's main market and the dramatic volatility in Chinese stocks as well as the slowing growth indicators are expected to affect investors' confidence.
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Shares in mainland China continued their slide on Tuesday, following a massive sell-off the previous day.
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Wash Mussels Ltd will create five "limited" test areas on the bed of the River Stour where 500 tonnes of mussels would be laid each year.
The RSPB is concerned about the impact of dredgers and farming on rare birds.
A public consultation runs until October.
In 2014, the company applied for a licence for a five-year trial, but objections were raised about a lack of studies on the effects on wildlife.
The RSPB is worried about an adverse effect on the tens of thousands of birds, particularly goldeneye and red breasted merganser, which use the estuary, which has European Special Protection Area status.
Mark Nowers, RSPB conservation officer, said: "Any development needs to show these important species are not affected."
Peter Scott, solicitor for Wash Mussels, said: "There will be limited operations and no equipment in situ, because there will be no ropes or nets.
"Noise from dredgers is pretty insignificant in terms of bird disturbance.
"If the trial is successful, there will be significant employment in dredging and preparing the product for market."
Mr Scott said it would not put buoys on the river or sink pots to catch crabs which feed on mussels.
The Essex and Suffolk Wildlife Trusts said they would be reviewing the company's data as part of the public consultation which runs until 7 October.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said it would consider the results of the consultation before deciding whether a licence should be granted.
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Large scale mussel farming could deter rare birds feeding on a "tranquil" river estuary with protected status, wildlife groups have warned.
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At the age of 32, Eames is the youngest full-time boss in the top four divisions of English football.
"We support his playing style and our team responds positively to his philosophy," chairman Tony Kleanthous told the club's official website.
Meanwhile, defender Bira Dembele, 29, and midfielder Tom Champion, 31, have left the League Two club.
Dembele played 57 times having joined Barnet in 2015, while Champion scored once in 32 appearances last season.
Eames took joint charge of the Bees in December when Martin Allen left to join Eastleigh, winning four of his 11 games alongside Henry Newman.
He then won two of the final four games of the season after Kevin Nugent was sacked as head coach in April.
Eames was previously a coach with the club's development and academy sides before working as Nugent's assistant.
"For us this was the bold choice and the right time to finally allow Rossi to take sole control of our football destiny," said Kleanthous.
Barnet finished 15th in League Two this season, 11 points above the relegation zone.
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Barnet have appointed former interim manager and assistant first team coach Rossi Eames as their new head coach.
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The bid, to be filmed for a TV show, involves laying 74 miles (119km) of track from Fort William to Inverness.
Love Productions, the programme makers, hope the "slightly bonkers" undertaking will be as popular as its Great British Bake Off.
Engineers and construction workers have also been sought for the project.
Construction is planned for two weeks over the summer and is to be filmed for Channel 4.
The working title for the show is The Biggest Little Railway in the World.
Producer of the project, Charlotte Armstrong, told BBC Radio Scotland's Out of Doors programme the new show would celebrate British enthusiasm for model railways.
She said: "It's massively ambitious. We want to bring together Britain's model railway enthusiasts and all the different skills they have, but also local volunteers, engineers and people with construction experience."
The programme would also celebrate a Victorian era idea to build a full-scale, working railway through the Great Glen.
The full interview with Ms Armstrong is to feature in Saturday's Out of Doors, which is broadcast on Radio Scotland from 06:30.
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Model railway enthusiasts and volunteers are being sought for an ambitious plan to lay a model railway track along Scotland's Great Glen.
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The Bridge of Carr at Carrbridge in the Cairngorms is also known as the coffin bridge due to its use by funeral parties to cross the Dulnain river.
The local community is to hold a programme of events from 19-21 May.
An exhibition of historic artefacts, a family ceilidh and live entertainment are planned.
The arching stone bridge was built between May and November 1717.
Among the reasons for its construction was the Dulnain had frequently been in spate in previous years.
In the 1690s, deaths in the area rose because of famine. Mourners were prevented from reaching funerals at the Church of Duthil when the river was swollen.
The bridge was built by John Niccelsone, a mason from Ballindaloch in Moray, at the behest of local landowner Brigadier-General Alexander Grant of Grant.
Its parapets and side walls were badly damaged in the 18th Century and again in a flood in 1829.
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Events are to be held to mark the 300th anniversary of the construction of what is thought to be the oldest bridge in the Highlands.
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The Argentina and Barcelona forward was punished for directing "insulting words" at an assistant referee in Thursday's 1-0 win over Chile.
Messi, who scored the only goal in the qualifier, was angered when he was flagged for a foul, waving and shouting at the assistant in response.
The 29-year-old was also fined £8,100.
He will miss his country's next four competitive fixtures.
Argentina are third in South American qualifying, with the top four teams advancing to next summer's finals in Russia. There are five matches still to play.
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Lionel Messi has been banned for four international matches - just five and a half hours before Argentina's World Cup qualifier against Bolivia kicks off.
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Riaz described England's middle order as "fragile" before the first Test at Lord's starting on Thursday.
"It's the same before every series - you generally get a bit of trash talk," said Root, who will bat at three.
"It's getting a bit like boxing now. We will have to wait and see how things develop and see if the plans work."
Boxing is notorious for fighters' pre-match verbal contests aimed at intimidating opponents.
James Vince, who has played only three Tests, and the recalled Gary Ballance will bat at four and five for England when the four-Test series gets under way.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan said Vince should have been promoted to three to enable Root to stay at four.
England vice-captain Root, 25, averages 50.36 in 21 innings at number four and only 28.71 in eight innings at three.
Root, 25, said it is "a great opportunity to bat a bit longer" and that captain Alastair Cook, coach Trevor Bayliss and the selectors gave him time "to get my head around it".
He added: "It's about taking that opportunity for responsibility as a senior member of the side, to lay some good foundations for us to make some big scores."
Nick Compton batted at three for England in the 2-0 series win over Sri Lanka, but announced he was taking a break from cricket after scoring only 51 runs in five innings.
Vince managed 54 runs batting at five against Sri Lanka, his debut Test series.
Ballance has not played for England since being dropped last July, but made 132 for Yorkshire against Middlesex this month in his most recent first-class game.
Root said Vince and Ballance had a "great opportunity" to prove Riaz wrong, adding: "Gary's in fine form - he's just got a hundred for Yorkshire.
"Vincey's a brilliant player. He made his first innings for England in the one-day series against Sri Lanka - he made a brilliant fifty. So they'll take confidence."
Pakistan pace bowler Mohammad Amir will play his first Test since serving a five-year ban and three-month prison sentence for spot-fixing at Lord's in 2010.
England captain Alastair Cook has warned the 24-year-old, who took four wickets in Pakistan's opening tour game against Somerset, to expect a "reaction" from the crowd this week.
But Riaz said: "Mentally he's very strong, and he's very eager to perform.
"The place where it all began, he will perform at that place and make sure his name is reborn."
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England batsman Joe Root said cricket is becoming like boxing as he dismissed Pakistan bowler Wahab Riaz's "trash talk".
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Pinewood Group's two biggest shareholders have tentatively agreed to sell the famous film and television studios to a property investor.
The deal depends on Aermont, which runs property investment funds, securing financing in the next four weeks.
Pinewood's 007 stage is one of the world's largest and was used to film parts of Spectre and Skyfall.
Some of Star Wars: The Force Awakens was also filmed at Pinewood in Buckinghamshire. However, Harrison Ford, the actor who plays Han Solo, was injured when the door of the Millennium Falcon closed on him and broke his leg.
Goodweather Investment Management, which is owned by property investors Peel Holdings, and Warren James Holdings, owner of the eponymous jewellery chain, together control 65% of Pinewood Group and have agreed to the cash sale providing the buyer secures financing.
The prospective new owner intends to keep the existing management in place, led by chief executive Ivan Dunleavy. The company has film and TV studios all over the world including in the US, Canada, Malaysia and the Dominican Republic.
Earlier this year, Pinewood Group retained investment bank Rothschild to examine its strategic options. In the past, it had been constrained from raising additional funding for investment via the stock exchange.
Shares in Pinewood were down 4.8% at 552.1p in afternoon trading.
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English is one of the advantages India has which are said to be propelling it to economic superpower status.
There are all those Indians who speak excellent English. It's the mother tongue of the elite and effectively the official language of the central government. Then there is the growing number of parents who now aspire to give their children an education through the medium of that language. But is the craze for English an unmixed blessing?
Back in the sixties the British regarded Indian English as something of a joke. The comic actor Peter Sellers had mocked it so comprehensively that I found it well nigh impossible to get the BBC to allow anyone with even the faintest Indian accent on the air.
In India, we native English speakers laughed at quaint phrases like "please do the necessary and oblige", or more simply "please do the needful", and "it is suggested that the meeting be preponed", which appeared regularly in Indian official correspondence.
A senior British diplomat once suggested that his PA should find some less geographically specific way of answering the telephone when he couldn't take the call than saying, "Sahib is not on his seat". Much to the diplomat's dismay a colleague told him that his PA had misunderstood the instruction and been even more specific. He'd told the colleague, "Sahib is in the lavatory."
Now with Indian writers carrying off the major literary awards, and Westerners in the IT and BPO industries talking of being "bangalored" when they are replaced by English-speaking Indians, Indian English is anything but a joke.
But could the very success of English in India "bangalore" India's own languages?
The linguist Professor David Crystal speaking in Delhi said: "A language is dying every two weeks somewhere in the world today. Half the world's languages will no longer be spoken in another century. This is an extremely serious concern, and English has to share the blame." Others put it less politely, describing English as a killer language.
But should India worry if English kills off some of its 22 officially recognised and hundreds of its not-so-official languages?
Perhaps the answer is no.
In his book comparing the future of India, China, and Japan, the former editor of The Economist, Bill Emmott, said India fell short of China in almost every measure except the ability to speak English.
So why shouldn't India build on its one advantage? One practical reason is because, looking back over the history of India since it became independent in 1947, it is clear that any threat to Indian languages has the potential to provoke a violent backlash.
Mark Tully is a writer and former BBC India correspondent. This is an edited extract from his new book, Non Stop India, published by Penguin Books, India
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Whether the government, the private sector or NGOs should deliver development is a question which will not have much relevance unless India's wealth continues to grow to pay for that development.
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The comment by the public services minister led Plaid Cymru to vote against the Public Health Bill, which included a partial ban on e-cigarettes.
One Plaid AM has called Mr Andrews' attitude "wholly offensive".
But Carwyn Jones said it was a joke and that Plaid had not acted maturely and "people say things in the chamber".
Meanwhile, doctors and nursing unions have called on political parties "not to play games with the health of the nation".
Mr Jones told S4C's Newyddion 9: "People say things and if they had their time again they would say things differently. But to react in this way... that is not a mature response."
"If Leighton had his time again I know he would say something different.
He said Mr Andrews had "offered to apologise, but no".
"Plaid Cymru said they would vote against this no matter what happens with any sort of apology," he said.
As well as a ban on e-cigarette use in some public places, the bill aimed to create a compulsory licensing system for tattooists, ban intimate piercing of children under 16 and require councils to produce a local toilets strategy.
Plaid originally planned a free vote and some of its AMs were expected to support the bill on Wednesday evening, although a greater number were in opposition.
But the party's last minute decision to vote against it as a group meant the assembly was tied 26-26 and the legislation failed.
But Dafydd Elis-Thomas told BBC News he was not informed about Plaid's decision. He had made arrangements to cancel his assembly vote.
"I did not imagine that by not being present I would have helped to lose a piece of important Welsh legislation," Lord Elis-Thomas said.
"I've experienced many low points in this fourth assembly in my relationship with the party, but this is the lowest."
He said he and party leader Leanne Wood, who was against the ban, agreed to not attend the vote - known as pairing - meaning their absences would cancel each other out from the tally.
A Plaid Cymru spokeswoman said: "Dafydd Elis-Thomas had asked to be paired so that he could be in the House of Lords.
"Therefore he wasn't in the group meeting [Wednesday] afternoon when the unanimous decision was taken."
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Leighton Andrews would not repeat a jibe about a "cheap date" if he had another opportunity, the first minister has said.
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One pilot died and another jumped clear as the helicopter crashed during an aerobatic display by the elite Berkut squadron in the Ryazan region, about 170km (105 miles) south-east of Moscow.
The Russian military has blamed the crash on a hydraulics failure.
There have been six other Russian air force crashes in recent weeks.
The two-seat gunship was performing stunts and firing flares with three other helicopters. It then began to spin rapidly, before falling to the ground and bursting into flames.
Its pilot Lt Col Igor Butenko was killed. His son told Russian media that the accident was not due to pilot error.
"There are situations when it's impossible to survive no matter how well-trained the pilot is," he told Lifenews.
The Russian defence ministry says the condition of the other pilot's condition is "satisfactory".
There were no injuries to spectators at the air show.
An investigation has been launched into the cause of the crash, although the surviving pilot has said that a hydraulic failure was the cause. The country's fleet of Mi-28s will remain grounded until the investigation is completed.
The Mi-28 is an attack helicopter widely used in Russia, as well as countries such as Iraq and Kenya.
At least five people have been killed in recent military aviation crashes.
In the past few years, the air force has received hundreds of new helicopter and planes as part of a programme to modernise and reequip Russia's military.
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The deal means viewers will be able to watch every Olympic sport live for the duration of the summer games through their TV sets.
Previously, the BBC had only planned to broadcast the streams online.
It will be the first time viewers have been given the opportunity to follow one particular sport throughout the day.
The services will be in addition to coverage on BBC One and BBC Three, which will air all of the key moments from the Olympics, as well as other platforms including Radio 5 live.
Together, this coverage will deliver around 2,500 hours of live sport coverage through the various BBC platforms during the Games.
"These are the first truly digital Olympics, where we'll offer more choice than ever before,"said Roger Mosey, the BBC's director of London 2012, on his blog.
The BBC's home of 2012: Latest Olympic news, sport, culture, torch relay, video and audio
"You'll be able to watch sport from every venue from first thing in the morning to last thing at night... Hockey fans can watch live uninterrupted hockey, and table tennis fans can stick all day with their sport too."
Mr Mosey said the BBC had agreed with Sky and Freesat to show the live streams across 24 channels, with more announcements from other providers expected soon.
"The aim is that you'd be able to pick from watching BBC Olympics 1 right through to BBC Olympics 24 with full programme guides and the ability to record your favourite sports," he said.
However Mr Mosey added: "Not every platform will be able to accommodate such a huge technical offer, which amounts to 48 channels in total if you count 24 SD (Standard Definition) plus 24 HD."
Freeview users will have access to two additional channels available through the BBC Red Button, providing up to four channels at peak times.
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On Tuesday the captain of a UK-registered vessel was fined £10,000 for unlawfully fishing in Manx waters.
It follows the prosecution at Douglas courthouse last week of a Scottish fisherman who was fined £15,000 for breaching Manx regulations.
Richard Ronan MHK said the "significant fines send out a clear message".
The Deputy High Bailiff ordered both skippers to forfeit their catch of King Scallops worth nearly £5,500 each (about 90 bags).
Both vessels were routinely boarded by officers from the Manx government's fisheries protection vessel Barrule before being escorted back to the island and detained.
Mr Ronan, the Minister for Environment, Food and Agriculture, said: "The Isle of Man is committed to the protection and development of stocks of shellfish within its territorial sea and is vigilant over illegal fishing activity.
"These significant fines must act as a strong deterrent."
He added that the Isle of Man "welcomes responsible skippers" with registered vessels to sustainably fish in the Isle of Man's territorial sea with the appropriate licence.
Manx territorial waters extend out to 12 miles around the island's coastline and contain a number of restricted zones.
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In a report going to board members next week, finance director Nick Kenton said the forecast gives "significant cause for concern".
However, he said there was time to breakeven by the end of financial year.
Raigmore Hospital in Inverness accounts for £10.5m of the potential projected overspend.
Mr Kenton said "significant effort" was needed to achieve "financial break even" and avoid the potential £15.6m overspend by the end of March next year.
Waiting list initiatives, nursing reviews and the use of medical locums have been identified as causes behind the overspend at Raigmore, the largest hospital in the Highlands.
Board members are due to discuss the matter on Tuesday.
In a statement, the health board said: "The £15.6m overspend is a potential projected figure based on the first three months of the financial year and while the board appreciates that it will take a significant effort to achieve financial breakeven, NHS Highland remains confident that there is sufficient time remaining in the financial year to allow the breakeven target to be met."
At the end of the last financial year in April the health board had to ask the Scottish government for a £2m loan to balance its books.
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Morebrook Textiles hopes to demolish a number of buildings at the March Street Mill in Peebles to make way for a residential development.
Public exhibitions of the proposals took place last year.
The company has now submitted more detailed plans of the buildings it hopes to demolish and retain across the site.
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Planning permission in principle is being sought to redevelop the site of a former Borders textile mill.
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Mitzi Steady, four, Robert Parker, 59, Philip Allen, 52, and Stephen Vaughan, 34, died in the crash in February 2015.
Bristol Crown Court was told the truck was too big to legally travel down Lansdown Lane in Bath.
Driver Phillip Potter, 20, of Dauntsey, denies causing the deaths by dangerous and careless driving.
His boss Matthew Gordon, 30, of Dauntsey, who was driving another truck in front of Mr Potter, also denies 14 offences while the truck company's mechanic Peter Wood, 55, of Brinkworth, denies four charges.
Prosecutor, Adam Vaitilingam QC told the court Lansdown Lane, which has a 6ft (1.8m) width restriction for HGVs, was known locally as a "rat run".
He said: "These two lorries were both a lot wider that 6ft - they were about 8.5ft (2.6m) wide - and they were not using Lansdown Lane for access - they were using it as a short cut.
"They were ignoring the prohibitions. These lorries were not allowed to be and should never have been on Lansdown Lane."
The jury heard tachograph records show the drivers had not taken mandatory breaks in the hours before the collision and both lorries were speeding as they approached Lansdown Lane.
Mr Vaitilingam said the ABS warning light, which indicates problems with the braking system, was on in Mr Potter's lorry meaning it should not have been driven.
Mr Potter and Mr Gordon were driving two trucks carrying 32-tonne loads from a Wiltshire quarry on 9 February last year when the crash happened.
The court previously heard the brakes of Mr Potter's truck failed and the vehicle hit several pedestrians including Mitzi and a car containing Mr Allen and Mr Vaughan, both from Swansea, and Mr Parker, from Cwmbran, south Wales.
Mr Potter is also charged with causing serious injuries to Karla Brennan and Margaret Rogers - Mitzi's grandmother - by dangerous driving.
He denies a total of 10 charges against him.
The trial continues.
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Five workers from Scottish Water dug a two metre (6ft) hole and spent 12 hours retrieving the rubbish dumped down a manhole at Milnafua near Alness.
Scottish Water said it believed someone had used the pipe as a fly tip.
Other items pulled out included a yellow cricket bat, a sandcastle mould and a paint pot.
Garry Kirkwood, Scottish Water's customer manager for sewer response, said: "It looks like someone has looked to use this manhole as some kind of tip.
"Some may see comedy about this incident but there is an underlying serious matter - sewers are not a dumping ground for household refuse or unwanted items.
"Blocked sewers cause serious problems to the network such as floods that affects homes, businesses and roads as well as the cost of having to get crews out to clear the blockages."
He added: "To have a crew of five to be tied up for 12 hours on this urgent clear-up job also means that other repair incidents had to be delayed."
It is not the first time Scottish Water workers have had to recover large objects from blocked sewers.
DuringI 2014, the company said its staff had pulled a large Winnie the Pooh teddy, a bike, a fax machine, jeans and a snake from Scottish sewers.
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A plastic rocking horse, a dining chair, a child's scooter and a football were found to be blocking a sewer pipe in the Highlands.
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That's the amount raised in a funding round by Grammarly, a firm that boasts of having what it calls "the world's most accurate online grammar checker".
It has persuaded venture capital firms including General Catalyst, IVP and Spark Capital to support its platform.
The eight-year-old firm, based in San Francisco, offers "mistake-free writing every time" to 6.9 million users.
The start-up was founded in 2009 by Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn.
Its software uses spell-checking, proof-reading and plagiarism detection tools, scanning text for the correct use of more than 250 advanced grammar rules.
But not everyone sees the need for Grammarly. One online reaction posted to the announcement of the firm's venture round was: "I rather learn to write without mistakes than let a program correct it" (perhaps inadvertently proving its usefulness).
On the other hand, Grammarly's efforts provide no guarantee that your prose will be a joy to read.
Its own website contains the sentence: "Enhance your sentences with Grammarly's context-optimized word choice suggestions to instantly improve the readability of your document."
Clearly split infinitives are safe from the software's forensic gaze.
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There's money to be made from other people's mistakes: $110m (£85m) of it, to be precise.
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Richie, the elder at 27 and taller at 6ft 9in, with 63 caps and a 2013 Lions Test on his CV, has been a mainstay for Scotland since his debut in 2010.
But the recent progress of 6ft 6in Jonny, 23 next week, has seen him earn most plaudits as a potential 2017 Lion.
"Jonny has gone from strength to strength," Richie Gray acknowledged.
"What I said a couple of years ago was about the need to do it consistently, but he's been able to do it week in week out and that's the most impressive thing.
"I've seen him come on as a leader. He's grown and matured and makes me very proud.
"How has his emergence as a leader changed our relationship? Not too much. We still have our discussions about things and what we can get better at.
"We're not really competitive. I think he wins most weeks anyway. It's not much of a competition.
"With brothers I suppose you always want to win the battle but we're not too much like that. We try and help each other out as much as possible.
"I see him more as an inspiration. It's great to see and certainly keeps me going. It gives me a standard I have to aim for. I'm just trying to keep up."
Jonny Gray, a vice-captain to stand-in skipper John Barclay, is the leading tackler in this year's Six Nations, with 52 from 54 attempts. He is also in the top 10 for carries, with 36 in the three rounds to date.
Richie, meanwhile, has made more tackles than anyone else without missing one (41) so far.
They are both likely to make plenty more on Saturday if Scotland are to achieve a first win at Twickenham for 34 years and secure a first Triple Crown since 1990.
But even if victory eludes them, the elder Gray believes a bright future lies ahead for the class of 2017.
"It's a great position to be in," said the Toulouse lock. "Obviously it's a huge challenge going down there and a match with a huge amount of importance. We're looking forward to it.
"We've constantly been progressing with the group of players and the staff. We have been getting better and better.
"Glasgow and Edinburgh have both been doing well in Europe and, with us having three home games this year, hopefully that all adds together to form a good championship.
"But there certainly is a lot more to come. It's a young group and we have got more things to show."
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Scotland lock Richie Gray says younger brother Jonny is an "inspiration" rather than a sibling rival in their burgeoning second-row partnership.
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The Swede said valuable personal items and all of his clothing were taken, but added that the Claret Jug, awarded to the winner of The Open, had already been returned to the R&A on Monday.
"I am extremely grateful my family were not in the house," said Stenson, 41.
"I am going to try not to let this spoil the week in any way."
Merseyside Police are investigating a burglary in Formby, less than seven miles from Royal Birkdale.
Police believe the incident occurred between midday and 14:25 BST and cash, cards, electrical items, clothes and watches were stolen.
An R&A spokesperson said: "We were very sorry to hear about the burglary and have offered any assistance we can provide to Henrik and his family."
Stenson teed off at 09:47 BST on Thursday and finished on one under par.
He was a late starter as Friday's second round got under way.
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Defending Open champion Henrik Stenson's rental home was burgled as he played his first round at Royal Birkdale on Thursday.
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Gustavo Silva Da Cruz was among three swimmers seen struggling in the water around noon on Sunday at Camber Sands.
He was discovered on the beach at 18:20 BST and declared dead at the scene. Police said he had been visiting family in Croydon, south London.
The others - a man and his teenage son - are critical but stable in hospital.
The pair, who are aged 35 and 17 and from London, were not connected to Mr Silva Da Cruz.
They were given CPR by paramedics and airlifted to hospital.
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A Go Fund Me website appeal has been set up to raise funds to return Mr Silva Da Cruz's body to Brazil.
It says he was in the UK to visit his father and family, who are originally from Brazil.
He was raised in Brazil by his grandparents and mother.
The website said: "The family was enjoying the hot weather in the company of friends at Camber Sands beach where Gustavo drowned.
"The young man was dragged by the strong wind which started suddenly and could not swim back to the beach."
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition calling for lifeguards to be located at Camber Sands.
Rother District Council said it was saddened by the incident and its thoughts were with the families and friends of those affected.
It said the beach was "particularly busy with around 25,000 visitors" on Sunday.
"As is usual for the summer season, beach patrols were on site to advise people of potential dangers, reunite lost children and deal with incidents on the beach.
"The district council's coastal officer and officers from Sussex Police were also on the beach."
A spokesman said: "Our officers are trained to deal with incidents on the shore and acted quickly and professionally in what was an extremely distressing situation; performing CPR on two of the men and alerting HM Coastguard and the RNLI who carried out the search for the missing man."
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A man who died after two others were pulled from the sea off East Sussex has been identified as a 19-year-old Brazilian national.
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Zion Harvey described waking up with new hands as "weird at first, but then good.'"
He lost his limbs due to a severe infection when he was two-years-old.
Zion had told his doctors and his mother that more than anything he wanted to be able to play on the jungle gym and throw a ball.
Four teams of surgeons worked over 11 hours to complete the complicated operation.
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An eight-year-old boy in America has become the youngest person to get a double hand transplant.
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Gadlys Rovers' players found the goalposts facing away from pitch just hours before kick-off at Abernant in Rhondda Cynon Taff.
It would have been impossible to score a goal as the stanchions that holds the net were pointing into the pitch.
The amateur team play in the Aberdare Valley Football League.
"I was amazed when I went to check the pitch," said team manager Matthew Jones.
"To the right hand side I could see there was something wrong with the goals. They were the wrong way round.
"I thought to myself: 'What the hell is going on?'"
The 24-year-old boss was live streaming his pitch inspection in Abernant to his players when he made the discovery.
Mr Jones complained to Rhondda Cynon Taf council and he said they maintained council workers had installed the goalposts correctly.
"There's no way we could've played if it hadn't been sorted out," he added.
"When I came back around 5.15pm they had been turned around the right way."
A council spokesman said it had investigated the incident but later declined to comment further.
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A football team has found a novel way of keeping a clean sheet - as the goalposts on their council-run pitch were installed the wrong way round.
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In an era when an 80-120 hour week was seen as standard for junior doctors, they opted to not work beyond a 40-hour week.
Pay was another major issue at the heart of strike action in 1975. The rate of pay was reduced by about two-thirds after the first 44 hours of the week.
The junior doctors' strike began across England at 08:00 GMT on Tuesday 12 January 2016, with junior doctors only providing emergency care.
Weekend pay and concerns about safeguards to stop hospitals over-working doctors are the issues at stake.
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The last major strike over pay and conditions by junior doctors was over 40 years ago in 1975.
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In 2014, Glenavon House Hotel, in Cookstown, was found to have committed an offence by allowing a teenage disco to be held in its nightclub.
The Court of Appeal upheld the decision that laws restricting the presence of children on premises used to sell and consume alcohol had been breached.
The appeal was brought by the hotel's director, Brian Morris.
The court heard that the hotel had been running a monthly teenage disco in its Sense nightclub since 1994, during which no alcohol was being sold and no children were drinking alcohol.
Complaints were laid in November 2013 alleging that the hotel allowed a person under the age of 18 to be in licensed premises during the permitted hours contrary to the Licensing (NI) Order 1996.
Dismissing the appeal, the judge said that Sense nightclub is used mainly for the sale and consumption of alcohol.
He said that had the legislation, "wanted to exempt alcohol-free events for children on licensed premises used exclusively or mainly during permitted hours, it could have said so.
"Plainly it did not and it is not open to this court to build in such an exemption."
The judge added that the hotel put a considerable effort into ensuring that no alcohol was consumed at the event, but that this does not provide an answer to the current law.
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A judge has dismissed an an appeal by a County Tyrone hotel that it did not breach licensing laws.
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The 22-year-old, who had two years remaining on his previous deal, will now remain at The Valley until the summer of 2018.
Pope had two spells on loan at York during the 2013-14 campaign, keeping 16 clean sheets in 24 appearances.
"I'm delighted that the club thinks I'm part of their long-term plan," Pope told the Charlton website.
He joined the Addicks from non-league side Bury Town in the summer of 2011 and made his debut in May 2013.
It remains Pope's sole senior appearance for Charlton, but he now hopes to establish himself in their starting XI.
"I'll work hard at Charlton and see what happens," he said.
"I think this is the right place to develop and, with the right coaches around me, hopefully I can do that. This is where I want to play my football."
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Charlton Athletic goalkeeper Nick Pope has signed a new long-term contract with the Championship club.
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"All-lane running" has been introduced between junction 10a for Wolverhampton and junction 13 for Stafford.
When trialled on the M25 near London, it "reduced congestion and led to more reliable journeys", said Highways England.
Lay-bys are replaced by emergency refuge areas - but some organisations say there are not enough of them.
The Central Motorway Police Group said the lack of lay-bys was "cause for concern" and there was "minimal scrutiny" of the scheme on the M6.
Edmund King, president of the AA said: "Laybys are every two and half kilometres - that is about one and a half miles.
"If you can't see a lay-by you have to stop in a live lane of traffic and that is so dangerous."
Matt Dallaway from the RAC said all-lane running as a concept was fine but he was concerned safety had not been tested.
MP's on the Commons Transport Committee have launched an inquiry.
Highways England said: "Our motorways are some of the safest in the world and the evidence shows collision and casualty rates on the M25 are down."
"As we gradually roll out these upgrades on other motorways we will continue to work closely with all the emergency services so we can ensure safety is maintained."
All-lane running is currently being installed on the M5 between junctions 4a for Bromsgrove and 6 Worcestershire North.
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A scheme allowing motorists to drive on the hard shoulder of the M6 is "dangerous," motoring groups have said.
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The money will go to International Medical Corps, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and Save the Children.
Facebook is also paying for 100 satellite communication terminals to help improve internet and phone services in west Africa. The disease has killed nearly 5,000 people across Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the Ebola donation button with a video on his own profile page, saying "I want to make sure Facebook does its part to help fight Ebola."
Last month he donated almost $25m (£16m) to the fight against the virus.
And he's been forced to point this out again, with critics accusing him of adding the button purely as a marketing move.
"Facebook is giving everyone the ability to donate, but how much is Facebook donating? ... this seems just marketing to me one more time," said Pepe Pepe Pepe.
Zuckerberg responded in person, writing: "I personally donated $25m and Facebook is spending millions more on providing internet connectivity in the affected regions."
Facebook says it chose charities that work directly on the ground and are able to accept money globally.
Ebola aid donations have so far lagged behind the money given by the public after natural disasters like last year's Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, or the earthquake in Haiti four years ago.
It's well known Facebook is trialling a payment system and it's likely the Ebola button will help the firm measure how its servers handle secure money transfers.
In October hacked screenshots appeared to show a hidden payment option inside the site's Messenger app, which is used by around 200 million people.
All the evidence adds up that Facebook wants to move into the money transactions market.
In June, the company brought in PayPal president and payments expert David Marcus as boss of its messaging service.
It's thought he's looking beyond adverts for how chat apps can begin to make real profit.
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Facebook has added an Ebola button to users' profile pages to help people donate to charities fighting the disease.
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Now Rosetta - Philae's European Space Agency (ESA) mothership - will switch off its electrical support system meaning it will no longer be possible to communicate with Philae.
Rosetta will remain in orbit around the comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko until the 30 September, when controllers at ESA will crash the spacecraft into the surface, using the opportunity to gather close-up photos and data as it falls.
Philae has asked for picture postcards to be shared as a way of marking its shutdown.
Philae's official job on Comet 67P was to acquire as much information about the comet as possible. It would record and transmit pictures. It was a job greatly appreciated by NASA who also tweeted thanks and goodbye.
Philae and its spacecraft called Rosetta developed a relationship on social media with the two exchanging musings about their new location, the view, power sources and crucially, the icy cold conditions. But now Rosetta is letting go.
Messages have come in from around the world including people posted pictures on Germany's Aerospace Centre's Facebook page.
And Melanie Gywer, also in Germany, tweeted this.
And it's ciao from Italy.
From the USA, @Kelpher tweeted this message from Chicago.
In Bolivia Andrea L wants Philae to remember how green Earth is.
From South Wales, UK, Barrie Johnson, shared his goodbye postcard to Philae.
While Amy Carparelli from Kent, UK, tweeted her picture of Philae.
The ESA says that no signal has been received from Philae since July 2015 and so the decision has been taken to switch off to save energy until the end of the mission.
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Almost two years ago a robot called Philae became a household name after it succeeded in making a difficult - and bouncy - landing on a moving comet.
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Fish oil has been marketed to women as a prenatal supplement.
But a 10-year study of more than 2,500 pregnant women found it did not improve babies' intelligence, according to the Australian research.
The findings suggested that fish oil might lead to slightly longer pregnancies, but that would require further research, the team said.
"If a pregnant woman has a healthy, balanced diet, then the baby's brain development is not going to benefit from having these fish oil supplements," study co-author Dr Jacqueline Gould told the BBC.
The research, by the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, followed women from their pregnancy to when their children were seven years old.
Participants were given either a daily fish oil supplement or a placebo.
The results found taking a 800mg dose of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 acid, had no impact on babies' intelligence.
Dr Gould said supplement makers had specifically marketed fish oil as a way to boost development in infants.
She said the research, detailed in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed fish oil might be linked with longer pregnancies.
"What that meant was, there were slightly fewer children born pre-term," Dr Gould said.
"We're currently trying to validate that in a much bigger study."
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Having resumed on 55-1, the hosts lost Gary Ballance (45) and Andrew Lyth (39) early on, before Andrew Gale (67) and Jonny Bairstow steadied the innings.
Bairstow was trapped lbw by Chris Jordan after the break, while Chris Liddle removed Jack Leaning cheaply.
But Gale and Bresnan (50 not out) helped their side reach 298-9 at stumps, a lead of 301.
Sussex would need at least a draw to secure their Division One status for next season if rivals Hampshire can complete victory at Nottinghamshire on Friday.
The visitors started the third day strongly with the ball as Ballance and Lyth both played onto their stumps in the morning session.
Gale's patient innings put Yorkshire back on the front foot, and also saw the 31-year-old surpass 1,000 runs in the County Championship this season.
However the captain's 131-ball knock was finally ended when he was caught by Jordan off the bowling of Liddle, but Bresnan's half-century left Sussex in danger of playing Division Two cricket for the first time since 2010 next season.
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Mr Nesbitt announced he is to quit as soon as a new leader is appointed, after the party's disappointing performance in March's election.
The UUP is now the fourth biggest party in the Assembly, having been overtaken by the SDLP for the first time.
Mr Swann made the announcement on social media on Friday.
He said he had "submitted papers" to seek election as leader of the UUP, after "receiving support from across the party, including members of our Westminster, assembly and local government teams".
The UUP is due to elect Mr Nesbitt's successor at its annual general meeting on 8 April.
There had been some speculation that UUP MLA Steve Aiken would throw his hat in the ring for the leadership, but he told BBC's Evening Extra he was supporting Mr Swann's bid.
"I think that it's excellent news and Robin will be an excellent leader. I signed his papers and I am fully supportive of him," he said.
"He is one of the few people who has the breadth and depth of experience. He is the chief whip, understands the system in the Assembly and has the vast majority of support from the party."
When asked why he had not put his own name forward, Mr Aiken said Mr Swann was the best candidate for the job.
Earlier in March Mr Swann told the BBC he was "not ruling out" a leadership bid.
He also said his wife Jennifer was a member of the Ulster Unionist Party and will have a vote at the AGM.
"If my name is on the ballot paper, I hope she will be voting for me."
The 45-year-old father of two was first elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2011 and he represents North Antrim.
He chaired the Public Accounts Committee during the last assembly's mandate and is former president of the Young Farmers' Clubs of Ulster.
Mr Swann was one of 10 UUP members who won seats in the last Assembly elections, but he said the new leader did not necessarily have to be an MLA.
"Our party rules actually allow anybody who is in good standing, and a member of the Ulster Unionist Party, to put their name forward, so there is a misconception out there," he said.
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The work will help reduce flooding risk to 238 properties in the city centre caused by such abandoned objects, the Environment Agency said.
It coincides with the Destructor Bridge on the river being removed as part of a new development.
On Monday, shopping trolleys were pulled out of the river by the agency.
Matthew Symonds from the trust said: "Navigation can be tricky along the River Avon and no wonder given the amount of stuff that's down there."
The stretch between Windsor and Victoria bridges is being focused on after the agency carried out a survey of flood defences.
An agency spokesman said: "Large objects such as cars and shopping trolleys can cause serious problems when abandoned in a river.
"They can increase flood risk by disrupting flows and cause a hazard to navigation."
The same contractor that is removing the Destructor Bridge will carry out the £20,000 river clean up, which is being paid for by the agency.
The Canal and River Trust has appealed for people to stop dumping objects into the river due to the navigational hazards and the impact on wildlife.
Work is expected to be completed by the end of the week.
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Marice Hall, Karen McGee and Lesley Leake work at a Kinsley primary school near Wakefield. They said pay had been cut since it became an academy.
After the contract moved from Wakefield Council to private company C&D Cleaning pensions, holiday and sick pay had also been cut, they said.
C&D said it was seeking to resolve the matter as quickly as possible.
About 100 people marched in Barnsley, where C&D is based, from the Town Hall to the town centre.
The three women have been on strike since the beginning of September, with the union Unison taking the employer to an employment tribunal.
Lesley Leake said: "We had just had enough, we were sick of going home and crying to our partners.
"It has been scary, but we have just got to go to the end and see how it turns out."
Marice Hall said: "We love our little job and we just want to carry on with our normal lives and go back to work."
Robin Symonds, regional organiser for Unison, said: "It's probably the worst example that I've ever seen, and I've seen some pretty bad examples of low-paid workers who have had their jobs outsourced being thrown to the wolves by greedy employers".
In a statement, a spokesperson for C&D said: "C&D were not provided with crucial information at the point of transfer of the three employees.
"We will not conduct a public discussion over the issues, as they are and will be dealt with in an appropriate manner.
"C&D is actively seeking, as it has all along, to resolve this matter as quickly as possible."
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A march has taken place backing three striking cleaners who say their wages and employment benefits have been cut.
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During her maiden speech, the Glasgow entrepreneur quoted the words from "Greatest Love Of All".
She said she loved music and cherished the song's line: "I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way."
Baroness Mone of Mayfair was appointed a Tory peer in August last year.
In her 10-minute address on Monday she spoke about her life growing up in "a tenement flat in the east end of Glasgow with no bath or shower and only a cupboard for a bedroom".
The 44-year-old said: "I wondered whether I would fit in here, but I should not have worried.
"I am endlessly grateful for the guidance and support from all the officers and everyone who works in this wonderful house, and for the kindness and warmth of welcome from members on all sides."
Baroness Mone went on to say that her dyslexia had made her first Lords speech "harder than any business I have ever started".
The mother-of-three began her lingerie business 17 years ago.
She boasts of global success and is an established public speaker.
Baroness Mone ended her address by highlighting the inspiration she had found from American singer Whitney Houston who died in 2012.
She told a small gathering of peers: "I love music and I would like to share with you the words of a song by the late, great Whitney Houston, which inspired me when I was growing up.
"I normally sing this at karaoke, but on the advice of our wonderful doorkeepers, I thought I would spare your Lordships' ears: 'I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way'."
The "Greatest Love of All" was originally recorded in 1977 by George Benson and covered by Whitney Houston in 1985.
In response to Baroness Mone's speech, fellow House of Lords member, Lord Fowler, said: "My lords, it is such a pity that the noble baroness did not burst into song, but there we are.
"It is a great pleasure to follow her and to congratulate her on her maiden speech, which was by any standards quite outstanding - I say that quite sincerely."
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New peer Michelle Mone has told the House of Lords that she was inspired as a child by the lyrics of a "late, great Whitney Houston" song.
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Polling stations opened at 07:00 BST and closed at 22:00, with more than 850,000 people eligible to vote.
Counting is due to take place on Friday, with results expected throughout the day, Surrey County Council said.
Twenty one councillors are not standing again - more than 26% of the council.
Across England, Wales and Scotland, voters will have their say on a total of 4,851 council seats.
There are also eight mayoral elections, including elections in six new "combined local authorities".
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Counting has begun as polls for the local elections in Surrey closed, with all 81 seats on the county council up for grabs.
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It meant the unemployment rate fell by 0.2% to its lowest since 1975, at 4.5%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) added.
But wage increases continued to fall further behind inflation.
Excluding bonuses, earnings rose by 2.0% year-on-year. However, inflation had hit an almost four-year high of 2.9% in May.
When the impact of inflation is factored in, real weekly wages fell by 0.5% compared with a year earlier.
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"Despite the strong jobs picture... there has been another real-terms fall in total earnings, with the growth in weekly wages low and inflation still rising," said Matt Hughes, senior statistician at the Office for National Statistics.
Those in work climbed to around 32 million, a rise of 324,000 on last year and the largest total since records began in 1971.
The employment rate rose by 0.3% on the quarter to a record high of 74.9%.
"The general picture is little changed on last month, with the overall employment rate and that for women both at record highs, the inactivity rate at a joint record low and the unemployment rate falling to its lowest since early summer 1975," said Mr Hughes.
The unemployment rate for 16 to 24-year-olds was 12.5%, lower than for a year earlier when it was 13.5%, and well below its highest rate of 22.5% in late 2011.
The sluggish pay data may cause Bank of England officials to think again about the need to raise interest rates, after a narrow 5-3 vote by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) last month to leave rates at 0.25%.
"The continued weakness of wage growth provides some ammunition to the more dovish members of the MPC that now is not the time to raise interest rates," said Paul Hollingsworth, UK economist at Capital Economics.
He added: "Given the emphasis that some members of the Monetary Policy Committee, including Governor Carney, have put on wanting to see a clear "firming" in wage growth before they join others in voting to hike interest rates, we still think it is more likely than not that the MPC will hold off for a while longer, rather than raise interest rates imminently."
Meanwhile, Minister for Employment, Damian Hinds said the employment figures were "another reminder that our strong economy is giving record numbers of people the chance to find and stay in work".
But TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "Ministers must set out a plan to get real wages rising across the public and the private sectors."
After trading lower against the dollar, the pound gained ground to trade 0.1% stronger on the day at $1.2858. Sterling also gained 0.1% against the euro, with one pound getting you 1.1217 euros.
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The share price fall extended a decline that started almost immediately after Snapchat started trading on the stock market this spring.
The firm reported 173 million daily users, up 4% on the prior quarter.
But the company is struggling with fierce competition from Facebook, which offers similar features.
Snap's stock, which was priced at $17 for its public offering in March, is now trading at less than $14.
On Thursday, chief executive Evan Spiegel pledged that he and fellow co-founder Robert Murphy would not sell any of their own shares this year, as a sign of confidence in the firm's prospects.
The shares were worth billions at the time of the IPO.
"We believe deeply in the long-term success of Snap," he told analysts on a call after the results were released.
Snap made its name as a messaging app, with texts that would disappear. It now offers video stories, maps and other features.
The firm said it is working to woo advertisers with low prices and evidence that its ads are working - features it hopes will set it apart from rivals.
Revenue over the three months to the end of June was $181.7m, more than double the same period in 2016.
But expenses grew even faster, reaching more than $630.6m for the quarter, including expenses related to stock-based compensation.
Snap's user base increased by more than 20% year-on-year. But the firm added just seven million new users in the quarter, compared to eight million in the first three months of the year.
Shares in the firm fell more than 14% in after-hours trade.
Mr Spiegel said the company was making "a lot of progress".
He estimated that a quarter of people with smart phones in the US, UK and France use Snapchat every day, with users typically spending more than 30 minutes daily on the site.
Snap is not the only young company that has stumbled after going public while facing off with one of the tech giants.
The prepared meal company Blue Apron, which started trading in June, has also lost much of its value.
Analysts say Amazon's plan to acquire Whole Foods, combining its delivery strength with a well-known grocer, has dimmed its prospects.
On Thursday, in its first earnings report since its stock market debut, Blue Apron reported more than $238m in revenue for the three months to the end of June and losses of $31.6m.
Its shares fell more than 17%, to $5.14, compared to $10 price set at the IPO.
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Snap shares plunged 14% on Thursday after the social media firm reported more than $400m (£310m) in quarterly losses and fewer than expected users.
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Spratt, 25, joins on a one-year deal, and Samson, 23, on a two-year-deal.
Wales international Spratt said: "I'm excited to be joining London Irish. They play an exciting brand of rugby that appeals to me."
Samson, who has played for Scotland at U20 level, said: "I've enjoyed my time at Edinburgh but a chance to play in the Premiership was not to be missed."
The duo will join the Exiles squad this summer for pre-season training.
Jonathan is a strong, powerful runner, with great feet and good distribution skills.
Spratt made his Wales debut in 2009 in a Test against Canada.
The centre also played for Taranaki in New Zealand's domestic rugby tournament, the Air New Zealand Cup in 2008.
He has not played for Ospreys this season, having damaged his anterior cruciate ligament in pre-season, on his return from an earlier injury.
Samson is a product of Newcastle Falcons' academy and has represented Scotland at all age-group levels.
The Edinburgh-born scrum-half featured in the IRB Junior World Championship in 2008 and this season's IRB sevens circuit tournament.
Ross has a strong pass on him, an eye for the gap and he reads the game well.
London Irish head coach Toby Booth said: "Jonathan is a highly talented young player and another very useful addition to our squad.
"He is a strong, powerful runner, with great feet and good distribution skills.
"Ross is an exciting young talent in Scottish rugby. He has a strong pass on him, an eye for the gap and he reads the game well."
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Peter O'Brien, a 51-year-old married father of six, from Llanishen, Cardiff, and Mark Sim, 41, from Caldicot, Monmouthshire, were killed in the blast in the basement of the rod and bar mill at Celsa Steel in Splott.
Five men were also injured.
The company is working with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and police to determine the cause of the blast.
Search dogs were seen being taken to the site on Thursday while specialist search teams have also been involved.
The alarm was raised at about 10:30 GMT on Wednesday and dozens of emergency services vehicles were sent to the scene.
Firefighters tackled an "extremely difficult" fire in the basement of the building, where five people were injured.
One was treated at the scene and four were taken to the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
Three of them have since been discharged.
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Conor Kernohan put the holders ahead with a close-range header from Stuart Nelson's cross in the second half.
But Matty Doherty quickly levelled for the Derry side with a penalty after Grosvenor keeper Tim Larmour had brought down Joe McCartie.
In extra-time Josh Kelly rounded keeper Gareth Muldoon to make it 2-1 and skipper Nelson's low shot sealed it.
Nelson, who also played in Grosvenor's 2016 triumph, praised the effort of losing finalists St Columb's.
"They are a quality side and, as you could see today, they stroke the ball about nicely," said the winning captain.
"I thought our fitness maybe told in the end, although we got lucky with two breakaway goals.
"We had to dig deep, but the boys have been brilliant all year."
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The row started when contestant Fleur East, 26, performed Uptown Funk from Mark Ronson's as-yet unreleased album on the show on Saturday.
Lily Allen quickly accused Cowell of corruption and getting free publicity for the song.
Cowell joked the singer should "smile more and lose the paranoia."
Speaking at The Sun Military Awards in London on Wednesday, he also said that Lily Allen's chances of appearing on the X Factor as a judge "have been reduced slightly."
Sony Music, which is releasing Uptown Funk is home to Mark Ronson's label Columbia Records and Cowell's Syco records.
Fleur's performance in the semi-final of the ITV competition went straight to number one in the iTunes chart.
The original song by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars had been released digitally but was scheduled for full release for 11 January, but after the iTune success the release date has now been brought forward five weeks.
But Cowell claimed the reason they chose the song for Fleur on X Factor wasn't anything to do with promotion.
He said: "I didn't even know what label it was on, to be honest. All I knew is that we loved the song.
"Then we heard that Mark Ronson and Bruno was going to do it on the finals so we stopped doing it with Fleur, then I found out they weren't coming, so I thought 'fine' we will do it with her.
"I mean I was being creative."
A series of tweets posted by Lily Allen, which appear to have been deleted, after the show on Saturday said: 'Is this even out yet? #XFactor ... Well done to @sony for managing to get a not yet released song of theirs sung on prime time weekend telly. #uptownfunk #shazam #airplay
"It is an amazing song and Fleur did it justice but it's still a great example of music industry corruption. #uptown funk"
Fleur East has since apologised to Mark Ronson after her X Factor cover of the song caused the music producer to release it early.
Featuring Bruno Mars on lead vocals, Uptown Funk is the first single from British producer Mark Ronson's fourth album, Uptown Special.
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Simon Cowell has told Newsbeat that Lily Allen should "smile more" after she accused the X Factor of "industry corruption".
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Merseyside Police were called to Crete Towers on Jason Street, Everton, on Tuesday morning after someone noticed a strong smell coming from the building.
It comes two weeks after one of the biggest ever cannabis farms in Liverpool was found on the same street.
Police estimate the total crop had a street value of more than £1.3m and described the farms "a sophisticated and industrial-scale criminal set-up".
Det Insp Lee Wilkinson said: "This was an elaborate series of cannabis farms spread across four separate flats.
"We discovered a total of 339 plants but believe much more could have been grown."
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The modern musical romance has swept film fans off their feet, and its stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are expected to be among the nominees.
The question is - how many nominations will the film get in total, and can it equal the Oscars record of 14?
Titanic and All About Eve currently share that record, while Mary Poppins is the most nominated musical with 13.
This year's other contenders will include Moonlight, about a young black man dealing with his sexuality in drug-torn Miami; brooding domestic drama Manchester by the Sea; and cerebral sci-fi film Arrival.
In the acting categories, Jackie's Natalie Portman is likely to challenge Emma Stone for best actress, while Manchester by the Sea's Casey Affleck and Fences' Denzel Washington are tipped to give Gosling competition for best actor.
Almost certainly not. After two years with no non-white acting nominees, this year we could see four or five - possibly Washington (who also directed Fences), Viola Davis (Fences), Naomie Harris (Moonlight), Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) and Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures).
Naomie Harris is flying the flag for British actresses, while male candidates could include Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nocturnal Animals), Dev Patel (Lion) - and Hugh Grant (Florence Foster Jenkins), who could get his first nomination. But there probably won't be much for Ken Loach's benefits drama I, Daniel Blake.
Meryl Streep will become the first person to notch up 20 acting nominations if she gets in for Florence Foster Jenkins. She was an outsider - but her odds have shortened since berating Donald Trump at the Golden Globes.
If it is, it will be the first superhero movie to be nominated for the top award. It has a chance - it was nominated for the Golden Globes and Producers Guild of America Awards, among others, and its star Ryan Reynolds posted a brilliant video to launch its campaign.
Arrival, in which Amy Adams tries to talk to aliens, could well be second to La La Land when the nominations are totted up, partly thanks to its chances in the technical categories - despite Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight being talked about alongside La La Land as this year's main contenders.
After a series of racist and sexist rants over the past two decades, Mel Gibson's comeback movie Hacksaw Ridge will get nominations. But will Academy members bring themselves to nominate him for best director?
Despite his reputation as an Oscar favourite, Tom Hanks hasn't had a nomination since 2001. His latest role as Hudson River pilot Chesley Sullenberger in Sully surely ticks the Academy's boxes.
The Academy Award nominations are announced from 13:18 GMT on Tuesday, with the winners to be named in Los Angeles on 26 February.
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Perez, 28, joined the Gunners for £17.1m last summer after two seasons at Spanish side Deportivo.
He has made 21 appearances for Arsene Wenger's side in all competitions, scoring seven goals, but has not played since March.
"Arsenal know we want to go, that there are no opportunities here," said Rodrigo Fernandez Lovelle.
Lovelle said the uncapped Perez wanted to leave in order to get more playing time in an attempt to break into the Spain squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
He added his client was "angry and sad and upset" that Arsenal had given the number nine shirt to new record signing Alexandre Lacazette without Perez "being asked".
Deportivo's offer is believed to be in excess of the reported £7.9m La Liga rivals Sevilla paid to sign Nolito from Manchester City.
"Deportivo made an offer a week ago - it is a permanent deal and worth more than Nolito's move to Sevilla," said Lovelle.
"Of course [he was told he would play more]. Lucas signed for Arsenal and was the happiest person in the world and with all of his dreams to fulfil.
"Every time he played he did well, but after every time he got fewer and fewer opportunities."
Perez suffered a thigh injury in March but was fit again before the end of the season, with Wenger saying in May that he felt "a bit sorry" for him.
"He's a top quality striker but I couldn't give him the games he wants and deserves," said the Frenchman.
Perez joined Deportivo on an initial season-long loan from Greek side PAOK in 2014 before signing a permanent deal in 2015.
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The billionaire, who was a prominent backer of Brexit, told the BBC he was "enormously optimistic" about trading with the rest of the world.
His comments came as his engineering firm Dyson reported a 41% increase in profits to £631m.
The popularity of its vacuum cleaners in fast-growing Asian markets was a major reason for the rise.
The company said sales of its products increased by 45% to £2.5bn, helped by growth of 244% in China, 266% in Indonesia and 200% in the Philippines.
The success of new product lines such as hair dryers also fuelled growth.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Theresa May is due to start the process of the UK leaving the EU.
In an interview with the BBC, Sir James said: "Europe's only 15% of the global market and the really fast-expanding markets are in the Far East.
"I'm enormously optimistic because looking outwards to the rest of the world is very, very important because that's the fast-growing bit."
Sir James Dyson is the poster child for the kind of global-facing confidence the government is keen to harness in a week that it signals the beginning of the end of the UK's membership of the EU.
The entrepreneur has been a prominent supporter of Brexit and remains clear that British business success lies beyond Europe.
He is putting his money where his mouth is - investing £2.5bn, expanding his Wiltshire base by buying 500 acres of old airfield in Hullavington and hoping to double his 3,500 workforce in the next four years.
Critics, though, say that while he designs products in the UK, he manufactures them in the Far East and so his export arrangements may not be subject to the same Brexit uncertainty as for those manufacturing in the UK.
Sir James said it would be possible to remain close to Europe after Brexit, while also forging closer ties with Commonwealth countries.
"I'm a patriot, which is why I'm rather keen on re-connecting with the Commonwealth," he said.
And he rejected the suggestion EU staff could be forced to leave the UK - saying it was "absolute nonsense to suggest countries are going to chuck out foreign citizens".
The entrepreneur, who has criticised the lack of British engineers, also defended his decision to have major operations in Asia, saying the firm's intellectual property and profits were still in the UK.
"I'm resident in England, we pay all our tax here," he added.
Dyson designs many of its products in the UK, but largely manufactures them in Asia. It has tripled its team in China and recently opened a new £330m research centre in Singapore.
The firm is also opening a new multimillion-pound research centre in Wiltshire, England and a university at its existing Malmesbury campus in the Cotswolds.
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Sir James Dyson has said UK business success lies beyond Europe because that is where the fastest growth lies.
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Sunderland forward Duncan Watmore was on the fishing boat in Barbados when it was hit, and broken in two, by a catamaran.
He managed to haul three elderly passengers out of the water from the boat just before it sank.
His father, Ian Watmore, said the catamaran had "just ploughed straight into the boat and ripped it in half".
"They saw it and just assumed it was going to go round them and, when they realised it was coming straight at them, they started yelling and screaming but nothing changed," he said.
"These catamarans are quite powerful and the blade just ripped the thing in half."
Watmore had been in Barbados in February, recovering from an operation on a cruciate knee ligament injury, when the crash happened.
One of the guests on the boat had just had a hip replacement, one could not swim and the other was over 80, his father said.
After the crash, his son "clambered up on to the catamaran" and lifted them, and the skipper, out of the water just as their fishing boat sank, he said.
The 23-year-old footballer used his T-shirt as a tourniquet for the woman's leg, which was "bleeding heavily".
It was only afterwards that "shock started to set in", Mr Watmore Snr said.
"All the guests were coming up to him and telling him what a hero he was and I think the whole thing was just very disorientating for him," he said.
The rescue had been a good test of the strength of his knee, though "not one you'd plan", he added.
It is not known how the catamaran came to hit the fishing boat but it is believed its skipper was taken away by police.
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A report in the Guardian suggested the extra, unpaid time taken for "rigorous" compulsory searches meant workers were paid less than the minimum wage.
"The process has been streamlined which has led to a reduction in waiting time," the firm said.
Shares in the FTSE 100 company closed 10.6% lower at to 594.6p.
Royal London Asset Management, which owns Sports Direct shares, said it was concerned about corporate governance at the company, which is controlled by billionaire Mike Ashley.
Ashley Hamilton Claxton, corporate governance manager at Royal London, told 5 live: "We want to see them improve their relationships with employees and to address some of the allegations that have come in front of them, if they are in fact true. That would be quite important for us as shareholders."
Ms Hamilton Claxton also had concerns about what she called Sport Direct's "unfettered ability to trade in the shares of other retailers", adding: "It's a major red flag for us. It is definitely one of the companies we have the most concern about and that is why we are speaking publicly about it."
Sports Direct said on Thursday that pre-tax profits for the six months to October rose 25% to £187m on revenues flat at £1.43bn.
Much of Sports Direct's jump in profits came from dealings in shares in other retailers, particularly the sale of five million shares in rival retailer JD Sports.
Broker Cantor Fitzgerald cut its price target on the stock by 60p to 700p, calling the results "a little behind the curve", while Exane said the results were underwhelming compared with JD Sports.
The Guardian sent undercover reporters to work at Sports Direct's warehouse in Shirebrook in Derbyshire last month. They found that it was taking 15 minutes to search staff leaving the warehouse at the end of their shifts.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "All workers should be paid at least the minimum wage for every minute they are required to be on company premises.
"If the allegations against Sports Direct are found to be true, the government must make sure all their staff receive the full pay they are entitled to."
Sports Direct also disputes the Guardian's claim that more than 80% of staff at the warehouse are on zero-hours contracts.
"To be clear, no warehouse workers are on 'zero-hour' contracts, all have contracted hours with the agencies," the retailer's chairman, Keith Hellawell, said in the results statement.
"In retail, casual workers find the flexibility offered by these arrangements very useful. We comply fully with all applicable legal requirements and will continue to keep these under review."
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Sales rose 21% in the third quarter giving the company €723m (£522m) in revenue, a 9% rise from last year.
Fiat Chrysler, which sold 10% of its stake in Ferrari to New York investors last week also released results.
Shares fell 3.5% after it said it made significant losses stemming from what the company called a "recall environment".
The world's 7th largest car company reported a net loss of €299m despite growing sales of Jeeps globally.
Fiat Chrysler did manage to boost earning 35% to €1.3bn from €968m the previous year.
Fiat Chrysler confirmed its revised earnings forecast which it raised at the end of the second quarter.
The sale of Ferrari helped secure this increase.
Ferrari said it expects deliveries to reach 7,700 vehicles by year end.
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Luxury carmaker Ferrari reported a jump in profit in the third quarter boosted by higher sales.
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The Transportation Safety Board confirmed that at 07:30 EST (12:30 GMT), a Porter Airlines flight from Ottawa to Toronto nearly collided with what they believe was a drone.
Two crew members received minor injuries during the manoeuvre.
Investigators at Billy Bishop Airport are looking into the incident.
The flight was at an altitude of approximately 9,000ft (2,740m) over Lake Ontario and making its initial approach for landing at Toronto's island airport on Monday when the pilots noticed an object in the distance.
As they got closer the pilots realised the object, which they first believed was a balloon, was very close to the flight path. They decided to take evasive action.
Porter is working with the Transportation Safety Board investigators, according to a statement.
The injured flight attendants were taken to hospital and have since been released. The 54 passengers on the flight were unharmed.
Transport Canada and the Federal Aviation Authority in the US both have "No Drone Zone" safety campaigns meant to highlight the dangers of flying drones near airports and other areas that could put aviation safety at risk.
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Canada's transportation safety authority is investigating after an aeroplane had to take evasive action to avoid a near mid-air collision.
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The club's former owner Craig Whyte and former chief executive Charles Green attended a preliminary hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Former club secretary Gary Withey, and David Grier, David Whitehouse and Paul Clark, who worked for administrators Duff and Phelps, also appeared.
The 15 charges in the case cover fraud, conspiracy and serious organised crime.
Mr Whyte bought Rangers from Sir David Murray in 2011 for a nominal sum of £1 but the club went into administration the following year.
A consortium led by Charles Green later bought Rangers' assets after a deal could not be agreed with creditors to exit administration.
Mr Whitehouse, Mr Clark and Mr Grier were employees of MCR Partners, prior to its acquisition by Duff and Phelps, in October 2011.
Duff and Phelps acted as Rangers administrators from 14 February 2012.
Mr Withey worked for Mr Whyte's London law firm, Collyer Bristow, before he took on a post with Rangers.
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Six men have appeared in court in connection with the alleged fraudulent acquisition of Rangers assets.
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Wales face Ukraine in their penultimate warm-up match before Euro 2016, and the last before the manager names his 23-man squad for the tournament.
Coleman knows the fixture could be a risk, but adds it is one worth taking.
"When you go to places like this you find out a lot about players. We want it to be risky and edgy," he said.
"You learn nothing if you go into a game knowing if we are at 80% we will win 4-0."
Wales, who drew 1-1 with Northern Ireland on Thursday, will again be without Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale and Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey at Kiev's 70,000-capacity Olympic Stadium.
Ukraine have also qualified for Euro 2016, and Coleman believes taking on such a tough trip will help his relatively inexperienced team.
"If you go into a hostile environment against a good team, you know you can end up with egg on your face if you do not turn up and perform," he said.
"But I prefer it like this. We are in their backyard in a tough atmosphere, and we have to show we can cope."
Coleman, however, has the comfort of being able to call on his first-choice defence and is likely to return to five at the back.
The fit-again Ben Davies is set to join skipper Ashley Williams and James Chester in the centre of defence, with Chris Gunter and Neil Taylor deployed as wing-backs.
"The edge in the atmosphere is not for everyone," said Coleman.
"But guys like Ashley Williams are always the same in mentality - he always plays with that meaning and gives everything he has got."
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Wales manager Chris Coleman believes his team will benefit from the hostility they are likely to face in Monday's friendly in Kiev.
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Kerosene leaked from a pipeline near Nantycaws, Carmarthenshire, into nearby Nant Pibwr, with dead fish spotted.
The Welsh Government said the A48 will close in both directions from the Nantycaws turning to Carmarthen from 19:00 BST on Friday until 06:00 Monday.
Traffic will be diverted through Nantycaws and Llangunnor.
Rural Affairs Secretary Lesley Griffiths visited the site of the spill on Saturday.
In a letter to assembly members, she confirmed the scale of the spill was bigger than previously thought.
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Details of when a main road will close for repair work to a damaged fuel pipeline that leaked more than 140,000 litres of oil have been confirmed.
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The Building (Scotland) Act 2003 stopped the need for a council completion certificate to be issued.
However, the council wants the final say on whether pupils can return to all 17 schools closed over safety fears.
The council is to have a "clearer picture" from surveys on Friday.
Why are Edinburgh schools closed?
Seventeen schools built or modernised just over a decade ago under the controversial Public Private Partnership arrangement scheme were shut earlier this month over safety concerns.
The council had entered into a deal to build the schools with the specially-formed private company, the Edinburgh Schools Partnership, and construction work was carried out by Miller Construction.
Under the deal, the profit-making company built the schools, runs the buildings and maintains them. The council is, in effect, a tenant.
Children at all 17 schools are now back in classrooms but finding alternative accommodation has been a major logistical operation and some youngsters face lengthy journeys to temporary sites.
Some form of investigation or inquiry into the debacle is expected to be launched after the Scottish election.
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A City of Edinburgh Council spokesman said: "The council will appoint independent experts to give us the necessary reassurance that work carried out by the Edinburgh Schools Partnership and its contractors is of the required standard to ensure the safety of children."
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Independent experts appointed by the council will check schools in Edinburgh are safe to reopen in a major departure from the previous system, which saw builders approve their own work.
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Here's BBC Sport's day-by-day guide so you know when the medals will be won, and which events to monitor closely.
All times BST
Athletics (men's marathon T12, T46, T54, women's marathon T12, T54), wheelchair rugby, sitting volleyball (men's gold).
13:00 - GB's Derek Rae in the men's T46 marathon
13:00 - Japan v Canada in wheelchair rugby bronze medal match
13:00 - Egypt v Brazil in sitting volleyball bronze medal match
16:00 - Bosnia and Herzegovina v Iran in sitting volleyball gold medal match
16:30 - GB's David Weir & Simon Lawson in the men's T54 marathon
16:30 - Australia v USA in sitting volleyball gold medal match
16:31 - USA's Tatyana McFadden in the women's T54 marathon
23:30 - Closing ceremony
Brit watch
Before the closing ceremony, there are still medals up for grabs with David Weir entered in the T54 marathon, which will take place along five laps at Fort Copacabana (16:30) along with Simon Lawson, who won silver at last year's Great North Half Marathon.
Like Lawson, Scotland's Derek Rae will be making his Paralympic debut in the T46 class (13:00) after suffering nerve damage to his arm in a motorbike accident in 2010.
World watch
Tatyana McFadden is also queen of road racing and has won the big four city races (Boston, London, Chicago and New York). But she has yet to win a Paralympic marathon title and will want to put that right. Manuela Schar of Switzerland and Japan's road specialist Wakako Tsuchida could be her nearest challengers (16:31).
Tsuchida's compatriot Yutaka Kumagai stormed to victory in the T12 race event at the London Marathon and the visually-impaired athlete will be attempting to give his nation a boost as they prepare to take over the mantle of Paralympic hosts from Brazil.
In the women's event, China's Jin Zheng was seven minutes clear of her closest rivals in London in April.
The men's sitting volleyball title is also up for grabs (16:00) with Iran hoping to reclaim the title they lost in London and win their sixth title from the last eight Games. Bosnia and Herzegovina were victorious four years ago, beating Iran 3-1 and both will want to figure again.
The BBC is not responsible for changes to schedules, and has taken all reasonable care to ensure the information in this article is correct.
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The Paralympic Games are about to reach their conclusion, with the final day of action on Sunday.
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The 21-year-old has agreed a two-year deal with the Scottish Premiership club.
Fulton has been with Liverpool for 10 years and has had loan spells with Portsmouth and Chesterfield in the past two seasons.
Accies began the campaign with Gary Woods in goals for their League Cup win at East Kilbride.
Fulton will provide competition for Woods and Darren Jamieson, who was on the bench at the weekend.
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Hamilton Academical have signed Scotland Under-21 goalkeeper Ryan Fulton from Liverpool.
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Angel Martinez, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Dan Jones were announced on Friday.
They are now joined by Liam Graham, Curtis Morrison, Jake Beesley, Thorsten Stuckmann, Lloyd Allinson, Sadiq El Fitouri, Jay O'Shea and Charlie Raglan.
Veteran Ritchie Humphreys, 39, is in talks regarding a coaching role.
"It is never easy having to tell players that they will not be offered new contracts," said manager Gary Caldwell.
"But it is something that has to be done as we look to rebuild over the summer and shape a squad capable of competing in League Two.
"We have made contract offers to four players and hope that they will all sign.
"I would like to thank the players who are leaving the club for their service and wish them all the very best for the future."
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Chesterfield will offer deals to Ian Evatt, Laurence Maguire, Dan Gardner and Rai Simons but have confirmed that 12 players will leave the club following relegation to League Two.
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It fell as low as $1.0560, before recovering a little. But many traders expect it may soon be worth the same as a dollar.
The ECB began its latest round of quantitative easing (QE) on Monday.
It will buy bonds worth €1.14tn over the next 18 months, flooding the market with euros.
Traders have reacted to the ECB's latest round of QE by selling euros and buying other currencies such as US dollars.
The US currency is appealing because the Federal Reserve looks to have completed its bond-buying programme.
The euro started its slide against the dollar in July last year as traders reacted to the divergence in policy between the ECB and the Fed.
The value of the euro has fallen 22.4% since 1 July, when a euro was worth $1.37.
An upbeat US jobs survey released on Friday provided an additional boost to the dollar.
"This opened up speculation again that the US will raise interest rates in June," says Jane Foley, senior currency strategist at Rabobank. This would attract foreign capital and boost the dollar.
In the eurozone Greece's economic woes continue to put downward pressure on the euro, bringing it closer to dollar parity.
The eurozone's growing current account surplus is encouraging Europeans to invest abroad causing the euro to weaken further, according to Deutsche Bank.
It's what you expect when the economic performance of two currency blocs diverge in the way that the eurozone and the US have.
The stronger growth in the US means higher interest rates, because the Federal Reserve will raise its own rates, perhaps later this year, and also because there is more demand for cash to fund investment.
In Europe by contrast, the quantitative easing that is finally underway is driving down borrowing costs in the financial markets even further.
The weaker euro is also what you want, at least if you are at the eurozone end of this exchange rate.
Part of Europe's problem is weak demand for goods and services at home and the cheaper currency will make it a little easier to compensate for that by selling more abroad.
"The momentum is certainly building and there's a lot of talk of parity," says Ms Foley.
"We now see euro-dollar moving down to $1.00 by year-end, $0.90 by 2016 and down to a trough of $0.85 by 2017," said Deutsche Bank in a report published on Tuesday.
While further devaluation of the euro should give businesses in the eurozone a boost, the pace of change may pose challenges for companies that need to plan ahead.
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The euro has fallen to its lowest level against the US dollar in 12 years after the European Central Bank (ECB) began its government bond buying programme.
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Pakistan finished the second day on 97-8, 332 runs behind Australia's first innings total of 429 at the Gabba.
Hazlewood took 3-19, including two wickets in two balls, while Starc finished with figures of 3-45.
Earlier, Nathan Lyon and Jackson Bird put on 49 runs for the final Australian wicket after Peter Handscomb completed his maiden Test century.
Mohammad Amir finished with 4-97, his best bowling figures since his return to Test cricket in July following a five-year ban, while Wahab Riaz took 4-89.
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Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc starred as Australia took control of the day-night first Test in Brisbane.
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Surrey Fire Service said it started at about 14:00 BST at a nearby nature reserve and spread across 25 acres.
More than 40 firefighters, six engines and two water tankers were used to deal with the blaze.
Alan Clark, from Surrey Fire and Rescue Service, said "the lack of rain and tinder box dry conditions provided the perfect recipe for wildfires".
He added: "Once they start they can spread quickly, making wildfires notoriously difficult to control."
The Wentworth golf estate regularly hosts major golf tournaments including the PGA championship and World Match Play Championships.
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A wildfire which spread onto the Wentworth golf estate has been tackled by firefighters.
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The RNLI said it expects the Shannon class all-weather lifeboat to help save more lives in waters around Ilfracombe, north Devon.
It is one of only two places in the region to get the upgraded model, which volunteers described as "faster and safer than its predecessor".
The new boat, called The Barry and Peggy High Foundation, also has a faster launching and recovery system.
It replaces Mersey class vessel Spirit of Derbyshire, which has performed more than 500 rescues over 25 years.
Suzy Tubby, an RNLI volunteer based in Ilfracombe, said the new lifeboat was an "incredible thing".
"It does 25 knots compared to the Mersey's 17," she said.
"The launching system is all very much quicker - then recovery takes less than half the time so it means we can be ready to go again a lot quicker" she said.
Second Coxswain Carl Perrin said he wanted to thank fundraisers for their help in bringing the new boat into action.
"It's faster, it's safer, it can go further and the potential for lifesaving is great," he said.
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An upgraded £3m lifeboat has been launched in the south west.
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Peter Barker and Alison Waters lost 11-8 11-10 to Australia's David Palmer and Rachael Grinham to give Palmer a first Commonwealth gold.
The 38-year-old then teamed up with Cameron Pilley to win his second title of the day in the men's doubles.
They beat top seeds Nick Matthew and Adrian Grant 10-11 11-7 11-9.
Matthew had been chasing a double after his win over compatriot James Willstrop in the men's singles final.
But former world number one Palmer, who had won two silvers and four bronzes at previous Games, decided to come out of retirement in a bid to win his elusive first title.
Sheffield-born Matthew, 34, and Grant, 33, recovered from a slow start to take the first game, but the Australians took the second to force a decider and held their nerve to force the win.
"In singles there is a planning structure where if something goes wrong it is easier to correct but in doubles there are so many variables and it is such a momentum game," said Matthew.
"We did ourselves proud, we put out game plan into practice but they pulled off two great shots to win."
England's Willstrop and Daryl Selby took bronze after beating Scotland's Alan Clyne and Harry Leitch 11-9 11-7.
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In the mixed doubles, the third-seeded Australians took an early lead but Barker and Waters led 6-2 early in the second before Palmer and Grinham fought back to make it 10-10 and then win the sudden-death point.
"We are disappointed to not convert that lead in the second game," said Barker. "We played well throughout but in the first game they just hit some unbelievable winners.
"It was a great match and I thought we played the best we have all week and we lost to worthy champions."
Palmer and Grinham's team-mates Cameron Pilley and Kasey Brown won bronze thanks to an 8-11 11-9 11-8 success over New Zealand's Joelle King and Martin Knight.
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England won silver in both the mixed doubles and men's doubles on the final day of action at the Commonwealth Games squash competition.
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Paul Bingham spotted the blaze on the M6 near Coleshill, Warwickshire, and pulled up to help the stricken party.
He then transported the youngsters to the National Motorcycle Museum, where parents were waiting.
Thirteen people were treated for smoke inhalation - with four 10-year-old girls taken to hospital.
Nobody was seriously hurt in the fire, which remains unexplained.
More on this and other Warwickshire stories
Mr Bingham was on his way back to his coach company's headquarters in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, when he saw the group, from a school in the Black Country, standing on the hard shoulder.
He said "small flames were coming out the rear at the bottom of the engine" before the bus was eventually engulfed.
Pictures later showed the vehicle reduced to smouldering remains.
"I was there with an empty coach, so it all fell into place," he said.
"I did nothing really. I just parked my bus and said 'jump on'. I got 60-odd people away from the scene and allowed them to sit in comfort."
Mr Bingham said he was grateful the children hadn't seen the extent of the fire, as that would've been more "stressful" for them.
He added that his bosses at Eavesway Travel told him to "crack on" and "deal with it".
The four girls taken to Birmingham Children's Hospital were not thought to be in a serious condition, West Midlands Ambulance Service said.
The ambulance service commended Mr Bingham for his actions.
A spokesman said: "We would like to pay tribute to the Eavesway Travel of Wigan coach driver who spotted the issue, stopped at the side of the motorway and helped evacuate the children."
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A coach driver has described the "dramatic" moment he helped 59 pupils and seven teachers escape a burning bus on a motorway.
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It gained three seats - Colne Valley and Keighley from the Conservatives, and Leeds North West from the Liberal Democrats.
The Conservatives held five seats as Andrea Jenkyns retained her Outwood and Morley constituency, where she ousted Labour's Ed Balls in 2015.
The loss of Leeds North West means the Lib Dems have no seats in the county.
Live election result and reaction from across Yorkshire
Labour's Alex Sobel took the Leeds North West seat from Greg Mullholland with a majority of 4,224 and 44% of the vote.
It was this seat that saw the biggest increase of registered voters in this campaign. There were 68,152 eligible voters, a 16% increase.
Mr Mulholland, who represented the Lib Dems in the seat for 12 years, sent a brief tweet and said: "Night night all, it's been an honour & privilege."
The Keighley seat was gained for Labour by John Grogan who had a majority of just 249 over the Conservative, Kristan Hopkins.
In the third seat the party gained, Colne Valley, it was a majority of 915 for Labour's Thelma Walker over the sitting Conservative MP Jason McCartney.
Ms Walker said: "I could see people over the weeks listening to us on the doorstep and saying 'this is good this is what we want'. So we began the last few weeks to think we can do this."
Labour also retained several seats such as Halifax and Wakefield that had been Conservative targets.
In Halifax, where Theresa May launched the Tory manifesto, Labour's Holly Lynch increased her share of the vote from 40% to 52.8%, taking her 2015 majority of 428 to over 5,376.
Yvette Cooper, who retained Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford for Labour, and who voted against Jeremy Corbyn in last year's leadership election, said. "he won twice and that's why the party came together in this campaign to achieve this result".
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The Labour Party has increased its hold on West Yorkshire, winning 17 of the county's 22 seats.
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Homeowner Sue Abel said she "heard a crack on the other side of the house" at about 00:30 BST on Monday.
The stable - which was empty - had travelled about 50m (164ft) from a neighbouring field, Mrs Abel said.
She told the BBC: "I've never known the winds, in the 10 years I've been here, [to be] at that strength."
Emergency services arrived promptly but the stable was left in place on Monday because the winds were "still quite brisk", she added.
The front of the property suffered some damage, including a number of smashed windows.
Storm Katie disruption round-up
Your pictures of Storm Katie
Storm Katie - the 11th named storm of the winter - caused considerable disruption across England, south Wales and the Channel Islands on Monday.
Gusts of up to 106mph were recorded at The Needles off the Isle of Wight as the storm hit the south of England.
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An entire stable was lifted by a gust of wind and dumped into the front of a house in Alderney as Storm Katie lashed the Channel Islands.
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The comments were made in a statement the day after the BBC reported workers at Scotland's largest container port are set to go on strike on Tuesday in a row over rotas and pay.
The spokeswoman insisted changes to shift patterns were needed to reflect the needs of customers.
But the Unite union has said the new rotas amount to a "de facto pay cut".
A spokesman for the Port of Grangemouth said: "The strike action proposed by Unite the union is unjustified.
"We are proposing alterations to shift patterns in response to the changing needs of our customers, whose vessels call at the port seven days a week.
"Our staff and their union accepted the need for such flexibility, and that shift patterns may require to change in the future, when this element of their employment contracts was agreed in 2011.
She added: "We have decided to close the port's quayside container operations from midnight on Monday 14th March. All other operations at the port will remain open.
"We sincerely hope that our staff, and their union, will cancel this strike and work with us to implement the changes necessary to enable us to meet the changing demands of our customers."
The union Unite has said all but two of 75 "operatives" based at the Port of Grangemouth voted for the action in a ballot.
The workers include crane drivers and loaders.
It is understood that about 20 engineers who are also based at the site are not involved in the action, which is due to start at 00:01 on Tuesday.
Unite said the action had been called after port owner Forth Ports announced changes to shifts.
Grangemouth handles more than 150,000 containers annually, with daily sailings to Rotterdam, Antwerp, Felixstowe and Hamburg.
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A spokeswoman for Forth Ports has called the planned Grangemouth strike "unjustified".
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World number three McIlroy has missed the cut at his home event for the last three years and has recorded just two top-10 finishes in nine attempts.
"My performances haven't been what I'd want but it's a tournament I would love to win one day," said the 27-year-old.
"I feel like my game is in good enough shape to do that."
The Northern Irishman, who is tournament host for the second year, recorded his best result in 2008, when he finished seventh in his first full year as a professional.
That came two years after he watched the final day of the 2006 Ryder Cup on the course as a 17-year-old spectator.
But, despite being frustrated at failing to turn good performances into a victory so far in 2016, McIlroy thinks he can contend for the title.
"The Irish Open always was, but even more so now, one of the most important weeks of the year for me," said the four-time major winner.
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"I'm coming off a couple of decent weeks in the States where I felt I played better than the results suggested, and the K Club is a course I feel I can do well on.
"It would be huge [to win]. Anyone that plays professional golf, they dream of winning their home open. You don't get many opportunities so it would be very special. It's one tournament that is missing from my CV."
Asked if he could pinpoint why he had not performed well in Ireland, McIlroy said: "No, not really. Maybe the pressure of playing at home - we don't play at home often - and maybe trying too hard or putting too much pressure on myself.
"There were obviously reasons I wanted to get involved in this tournament. I wanted to contribute something, where coming to the Irish Open was becoming more of a burden instead of something I relished and enjoyed.
"Being able to get involved and not just play for myself, but play for and help other people, I enjoy that part of it.
"I want to help out. I want to make this one of the best tournaments in the world and we've made a few good strides towards doing that."
McIlroy believes he learnt a lot from acting as tournament host last year, when he slumped to an opening round of 80 and missed the cut at Royal County Down, but was on hand to present the trophy to eventual champion Soren Kjeldsen.
"There were times where I spread myself too thin last year with a lot of commitments and we've tried to scale that back this year," he added.
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Rory McIlroy is confident he can improve on his poor record in the Irish Open when he competes at this week's event at the K Club in County Kildare.
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Archaeologists used a range of techniques to determine the age, diet and health of livestock raised at two sites in Orkney.
One of the sites, Earl's Bu, appears to have been organised and managed as a large estate farm.
It may have been run this way from an earlier time than previously thought.
The study, which involved excavated animal remains and the examination of other historical evidence, could give fresh insights into ancient farming elsewhere.
The University of the Highlands and Islands, which did the research, said these other places could include other Scottish islands and Scandinavia.
The archaeologists said the good condition of the livestock at Earl's Bu gave an "overall impression" of an organised system of pastoral farming on the land.
Herds of sheep and cattle were pastured and fattened up in established fields or upland areas, they said.
This suggests that an elite group of people controlled the land in the form of manorial estates from the Viking period onwards.
The archaeologists said that this challenged the view of agriculture in the 9th to 11th Century being "dominated by free peasant farmers with varying degrees of obligation to chieftains and larger farmers".
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Studies of teeth from sheep and cattle have provided new insights into farming practices in the Iron Age through to the Late Norse periods in Scotland.
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In 2015, the city recorded 1,448 deaths per 100,000 of population, according to the Office for National Statistics.
That figure is 56% higher than neighbouring East Dunbartonshire, which had 926 deaths per 100,000.
Scotland as a whole had the poorest life expectancy of any of the UK nations - 1,177 per 100,000, compared to England's rate of 989.6.
Mortality rates for men in Glasgow stood at 1,787, while West Dunbartonshire had the poorest life expectancy for women with a figure of 1,246 per 100,000.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said: "The substantial variation in mortality rates between different local areas reflects underlying differences in factors such as income deprivation, socio-economic position and health behaviour."
The figures were in line with other publications which have shown wide differences between local authority areas.
But National Records of Scotland (NRS) figures covering 2011-13 suggested that both men and women were living longer.
Those figures said life expectancy was 76.8 years for men and 80.9 years for women.
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Glasgow has the lowest life expectancy of any area in the UK, official figures have suggested.
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The Belgium-flagged vessel overturned off the Kent coast at about 23:00 GMT on Tuesday, the BBC understands.
One person - spotted clinging to the upturned hull of the boat - was rescued almost nine hours later, at 07:30 GMT.
Kaimes Beasley, of Dover Coastguard, said it would be possible to survive in the water for about 15 hours.
Two helicopters, including one from the Belgian search and rescue service, plus three lifeboats have been involved in the search.
The operation was called off late Wednesday afternoon due to fading light, Ramsgate lifeboat said.
Mr Beasley said: "Weather conditions overnight were relatively benign, winds were not terribly strong and the sea had been calm.
"Either way, it is still the North Sea in the winter and would have been very cold.
"In the southern North Sea, water temperature is about 9.5C and the air temperature less than that.
"There is a significant risk in terms of hypothermia."
The emergency services were first alerted at daylight when a passing boat saw the upturned vessel with one of the crew members standing on it.
He was able to tell them that two of his colleagues were unaccounted for.
Earlier, two divers and a doctor from Belgium were lowered on to a Ramsgate lifeboat to join the search for the two missing fishermen.
The operation is focussing on an area just up the coast from here in an area known as North Foreland.
That is where the lifeboats were searching for much of the morning and continuing into the afternoon.
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Propper has signed a four-year contract with the club, which was promoted to the Premier League last season.
Brighton boss Chris Hughton said the 25-year-old, who has five caps for the Netherlands, is "a strong competitor".
The fee tops the £5m which the club are thought to have paid Valencia in June for Australia goalkeeper Mathew Ryan.
Propper scored 16 goals in 67 league appearances after joining PSV from Vitesse Arnhem in 2015 and helped the club win the league title in his first full season.
"There is no doubting his pedigree, Davy has played a number of matches in the Champions League for PSV, as well as international football for the Netherlands," added Hughton.
"He will complement our existing midfield players, and he is also a really good age."
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Brighton have broken their transfer record to sign Dutch midfielder Davy Propper from PSV Eindhoven in a reported £6m deal.
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The world number 50 shot a final-day two-under in Malelane to win by four shots from France's Gregory Bourdy.
Schwartzel, 31, led Frenchman Benjamin Herbert, who slipped to third, by three strokes heading into the fourth round where he carded a second successive 70.
England's Matt Ford was the highest Briton, tied in fifth.
Schwartzel, the 2011 Masters champion, was unhappy with his round on Saturday and had to recover from a bogey on the third on Sunday.
He bogeyed again on the eighth at Leopard Creek Country Club, but four birdies made sure he held off a resurgent Bourdy.
"It's an honour playing here," Schwartzel told the European Tour website.
"I knew I was going to have to shoot at least two or three under on the back nine to give myself a good chance of winning and I'm very happy with that."
It meant Schwartzel became the third South African to win 10 European Tour events, alongside Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, and the youngest to do so ahead of Els.
The competition marked the start of the 2016 European Tour.
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It took the Tapolca seat with a majority of just under 300 votes.
Jobbik looks set to present a major challenge to the governing Fidesz party in parliamentary elections due in three years' time.
Correspondents say the party has softened its rhetoric in recent years and has gained support from mainstream voters.
Lajos Rig's margin of victory was narrow, but his win was symbolically enormous, says the BBC's Nick Thorpe in Budapest.
"The mood in Hungary is for a change of government and with Jobbik Hungary finally has a force to change the government,'' party leader Gabor Vona told supporters in Tapolca.
It re-enforces their reputation as the most successful nationalist party in Europe and is another setback for Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
"There are times when the ball hits the post," said Mr Orban, a keen footballer, on his Facebook page as he admitted defeat.
Fidesz easily won the last national and European elections in 2014, when Jobbik took around 20% of the vote.
But since then the governing party has seen its reputation falter, with allegations of corruption, and opposition to measures like a planned internet tax and limits on Sunday trading.
Fidesz lost its two-thirds parliamentary majority in February after another by-election defeat.
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The far-right Jobbik party in Hungary has won its first ever individual constituency seat in parliament.
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The 23-year-old, who favours a central striking role, is frustrated at being used regularly in other positions.
He has two years left on his contract but is debating whether to move rather than accept a new deal if offered one.
Asked about Welbeck's future after United's 2-0 defeat at Everton on Sunday, manager David Moyes said: "Danny Welbeck is really important to me and I really value him."
Moyes added: "As you know, there have been a lot of stories."
Welbeck scored more goals for England than United last season, scoring three times in seven matches for Roy Hodgson's side (strike rate: 0.43 goals per game), compared to twice in 40 appearances under then Reds boss Sir Alex Ferguson (strike rate: 0.05).
Welbeck has scored 10 times in 32 United appearances this season and is expected to be in Roy Hodgson's England squad for this summer's World Cup.
With Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie, Javier Hernandez and £37.1m January signing Juan Mata all competing with Welbeck for a starting position up front for United, manager David Moyes is unlikely to offer him any assurances about next season.
There would be no shortage of suitors should he opt to leave - although United know that the Manchester-born academy graduate is held in affection by the club's supporters.
Welbeck scored only two goals last season, although one of those came against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu.
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Ann Barnes said Kent was in a unique position with the UK border and needed its officers now more than ever.
She has written to Home Secretary Theresa May to ask for funding cuts to be deferred for a year.
The government said it was taking steps to ensure law enforcement and security agencies had the resources they need.
On Monday, Mrs May said security would be "intensified" at UK borders.
Mrs Barnes said Kent was the gateway to Europe with ports, the Channel Tunnel, tunnels and bridges to the capital, and Dungeness nuclear power station.
The police force acted as the "guardians of our borders" with 35m people travelling through the county each year via ports and the Channel Tunnel, she added.
She said most were ordinary people but some were hostile, bringing in weapons or terrorist materials, and Kent needed to make sure resources were available.
The force had already lost 500 officers and 720 staff under £60m cuts already imposed, and another £61m cuts could come as the police service looked at between 25% to 40% cuts over the next four years, Mrs Barnes added.
Police minister Mike Penning said the government had undertaken significant work to strengthen its response to the threat from terrorism and had protected the counter-terrorism policing budget.
He said counter-terrorism spending across government would continue to be protected in the current spending review.
"Decisions on wider police funding will not be made until the spending review reports and the operational deployment of resources is a matter for chief constables and police and crime commissioners," he added.
The government said the Border Force worked closely with the police and National Crime Agency to prevent importation of weapons and identifying suspects.
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Police funding cuts in Kent should be deferred in the wake of the Paris terror attacks, the county's police and crime commissioner (PCC) has said.
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Costel Pantilimon could return from an ankle problem, and Daryl Janmaat's groin injury will also be assessed.
Southampton goalkeeper Fraser Forster is expected to start after overcoming a minor thigh issue picked up in the EFL Cup final last Sunday.
Defender Martin Caceres awaits his Saints debut, while Virgil van Dijk is still sidelined with an ankle injury.
Steve Wilson: "This is the only Premier League game Southampton will play between 11 February and 19 March, so Claude Puel will be especially keen to see a points return from Vicarage Road. The Frenchman will also feel that he is due a slice of luck after Wembley.
"Walter Mazzarri's Watford look destined for another creditable mid-table finish, but that's unlikely to earn the Italian an invitation to stay a second season.
"Mazzarri is the eighth manager employed by the Pozzo family since their ownership of the club began in 2012, and has been wise enough not to invest too much time in learning English.
"A pat on the back and a pay-off is probably what Mazzarri expects in the summer. That is unless Watford should slump between now and May - in which case he can forget the pat on the back."
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Watford head coach Walter Mazzarri: "For sure Southampton played a great game [in the EFL Cup final] and maybe they are a bit disappointed because they could have gone at least to extra time, or even won the cup.
"We will see on Saturday if they will react or not, but nobody can know this.
"We got confirmation that they are a very well-organised team and a very strong team."
Southampton manager Claude Puel on his side's fixture schedule: "My biggest job now is to prepare the team for the difficulty of the calendar.
"We will play two games in a month after playing every three days since the beginning of the season. It's crazy - crazy for us and difficult."
Southampton were unlucky to lose at Wembley against Manchester United last weekend and now they can focus fully on the league.
But I don't fancy them to get anything at Vicarage Road. This is a tough game to call but I am going to go with the Hornets.
Prediction: 2-1
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Watford's January signing Mauro Zarate is out for the season after suffering a serious knee injury against West Ham.
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The latest saw NHS Orkney's headquarters at Garden House broken into overnight on Tuesday, with property stolen.
The spate of incidents happened within the space of a week.
Police in Kirkwall are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.
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Police in Orkney are investigating a spate of break-ins and attempted break-ins in Kirkwall.
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The former presidential candidate will release her untitled tome on 26 September, says Simon & Schuster. Financial terms were not revealed.
The publisher said Mrs Clinton will use some of her favourite quotes to "tell stories from her life".
The Democrat lost the election to Republican Donald Trump in a stunning upset, even though she won more votes.
"These are the words I live by," former secretary of state Mrs Clinton said in a statement of her forthcoming book.
"These quotes have helped me celebrate the good times, laugh at the absurd times, persevere during the hard times and deepen my appreciation of all life has to offer.
"I hope by sharing these words and my thoughts about them, the essays will be meaningful for readers," she added.
The 69-year-old is also resuming her relationship with the Harry Walker Agency, the speakers' bureau she left in 2013 as secretary of state.
Her money-spinning career as a speaker, including talks sponsored by Goldman Sachs, were a festering subject of criticism from political opponents.
She is set to speak at an International Women's Day event next month organised by Vital Voices, an organisation founded by Mrs Clinton and then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in 1997.
The event was not organised by the Harry Walker Agency, according to Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill.
Her plans to return to that agency are seen as making it unlikely that she might launch a bid for the mayoralty of New York City, as Clinton-watchers have speculated.
She is also set to appear at an LGBT community centre gala in New York on 20 April and deliver the commencement address at her alma mater, Wellesley College.
Mrs Clinton has kept a low profile since the election, but attended Mr Trump's inauguration last month and has criticised his policies.
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Hillary Clinton is writing a book of personal essays, including reflections on last year's US election.
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The independent Legal Aid Committee is examining the existing system and how it can be best provided in the future.
Chairman Andrew Swithinbank said their focus is to promote a "fair, equitable and transparent" system.
Legal aid gives access to justice for those without the means to pay for it.
The first stage of the review will be a public consultation in the Isle of Man which will run until 28 November.
Mr Swithinbank said: "The focus of the committee is to promote access to justice in a manner which is fair, equitable, transparent, professional and which uses public resources carefully and effectively. "
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A full review of the Isle of Man's legal aid system will be carried out for the first time in 14 years, the Manx government has said.
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The strikes by RMT, Aslef and Unite union members will start on the evenings of 26 January, 15 February and 17 February.
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said the plans to introduce a Night Tube were "bodged".
London Underground called the unions' position "absurd".
It has offered a four-year pay deal over the issue and said it would hire part-time drivers to staff an all-night service at weekends.
More on this and other London stories.
Aslef claimed earlier London Underground management had refused to meet to discuss conditions for working on the proposed Night Tube.
The union's London district organiser, Finn Brennan, said: "We genuinely regret the inconvenience that will be caused but the behaviour of London Underground's senior management team have left us with no other choice.
Steve Griffiths, LU's chief operating officer, responded: "The unions' position is absurd and detached from the real world."
He added: "The truth is that they expect our customers to pay for their excessive demands for even more money, fewer hours and a four-day week."
"No employer could allow this and strike action will change nothing. There is no more money."
The Night Tube, which was due to begin in September, will see 24-hour services on five lines on Fridays and Saturdays.
Tube drivers are also unhappy with pay and station rosters, according to BBC London transport correspondent Tom Edwards.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said the union supported the principle of a "properly worked-out night Tube service" but said an "abject failure to work through the detail has led to a comprehensive breakdown in the negotiations".
London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "If a strike goes ahead, it will hit many London Underground workers who do not necessarily support the action, and it will cost the strikers in lost pay."
But Labour mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan said Mr Johnson was to blame, arguing: "It proves once and for all that the Tory strategy of refusing to negotiate or even meet with the unions makes strikes more likely not less."
Manuel Cortes, leader of the TSSA, which represents office and ticket staff, said the union will be consulting members over the next week to decide its next move.
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London Underground staff are to stage three 24-hour strikes and other industrial action over pay and night Tubes.
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Notts, who have now lost seven of their last eight matches and are only 12 points off the League Two relegation zone, looked comfortable until Bennett shot home just before the break.
Bennett made it 2-0 when he slotted in just after the restart.
A Christian Burgess header and Marc McNulty's lob sealed a win which keeps Pompey five points off the top three.
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Kyle Bennett scored twice as Portsmouth thrashed Notts County in Mark Cooper's first game in charge of the Magpies.
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The organisation says many of those returning to Somalia are motivated by fear of being forced out.
Tens of thousands of refugees have been making the journey back home after years in the camp.
Both Kenya and Somalia say it is time Dadaab was shut down.
But HRW says Kenya is not giving the refugees a real choice between being repatriated or staying.
It also says the UN's refugee arm, the UNHCR, is not giving the refugees accurate information about security conditions in Somalia and they face serious risk of persecution or threats to their lives if they return.
Pressuring refugees to return to a place where their lives or freedom could be under threat is a breach of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the organisation says.
Some of the refugees are also choosing to leave because they fear being deported later and forfeiting a $400 (£300) UN cash grant, the organisation says.
"There is no way these returns can be considered voluntary," said HRW's Bill Frelick.
Some refugees who have left Dadaab have since found themselves stranded near the border after regional leaders in Jubaland, which borders Kenya and where most of the returnees are going, stopped receiving them, citing inadequate humanitarian support.
The Dadaab camp in Kenya is home to more than 300,000 Somalis.
It was set up in 1991 to house families fleeing conflict and some people have been living there for more than 20 years.
Kenya says attacks on its soil have been planned in the camp.
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The repatriation of Somali refugees from the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya fails to meet international standards for voluntary return, a Human Rights Watch report has found.
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The 34-year-old Warwickshire captain has played 118 Test matches, scoring 7,727 runs at an average of 42.69, but last represented his country in 2015.
Bell, who has 18,533 runs in first-class cricket, is still ambitious to regain his England Test place.
He said he was "thrilled" to sign a new contract with the club he first joined as a 10-year-old.
"Warwickshire is the only county that I've ever wanted to play for," he added.
"The club has played a huge role in my career and it's a great honour to now captain the team and help our young, talented players fulfil their potential here at Edgbaston."
Bell has been part of an Ashes-winning team on five occasions, helping England win the urn in 2005, 2009, 2010-11, 2013 and 2015.
He has played in a total of seven series against the Australians, having also been a part of the touring side in 2006/07 and 2013/14.
In domestic cricket, Bell has won six trophies, including captaining the Bears to success in last summer's Royal London One-Day Cup in his first season as skipper.
He is the most capped international cricketer in Warwickshire's history, having played 161 one-day internationals and eight T20 matches for England, in addition to his 118 Test appearances.
Warwickshire sport director Ashley Giles said: "Ian is a true Bear who has been with Warwickshire since the age of 10 and has gone on to be one of the most decorated players in the club's history.
"He continues to be one of the leading batsmen in the country across all three formats and, as our captain, he sets exceptionally high standards for the rest of the squad."
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England batsman Ian Bell has signed a new deal with Warwickshire which runs until the end of the 2020 season.
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The airman, whose next of kin have been informed, was shot dead while on a routine patrol of the Western Dashte area, said the Ministry of Defence.
British forces spokesman Lt Col Gordon Mackenzie said "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this difficult time."
British military deaths in Afghanistan since 2001 now stand at 398.
The airman had been on a partnered patrol and so would have been interacting with civilians while accompanying an Afghan officer.
His death comes after Lance Corporal Gajbahadur Gurung from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment was also killed by gunfire, in Helmand's Khar Nikah area on 27 January.
Some 500 of around 9,500 British servicemen and women in Afghanistan are due to be brought home in 2012 and Prime Minister David Cameron has indicated that more will leave in 2013.
He has said he wants British forces to end combat operations in the country by 2014.
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A Royal Air Force Regiment airman has been killed during an insurgent attack in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand.
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The deal will see the 24-year-old loose-head remain at Kingspan Stadium until 2019.
"This season has been particularly pleasing because I have played a lot more than I expected to," said McCall.
"I'm grateful to Les Kiss for giving me an opportunity to prove myself this year," added the front-rower.
McCall's outstanding form this season was recognised at the Ulster Rugby Awards Dinner earlier this month when he collected the Young Player of the Year award.
He made his Ulster debut against Leinster in March 2013 and made three further appearances before earning his first start, against Dragons in November last year.
He went on to start five of Ulster's six Champions Cup games, scoring his first senior try in the dramatic 24-23 away win over Oyonnax in January.
"I want to continue to work hard to develop my core skills and try to push my game on to the next level," explained McCall.
"Hopefully I can cement a starting position next season and contribute to a successful Ulster team in the Pro12 and Europe."
Ulster Director of Rugby Les Kiss described the news as "another great boost for us, following on from the news that Stuart McCloskey has also signed a contract extension".
"Kyle's incessant work-rate has seen him earn a reputation as one of the best trainers in the squad. At 24, he is still young for a front row player, and with his huge potential and desire to be the best that he can be, I've no doubt that he can become a future international."
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Prop Kyle McCall has become the latest Ulster player to commit his future to the province after signing a two-year extension to his current contract.
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Mid and West Wales fire service and the RNLI have issued advice as they predict a busy bank holiday weekend.
It includes supervising children, not using inflatables in strong seas and swimming only at beaches patrolled by lifeguards.
RNLI lifeguard manager Phil Davies urged people to heed their advice.
"We want people to enjoy our beautiful coastline, but make sure they do it safely," Mr Davies said.
"Conditions can change quickly at the beach, so it is really important to respect the water and take extra care when visiting the coast."
Steve Davies, of Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, added: "We cannot stress enough just how dangerous the sea can be, and how your life could change in a second.
"We want you to enjoy the wonderful beaches that the Welsh coastline has to offer safely and incident free this weekend."
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Lifeguards will patrol beaches at Camber Sands, in Sussex this weekend after five friends died during a day trip to the coast.
Their deaths on Wednesday come after six others died around the UK coast last weekend.
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Beachgoers have been urged to stay safe on the coast this weekend following 12 sea deaths around the UK in the past week.
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The incident happened on the A92 north of Inverbervie at 11:00 on Saturday.
The 23-year-old driver died at the scene. The 13-month-old girl suffered minor injuries and was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Police Scotland said no other vehicles were involved. The road was closed for several hours but has now re-opened.
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A woman has died after a car with a baby on board crashed and overturned in Aberdeenshire.
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