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The Bluebirds could receive up to £5m for the Scotland goalkeeper.
But Giles says the 31-year-old is worth at least £8m, underlining Cardiff's malaise in the Championship.
"They are going to get £3.5m and they're selling him on the cheap. And that tells me where the club is going: nowhere," said Giles.
Marshall agreed personal terms with Hull after being omitted from Saturday's Championship defeat by Reading.
The 31-year-old has made more than 280 appearances for Cardiff since arriving from Norwich City for free in 2009.
Cardiff are 17th in the 24-strong division with one win, two draws and two defeats.
Marshall is widely regarded as their star player and Giles, who had two playing stints with the club lasting a combined total of six years, is unhappy at the player leaving.
"I think it's a joke. Personally I think David Marshall is worth £8m, probably more than that to any club," said Giles before Marshall's move was finalised.
"Football today, I hate it, all these stats - they keep going on with stats, but if you look at Marshall's stats, they would without a doubt be better than anyone in the Championship and be a lot better than goalkeepers in the Premier League and they've let him go.
"Probably if Hull win the Premier League they'll get £5m."
"They are going to get £3.5m and they're selling him on the cheap. And that tells me where the club is going: nowhere."
Giles agrees that Cardiff City need a proven goalscorer, but does not believe one will be signed.
"Without a doubt Cardiff need a striker and talking to fans, they're looking for someone to score 15-20 goals a season," he told Radio Wales Sport.
"Well that's not going to happen this year and unfortunately we're looking at a season where if they finish half way, they've done well.
"Is that going to bring your fans back? You'll always get your diehards going, but is that going to get enthusiastic people coming down to Cardiff City Stadium?
"It's a poor Cardiff City when they're watching second-rate football."
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The sale by Cardiff City of captain David Marshall to Hull City has been described as "a joke" by former midfielder David Giles.
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Police said the crash happened at 07:10 on the B7066 Whitburn Link Road, near Polkemmet Country Park.
Several roads have been closed. They are due to open at 12:30.
The 58-year-old man who died was a driver in the stationary car.
The occupants of the van suffered minor injuries. Police are appealing for witnesses.
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A man has died after a van crashed into a stationary car in West Lothian.
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The father of two from Ballymoney was diagnosed with a rare stomach cancer after nurses discovered his iron levels were low when he went to give blood in November 2012.
Chris, who works as an electrical wholesaler, strongly believes it was a trip that saved his life.
"I was one of the fortunate ones, just so lucky when I think about it," he said.
Chris initially thought he may have had an ulcer and was not concerned.
"My health was fine, I was a 40-something rugby player. I worked shifts and thought any tiredness was down to an unusual sleep pattern."
But after receiving a pinprick test at his local blood clinic in Ballymoney, nurses told Chris that he could not donate blood because his iron levels were unusually low and advised him to visit his local GP who then referred him for a colonoscopy.
Chris was then diagnosed with GIST, a rare cancer that occurs in the wall of the stomach and small intestine.
Doctors discovered the 9cm (3.5in) tumour in March 2013 and carried out a successful operation at the Royal Victoria Hospital in May.
"I tried to keep things as normal as I could at home, I have two young girls. Thankfully the cancer didn't spread. I had surgery to remove my stomach. I was 16 stone (100kg) before surgery, now I'm 12 stone (79kg).
The Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service (NIBTS) has shared Chris' story on their Facebook page, describing it as a "story with a difference".
In a post, Chris said: "If it hadn't been for me giving blood, I never would have known about this until it would have been too late.
Now, Chris McIlmoyle is enjoying his life and has returned to work full-time. He has completed an abseil and bungee jump down Belfast City Hospital with his wife in aid of Friends of the Cancer Care Centre.
According to the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service (NIBTS), some 6% of the eligible population donate blood in Northern Ireland.
A spokesperson said: "Most people aged between 17 and 65 years of age could give blood and save lives but unfortunately don't."
Writing on Facebook, Chris said: "Donating blood saves lives and in a different way than normal, it saved mine. Every blood test is like a mini MOT."
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A spur of the moment decision to donate blood changed the life of 42-year-old County Antrim man Chris McIlmoyle.
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But this 7ft tall New Zealander with a sleeve of tattoos is fast becoming the star of the NBA play-offs and is even putting the league's most valuable player Stephen Curry in the shade.
Adams and his Oklahoma City Thunder side beat Golden State Warriors 118-94 in game four of the Western Conference finals on Tuesday, to lead last year's champions 3-1 in the best-of-seven series.
It was the first back-to back defeats for the Warriors this season, a team who set a new NBA record of 73 wins in the regular season.
Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant were the stars of the show for the Thunder, but even they were eclipsed by a moment of magic from Adams.
The 22-year-old, who scored 11 points and seven rebounds in the win, threw a one-handed bullet pass to Andre Roberson just before half-time.
More than 22,000 tweets were sent in an hour about Adams' baseball style throw and the player began trending on Twitter in his native New Zealand and the US.
Then there was a young fan who turned up to the game at Oklahoma's Chesapeake Arena, dressed as Adams with a fake moustache and tattoos in tribute to her hero.
Many Twitter users felt the youngster was the real star of game four and even Adams himself tweeted that it was "absolutely amazing".
In game three Adams hit the headlines after Warriors forward Draymond Green kicked him in the groin area, but avoided suspension.
It led to Thunder fans using the hashtag #standupforsteven in the build-up to Tuesday's game.
Adams has rarely been out of the headlines in the series. After game one he had to apologise for referring to the Warriors' players as "quick little monkeys".
"It was just a poor choice of words," said Adams, who blamed differences in dialect for his comments.
"I wasn't thinking straight. I didn't know it was going to upset anyone."
Then there is his family - Adams is the youngest of 18 siblings.
His brothers are around 6ft 10in to 6ft 11in, while his sisters stand at 6ft 5in to 6ft 6in.
Six of his brothers have played basketball for New Zealand, while his half-sister Valerie, 31, is a double Olympic champion shot putter.
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With his long, ragged hair and handlebar moustache, Steven Adams looks like he has stepped out of the 1970s.
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An appraisal of stock has found some items have an uncertain provenance while others are in a "poor condition".
Curators have compiled a list of items that could go at Brecknock, Powysland, Llanidloes and Radnorshire museums.
A decision will be taken by councillors at a meeting on Thursday.
"The museums accept that one of its key functions is to acquire artefacts and to keep them for posterity," said the report.
"In recent years staff have followed a strict collecting policy, however, historically a number of items, often with uncertain provenance and sometimes in extremely poor condition have been taken into the collection.
"The main driver for the collection review was to reappraise items and to assess their suitability for long-term preservation.
"There are no financially motivated reasons for disposal of any items."
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Old bottles, bikes and blacksmith's bellows are among the items that could be disposed of amid plans to cut back on museum collections, according to Powys council.
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The 34-year-old joins the county as cover for fellow West Indies paceman Fidel Edwards, who broke an ankle while playing football last week.
Best has played 25 Tests and 26 one-day internationals for his country, and taken 316 wickets in 115 first-class wickets at an average of 28.
Like Edwards, he is a Kolpak signing, with South African Ryan McLaren Hampshire's designated overseas player.
"Tino trained with us in Barbados during pre-season and looked good," Hampshire director of cricket Giles White said.
"It's come about at short notice, initially on a short-term contract. He seems excited about the opportunity and very motivated to do well."
Best will play for Hampshire in a three-day second XI match against Somerset at the Ageas Bowl starting on Monday with a view to joining the first-team squad for the County Championship game that begins against Middlesex on Sunday.
As well as Edwards, who will undergo surgery on Tuesday, Hampshire are currently without the services of bowlers Reece Topley, Gareth Berg and Ryan Stevenson through injury.
Ireland seamer Craig Young has also joined the county on a short-term loan deal.
"We'll support Fidel through his recovery and look forward to having him back in a Hampshire shirt as soon as possible," White added. "He's a class act and the team will miss him."
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Fast bowler Tino Best has joined Hampshire on a short-term deal.
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The Geminid shooting stars are due to peak overnight on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 December.
But it's going to be a bit trickier to see them this year because it's happening at the same time as a supermoon - the third one this year.
The light from the closer full moon will make it harder for stargazers.
Meteors are small space rocks ranging from the size of a grain of sand to a pea that enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up, producing a bright streak of light.
Most meteors break off from comets, which are dirty "snowballs" mainly made of ice, but the Geminids are different.
The object they come from, the 3200 Phaethon, is more like an asteroid.
As it orbits, the heat of the Sun causes surface material to crumble, before it tumbles off into space, leaving a trail of rocky debris behind it.
The Earth passes through this trail each year as it orbits around the Sun, and we see them glow as the rock burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.
You don't need any special equipment to view the meteor shower.
Find a clear space away from street lights or the light coming from your house.
Give your eyes enough time to adjust to the dark, and look up.
Hopefully, with clear skies, you will be able to spot them as they blaze across the night sky.
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One of the most dazzling meteor showers of the year is lighting up the sky this week.
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Mr Kerry, 71, was cycling in France when he hit kerb and broke his leg.
He arrived back in the US late on Monday and will be treated at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
It remains unclear how his injury will affect his work as the top diplomat for the US.
He is due to have surgery later on Tuesday.
On the flight back Mr Kerry tweeted with #Onward, "Headed back to Boston. Look fwd to getting leg set & getting back to @StateDept! Meantime, work goes on."
Mr Kerry had been holding talks over the future of Iran's nuclear program in Geneva, Switzerland, one day before his accident.
Experts see any potential agreement as a key diplomatic achievement for the Obama administration.
The deadline to build on the already achieved "framework agreement" is the 30 June.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters on Monday the deadline would not change.
"To be very clear, the secretary is absolutely committed to moving forward with the negotiations, to proceeding with them on the exact same timetable as before his accident," Ms Harf said.
Mr Kerry was unable to attend recent scheduled meetings in Madrid and Paris in person.
Mr Kerry remotely participated in Monday's Paris conference, which has convened the nations who oppose IS.
"I would love to see anyone at the hospital try to stop @JohnKerry from negotiating and working while recovering from breaking his leg," tweeted Jen Psaki, a former State Department spokeswoman.
Medical experts have told US media that it often takes six months to recover from a fractured femur.
Since the accident, Mr Kerry has spoken to President Barack Obama and to Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, according to the State Department.
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Negotiations with Iran about its nuclear programme will continue despite US Secretary of State John Kerry's recent injury, US officials say.
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The tech giant sold 45.51 million iPhones in the three months to 24 September, beating an average estimate of 44.8 million.
The company also forecast higher-than-expected holiday season revenue of between $76bn and $78bn.
But revenue in the fourth quarter fell 9% to $46.85bn.
That meant annual revenue fell for the first time since 2001, highlighting a slowdown in the smartphone market as well as intensifying competition, particularly from Chinese rivals.
Analysis: Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC Technology correspondent
It was no surprise that Apple saw its first fall in annual revenues for 15 years. It became apparent earlier in the year that sales of the iPhone - surely the most profitable product in history - had plateaued and they continued to disappoint this quarter. It was hard to spot any product or market delivering outstanding results - the fact that Apple still hasn't released any figures for its Watch tells its own story - and the 30% fall in China sales looked particularly worrying.
But somehow Apple's Chief Executive Tim Cook still managed to paint a rosy picture. He pointed to the 24% rise in income from services like Apple Music and Apple Pay. He told us that he was thrilled with the response of customers to the iPhone 7 - and that round the world, including in China, demand was outstripping supply.
And crucially he looked forward to a return to growth in the next quarter, with Apple forecasting a record-breaking holiday season. Investors have been looking for reasons to buy back into Apple and that prediction may help continue the recent upward path of the shares.
But the technology crowd is still waiting for some radical new innovation, to prove the company founded by Steve Jobs hasn't lost its creative spark. Tim Cook wouldn't be drawn when quizzed about moves into TV or building a car or a connected speaker like the Amazon Echo. He did say "we have the strongest product pipeline we've ever had". But that is a line we have been hearing for some time.
Apple executives said demand for the new iPhone 7 was strong, despite fiscal fourth-quarter revenue falls in China and the Americas, its two most important markets.
Revenue from Greater China, once seen as Apple's next growth hope, fell 30% in the quarter, after dropping 33% in the previous quarter.
In the same period last year, revenue from Greater China doubled.
Apple's shares were down 3% at about $114.80 in after-hours trading.
"Apple didn't have a great [fourth quarter] as iPhones, Macs, China, the US and what appears to be Watch were down," said Patrick Moorhead, an analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy.
Net income fell to $9.01bn in the fourth quarter, down from $11bn in the same quarter last year.
For the year, net income fell to $45.7bn from $53.4bn.
Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri said it was "impossible to know" if there was any effect yet from rival Samsung halting production of Galaxy Note 7 phones earlier this month.
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Apple has reported its third quarter in a row of falling iPhone sales and revenue, but sales beat analyst expectations.
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The ban is being imposed at the Kumbh Mela, a pilgrimage that has attracted nearly three million people since July.
Authorities say that selfies will be banned on the days that people ritually bathe in the sacred Godavari river.
Organisers say they conducted a study that showed people took too long taking selfies. This slows down the flow of people, leading to pushing and panic.
Signs saying "no selfie zone" can be seen around the two festival sites in the state of Maharashtra.
The festival takes place every three years. It began in mid-July and runs until late September.
The decision was taken after over 100 volunteers conducted a study on behalf of the Kumbhathon group which works with the authorities to help monitor the festival.
"Since 13 July, our volunteers on the field have been collecting data which showed that people stop to take selfies. They also climb to dangerous spots to take selfies," Kumbhathon CEO Sandip Shinde told the Indian Express.
Local official Dr Pravin Gedam told the paper that selfies would only be banned during the "days of the holy dip as we don't want to take away from the festive mood on other days".
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A "no selfie zone" will be implemented at a major Hindu festival in India due to fears they could cause stampedes.
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The Broncos needed to better Salford's result at Batley to keep their hopes of a Super League return alive, but the Red Devils won 42-14 to finish fifth.
Rhys Williams scored three of London's nine tries against Featherstone, who lost all seven games in the Qualifiers.
Both clubs will play in the Championship again in 2017.
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London Broncos thrashed Featherstone in their final Qualifiers match but Salford's victory meant they missed out on a place in the Million Pound Game.
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However, only a fraction of those affected may receive compensation.
Legal filings indicated that 250,000 people had lost some £130m in benefits.
The Court of Appeal suggested the Department for Work and Pensions would owe a mere 1% of that amount, £1.3m, to just 2,500 people.
The complex judgment on Friday was originally prompted by a challenge from Cait Reilly, a geology graduate from Birmingham.
She had argued that requiring her to work at Poundland for no pay constituted a breach of her human rights.
The government - to counter such claims - had retrospectively altered the law to validate the docking of benefits.
Today, the Court of Appeal ruled that even under that new revised law, the docking of benefits could be incompatible with the European Convention of Human Rights.
The Court's ruling represented a defeat for the government.
Padraig Hughes, of Public Interest Lawyers, the group that brought Ms Reilly's case, said: "It is yet a further example of the reckless approach this Government continues to take towards the constitution and the rule of law."
The Court of Appeal judges did nevertheless acknowledge that government ministers can change laws to affect cases retrospectively.
And the judges decided that the only rights infringed upon where those of people that had already claimed the benefits docking was unfair.
This narrowing of the claimants explains why only a tiny fraction of people will be eligible for a payout.
"We are considering the judgment", a DWP spokesman said. "It is only right that jobseekers do all they can to find work while claiming benefits."
It is not clear yet whether either side will make a further appeal.
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The government has lost the latest round of an extended legal battle involving the docking of benefits for jobseekers who refused to participate in unpaid back-to-work schemes.
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One device was listed with a previous sale price of £2,378, but was "reduced" to £1.58.
The computer firm briefly took its UK store offline on Saturday to resolve the error, and said it would not honour the sales that had been made.
"We apologise sincerely to impacted customers for any inconvenience caused," the firm said in a statement.
Over the weekend, a handful of people posted on social media that they had taken advantage of the mistake and ordered laptops.
But according to consumer rights group Citizens Advice, retailers can often cancel online orders if they have made a "genuine and honest mistake on their part that you should have noticed".
HP said buyers would be refunded.
"We can confirm that due to a processing error, select products were wrongly priced on our UK website over the weekend," HP said.
"This has now been corrected with related orders cancelled."
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HP has apologised after an error on its website let shoppers buy expensive laptop computers for less than £2.
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Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) said rock was dug away from cliffs near Bearreraig Bay in an apparent organised search for valuable specimens.
The agency said Skye was known as Scotland's "Dinosaur Isle" because of its important fossil records.
SNH has appealed for witnesses to contact the police.
Skye is a key dinosaur fossil site in Scotland.
Bearreraig Bay, north of Portree, is within a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). A crowbar is suspected to have been used to prise away some of the rock.
Dinosaur footprints may also have been removed from Valtos on Skye, SNH said.
Evidence gathered at Valtos has been used by palaeontologists to explain what has been called the Dino Stampede in Australia, an incident where a group of dinosaurs were pursued by a predator.
SNH said the Bearreraig Bay dig had been done without the landowner's permission or the consent of SNH, which manages the SSSI.
Dr Colin MacFadyen, SNH's geologist, also said the actions went against guidelines in the Scottish Fossil Code.
The codes does allow for the use of mechanical diggers, rock saws and even explosives for extracting fossils, but only when it was to the benefit of palaeontological research.
Dr MacFadyen said: "Fossil collecting is important for scientific and educational purposes, and is a popular hobby.
"It is better for fossils that fall from cliffs to be found, collected and enjoyed rather than be eroded and washed away by the tide.
"However, speeding up the process by large scale rock removal as in this alarming case is irresponsible and illegal, and also potentially dangerous to people as the cliff faces are undermined and destabilised."
Dr MacFadyen said permission to remove material from the SSSI would have been needed from SNH, but it had not been sought.
He said fossil-rich rock had been damaged at the Bearreraig Bay site.
Dr Neil Clark, of University of Glasgow's Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, has described Skye as one of the world's most important palaeontology sites.
Its standing is underlined by the number of finds from the Middle Jurassic, about 170 million years ago.
Dr Clark told the BBC News Scotland website: "This is quite a shock. It is not something I have heard of happening before.
"Without knowing exactly where the damage is I can't say what they were after. It may have been plesiosaur."
He added: "Whatever has been taken is now lost to science."
Finds on Skye have included the earliest turtles known to have lived in water.
The 164-million-year-old reptile fossils were found embedded in a block of rock at the bay of Cladach a'Ghlinne, on the Strathaird peninsula.
The new species formed a missing link between ancient terrestrial turtles and their modern, aquatic descendants.
The discovery of Eileanchelys waldmani, which translates as "the turtle from the island", was reported in the Royal Society journals in 2008.
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Tonnes of rock has been disturbed at a Jurassic site on Skye in what has been described as one of Scotland's most reckless acts of fossil collecting.
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The claim: "We are giving £20bn a year or £350m a week to Brussels."
Reality Check verdict: We are not giving £20bn a year or £350m a week to Brussels - Britain pays £276m a week to the EU budget because of the rebate.
He has gone with that figure despite a letter from the head of the UK statistics watchdog Sir Andrew Dilnot on Thursday, which described it as "potentially misleading".
The figure used is roughly the UK's gross contribution to the EU - the amount that would be contributed to the EU Budget were it not for the rebate.
We say "roughly the UK's gross contribution" because the annual figure that Boris Johnson used was £20bn, somewhat higher than the £18.8bn figure for 2014 - the most recent figure available - while the £350m a week figure is a bit below the actual figure of £361m.
The important point is that it's not the sum we send to Brussels because the rebate is deducted before any money is paid. In 2014, the UK's contribution to the EU budget - the amount we paid to Brussels - was actually £276m a week.
If Britain were to give up the rebate, then the UK would have to pay the gross contribution, and it should be noted that the rebate is not a permanent feature of Britain's membership of the EU.
But we do not pay the gross contribution at the moment, the rebate is safe until 2020, and Britain has a veto over the process that would remove or reduce it.
Sir Andrew Dilnot is particularly concerned about suggestions from Vote Leave that a sum of money equivalent to the gross contribution could be spent on other priorities such as the NHS, when some of it is not spent at all (the rebate) and some of it is currently used to support UK farmers, for example.
READ MORE: The facts behind claims in the EU debate
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Mayor of London Boris Johnson used the figure in The Sun this morning that the UK gives £350m a week to Brussels.
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Kaikai, 20, is back with Town for a second spell from Premier League Crystal Palace and has scored six goals in his last five appearances to lift the club two points clear of trouble.
"He's very important for us," Ogogo, 26, told BBC Radio Shropshire.
"He's got the quality and can score goals out of nothing."
Kaikai, who scored on his only appearances to date for Palace in their League Cup tie against Newcastle in September 2014, first moved to Greenhous Meadow last September and scored five times in 17 games before returning to Selhurst Park at the start of January.
Since coming back to Shropshire the goals have flowed, leading Shrewsbury boss Micky Mellon to question why he has not been part of the England Under-21 squad.
Ogogo, who is wearing the armband in the absence of suspended Nat Knight-Percival, thinks Kaikai has improved since he was last at the club.
"He's always played well but he's now adding goals to his game," said Ogogo.
Kaikai's 11th strike of the season put Town ahead league leaders against Wigan last Saturday before the title challengers hit back in style to win 5-1.
But Ogogo is staying confident over their survival chances despite having to play four sides currently in the top six in their next five games.
"One defeat in 10 games isn't bad - we've been on a good run so we need to dust ourselves down and go again," said Ogogo.
"We've got a tough run-in bit we can't look at other teams."
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Stand-in captain Abu Ogogo says in-form striker Sullay Kaikai will play a key role in Shrewsbury Town's bid to avoid relegation from League One.
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The car mounted a pavement within the grounds of Maidstone Hospital, in Barming, at about 14:40 BST on Tuesday, police said.
The woman, in her 90s, was taken to a hospital in London, where she was later pronounced dead.
Police have appealed for witnesses to the crash, which happened near the hospital's birthing centre.
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A woman in her 90s who was in a wheelchair when she was hit by a car outside a hospital has died.
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The government last year pledged £1.4bn for child mental health by 2020, but a report says millions of pounds is being used to offset NHS cuts elsewhere.
Specialist teams are also turning away up to a quarter of youngsters, it said.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the government was "determined to address" mental health problems.
The previous coalition government promised in 2015 an extra £250m a year during this parliament to improve mental health services for children in England.
However, Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb - who was a health minister at the time - has now overseen a report by an independent commission that says much of the money has failed to reach the areas where it is most needed.
The report - by the Education Policy Institute Independent Commission on Children and Young People's Mental Health - says only £75m made it to the clinical commissioning groups who pay for services last year.
The commission says young people are still struggling to access help - partly because of difficulties in recruiting staff, including mental health nurses and psychiatrists.
According to the report, specialist services are turning away 23% of children and young people referred to them, often because there are "high thresholds" for accessing services.
The authors warned that "something has to go drastically wrong before some services will intervene".
The report challenged Theresa May to develop a "prime minister's challenge on children's mental health", similar to former PM David Cameron's "dementia challenge", which led to increases in investment and awareness.
Mr Lamb, chairman of the commission, said: "The prime minister, in her very first speech, rightly highlighted the inadequacies of the country's mental health provision as a 'burning injustice'.
"Today we call on the government to meet this commitment - and take urgent action to ensure children and young people with mental health problems receive the care they need."
Bev Humphrey, chairwoman of the Mental Health Network - which represents mental health and learning disability service providers in England - said the government had failed "to come close to fulfilling its existing promises on mental health funding".
"This situation means underfunded NHS and social services are struggling to help the growing number of children experiencing serious mental health problems.
"With many services almost at breaking point the commission is right - it really is time to deliver."
Mr Hunt said mental health services for children remained a priority and further plans to improve care would be announced "soon".
"We are already investing £1.4bn to help make sure children get the right care and every area in the country has put together plans on how they will spend the money to transform children's mental health services.
"We are also strengthening the links between schools and mental health services, and driving forward innovation to improve prevention and early support."
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Money earmarked to boost mental health provision for children in England is failing to make it to front-line services, a new report suggests.
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One private hospital told the BBC that 90 people are on a waiting list after it ran out of supplies last week.
Hundreds of thousands of people have signed a national petition for the jab to be offered to all children
It follows a case in England where a mother shared pictures of her daughter dying in hospital from the illness.
Under national guidelines, the vaccine is only available to babies.
All babies in the UK are offered a potentially life-saving vaccine against meningitis B as part of a national immunisation programme.
However, there have been calls for the age limit to be extended to children and teenagers.
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Private hospitals in Northern Ireland are reporting an increase in the number of inquiries from the public about getting the Meningitis B vaccine.
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The company, founded by billionaire Newcastle United boss Mike Ashley, has seen its shares rise 86% since the start of the year.
The FTSE 100 is updated every three months, reflecting changes in the market value of companies.
The reshuffle takes effect from 23 September.
Greek coke bottler Coca Cola Hellenic is also set to join the top flight of London-listed companies after it switched its primary listing from Athens to London earlier this year.
But outsourcing firm Serco has been dropped after its shares fell 8.5% since the end of June.
It is facing an investigation into its practices, and the potential suspension of future government contracts, saw its share price plunge earlier in the summer, before recovering slightly.
Sports Direct, said in a trading update on Wednesday that sales had risen by 18.2% in the 13 weeks to the end of July, compared to the same period last year.
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Retailer Sports Direct will enter the FTSE 100 as part of the latest reshuffle of the 100 biggest companies on the London Stock Exchange.
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The survey, carried out days after Scotland voted "No", found 3% wanted to Wales to be independent.
But there was support for the idea of more powers being devolved to the Welsh Assembly, with 49% in favour.
ICM Research interviewed a random sample of 1,006 people in Wales over the telephone.
The survey found 12% wanted to see the assembly abolished.
The poll also found growing support for UKIP in Wales ahead of next year's general election.
Nigel Farage's party is on 14%, up seven points from the last BBC Wales poll in March.
Labour are down four points to 38%, with the Conservatives on 23% (down one), Plaid Cymru on 13% (down one) and the Liberal Democrats on 7% (down two).
Prof Roger Scully of the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University said: "Support for independence is the lowest I've seen anywhere.
"There has been a clear move towards supporting more powers, and some of the people who may have said 'independence' have gone in that direction.
"We're getting close to a majority saying they want things to go further. There are also pretty low levels of support for abolition of the assembly - the extreme positions are losing out."
An analysis of the voting intention figures by Prof Scully suggests that, on a uniform swing, Labour would gain two seats in the capital - Cardiff North and Cardiff Central - at next May's general election.
The Conservatives would lose Cardiff North but gain Brecon and Radnor; Plaid Cymru would retain their three seats but the Liberal Democrats would be reduced to a solitary Welsh seat at Westminster - Ceredigion.
UKIP's level of support is too low to win their own seat, but high enough to have an impact on some marginal constituencies.
"UKIP's support is clearly going up," said Prof Scully. "They are starting to reach the sort of level where they could make a serious difference in marginal seats."
He said most evidence suggests they are taking more support from the Conservatives than anywhere else, which could be of importance in Tory-held marginal seats like the Vale of Glamorgan and Aberconwy.
ICM Research interviewed a random sample of 1,006 Welsh adults aged 18 or over by telephone on 19-22nd September 2014. Interviews were conducted across Wales and the results have been weighted to the profile of all adults. ICM is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules.
There is more on this story on Week In Week Out on BBC One Wales at 22:35 on Wednesday 24 September.
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Support for Welsh independence has fallen to its lowest recorded level in the wake of the Scottish referendum, according to a poll for BBC Wales.
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Watson's deal expires at the end of the season, but he says he has a "sense of unfinished business" at the club.
"I want to stay," the 25-year old told BBC Scotland ahead of Edinburgh's derby against Glasgow Warriors on Monday.
"At this point in time, I'm doing well for Edinburgh, and the best place for me to keep getting capped is playing in Scotland."
Edinburgh have finished no higher than eighth in the past five Pro12 seasons, and Watson, who played every minute of Scotland's three autumn internationals, wants to follow back-row colleague Magnus Bradbury in pledging his future to the capital side.
"Even though this is my sixth season, it's quite frustrating, because we win really tough games, and once we put together a season, this squad can achieve big things, and I don't want to miss that," he said.
"Definitely, there is a sense of unfinished business. I believe in the next two years we can achieve a lot if we hold on to all of our players."
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About 80 items, including artwork, letters and clothing from collections around the world will go on display in Winchester in the summer.
Exhibits will include the author's silk pelisse coat, her purse and sewing box.
A portrait, not been seen in public for more than 40 years, is also included.
It is one of five to be brought together for the show.
The exhibition takes place at The Gallery in Winchester Discovery Centre - a few miles from Austen's birthplace of Steventon - from 13 May to 24 July.
Co-curator Louise West said: "The bringing together for the first time of five portraits of Jane Austen will, we hope, provoke reaction and excite argument about the mysterious Miss Austen.
"This is a new way of exploring Austen's identity and we are thrilled to be sharing this opportunity with the public."
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An exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death will feature writings from her teenage years and the original ending she wrote for her novel Persuasion.
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Connors, 21, began his career with Fulham and joined the Daggers in 2011 on a two-year scholarship.
"He is versatile, can play in two or three positions and he knows Scott Doe and Luke Howell from their time at Dagenham," said boss Luke Garrard.
"Jack's signing was important for us in terms of quality and squad depth."
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Boreham Wood have signed defender Jack Connors on loan from League Two side Dagenham & Redbridge until the end of the season.
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Henrikh Mkhitaryan's sublime solo goal proved the difference as second-placed Dortmund moved within five points.
The Armenia captain ran at the away defence from deep before firing into the bottom corner from 20 yards.
Pep Guardiola's side can restore their eight-point lead with a win at relegation battlers Augsburg on Sunday.
Bayer Leverkusen moved into third when they fought back from behind to win 2-1 at Darmstadt, while Hertha Berlin dropped to fourth after losing 2-0 at Stuttgart.
Second-bottom Hoffenheim, with new 28-year-old manager Julian Nagelsmann taking charge for the first time, drew 1-1 at relegation rivals Werder Bremen.
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The pool will have a see-through bottom so that people using it can peer down to the ground as they swim.
It will be 35 metres up in the air and will link two blocks of flats near Battersea, in London.
Nicknamed "Sky Pool", it has been described as a world first.
These pictures are artists impressions of what the pool bridge will look like when it's completed in the summer of 2019.
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A security source told the BBC that at least 35 soldiers and allied Sunni tribesmen were killed in a series of suicide car bomb attacks.
A senior IS leader was also said to have been killed east of the city.
Government forces have encircled Ramadi and are preparing for a final assault on the city, which IS overran in May.
Last week, troops retook the key western district of Tamim, which is only separated from the city centre by a tributary of the Euphrates, and the headquarters of the Iraqi military's Anbar Operations Command.
On Monday, a senior source in the Anbar Operations Command said IS militants launched a wave of attacks across Ramadi as they tried to regain areas recently recaptured by government forces.
Five suicide bombers drove cars packed with explosives at government positions, including those in the northern district of Albu Farraj, killing more than 20 soldiers and tribesmen, the source added.
At least 15 militants were subsequently killed in a gun battle, before Iraqi and US-led air strikes forced the rest of the attackers to retreat.
A sixth suicide car bomb attack, in south-western Ramadi, killed another 15 soldiers and tribesmen, the source said.
Iraqi media also reported that an IS leader in charge of setting up car bombs had been killed along with four of his aides in a military operation in the Jazirat al-Khalidiya area, 12 miles (20km) east of Ramadi.
Security sources identified the militant as Ibrahim al-Halabi, a Syrian national.
The US military believes there are between 600 and 1,000 IS militants in Ramadi.
It says they have developed a strong defensive system in and around the city, including using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to create minefields.
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About 80,000 lightning strikes were recorded, some damaging power generation facilities, while winds toppled over 22 transmission towers.
Power was restored to Adelaide area by 03:00 local time (17:30 GMT) but tens of thousands of homes remain cut off.
On Thursday, authorities advised people to leave work early as winds were expected to intensify again.
How 'unprecedented' storm played out
The state premier said "twin tornadoes" had hit northern areas in "an extreme weather event" on Wednesday. Jay Weatherill compared the storm to Hurricane Sandy which hit New York in 2012.
He said officials in charges of the power grid had told him "any system would not be able to cope with a weather system of this kind".
"We had winds which were so strong that when they hit power lines they created such energy they were tearing the towers out of the ground."
While South Australia's wild weather was widely forecast, no-one could really predict the impact it would have on everyday life.
In Adelaide, commuters were left feeling their way in the dark as the lights went off on their way home. Gridlock followed, as trains and trams came to a standstill.
At the airport, some passengers had to depend on handwritten boarding passes, after power for the printers failed. Some describe the whole experience as "apocalyptic", while one woman, who was on the operating table in the local hospital and about to undergo surgery, said it was simply "funny".
What has been predictable is that an extreme weather event has very quickly turned into an Australian political storm, with the state's dependency on renewable energy now being debated with the full force and bluster of a tornado.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said the storm was a once-in-50-years event.
It is forecasting further heavy rainfall throughout Thursday and into Friday. Further gales of up to 140km/h (87mph) are expected, and flood warnings remain in place.
On Thursday, South Australia's State Emergency Service has warned residents to prepare for more high winds and rain, cautioning there was "a potentially very dangerous" weather system gathering, with winds of up to 125km/h (78mph) predicted.
"As the winds increase, rainfall intensity is also expected to increase," said Chief Officer Chris Beattie.
"High tides this afternoon and evening will result in significant storm surges" he added, recommending that workers go home early.
Influential South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon has called for a independent inquiry.
"This is a disgrace. How did this happen? How is an entire state blacked out?" he said.
The Australian Energy Market Operator, which controls the nation's electricity network, said it was still working to understand the cause of the fault.
It urged Australians to "take care during this outage and to follow the safety advice and guidelines issued by the South Australian government and emergency services".
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The 19-year-old netted on her debut for Arsenal Ladies in 2013 and scored 22 goals in her first full season with the north London club.
Humphrey is the Belles sixth signing following their promotion to Women's Super League One.
"I want to get some more experience and help the team do as well as we can," she told the club website.
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Doncaster Rovers Belles have signed Arsenal Ladies' teenage midfielder Carla Humphrey on loan.
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It was originally designed and built for billionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who wanted to make the world's first solo dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
But after he died in a plane crash, former property investor Chris Welsh, who is based in California, bought the submarine and is now taking on the lonely challenge himself.
Chris said: "I've been working day and night for two years pursuing this. I'm really excited to get out there and do it - I can't wait.
"The rewards of this is breaking ground in so many ways - in raw human exploration, on bringing back science, and in getting a better understanding of our world."
The experimental sub was created and built by British engineer Graham Hawkes.
Fitted with wings and a tail fin, its design is based on that of a plane.
Chris Welsh hopes to "fly" down to the bottom of the trench, and break the record for the first lone dive there, later this year.
After this, he and the Virgin team also plan to plunge down four other trenches around the world, with the hope of reaching the deepest point in five oceans.
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The Deep Flight Challenger submersible has been backed by Richard Branson's Virgin empire, and is currently undergoing its first water trials.
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The 28-mile road - previously predicted to cost £347m - was given the green light by Scottish ministers in 2009, but was delayed by legal action.
Protesters lost their appeal to the Supreme Court earlier this month.
Transport Minister Keith Brown said the "unwanted delays" had resulted in a "substantial increase" in the overall cost of the project.
William Walton from the protest group RoadSense, which spearheaded the legal challenge against the construction of the bypass, told BBC Scotland he believed the total cost could be even higher.
It is anticipated that construction will get under way in 2014, with completion by spring 2018.
In answer to a parliamentary question lodged by Aberdeen Central SNP MSP Kevin Stewart, Mr Brown said the scheme had been costed at £347m in 2008 - an estimate based on 2003 prices.
He said that the figure had now risen to £653m as a result of "scope changes, the inclusion of standard risk costs and rebasing to 2012 prices".
Mr Brown said inflation had been responsible for a £230m increase in the cost.
A scheme to make the A90 a dual carriageway between Balmedie and Tipperty in Aberdeenshire is also expected to cost £92m, giving a total of £745m for the combined project.
Mr Stewart criticised the added costs caused by the legal challenges.
He said: "Not only has an essential piece of infrastructure been delayed unnecessarily, but inflation has driven up costs.
"Now that the legal challenges have been exhausted, we can now move towards construction as quickly as possible."
Aberdeen City Council leader Barney Crockett said: "We realised that the cost of the AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) would be roughly what it now is and we have made adequate provision for that.
"The economic performance of the area will be underpinned by the AWPR."
Tom Smith, chairman of Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Future (Acsef) business development agency, said: "The delays caused by the legal challenges were always going to impact on the costs outlined in 2003.
"However, the economic and other benefits of the road are so significant that the cost will still represent a major return on investment for the public purse and people of the north east.
"The final mechanics of how they will be paid are still being worked out and there will be delicate negotiations between the Scottish government and our local authorities.
"But with the Scottish government paying 80% of the route and the total cost of the fast-link, the north east is getting a great deal in terms of investment in our woefully under-invested roads infrastructure."
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The Innovation Factory has been built on the site of the former Mackies engineering works on Springfield Road.
About half the money for the £9m project came from the EU, with the rest split between the city council and Invest NI.
The building will be managed by Oxford Innovation, who run a network of similar centres across the UK.
It has 111 business units and is targeting firms specialising in technology and product development.
About a dozen tenants have already been signed up.
Economy Minister Simon Hamilton said the scheme is "an impressive space for entrepreneurs and growing businesses".
Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir said it was "great to see the former Mackies site reborn as a hub of innovation".
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A building that will provide workspace for about 100 start-up businesses in west Belfast has officially opened.
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Aberdeen 4-0 Ross County
Celtic 2-0 Motherwell
Heart of Midlothian 2-0 Dundee
Partick Thistle 2-2 Hamilton Academical
St Johnstone 0-1 Kilmarnock
Championship
Dumbarton 0-3 Ayr United
Falkirk 2-1 Dunfermline Athletic
Queen of the South 0-5 Greenock Morton
Raith Rovers 0-0 Hibernian
St Mirren 0-2 Dundee United
Inverness Caledonian Thistle 0-1 Rangers
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Match reports from Saturday's Scottish Premiership and Championship games.
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Elstree 1976 was directed by Jon Spira, from Thrupp, Oxfordshire, and completed after a Kickstarter campaign raised more than £40,000.
He said a follow-up, Elstree 1979, would focus on the stunt team from Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back.
Filming is due to start this summer with the filmmakers hoping to release the documentary next year.
It is being produced by the Works Film Group. However, it has not yet been decided whether there will be a second Kickstarter campaign.
Mr Spira said: "Where '76 dealt with the supporting artists of A New Hope, this film will look at the stunt team from Empire Strikes Back.
"Wider than that, we will tell the story of that generation of British stunt performers. We can't wait to start shooting it."
The first film featured Star Wars legends such as Dave Prowse, who played Darth Vader, and Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett, alongside little known extras.
Elstree 1979 will look at the work of stuntmen Colin Skeaping and Vic Armstrong, and recreate the scene in which Luke Skywalker is blown through a window during the film's climactic duel.
About 1,000 people backed Elstree 1976 on Kickstarter.
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A sequel to a crowdfunded film about the lives of supporting artists in Star Wars has been announced.
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Jedburgh became the latest town to receive the provision last week.
Councillor Stewart Bell said by the end of the latest rollout, 94% of homes in the region should have access.
He added that a range of groups were working on ways to deliver superfast services to those not covered by that programme.
There have been concerns in the past that the region was missing out despite major investment in broadband.
Mr Bell said there were technical reasons why some sites would not see their services improve.
"Over very long distances the speeds run down a bit and therefore there are some premises that are very distant from cabinets that won't see a significant improvement in services," he said.
"The target for this superfast scheme which will be fully operational between 2017 and 2018 is to get 94% of premises in the Borders connected.
"The remaining 6% is something that is being considered by Digital Scotland and Community Broadband Scotland in co-operation with local authorities to see if we can come up with customised local solutions."
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A Borders councillor has said work is being done to deliver superfast broadband to homes in the region currently missing out on the service.
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The site owned by Global Energy Group joins Wick Harbour in Caithness in securing work on the £2.6bn Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (Bowl) project.
Siemens, one of the companies involved in Bowl, will use the yard for assembling turbines from spring 2018.
Once assembled the turbines would be towed out to the wind farm site.
The project, which also involves energy giant SSE, is to be created about eight miles off Wick.
Global said Nigg's involvement would help to secure work for more than 100 people.
The Scottish government, Highland Council, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) and Scottish Renewables have welcomed the announcement.
Business, Innovation and Energy Minister, Paul Wheelhouse, said: "Offshore renewables represent a huge opportunity for Scotland; an opportunity to build up new industries and to deliver on Scotland's ambitious renewable energy and carbon reduction targets for 2020 and beyond.
"I am delighted that this multi-million pound contract between Global Energy Group and Siemens will enable Nigg Energy Park to develop into a genuine multi-energy site, securing around 100 direct and indirect jobs and associated supply chain opportunities.
"This contract arising from installation of the Beatrice Offshore Wind farm will provide a very welcome boost to the local economy in Ross-shire and the wider Highland Council area."
Regional director for the Highlands and Islands, Fraser Grieve, said: "Today's announcement of Nigg's involvement in the Beatrice Offshore wind project shows the positive economic impact that this major development will have on the region over the coming years.
"Nigg, and the wider Cromarty Firth, has much to offer and this agreement is not only a boost for the Global Energy Group but will benefit the supply chain through the area."
Lindsay Roberts, senior policy manager at renewable energy industry group Scottish Renewables, said: "The contract signed today will help breathe new life into this Highland port.
"Scotland's offshore wind industry has huge potential for both our economy and our environment, and it's great to see Nigg reaping the benefits.
"As other wind farms with planning consent in the Scottish North Sea begin to develop, agreements like this will play a key role in securing benefits not just for communities on the east coast, but for the whole of Scotland."
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Now, on the surface, these words from Michael Gove shouldn't be surprising. A minister wouldn't advertise disunity.
The surprise though is that - as one of the most prominent Leave campaigners - he was talking about an implementation period post-Brexit which could last for an unspecified amount of time.
Insiders say his arrival at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and dealing with the powerful farming lobby may have influenced his view.
Some of the most prominent Remain ministers have been expressing relief - tinged in one case with just a hint of triumphalism - that they think in recent weeks that they have managed to sell the idea of a soft landing - or as some say "no cliff edge" - after the UK leaves the EU in 2019 to some of their more sceptical colleagues.
So much for unity. Where do differences still lie?
It was interesting that, in answering my question on whether freedom of movement would continue under an implementation period, that Michael Gove didn't rule this out. Migration, he argued, would be decided by the needs of the economy.
But for how long? The tectonic plates may have moved on a transitional deal but its duration is where cabinet fault lines persist.
Liam Fox has been pretty clear he doesn't want to contemplate anything more than two years.
As one minister put it - he has waited forty years to leave the EU so two more won't matter.
But anther prominent cabinet Brexiteer told me he thought it would be a "disaster" if the implementation period hadn't concluded by the assumed date of the next election in 2022 while others have talked about anything up to a four year period.
Then what form will any transition take?
Could there be temporary membership of the European Economic Area? Some leavers might be suspicious that temporary would become permanent.
Should we stay in the customs union a bit longer until we hammer out a bespoke deal post Brexit?
The EU is unlikely to get the clarity it seeks until there is clarity around the cabinet table.
So while some Remainer ministers I have spoken to this week were upbeat, relaxed and chipper - and believe that British business is making its influence felt - many issues remain unresolved.
And, of course, I use the term 'Remainer" historically - the cabinet is also united on leaving the EU but the question is how.
There has been talk of soft, hard and clean Brexits. Increasingly another word has entered the lexicon.
David Davis uses it. Michael Gove used it today. Expect to hear more of it. Pragmatic. That's now the goal - a pragmatic Brexit. And that necessarily means compromise at cabinet level as well as with the EU.
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A skeleton of a meat-eating Jurassic dinosaur, the theropod, was uncovered by spring storms at Lavernock beach, Vale of Glamorgan, in 2014.
The dinosaur's missing foot was found at the beach by palaeontology student, Sam Davies, of Bridgend, at the beginning of this month.
"My first reaction was that I was very lucky," he said.
The fossilised skeleton of the theropod - a distant cousin of the giant Tyrannosaurus rex - went on display at the National Museum Cardiff's main hall in June after it was found by fossil-hunting brothers Nick and Rob Hanigan.
Mr Davies, who studies at the University of Portsmouth, visited Lavernock, near Penarth, after his tutor told him its cliffs were rich with fossils.
He arrived only hours after a cliff fall had exposed the fossil and before it could be washed away by the tide.
"It was pure luck that I found it. It was just sitting on top of a slab of rock," he said.
His tutor, Dr David Martill, confirmed the find was the missing foot of the recently discovered dinosaur, after the student emailed a picture.
Dr Martill said: "This was a chance-in-a-million find and highlights how important it is to encourage fossil hunting in this country."
He said the specimen would help chart the evolution of dinosaur feet.
The foot has been donated to the Amgueddfa Cymru, which hopes to put it on display with the rest of the skeleton soon.
Dr Caroline Buttler, head of palaeontology at the museum, said: "The dinosaur found by Nick and Rob Hanigan is the first skeleton of a theropod found in Wales.
"Sam's find adds to its significance because we can learn more about the animal and how it is related to the dinosaurs that eventually evolved into birds."
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They used recyclable materials such as shoe boxes, plastic packaging and egg boxes to make them.
They went to see how a team from Swansea University are building a real classroom for the future, whose aims are the same.
Their classroom is designed to be energy positive - that means they don't have to buy electricity and they have solar panels that use the sun to power them.
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Kids in Swansea have been showing us their designs for buildings for the future, which they say should be as energy-efficient and kind to the environment as possible.
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Following the acquisition of Cyprus defender Jason Demetriou, Etheridge, 25, fills the gap left by Richard O'Donnell's move to Wigan Athletic.
The ex-Chelsea trainee, who has made just 20 Football League appearances, was released by Charlton in May.
"We had a number of good options but Neil stood out," said boss Dean Smith.
"He ticks all the boxes in age, room for development and experience at this level and above," said Smith.
He's an extremely driven young man who wants to be successful. These are the characteristics we're looking for.
"Neil will compete with Craig MacGillivray for a first-team place. They will both push each other on, exactly the kind of competition that we want."
Etheridge, who began his professional career at Fulham, added: "The faith that the gaffer and Neil Cutler (Walsall goalkeeping coach) have shown in me means a lot. Now is the time to get my head down and work hard.
"I have gained plenty of international experience in front of big crowds, but I've not played as many league games as I'd have liked. I intend to rectify that here."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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League One side Walsall have made their second international signing in 24 hours by bringing in Philippines keeper Neil Etheridge on a two-year deal.
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Soldiers from the island, as well as Kingussie and Beauly in the Highlands, lost their lives at Festubert in France in 1915.
Portree on Skye lost 10 men in a single night. In total, more than 20,000 men died over 10 days of fighting.
Three days of events will start on Friday and will include talks by historians and poetry readings.
Festubert's impact on the Highlands and Islands was recalled in BBC Two Scotland documentary, The Machine Gun and Skye's Band of Brothers, last year.
This week's commemorations will be held in Portree.
Many of the men from Skye, Kingussie and Beauly who died at Festubert had played shinty, a fact that will be recalled in some of the events.
A set of bagpipes recovered from the battlefield's trenches will be used to play the tune The Beauly Shinty Club. The music was composed by one of two brothers who died in the conflict.
Shinty commentator and historian Hugh Dan MacLennan will be among those taking part in the commemorations.
He said: "Festubert is our focus because it was one of the first great killing battles, which saw death on an industrial scale.
"Not only that, but its impact on Highland communities is beyond belief."
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Since then the country has seen the creation of a multi-party parliamentary system, a decade-long Maoist insurgency and the abolition of its monarchy.
Flanked by China and India, it is home to eight of the world's highest mountains including Mount Everest, known locally as Sagarmatha.
As one of the world's poorest countries, Nepal's economy relies heavily on aid and tourism.
A devastating earthquake in April 2015 killed thousands of people, flattened villages and reduced numerous heritage sites to ruin.
Since then political infighting has delayed much of the reconstruction despite billions of dollars having been pledged.
Population 31 million
Area 147,181 sq km (56,827 sq miles)
Major languages Nepali
Major religions Hinduism, Buddhism
Life expectancy 68 years (men), 70 years (women)
Currency Nepalese rupee
President: Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Bidhya Devi Bhandari was elected as Nepal's first woman president in a parliamentary vote in October 2015. She is the deputy leader of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) and a former defence minister.
She is a campaigner for women's rights and widow of late communist leader Madan Kumar Bhandari.
The post of president is mainly ceremonial.
Prime minister: Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda
Pushpa Kamal Dahal was elected as prime minister for the second time in August 2016.
Better known as Prachanda (Nepali for "fierce one"), he led a decade-long insurgency against the monarchy which culminated in the king relinquishing his absolute powers and being forced to give up his throne in June 2008.
He became the first elected prime minister of Nepal in August 2008 but his government collapsed nine months later in a row over his attempt to dismiss the army chief.
Mr Dahal is the leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre).
Media freedom is restricted by the fact that journalists have been the victims of violence, activists say.
There is a small film industry, nicknamed "Kollywood".
Some key dates in Nepal's history:
1768 - Gurkha ruler Prithvi Narayan Shah conquers Kathmandu and lays foundations for unified kingdom.
1814-16 - Anglo-Nepalese War; culminates in treaty which establishes Nepal's current boundaries.
1846 - Nepal falls under sway of hereditary chief ministers known as Ranas, who dominate the monarchy and cut country off from outside world.
1950 - Anti-Rana forces based in India form alliance with monarch.
1951 - End of Rana rule. Sovereignty of crown restored and anti-Rana rebels in Nepalese Congress Party form government.
1960 - King Mahendra seizes control and suspends parliament, constitution and party politics.
1991 - Nepali Congress Party wins first democratic elections.
1995-2006 - Maoist revolt which kills thousands.
2008 - Nepal becomes a republic after abolition of monarchy.
2015 September - New constitution adopted - the first in Asia to specifically protect gay rights.
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The regiment has strong links to the city as an Army Reserve unit is based in Raglan Barracks and the Freedom of Newport was granted to them in 1978.
They paraded through the city centre with colours flying, drums beating and bayonets fixed as they were led by the Band of the Royal Artillery.
The parade started at 12:30 BST.
It began on Cambrian Road before continuing on to Bridge Street and High Street to the D-Day Memorial where a short ceremony took place.
The parade then reformed and travelled down High Street, across Stow Hill and followed Commercial Street to its junction with Charles Street and Llanarth Street.
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About 100 soldiers from the 104th Regiment Royal Artillery marked their 50th anniversary with a freedom parade through Newport on Saturday.
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The classic 1970s sitcom starred her father Richard Beckinsale as Lenny Godber, cellmate to Ronnie Barker's Norman Stanley Fletcher.
Porridge will return for a special episode, again written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
Set 40 years on, Kevin Bishop will play Fletcher's prison inmate grandson.
Nicknamed "Fletch" Fletcher, Nigel is behind bars for a series of cyber crimes.
Beckinsale said in an interview for Radio 5 live, Afternoon Edition: "I don't think that's such a terrible idea. I think that's quite nice really.
"When it's beloved characters and a beloved project, it's quite nice to have an imaginary, 'what is their grandson doing?'"
But Beckinsale, whose new film is Love & Friendship - a romantic comedy based on Jane Austen's novel Lady Susan - has no desire to make a cameo in her father's old show.
"In Porridge? You've got to be joking. It's a boy's prison. I'm not that versatile. Tea lady?"
Her father died from cardiac arrest at the age of 31 in 1979.
He appeared in all three series of Porridge between 1974 and 1977 and finished making the film version a few weeks before his death.
Beckinsale, who starred in 2012's reboot of Total Recall, which originally starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, does not now believe remakes are a good idea, she says.
"I think it's a shame sometimes when they take something that is almost perfect or perfect and then remake it. That's a silly idea.
"They should remake things that aren't very good and have another go at it."
The new episode of Porridge will be broadcast this summer as part of a landmark sitcom season to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the start of Hancock's Half Hour on BBC TV.
It will include contemporary follow-ups to Are You Being Served?, Keeping Up Appearances and Up Pompeii! while lost episodes of Steptoe and Son, Till Death Do Us Part and Hancock's Half Hour will be remade from their original scripts for BBC Four.
The interview with Kate Beckinsale can be heard on Radio 5 live's Afternoon Edition on Tuesday 31 May at 1300.
Love & Friendship is currently in UK cinemas.
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Hollywood actress Kate Beckinsale, best known for the Underworld Series of films, has given her blessing to the BBC bringing back Porridge.
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Grant Bradburn's side must top their group, which also features Hong Kong, to progress to the Super 10 stage.
This will be played alongside the women's event from 15-28 March.
Should they prevail, Scotland will be entered into a group containing England, Sri Lanka, South Africa and the West Indes.
The Scots will play all their group matches at Vidarbha stadium in Nagpur.
First up, they tackle Afghanistan on 8 March, before taking on Zimbabwe two days later.
Scotland will complete their Group B campaign against Hong Kong on 12 March.
The winners of the first qualifying group, which comprises Ireland, Bangladesh, Netherlands and Oman, will face India, Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand in the Super 10 phase.
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Scotland's men will face Zimbabwe and Afghanistan in the first stage of next year's ICC World Twenty20 tournament in India.
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Cpl Stuart Robinson was injured when his vehicle hit an explosive device near Camp Bastion in February 2013.
He will be joined on the 38 mile (60km) course by former colleague Kurt McGuinness, the brother of 23-time TT winner John McGuinness.
The 33-year-old said the challenge had been a "lifesaver" for him.
He said that after the "life changing situation... I just had to get on with it. I lost my legs but got away with my life".
"Kurt is really into the Isle of Man TT and suggested the challenge."
The pair will be joined on the charity challenge by Blackburn's Anton Shepherd, who was paralysed from the chest down following a motocross accident, and soldier Darren Norman.
Mr McGuinness said their training for the attempt, which will take place on 26 March, had been "brutal".
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A former soldier who lost both legs in Afghanistan is to attempt the Isle of Man TT course using a hand-powered bike.
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The veterans have set off from the Canary Islands.
They aim to row the 3,000 miles in under 55 days as part of the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge.
The Row2Recovery group are competing against 25 other teams in the race, which will end in Antigua in the Caribbean.
The race was scheduled to start on 15 December, but stormy weather postponed the challenge.
One of the rowers, Lee Spencer, said: "We'll literally be on our own.
"We have a life raft and personal location devices and if we end up in the water swimming is not a big deal. We only have three legs between us.
"But the day-to-day chores are the things we'll struggle with."
Mr Spencer said they had been training their upper bodies to compensate for having lost lower limbs.
"We want to be an example to all people; we're just normal guys who have suffered some misfortune, but life carries on," he said.
Cayle Royce - 29, from Dartmouth. Suffered serious injuries serving in Afghanistan
Paddy Gallagher - 30, from Cambridgeshire. He was injured in Afghanistan while serving with the Irish Guards
Nigel Rogof - 56, from Hereford, who lost his leg while taking part in an RAF parachuting display
Lee Spencer - 46, from Yelverton in Devon. He lost a leg when he was struck by debris when he stopped to rescue a seriously injured motorist on the M3
Also competing are a group of four women aged 44 to 51 from Yorkshire, and 20-year-old University of Bristol aerospace engineering student Callum Gathercole, who is a solo competitor.
Crews will spend at least a month at sea, living on freeze-dried food, while raising money for charity.
Carsten Heron Olsen, race organiser, said: "This year we have 26 teams from the US, Italy, the UK, Antigua, Australia and South Africa, and there are 62 rowers in total.
"Winds look extremely favourable for the rowers for the first few days at sea, and alongside the high level of professionalism of the participants, we're anticipating a quick and competitive race and hopefully break some records.
"The race was planned to start on Tuesday, but due to strong winds going in the wrong direction we had to delay the race for a few days."
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Four ex-servicemen are rowing across the Atlantic in a bid to become what is believed to be the first all-amputee team to make the trip.
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The 31-year-old left-armer was released by Sussex in September having been at Hove since 2006.
The ex-Leicestershire paceman has taken 34 first-class wickets at an average of 51.05, 79 one-day scalps at 29.22 and 82 T20 wickets at 23.90.
"It's great to have Chris on board," said Gloucestershire head coach Richard Dawson.
Middlesbrough-born Liddle also played for Dhaka Gladiators in the Bangladesh Premier League in 2013.
"He's got a lot of experience in one-day and T20 cricket, having performed strongly for Sussex and he will add excellent competition to our bowling unit," added Dawson.
"It's a great opportunity for him to come here and compete in all formats of the game as he has a lot of potential in Championship cricket. We are all looking forward to him joining up with the lads."
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Gloucestershire have signed former Sussex seam bowler Chris Liddle on a two-year contract.
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Rose, 26, was replaced by Ben Davies during Tuesday's 0-0 draw at Sunderland and had a knee scan on Thursday.
The England international has started 18 of Spurs' 23 Premier League games this season, but will miss the visit of Middlesbrough on Saturday.
"We need to wait until Monday to see the specialist," said Pochettino.
The Argentine is also without defenders Kieran Trippier and Jan Vertonghen, who suffered an ankle ligament injury two weeks ago.
"Jan Vertonghen is better and starting to run, which is very positive," added Pochettino.
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Tottenham left-back Danny Rose will see a specialist on Monday to confirm the extent of his knee injury, manager Mauricio Pochettino has confirmed.
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The material is to be transported by road from the nuclear power complex to Scrabster harbour for shipping to Sellafield in Cumbria.
A nine mile (14.4km) stretch of the A836 would be involved.
Dounreay is being decommissioned and tonnes of its radioactive material is being reprocessed at Sellafield.
Other items have been taken to the Cumbrian nuclear site by train, and also flown to the US and shipped to Belgium.
Dounreay said the removal of the latest material formed part of a new phase of the clean up of the site near Thurso.
A spokesperson for Dounreay said: "Dounreay is being demolished, so nuclear materials are being returned to national stocks.
"This programme started in 2001 and is expected to take several more years to complete.
"Our priority at all times is to comply with regulations designed to ensure the safety and security of nuclear materials, both while in storage and transit."
The A836 forms part of the North Coast 500 (NC500) tourist route.
Tom Campbell, managing director of the tourism initiative, said: "The North Coast 500 is based on roads where people live, work commute as well as visit and enjoy the north Highlands and these roads, like all roads are subject to closures, roadworks and diversions.
"The nine mile stretch represents less than 2% of the NC500 and our understanding is that actual closures will be rare and infrequent."
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A stretch of road in Caithness is to be closed for short periods on occasions over the next 12 months so nuclear material can be moved from Dounreay.
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Irish slipped back to the foot of the table after defeat at Sale and Newcastle's win against Harlequins.
The Exiles host 10th-placed Worcester on Sunday and could move above the Warriors with a win.
"We've already spoken about next week and what we need to do," Coventry told BBC Radio Berkshire.
"The boys have had a bit of a hurry up in the changing room. We've spoken about how disappointed we were with our second half performance (at Sale)."
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Irish conceded 26 unanswered points in the second half as Sale ran in a total of six tries at the AJ Bell Stadium.
It was the second time in their last three Premiership matches Irish failed to score any second-half points.
And following news that prop Ben Franks will be ruled out until late April with a ruptured bicep tendon, Irish have been hit by a further injury to winger Alex Lewington.
The 24-year-old is expected to be sidelined for up to six weeks following surgery on a fractured thumb.
"Injuries are a big part of the game, we have to rely pretty much on the squad that we've got," Coventry added.
"We can't lament our losses too much, we have to get on with it.
"Losing Ben and Alex is a frustration, but we'll just have to manage without out them until we can get them back on the field."
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She beat the 21st seed 4-6 6-4 8-6 in the fourth round, in a match that lasted three hours and four minutes.
"It was mentally, emotionally and physically draining," Konta said.
At 24 years old, Konta is ranked 47th in the world.
Her next opponent will either be 15th seed Madison Keys, or China's Shuai Zhang.
The 'Grand Slam' tournaments are the four most important annual tennis competitions. Players travel from around the world to take part in them.
They include the Australian Open, US Open, Roland Garros, and Wimbledon.
The last British woman to play in the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam was Jo Durie, at Wimbledon in 1984.
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Johanna Konta has become the first British woman to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final for 31 years, after beating Ekaterina Makarova at the Australian Open.
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Dan Biggar was heard querying whether to kick for the corner when Wales won a penalty while trailing 16-13 but denied he overruled Jones' decision.
Leigh Halfpenny admitted he turned down the chance to kick at goal, however.
"Things happen on the field which challenge everybody at the best of times," Thorburn told BBC Radio Wales.
He continued: "I don't think it questions his ability as captain at all.
"Alun is unquestionably one of the most inspirational players that has been around in the Welsh camp for a long time."
Thorburn says he would have no reservations over picking Jones as captain of the British and Irish Lions in light of Wales' poor start in the Six Nations.
"He [Jones] leads from the front," he said.
"Are you going to base it on the argument about Dylan Hartley, the England captain, whose team didn't know how to cope with some bizarre scenarios against Italy on Sunday?"
Wales could have levelled the scores at 16-16 from the penalty if they had kicked for goal instead of the corner, but Thorburn says it is the kicker's responsibility to decide what happens, not just the captain's.
"I've been on both sides of the fence - a captain and the goal kicker - what we don't know is what the conditions were like on the field," Thorburn added.
"The wind does swirl around Murrayfield and I suspect Leigh probably thought that it was going to be a long kick into what would be a very difficult conditions.
"The issue is whether Alun, as captain, should have consulted with him first. We can argue about that until the cows come home but ultimately the kicker is the one who is taking the shot and has to be comfortable."
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Former Wales skipper Paul Thorburn says there is no question over Alun Wyn Jones' captaincy despite claims he was overruled in the loss to Scotland.
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Britain's and champion teams up with Heather Stanning as she aims to repeat her success in Chengdu in 2013.
"It's the first big title I've had to defend," Glover said.
"There's a little bit of pressure, but it I think it's important to feel the pressure," she told BBC Radio Cornwall.
"If you're going to define the season for us, when we look back at the 2014 season, it'll be 'we did this at the World Championships'," she added.
"In non-Olympic years it's the biggest event by far, it's a really big deal to have that to your name."
Glover and Stanning have resurrected their partnership from London 2012 after Stanning took a year off in 2013 to concentrate on her military career.
Glover and Polly Swann won the world title last year in Stanning's absence and the both women have rowed with Glover this season before Stanning managed to secure the spot alongside the Cornwall rower for the Worlds.
"It's going to be Heather's first chance since the Olympics [to win a world title] and I'd love the opportunity to keep my title so it's important and special to both of us.
"When we first came back together we realised it had been a long time since the Olympics. We needed to find our feet again and found that actually everything was really natural.
"That gave us the confidence over the last month or so away on training camp to not just let it be the same as it was - we've really worked on pushing it on.
"I feel we've moved on and made changes, looking to be a better crew than we were in 2012," Glover added.
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Helen Glover says she is feeling the pressure of defending a major title for the first time at next week's World Championships in Amsterdam.
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The New York-based singer won the award for her Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg collaboration, Sings.
"I want to dedicate this Grammy to all the traditional musicians in Africa, in my country, to all the young generation," Kidjo said.
Her album beat one by Malawi's Zomba Prison Project and South Africa's Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Kidjo, one of Africa's most prominent musicians, has now won the award for the second consecutive year.
The album merges African song writing and rhythms with European classical instrumentation, a fusion on which Kidjo has repeatedly experimented.
Kidjo described the album as an artistic challenge as traditional African bands follow the lead of the soloist much more closely, unlike Western orchestras that generally play off refined scores.
The singer, who has worked for a long time with Philip Glass, a leading US composer, said Africa was on the rise.
"Africa is positive, Africa is joyful," she said after collecting the award.
The 55-year-old singer added that she has been fighting for a positive image of Africa for a long time and believed music could connect the world and served as a tool for peace.
She later told the BBC: "I have to continue to working... to open the way for many artists from Africa to come."
African-American rapper Kendrick Lamar won the most prizes on the night with five awards.
The 29-year-old performed The Blacker The Berry, walking on stage as part of a chain gang from inside a prison, before transitioning to Alright, in front of a huge bonfire and African dancers.
His performance ended with the unveiling of a new track with Lamar in front of a map of the African continent and the word "Compton" - his hometown in California - written on it.
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Benin's Angelique Kidjo has won the best world music album of the year at this year's Grammys in Los Angeles.
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Exam board Pearson has confirmed plans to develop a new history of art A-level for teaching from next September.
October's decision by the AQA board to drop the subject provoked an outcry from experts who argued "society had never required its insights more".
"It's amazing - just about in the nick of time," said teacher Sarah Phillips.
Ms Phillips, from state sixth form Godalming College, developed the new syllabus with AQA and added: "Now we need to get the message out to Year 11 students as soon as possible."
Subject to approval by Ofqual, Ms Phillips says she expects Pearson to build on her work which has been made available to the Department for Education by AQA.
"It is a global specification. Students won't just study the work of dead white men," she said. "They will have the opportunity to study Islamic architecture and work by men and women of all colours and creeds. The support has been overwhelming," she added.
In October, top experts signed an open letter to AQA condemning the decision not to offer the A-level to new students after this year.
AQA was the last board to offer the subject and the decision represented "a vital loss for students", they argued.
At the time AQA said the change "was not about money or whether history of art deserves a place in the curriculum", but said that it feared the new qualification was so wide-ranging that accurate marking would be impossible.
Pearson, which also announced plans to take on AS and A-levels in statistics, also dropped by AQA, said awarding organisations, government and schools should work together in the interests of students to secure the future of important qualifications.
"The response from the public, from teachers and from young people shows many people have a real passion for these subjects. We're happy to help make sure they remain available," said the company's president, Rod Bristow.
The move was welcomed by leading academics and museum directors as well as by Turner Prize winners Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker and Jeremy Deller.
Mr Kapoor said it was "a huge relief" while Mr Deller called it "a good day for art and culture" and added: "Art history is the study of power, politics, identity and humanity, it makes perfect sense to keep the exam."
Ms Parker said she had studied art history "as a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners... It has hugely enriched my life".
The Association of Art Historians hopes the battle to save the A-level will boost the subject's popularity, particularly in the state sector.
"The threat to the A-level has galvanised support for art history, which will, I hope, provide a platform for a concerted effort to ensure that more people get the opportunity to study a subject that will enrich their lives," said Dr Ben Burbridge of Sussex University who was central to the campaign to save the A-level.
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Campaigners for art history A-level say they are "absolutely thrilled" by a late decision to save the subject, which was set to be discontinued.
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The visitors were shot out for only 109 by an electric bowling and fielding performance, with James Anderson taking 3-42 and Luke Procter 3-14.
James Vince, watched by England coach Trevor Bayliss and selector James Whitaker, was run out for nought.
Haseeb Hameed and Proctor then shared an unbroken stand of 104 to take the hosts to 157-1, a lead of 48 runs.
The comfort of Lancashire's reply on a true surface at Old Trafford further highlighted the impressive effort of the home bowlers.
Under a blue sky, Anderson bowled with good rhythm a week before England's first Test against Sri Lanka, while Neil Wagner swung the ball to remove both Michael Carberry and Liam Dawson in successive deliveries.
By then the biggest drama had already taken place, with Vince - widely tipped for a Test debut at Headingley on 19 May - run out by Steven Croft's brilliant direct hit.
Responding to such a meagre total, Lancashire were given a flying start by Karl Brown's boundary-laden 40 from 33 balls.
He was pinned lbw by Gareth Andrew's first delivery in first-class cricket for more than a year, the former Worcestershire all-rounder making his debut after joining Hampshire on a match-by-match basis.
That, though, was Hampshire's only cheer, as the watchful Hameed and wristy Procter saw Lancashire through the rest of the day without any hint of alarm.
Lancashire's Karl Brown:
"The bowlers have done it in every game so far. You can't put it down to one person doing everything because, as a unit, they've bowled really well and kept the pressure on.
"As a batter I know when you are chewing up dot balls it gets difficult and you can play a shot you shouldn't. Creating pressure has been the key to us taking wickets.
"The squad has a lot of confidence and everyone is backing each other to get the job done. It's a very nice pitch and hopefully it will make for a lot of runs and we can get a good lead."
Hampshire's Gareth Andrew:
"I got the call to play on Friday afternoon while I was making my cricket club's teas so I was in a bit of a flap. I've played a couple of second team games so I'm a bit under-cooked but I'm ready to take my chance. It's match-to-match and we'll go from there.
"Lancashire bowled really well and obviously we didn't bat as well as we'd have liked to. We need to stay in the game so we'll be fighting on Monday. We need to keep it simple, hit the deck hard and bowl nice and straight.
"It was a dream start for me to take a wicket with my first ball and hopefully my old man was looking down. I lost him only four weeks ago so it's been a tough time but it's been great to have the opportunity to get back into first class cricket."
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Lancashire completely dominated Hampshire on day one of the County Championship Division One match.
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Strong winds helped the blaze to spread across the 336.1m (1,105ft) high building in the marina district.
One eyewitness told the BBC "there was debris flying everywhere, falling into neighbouring buildings". The fire was later extinguished.
It is not known what caused the blaze. Hundreds of people were evacuated and there are no reports of any casualties.
Footage posted on social media showed what looked like molten glass and pieces of masonry falling to the ground.
"In an hour-and-a-half the fire is almost out on about 60 floors, it looks like mostly the outer apartments that are damaged," eyewitness Rola told the BBC.
She said it looked like the blaze had started on the 50th floor.
"It's an iconic building, people were out on balconies all around it watching - even though it was 3am [23:00 GMT Saturday]," she said.
"The civil defence came really quickly and they have said there were no casualties, everybody was told to evacuate in a timely manner and we think everybody is OK."
One of the tower's residents, Kathryn Dickie, said she had seen panels from the building tumble to the ground.
"Those panels were catching fire and then coming off the building and being picked up by the wind," she said.
"And I was watching them, they were falling down on to the street still in flames, they weren't going out and they were actually knocking into the buildings across the road."
US resident RJ Morlock told the Associated Press news agency: "I was really surprised they got it under control pretty quickly. It looked like it was going to go up."
In 2012, a fire swept through Dubai's 34-storey Tamweel Tower.
No-one was injured in that incident but hundreds of residents were left homeless after the blaze, started reportedly by a cigarette butt.
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A fire has swept through the Torch skyscraper in Dubai, one of the tallest residential buildings in the world.
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The 20-year-old spent the latter half of 2015-16 on loan with the Bantams.
He made four Europa League appearances and one Premier League appearance for the Hammers in 2015, before playing against Juventus in Sunday's friendly.
"I am excited to try to push this club on again," he told Bradford's club website. "The fans, players and staff were all brilliant first time around."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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League One club Bradford City have re-signed West Ham United midfielder Josh Cullen on loan until January.
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The Championship club had been in talks with the former owner of San Diego Padres.
However, Al Hasawi, who took control at the City Ground in 2012, says negotiations have "come to an end".
"A deal as it stands is not in the interests of the long-term future of our club," said the Kuwaiti.
"We feel strongly that we have acted in good faith on behalf of the club and its fans."
In October, it was reported that Moores, who had previously been interested in buying Premier League side Everton, was on the verge of securing a £50m deal to take an 80% stake in the East Midlands club.
The American was reportedly ready to finalise the deal on 22 December, but was waiting for final sign-off from Al Hasawi.
Two-time European Cup winners Forest are 20th in the Championship after 25 games, two points above the relegation places.
Forest had been under a transfer embargo since January 1 due to a delay in submitting audited accounts, but that was lifted on Friday.
Former Nottingham Forest and England midfielder Jermaine Jenas on BBC Radio 5 live
"The fanbase will be devastated. I am a Forest fan and am disappointed by it too. I know they were looking forward to that takeover.
"There were a few names linked with the club in terms of who would be brought in to help bring stability, growth and get the club back to where it belongs.
"This just digs deeper into the fans' hearts in terms of bad news for the season."
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Nottingham Forest's proposed takeover by a United States-based consortium led by John Jay Moores has collapsed, according to owner Fawaz Al Hasawi.
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Anaya Ellick from Chesapeake, Virginia, does not use prosthetics. To write, she stands to get the proper angle, holding a pencil between her arms.
Her principal, Tracy Cox from Greenbrier Christian Academy, describes her as an "inspiration".
"She does not let anything get in the way of doing what she has set out to do," says Ms Cox.
"She is a hard worker and has some of the best handwriting in her class."
The girl reportedly beat 50 other competitors to get the special-needs category prize at the National Handwriting Contest.
This category rewards students with an intellectual, physical, or developmental disability.
Competition director Kathleen Wright told ABC News that her "writing sample was comparable to someone who had hands".
This is what her winning entry looked like:
Sponsors of the contest Zaner-Bloser said they planned to award each student $1,000 (£690).
They tweeted a picture of the student, happily holding her trophy.
Having no hands was also not an obstacle to 30-year-old pilot Jessica Cox.
In 2013, we reported on her inspirational example. Also born without hands, she has been able to drive a car, fly a plane and play piano - all with her feet.
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A seven-year-old student born without hands has won a US national handwriting contest.
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The 21-year-old scored one try in two appearances for the Welsh region but crossed eight times in 26 games for Welsh Premiership side Cardiff RFC, who come under the umbrella of the Blues.
Bath have also handed a new two-year contract extension to back row Levi Douglas, 20, who joined the English Premiership club's academy in December.
He has made three senior appearances since signing from French side Oyonnax.
On Tuesday, Bath announced Argentina wing Horacio Agulla will leave the club at the end of the season.
Mike Ford's side are ninth in the table ahead of their final match of the season against Leicester Tigers on Saturday,
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Bath have signed Cardiff Blues' Welsh wing Harry Davies ahead of next season.
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The ex-France and Arsenal striker wore glasses and a wig to surprise teenagers at Pen-y-Dre High School, Merthyr.
Henry, a Sky Academy ambassador, was there to present the Sky Sports Living for Sport Student of the Year Award for Wales to pupil Emma Morgan.
The awards programme is on Sky Sports 1 on Sunday.
A talented swimmer, Emma became the school's youngest student to represent Wales at the annual European 'Superschools' competition, in Sweden, where she won silver.
She will attend the awards ceremony in London at the weekend where the overall UK and Ireland Student of the Year will be announced.
Henry said Emma was a "deserving winner".
Head teacher Keith Maher said: "Everyone was sworn to secrecy and it was an idea that Thierry and Sky came up with.
"It was absolutely a complete surprise and very few staff knew about it."
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Football legend Thierry Henry amazed pupils at a south Wales school by walking into their classroom disguised as a supply teacher.
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Lamborghini, which is owned by Volkswagen, said Italy had beaten a bid from Slovakia to build the car there.
Reports say the sports car maker received €90m ($98m; £64m) of tax breaks and other incentives from the government to produce the car in Italy.
Executives from Lamborghini joined the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at a signing ceremony in Rome.
The Urus SUV was unveiled as a concept car in 2012 and is expected to go on sale in 2018, with a planned production level of 3,000 cars a year.
That will more than double production at Lamborghini's factory near Bologna and is expected to create 500 jobs.
Other car markers have been attracted by the strong growth and in the SUV market.
In January, Jaguar Land Rover said it would build its first Jaguar SUV at its Solihull plant in the West Midlands.
And in February Rolls-Royce, owned by BMW, also announced plans to launch an SUV.
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Lamborghini confirmed the launch of a sports utility vehicle (SUV) and signed a deal to build the car in Italy.
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The ??359m Independent Living Fund pays out an average of ??300 a week, to help people pay for carers so they can live at home and not in a care home.
It was already shut to new applicants for this year and will now shut to new claims permanently, said the minister for disabled people, Maria Miller.
Payments to existing users are to continue until 2015.
Ms Miller said: "An independent discretionary trust delivering social care is financially unsustainable."
But Richard Hawkes, chief executive of disability charity Scope, said the decision to phase out the fund was "bemusing".
"The fund is comparatively very small and is designed to support disabled people to live at home rather than in care homes," he said.
"It's hard to see how phasing out this fund will do anything but narrow down options and push people towards greater dependence on the state."
The phased closure was described as "foolhardy and lacking in humanity" by Labour peer Lord Morris of Manchester.
Lord Morris, who was the first minister for the disabled, said: "This will not save money. If you make it harder for disabled people to live at home, it will cost more because more of them will have to be in hospitals and other places of full-time care.
"It will mean far more of them having to be in institutional care at far greater cost to the taxpayer."
The government said local authorities had a statutory responsibility to provide social care support to their residents.
And it said it remained its priority to safeguard the position of the recipients of the fund.
It said it would carry out a formal consultation next year on how best to continue to support existing users.
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A fund which supports more than 21,000 people with severe disabilities is to be phased out by 2015.
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The RMT union is balloting more than 1,000 members who work at stations.
GTR, which includes Southern and Great Northern, plans to close 34 station ticket offices and staff 49 others only at peak times.
The two sides are in a long-running dispute over the role of conductors.
Stations listed for reduced ticket office hours include Chichester, Crawley, Dorking, Huntingdon, Hove, Lewes, Reigate, Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City and Worthing.
Ticket window closures include Alexandra Palace, Caterham, Cricklewood, Lancing, Purley and Sutton.
GTR said new "station hosts" would work on the concourse instead to assist passengers and help sell tickets.
The RMT claimed 130 station jobs were at risk and said the cuts would also have a "devastating" impact on safety and services offered to passengers.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "These plans fly in the face of the response from the thousands of passengers who objected to the closure of ticket offices and the de-staffing of stations as Govia drives on with plans for a "faceless railway" where the public are left to fend for themselves on rammed-out, dangerous and unreliable services."
But GTR director Keith Jipps said: "The RMT's threat of further industrial action is entirely unwarranted and clearly another bid by the union to disrupt passengers and GTR across as many parts of our franchise as possible."
"Our new station hosts will be paid more, be able to work in safety and provide passengers with better customer service, but the RMT is not concerned with improving the experience for passengers and are dismissing significant improvements to the terms and conditions for staff," he added.
The union is to ballot staff in the first two weeks of August on "strike action and action short of a strike."
GTR's franchise covers four railways: Southern, Gatwick Express, Thameslink and Great Northern.
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Britain's largest rail franchise, Govia Thameslink (GTR) is facing the threat of more industrial action, in a fresh dispute over planned cuts to ticket offices.
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The RT-branded box contains food packaged in laboratory bottles, such as Medonium honey - "med" being honey in Russian and Meldonium a performance-enhancing drugs taken by athletes.
There is also raspberry jam tagged "anabolic" in reference to steroids also banned in sports.
"Not everyone realised this was a humorous present from RT," the broadcaster said. It has consistently denied and ridiculed allegations of a state-sponsored doping programme in Russia.
One of the gift boxes was sent to Yulia Efimova, who won two swimming silver medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
A photo posted on Russia's leading social networking website VKontakte shows a smiling Efimova with test tubes and vials apparently containing food, such as jam, honey and condiments.
On its website, RT gave further details of its gift pack which it suggested had also been sent to other people.
The website carried a video from the Twitter account of blogger Evgeny Kozlov showing one of the kits being unpacked.
People from RT are "unbelievably creative", he said.
The kits also include cards said to be based on drawings by children from an orphanage.
"A New Year's card that you will never throw away," said Yulia Ostroukhova, apparently another recipient of the gift box.
"Very nice. Many thanks for the delicious Medonium, too," she said on Facebook.
It is not clear how many kits were produced or how many recipients there were.
In July, an investigation commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) said Russia's sports ministry "directed, controlled and oversaw" manipulation of urine samples provided by its athletes.
A number of Russian athletes were banned from competing at the Rio Olympics, but no blanket ban was imposed.
Another report later in the year alleged more than 1,000 Russians benefited from a doping cover-up between 2011 and 2015.
Russian officials have strongly denied there has been a state-sponsored doping programme.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.
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The Lincolnshire side reached round one for the first time by beating National League Wrexham 3-2 after extra-time in a fourth qualifying round replay.
Stamford, who play in the eighth tier Northern Premier League Division One South, now face League One Hartlepool.
"We're on a bonus for the FA Cup and we're determined to go to America," manager Graham Drury said.
"At the minute we've got nearly £2,000 and if we beat Hartlepool in the next round I'll be saying to the chairman I want another £5,000 to go into that players' pot.
"That's our goal, our dream, to send the boys to America."
Drury, who led Conference North side Corby Town into the first round of the FA Cup five years ago, took over as manager of Stamford last season but was unable to save them from relegation from the Northern Premier League Premier Division.
And he said was delighted to make club history by giving them some cup success.
"When I came into Stamford at the back end of Christmas last year they'd won one home game in 18 months," Drury told BBC Radio Lincolnshire.
"We've turned that round and made Stamford a bit of a fortress. We've lost one game here this season and we've played some top-quality sides.
"We've stuck at it and we've got our rewards, and to take them to the first round proper, I'm a very proud man."
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Stamford's players are hoping to earn enough money from their FA Cup run to fund an end-of-season trip to the US.
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Steven Dishman, 60, went on the run on 28 May 1985 while serving seven years for burglary and theft of property.
He was sentenced in December 1984, and would have been eligible for parole in December 1987.
Dishman was taken into custody by law enforcement officials and the Arkansas State Police.
The inmate escaped from the Cummins Unit in Lincoln County, where convicted murderer Ledell Lee was executed in April.
Solomon Graves, Public Information Officer for the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC), said Dishman will have to serve what is left of his sentence.
Further charges may follow in connection with his escape.
According to the ADC website, four prisoners are still at large in Arkansas. Of those, the longest standing escapee is Veal Lee, a thief who went on the run on 15 July 1984.
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An Arkansas prisoner who escaped more than 30 years ago has been recaptured in the city of Springdale, a prisons spokesman said.
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Co-operative Energy received 136 complaints per 100,000 customers in the third quarter of the year, the Energy Ombudsman said.
This was 50% higher than any other supplier, the ombudsman's figures show.
Co-operative Energy blamed continuing problems with its new computer system for the results.
It upgraded its IT systems in March, with many customers complaining of being locked out of their online account or not receiving their bills following the switch.
"We would like to thank customers for their patience and continued support in recent months," a spokesman for the supplier said.
"We have made significant progress to resolve a number of technical issues which ultimately related to the introduction of a new IT system. We will continue to make further improvements to ensure our customers receive the high level of service they expect and deserve."
The energy ombudsman said it had received a total of 13,212 complaints about the energy sector in the third quarter of the year, slightly lower than the previous quarter's total of 13,490. Disputed charges, inaccurate invoices and missing bills were the most common complaints.
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One of the UK's smaller energy suppliers has topped a list of the highest proportion of consumer complaints.
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The crash, which involved the bike and a Range Rover, took place at about 19:30 BST on Saturday at Groesonen Road in Clytha, near Abergavenny.
The driver of the Range Rover was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
The motorcyclist, from Bristol, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The company said that Kensington and Chelsea had seen prices plummet by 16% since a peak in September 2014.
In Westminster it claimed there had been a fall of 22% between a peak in November and the end of May.
It blamed the fall on the new stamp duty regime, introduced in December, which penalises expensive properties.
Based on average prices, anyone buying a property in Kensington and Chelsea can now expect to pay more than £118,000 in stamp duty alone.
"This fall-off in the top tiers of the market has cooled activity levels too," said Adrian Gill, director of Reed Rains and Your Move estate agents, part of the LSL group.
He said the number of homes being sold in London as a whole had dropped by 16% in the year to April.
A wider survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) reported that the stock of houses per surveyor has fallen to its lowest level for at least 37 years.
However, prices in the London suburbs - and other parts of England and Wales - continued to hit new highs, said LSL.
According to its calculations, prices rose by 4.5% in the year to May, making the average cost of a home £277,178.
That is similar to estimates by the Office for National Statistics, but much higher than figures from Halifax and Nationwide.
Buyers of properties worth less than £937,000 now pay less in stamp duty than they used to.
Prices in England's smallest county - Rutland - rose by 23.8% over the year, while those in the Welsh county of Carmarthenshire went up by 16.4%.
Thirteen outer London boroughs saw prices hit new highs.
Previous figures from the Land Registry have suggested that prices in the suburbs across England and Wales have been taking off, including in parts of Manchester.
The separate RICS survey suggests prices in England and Wales could rise by as much as 25% over the next five years, due to the shortage of housing stock.
It said that, away from the South East, the strongest growth was expected in north-west England, as a result of the government's northern powerhouse initiative.
LSL's house price index is based on statistics released by the Land Registry, so includes cash sales.
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Ward defended his WBO, WBA and IBF light-heavyweight titles against Sergey Kovalev in a rematch on Saturday.
His coach Virgil Hunter has talked up a move to cruiserweight or heavyweight and backed the American to beat Joshua.
"He's the heavyweight champion and the man but that's just my coach's belief," Ward, 33, told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Anything is possible. Virgil will speak his mind and I will back him up. That's no disrespect to Anthony Joshua.
"Cruiserweight and heavyweight is definitely an option. Is it easy? Absolutely not. Is it a risk? Absolutely. Are people going to think you're crazy? Absolutely."
Ward held world titles at super-middleweight before claiming all but one of the recognised belts at light-heavyweight and said he would meet WBC title holder Adonis Stevenson "if there is enough buzz and people want to see it".
He added that he did not want to fight at cruiserweight or heavyweight regularly, saying: "Ideally you want it to be for a title, to make history and move on."
Britain's Tony Bellew - the WBC champion at cruiserweight - could therefore be an option and would ultimately require less of a weight jump than a contest with Joshua.
In beating Kovalev, Ward weighed in at 175lbs - around 24lbs lighter than Bellew scaled when capturing his title in 2016 and 75lbs less than Joshua prior to his win over Wladimir Klitschko in April.
"I've shown we are willing to fight the best," added Ward, who has won all of his 32 fights. "I'm coming up to 13 years as a pro. You want meaningful fights.
"The situation at heavyweight or cruiserweight, it wouldn't be to try to match them size for size.
"I'd not try to get to the maximum of 200lbs at cruiser, I'd come in at 188-190, understanding I'm the smaller man and that I'd have to use my ability."
If Ward were to win a world title at heavyweight, he would emulate Roy Jones Jr, who moved from light-heavyweight to heavyweight to take the WBA title from John Ruiz in 2013.
Jones won that title despite weighing in 34lbs less than his 226lbs opponent.
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Only 3.2mm of rain fell at Gogarbank and 4mm in the Botanic Gardens - 7% and 10% of the respective monthly average.
According to data from the Met Office Midlothian, Fife and Middlesex, were the driest historical counties this month with just 12% of the rainfall expected in April.
Sutherland was the wettest part of Scotland with 36% above average.
The UK as a whole experienced just 47% of the expected rainfall.
Scotland was the wettest area of the UK with 65mm and southern England the driest area with 16mm.
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Howard, who was the president of the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), died at his home near Los Angeles on Wednesday.
He was best known for the 1970s high school basketball series The White Shadow, in which he played the coach.
SAG-AFTRA acting president Gabrielle Carteris said he was "inspirational" and "a light that never dimmed".
A spokesman for the union added that Howard left "a legacy of service, commitment and superlative success".
"He was an extraordinary actor, a Tony and Emmy Award winner, whose career spanned Broadway, motion pictures and television," he said.
Stars of TV and film took to social media to pay tribute to Howard, who began his acting career on Broadway in 1968 after touring Europe and recording two albums with his college choral group, The Zumbyes.
Mindy Kaling, who worked with Howard on The Office, tweeted he was "a great guy", while Terminator 2 star Robert Patrick wrote "glad I worked with 'Class'".
Rob Lowe, who starred alongside Howard in The West Wing, tweeted he would "always remember" working with him on one of his "favourite scenes ever" from the show.
George Clooney shared a memory with Deadline about meeting Howard while auditioning as a young actor.
"I didn't get that audition, but I did get the chance to work with him years later. It was an honour," he said.
"Today, his obituary read that he was six foot six, but he was so much taller than that."
Born in California on 24 March 1944, Howard first came to prominence on stage, winning a Tony Award for his role in Child's Play on Broadway in 1970.
He made his Hollywood debut in the same year, opposite Liza Minnelli in the drama Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, and would go on to star in a wide variety of films, including 1994 thriller Clear and Present Danger and 2005 comedy In Her Shoes.
However, the SAG-AFTRA spokesman said it was as Coach Reeves in the "groundbreaking" series The White Shadow he would be best remembered, adding that years after the show ended in 1981, Howard was "frequently recognised on the street by fans who greeted him with a handshake and a 'Hey, Coach'".
Howard won two Daytime Emmys for his work on television and starred in a range of shows, including Dynasty, The Colbys, Melrose Place and Crossing Jordan. He also made guest appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Murder She Wrote, The Golden Girls and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
He was elected as the Screen Actors Guild's president in 2009 and later helped it merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists to form a new 160,000-member union.
In 2011, he said in a letter to members that serving them as president was "the most important thing I have ever done".
He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Linda Fetters Howard, and three adult stepchildren from a previous marriage.
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Tommy Thompson was arrested on a criminal contempt warrant for evading a civil case brought by his investors.
They accuse him of cheating them out of promised proceeds from one of the biggest shipwreck hauls in US history.
In 1988 Thompson recovered millions of dollars' worth of gold from a ship that sank off the US coast in 1857.
Thompson went missing in 2012 amid demands he appear in court. He and an associate, Alison Antekeier, were arrested in January in Boca Raton, Florida.
They had been at the hotel for two years, paying cash for their room under a false name and using taxis and public transport to avoid detection.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that Thompson's plea deal with prosecutors requires him to turn over $425,380 (£286,000) to the court, money that was seized when he was arrested.
Under the deal, Thompson will be sent to prison for no more than two years, but in exchange the government will not charge him with other offences arising from the case.
A total of 161 investors had given Mr Thompson $12.7m (£8m) to find the ship on the understanding they would see returns on their investment.
Thompson, then an oceanic engineer at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, and his crew brought up thousands of bars and coins in 1988, much of them later sold to a gold marketing group in 2000 for about $50 million.
But the criminal complaint unveiled in January said the gold bars and coins he recovered from the seafloor were worth up to $400m (£260m).
One of the investors has asked an Ohio state judge to freeze all of Thompson's assets.
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A US treasure hunter - who spent years evading authorities - will go to prison rather than testify about gold he discovered in a historic shipwreck.
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The Navitus Bay project was for up to 121 turbines off Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change rejected the offshore project in September.
The developers' "extensive" research will be made available via the Crown Estate's Marine Data Exchange.
The £3.5bn plan, developed jointly by Dutch firm Eneco and French giant EDF Energy A, would have seen up to 121 8MW turbines at 200m (656ft) high constructed.
Developers said it would have provided electricity for up to 700,000 homes, but opponents argued it would damage tourism and was too close to protected coasts.
It was only the second time the government rejected an offshore project.
A statement on the Navitus Bay website read: "After careful consideration, Navitus Bay has chosen not to challenge this decision.
"We would like to thank the communities on the South Coast and all our stakeholders for their engagement throughout the project."
It added a "wealth of information" gathered, including bird and mammal surveys, archaeological data and sediment sampling, would be left as a "legacy...to stimulate research, support academia and contribute towards the sustainable management of the seabed".
The Challenge Navitus campaign group, which had opposed the development, said in a statement it was "delighted and relieved" at the announcement.
"The examiners' recommendation for refusal to the government was unequivocal and carefully considered, as was the Secretary of State's decision, so it would have been surprising if there were legal flaws in the process that the developer could challenge," it added.
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Developers behind a wind farm plan off the south coast of England which was refused consent by the government have decided not to appeal the decision.
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The Israeli ambassador to the UN called the database a "blacklist" and said the body was acting obsessively against it.
But the Palestinian envoy said the move was a "message of hope" for his people.
Settlements built on territories occupied by Israel in 1967 are considered illegal under international law, but Israel disputes this position.
About 500,000 Jews live alongside 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Thirty-two of the 47 members of the Geneva-based Human Rights Council voted on Thursday to adopt the motion calling for the establishment of the database.
None voted against the motion, while 15, mostly European nations, abstained.
The BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem says the database will provide a resource for any organisation wanting to divest from companies involved in Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands.
It will potentially include a number of Israeli and international firms working in industries from banking to construction and security services, our correspondent adds.
The Palestinians have been campaigning for tougher sanctions against settlements.
The Palestinian envoy to the UN said that the passage of this resolution and others by the Human Rights Council were a "message of hope" to his people.
"Israel continues to systematically violate the inalienable rights of the Palestinians while enjoying impunity from the international community," Ibrahim Khreisheh added.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the body "an anti-Israel circus which attacks the only democracy in the Middle East and ignores the blatant violations of Iran, Syria and North Korea".
He added that it was absurd to condemn Israel rather than deal with attacks by Palestinians on Israelis and by so-called Islamic State in Europe.
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Bolt, who completed a sprint double in Beijing with Thursday's 200m win, added he would run at the 2016 Olympics.
"I want to run but I think the sport is not as fun as it used to be - it's more taxing," the 29-year-old, who has won 10 world titles, told the BBC.
"I can't enjoy it as much as I want to because I have to sacrifice more."
He added: "It is 50-50."
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Bolt could make his gold-medal tally to 11 this weekend when he competes for Jamaica in the 4x100m relay.
Once again he is likely to face Justin Gatlin in the final, with the United States one of the favourites for gold. The Jamaicans were beaten by an American quartet at the IAAF World Relays in May.
"In the World Relays, Justin Gatlin had a big game in their victory," added Bolt. "I guess he will be tired now. There will be no reason why we should not win the relay."
Some media outlets have been accused of portraying Gatlin as the "villain" to Bolt's "hero" following two career doping bans.
He came into the World Championships having set the best times over 100m and 200m this season.
Bolt pipped Gatlin to the 100m title, before the American fell to a more emphatic defeat in the longer sprint on Thursday.
Asked by BBC Radio 5 live if a double silver was a disappointment, Gatlin said: "Not at all. I'm out here competing. I'm aged 33.
"I think a lot of people now see the hard work and effort I put into it. It's not a personal race, it's also for my country.
"In the 100m, I beat myself. In the 200m, technically I ran to the best of my ability."
When asked about the media's portrayal of him in the lead up to Beijing 2015, Gatlin said: "I go into shutdown mode. I don't worry about what the media has to say.
"You guys do your job, sensationalise stories sometimes. My job is to compete and get to the line."
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The EU said the meeting in Istanbul, which ended early on Wednesday, was "useful and constructive".
Mr Jalili said they assessed "common points" reached by technical teams.
Talks in June between Iran and the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - ended without a breakthrough.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said afterwards that the proposals they had seen from Iran had been "non-starters".
State department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the purpose of Tuesday's meeting was to gauge whether the Iranians were "prepared to bring anything new".
The talks between Baroness Ashton and Mr Jalili, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, were not considered formal negotiations.
Afterwards, an EU spokesman said in a brief statement that it had been "a useful and constructive meeting and an important opportunity to stress once again to Iran the urgent need to make progress".
Baroness Ashton would brief representatives of the P5+1 next week on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, it added.
Mr Jalili said he and the EU's foreign policy chief had assessed some proposals agreed at a lower-level technical meeting in July.
"We discussed common points found by the experts and technical teams... so that they may be brought closer together and that a framework for future talks can be drawn," he added. "We hope [our] talks can help bring the common points closer together."
"We are awaiting the result of the six powers' assessment."
On Monday, the head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran said the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency might have been infiltrated by "terrorists and saboteurs" who "might be making decisions covertly".
Fereydun Abbasi-Davani cited an incident on 17 August, when power lines from the city of Qom to the underground uranium enrichment facility at Fordo were cut, shortly before an unscheduled visit by IAEA inspectors.
His comments came days after the IAEA's governing body expressed "serious concern" that Iran had continued to defy UN Security Council resolutions demanding it suspend uranium enrichment and had failed to resolve questions about possible nuclear weapons development.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Iran was only six or seven months from having "90%" of what it needed to make a nuclear bomb, and urged the US to draw a "red line" which if crossed would lead to military intervention.
Iran has insisted that its nuclear programme is solely for peaceful purposes, and warned that it will retaliate if it comes under attack.
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The Irish, who have set 2020 as their target entry date, are currently ICC associate members, which means they play one-day internationals and T20 games but not Test matches.
They have earned wins over Pakistan and England at the last two World Cups.
Central contracts are to be given to 23 Ireland players while coach Phil Simmons has signed a new two-year deal.
Simmons's contract extension will keep him in charge until the completion of the qualifying campaign for the next World Cup.
Cricket Ireland published a strategic plan on Tuesday which, it maintains, outlines a road map that will take the country to the Test arena by 2020.
The plan outlines proposals to establish a domestic first-class cricket structure in Ireland and to increase the numbers playing the game to 50,000.
Cricket Ireland chiefs also believe the country can improve its one-day world ranking from its current position of 11th to eighth and that the sport can become firmly established as the country's fourth most popular team sport behind Gaelic games, football and rugby.
"We have set ourselves a very clear long-term ambition - to become a full Test nation by 2020, nothing less," said chief executive Warren Deutrom.
"This is not a dreamy aspiration but a real ambition founded on the playing talent being developed on this island, the growing passion and profile of the game here, a sustained and proven track record of achievement on and off the field, and a clear roadmap set out by us for how to get there."
Cricket Ireland also confirmed that several new commercial funding deals are in place, while principal sponsors RSA Insurance are understood to have extended their deal until 2015.
Ireland's application for Test status aims to build on the momentum created by last year's memorable World Cup victory over England.
Irish cricket was stunned a month later when the International Cricket Council appeared to close the door on qualification for the 2015 World Cup by announcing plans to restrict places at the tournament to its 10 full member nations.
But after an outcry, the world governing body's executive board said in June that it was retaining the 14-team format and Ireland are already in a qualifying campaign for the 2015 tournament.
The win over England came four years after the heroic performance at their first World Cup appearance in 2007 when they shocked Pakistan to qualify for the second round of the competition.
But while Ireland have claimed notable scalps in the one-day game, the lack of Test cricket has led to players such as Ed Joyce and Eoin Morgan declaring for England - albeit Joyce later resumed his Ireland career.
Irish fast bowler Boyd Rankin has also spoken of his desire to represent England at Test level and has already represented the England Lions side.
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At an event in New York on Monday, Madonna, Beyonce, Kanye West, and 13 other performers announced they had become co-owners of Tidal.
The service launched last October, but was recently bought by rapper Jay Z.
It is hoping to compete with the likes of Spotify, Deezer and Google Play.
However Tidal offers 25 million music tracks, fewer than the 30 million offered by many rival services.
As well as a standard subscription for $9.99 a month, Tidal offers a "high fidelity" option for $19.99, which claims to deliver better sound quality.
Singer Alicia Keys spoke on behalf of the artists as they all lined up on stage at Skylight at Moynihan Station in Manhattan.
Describing the event as a "graduation", she said the artists hoped Tidal would alter musical evolution.
"So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a moment that will forever change the course of music history."
Their mission, she said, goes beyond commerce and technology.
"Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives,'' she said.
Notably, the majority of the company will be owned by artists, a symbolic move in a business where musicians often have little control over how their work is distributed and consumed.
Jay Z's strategy will include encouraging artists to lobby their labels to give Tidal new music a week in advance of other services, giving it a short window of exclusivity.
He told Billboard: "We didn't like the direction music was going and thought maybe we could get in and strike an honest blow.
"Will artists make more money? Even if it means less profit for our bottom line, absolutely. That's easy for us. We can do that. Less profit for our bottom line, more money for the artist; fantastic."
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They have been removed to stop the spread of ash dieback, a fungal disease that can infect mature trees and saplings.
Scientists have warned that if it is not contained it could change the landscape and affect our biodiversity.
It has been found on around 100 sites in Northern Ireland.
All those sites were planted with imported saplings, some of which had the infection.
Infected ash trees were destroyed along with any others planted alongside.
That led to the removal of 100,000 young trees.
The disease is widespread in Europe where it is killing mature trees.
In Northern Ireland, it is mostly in saplings planted within the past five years.
It spreads on the wind by spores.
Scientists at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) in Belfast are trying to establish if that is happening in Northern Ireland yet.
Prof Alistair McCracken, a plant pathologist with AFBI, said: "This is a serious disease. In Denmark they say up to 90% of the ash trees have been infected.
"Now they haven't all died, but they have been affected and are looking quite sickly so potentially this could have a huge impact on the Northern Ireland environment."
Infected ash trees will not recover, although mature trees can survive for a long time.
The fungus appears between June and September on leaf litter. Each pinhead size fungus can produce large numbers of spores.
When they land on a fresh ash leaf they germinate, penetrate the surface and grow into the stem.
The first symptom is wilting leaves. As it gets worse the trees will develop a diamond-shaped dark-coloured lesion on the bark.
In Denmark, Sweden and east European countries, where the disease has been present for 30 years, large numbers of trees have become infected.
Scientists are worried about its impact in Northern Ireland, where ash is a common tree.
They are carrying out a survey of more than 1,000 sites to identify any further problems.
And they have asked for the public's help.
The authorities have developed a smartphone app called Tree Check that the public can use to report potential problems, including a picture and a GPS position.
They will then be assessed and, if necessary, the site visited by experts.
Jim Crummie, plant health expert with the Forest Service urged the public to download the app and to be the "eyes and ears" of the authorities in the fight to combat the disease.
Tree Check can be used to report all tree diseases, not just ash dieback.
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Celtic lead the Dons on goal difference with a game in hand after losing at Pittodrie on their last league outing.
"They're going to be more hungry," manager Deila said of his team.
"They know that it is very important to keep momentum and winning games and getting performances. So, it [Aberdeen drawing level] is doing us better."
Aberdeen beat Celtic 2-1 three days after Deila's side lost their League Cup semi-final to Ross County, who visit the champions on Saturday.
"I am very impressed with what Aberdeen have done," he added.
"We have won many games in the league, we have lost three games in one year and they have done very well.
"Up in Aberdeen is always a tough game. We should have doe more there but now we need to just get back on track again.
"You need to react even better if you are pushed from behind."
Deila rejected the notion that Saturday is an opportunity for revenge but added that his team has a point to prove against County.
Celtic took an early lead at Hampden but were soon reduced to 10 men following a red card for Efe Ambrose and lost out 3-1 to the Dingwall outfit.
"We really want to bounce back after the semi-final," said Deila.
"We have to take with us the first 12-15 minutes when we created a lot of chances and do that for 90 minutes.
"It's about getting momentum now, getting on the right track, winning football games. If we do that, everything will be good, we'll get confidence in the team and play well."
Deila also said that it was "normal" that other clubs would be interested in signing Charlie Mulgrew, who is out of contract at the end of the season.
He insisted that the focus for the player and the club just now is to "get him back up to his highest level" following a prolonged spell out with injury.
There was no progress to report on midfielders James Forrest and Stefan Johansen, who have 11 and 17 months to run on their respective deals.
"It's never [straightforward] in football," said Deila.
"They have to really want to play for Celtic as well. We will see in the end who is with us for the future and who is not."
Deila added that he has not spoken to Leigh Griffiths following threatening remarks aimed at the striker's family on social media but is confident that the player's form will not suffer.
"He's quite strong mentally and he knows what's right or wrong," he said of Celtic's top scorer. "He's performed very well this season and he just needs to keep his focus on the same things as he did earlier."
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Ronny Deila thinks the challenge from Aberdeen will only increase the determination of his Celtic players to stay at the top of the Premiership.
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Gwent Police said the man was arrested in Hamburg on 12 August and will be extradited to the UK.
The man is believed to be Thomas Doran, who is wanted as part of Gwent Police's Operation Imperial - an investigation into serious offences against vulnerable adults on the Gwent Levels.
The extradition process can take six weeks, police added.
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A 60-year-old man from Cardiff has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of conspiracy to kidnap.
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The 23-year-old arrived on trial with the Dingwall club last month following his release from Go Ahead Eagles in the second tier of Dutch football.
Having started his career at NAC Breda, he will provide competition for Liam Boyce, Brian Graham and Craig Curran.
Curran has not featured since suffering a head injury in late August.
Boyce is the Staggies' leading scorer with 11 goals, while Graham has netted once during the current campaign.
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Ross County have signed former Netherlands Under-21 striker Alex Schalk until the end of the season, subject to international clearance.
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Molloy has made 40 appearances for the Wildcats since joining from Huddersfield in April 2013.
Meanwhile, centre Bill Tupou will also miss Saturday's Challenge Cup semi-final at Warrington after suffering a minor tear in his hamstring.
"The injuries are a loss but we've got depth in the squad," head coach Chris Chester told BBC Radio Leeds.
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Wakefield Wildcats second-row forward Jon Molloy will be out for four weeks after suffering a torn pectoral muscle.
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AMs are not meant to use assembly facilities for party-political campaigning.
But in March, South Wales Central AM Neil McEvoy discussed the campaign at a press conference held in an assembly briefing room.
Mr McEvoy accepted that he was in breach of the AM's code of conduct.
The standards committee has recommended to the assembly that Mr McEvoy be censured for the breach - a formal reprimand.
Their conclusion follows an investigation by the standards commissioner Sir Roderick Evans who said Mr McEvoy "failed to comply" with the rules on 14 March.
The press conference was held while Mr McEvoy was suspended from his party group in March - a suspension that was later lifted.
In a statement, Mr McEvoy said he distributed copies of a document at the press conference which contained seven policies relevant to the local elections, saying they were relevant to his suspension.
He said: "This was not appropriate. I accept that it was in breach of the code of conduct."
A Plaid Cymru spokeswoman said: "This is a matter for the individual member who apologised and we are pleased that this matter has been resolved."
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A Plaid Cymru AM has apologised for discussing his party's council election campaign at a press conference in the Senedd building.
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England won the toss and chose to bat but went from 110-2 to 184 all out as they were dismissed in 40.2 overs.
Daniel Bell-Drummond top-scored with 51 but it was in vain as England went 3-0 down in the five-match series.
Sri Lanka A reached their target in 37 overs as Shehan Jayasuriya followed up his 5-35 with a knock of 83.
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England Lions have lost their one-day series against Sri Lanka A after being beaten by four wickets in the third ODI in Kurunegala.
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A company based in Solva has developed new mobile phone technology to record the animal's position.
The app is free and can be used in remote areas without wi-fi.
Its inventor told Abigail Neal how mapping these sightings could help protect the birds.
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Technology pioneered in Pembrokeshire is being used to track endangered birds of prey in Africa.
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A public sale of the items will be held at the venue on Saturday and Sunday.
Aberdeen Performing Arts, the organisation that manages the hall, held the last performances there earlier this month.
The building is due to be fully closed to the public for 20-months of building work.
A new performance studio and new creative learning space will be created.
The box office and reception will also be moved and ramped entrance added to the main doors from Union Street, as well as improved access to the balcony.
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Aberdeen Music Hall is selling off props, clothing, mirrors and other furniture ahead of a £7m revamp of the 155-year-old building.
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The U's are now three games unbeaten in League One, but remain seven points from safety with six matches to play.
"The club as a whole is going in the right direction," Keen told BBC Essex. "The players are playing with heart and soul and they're having a right go.
"I thought it was a good competitive game with both teams going at it."
The result means the U's have only conceded once in their last three games, a drastic improvement for a team with the worst defensive record in England's top four divisions.
"I thought we were fantastic defensively," continued Keen. "I'm really pleased with the clean sheet. The boys are disappointed because they know we've got to win matches, but to get a clean sheet against that team, I'm pleased for them.
"They're up in the play-offs for a reason. Realistically, a point is probably a fair result."
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Colchester United are "going in the right direction" following their 0-0 draw against sixth-placed Millwall, according to manager Kevin Keen.
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Backstage, he spoke to the BBC's entertainment reporter Lizo Mzimba about working with director JJ Abrams, his co-star Daisy Ridley and why fans should be excited about the latest Star Wars blockbuster.
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John Boyega, who stars in the new Star Wars film - The Force Awakens, presented a prize at this year's Bafta Film Awards.
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Jamieson, who lost his place to on-loan Rangers 20-year-old Liam Kelly, had been sent out on loan to junior outfit Bo'ness United earlier this month.
He would become Accies' third goalkeeping addition of the summer.
Gary Woods was signed permanently from Leyton Orient and Remi Matthews on loan from Norwich City.
The Premiership club lost Michael McGovern to Norwich this summer after his Euro 2016 displays for Northern Ireland.
Meanwhile, 16-year-old Jon McCracken followed him from New Douglas Park to Carrow Road earlier this month.
Jamieson had made 101 appearances for Livingston, 16 while they were in the Championship last season.
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Goalkeeper Darren Jamieson has been released by Livingston, with the League One club saying that the 25-year-old is to join Hamilton Academical.
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Mr Gordhan will be replaced by Malusi Gigaba, said a statement issued late on Thursday by the preisdent's office.
Earlier this week, President Zuma recalled Mr Gordhan from planned events in the UK and US.
Sfiso Buthelezi will become Deputy Finance Minister, replacing Mcebisi Jonas.
"I have directed the new ministers and deputy ministers to work tirelessly with their colleagues to bring about radical socioeconomic transformation and to ensure that the promise of a better life for the poor and the working class becomes a reality," President Zuma's statement said.
Last October, Mr Gordhan was charged with fraud - but the charges were later dropped.
He has described the allegations as politically motivated.
Mr Gordhan has been seen as standing up to President Zuma in cabinet and has warned against corruption becoming rampant.
The South African Communist Party, an ally of the governing African National Congress, had earlier lodged a formal objection to plans to dismiss Mr Gordhan, who is widely respected internationally.
Many senior ANC figures also opposed the finance minister's removal.
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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has dismissed Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan after days of speculation that rocked the country's markets,
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Jordan Dawson, 19, from Guisborough, North Yorkshire, was killed in the crash, in February 2014, on the A174 Loftus bypass.
Cleveland Police said a 20-year-old man, also from Guisborough, had been charged earlier on Monday.
The man is due to appear at Teesside Magistrates' Court on 27 February.
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A man has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving, almost a year after a teenager died in a car crash.
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Local co-ordinates, used to produce maps and measurements, and global ones differ by more than 1m.
The body responsible for the change said it would help the development of self-driving cars, which need accurate location data to navigate.
Australia moves about 7cm north annually because of tectonic movements.
Modern satellite systems provide location data based on global lines of longitude and latitude, which do not move even if the continents on Earth shift.
However, many countries produce maps and measurements with the lines of longitude and latitude fixed to their local continent.
"If the lines are fixed, you can put a mark in the ground, measure its co-ordinate, and it will be the same co-ordinate in 20 years," explained Dan Jaksa of Geoscience Australia. "It's the classical way of doing it."
Because of the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates, these local co-ordinates drift apart from the Earth's global co-ordinates over time.
"If you want to start using driverless cars, accurate map information is fundamental," said Mr Jaksa.
"We have tractors in Australia starting to go around farms without a driver, and if the information about the farm doesn't line up with the co-ordinates coming out of the navigation system there will be problems."
The Geocentric Datum of Australia, the country's local co-ordinate system, was last updated in 1994. Since then, Australia has moved about 1.5 metres north.
So on 1 January 2017, the country's local co-ordinates will also be shifted further north - by 1.8m.
The over-correction means Australia's local co-ordinates and the Earth's global co-ordinates will align in 2020.
At that point a new system, which can take changes over time into account, will be implemented.
"We used the old plate fixed system to make life simple, but we don't want to do this adjustment every so often," said Mr Jaksa.
"Once we have a system that can deal with changes over time, then everybody in the world could be on that same system."
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Australia is to shift its longitude and latitude to address a gap between local co-ordinates and those from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).
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The zero-fuel aircraft arrived in Dayton at 21:56 local time (01:56 GMT) having flown from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The 1,113km journey took pilot Andre Borschberg about 16 hours to complete, a relatively short hop for the plane.
Solar Impulse is aiming to get to New York in the next couple of weeks before it crosses the Atlantic - the last big leg in its global endeavour.
To complete the circumnavigation, the aeroplane needs to get to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates where the journey started in March last year.
As well as setting new aviation milestones, the stated purpose of the project is to demonstrate the capability of clean technologies.
The plane gets all its energy from the sun, captured by 17,000 photovoltaic cells on its top surfaces. These power the craft's propellers during the day but also charge batteries that the vehicle's motors can then call on during the night.
The craft is wider than a 747 jumbo jet but weighs just 2.3 tonnes. Low flight speed means mission legs can take several days and nights of continuous flight.
The pilot is permitted only catnaps of up to 20 minutes, and the cockpit is little bigger than a public telephone box.
LEG 1: 9 March. Abu Dhabi (UAE) to Muscat (Oman) - 772km; 13 Hours 1 Minute
LEG 2: 10 March. Muscat (Oman) to Ahmedabad (India) - 1,593km; 15 Hours 20 Minutes
LEG 3: 18 March. Ahmedabad (India) to Varanasi (India) - 1,170km; 13 Hours 15 Minutes
LEG 4: 18 March. Varanasi (India) to Mandalay (Myanmar) - 1,536km; 13 Hours 29 Minutes
LEG 5: 29 March. Mandalay (Myanmar) to Chongqing (China) - 1,636km; 20 Hours 29 Minutes
LEG 6: 21 April. Chongqing (China) to Nanjing (China) - 1,384km; 17 Hours 22 Minutes
LEG 7: 30 May. Nanjing (China) to Nagoya (Japan) - 2,942km; 1 Day 20 Hours 9 Minutes
LEG 8: 28 June. Nagoya (Japan) to Kalaeloa, Hawaii (US) - 8,924km; 4 Days 21 Hours 52 Minutes
LEG 9: 21 April. Kalaeloa, Hawaii (US) to Mountain View, California (US) - 4,523km; 2 Days 17 Hours 29 Minutes
LEG 10: 2 May. Mountain View, California (US) to Phoenix, Arizona (US) - 1,199km; 15 Hours 52 Minutes
LEG 11: 12 May. Phoenix, Arizona (US) to Tulsa, Oklahoma (US) - 1,570 km; 18 Hours 10 Minutes
LEG 12: 21 May. Tulsa, Oklahoma (US) to Dayton, Ohio (US) - 1,113 km; 16 Hours 34 Minutes
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Solar Impulse has landed in the US state of Ohio following the 12th stage of its circumnavigation of the globe.
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Hilary McClintock was elected as mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council on Monday. The SDLP's Jim McKeever is the new deputy mayor.
In 2012, the DUP mayor of Londonderry Maurice Devenney refused to hand his chains to Sinn Féin's Kevin Campbell.
Mayor McClintock said it was "significant" but things had moved on.
"Its part of the process towards normality, the same thing happened in Belfast council a few days ago," she said.
"It was something that we discussed locally and it wasn't really a big deal so we're quite happy to accept it (mayoral chains) from the outgoing mayor."
The Drumahoe based councillor said that during her term she wants more investment because people in the north west feel like "second class citizens".
"I don't want us to be second class I want us to punch a bit higher and I will hopefully lead on that," she said.
"I don't think it's even a party thing. I think west of the Bann we sometimes do feel neglected.
"There's a lot more that can be done for the city, in terms of unemployment we have absolutely woeful figures.
"We do need to bring more jobs and more infrastructure," she added.
Family, friends and councillors from different parties clapped and cheered as former mayor Elisha McCallion placed the mayoral chain around Mrs McClintock's neck.
The former mayor told BBC Radio Foyle she was delighted to be able to do so.
"I'm delighted everything went well for the new mayor and I want to wish her all the best for the future, and the deputy mayor as well," Mrs McCallion said.
"Its a very symbolic day because that was actually the very first time a DUP mayor has accepted a chain from a Sinn Féin ex-mayor.
"It just goes to show you where we are as a society here in this city so I was delighted to do that honour," she said.
Mrs McClintock, who is married with two daughters, has previously worked as a civil servant and a classroom assistant.
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For the first time in Londonderry an outgoing Sinn Féin mayor has placed the chains of office around the neck of a DUP successor.
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Those held in a series of raids in the capital Kuala Lumpur were mainly from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, officials said.
Machines to make fake passports and to forge Malaysian immigration documents were among the items seized.
Security in the city is being tightened up ahead of the Southeast Asian Games which begin in just over a week's time.
Monday's raids saw police break down doors and lead scores of people away in handcuffs to waiting buses. They were taken to police stations for investigation and screening.
Authorities said they were targeting anyone with missing or fraudulent travel documents or who was believed to be affiliated with terror groups in Syria and Iraq.
"We will detect and take action against foreigners suspected of having links with terrorists, especially those involved in activities in Syria," police counter-terror official Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, said, quoted by Free Malaysia Today.
Officers were also equipped with devices to detect radioactive materials, police said, although no such items were found.
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More than 400 people have been detained in a counter-terrorism operation in Malaysia, authorities say.
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