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Theresa Villiers and Charlie Flanagan both attended a meeting to review the implementation of the Fresh Start deal negotiated in November last year.
Both the British and Irish governments said the momentum created by the agreement must be maintained.
Mrs Foster became Northern Ireland's first female first minister on Monday.
The Democratic Unionist Party leader took over from Peter Robinson, who confirmed his resignation in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Mrs Foster is the youngest person to hold the most senior post in Northern Ireland politics.
Speaking after Thursday's meeting, Mrs Foster said she was "absolutely delighted" by how the Fresh Start agreement had been implemented.
"Good progress has been made and we'll continue to make that progress," she added.
She said the legacy of Northern Ireland's Troubles had been discussed and that there was a need to talk to victims' groups.
Earlier, Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers said "significant progress" had been made since the Fresh Start agreement was made, but "substantial challenges" remained.
She added: "Work continues with victims' representatives and others on finding a way forward to address the legacy of Northern Ireland's past."
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Arlene Foster has had her first meetings since becoming first minister with the Northern Ireland secretary and the Irish foreign minister.
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The 28-year-old world record holder equalled the Olympic record - set by Czech Roman Sebrle at Athens 2004 - by scoring 8,993 points in Rio.
France's Kevin Mayer took silver with 8,834, while Canada's Damian Warner secured bronze with 8,666.
"To win two Olympic golds in a row like Daley and Mathias is very special," said Eaton.
"One day, I'm going to have to meet Daley, shake his hand and thank him for giving me something to chase after.
"My throwing has been bad in the past, but I really got after the discus and shot here. Can I do three in a row? Maybe you should ask Daley."
Eaton was the overwhelming favourite to follow Thompson's achievement from 1980 and 84 and is the third multi-eventer, alongside American heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, to win back-to-back Olympic titles.
He has dominated the event since 2011, claiming back-to-back world titles and twice setting new world records along with his Olympic success.
No British athlete competed in the 10-discipline event.
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American Ashton Eaton has become the third man to retain the Olympic decathlon title, winning in Rio to emulate Great Britain's Daley Thompson, and the USA's Bob Mathias.
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A hacker, or hacking group, published via Twitter what they said were records of 9,000 DHS employees.
According to technology news site Motherboard, the hacker has said he will soon share the personal information of 20,000 DoJ employees, including staff at the FBI.
The news site said it had verified small portions of the breach, but also noted that some of the details listed appeared to be incorrect or possibly outdated.
In a statement, the DHS told journalists: "We take these reports very seriously, however there is no indication at this time that there is any breach of sensitive or personally identifiable information."
The Department of Justice also downplayed the breach's significance.
The hacker is understood to have used simple human engineering to bypass one stage of the authorities' security systems.
Motherboard quoted the hacker, who explained: "So I called up, told them I was new and I didn't understand how to get past [the portal].
"They asked if I had a token code, I said no, they said that's fine - just use our one."
The security of government systems was put under scrutiny last year when it was discovered that data on more than five million people was stolen from the Office of Personnel Management.
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US authorities have acknowledged a data breach affecting the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security - but downplayed its severity.
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Iain Stuart, 41, from Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, was among those killed in the crash off Norway in April.
An investigation into the cause is continuing.
An internal Statoil investigation into the company's approach to helicopter safety has said a clearer strategy needs to be developed.
The Airbus Super Puma helicopter was flying to Bergen from the Statoil-operated Gullfaks field.
Air accident investigators found a fatigue crack was the "most likely" cause of gearbox failure.
The Statoil report suggested the organisation of helicopter safety efforts within the company appeared to be complicated and said more staff should be recruited to its flight safety department.
It also recommended Statoil should consider ways of better information sharing between the helicopter operators and manufacturers.
Mr Stuart worked for the oil field services company Halliburton.
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An oil company's report into an offshore helicopter crash which killed 13 people has warned industry cost-cutting must not compromise safety.
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Officers stopped the 92-year-old man close to junction six on the M74 near Motherwell and Hamilton in Lanarkshire on Saturday afternoon.
The pensioner was pulled over after a police car signalled him to stop near Strathclyde Park at about 14:25.
Police were alerted after reports from concerned members of the public. The man was taken home.
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An elderly man was pulled over by police for driving his mobility scooter on a busy motorway.
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The Conservatives, now with a majority at Westminster, have pledged to replace the Act with a British Bill of Rights.
They want to give UK courts and Parliament the "final say" on human rights issues rather than Strasbourg.
Asked about the impact of such a change on Wales, Mr Jones told assembly members: "It would make us look like a Banana republic, frankly."
The Human Rights Act came into force in 2000, bringing the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law.
Critics say the Act has led to "perverse" judgements, including a ruling that found the UK's blanket ban on prisoners voting was unlawful.
But during Tuesday's First Minister's Questions, Mr Jones said: "Most countries in Europe including Russia are signatories, are members of the European Convention.
"The European Convention was drafted by British lawyers; it's a British invention, and there's a complete lack of understanding of history in Whitehall at the moment," Mr Jones added.
Under the Conservatives' plan, the European Courts would not be able to require the UK to change British laws, with its judgements being treated as "advisory" rather than binding.
Instead, the UK's Supreme Court would be "the ultimate arbiter" on human rights matters.
Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams accused Conservative ministers of wanting to "put us in the same category as Kazakhstan in terms of how we view human rights".
"Liberal Democrats stopped the Tories scrapping the Human Rights Act and we are determined to keep fighting these plans," she said.
The European Convention created basic human rights and freedoms for every citizen in Europe.
They include the rights to life, liberty and security, a fair trial, respect for private life, and freedom of expression.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "The Government was elected with a manifesto commitment to replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights.
"Ministers will be discussing their plans on this and making announcements in due course."
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Scrapping the Human Rights Act would "make us look like a banana republic", First Minister Carwyn Jones has warned.
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Cleveland Potash, at Boulby, has begun consultation with about 220 workers, with a further 140 contractor roles to be cut as well.
Parent company ICL UK described the move as "painful" and warned a similar number of jobs could go in 2018.
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Labour MP Tom Blenkinsop described it as "devastating news".
ICL UK cited a "reduction in the level of economically-feasible potash reserves at Boulby, which the company estimates will be depleted by 2018".
The plant, which currently employs about 1,100 people, will produce another fertiliser, called Polysulphate.
Peter Smith, executive vice President-Potash of ICL, said: "In recent months we encountered geological problems which have affected previously high-yielding areas of the mine.
"In addition, our exploration programme, validated by independent consultants, confirmed further geological difficulties, which means that we have only a very limited level of economically feasible potash reserves.
"The reality of our potash reserves running out by 2018 means that we must develop a new business strategy if we are to continue mining at Boulby."
ICL UK said it would invest ??20m this year in the site's infrastructure with a potential further ??20m to increase production of Polysulphate from an estimated 200,000 tonnes this year to one million tonnes by 2020.
Mr Blenkinsopp said: "It's truly devastating news for those miners and their families.
"It just seems to be everywhere you look, we are seeing huge amounts of redundancy in our industry and it's surely unprecedented, and all within the borough of Redcar and Cleveland."
Anna Turley, Labour MP for Redcar, said: "This is yet another blow to the community, who have already been subjected to thousands of job losses from the closure of SSI in Redcar in the last few weeks."
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Hundreds of jobs are set to be axed at a North East potash mine.
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Asif, 33, and Butt, 31, were banned along with Mohammad Amir after spot-fixing incidents during a Test against England at Lord's in August 2010.
Amir, 24, is back in the Test team but Asif and Butt are yet to be recalled.
"We are waiting for them to prove their case," said Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Shahryar Khan.
"They'll have to knock the door down before they are considered."
All three men were jailed for their parts in the incident, which saw Amir and Asif deliberately bowl no-balls as part of a betting scam.
Khan added: "Amir, from day one, has admitted his faults and apologised.
"The other two didn't admit from day one, only once they were sentenced by the court did they admit. There is a difference there."
Amir was given a muted reception at Lord's on Friday as he bowled for the first time in a Test since being banned.
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Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt have been told they must "knock the door down" before they are considered for a return to the Pakistan team.
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With more than 3,000 listed places of worship in Wales, the Welsh government said many were under threat.
New activities will be encouraged to save the buildings, either as religious centres or with an alternative purpose.
Deputy Culture Minister Ken Skates, visiting St Giles parish church in Wrexham, said it was "always a shame" to see "cherished buildings neglected".
The Grade I listed church hosts community groups and religious services, and received Welsh government funding to restore its tower.
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An action plan has been launched to save historic religious buildings from neglect as their congregations dwindle.
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Titanic Quarter Ltd has now taken on fresh borrowing of up to £75m from Danske Bank.
The Davidson Kempner fund took control of the loans in 2014 as part of a deal with Ulster Bank.
It came at a time when Ulster Bank was working to drastically reduce its property loan book.
Most of those loans were sold to US funds which are generally not intending to build long term relationships with borrowers.
James Eyre, the commercial director of Titanic Quarter, said the refinancing deal with Danske was an important step.
"We are delighted to be back working with a local bank and to have significant additional financial support from the shareholders which reinforces their commitment and confidence in Titanic Quarter," he said.
He suggested that it could mean that work begins on various stalled developments.
"These long-term facilities will optimise Titanic Quarter's strategy to progress further planned developments including Grade A offices, media, hotels, residential, leisure and tourism," he added.
Ciaran McLaughlin, corporate banking manager at Danske Bank, said: "Danske Bank is pleased to have agreed long term facilities with Titanic Quarter on its existing investment assets, which are strategically important to the city.
"It was an easy decision for Danske Bank to get involved given the significance of the project."
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The firm developing Belfast's Titanic Quarter has repaid loans which were held by a US investment fund.
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The member for Hollinwood replaces Jim McMahon who won the Oldham West and Royton by-election last month.
Cllr Stretton, who has served as deputy leader since 2014, was chosen over Cllr Arooj Shah, who represents St Mary's ward.
She was elected in 2010 and is chair of the health and well being committee.
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Oldham Council will be led by a woman for the first time in its history, after Jean Stretton was selected by Labour councillors.
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The news is likely to further dampen expectations of rise in interest rates any time soon.
Earlier this month, the Bank of England said that the outlook for global growth had weakened, which was depressing the risk of inflation.
Following this report, many economists forecast that rates would not rise until well into next year.
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UK inflation as measured by the Consumer Prices Index remained at -0.1% in October, figures show.
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The 24-year-old moves south for a reported £12m, and has signed a four-and-a-half-year contract.
The Ghana international made 24 Premier League appearances in 2015-16 as the Foxes won their first title.
But he has started only one league game this season and has not featured at all since the 5-0 Champions League defeat at Porto on 7 December.
Schlupp, who can play in defence, midfield or attack, was left out of Ghana's squad for the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon.
He began his career at Leicester - making 150 appearances for the club, scoring 15 goals - and had a loan spell at Brentford during 2010-11.
West Brom boss Tony Pulis had been interested in Schlupp, who joins a Palace side 17th in the Premier League.
The Eagles, one point above the relegation zone, visit West Ham on Saturday, a game Schlupp is available for.
Allardyce said: "He will bring strength and experience to the defence and will be a major asset for the club."
Sunderland manager David Moyes had earlier confirmed the club had rejected a bid from Palace for Netherlands defender Patrick van Aanholt.
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Sam Allardyce has made versatile Leicester player Jeffrey Schlupp his first signing as Crystal Palace boss.
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They include Kazakhstan's Ilya Ilyin, a four-time world champion who also won gold in the 94kg category at the Beijing Games in 2008.
The others are Kazakhstan trio Zulfiya Chinshanlo (53kg), Maiya Maneza (63kg) and Svetlana Podobedova (75kg).
If all four are disqualified, Kazakhstan would drop from 12th to 23rd in the 2012 medal standings.
Six other lifters who competed at the 2012 Games also tested positive after hundreds of samples were reanalysed.
Among them are Russia's Apti Aukhadov, who won silver at 85kgs, Ukraine's Yuliya Kalina, who took bronze at 58kgs, and Belarusian Marina Shkermankova, who won bronze at 69kgs.
Completing the group of doping positives are Azerbaijan's Boyanka Kostova and Belarus duo Dzina Sazanavets and Yauheni Zharnasek.
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Four London 2012 Olympic weightlifting champions have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
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Mitzi Steady, four, Robert Parker, 59, Philip Allen, 52, and Stephen Vaughan, 34, died in the crash in Bath in 2015.
Bristol Crown Court heard Matthew Gordon, of Grittenham Haulage Ltd, did not know the brakes had to be tested four times a year.
Mr Gordon, 30, of Dauntsey, Wiltshire denies 14 charges against him.
Driver Phillip Potter, 20, denies causing the deaths by dangerous and careless driving.
The lorry hit several pedestrians, including Mitzi from Bath, and a car containing Mr Allen and Mr Vaughan, both from Swansea, and Mr Parker, from Cwmbran, south Wales.
The trial has previously heard Mr Gordon had been told the truck had faulty brakes by other employees.
The jury heard Grittenham Haulage did not have a transport manager in its employ at the time of the crash despite it being a legal requirement.
Mr Gordon said he thought he had "six months grace" to find one.
He said that during that time, checks had been done on the vehicles and he would be alerted to any problems by the drivers either verbally or by text.
He agreed that he had pleaded guilty at Bath Magistrates Court in August last year to eight offences of failing to keep his tachograph records up to date - and 33 similar offences by his company.
Mr Potter, also of Dauntsey, 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.
Peter Wood, 55, from Brinkworth, Wiltshire, a mechanic who carried out safety checks on the truck, denies four charges against him.
The trial continues.
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A haulage company owner whose tipper truck killed four people when its brakes failed admitted he "used to stay away from paperwork", a court heard.
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Keighley MP Kris Hopkins has written to police asking them to investigate.
An audit by PKF Littlejohn LLP found the council had made decisions "without consideration of its legal powers" and may have taken "unlawful actions".
The council's decision to develop a new civic centre came in for heavy criticism in the audit report.
Auditors said the council may have broken the law by trading via the civic centre museum shop.
The audit also picked up on "mathematical errors" in budget documents which "could potentially have influenced decisions made in respect of funding required for 2013-14".
In response to Mr Hopkins' letter, West Yorkshire Police's temporary chief constable Dee Collins said investigators from the economic crime unit would be contacting the auditors.
She said: "Once this review and assessment is completed, we will be in a stronger position to understand if any criminal offences have taken place within the town council."
Mr Hopkins said: "I have been a long-standing critic of Keighley Town Council and, alongside a number of tireless and committed local residents, have raised countless concerns about its reckless and arrogant approach to spending public money.
"This report confirms in graphic detail that our fears were well-founded."
Keighley Town Council said it had received independent legal advice that found the council had not acted outside the law.
Mayor Graham Mitchell added: "There is no evidence of criminality whatsoever in the report."
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Keighley Town Council could be investigated by the police after an audit found "significant weaknesses" in local governance.
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The Outlaws' assistant head coach has been asked to assist with the pre-match warm-up at his home ground.
Franks, 38, who played a solitary one-day international, in 2000, described the call as a "pleasant surprise".
"It's a wonderful opportunity to see England's best prepare for a very exciting series," he said.
"It's an opportunity to pick some brains and look at the best players and how they go about their work, because the best coaches learn from the players."
Franks' senior international experience to date is limited to a wicketless nine overs and just four runs with the bat in a defeat by the West Indies, also at Trent Bridge.
But, after a stint in 2015 coaching the United Arab Emirates. he has developed a growing reputation as a coach at Nottinghamshire, and was promoted to become Peter Moores' first-team assistant in November,
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Nottinghamshire's Paul Franks will join England's coaching staff for the Test match against South Africa at Trent Bridge in July.
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If ever the people in charge decided I was the man they wanted then I would be delighted
The Tottenham boss also said he did not hold any grudges at being overlooked.
Redknapp had been the favourite to succeed Fabio Capello since the Italian quit in February.
"No problem," Redknapp said. "I wish him [Hodgson] all the best. He's a great guy. I've got a great job here (at Spurs). I don't hold grudges."
The Tottenham manager spoke to BBC Sport at Spurs' training ground on Monday morning after the FA made its approach to Hodgson on Sunday. The West Brom boss is due to be holding talks over the role, and is expected to be appointed in the next 48 hours.
Redknapp added: "I'm very happy to be doing what I am at Tottenham.
"I suppose it's all dragged on a bit [selection process] but it's no problem and I'll just get on with my job here and we are looking for a good end to the season.
"I like Roy, he's a top man and a good guy and I wish him great success.
"England have some fantastic players and I'm looking forward to the Euros. Life couldn't be better: the sun is shining, I'm in good health and I'm a very lucky man."
Redknapp had received widespread backing in football since Capello's departure and the approach to Hodgson surprised many.
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In February Hodgson himself said: "Harry's receiving all the backing from virtually all quarters, but it's up to them to decide what they want to do and I don't think it's right for people like myself to say: 'I'm interested or I'm not interested' in the job because I've no idea what the FA have got in mind and what they want to do.
"I think it's right to keep one's options open," he added.
Redknapp had described the England job as the "ultimate job for an Englishman".
"You have to look at the whole thing and realise just what a tough job it is," he said in February.
"No-one has a magic wand. They've all found it very difficult. Whoever takes that job has a real job on his hands.
"At my age (65) I have to do what's right for me. Whatever decision, my family will come first now. If the opportunity comes I will look at it in then."
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The 30-year-old won the last of his 34 caps against New Zealand in 2013.
"I had a phone call from Eddie before he picked the England squad saying I need to get back to the running rugby and get hands on the ball in the wide channels," said Foden.
"That's the first time anyone's ever told me that from England - it was always the other way around."
He added to BBC Radio Northampton: "They always said my counter game was good and I was good with ball in the wide channels but the rest of the game needed working on so it was quite bizarre for him to turn around and say that to me."
Saints, losing Premiership semi-finalists last season, have struggled for form this term and are currently seven points off fourth-placed Harlequins in sixth.
And Foden said his conversation with Jones was linked to the problems his club side have had.
"It just shows where we are as a Northampton back-line, we haven't been firing," he added.
"Individually, I haven't been getting the ball in the wide channels and doing what I used to do in a Northampton Saints shirt.
"Hopefully that will light a fire for a few of us - I think Luther [Burrell] had the same conversation as well."
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Northampton full-back Ben Foden says England head coach Eddie Jones has told him to "get back to running rugby".
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The 21-year-old suffered up the injury late on in Saturday's 1-1 draw at Championship leaders Burnley.
After being recalled early from loan at League One side Millwall, he was making his first Wolves start in five months.
But there is now a chance he may not play again this season, after being ruled out for a minimum of four weeks.
"We will have to see how he progresses," said Wolves medical chief Phil Hayward. "He has sustained an injury to his left quad and scans have revealed it to be a grade two injury.
"He has a chance to be back and available before the end of the season. He will be out for probably four to six weeks."
Wolves boss Kenny Jackett is now without eight first-team players.
Striker Nouha Dicko, wingers Razak Boukari and Jordan Graham and defender Ethan Ebanks-Landell are all out for the season, while centre-half Mike Williamson, winger James Henry and midfielder Dave Edwards are also absent.
Edwards, who is on course to return from his broken foot next month, is still hopeful of being fit for Wales' Euro 2016 campaign this summer.
Williamson and Henry could return sooner, having been lined up to resume training following the Easter weekend.
Beacuse of the international break, Wolves do not have a game until Saturday 2 April when they host former manager Mick McCarthy's Ipswich Town.
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This marks the end of the Welsh government's Open Doors 2015 event.
Caernarfon Castle, Gwynedd, Ruthin Jail, Denbighshire, Caerphilly Castle, Strata Florida Abbey, Ceredigion, and St David's Bishop's Palace, Pembrokeshire, are all involved.
Deputy Tourism Minister Ken Skates said he hoped it had sparked an interest to explore "our fascinating heritage".
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Heritage sites across Wales have free entry this weekend as part of a scheme to get people interested in history.
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The Torquay United goalkeeper has yet to make his debut for the National League side, but no-one else at the club can claim to have faced the kind of players the Gibraltar international has.
In the eight caps he has won for the fledgling football nation, Robba has come up against world champions Germany, Euro 2016 winners Portugal as well as Scotland and the Republic of Ireland.
"It's hard to get my head around it. How the hell am I playing against the European champions? It doesn't make sense," he tells BBC Sport.
But since Gibraltar's acceptance as an international footballing nation in 2013, Robba and his team-mates, who had previously relied on the Island Games to give them 'international' matches against the likes of Jersey, the Isle of Man and Shetland, now find themselves on the same stage as World Cup golden boot winner Thomas Muller.
"The whole team pinches themselves while we're there, because most of them are semi-pros at most," says Robba.
"We've got a few professionals, but even the professionals think 'what are we doing playing against the European champions?'"
But from the heights of having four put past him by Portugal in Porto and 'narrowly' losing 4-1 to Greece in midweek, Robba will come back down to earth with a bump on Saturday as he returns to the bench for Torquay United when they host York City in the National League.
It is the 24-year-old's first professional deal and he is understudy to the club's United States goalkeeper Brendan Moore.
But Robba hopes that playing full-time will help ensure that he is the one who gets the nod for the Rock's big matches.
"It's my first year that I've tried to be a professional, so I have to adapt and I'm still adapting and still trying to get used to it," he says of the switch from part-time to full-time football.
"I'm hoping that this can cement my number one place in the long term in the Gibraltar squad and the line-up.
"It's between me and Jordan Perez, who played against Greece, who's a good goalkeeper himself and played well against Greece.
"I've come to Torquay to try and do my best. Brendan's a really good keeper and a really good guy - I try and push him and he tries and push me. That's football, that's what you do.
"Good competition makes us all better and it's the manager's choice who plays."
How long Robba has to wait to make his debut in England is unclear, but his manager at Torquay, Kevin Nicholson, says he has potential.
"Jamie's come in done great for us, trained well and he's keen to show what he can do," Nicholson said.
"Brendan's been doing very well, so he'll keep his spot, but I know that Jamie won't give up."
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The Reds had their capacity reduced to zero earlier this month when the council revealed they did not have a required safety certificate holder.
The Championship club have now been granted their certificate but the City Ground will only be able to hold 24,357 people - a reduction of 6,088.
Forest begin their 2016-17 campaign at home to Burton Albion on 6 August.
The initial delay was because the council were not satisfied that a suitable person was found to fill the role as certificate holder - a legal requirement for sports clubs - but this issue has now been rectified.
"We are pleased that Nottingham Forest has now put forward a suitable person to take on the crucial role of safety certificate holder," said Nottinghamshire County Council's Robert Fisher.
"However, the council and our Safety Advisory Group partners need to be confident that the club is fully supporting the certificate holder to fulfil their role and unfortunately a number of concerns remain."
A statement from Forest said: "The club will continue to work in partnership with the council in order to address the outstanding issues to ensure that the safety factor is restored to full capacity as quickly as possible."
The Reds, who host Premier League Hull City in pre-season game on Saturday, had attendances higher than 24,357 three times last season - against Derby County in November (25,114), the visit of Leeds United in December (27,551) and the FA Cup fourth-round tie with Watford (24,703).
Fisher added: "We require evidence to demonstrate that safety matters are discussed in senior management meetings at the club.
"We also await an action plan for improvements to the facilities for visiting disabled spectators and an up-to-date written safety policy outlining roles at the club.
"As a consequence of this, a restriction on spectator capacity is required until these issues are resolved.
"The council is continuing to work closely with the club to see that an appropriate action plan is carried out to address remaining issues, so we are able to restore the club's previous full capacity status over the coming weeks."
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Nottingham Forest's capacity has been reduced by 20% by Nottinghamshire County Council to fewer than 25,000.
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Despite being relegated to League One, Mowbray says that he has the backing of Blackburn's owners, Venky's.
"They've been very supportive and I think they are going to give us some financial support, to ensure that we have a very strong season next year," he told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"They are basically telling me that those decisions will be mine. There is no pressure to sell any players."
Mowbray replaced Owen Coyle as manager at Ewood Park in February, but could not save Rovers from being relegated from the Championship on the final day.
The 53-year-old has experience of managing in the third tier having been in charge at Coventry City before Blackburn.
"What I know now is it's a really difficult league," he added. "There are some big strong powerful men in that league. It's a job for men, not for boys, which I found out at Coventry City."
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The 24-year-old from Newport beat Charly Suarez of the Philippines on a split decision in his opening bout on day one of competition.
Cordina will face Hurshid Tojibaev of Uzbekistan in the round of 16 on Tuesday (15:30 BST).
"They had it as a split decision but I thought I won every round," he said.
"The first one is normally my shaky one and it was against a tough opponent in Charlie Suarez."
The 2015 European champion expects another tough contest against the 26-year-old Tojibaev who has fought as a professional and qualified for the Olympics through AIBA Pro Boxing ranking.
The Uzbek scored a unanimous points win over Hakan Erseker of Qatar in his first bout.
"As soon as the draw came out I said I have one of the hardest routes of anyone in the 60kg," added Cordina.
"But you have to beat them all to win the gold and that's what I'm planning on doing.
"I know a bit about Tojibaev and I've seen a couple of his bouts and I'm more than capable of beating him.
"He's going to be very wary of me because I'm a European champion. It is what it is and the best man will win on the day.
"Being the European champion everyone is going to be looking at me as well as the likes of the Cubans and the Russians - it's good."
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Welsh boxer Joe Cordina believes he has got his "shaky" first fight out of his system and has set his sights on lightweight gold in Rio.
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The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has been granted permission by Westminster City Council to replace the Warner Stand at the London ground.
The MCC said the new structure, which includes a 135-seat restaurant with views of the ground, will improve sight-lines and accessibility.
Work is set to begin on the £21m project at the end of the 2015 season.
The redevelopment must first be approved by the club's membership, with the committee set to seek approval at a special general meeting in the summer of 2015.
The current Warner Stand was built in 1958 and its replacement is the first phase of development in the 15-year Masterplan for Lord's, which was unveiled last May.
MCC chief executive Derek Brewer said the club "wants Lord's to be the world's finest cricket ground and this new stand combines the best in architecture with world-class facilities to help achieve that".
"Lord's celebrates its 200th birthday this year and we have a duty to ensure any changes made to the ground will stand the test of time and bring long-term benefits."
He added the MCC, who remain the guardians of the laws and spirit of cricket, will continue to consult with local residents in St John's Wood about the ground's redevelopment.
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Broad, 29 - the world's top-ranked Test bowler - was drafted in after Liam Plunkett suffered a thigh injury.
Plunkett, who had been brought in to replace the injured Steven Finn, will instead try to prove his fitness ahead of the subsequent Twenty20 matches.
Broad has not featured in an England limited-overs squad since the World Cup in March 2015.
England's first one-day international in South Africa is a day-night match in Bloemfontein on 3 February.
Broad took six second-innings wickets for 17 runs in the third Test in Johannesburg to help England to a series win,
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The former owner of BHS, said it was "wholly untrue" that he had tried to pressurise the regulator.
He also attacked statements made by MP Frank Field, calling them "untrue, totally inaccurate and unhelpful".
Sir Philip said: "I would like to apologise sincerely to all the BHS people involved in this sorry affair."
He was responding to press articles suggesting he had been putting pressure on the Pensions Regulator by saying he would help plug the BHS pensions gap if it dropped an investigation into the retail chain's collapse.
He also reacted angrily to statements in the House of Commons on Wednesday by Mr Field, chairman of the Work and Pensions Committee, that Sir Philip was unwilling to reach a pension fund settlement.
"I stated at the [Work and Pensions Select Committee] hearing that it was my intention to try to find a solution, which is a voluntary one, and that is still my aim," he said.
"Contrary to all the coverage I have been working on this issue on a daily basis."
He said that he and his executives, had been co-operating with the Pensions Regulator for some 17 to 18 months.
"Since before the company was sold in March 2015, it was always our intention to find a plan for the BHS pensioners that was better than the Pension Protection Fund and that remains the case today," he said.
The retail tycoon sold BHS for a £1 just over a year before it went bust in April with a pension deficit of £571m.
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Sir Philip Green has hit back at suggestions that he is attempting to "blackmail" the Pensions Regulator over plugging the £571m BHS pension deficit.
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The Jersey hoard was found in a field by metal detectorists Richard Miles and Reg Meade in 2012.
The leather purse is about the size of an average palm and is described as an important find by senior conservator Neil Mahrer.
He said they have so far removed some 40,000 coins and this was the first bag they had come across.
Mr Mahrer said: "It is made of leather, it looks like it is either made of one sheet or bootlace strands.
"It is about 8cm across and 4cm deep. It is joined at one side to two rings that could have been for fixing it to a belt."
The team from Jersey Heritage have been working for the past 18 months on removing the coins one at a time. There are an estimated 70,000 coins in the hoard.
Mr Mahrer said: "The really important thing that might change our ideas is when we get to look at the coins themselves as we don't know the significance of the purse to the people who buried the hoard."
He said they would be removing all the coins surrounding the purse so they could then remove it with the earth in a single block.
The previous major find from the hoard was a selection of gold jewellery.
Mr Mahrer said: "Since removing the gold torques we thought we were in a coin-rich areas but seeing this it looks like we're in a rich seem of surprises again.
"Finding a purse where the whole thing is intact with the coins inside is pretty rare."
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A rare purse has been found in the middle of one of the world's largest hoards of celtic coins.
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The government is so concerned about the lack of cover that it is introducing a new scheme that will force insurers to offer policies at affordable rates.
But that doesn't come in until next year.
Clinton Rogers reports from the village of Moorland.
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Volunteers are rebuilding several uninsured homes on the Somerset Levels after floods that cost the West Country millions of pounds.
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By reaching a settlement, Google will avoid criminal prosecution in the US for profiting from the adverts.
The $500m represents the firm's revenues from the adverts and the revenues generated from the sale of the drugs, federal investigators said.
Google said it should it not have allowed the adverts.
"We banned the advertising of prescription drugs in the US by Canadian pharmacies some time ago," the company said in a short statement.
"However, it's obvious with hindsight that we should not have allowed these ads on Google in the first place."
The US Justice Department said controls over selling the drugs were inadequate.
"While Canada has its own regulatory rules for prescription drugs, Canadian pharmacies that ship prescription drugs to US residents are not subject to Canadian regulatory authority, and many sell drugs obtained from countries other than Canada which lack adequate pharmacy regulations," the department said.
It added that the higher price of the drugs reflected the fact that some could be bought without a doctor's prescription.
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Internet giant Google has agreed to forfeit $500m (£306m) for publishing online adverts from Canadian pharmacies selling illegal drugs to US customers.
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Terrier-cross Molly took months to recover from a skin condition after being neglected by her previous owner.
Vets then discovered she had a third degree heart block which could potentially shorten her life.
Big-hearted members of the public rushed to donate to the appeal, launched by the RSPCA's Coventry branch.
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Since Molly, who has featured on Channel 5's The Dog Rescuers, was signed over to the RSPCA, areas of hair loss she suffered from her skin condition have regrown.
However, she suffered her latest setback when her "heart rate plummeted dangerously slow" on the day she was being neutered.
Danni Holder, kennel supervisor at the Coundon Wedge Drive centre, where Molly has been since May 2016, said: "Molly's heart is beating too slow and if she doesn't have the pacemaker fitted her heart will become worse and will lessen her lifespan.
"She has been on such a journey and we would love her to have the happy ending to her story that she deserves."
When the charity launched its appeal on Thursday morning, Ms Holder said: "We are appealing for people to help us in our appeal to fundraise £2,500 for this so we can mend Molly's broken heart."
Donations flooded in and by 13:30 GMT on Thursday the charity had raised more than its original fundraising target.
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A £2,500 charity appeal to fit a rescue dog with a pacemaker has smashed its target.
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France visit Murrayfield eight days later and England travel to take on Scotland on 24 February.
Away matches against Ireland (10 March) and Italy (17 March) complete Scotland's campaign.
Former Glasgow Warriors boss Townsend, who won 82 Scotland caps as a player, has replaced Vern Cotter and takes charge of next month's summer tour.
The Scots face Italy in Singapore on 10 June then take on Australia in Sydney a week later before a final Test against hosts Fiji on 24 June.
And Townsend's side will face the Wallabies again in their autumn series, after Tests against Samoa and New Zealand.
In this year's Six Nations, Cotter's third in charge, Scotland recorded wins over Ireland, Wales and Italy - their best championship since 2006.
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Neville, a former Manchester United and Everton player, was criticised for his lack of emotion and "monotone" style.
In response, Neville told BBC Radio 5 live the TV role was "a lot harder than I thought it was going to be".
Despite the complaints, the BBC said the footballer would continue to play "a key role throughout the tournament".
A spokesperson added Neville - who is currently a coach for Manchester United and has received broadcast training - was "an important, well-respected member of our team".
Neville told sports presenter Mark Chapman he welcomed the feedback on his performance: "In terms of the content I got out, I thought [it] was quite good.
"But the feedback is that I need to show a bit more excitement, so I think you'll see that more on Thursday night in the highlights show.
"I will get better - it was my first live gig and I'm just glad I helped everyone get to sleep back home!"
The England v Italy match attracted an average 11.5 million viewers, peaking at 15.6 million just before half-time making it one of the most watched programmes of the year so far.
Viewers also took to Twitter to criticise Neville, with several joking England physio Gary Lewin - who was stretchered off after injuring his ankle - had "fallen into a coma" listening to him.
Neville responded saying: "1st live co-comm last night - sometimes u have to take the criticism - it will only make me better- thanks for the feedback (ahhahaha)!"
BBC Radio 5 live broadcaster Danny Baker was among his critics but said the BBC should share the blame.
"Phil Neville has acknowledged he wasn't great during England commentary - but what were the BBC doing giving him that game to 'learn his craft'?" he said.
Neville's next World Cup appearance is as a BBC TV studio guest for Monday night's game between Iran and Nigeria.
The complaints come four months after more than 300 people complained over the corporation's quality of commentary during a snowboarding final at the Winter Olympics.
Viewers complained after Aimee Fuller, Ed Leigh and Tim Warwood cheered when a competitor fell, putting the UK athlete in a bronze medal position.
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The comments sent the value of the US dollar higher, which hit the price of oil and other commodities.
This affected shares in mining companies, who were among the biggest fallers in the UK market.
The FTSE 100 fell 112.45 points to 6,053.35. Fresnillo dropped 7% and Anglo American dropped 4.5%.
Shares in oil companies were also lower, with Royal Dutch Shell down about 4%.
In the FTSE 250, shares in travel company Thomas Cook sank nearly 19% after it said summer bookings had fallen.
The company said holidaymakers were avoiding Turkey because of safety fears, while travel to Belgium had also seen a "sharp decline in demand" after the Brussels attacks.
The travel sector was also under pressure following the news that an Egyptair flight carrying 66 passengers from Paris to Cairo had disappeared.
Shares in travel firm Tui dropped 1.7%.
On the currency markets, the pound was boosted by news of stronger-than-expected retail sales growth in April. Sales volumes rose 1.3% from the month before, according to official data.
The pound was down 0.1% against the dollar at $1.4584, and 0.03% higher against the euro at €1.3017.
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(Close): The market dropped sharply as investors reacted to comments from the Federal Reserve which suggested a US rate rise could come as soon as June.
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The unit at Glenfield Hospital was threatened with closure in 2012 with the nearest service in Birmingham.
A series of changes have now been proposed by NHS England following a national review into children's heart services across the country.
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust said the changes would see the unit move to Leicester Royal Infirmary.
On Thursday, NHS England unanimously agreed the proposals and indicated it expected the new system to be up and running in hospitals by April 2016.
Presenting the review, Ian Dodge at NHS England, said it had been "conclusive, open and transparent and rigorous".
He said: "Our analysis shows these proposals are affordable and deliverable, bearing in mind existing workforce constraints.
"These are national standards and we expect national standards to continue to apply."
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At one time this unit was going to shut and it would have been the end of services in Leicester.
Now there is talk of it surviving but it will need collaboration between Glenfield and other units up and down the country.
The recommendations passed this morning mean they will have to go from two surgeons to four and they will have to build up their case load.
It won't be a walk in the park but the hospital says they think the service can survive.
Kate Shields from University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust said the review would push them to provide excellent services for children and their families.
"We have worked for a really long time to show that we can sustain heart services in Leicester and we are now at the point where we feel that we have been listened to," she said.
She added the trust was already working on the proposals submitted by NHS England.
The hospital wants to move all children's heart unit onto one site at the LRI in the next three years and increase the number of procedures it carries out within the next five years.
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Children's heart services in Leicester have been secured after a new vision was approved by a national board.
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Members of the EIS and FELA voted by 96% to 4% to accept the offer, which was negotiated through the National Joint Negotiating Committee (NJNC).
They had first voted for industrial action in December 2015 and about 4,000 lecturers went on strike in March.
Lecturers said pay varied by up to £10,000 a year at different colleges.
EIS General Secretary Larry Flanagan said: "Members in colleges across Scotland have given their overwhelming approval of the pay offer.
"This pay agreement shows what can be achieved by a group of employees standing together, through their union, to protect their rights."
John Kelly, President of EIS-FELA said: "While this very clear ballot result settles this particular issue over pay, specifically the top of the salary scale for unpromoted lecturers across Scotland, there is still much work to do to agree the detail of all national pay scales.
"We are hopeful that constructive negotiations can move the process forward, so that further industrial action is not necessary in the future."
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Further education college lecturers have approved a national pay offer in a trade union ballot after months of dispute.
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Jason Matthews, 40, of Wolverhampton, parked his Saab before the Greater Manchester Marathon on 19 April.
He said he went back at the weekend and spent the "best part of five or six hours looking around Trafford Park".
Mr Matthews said he had now been told the car was found in the Salford Quays area after a man who saw a newspaper story about it went looking for it.
The marathon runner said it was only his second time in Manchester and he was following diversions while driving his Saab 93 Sport.
He said after the marathon he spent about 90 minutes or longer looking for the car and went to police and registered it as a missing vehicle.
Mr Matthews, who works in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, said he was told on Tuesday afternoon that a man had found the car after reading an article in the Manchester Evening News.
He said: "I'm very grateful.. It's a big burden off my shoulders.
"(But) now I've got the trouble of going up there on the train to retrieve it."
He said he would make a donation to a nominated charity and would see if the man who found it "has a charity in mind".
Mr Matthews said: "It's something I'm going to do out of courtesy. Someone's taken the time to look for it."
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Brownlee, 28, won Olympic gold at London and Rio, and has not ruled out bidding for a third win at Tokyo 2020.
"I'm going to pursue things away from Olympic triathlon; it's important I have a different focus," Brownlee said.
"I've been to three Olympics and I can't say I won't definitely be at a fourth."
Ironman triathlons consist of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile cycle and a full marathon - almost four times further than an Olympic triathlon.
"All triathletes have the ambition to do the almost mystical Ironman World Championships in Hawaii," added Brownlee, who beat his brother Jonny into second place at the Rio Games.
"It's very unlikely that I could do it in the next two years, but I could build up my endurance then maybe go back to it after Tokyo as a 32-year-old."
Brownlee has also revealed his mixed feelings over the attention that followed his decision to help his brother over the finish line at September's season-ending World Series event in Mexico.
Leading with 700m left, Jonny, 26, began to weave over the road in hot and humid conditions in Cozumel.
Third-placed Alistair caught his brother, propping him up for the final couple of hundred metres before pushing him over the line in second place.
"Both Jonny and I were really quite uncomfortable with the attention that came out of that day, especially while Jonny was in intensive care and the jury were deliberating on whether we should be disqualified," he said.
"The scale of the after-effect was incredible and, to be honest, completely baffling. We were both embarrassed at first and wanted to turn down all the attention, but we realised it gave us a platform to talk about triathlon and encourage people to get active.
"The whole Mexico thing brought us to the attention of a lot of people who probably didn't know what triathlon was. So I think now that we can look back on it with the benefit of hindsight, it was probably a good thing - although I'd still have preferred Jonny to have won the race."
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Double Olympic triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee is to take two years out from the sport to train for the World Ironman Championships in Hawaii.
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Flynn's side are 22nd in League Two, two points above Hartlepool in the final relegation place.
A win will ensure the Exiles remain in the EFL, but if Pools beat title-chasing Doncaster Rovers, they could return to the National League.
"If we win, it's going to be the biggest party in Newport for a long time," Flynn told BBC Radio Wales.
He continued: "I'm not going to pull any punches or dress it up, it is the biggest game [in their modern history] for so many reasons. It means so much to the club and amazing fans and to me."
Newport were beaten 2-1 by Carlisle United on Saturday after leading in the 12th minute in a game which could have wrapped up their EFL survival.
Flynn says the game against Notts County will be difficult to watch but believes his side can take the win they need to stay up.
"It's going to be horrendous, it's going to be nerve-wracking but I really think the boys are going to deliver because they've been brilliant and I can't ask for much more so I'm quietly confident but it will be a stressful time," he said.
"We've had some unbelievably tough games considering the league and position we were in but they've answered everything and every time we've lost, we've had a good response so I'm hoping we'll get one on Saturday."
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Newport County boss Mike Flynn says their game against Notts County is the biggest in the club's recent history.
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The Syrian leader also said the army faced a shortage of soldiers.
A day earlier, he declared an amnesty for draft-dodgers and deserters.
The conflict is thought to have left more than 230,000 dead and displaced millions. Vast areas are no longer under government control.
Syria's conscript army was once 300,000 strong, but has been roughly halved by deaths, defections, and a rise in draft-dodging, AFP news agency said.
The Syrian leader said the army did not have the manpower to defend the entire country, especially as rebel groups were receiving increased support from outside - a reference to Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar.
"Sometimes, in some circumstances, we are forced to give up areas to move those forces to the areas that we want to hold onto," Mr Assad said in a televised speech to dignitaries in Damascus.
"We must define the important regions that the armed forces hold onto so it doesn't allow the collapse of the rest of the areas."
The BBC's Jim Muir - in neighbouring Lebanon - says it has been evident for some months that Syrian government forces have been focusing on defending certain key areas while not doing everything they might to defend outlying regions where the army is really overstretched.
This year, the Syrian military has lost the north-western provincial capital Idlib, parts of the south, and Palmyra in the north-east, which was taken over by militants of Islamic State.
Bashar Assad said he was sure the army could defend the core areas where it was consolidating - meaning Damascus, the cities of Homs and Hama and the coast.
But other big cities such as Aleppo in the north and Deraa in the south may come under question, our correspondent says.
However, Mr Assad pledged to fight on and ruled out the prospect of any negotiated settlement at the moment.
"The word defeat does not exist in the Syrian army's dictionary," he said, adding that "collapse" was not on the cards.
"We will resist and we will win."
The Syrian army, which is fighting rebels and jihadist groups, began a recruitment drive at the start of July to try to tackle its manpower shortage.
At least 70,000 men have avoided military service, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
More than 80,000 soldiers and pro-government militiamen have been killed since the start of the conflict in March 2011.
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Opener Lumb made 105 as Notts reached 274-5 from a weather-reduced 42 overs.
Chasing 252 from 37 overs after further rain, Paul Collingwood (69) and Michael Richardson (64) kept Durham in touch.
Richardson then fell to Harry Gurney (5-51) with two balls left, but Keaton Jennings hit a six and a four to win it, taking them to 254-8.
The hosts had looked unlikely victors heading into the final over, requiring 12 runs but having not found the boundary for 35 deliveries.
Their task looked even harder when Richardson was dismissed by Gurney, only for number nine Jennings to club the next ball for six and then squeeze the final delivery for four.
Earlier, Lumb had continued his recent fine form by compiling a 101-ball 105 that featured 12 boundaries.
The 36-year-old, who has not represented England since 2014, followed up scores of 184 and 133 against Northants and Warwickshire in his previous two One-Day Cup innings with a third successive century.
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Michael Lumb's third straight One-Day Cup ton could not stop Nottinghamshire slipping to a last-ball two-wicket defeat by Durham at Chester-le-Street.
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The Assembly Speaker says support for the Commonwealth is not part of his personal politics.
However, he said he wanted his approach during his time as Speaker to be about "respect".
He did not comment on whether Ireland should become part of the Commonwealth.
"In upholding the independence and impartiality of the Speaker, my approach during my time in office is going to be one of respect," he added.
"Involvement in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association has naturally not been part of my political life in the past.
"However, I will represent all sides of the House as any Speaker should and I intend to respect and acknowledge the culture and traditions of all sides of the assembly chamber.
"Taking up this position is a first step in demonstrating that approach. I look forward to hosting next week's event to mark Commonwealth Day and its theme of encouraging youth participation in our democratic system."
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Sinn Féin's Mitchel McLaughlin has announced he will take up the position of President of the NI Assembly Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA).
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An Institute of Directors report hailed the business model as a blueprint for success and indicated that the UK could learn from the Manx example.
According to government figures, the estimated value of the Isle of Man space industry for the three years to 2013 will reach £1.1bn.
Many investors have been attracted by the 0% rate of corporation tax.
The report, published in London on 18 May, said: "The Isle of Man shows how quickly a powerful niche can be built by a very small player."
It adds: "In the new space economy, you can be small and succeed. You don't need astronauts to be in the space business."
There are currently 30 space companies located in the Isle of Man out of a international total of 54.
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The Isle of Man has been praised for "building a powerful niche" within the global space industry.
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John Henry Jones, from Trevor, near Llangollen, went missing in 1970.
His family came forward after the reconstructed face of a man found buried in Staffordshire in 1971 was shown on the BBC's Crimewatch.
But Det Insp Dan Ison, of Staffordshire Police, said DNA tests showed the man was not Mr Jones.
Work had been carried out by a dental expert which suggested similarities between Mr Jones's teeth and the man found in Burton-upon-Trent.
"While the DNA test has not resulted in an identification of the body found in Burton, we have been able to rule Mr Jones out of our enquiries," Det Insp Ison said.
"Forty-six years have passed, but the investigation remains open and we'd ask people to check the image and contact us if they have new information."
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An unidentified body found buried in a shallow grave 46 years ago is not a missing man from Denbighshire, detectives have said.
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Hibs trailed Celtic 1-0 at half-time, but the home side hit back through a 27-minute Abi Harrison hat-trick.
Stirling University held Glasgow for 54 minutes before Hayley Lauder, Sarah Crilly and two from Haley Rosen sealed the visitors' victory.
Elsewhere, Glasgow Girls beat Jeanfield Swifts 5-3.
Hearts Ladies against Hutchison Vale was postponed, with a date still to be re-arranged for the tie.
The semi-final draw will take place at Hampden Park on Monday.
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Holders Glasgow City and last year's runner's up Hibernian have both made it through to the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup.
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There were 33 defendants present in the Cairo courtroom to hear the verdicts, while the rest were out on bail.
Family and friends of the defendants cried in shock outside the courthouse, reports said.
The decision to hand over the islands to Saudi Arabia sparked a backlash among many Egyptians.
It was made by Egyptian president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi during a rare visit by Saudi Arabia's King Salman, during which the Saudi king announced plans for aid and investment in Egypt.
Critics says President Sisi "sold" the uninhabited islands, Tiran and Sanafir, in return for the investments.
Saudi-Egyptian island deal sparks anger
But the Egyptian government maintains that the islands always belonged to Saudi Arabia, and were only being looked after by Egypt since the 1950s.
Both secular and Islamist activists called for people to demonstrate against the transfer of the islands.
Police dispersed the protests in April, arresting dozens of people, many of whom were later charged with participation in illegal rallies.
Mr Sisi has faced increasing criticism in recent months on a range of issues, including Egypt's lacklustre economy.
The president, a former army general, previously enjoyed broad support after winning the election in 2014, but has faced increasing discontent.
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The Dutch-owned firm suspended deliveries last month after losing funding.
It had been delivering about 3m letters every week in the three cities, in direct competition with Royal Mail.
The private equity arm of Lloyds bank decided not to invest, triggering a review.
Parent group PostNL said the firm had begun a consultation with affected staff "to minimise the impact of the decision".
The company also pointed out it would continue to collect 80m items a week to be fed into the Royal Mail system for final delivery.
A statement released by PostNL said: "Following the termination of the discussions on the proposed investment in Whistl UK to fund the further rollout of its current end-to-end (E2E) activities, we have assessed alternative scenarios for Whistl's E2E operations.
"Further to this assessment, it has been decided to end Whistl's E2E operations.
"Whistl remains committed to further developing its successful activities in the UK, including downstream access (DSA) service, door-drop media, packets and parcels and logistics."
About 1,800 workers were employed by Whistl, with many on zero-hours contracts.
Whistl is the second largest postal operator in the UK.
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Postal business Whistl has confirmed it is ending its home delivery service in London, Liverpool and Manchester, putting up to 1,800 jobs at risk.
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The supervised injection site opened in Vancouver in 2003 with a federal exemption permitting illegal drug use.
Its supporters say it has helped prevent overdoses, reduced infections, and curbed crime and open drug use.
But the federal government said in 2008 that the facility should close, arguing it promoted addiction.
The top court issued its unanimous 9-0 decision on Friday.
Addicts must bring their own drugs to the Insite facility, where they are supplied with clean needles and sterilised water. They inject at 12 stainless-steel alcoves with mirrors on the walls so nurses on a raised platform can see them.
The court said in its ruling that in the clinic's eight-year history, "Insite has been proven to save lives with no discernible negative impact on the public safety and health objectives of Canada".
"The risk of death and disease to injection drug users is grossly disproportionate to any benefit that Canada might derive from presenting a uniform stance on the possession of narcotics."
Correspondents say the ruling suggests the right of a province to provide healthcare supersedes the federal government's right to enforce drug laws.
It is thought that the Supreme Court's decision could pave the way for similar facilities to open in other parts of Canada.
The ruling was welcomed by users of the facility and healthcare professionals alike. A crowd celebrated on the street outside Insite.
"Addiction-related drug use is a health issue and not a criminal justice issue," Debra Lynkowski, chief executive of the Canadian Public Health Association, told reporters.
"Collectively, we have the responsibility to protect the health of all Canadians, no matter what their situation."
But Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq was disappointed with the decision.
She told the Canadian parliament: "Our government believes that spending more money on treatment and to help people get off drugs is the best investment we can make."
She added that the government would be reviewing the court's decision.
The facility has been operating under the constitutional exemption to Canada's Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
But the federal government refused to renew the exemption in 2008, arguing that "harm-reduction" programmes diverted funding from addiction-treatment programmes.
The Supreme Court's ruling supports a decision made in 2008 by the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
As of 2009, there were 65 injection facilities in 27 cities in Canada, Australia and western Europe, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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North America's only legal drug-injection site can stay open, Canada's Supreme Court rules, in a defeat for the country's conservative government.
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In the latest mishap, US citizens Bob Weise and Steve Shapiro, both 71, had to seek help in Hayle Harbour, Cornwall, when their sailing boat tipped over, causing a fire on board.
Veteran sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnston is among those criticising the pair.
The duo previously told BBC News they were experienced enough for the trip.
The boat, named Nora, left Norway in July and is aiming for the US state of Maine.
Sir Robin said: "This is no longer a joke.
"It costs between £6,000 and £8,000 every time a lifeboat is launched. These guys are costing the RNLI a fortune.
"They need to frankly pack it in or, I hate to say it, get the hell out of our waters."
James Instance, from Falmouth Coastguard, said he was not aware of anyone being rescued so many times in a short space of time.
Peter Haddock, Hayle harbourmaster, said he was worried about the sailors' safety and that of emergency services.
Mr Haddock said he raised the alarm on Tuesday after seeing smoke coming from the vessel's forward hatch and described the pair as a "catastrophe waiting to happen".
Fire crews extinguished a "small fire" on the 18-tonne yacht, which Mr Shapiro said was caused by a candle, and that "otherwise there was no real damage".
Mr Shapiro, a screenwriter and author from California, said he had been sailing since he was nine and "people had a right to be angry".
"But it's not justifiable, we have the right to the services as much as anybody else.
"The volunteer organisations volunteered to come out, it was their decision."
Mr Shapiro is accompanied by Mr Weise, who is an ex-US Army helicopter pilot and Vietnam veteran.
The RNLI and Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) refused to comment on how much the rescues would have cost.
A spokeswoman for the MCA said: "Search resources are always used in incidents where people report seeing someone in trouble.
"We would always urge people to call 999 and ask for the coastguard if they're in danger or think someone else might be in distress.
"We never put a price on human life. If we get a 999 call we respond and treat it as an emergency."
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Two yachtsmen who have been rescued nine times in seven months have been described as a "catastrophe waiting to happen" and urged to "leave UK waters".
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Police said the 61-year-old man had left his own vehicle when he was struck by the lorry shortly after 13:00. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The eastbound carriageway was closed at Junction 3 while emergency services attended, but has since reopened.
Police said they were attempting to establish the full circumstances of the incident.
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A man has died after being hit by a lorry on the M8 at Livingston in West Lothian.
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The South Africa-born 30-year-old claimed 6-66 on his debut against Nottinghamshire at Old Trafford.
Wagner, who had a stint with Northants in 2014, joined the Red Rose as their overseas player for the 2016 campaign.
"It's a great club and a great place. I always had something for Lancashire when I played here for Ormskirk in 2008," he told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"I came to watch quite a few games for Lancashire and when England played here as well, so I love the ground and everything about it.
"For me to come over here was an easy decision and to come and play a part in such a special club is pretty awesome. I'm lucky to be here."
Wagner's figures were the best by a bowler making his Lancashire first-class debut since 1923.
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New Zealand seamer Neil Wagner has spoken of his pride at being able to play for Lancashire this season.
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The group wants to hold the events on 4 March in Locharbriggs - where it is based - and nearby Dumfries.
Dumfries and Galloway Council's licensing panel is being asked to issue permission for both events.
However, a parish priest in Dumfries has objected to the march saying it has "no reason whatsoever, historical or otherwise" to be held in the town.
The council has to be consulted by anyone wishing to hold any public procession.
The Locharbriggs Loyal Orange Lodge wants to stage one march through Dumfries at 15:30 on Saturday 4 March lasting for about 45 minutes.
It would follow a route along New Abbey Road, Laurieknowe, Galloway Street, Buccleuch Street, High Street, Shakespeare Street and Nith Place before ending at the Dock Park.
The second procession - starting at 18:00 - would take place for about half an hour through Locharbriggs.
It has been estimated that 75 people would take part in the Dumfries procession and 50 people in the Locharbriggs one.
Fr Jim Hayes of St Teresa's RC church has made a representation against the marches.
He said he was "dismayed" to see a procession being brought into the "heart of Dumfries".
He said he hoped marches of this kind by "any group of any persuasion" would "disappear from Scottish life altogether".
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An Orange Lodge in southern Scotland is seeking approval for two processions to mark its 25th anniversary.
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Normally, clocks are put forward an hour on the last Sunday in March, and then put back an hour on the last Sunday in October.
In 2016, summer time will last from 27 March to 30 October.
During that time, we move our clocks forward by an hour - so, if you normally get up at 8am, it will feel like 7am.
The change is called 'daylight saving', and the idea is to make the most of natural daylight, by arranging for the hours of the day when we do the most things to happen when it's light.
Starting the day earlier means that mornings are darker, but it stays light for longer in the evenings.
It was first done in the UK in 1916 - 100 years ago - during the First World War.
The aim was to save fuel, and give people more time to work in the fields.
Now, some people think that we should have British Summer Time all year round.
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At 1am on Easter Sunday, the clocks moved forward by one hour, marking the start of British Summer Time.
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His return comes after an invitation of fellow co-founder Jack Dorsey, who was brought back as chief executive in 2015.
Mr Dorsey has been trying to reboot Twitter, which claims more than 300 million monthly users, but has struggled to turn a profit.
Twitter's stock bounced nearly 2% on the news.
Mr Stone said he will focus on the culture of the company.
"I'll shape the experience internally so it's also felt outside the company," he wrote. "More soon."
Mr Stone left Twitter in 2011, after the exit of fellow co-founders.
He went on to start the publishing platform Medium and a search app, Jelly Industries, which Pinterest acquired this year.
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After a recent visit to Twitter, Mr Stone said he couldn't turn down the chance to work there again.
"When I stood next to Jack addressing the crowd of employees, I felt the energy, and I was overcome with emotion," he wrote in a post on Medium. "I realised in that moment that Twitter was the most important work of my life."
Mr Dorsey also shared the news on Twitter, writing: "Excited to have Biz's energy and heart back at Twitter! #BizIsBack"
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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has said he plans to rejoin the social media site in the next few weeks.
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Unite said workers at the Atomic Weapons Establishment's (AWE) two Berkshire sites would strike for 12 days over a pensions dispute.
AWE, which builds the UK's Trident submarine warheads, said it had put "resilient measures in place".
It added that its pension scheme was "very competitive".
The walk-out of around 700 workers at Aldermaston and Burghfield in June, July, August and September will bring the number of strike days since November to 30.
Unite regional officer Bob Middleton said: "We know that our members' action has caused serious disruption to the production of the Trident warheads.
"We also know that convoys to Scotland carrying the missiles have been limited."
The dispute centres on Unite's claim that promises about pensions were broken after the scheme was moved to the private sector in the 1990s.
An AWE spokesperson said: "We are actively seeking to re-engage with Unite to find a positive resolution to this dispute."
The union Prospect agreed a pension settlement for its AWE members in February.
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A union claims strikes have resulted in "serious disruption" to the UK's nuclear weapons programme as it announced further industrial action.
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Tourists may have caught a glimpse of the future monarch in uniform riding his horse Wellesley in The Mall.
As Colonel of the Irish Guards, Prince William inspected the troops ahead of the parade on 17 June.
More than 6,000 spectators watched the inspection in Horse Guards Parade.
There were more than 200 military horses on parade and 400 musicians.
Trooping the Colour has commemorated the birthday of the sovereign for more than 250 years.
It also functions as a display of army drills, music and horsemanship.
The Duke of Cambridge became the Colonel of the Irish Guards in 2011.
The last time the battalion trooped the colour in front of the Queen was in 2009.
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The Duke of Cambridge has taken part in the military rehearsal for the Queen's Birthday Parade, also known as Trooping the Colour, for the first time.
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Victoria and South Australia are experiencing higher than expected numbers of mice, the CSIRO said.
The agency characterises a mouse plague as more than 1,000 mice per hectare (2,471 per acre).
If conditions bring enough food, the population could hit that number within months, researcher Steve Henry said.
"We had a terrific spring this year which lead to record crops," Mr Henry told the BBC.
"Those conditions that lead to great crops are also really favourable for mice."
The CSIRO could not give a current figure for mice per hectare, but said data from traps and anecdotal evidence pointed to a population spike. About five mice per hectare would be considered normal, Mr Henry said.
Mouse plagues regularly occur only in Australia's grain belts and a province in north-west China, the CSIRO said.
Victoria and South Australia occupy a large part of the Murray-Darling Basin, a fertile region accounting for almost 40% of Australia's agricultural income, according to the government.
Outbreaks of mice create a significant financial hit to farmers who are forced to buy costly bait and often re-sow crops.
Mr Henry said outbreaks also led to stress in rural communities.
"It's the fact that they are invading people's houses, they're in their vehicles, everywhere they turn around there's a mouse," he said.
"People in the cities are aghast when they have a mouse in the house. These people in the country, they're jamming up every crack in their house with steel wool to stop the mice from getting in."
Mice were introduced to Australia by European settlers. They have few natural predators and face little competition from native wildlife.
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Australia's science agency has warned that spring rains have created ideal conditions for a mouse plague in the country's breadbasket.
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The decision comes as some clinicians warned it could put patients at risk.
The unit would carry out complex vascular surgery for potentially life-threatening conditions like abdominal aortic aneurysms.
However, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said this only represented about 20% of its vascular treatments.
The health board insisted the majority of its vascular services would still be carried out at the other hospital sites across north Wales, including Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor and Wrexham Maelor Hospital.
"Currently, around 300 complex vascular surgery operations are carried out each year in North Wales - representing about 20% of our vascular activity - and we are committed to continuing the majority of our work at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Ysbyty Glan Clwyd and Wrexham Maelor Hospital," said Dr Evan Moore, the board's executive medical director.
"Units such as these - which provide a hub for major vascular arterial operations - are being created across the UK, and there is strong evidence that such sites improve clinical outcomes and patient safety, whilst attracting the best staff and help to develop the best infrastructure."
Vascular medicine covers a wide range of medical procedures and interventions, from screening for risks of aneurysms - where weakened walls of major blood vessels could burst - to treating varicose veins, stroke prevention and helping ensure dialysis patients can continue their treatment.
But speaking ahead of the announcement, one consultant physician at Ysbyty Gwynedd raised concerns.
"This is an integrated service, and other aspects of what we do here would be threatened - radiology, urology and gastroenterology to name just a few," Dr Mahdi Jibani told BBC Wales.
Ken Jones of the North Wales Kidney Association added: "If this service goes, it will cost lives, there's no two ways about it."
Arfon assembly member Sian Gwenllian said it represented "yet another example of services creeping eastwards".
But Dr Moore argued that far from hitting services at other hospitals in the region, vascular services would benefit from a specialised hub.
"Hubs such as the one we have planned, built on the considerable knowledge, skills and practices already here, would protect connected services at these locations.
"These include outpatient consultations, investigations, diagnostic procedures, varicose vein and day case surgeries. It will also ensure strong support for other services such as accident and emergency, urology surgery and renal therapy."
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Health chiefs in north Wales have confirmed plans to site a specialist vascular unit at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire.
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City had led 2-0 from the first leg after their European debut on Thursday.
Defenders Jennifer Beattie and Lucy Bronze fired in from first-half corners to extend the new English champions' lead, as they controlled possession.
Beattie headed in her second after the break, before Isobel Christiansen slotted in City's fourth late on.
Nick Cushing's side have now kept 19 clean sheets in 24 matches in all competitions so far in 2016.
Scotland centre-back Beattie opened the scoring with a low volley from a right-wing corner on 23 minutes and rose unmarked to head in from another right-wing cross after the break.
Striker Jane Ross had also clipped the inside of the post before Bronze - who netted in stoppage time at the end of the first leg - had drilled home from close range before half-time.
Christiansen's neat fourth added to the margin of victory, after Zvezda striker Daryna Apanaschenko had struck the crossbar with their best effort of a one-sided tie.
Zvezda - who reached the last-16 stage in both of the past two seasons and finished second in the Russian league in September - had not lost a home Champions League match since 2009.
Manchester City Women: Bardsley, Bronze (Corboz 77), Stokes, Beattie, Houghton (c), Asllani (Middag 53), Scott, Duggan, Christiansen, Ross, Walsh.
Subs not used: Hourihan, Parris.
Zvezda: Zvarich, Kurochkina, Pozdeeva, Pantyukhina, Orlov, Apanaschenko (c), Makarenko, Andrushchak, Nurgalieva, Kipyatkova.
Referee: Riem Hussein
Attendance: TBC
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Manchester City reached the last 16 of the Women's Champions League as a 4-0 victory in Russia sealed a dominant, 6-0 aggregate win over Zvezda 2005.
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The number of Welsh MPs will fall from 40 to 29 at the next general election as part of a move to reduce the number of MPs across the UK from 650 to 600.
The changes are being made as a result of rules that require broadly equal numbers of voters in each constituency. Welsh constituencies currently have, on average, fewer voters than English ones.
Changes that would have cut the number of Welsh MPs from 40 to 30 were blocked by the Liberal Democrats during the coalition government after an outcry from Labour MPs. Stand by for a repeat of that row.
Today's revised proposals are based on new figures on the electoral register. The average number of voters in each constituency, according to the Office for National Statistics, is 54,300 in Wales, 66,700 in Scotland, 68,200 in Northern Ireland and 70,100 in England.
The Boundary Commission for Wales said it would publish "initial proposals" for Welsh constituencies later this year, to be followed by a period of consultation.
The new map will be drawn with the goal of ensuring each seat has between 71,031 and 78,507 electors.
The average size of the electorate per constituency across the UK is 74,769, with the electorate of each constituency having to be within 5% of that - meaning each must have between 71,031 and 78,507 voters.
Under the proposals, England will lose 32 MPs, Northern Ireland one and Scotland six to create a smaller House of Commons.
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Wales will lose more than a quarter of its MPs under a review of parliamentary constituencies.
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Solomona scored 40 tries in the 2016 season, including a record total of 40 in Super League.
Tigers chairman Steve Gill said in October that the 23-year-old Samoan was not for sale and would be returning to the club on 7 November.
BBC Sport understands Solomona has held talks with rugby union side Sale.
The Premiership club declined to comment on the story.
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Castleford Tigers are to take legal action against winger Denny Solomona after he failed to return to the club for pre-season training.
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The world number two dropped serve in the first game of the match but was rarely troubled by the American in his first outing since GB's Davis Cup semi-final victory over Australia on 20 September.
Murray, 28, said: "I played well, moved well and it was a good start for me."
He will face another American, John Isner, in the third round.
Isner's 6-3 7-6 (7-5) victory over Belgian David Goffin prevented a dress-rehearsal meeting between the world number 16 and Murray before next month's Davis Cup final.
World number one Novak Djokovic also reached round three, beating Slovakia's Martin Klizan 6-2 6-1.
Rafael Nadal also made it through but had a much tougher time.
It took Nadal two hours and 43 minutes to overcome Croatia's Ivo Karlovic 7-5 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (7-4).
Looking ahead to facing Isner, Murray told Sky Sports: "I think he quite likes the conditions here because it's quick and he's a tough guy to play against."
After starting slowly against Johnson, Murray broke the American's serve three times to claim the first set.
The Scot encountered greater resistance in the second set and two double faults in a row helped gift Johnson two break points at 3-3. But a precise drop volley allowed Murray to see off the danger.
With Johnson serving at 4-5, a lob set up three match points and Murray clinched it at the second opportunity when the American sent a forehand long after one hour and 16 minutes.
Meanwhile, Nick Kyrgios could be facing another fine after being given his second code violation of the tournament.
The Australian smashed away a loose ball and nearly hit a linesman after losing the second set in a 1-6 6-4 6-4 defeat by Japan's Kei Nishikori.
Kyrgios, 20, was fined $1,500 (£984) on Tuesday after calling the tournament a "circus" and complaining about the ball kids during his win over Andreas Haider-Maurer.
He could trigger a 28-day ban if he incurs $5,000 (£3,256) in fines before February - a penalty stemming from the suspended ban he received for a sexual comment about Stan Wawrinka's girlfriend during a match in August.
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Britain's Andy Murray had a comfortable 6-2 6-4 victory over Steve Johnson in his opening Shanghai Masters match.
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The 14% fall in net income to $4bn (£3bn) was not as bad as feared. In June, chief executive Michael Corbat warned of a 25% fall in net income.
Consumer banking in North America had a weak quarter. Net income fell 22%, hit by falling sales and higher costs.
But its trading operations were strong in the April-to-June period, with a 10% increase in revenue to $4.7bn.
In particular, the bank's bond trading business did well, reporting a 14% increase in revenue to $3.5bn.
Citigroup attributed the rise to more activity from its big clients.
However, banking analyst Christopher Wheeler from Atlantic Securities believes that business saw a boost in trading activity following the UK's vote to leave the European Union.
In a statement accompanying the results, Mr Corbat said: "These results demonstrate our ability to generate solid earnings in a challenging and volatile environment, again highlighting the resilience of our institution."
Rival banking giant Wells Fargo reported a 3.5% fall in quarterly net income to $5.17bn, which was in line with market expectations.
Wells Fargo profits were hit by the company making extra provisions for loans going bad.
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Citigroup's profits fell in the second quarter because of weakness at its consumer banking business.
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A planned December bout fell through because the fighters "ran out of time", said Klitschko's manager Bernd Boente.
"That'll be the biggest heavyweight fight for years," former world champion Klitschko, 40, told German newspaper Bild.
The WBA has yet to state whether its vacant title would be on the line.
Promotor Eddie Hearn initially blamed confusion over the titles on offer and a "minor injury" to Ukrainian Klitschko for the failure to arrange a December date.
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Klitschko, who will turn 41 in March, lost his WBA WBO and IBF belts to Tyson Fury in November 2015.
Two attempts to stage a rematch collapsed because the Briton suffered an ankle injury and was then declared "medically unfit". Fury has since vacated his WBO and WBA titles.
Joshua won the IBF belt with victory over Charles Martin in April.
"I want to box in March or April against IBF world champion Anthony Joshua," said Klitschko.
"I've never thought about stopping, not once, after the defeat and losing my belts.
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"As long as I can perform in the ring, am fit and motivated, I'll keep going. There will be a couple of big, spectacular fights with me in the ring."
Joshua, 27, has won all of his 17 fights since turning professional following his gold medal at the London 2012 Olympics.
He is expected to find an alternative opponent for his 10 December fight at Manchester Arena.
Former British champion David Price tweeted that he is "coming to knock you out", while American Eric Molina has also reportedly been contacted about a bout.
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Wladimir Klitschko says he wants to fight British heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua in "March or April".
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Works by Matisse, Picasso, Gustav Klimt and Ben Nicholson will be offered at auction at Christie's in February, as well as Sting's Steinway piano.
The auction house said the couple had collected the works "with passion and knowledge" over 20 years.
One painting, Nicholson's March 55 (amethyst) could fetch up to £500,000.
The British abstract painter's 1955 work previously hung in the music room at their house in Queen Anne's Gate. It will be auctioned alongside Robert Mapplethorpe photographs, Matisse's Jazz series and Picasso's lithograph Le Corsage a Carreaux.
Prints by Georges Braque and Rene Magritte, as well as well as more contemporary artists such as Carsten Holler, will be auctioned alongside 20th century furniture and lighting by Post-War masters including Yves Klein.
Andy Waters, head of private collection sales for Christie's London said the Queen Anne's Gate home had "effortlessly combined luxury, rarity and colour".
"Each work of art was carefully chosen and the resulting collection is a testament to Sting and Trudie Styler's informed eye for art and design," said Waters.
The couple, whose four children are now grown up, decided to sell the works after buying a new home in London's Battersea power station development. A Christie's spokesperson said they felt it was "time for a change".
More than 200 separate lots are due to be auctioned on 24 February 2016, with estimates ranging from £1,000 to £500,000.
Christie's said the collection also demonstrated the couple's support for young contemporary artists. It includes works by Emily Allchurch and Giles Alexander and a "striking" series of panels by Russian artist Veronica Smirnoff, specially commissioned for the staircase of the house.
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Musician Sting and wife Trudie Styler are selling more than 200 items from their art collection, previously housed in their former family home in London.
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The Yemeni troops, along with a force of local tribesman, were backed by the United Arab Emirates and US forces.
The US views Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) as the most dangerous wing of the terror group.
AQAP has taken advantage of the chaos of the Yemeni civil war to expand in the oil and gas rich south.
The aim of the mission was to "degrade" AQAP's abilities, Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis said.
But local people said the militants did not put up a fight, and simply melted away into the mountains.
As a result, the province's main cities are said to be under government control for the first time in years.
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Forces backing Yemen's government have reportedly driven al-Qaeda fighters out of the main cities of the southern province of Shabwa.
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The arrests come after more than 5,700 complaints about the websites were made to the Advertising Standards Authority and Citizens Advice.
Most were linked to alleged scams over fees charged for tax return, driving licence and passport applications.
Those held last week under the Fraud Act are on police bail, trading standards officials have announced.
An awareness campaign is also being launched by the government warning people to look out for the misleading internet sites, whose URLs often contain fragments of official web addresses, such as "govuk" or "directgov".
Official government services can be found by searching on the gov.uk website.
Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer organisation Which? said the copycat websites mislead people into paying potentially hundreds of pounds for services that should be free.
The National Trading Standards Board said it was making it "as difficult as possible" for online hoaxers to operate.
Its chairman Lord Harris said: "We have been working with search engines such as Google and Bing to remove adverts from online search results and we continue to gather intelligence across the country to help tackle this issue.
"We urge you to avoid unofficial websites which could leave you out of pocket or at risk of identity theft."
Consumer affairs minister Jo Swinson said: "It's great that it's becoming easier and more common to use the internet to order official documents such as passports or tax discs, but people should be aware of rogue websites that are out there trying to exploit them and take their hard-earned cash and even put them at risk of identity theft.
"The enforcement action which the National Trading Standards eCrime team has taken demonstrates the government's commitment to tackling these scammers. We will not let them get away with misleading consumers."
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Five people have been arrested as part of a crackdown on websites made to look like official government sites.
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The European Union has approved significant changes to data laws, aimed at putting individuals back in charge of their information.
It is the biggest shake-up to privacy regulation for 20 years, according to experts.
The changes would make privacy "a board-level issue", one lawyer said.
Peter Church, a technology lawyer at Linklaters, said it would make businesses "start taking these issues a lot more seriously".
US technology companies already have an uneasy relationship with European regulators, with both Google and Facebook facing big fines - Facebook over its use of cookies and Google over its privacy policy.
Although this new law will not come into force until 2018, the changes meant the tech giants would have to "pay more attention to what regulators are saying", said Mr Church.
The new draft policy, in discussion since 2012, will need to be ratified by the European Parliament next year.
Other changes include:
Jan Philipp Albrech, chief negotiator, said of deal: "This would be a major step forward for consumer protection and competition and ensure Europe has data protection rules that are fit for purpose in the digital age."
Stewart Room, head of data privacy at PwC, said: "The scale and breadth of the EU's changes to privacy rules will deliver unprecedented challenges for business and every entity that holds of uses European personal data both inside and outside the EU.
"Most companies will be shocked at the scale of the new rules and the work that needs to be done before the laws take effect in two years - it is not much time for the magnitude of the internal changes that will be required."
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Reports in Australia say that it could knock as much as £200m (A$425m) off its value.
The parent company of the bank plans to float the Glasgow-based lender in Australia later this year.
Chancellor George Osborne announced he was phasing out the bank levy.
He also announced plans to introduce an 8% surcharge on bank profits, in addition to corporation tax.
That knocked share prices of smaller UK banks which are already traded.
A bank analyst at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia calculated that would knock A$425m off its valuation, and suggested that could push National Australia Bank (NAB) to sell off a larger stake in order to meet its target for raising capital.
A spokesman for the NAB was reported by the Melbourne Herald Sun saying the move would have no impact on the parent bank's earnings.
A spokesman in Glasgow for Clydesdale Bank, which includes the Yorkshire Bank brand, declined to comment.
Clydesdale Bank is seen at the Melbourne headquarters and in the Australian media as a drag on NAB, having amassed a large portfolio of bad property loans, and the high costs of redress for mis-selling financial products.
The new NAB chief executive, Andrew Thorburn, has made it a priority to split Clydesdale, handing up to 80% of it to NAB investors and selling the remainder on London and Australian exchanges.
Earlier this week, senior staff at NAB in Melbourne set out the case for investing in the spun-off UK bank, to institutional investors in Australia.
They portrayed it as one of the so-called challenger banks which is best placed to take on the British market's 'big five'.
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The surcharge tax on bank profits announced in the Budget is being seen as another blow for the sale of Clydesdale Bank.
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The car bonnet would be sticky so that if it hit a person, they would stick to the car.
This would stop the them falling back onto the road after the collision, which could injure them even more.
Google's idea is aimed at driverless cars but could be used on regular cars too.
Don't worry, the sticky layer would be covered by a special coating, so flies wouldn't get stuck to the car too.
It is just an idea at the moment but it could be something we see on our roads in the future!
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Google's got a new idea to keep pedestrians safer on the roads - having sticky cars!
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The North East county have been demoted after accepting a £3.8m financial aid package from the ECB.
"The ECB have to hold their hands up and look at the system they have created," said Vaughan.
Counties currently have to bid to stage international matches at their grounds.
Durham reportedly paid £923,000 to stage England's Test match against Sri Lanka in May, which ended in victory for the home side.
But they have now lost the right to stage Test cricket at the Riverside and will start next season with a 48-point deduction.
Durham finished fourth in Division One last year and their relegation means Hampshire, who were second bottom, have been reinstated.
"The decision has been coming," Vaughan, who also represented Yorkshire, told BBC Radio 5 live. "For many years, there have been a few counties who have gone through financial difficulties.
"These counties get put under so much pressure to bid for the right for a Test match and one-day games.
"In this case, Durham have found it difficult to find investment. This could be a lot worse for them. The ECB bailed them out."
Vaughan said he had "never liked" the process of counties bidding to host international matches.
"I never understood it," he said. "It was taking money out of the pot and putting counties under too much restraint and pressure to sell tickets."
In a statement, the ECB said it had helped Durham because of the "unprecedented seriousness" of their situation.
Former Durham and England fast bowler Steve Harmison said "nobody comes out of this looking very good".
He added: "I don't think the ECB have helped Durham in the last 12-18 months and there has been mismanagement from a Durham point of view."
Lancashire director of cricket Ashley Giles, England's former T20 and ODI coach, said the ECB's policy of trying to "create competition" in order to spread Test cricket throughout the country had "backfired a little bit".
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The Rams are 10th in the Championship, nine points adrift of the top six.
Scotland international Bryson said: "This season's not been good enough. The players must take responsibility.
"If we don't make the play-offs this season we have to build for next season and put things right."
Derby face QPR at Pride Park on Friday in their second game under new manager Gary Rowett.
Another match against London opposition follows on Tuesday, when the Rams are away to play-off rivals Fulham.
"I don't think we can have any more slips," Bryson added.
"The gap is too big. In this league, if you go on a run and win three or four in a row then you never know.
"The games coming up are basically must-win for us if we are going to have any chance. You have to believe.
"We still have eight games to get a wee bit of pride in the season because it's not been the best."
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Nicolas Sagar was working as a pianist on the island and had gone swimming. It is believed he got in to difficulties and drowned.
The 33-year-old was found at Maho Beach by tourists who could not resuscitate him and called emergency services.
Medics pronounced him dead at the scene on Sunday morning and his body was identified later that day.
Mr Sagar's parents are working with the Home Office to repatriate their son's body and arrangements are still being made for his funeral.
Police on the island said there appeared to be no suspicious circumstances and that the incident was a tragic accident.
Mr Sagar, who was also involved in acting and musical directing, previously worked in musical theatre in London and on cruise ships.
He was expected to continue his travelling by visiting Barbados on Monday.
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Kelly Sagar, the deceased's father, said: "He was a wonderful son. The piano was his great love; from the age of eight, the only thing he wanted to do was play piano and sing.
"He was never happier than when he was sitting at the piano with a pint resting on top.
"He was travelling the world doing what he loved.
"Nick worked in the evenings and liked to spend his days on the beach. He'd go swimming there quite often and it appears that on this occasion he got in to difficulty.
"He will be missed terribly."
Mr and Mrs Sagar said they had been comforted by messages posted on their son's social networking site.
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If the team had to change the gearbox as a result of damage from Silverstone, Rosberg would be hit with a five-place grid penalty in Hungary this weekend.
Mercedes said Rosberg would run the gearbox in practice on Friday at the Hungaroring "to make sure it is OK".
A spokesman added: "We are optimistic that it will be."
Rosberg was demoted from second to third place at Silverstone after Mercedes were found to have broken rules restricting radio information given by teams to drivers as they tried to help him fix the problem.
The German heads into the weekend with a one-point championship lead over team-mate Lewis Hamilton.
Mercedes have not won the Hungarian Grand Prix since the start of their domination of F1 following the introduction of turbo hybrid engines in 2014.
Hamilton holds the record, jointly with Michael Schumacher, for most wins at the Hungaroring, with four victories.
Rosberg has never finished higher than fourth at the track.
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Mercedes say they are "optimistic" Nico Rosberg will avoid a grid penalty after the gearbox problem that afflicted him at the British Grand Prix.
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The woman contacted security staff after her waters broke at the Intu Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex.
Although an ambulance was called and arrived quickly, the baby girl was delivered before they got to the scene on Thursday evening.
Paul Lancaster, regional manager of Intu, said the woman had been in "distress" but was now "doing well".
Staff at Primark provided towels for the woman on the second floor of the shopping complex.
She was screened off as she gave birth to her daughter, whose name is understood to be Deborah.
"In 23 years we've never had a birth at the site," said Mr Lancaster. "Plenty of ladies have broken water and gone off to hospital and no doubt a couple of babies have been conceived here.
"It all happened rather quickly before the ambulance could get there. They responded really quickly.
"We didn't think it was immediately going to happen but the baby was born on the spot."
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A shopper ended up giving birth outside a Primark store after she suddenly went into labour.
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During the election campaign, David Cameron talked about how the government needs to save £1 from every £100 it spends - so 3% should put it well ahead of where it needs to be.
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Today's announcement highlights why that 1% cuts figure was not entirely helpful.
The first problem is that things get more expensive, even at a time when the official measure of inflation is negative.
The National Health Service gets more expensive every year because the population is growing and ageing and because as medical science advances there are more things that can be treated.
Indeed, the government has promised an extra £8bn above inflation to the NHS by 2020, which will presumably have to be made up through further cuts in other departments.
Education spending is protected for children aged five to 16 in terms of cash per pupil, so rising pupil numbers would also need to be made up for by cuts elsewhere.
And international aid is protected and will rise in line with the amount the economy grows.
There are other areas of spending that the government will struggle to cut. Although the amount it is borrowing each year is falling, the total amount it has borrowed is still increasing, which means interest must be paid on more money, albeit at a very low interest rate.
The cost of public sector pensions keeps growing as more civil servants retire and live longer.
And the state pension is triply protected, rising by inflation, wages or 2.5%, whichever is the higher.
To deal with all this, the government is planning to cut £12bn from the welfare bill and save £5bn by cutting back on tax avoidance, but most of the rest comes from cutting spending in unprotected departments. And 3% cuts would not be enough.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies reckons that the current plans to cut spending by 1% for the next two years and then freeze it for a third will actually mean cuts for unprotected departments averaging 5.4% a year for three years.
Which is not to say that the government will not be able to achieve such cuts. The last government was fairly successful at achieving the cuts it targeted, although it may be a bit harder this time because any easy cuts have presumably already been made and this government has a relatively small majority if any of its cuts are controversial on the backbenches.
But it is important to distinguish between the 1% figure we heard during the election and the 3% we heard today.
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A spokesman said it was the longest tunnel found to date and was meant for use in attacks on Israeli civilians.
The military wing of Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, dismissed the find, saying the tunnel was not new.
The tunnel is longer than one which Israel announced it had discovered last October which reached 1.7km (1 mile).
Militants have repeatedly tried to penetrate Israel using tunnels under the heavily secured border, managing to use one in a raid which killed two Israeli soldiers and saw a third, Gilad Shalit, kidnapped in 2006.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) did not say when or where the latest tunnel was found, but that it had thwarted a potential attack.
"This advanced tunnel was intended to pose a direct link and threat to Israeli territory, and enable Hamas terrorists to reach and harm Israeli civilians," said spokesman Lt Col Peter Lerner.
"Tunnels such as this are built to assist terrorists in the execution of terror attacks. In the past Gaza terrorists have utilised such tunnels to Israel for infiltration, detonation and abduction of Israeli citizens."
The IDF said it was still investigating the tunnel, which it said ran for hundreds of metres inside Israel - without giving a precise figure.
However Hamas' military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, disputed Israel's claim.
A spokesman noted "there was no military or intelligence achievement by the enemy", adding that "this tunnel is not new.
"It is an old tunnel that Israel exposed two months ago and jihad fighters worked to rebuild it."
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The Israeli military says it has uncovered a tunnel dug by militants from the Gaza Strip which runs hundreds of metres under Israel.
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Needing another 132 for victory with eight wickets in hand on the final day at Grace Road, Wells finished unbeaten on 90 as Sussex strolled home on 234-5.
Anchored by Wells' 190-ball innings, Sussex never looked in any trouble despite losing three wickets.
Sussex have now won back-to-back games, while Leicestershire are still winless.
Their successive victories have come under new captain Chris Nash after Luke Wright stepped down from the role at the start of the month.
Wells has been instrumental in both wins, scoring 155 in the innings victory over Worcestershire, before his match-winning knock in this game.
Sussex head coach Mark Davis told BBC Radio Sussex:
"In our other two wins this season we've been ahead of the game - but here we've come from behind to show loads of character, skill and guts. It was nice to see.
"A couple of individuals will take the headlines, but it was a proper team performance."
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Stephen Kavanagh also said the airline only entered into a pricing arrangement for flying out of the airport.
BIA is suing Aer Lingus for £20m in damages over the switch to George Best Belfast City Airport in 2012.
Proceedings centre on a dispute over the terms of a deal said to have been reached back in June 2007.
It followed months of negotiations as the airline sought to establish a base outside the Republic of Ireland.
Issues under discussion were said to include charging rates and £900,000 in launch support for the three Airbus A320s over the first three years.
According to BIA, the airline then moved its Belfast operation in breach of a binding 10-year contract.
But giving evidence at the hearing on Thursday, Mr Kavanagh rejected that assessment.
Asked about claims his company was under an obligation to stay at Belfast International for 10 years, he replied: "Aer Lingus saw a pricing proposal, based on an initial three aircraft base.
"That was what informed our business case development and analysis, and that is the basis upon which we operated from December 2007 until we left Aldergrove.
"The pricing was adhered to and paid in full."
A barrister for Aer Lingus, further questioned him on a dispute over whether the airline suffered financially from its time at BIA.
"I can be absolute and categorical that Aer Lingus lost a significant amount of money in its operation at Belfast Aldergrove," he responded.
"In terms of our profit, the negative was 44m [euros]. In terms of those costs which directly applied to the operation of the base it was 21m [euros]."
The difference between the two figures was partly based on corporate overheads, he said.
"Without hesitation the operation was loss-making," he said.
"The objective was not just to avoid losses, the objective was to generate a positive return on invested capital.
"So, not only were we far short of breaking even, but we were very much failing in our investment proposition."
The judge was told the situation was in "stark contrast" to other Aer Lingus bases effectively subsidising losses in Belfast.
The airline chief said BIA was made aware of what was happening.
Out of nine routes launched at the airport, five were ultimately cancelled due to the losses, the court heard.
Mr Kavanagh described Aer Lingus's relationship with BIA during the initial years as a partnership both sides were trying to make work.
Referring to talks back in 2007, he said: "The discussions were based on pricing proposals [for] an initial three aircraft base."
The case continues.
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Aer Lingus lost up to 44m euros (£32m) from having a base at Belfast International Airport (BIA), its chief executive has told a court.
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Based on the 1993 comedy film with Bill Murray, the show will be directed by the Old Vic's new boss Matthew Warchus.
Other plays in his inaugural season include Ibsen's The Master Builder, starring Ralph Fiennes, and Pinter's The Caretaker, with Timothy Spall.
Warchus is taking over from Kevin Spacey, the Old Vic's artistic director for 11 years.
He said his first season - which also includes a stage adaptation of Dr Seuss's The Lorax and a dance production of Jekyll and Hyde - reflected a "something for everyone" approach.
He aims to up the number productions per year through shorter runs, and hopes three or four will transfer to the West End or go direct to Broadway via a new partnership with big-name producers Scott Rudin and Sonia Friedman.
Groundhog Day reunites Warchus with three of the creative team behind the hit musical Matilda - composer and lyricist Tim Minchin, choreographer Peter Darling, and designer Rob Howell - who will work with the film's co-writer Danny Rubin.
It tells the story of grumpy TV weatherman Phil Connors who is sent to the small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and gets stuck in a time loop, having to live the same day over and over again.
In an interview with the BBC, Warchus described the show as "an intelligent mainstream Broadway classic" that was ideal for the Old Vic.
"It needs a large audience and a large stage, and I wanted to start it in this country, so it's the perfect match."
He added that the film had made him laugh and cry. "It is really about how little time you have to become the best version of yourself. It's sophisticated meaty stuff in a romantic comedy package."
It will premiere in June 2016 before going to Broadway.
The opening production of the new season in September is Future Conditional, by Tamsin Oglesby, a new play set in a school starring Rob Brydon as a teacher with a cast of 23 "young performers" as his class. Warchus will direct.
That will be followed in October by Eugene O'Neill's American drama The Hairy Ape, directed by Richard Jones.
Warchus will also direct The Master Builder, with Ralph Fiennes as architect Halvard Solness in a new adaptation by David Hare, and also Timothy Spall in Harold Pinter's 1960 classic The Caretaker.
Plans for future seasons include the first revival of Art by Yasmina Reza, a 50th anniversary production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, and a new musical based on the 2014 film Pride, about a group of gay and lesbian activists who supported striking miners in the 1980s, which Warchus directed.
Warchus is also introducing a new ticketing scheme, which will make half of all seats at the first five previews of each production available for £10.
"It's not just about young people," Warchus said. "We'll be trying to guide or nudge those tickets to people who are new theatre goers."
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Last year, National Grid said it would use underground cables instead of pylons between Anglesey and the mainland in Gwynedd.
It said this would protect the Menai Strait's natural beauty.
The tunnel will be based on a network of power tunnels in central London.
Plans to connect Wylfa Newydd at Cemaes Bay to a substation at Pentir, Gwynedd, have been controversial, with campaigners concerned about the impact of pylons.
Aled Rowlands, external affairs manager for National Grid, said: "We are going to be using the same type of technology [that we are using under the River Thames] to go underneath the Menai.
"When we've listened to local people and to those specialist bodies, they've asked us to preserve the natural beauty that's already there.
"This option is more expensive than just putting cables across the top, but we think it's worth it.
"We are looking at probably over £100m just for this cable tunnel to take the link from Anglesey over to the mainland and into the National Grid.
"Here in London, we are digging through London clay. There are very different conditions around the Menai, with some rock and some limestone and some other things, so it's going to be a real engineering challenge for us.
"But at National Grid we do have an expertise in that.
"This project for 34km [in London] has taken about eight years. We think it will be... four or five to build those 4km from Anglesey across to Gwynedd."
Plaid Cymru MP for Arfon Hywel Williams and AM Sian Gwenllian have met with National Grid bosses to push for undergrounding the remaining 1km of electricity connection, for which pylons are currently proposed.
The National Grid has published an interactive map showing the proposed routes of the power cables.
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A tunnel under the Menai Strait, which will contain cables linking Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station to the National Grid, is set to cost £100m and take up to five years to complete.
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Managing director of ITV Studios Kevin Lygo will replace him next month.
Fincham said it was "time to do something different" but added that while he had "no firm plans", he would consider a return to the indie sector.
ITV's chief executive Adam Crozier paid tribute to Fincham as a "great creative partner" and added that he was "delighted" by Lygo's appointment.
Julian Bellamy, managing director of ITV Studios in the UK, will succeed Lygo.
Lygo and Bellamy start their new roles on 1 February, with Fincham staying until the end of March to complete the process of handing over the role.
Fincham, former controller of BBC One, said: "This is a personal decision that I have been thinking about for a good while.
"By the time I leave at Easter I will have been a channel controller at the BBC and ITV, amazing as it seems, for 11 years. Quite simply, it's time to do something different."
He said he had worked at ITV "during a period of great revival", and added: "I haven't made any firm plans for the future yet, but I wouldn't rule out a return to the indie sector - I ran TalkBack for a lot longer than I've been on the broadcasting side and that indie heart has never quite stopped beating. "
His commissions for ITV include Downton Abbey, Broadchurch, Long Lost Family and The Only Way is Essex.
Crozier said: "Peter came to see me in September to say that he wanted to step down and whilst I am sorry to see him leave, eight years is a long time and I fully respect his desire for a new challenge."
He added Lygo was "perfectly placed to lead the commissioning team as we enter this next exciting phase".
Lygo - Channel 4's former director of television - said: "I've had a terrific time over the last five years building ITV Studios in the UK and internationally into the success story that it is today, but the chance to become director of television of the UK's biggest commercial broadcaster was just too good to miss."
ITV also announced David McGraynor, ITV Studios finance director, was to become the chief finance and operating officer of the studios division.
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Business rates, charged on property in England, are due to change in April for the first time in seven years.
Calculations by consultancy Gerald Eve suggest changes to the rateable value of schools mean some will face 40% bill increases.
The government said its own figures suggested state schools overall would see a 2% fall in rates.
Andrew Altman, a specialist schools partner at Gerald Eve, said the firm estimates that the total rates bill for schools in England is about £791m.
But it estimates that this could rise by £131m to about £922m by 2021-22 as the revaluation changes work through.
The figures amount to a rise of about 17% by 2021, said Mr Altman, but this "hides the fact that about a quarter of schools could see actual rate increases of about 40% in the first year".
Mr Altman said he feared that council-run schools would be particularly badly hit as academies have their costs, including rates, met fully, directly from Whitehall.
He said that he expected many schools to appeal against their new business rate rises and questioned why public sector properties were subjected to business rates at all.
"It's circular. It's all public money. It's a very expensive tax to collect and appeal," he added.
National Association of Head Teachers' general secretary Russell Hobby said a sharp increase in business rates would "add to the perfect storm school leaders are experiencing.
"It cannot be right that more and more of the money to schools is being taken back to central and local government."
Mr Hobby said schools were already having to find money, which would otherwise be spent on pupils, to fund the Apprenticeship Levy which also comes into force from April, as well as staff insurance contributions and pension costs.
"The burden on schools is becoming too much," he added, urging the chancellor to "act in next month's Budget to ensure schools have the resources they need".
In a statement, the Department for Communities and Local Government said it did not recognise the Gerald Eve figures and state schools would see a 2% fall in their bills - equivalent to £16m a year.
"The revaluation of business rates means nearly three-quarters of properties will see no change or a fall in their bills," said a spokesman.
The National Day Nurseries Association said its members, who operate as small businesses, feared their business rates could double.
Research late last year by the Lambert Smith Hampton commercial property consultancy estimated rises of 45%, or higher in more affluent areas.
NDNA chief executive Purnima Tanuku said these rises would be "a huge burden" when nurseries were already facing "severe financial pressure" due to the national living wage and uncertainty surrounding the financial viability of the government's plan to double the number of free childcare hours for working families.
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A sharp rise in schools' business rates could push some budgets beyond breaking point, say head teachers' leaders.
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The carrier reported a pre-tax loss of £19.9m in the year to 31 March, despite revenues rising 13.4% to £707.4m.
Flybe said it would start to reduce the size of its fleet after it saw slowing growth in consumer demand.
However, it insisted the current year was going well and efforts to turn a profit again were well underway.
Flybe has struggled in the past year with a series of costly mistakes, including running too many loss-making routes and failed joint ventures.
An aggressive expansion plan increased capacity on the airline by 12.3% to 12.7 million seats, but passenger numbers only rose 7.6% to 8.8 million.
Six Bombardier Q400 aircraft will be cut from the fleet next year.
But the City appeared pleased with the company's future plans to return to profit, with shares up 6% to 35p in early trading.
The company said in a statement: "Despite the substantial progress in reducing the size of legacy fleet orders in 2015/16, Flybe has still seen significant capacity growth in a market where we witnessed slower growth in consumer demand.
"New routes and increased frequencies were targeted to cover marginal costs in the early years of operation, but do not contribute significantly to overall profitability.
"The capacity growth therefore had a negative effect on profitability."
It added: "We will make Flybe a sustainable business that operates the best routes and at the best times to suit the needs of our customers."
Its focus will be on improving its UK routes in particular, and expanding relations with regional airports.
In addition to the over-capacity problems, a major IT upgrade hit profits by £4.8m last year and the company warned that an extra £6m would have to be spent cancelling costly contracts.
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Regional airline Flybe has hit turbulence, running up a near £20m loss after previous expansion plans proved too ambitious.
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Ashton Hewitt went over to put the hosts in the lead while Angus O'Brien kicked the Dragons further ahead.
Two Jack Carty penalties put Connacht back into the game at the break before Hewitt touched down once more.
O'Brien's two drop-goals extended their lead but Niyi Adeolokun's try set up a tense finale for the Dragons.
The hosts had led Connacht by 15 points in the second half but a late resurgence by the Pro12 champions - Adeolokun showing tremendous pace to go over with just over 10 minutes left to play - ran them close.
The Dragons' win, their first in the Pro12 since beating Zebre in September, ended a run of seven consecutive defeats against Connacht, while the Irish province slipped to a second successive defeat after their loss to Leinster.
Kingsley Jones' side were without four players who are part of Wales' autumn international squad with Hallam Amos and the uncapped Cory Hill for the Test against Australia on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Tyler Morgan remains with Wales although he is not in the matchday squad, while Leon Brown is training with Rob Howley's squad while not being a full member.
Dragons head coach Kingsley Jones told BBC Radio Wales:
"It was critical. We've had a difficult start but some good performances at home. If we get the right results our way, we're only a few points behind those eighth and seventh places.
"To get that tonight going into the Anglo-Welsh games was really critical for it. For an hour I was pretty composed and I'm a pretty composed coach but the last 10 minutes my legs were trembling.
"We finished well in a few games at home lately. It was a tight affair and Connacht are a very good side - they'll play to the death and from anywhere and can hurt you from nothing."
Newport Gwent Dragons: Tom Prydie; Pat Howard, Sam Beard, Jack Dixon, Ashton Hewitt; Angus O'Brien, Sarel Pretorius; Phil Price, Thomas Rhys Thomas, Brok Harris, Nick Crosswell, Rynard Landman, Lewis Evans (capt), Ollie Griffiths, Ed Jackson.
Replacements: Rhys Buckley, Sam Hobbs, Lloyd Fairbrother, Matthew Screech, Nic Cudd, Tavis Knoyle, Geriant Rhys Jones, Adam Warren.
Connacht: Tiernan O'Halloran; Niyi Adeolokun, Bundee Aki, Peter Robb, Stacey Ili; Jack Carty, Caolin Blade, JP Cooney, Shane Delahunt, Conor Carey; Quinn Roux, Andrew Browne; Eoin McKeon, Jake Heenan, John Muldoon (capt).
Replacements: Dave Heffernan, Saba Meunargia, Dominic Robertson-McCoy, James Cannon, James Connolly, Conor McKeon, Shane O'Leary, Cian Kelleher,
Referee: George Clancy (IRFU)
Assistant referees: David Wilkinson (IRFU), Jason Bessant (WRU)
Citing commissioner: Jeff Mark (WRU)
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The pupil was on a bus carrying 21 students from Barton-under-Needwood in Staffordshire when it crashed in Birmingham.
She was confirmed dead at the scene in the Castle Vale area of the city.
The teenager was a pupil at John Taylor High School.
Tributes have been paid to Holly, with one person writing on social media: "Absolutely heartbroken for Holly Brown.
"To her family and friends, know that pupils from John Taylor, past and present are devastated RIP."
A second teenage girl was taken to hospital with minor injuries and others were treated at the roadside.
John Taylor High School has tweeted its thanks for support during the "desperately sad time".
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West Midlands Police said the minibus was also carrying four adults - the driver and three teachers.
No arrests have been made. Police said that both drivers were assisting with the "detailed and thorough" investigation.
Police are investigating whether or not all those on board were wearing seat belts.
Birmingham City Council confirmed one of its bin lorries was involved in the crash and they "will be fully co-operating with all investigations".
In a statement, it said: "We are deeply saddened by the death of a teenage girl... on Kingsbury Road and our thoughts are with her family, friends and all those affected."
In a letter home to parents, the school's headteacher explained there had been a fatal accident involving one of its Year 9 pupils and said it would offer any students struggling with the news support and comfort.
Principal Mike Donoghue said: "Our thoughts, at this very tragic and sad time, are with the family, their friends and the pupils and staff involved.
"I am sure that you will join everyone at John Taylor High School in supporting our community in every way you can."
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Connie Jennings, 96, died following the crash on Friday morning, near Murthly on the A9. Ms Jennings was from West Yorkshire.
She was a passenger in a Mazda CX5 which collided with a D&E Coaches single-decker bus.
The driver of the car, a woman in her 60s, sustained less serious injuries. No one else was hurt in the crash.
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Police have released the name of a woman who died after a collision between a car and a bus in Perthshire.
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British producer Ronson got his first number one with Uptown Funk on 14 December, and the single has now claimed the final top spot of 2014.
It was released five weeks early after it was performed by Fleur East on The X Factor, later topping the iTunes chart.
Haenow had topped the Christmas chart with OneRepublic's Something I Need.
Uptown Funk had dropped one place to make way for the former van driver's track over Christmas.
Fellow Briton Ed Sheeran, who scores a 12th week at the top of the album charts, held on to number three in the singles chart, with Thinking Out Loud.
American singer Taylor Swift moved up three places to fourth with Blank Space, while former X Factor star Olly Murs dropped one to fifth with Up, his collaboration with Demi Lovato.
The only new entry went to Alesso featuring Tove Lo with Heroes (We Could Be).
Sheeran's album logged sales of 211,000, his second biggest one-week sales tally since the LP's release back in June.
The top five was completed by Sam Smith, Murs, George Ezra and Take That, who all held their positions.
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Mark Ronson's collaboration with Bruno Mars has reclaimed the number one spot in the singles chart, pushing X Factor winner Ben Haenow down to number two.
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Mr Deby took power in a coup in 1990 and later introduced elections.
A referendum in 2005 scrapped a clause restricting presidents to two terms, but Mr Deby said that if he gets re-elected he will reinstate it.
In the last year, Burundi, Rwanda and Congo-Brazzaville have all changed their constitutions to allow their presidents to run for office again.
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Mr Deby said on Tuesday that reinstating term limits would provide "vitality" to the democracy.
"We must limit terms, we must not concentrate on a system in which a change in power becomes difficult," he told the ruling party.
"In 2005 the constitutional reform was conducted in a context where the life of the nation was in danger," he added.
Africa's longest-serving leaders:
The arrogance of power
The Mobutu and Gaddafi effect
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Chad's President Idriss Deby has announced he will run for a fifth term in April's elections.
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The Serbian club had been banned for three seasons because of the issue.
European football's governing body Uefa said Partizan had broken rules on unpaid debts three times in the past five years.
However a Court of Arbitration for Sport statement said Partizan had provided "new evidence" to show it had paid its tax bills.
The statement added: "On this basis, the parties have agreed the exclusion imposed by (Uefa) shall be deemed to have been made conditional on the club's timely payment of the other overdue payables identified as at September 30, 2016.
"Taking into account the fact that FK Partizan has satisfied this condition, the club will be eligible to compete in future Uefa club competitions."
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Partizan Belgrade have had their European ban lifted after providing evidence they had cleared unpaid debts.
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David Lee Cartwright, from Cefn Mawr, Wrexham, was travelling towards Mold where he worked at the town's Tesco store when the incident happened on Tuesday evening at Pontblyddyn.
He died at the scene.
North Wales Police are appealing for witnesses to the crash involving his red Volkswagen Bora on the A541 road at 21:50 GMT.
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A 31-year-old man who died after his car crashed on a Flintshire road has been named by police.
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The 24-year-old Welshman, who competes in the F42 category, managed 16.14m with his penultimate throw against his able-bodied rivals, finishing fifth.
It beat his previous best of 15.93m set at last year's championships.
Davies is aiming to compete in the shot at the Rio Paralympics after his discus event was removed from the competition.
The Bridgend man, who has limited functionality of his right leg with missing bones and no muscle or ligament growth, took gold in the discus at London 2012 and bronze in the shot and is the current European and world champion in both events.
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Paralympic champion Aled Davies improved his own shot put world record at the British Indoor Championships in Sheffield.
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Llanelli MP Nia Griffith said "everything" will be discussed in the wake of the loss of the English safe seat.
She failed to give Mr Corbyn her full support in a BBC Radio Cymru interview.
Mr Corbyn has said he will not step down in the wake of the loss to the Conservatives.
Copeland had been held by Labour for more than 80 years - the Tories' Trudy Harrison won with 13,748 votes to Labour's Gillian Throughton's 11,601.
Speaking on Post Cyntaf, Ms Griffith said: "The Conservatives are very strong at the moment so there'll be a lot of questions raised now within the party.
"What's important now is discussing the whole thing and what happened in Copeland. Why has it happened and what is the best way forward?"
Asked if the loss raised questions about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, she said: "There will be a lot of discussion about every aspect of our party now and that will probably form a part of it".
When asked if she would resign to trigger another leadership ballot, she added it was important the party rebuilds and needs to be better prepared for future elections.
Meanwhile Gerald Jones, a Labour shadow Welsh minister, told BBC Radio Wales the result was "a significant set back for us as a party and one that we have to now rebuild from".
The Merthyr Tydfil MP said the Labour party has to "take stock" with a "lot of work to do".
Mr Corbyn said while it was "a day of disappointment in Copeland" he would not be quitting as Labour leader.
Asked if he would fall on his sword following the defeat, he said: "No. I was elected leader of this party - I'm proud to lead this party."
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Jeremy Corbyn's future will form part of discussions around the fall out of the Copeland by-election, Labour's shadow defence secretary has said.
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Winch operator Paul Ormsby and winch man Ciarán Smith have been missing since Rescue 116 crashed off the County Mayo coast on 14 March.
The Irish Coast Guard said the search would now also cover coastline along Counties Donegal and Galway.
Four people were on board the helicopter when it came down.
Capt Dara Fitzpatrick died after she was rescued from the sea hours after the crash.
The body of her co-pilot, Capt Mark Duffy, was later recovered from the wreckage.
On Sunday, the wreckage of the helicopter was lifted from the Irish Sea but the two missing crew members were not found.
The Irish Coast Guard, writing on social media, said underwater searches would resume on Thursday, weather permitting.
The extension of the search comes after the sister of Ciarán Smith appealed for fishermen along the Irish coast to join the search.
Orla Smith said that local knowledge could be crucial in finding the two men.
An investigation into what happened to the helicopter is continuing.
The Air Accident Investigation Unit has said there was no indication of any mechanical problems in the seconds before the impact.
It is thought the inquiry into the cause of the crash on 14 March will now focus on operational issues.
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The search for two Irish Coast Guard crew members missing since a helicopter crash has been extended along the Irish coast.
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The firm failed to meet a deadline to provide fuel tank safety instructions to airlines, among other issues, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Boeing has agreed to pay the fine and take action to improve certification.
The agency said it "does not allege that these issues created unsafe conditions".
"It is imperative that everyone complies with our aviation system's high safety standards," said US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.
"This agreement is an important step toward ensuring that Boeing fully meets all applicable compliance standards going forward."
The other violations involve Boeing's delay in addressing incorrectly shaped fasteners used on airliners, as well as production quality control problems.
FAA administrator Michael Huerta said: "Boeing has agreed to implement improvements in its design, planning, production and maintenance planning processes, and has already implemented several of these improvements."
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Aircraft maker Boeing is to pay a $12m (£8m) fine for "multiple pending and potential enforcement cases", the US air regulator has said.
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The Fringe act Dolls, who work with the Cirk La Putyka, carried out the stunt above traffic on Friday.
Josa Koelbel and Bellina Sorensson, from the Czech Republic, dangled from the bridge in a bid to promote their show at the Underbelly Lafayette tent.
Edinburgh City Council said the performers had failed to apply for a licence.
An Edinburgh city council spokeswoman said: "The council was not made aware of this performance which was not permitted or authorised."
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Any artistic performance, event or demonstration where public safety considerations are required must obtain an appropriate licence from the City of Edinburgh Council.
"Failure to obtain the necessary licence may result in a joint inquiry by the police and council licensing board into the matter."
The circus was not available for comment.
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A police investigation has been launched into a Fringe trapeze stunt from an Edinburgh city centre bridge.
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Teresa Kidd, 44, admitted stealing the cash from Glasgow-based Maclay Murray and Spens LLP, where she worked as a purchase ledger supervisor.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard how she duped bosses into signing documents that paid money into bank accounts owned by her and her then partner.
Sentence on Kidd was deferred and she was remanded in custody.
Sheriff John McCormick told her: "This was a complex fraud perpetrated repeatedly by a trusted employee at a firm of solicitors in Glasgow over a period of some five years."
He also told her: "A custodial sentence is almost inevitable."
Kidd, a grandmother, from Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire, admitted embezzling the cash between October 2006 and November 2011.
The court heard how she joined the lawyers firm in 1987 where she "became a trusted member of staff" and was promoted to purchase ledger supervisor.
Procurator fiscal depute Lesley Chambers told the court: "As such she was responsible for making payments to creditors, clients and other beneficiaries using money withdrawn from the corporate bank account of Maclay Murray and Spens."
The court was told Kidd was in charge of staff within the purchase ledger team.
Mrs Chambers said that cash paid out would be drawn up on a "purchase run document" with a list of creditors, the amounts paid and the relevant bank details.
This was signed off by the financial controller who carried out random sample checks on outgoing payments.
A senior member of staff would check that the amounts tallied up with the outgoing details.
The court was told: "Faculty services limited regularly provide the service of advocates to Maclay Murray and Spens and as such they would subsequently submit invoices to them.
"The invoices to them were typically for a four-figure sum although in this particular case sometimes they rose to £10,000 and £11,000."
Mrs Chambers said that for some reason, unlike most invoices, those submitted by the faculty services did not include their bank details and employees had to manually input the details.
Kidd "exploited this" and only targeted invoices relating to the faculty services to carry out her crime.
She "double submitted" invoices to the law firm, one with the correct bank details so the cash was paid to faculty services, and a second invoice with her personal bank details.
Mrs Chambers added: "This practise of double submitting came to light on January 12, 2012."
An investigation into the matter was carried out and Kidd accepted full responsibility for what she had done.
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A financial worker is facing a jail term for embezzling £176,696 from one of Scotland's top legal firms.
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The Insolvency Service said enough coal would be bought to keep the ovens alight as talks with "interested parties" continue about their future.
A spokesman said a further decision would be made next week.
The steelworks are with receivers after owners SSI UK went into liquidation, blaming a slump in global steel prices.
A statement from the Insolvency Service said: "A decision has been made to buy sufficient coal to keep the Redcar Coke Ovens going until the weekend, enabling the Official Receiver to continue discussions with interested parties about purchasing assets in working order.
"A decision about purchasing further coal to keep the ovens operational beyond the weekend will be taken at the end of this week."
The government has promised an £80m aid package to help the 1,700 workers who have lost their jobs.
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Coke ovens at the SSI Steelworks in Redcar will remain lit until at the least the weekend, the site's receivers have confirmed.
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The report on business trends from the accountancy and services group BDO said the UK economy was already showing signs of slowing ahead of the EU vote.
Manufacturing had the gloomiest outlook, and job creation in the economy slowed to a two-year low.
BDO's Peter Hemington said uncertainty prompted by Brexit had also disrupted investment in the UK economy.
The report shows business output, which reflects company orders for the next quarter, slipped to 99 last month, compared with 99.7 in May and 100.6 in April.
Meanwhile, business optimism also slid, falling to 98.9 in June from 99.4 in May.
But Mr Hemington added: "In all likelihood, whatever arrangements the UK eventually arrives at with the EU won't look very different from what we have at the moment.
"So businesses cannot afford to get caught up in the hysteria. They need to hold their nerve and continue to invest in the UK.
"We are at a crucial moment where we must be sensible in protecting the UK economy. We need a plan of action now that gives businesses the added confidence to progress with investment plans."
BDO's research is based on the results of the UK's main business surveys
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Uncertainty around Brexit has dragged UK business output and optimism to three-year lows, a report suggests.
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