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Zaha's agent told BBC Sport on Thursday that Spurs had bid £15m for the 23-year-old England international.
Pardew is keen to keep the former Manchester United player and said Parish had "made his position clear".
"He was our player of the year and is a fans' favourite," Pardew said of Zaha, who scored five goals last season.
"Wilf came and saw me, he believed there was interest from Tottenham. I don't even know what the bid is. The chairman has made his position clear and I stand by that. That's the right thing for us."
Zaha, who rejoined Palace in February 2015 for £3m just two years after a £15m move to Old Trafford, made the first of his two England appearances in 2012 but has not been picked since 2013.
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Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish "put the full stop" on Tottenham's interest in winger Wilfried Zaha, according to Eagles boss Alan Pardew.
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Six cases caused by a bacteria similar to Mycobacterium lepromatosis have been confirmed in the squirrels since 2006.
It is the first time the disease has been found in the species and little is known about the spread of the potentially fatal disease.
Conservationists, however, say there are other more significant threats to red squirrels such as squirrelpox.
Scientists are urging the public to report sightings of squirrels which may be suffering from leprosy.
They said the information would help them build up a more detailed understanding of the disease.
There is no suggestion of any risk to human health.
Infected animals have been found from Dumfries and Galloway to the Moray Firth.
Symptoms include hair loss and severe swelling to the snout, eyelids, ears and feet.
Prof Anna Meredith of the Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies at Edinburgh University is leading the research.
She told BBC Scotland: "We suspect this disease is more widespread than the six cases we have confirmed.
"Red squirrels are in decline. They are threatened by the grey squirrel and already face the major threat of the squirrelpox virus.
"This is the last thing that they need - another disease which could potentially threaten the population."
However conservationists from Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels said the leprosy infection appeared to be extremely rare and would not be a major threat to the wider population.
Project manager for Mel Tonkin, said : "Much more of a threat is the squirrelpox virus which is virtually always fatal to red squirrels, but finds a reservoir in grey squirrels.
"Research indicates that squirrelpox disease is responsible for accelerating the rate with which grey squirrels have replaced red squirrels throughout most of England and Wales.
"However, the conservation community has shown that red squirrel populations can be protected in the midst of grey squirrels carrying the virus by keeping the grey squirrel population density at a very low level."
Researchers in Edinburgh investigating the leprosy infection said dead red squirrels could be sent to them by post provided they were appropriately packaged.
But they advised members of the public to follow basic hygiene rules before and after handling dead squirrels.
Details can be found on this webpage under the "post-mortem guidance note section".
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Scotland's red squirrels are facing a new threat from a form of leprosy, according to scientists in Edinburgh.
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The images were taken by architect Dennis Calow during the city's regeneration from the mid-1950s to the 1970s.
The collection has been added to an online map created by the University of Leicester.
It is hoped it will inspire other people to share photos and memories.
Dr Simon Dixon, archives manager at the university, said at least 12,500 buildings and homes were demolished in Leicester when the clearance of working class Victorian housing resumed after being interrupted by World War Two.
He said Dennis Calow was interested in the historical value of pre-20th Century buildings due to be torn down.
Mr Dixon said the project was inspired by the growing number of Facebook pages dedicated to historical photos of cities.
He said he hoped the photos would encourage people to come forward to share information about Leicester's lesser-known lost buildings.
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Hundreds of photos of buildings demolished during Leicester's post-war slum clearance programme have been published online.
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Ruth Davidson delivered that message during a speech at the Tory conference in Manchester.
She addressed delegates ahead of Prime Minister David Cameron's speech.
Her focus was on the 2016 Holyrood election in which she said every vote for the Conservatives would "promote Scotland's place" as part of the UK.
The Conservatives have only one Scottish MP but 15 MSPs at Holyrood.
Speaking at a fringe event at the conference on Sunday, Ms Davidson told activists her party was on track for its "best ever result" in next year's Holyrood elections.
There is a new Jerusalem we want to build and we will work towards it every day."
In last year's independence referendum people in Scotland voted to remain in the UK by 55% to 45%.
In her speech to conference, Ms Davidson said the Scottish Conservatives were the party who represented the two million Scots who chose to back the Union.
She insisted the Tories would target the regional vote in next year's Scottish Parliament elections and she urged people, whatever their party allegiance, to consider giving their second vote to the Conservatives.
Ms Davidson told those gathered: "I don't want us to be just the party of the technocrat. The grudging vote of competence.
"I want us to be the party of the thinkers, the dreamers, the reformers and the visionaries too.
"The zeal of the missionary, the courage of the pioneer, the ambition to lift our eyes to the horizon and say there's a new Jerusalem we want to build and we will work towards it every day.
"And, more than that. We'll take people with us."
She added: "So long as the SNP refuses to rule out another referendum, our message for voters looking to cast that second vote is clear. Whichever party you support, use that vote intelligently.
"And if you're one of the two million people who voted 'No' in last year's referendum, use it as your intelligent vote for the Union."
Ms Davidson went on to tell conference "Every cross in the Scottish Conservative box is a vote to promote Scotland's place as part of the United Kingdom we built. And every vote for the Scottish Conservatives will help return a Conservative MSP."
Ahead of Ms Davidson's address, Scottish Secretary David Mundell spoke to party members.
Mr Mundell said: "We are stronger and safer together as partners in our UK. That is what just over two million voted just over a year ago, to keep our nations together. It was a 'no thanks' to independence."
He added that the Conservative Party was in "the vanguard" of the No to Scottish independence campaign.
However, Mr Mundell said there could not be room for complacency and "championing the UK must be a full time job".
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A roof will be placed on the tank, which will hold more than 60,000 cubic metres of gas.
The work is being done by the plant's owner Ineos to hold imported shale gas from the US, obtained through the controversial fracking process.
The development of unconventional gas extraction has been halted by a Scottish government moratorium.
Ineos announced plans last year to invest up to £640m in shale gas exploration in the UK and use it as a raw material for its chemicals plants.
The company hopes they will eventually be able to use gas that has been fracked locally in future rather than relying on stocks from the US.
The new storage tank is 56m (183ft) in diameter and 44m (144ft) high - 560 double decker buses could fit inside its 108,372 cubic metre interior.
The 330 tonne roof of the tank was lifted into place using a cushion of air similar to a hovercraft.
John McNally, chief executive of Ineos Olefins and Polymers UK, said it was a "landmark day for Grangemouth".
He said: "We know that US ethane has transformed US manufacturing and now Scottish industry will benefit as well.
"This will secure a cost-effective supply of ethane for the next 15 years, and give a sustainable base for Grangemouth for that time."
Ineos has They have started a community consultation process to try to win support for fracking.
The firm said it was unconcerned about the moratorium and a spokesman promised to drink "a lot of tea in a lot of village halls" to try to win the argument.
However, Friends of the Earth Scotland director Dr Richard Dixon said: "We strongly suspect Ineos' plans for fracking in Scotland would result in blighted communities, with planning permissions sitting unused for years.
"The last thing anyone wants is to have a site next to their home where fracking may happen at some unspecified time in the future.
"Communities could have to wait until nearly 2030 to find out if they are going to be fracked or not. This threat of blight is another good reason for the Scottish government to decide that fracking has no place in Scotland."
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Work to complete the biggest shale gas tank in Europe is continuing at the petrochemical plant in Grangemouth.
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The race - the final round of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) - starts in Llandudno, Conwy county, on 12 November and finishes in Deeside, Flintshire, on 15 November.
Along the way, it will take in towns and villages in Powys, Gwynedd and Denbighshire.
The rally is thought to be worth £10m annually to the Welsh economy.
Councillor Avril York, Powys council's cabinet member for regeneration, said north and mid Wales was an ideal location for the event.
"The area lends itself so well to rallying as we have the forests, mountains and magnificent scenery," she added.
"This prestigious event brings so many benefits to the area."
The line-up includes the world's top stars including the newly-crowned 2015 World Rally Champion Sebastien Ogier and Welsh driver Elfyn Evans.
The final round of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), the race will receive £4.5m from the Welsh government over three years.
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The route has been confirmed for the Wales Rally GB, with 78 cars competing in the international race.
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A Freedom of Information request by the Huffington Post UK found the cost of a journey transporting just government documents had often exceeded £100.
The total bill could be higher as figures for additional trips using pool cars were not available.
The government said there had been a "substantial reduction" in the cost of ministerial cars since 2011.
David Cameron announced plans to shrink the bill for ministerial cars shortly after coming to office in 2010, and the number of ministers with access to their own chauffeur-driven car was cut.
The practice of carrying ministers' "red boxes" in official cars is used for sensitive documentation.
In 2010, journalist Sarah Vine, the wife of the then education secretary Michael Gove, wrote that while her husband could travel home by public transport, his red box would travel separately "in air-conditioned splendour, snug and secure in the back of a locked car".
The red boxes travelled alone using the Government Car Service 1,910 times between 2012-13 and 2014-15, with the number of journeys rising over the course of the three years.
2011-12 £110,865
2012-13 £65,447.70
2013-14 £56,581.28
2014-15 £79,426.23
2015-16 £41,520.58
Source: Freedom of Information request to the Department for Transport
Since 2012, pool cars have also been used by departments but their use is not recorded by the DfT, the department said.
Labour MP Graham Jones told the Huffington Post: "The Tories said they'd clamp down on wasteful spending yet they still allow hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money to be spent ferrying round briefcases in chauffeur-driven cars."
But the Department for Transport said the total cost of carrying ministers' paperwork was just 5% of the total spent on the Government Car Service and that it was committed to ensuring the service provided value for money.
A spokeswoman added: "That is why, since 2010, the number of cars that make up the service has been reduced from 227 to 78.
"We have also been working hard to cut our operating costs in order to further reduce the cost to the public purse.
"Before April 2012, all cars were part of a government car pool and could be booked separately by ministers. After April 2012, cars were allocated to departments as departmental pool cars for use by ministers. These cars are managed by each department."
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Chauffeuring ministers' paperwork around Whitehall has cost more than £350,000 since 2011, figures show.
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But he hopes they will not create pressure to increase salaries in Wales.
There is an agreement which limits the regions bidding for each other's players, however Scarlets faced competition when re-signing centre Scott Williams who was out of contract at the end of the season.
"You've got to be realistic because it is a free market," Short said.
"No agreement can constrain someone's ability to look for work, and regions will be ambitious and will have their own player requirements.
"How the financial fallout from that works is part of the regions' agreement, and one would hope that you wouldn't see pressure within Wales to increase salaries because we've got enough to deal with outside of Wales."
Wales international Williams had been expected to renew his national dual contract (NDC), funded 60% by the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU).
However, the WRU withdrew their offer with union chairman Gareth Davies saying it was because the regions had "upped the ante".
Williams ended up signing a conventional deal with the Scarlets.
The NDCs were introduced as a mechanism to stop high-profile players leaving Wales for England and France.
Short was chairman of the regions' representative body - now called Pro Rugby Wales - when they negotiated the deal which funds and governs domestic rugby in Wales.
He said he would not have expected the union to get involved in a bidding war, and backed the dual contracts.
"The union have been excellent in supporting regions in the past year," he added.
"The NDCs are working well and everybody should recognise that it's a new concept and will take some time to settle down, but it is settling down well.
"And congratulations to the union - it's been a sea-change in the relationship over the past year or so."
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Scarlets chairman Nigel Short admits it will be hard to stop regions competing against each other for Welsh players.
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Kymberley Holden, 27, of Codnor in Derbyshire, died in November 2014 from high levels of OxyNorm.
She had been prescribed ten times the correct dosage by Dr Lawrence Axten, who has apologised for his error.
Dr Axten told her inquest he unwittingly gave her a concentrated dose of the medication.
Ms Holden was prescribed OxyNorm to help her deal with severe pain in her right leg and took three doses in the hours leading up to her death.
Tests showed she died from oxycodone intoxication - the generic name for OxyNorm - and Devic's disease.
Lalitha Vaithianathar, her consultant neurologist and a forensic toxicologist, told Nottingham Coroner's Court it was the dosing of liquid OxyNorm over a short period of time in the final hours that caused the respiratory depression that led to her death.
Coroner Elizabeth Didcock said the prescription error did not cause the 27-year-old's death, but made a "significant contribution".
She added she "did not have confidence that the GP practice understands fully the duty to report serious incidents nor the duties to co-operate with a coronial investigation".
Ms Holden's father Stephen said after the inquest: "I found the conclusion was satisfactory and as good a conclusion as she could come to.
"I understand ... there are more policies and procedures and changes to come to hopefully prevent this from happening to anybody else.
"It has been a very long, very difficult and very trying time."
Ian Dye, her boyfriend, said: "She was the love of my life
"I hope the coroner's recommendations are followed. There was a lack of knowledge about certain controlled drugs and I hope that will improve in the future and prevent something like this happening again."
The family said a civil case was being considered.
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A prescription error "significantly contributed" to the death of a woman who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a coroner has ruled.
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A combination of high tides and strong winds caused a storm surge which overtopped flood defences.
Hundreds of properties were evacuated with residents moved to emergency shelters.
The Environment Agency said the tide on Thursday that caused the damage had been the highest since 1953.
More than 500 properties were evacuated in the village of Keadby, near Scunthorpe, after a hole opened up in the bank of the River Trent.
The Environment Agency said about 50 buildings in the village flooded after high tides. Others were evacuated in nearby Burringham on Thursday.
One Burringham resident said the village's main street was "like a river" when the water flooded over the riverbank.
"It's a bit devastating really, the damage it's caused," he said.
"I haven't seen anything like that before.
"The banks were like paper, just floating away when it went."
Up to 100 properties have been flooded in Reedness in the East Riding, with some residents taken to Goole leisure centre.
Homes in Gunness, Amcotts and South Ferriby in North Lincolnshire have also been evacuated.
In Hull, residents living on some streets in the city centre were also removed to safety.
Some hotels and shops near the city's waterfront lost power and were flooded.
Philip Woods, manager of the Ibis Hotel in Hull, said all of the ground floor area was under water.
"The surge of the water came into the hotel came down the long corridor and came into the rooms," he said
Road and rail links to Hull were also affected.
Part of the A63 in the west of the city was closed on Friday morning after water from the Humber covered the carriageway.
Rail services in Hull and parts of North Lincolnshire were suspended.
Richard Hannigan, chief fire officer at Humberside Fire and Rescue Service, said firefighters had saved 181 people from flood water.
"We've moved now from the rescue phase into the recovery phase," he said.
"We're putting out our high-volume pumps to start pumping out the residual water that of course is trapped in by the sea defences."
Firefighters have been pumping water away from Hessle foreshore next to the Humber Bridge.
James Jackson who lives next to the bridge said he thought it would be at least six months until his flooded home was back to normal
"There'll be no Christmas party or anything this year," he said.
"It's just going to be trying to get a resemblance of life again."
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People across northern Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire are cleaning up after extensive flooding along the Humber Estuary.
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It is up for six Razzies - including worst picture, worst director, worst actor and worst actress.
Jupiter Ascending, Pixels, and Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 also have six nods each for the Golden Raspberry Awards, to be announced next month.
The awards launched in 1980 as a spoof of the Oscars.
Nominees for the Razzies have been named the day before the Oscars shortlist is announced.
Superhero film Fantastic Four, sci-fi adventure Jupiter Ascending, comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 and Adam Sandler's video game film Pixels complete the line-up for worst picture.
Fifty Shades of Grey, the film version of EL James' erotic novel detailing the sadomasochistic affair between student Anastasia Steele and billionaire Christian Grey, is also nominated for worst screenplay.
Its stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are cited for worst screen combo.
Sam Taylor-Johnson, nominated as worst director, has since pulled out of directing its planned two sequels. The next Fifty Shades film is due for release next year.
Sandler is Razzie-nominated for a fifth consecutive year and could pick up awards for worst actor, for Pixels and The Cobbler, and worst screen combo, for "Adam Sandler and any pair of shoes" in the latter film.
Eddie Redmayne, tipped for an Oscar nomination for his role in The Danish Girl, is in contention for worst supporting actor for playing villain Balem Abrasax in Jupiter Ascending.
Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum are nominated for worst actress and worst actor for the Andy and Lana Wachowski-directed film.
Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow gets a worst actress nod for comedy heist Mortdecai - with co-star Johnny Depp scoring two nominations, for worst actor and worst screen combo for his partnership with his glued-on moustache.
It isn't all bad news for the nominees however, with the Razzie Redeemer Awards rewarding previous Golden Raspberry recipients who have gone on to do good work in the past year.
Nominees for that prize include Sylvester Stallone, for his Golden Globe-winning role as Rocky Balboa in Creed, director Elizabeth Banks for Pitch Perfect 2, M. Night Shyamalan for directing horror film The Visit and Will Smith for Concussion.
The winners will be announced in Hollywood on 27 February - the day before the Oscars ceremony - having been voted for online by around 900 members of the Razzies committee.
Those "honoured" for the worst films of the past 12 months will win a gold spray-painted trophy worth $4.97 (£3.44) if they bother turning up - but unlike the Oscars, the winners usually stay away.
Sandra Bullock is among those who have attended the ceremony - showing up with DVDs of All About Steve to hand to the audience after being named worst actress in 2010.
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The arrangement will see Glasgow-based Clyde Space build two small satellites called CubeSats to observe the changing biology of the surface ocean.
Scientists believe it has implications for the marine food chain, fisheries and climate scientists, among others.
Clyde Space said the collaboration could be a "game changer".
The project is being led by John M Morrison, Prof of Physics and Physical Oceanography at the University of North Carolina.
It also involves scientists from other organisations such as Nasa and the Hawk Institute for Space Sciences.
Clyde Space chief executive Craig Clark said: "We're extremely excited to be involved in this mission.
"Previous missions have used large satellites which come with a big price attached whereas the CubeSats are flexible, low-cost and economically viable."
Clyde Space specialises in producing small satellite, nanosatellite and CubeSat systems.
It built the UKube-1 which was launched into space from Kazakhstan in July last year.
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The company which designed and built Scotland's first satellite has teamed up with US-based scientists to develop new technology to study ocean biology.
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Fifty-one Syrian refugees arrived in Belfast last month under a government scheme, having been deemed as being at "real risk" in their home country.
Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Farry said language classes would help people settling in Northern Ireland to "integrate into society".
The lessons are expected to cost about £20,000 each year.
A second group of refugees is expected to arrive in Northern Ireland before April, and they will be settled in Londonderry.
The lessons will be provided at further education colleges, but would not apply to economic migrants.
Mr Farry said it was in the "public interest" to help refugees settling in Northern Ireland.
"The measures ensure that no one who comes to Northern Ireland seeking refuge from persecution or war is disadvantaged simply because of their immigration status," he added.
He said the lessons would be offered to all people in Northern Ireland with refugee status.
"Analysis indicates that demand for provision is relatively small so any additional costs will be affordable within the department's budget."
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Refugees in Northern Ireland will be offered free English lessons, a Stormont minister has said.
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Dahl's daughter Lucy will accept the accolade on behalf of her father in a special episode of the children's TV show, to be aired on CBBC on Thursday.
Dahl much-loved works include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and The Twits.
Had he not died in 1990, the author would have been 100 on 13 September.
Thursday's programme will see science presenter Greg Foot recreate Frobscottle - the favourite drink of the BFG, or Big Friendly Giant.
The show will also feature a performance by the cast of the West End musical version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Only a handful of gold Blue Peter badges are given out each year, in recognition of bravery, inspiration, citizenship and outstanding achievements.
Lucy Dahl said it was "extraordinary" and "truly amazing" for her father to receive the accolade.
"When you read a book you create your own version of the story, and you create your own pictures in your own mind," she said.
"Dad felt that reading books was one of the most important things a child could do, because he felt that imagination was so important."
"Roald Dahl's literary magic continues to enchant generations of children and will do for years to come," Blue Peter editor Ewan Vinnicombe said.
"Blue Peter is honoured to be able to celebrate his remarkable imagination in this special show."
Previous recipients of the gold Blue Peter badge include US film-maker Steven Spielberg and the illustrator and children's author Chris Riddell.
Schools across the UK marked Roald Dahl Day on Tuesday by asking pupils to dress up as their favourite characters from his books.
Celebrations continue this weekend in Cardiff, which will be transformed into "The City of the Unexpected" in an arts event involving 6,000 participants.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected].
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Children's author Roald Dahl is to become the first person to be honoured posthumously with a gold Blue Peter badge.
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Trinity chairman Michael Carter said in Sunday's Salford programme notes that 2017 is their final year at Belle Vue.
The venue would not meet minimum ground standards for the top flight.
"We believe Wakefield playing at Featherstone would be the best-possible fit for supporters," Rovers general manager Davide Longo said.
"[Particularly] given the fact our stadium is situated less than five miles away."
Longo said informal talks had been held between the clubs which, if successful, would see Trinity play home fixtures in the town in addition to their existing training agreement.
"I think it goes without saying that our stadium meets minimum standards set by the Rugby Football League," he added. "And we are constantly making improvements to ensure it continues to develop as a high-quality facility - fit for top-flight and even international rugby league.
"I, for one, sympathise a great deal with the Wakefield board of directors, staff, players and supporters, given the predicament they find themselves in. "
It is not the first time Wakefield have considered moving on - with Dewsbury tipped as a destination - before an agreement to redevelop the site was completed.
However, there has been no further development six months on and Trinity, who moved into the ground in 1895, have issued notice of their intentions to leave.
Super League's minimum requirements for 2016 stipulate that grounds must have a minimum capacity of 5,000, with 2,000 of that seated.
Belle Vue's capacity is just over 7,000 while Post Office Road has an 8,000 capacity.
There are other requirements including media facilities, disabled access and provision as well as closed-circuit television and parking.
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Featherstone Rovers have made a formal offer to Super League club Wakefield Trinity to ground-share at Post Office Road for at least 2018.
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Lough Swilly lifeboat station is the first in Ireland to get the brand new Shannon Class lifeboat.
The 2.4m euros (£1.8m) boat was built in England and is the smallest, fastest and lightest in the RNLI fleet.
The boat was designed by Peter Eyre from Londonderry who was rescued by a Lough Swilly lifeboat when he was 14.
Lough Swilly lifeboat operations manager John McCarter said it was an amazing new addition.
"It is probably the most advanced lifeboat that has entered the lifeboat fleet. It is absolutely new and fully up to date oat that has immense capabilities and we're the first station in Ireland to receive one.
"Indeed it's the first class of lifeboat to be named after an Irish river so it's a double first. It's an amazing bit of kit, we've had crews on it bringing it home and they are really over the moon on the capabilities the boat has and what an upgrade it will bring to the service here out of Lough Swilly.
"Peter cut his teeth sailing in Lough Swilly and got the bug for the water and has done a lot of good work within the RNLI and is pretty much the chief designer of this Shannon class boat and we're delighted that that is also a great connection to Lough Swilly, Derry and the north west."
Peter Eyre who is now an RNLI naval architect based in Poole, in England was instrumental in the development of the new lifeboat.
Mr Eyre attended Foyle and Londonderry College before studying ship science at the University of Southampton. He began designing the hull form at the age of 24 in his spare time.
He said his own experience with the RNLI as a teenager was the inspiration for the boat.
"It was quite a stormy day on the Swilly and we were out sailing in our family yacht and lost the mast because of the strong winds and the Swilly crew came out to us and brought us to safety so that was my first foray with the RNLI.
"This boat is much quicker than the one it replaces, it does 25 knots. Time is of essence for most of these rescues and it's also much safer for the crews especially in rough weather.
"We would share a lot of the same base of suppliers with formula one so it's quite similar in the design approach using all the cutting edge technology available. I'm incredibly proud."
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Wilson, Blues attack coach Matt Sherratt and Scarlets backs coach Stephen Jones will join tour head coach Robin McBryde in Tonga and Samoa.
"It's a great opportunity and I think we [Sherratt and I] will both come back as better coaches," said Wilson.
"[It] will hopefully benefit Cardiff Blues as well."
Wilson continued: "It was an honour to be asked. I'm not thinking about anything at the moment other than doing my job here at Cardiff Blues and at the end of the season I'll start thinking about the tour and the opportunity that presents."
Former Wales Under-20s head coach Wilson joined Cardiff Blues from Bristol in 2015 having previously worked with Scarlets and Newport Gwent Dragons.
Wilson admits he had to think hard before accepting the role.
"It was more a discussion with my wife than anything else because it falls during our time off when we're away from Cardiff Blues, but it's a great opportunity for me," he added.
"We'll also be organising pre-season so it'll be a busy time. But for me personally, with where I am with my career, it was a great opportunity I wanted to take with both hands, and also I hope I'll come back to Cardiff Blues better for the experience."
Formerly a scrum coach, Wilson is expecting to primarily to work with Wales' forwards in Tonga and Samoa.
"Obviously my area is set-piece and forward play and that will be a heavy part of the role," he said.
"It's all happened quite quickly and we've had the rough discussions around it, but they're ongoing."
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Cardiff Blues head coach Danny Wilson says his experience with Wales on next summer's two-Test tour of the Pacific Islands will improve him as a coach.
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The company reported revenue of almost $2.8bn (£2.1) in the three months to 30 June, up from $1.3bn during the same period last year.
Losses increased to $336m, compared with $293m last year.
But investors were encouraged by the firm's prospects and shares rose by more than 7% in after-hours trading.
Tesla, which also has a solar energy division, said almost $2.3bn in revenue during the quarter came from the firm's automotive unit - roughly the same as in the previous quarter, but 93% higher than the same period in 2016.
However, the company's costs, including for research and development and sales, also rose contributing to the 15% rise in its losses for the quarter.
Tesla is preparing to ramp up car production, as it rolls out its most affordable ($35,000) car yet for the mass market.
Tesla told shareholders it expects revenue to grow "significantly" in the second half of the year, while expenses hold steady.
The firm delivered more than 47,000 of its earlier high-end Model S and Model X cars in the first half of 2017, growth of more than 50% from the prior year.
Since it rolled out its latest car, Model 3, to a small group last week, it is averaging more than 1,800 reservations for the car a day, adding to the more than 400,000 orders that are already placed.
So far, demand for the new make isn't cannibalising interest in the older models, chief executive Elon Musk added.
"July was one of our best months ever," he said. "Who knows if this will continue, but all indications are that it will, so that's very exciting."
The firm hopes to make 5,000 of the Model 3 cars per week by the end of 2017. The firm plans to eventually make more than 500,000 a year at its Fremont factory - or about 10,000 per week.
Elon Musk's company is spending big to make sure the target of 50,000 Model 3s by the end of the year isn't missed.
Production of the "affordable" ($35,000) car being on schedule is critical to the company's future - perhaps even the future of Mr Musk himself as he seeks to court even more money for outlandish projects.
That's why Tesla burned through over $1bn in the last quarter, as analysts had anticipated.
There are half a million pre-orders for the Model 3, and Mr Musk said the company is facing "manufacturing hell" to get them all made.
According to the latest projections, Tesla thinks it's on course to keep customers happy. Any wavering on that goal would send the stock price south. For now, things are on track.
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Parts of Madeira Terraces, have been fenced off since summer after warnings the Victorian structure could collapse.
Council leader Warren Morgan revealed in a Facebook post the authority has applied for £50,000 from the government's coastal revival fund.
Homeless people had been sleeping under the arches.
Mr Morgan said: "It is the preliminary step of the restoration process and whilst it does not detail our plans, I hope that it shows that a process, however slow, is underway."
The concern with the structure surrounds the corrosion of steel beams embedded in concrete which supports the deck of the terraces.
It was announced in October that more fencing was to be installed after rough sleepers were discovered.
At the time, Mr Morgan said the site would be secured and staff would help people find safer accommodation.
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Brighton's crumbling seafront arches may be restored after the council revealed it has applied for funding to help redevelop the site.
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The Glasgow Kelvin MSP Sandra White is proposing legislation which would also make it illegal for vehicles to double park.
Her bill won unanimous support, but is unlikely to complete its passage through Parliament before the election.
The SNP government has pledged to legislate to tackle irresponsible parking if it returns to power after the May poll.
The Footway Parking and Double Parking (Scotland) Bill would make it illegal to park on pavements and dropped kerbs, and restrict double parking on roads.
It gained broad support from the public during consultation.
When Ms White's bill was originally introduced to the Scottish Parliament in May last year it was unclear whether Holyrood or Westminster has the power to legislate.
The powers have now been agreed as part of the package of further powers included in the Scotland Bill.
Ms White said she was "delighted" the bill had passed the first stage of the parliamentary process.
She added: "Reckless parking can make life extraordinarily difficult for those with mobility or sight issues as well as many other pedestrians. It's right that we make it clear that bad parking is unacceptable.
"After raising this issue for several years I am glad that we now have the power to act."
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The show's creator, Ryan Murphy, tweeted the announcement saying: "Kathy Bates is running the Hotel. ‪#AHSSeason5."
It's unclear exactly what her job will be, but it sounds like she'll be in charge of the hotel.
The 66-year-old actress played lead roles in previous seasons American Horror Story: Coven and American Horror Show: Freak Show.
Chloe Sevigny, Lady Gaga, Wes Bentley, Matt Bomer and Cheyenne Jackson all have parts in the fifth series.
Kathy Bates played a bearded lady, Ethel Darling in Freak Show and won an Emmy for her role in Coven playing Madame Delphine Lalaurie.
The actress is arguably best known for her role as a psychopathic nurse in Misery in 1990 for which she won the best actress Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
She later received two more Oscar nominations for 1998's Primary Colors and 2002's About Schmidt.
Filming for AHS: Hotel is expected to begin in the next few months with the premiere in October.
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Footage from the area shows a huge column of lava and ash being sent several kilometres into the air.
The authorities have declared a red alert and evacuated more than 4,000 people within a 20km (12 mile) radius.
The Calbuco volcano is one of the most active in Chile, but its eruption took officials in the area by surprise.
Alejandro Verges, an emergency director for the region, said Calbuco had not been under any special form of observation.
Calbuco eruption: your pictures
The inhabitants of the nearby town of Ensenada - along with residents from two other smaller communities - have been ordered to evacuate their homes.
Schools in the area have been shut and some flights cancelled.
The nearby city of Puerto Montt - a gateway to the popular Patagonia region - has already been blanketed in a cloud of ash.
TV footage showed traffic jams in the city and long queues at petrol stations. The nearby town of Puerto Varas was also under a state of alert.
Mayor Gervoy Paredes said residents were "very, very frightened".
"I had never seen this before. It scares you in the beginning. You start to wonder what is going to happen to you," said one unnamed woman.
"Everyone starts to think about gathering water and I don't know what. We got together with the neighbours to see what we would do and wait for news over the radio because we knew that they were evacuating Ensenada and other places near the volcano."
Interior Minister Rodrigo Penailillo called on people affected to "remain calm and stay informed".
Neighbouring Argentina has also put emergency measures in place for the city of Bariloche - about 100km from Calbuco - where ash clouds are expected.
Residents there have been warned to stay indoors.
Chile has the second largest chain of volcanoes in the world after Indonesia, with about 500 that are potentially active.
It is southern Chile's second volcanic eruption in as many months.
In March, the Villarrica volcano erupted in the early hours of the morning, spewing ash and lava. The authorities say this latest eruption is more serious.
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Voting was extended three times as crowds reportedly flocked to polling stations. Turnout was said to be high.
Iranians have been electing a new parliament and Assembly of Experts, a clerical body that appoints the Supreme Leader.
Reformists are hoping to gain influence in the conservative-dominated bodies.
But of 12,000 people who registered as candidates, only half were allowed to stand, including just 200 moderates.
The outcome could affect reformist President Hassan Rouhani's chances of re-election in 2017.
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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for a big turnout to "disappoint" the country's enemies.
"Whoever likes Iran and its dignity, greatness and glory should vote," he said after casting his ballot.
State TV said polling stations had closed at 23:45 (20:15 GMT), more than five hours after the scheduled closing time of 18:00.
The parliamentary elections are to choose 290 MPs for four-year terms.
Voters will also select 88 clerics to the Assembly of Experts, who serve eight-year terms.
Members of the new Assembly might end up choosing the successor to Ayatollah Khamenei, who is 76 and has suffered ill-health.
Some 55 million people were eligible to vote.
BBC Persian's Ali Hamedani says the economy has been a key issue in this election.
With sanctions lifted and Western investors beginning to return to Iran, there are high hopes for an improvement in daily life, he says.
Reformists and moderates say they are targeting greater foreign investment which, our correspondent says, will drive jobs for young people.
More than half of Iranians are under 35 but the youth unemployment rate is 25%, more than two and a half times the national average.
However, conservatives say strong economic growth is more likely to come from domestic production in what they describe as a "resistance economy" that draws on the ideals of the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Results for the Assembly of Experts are expected over the weekend.
The results of the parliamentary election could take longer and it is likely to go to a second round in April.
Candidates need 25% of the vote to win outright and there are an average of 17 candidates per seat.
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The data was posted on a procurement website, revealing details such as health conditions and social care needs.
Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) said it had "done everything we can" to remove the online material.
The victims of the breach had been informed and an investigation is under way, the authority added.
The council uses online procurement portals to post notices when urgent residential or non-residential care was needed for people with physical disabilities, learning disabilities or mental health needs.
But staff had attached personal "pen pictures" of adults requiring such urgent help to notices available to the public on the supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk portal, dating from the start of 2017.
The council's chief executive Pete Bungard "sincerely apologised" for the error, and said staff had already been retrained while an internal investigation was carried out.
A spokeswoman for the authority said GCC had "worked with the procurement websites and search engines" and added she was "confident the council has done everything it can to remove the information".
Earlier this year, GCC launched an investigation after it unwittingly revealed details online of a £500m contract for a controversial incinerator project.
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The Alaskan fishing village taking on 'Godzilla'. By Matt McGrath
Alaska is a vast wilderness of natural beauty. But it also holds more coal than all the other US states put together. As world leaders prepare to gather for a major climate change summit, plans to build an open coal mine that would cover 78 sq km (30 sq miles) surrounding a valued Alaskan river could be coming to a head.
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Chernobyl: Containing the worst nuclear accident. By David Shukman
BBC science editor David Shukman inspected the colossal dome being constructed to house the crippled Chernobyl nuclear power station. Radiation immediately above the reactor is still too intense for the new enclosure to be built where it is needed. So engineers had to come up with an innovative solution.
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Big year ahead for James Webb telescope. By Jonathan Amos
It's been a long time in the making, but the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is about to be assembled. The spectacular new observatory, designed to find the "first light" to shine in the universe, is taking shape ahead of a planned launch in 2018.
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Is the world ready for GM animals? By Paul Rincon
The use of genetically engineered animals could revolutionise whole areas of public health and agriculture, according to advocates. But is the world ready for modified mosquitoes and GM salmon?
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Large Hadron Collider: A quest to break physics. By Jonathan Webb
As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gears up for its revamped second run, hurling particles together with more energy than ever before, physicists there are impatient. They want this next round of collisions to shake their discipline to its core.
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The hunt for Albert Einstein's missing waves. By Rebecca Morelle
The Advanced Virgo experiment will search for Albert Einstein's "missing waves". If it's a success, one of Einstein's greatest predictions will have been directly observed for the first time. But if it fails, the laws of physics might have to be reconsidered.
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A festive collection of the best science and environment reads this year.
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Scarlet flew back into the lives of the Underhill family when she found nine-year-old Shannon during lunch break.
The talkative African Grey swooped into the playground of Llangewydd Junior School, Bridgend, a quarter of a mile from the family's Laleston home.
"I was nearly crying I was so happy," said Shannon, whose mother called the parrot's return a miracle.
She and her family had feared they would never see Scarlet again.
The bird escaped from her cage at the family home on Saturday.
When a teacher approached Shannon in the playground following Scarlet's arrival, the bird squawked: "Do you want a kiss?"
The school then called Shannon's father, Mark, and four-year-old Scarlet greeted him with the words "Hello daddy".
Shannon's mother Emma said: "After Scarlet was gone for more than 24 hours we never ever expected to get her back.
"But then I got a call from the school.
"I could not believe it and I said 'you must be joking' but the secretary told me 'no, she's sitting here right here on Shannon's shoulder."
School administration officer Charlotte Jury said: "I like to think she wanted to go home, and she found Shannon - the person who could take her there."
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The fire started in a bin in a nearby underpass, according to a spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS).
They said the fire broke through into a tunnel and set fire to the dental building, run by Queen's University.
The building sustained smoke damage and some damage to its pipework, but there are no reports of injuries.
The blaze was reported about 20:20 BST on Thursday.
The NIFRS sent at least four fire engines to the scene, along with a team who specialise in dealing with hazardous materials.
The fire has been extinguished but a cordon was put in place for public safety.
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Wales host the showpiece event on Saturday, 3 June, at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.
Speaking to BBC Wales, chief executive Jonathan Ford said he "would love the FAW to be considered in the future to host these major events".
He also said Wales' run to the semi-finals of Euro 2016 has boosted their standing in the game.
Hundreds of millions of people around the world are expected to tune in to watch the Champions League final live.
Ford said the FAW had built up its credentials in hosting major tournaments and matches, and he wanted more.
"We do not want it to just stop there in June," he explained. "We would like to continue to do it."
Wales has already hosted the Uefa under-19s Women's championship in 2013 and the Super Cup final in 2014, but the Champions League final is a giant step up, with estimates it will generate £45m for the local economy.
"We are at the business end now," Mr Ford said.
"We have got a team of 12 people at the FAW working full time on it, and in Wales alone there are probably several hundred people working on it.
"That will go up when Uefa are over here and if you add in the volunteers and the people working in the stadium then you are probably talking about four to five thousand people who will work this event.
"There is a lot of work being done to make sure this is successful and to make sure we utilise it to achieve the objectives we have with football."
Hundreds of thousands of spectators - with and without tickets - are expected to travel to south Wales in the days leading up to the final, with the FAW, police, governments and local authorities involved in a huge logistics exercise.
Details of road closures and restrictions in the Welsh capital are yet to be officially published, but significant disruption is expected.
Major sporting events in the Welsh capital have been dogged by transport problems in the past, down in part to capacity issues at Cardiff Central railway station and pinch-points on the M4 at the Second Severn Crossing and Brynglas Tunnels in Newport.
BBC Wales has been told that 10% of the UK's entire rolling stock of coaches will be used to bring fans in and out of Cardiff on the day of the final and 21 intercity trains will be in place after the match to take supporters from Cardiff back to London.
Wales take on Ireland in a World Cup qualifier on Friday, still unbeaten in their group, but needing a win to improve their chances of qualifying for the finals in Russia next year.
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And the National Trust, which holds one of the world's biggest collections, has started cataloguing every scrap in its collection.
Members have been meeting at the trust's Erddig Hall, Wrexham, where there is already an extensive collection with the oldest dated to the early 1700s.
"We care for paper in all sorts of contexts," said Joanne Hodgson, assistant house steward at Erddig.
"It's on walls, ceilings, inside boxes and cupboards, fragments that have been found behind water pipes and skirting boards, and even a miniature collection in our dolls' house.
"We also have one of the oldest exactly dated wallpapers at Erddig date stamped 1714."
The wallpaper working group is trying to decide how best to catalogue its wallpaper given most of its examples remain in situ.
Erddig's grand rooms are lined with early examples of wallpaper from China, inventors of the fashion for wall lining 2,000 years ago and which was later taken on by the French.
But it is below the stairs, in the servants' quarters, where there are equally impressive examples, even though these were considered "cheap" examples from the 19th and 20th Century.
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The accusations come via a formal complaint in the US by consumer groups.
They, along with several EU bodies, are calling for investigations into the manufacturers.
Genesis Toys, which makes the products, has not responded to a request for comment.
Nuance Communications, the firm that provides speech recognition software for the products, said it takes data privacy seriously.
The firm is a subject of the US complaint, filed with the Federal Trade Commission, but said it had "adhered to our policy with respect to the voice data collected through the toys referred to in the complaint".
"Nuance does not share voice data collected from or on behalf of any of our customers with any of our other customers," spokesman Richard Mack said.
In addition to the data protection concerns, a hack allowing strangers to speak directly to children via the My Friend Cayla doll is still possible.
The Norwegian Consumer Council also assessed the toys and their terms and conditions. They found the products lacking and potentially in breach of advertising regulations.
"It's quite disturbing because the company reserves the right to direct marketing towards kids," said Finn Myrstad, technical director of digital services at the council.
In January 2015, the BBC and security researcher Ken Munro, at Pen Test Partners, revealed the vulnerability in Cayla's software that allowed the doll to be hacked.
And Mr Myrstad said it appeared the problem had not yet been fixed, nearly two years later.
According to the US complaint, the doll prompts children to provide personal data verbally - including their parents' names, the name of their school and the place where they live.
It also says the toys allow unauthorised Bluetooth connections from any phone or tablet within 50ft (15m).
The Norwegian Consumer Council has now filed its own complaints to three authorities in Norway, including the consumer protection ombudsman.
Further complaints from other bodies are to be filed in France, Sweden, Greece, Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands.
Mr Myrstad added that he was concerned the manufacturers also reserved the right to change the terms and conditions at any time.
"We think this is particularly worrying because we're dealing with recordings of voice - kids' data," he told the BBC.
"How the data's collected how it's stored and shared - all of that appears to be almost entirely unregulated," said Rik Ferguson, a researcher at security firm Trend Micro.
"And the parents are certainly not made aware in any comprehensible fashion of the extent of data that's collected or how it may be used in the future."
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Massey, 22, has signed until 2017, while 22-year-old Eastman has agreed a deal until 2016 and Kent, 18, will stay with the League One side until 2018.
All three have featured prominently this term, with teenager Kent making his first senior start in August.
"It's been a long journey to get to where I am and I can't thank everyone enough," he told BBC Essex.
"I'm feeling comfortable in the team and I'm getting used to my surroundings.
"Once I started playing a few games I think the club wanted to reward me. I couldn't turn it down - I love playing here."
Young U's midfielder Sammie Smzodics also signed a contract until 2018 last week.
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Colchester United have handed new deals to striker Gavin Massey and defenders Tom Eastman and Frankie Kent.
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She was cut free from the wreckage by firefighters and was airlifted to hospital. The accident happened at about 10:10.
The emergency services have also been dealing with a collision involving a lorry and a car on the A96 near Inverness.
There were no details at this stage on any casualties.
The lorry ended up in a field during the accident near the Barn Church Road junction.
The incidents follow two separate accidents in the Highlands on Thursday.
A male biker was airlifted to hospital after he was involved in a collision with another vehicle on the A835 north of Ullapool in Wester Ross.
A man was injured in Lochaber after his lorry overturned on A82 near the Corran Ferry terminal.
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Labour MP Meg Hillier, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee, said the Education Funding Agency, which oversees free schools, had paid above the market value in 60% of cases.
And some purchased sites had later been deemed unsuitable to turn into schools.
The government said it paid over the odds only if there was no alternative.
Ms Hillier said in her constituency of Hackney South and Shoreditch civil servants had purchased the former police station for £7.6m - even though it had been valued at £3m six months previously.
The site was bought as a potential permanent home for the Olive School - an Islamic faith school - currently housed in temporary accommodation nearby.
But, after the sale had gone through, Hackney Council refused planning permission to convert the property to a school.
An appeal against that decision will be considered in a six-day hearing in June.
Ms Hillier said: "There is a real concern about whether the Olive School will ever open.
"Children are being taught at a temporary site - it is not good for pupils, and it is not good for the taxpayer."
But a Department for Education (DfE) representative said: "Hackney Police Station represented the best value option to meet the school's needs at the time of purchase.
"The site had been marketed openly, and the competition for it was such that the vendor received offers in excess of the original valuation.
"In this context, we believe we secured this site for the best price possible."
But Ms Hillier said many MPs and councillors in England could "name sites in their areas that have been bought for more than their market value".
"The Education Funding Agency is one of the biggest purchasers of land in the country - and it keeps paying over the odds," she said.
"People see the EFA coming.
"The desire to build 500 new free schools by 2020 means there is a rush to secure sites."
Ms Hillier added: "It is a real worry and not getting value for money for the taxpayer."
In response, the DfE said it would be launching a government owned company called LocatEd that would be led by property experts and responsible for securing sites quickly and providing good value for the taxpayer.
"We do not pay in excess of what a site is worth or purchase expensive sites if there are better value for money alternatives in the area," a representative said.
"The construction costs of a newly built free school are 29% lower than schools built under the previous school building programme."
The representative added: "Free schools are playing a vital role in creating more good school places.
"They are popular with parents, ensuring thousands more families have the choice of a good local school."
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Californian scientists found traces of everything from caffeine and spices to skin creams and anti-depressants on 40 phones they tested.
We leave traces of molecules, chemicals and bacteria on everything we touch.
Even washing hands thoroughly would not prevent the transfer to everyday objects, the researchers said.
Using a technique called mass spectrometry, the University of California San Diego research team tested 500 samples taken from 40 adults' mobile phones and hands.
They then compared them to molecules identified in a database and produced a "lifestyle profile" of each phone owner.
Dr Amina Bouslimani, an assistant project scientist on the study, said the results were revealing.
"By analysing the molecules they left behind on their phones, we could tell if a person is likely to be female, uses high-end cosmetics, dyes her hair, drinks coffee, prefers beer over wine, likes spicy food, is being treated for depression, wears sunscreen and bug spray - and therefore likely to spend a lot of time outdoors - all kinds of things," she said.
Most of the molecules are thought to be transferred from people's skin, hands and sweat to their phone.
Mosquito repellents and sunscreens were found to linger for a particularly long time on people's skin and phones, even when they had not been used for months.
Previous research by the same team found that people who had not washed for three days still had lots of traces of hygiene and beauty products on their skin.
The study said the testing method could:
The researchers now want to find out more about the multitude of bacteria that cover our skin - and what they reveal about us.
Senior author Prof Pieter Dorrestein said there were at least 1,000 different microbes living on the average person's skin, in hundreds of locations on the body.
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Researchers hope the data will help them understand how species will migrate in response to climate change.
During the month-long survey, 87 different species were recorded.
The survey is one of the
Earthwatch
projects being highlighted at the organisation's annual lecture on Thursday evening in central London.
One of the speakers, Dan Bebber - Earthwatch's head of climate change research - will use his presentation to deliver some of the main findings from the survey.
During the course of a month in the summer of 2009, volunteers from the charity helped a team of researchers from the University of Oxford mark the wings of more than 13,000 moths.
The survey, known as a mark-release-recapture (MRR) experiment, was co-ordinated by Dr Eleanor Slade in conjuction with the university's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), in a well-researched woodland habitat in Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire.
More than 650 moths, from 41 species, were recaptured.
Dr Bebber said: "A small percentage of those marked moths were recaptured again, but from the number we did recapture we were able to determine what factors affect the ability of moths to disperse."
Sea moths: George McGavin sets out to discover how moths migrate
The largest recorded distance travelled by a one moth - a broad-bordered yellow underwing - was 13.7km.
Dr Bebber said the survey seemed to suggest that woodland species were the most effective when it came to dispersing.
"Relatively large species with pointed wings that preferred woodland landscapes dispersed further than other species," he told BBC News.
However, he added that even these species did require wooded corridors, such as hedgerows, to disperse and were not found on maiden trees - single trees found in fields.
"The habitats within the UK had been fragmented for a long time," Dr Bebber explained.
"It is probably the ones that can move relatively long distances that are still found in the UK.
"Those species that were not able to disperse so well have probably disappeared over millennia."
Dr Bebber will present his findings at the Earthwatch Institute's annual lecture, Climate Change and Forests, which is being chaired by TV presenter Kate Humble.
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David Mundell made his pledge during Scottish Questions in the Commons.
The response came after the SNP's Angus Robertson pressed both Mr Mundell and Prime Minister Theresa May about powers over agriculture and fisheries.
On Tuesday, Scotland's first minister accused the UK government of using Brexit to undermine devolution.
Nicola Sturgeon told a gathering in Edinburgh that the Scottish Parliament faced a "graver challenge" after "20 years of progress".
She also warned that without compromise, a second independence referendum may become a "necessary" way of protecting Scotland's interests.
Ahead of First Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Mr Robertson asked Mr Mundell if "all decisions" relating to agriculture and fisheries would be taken by the Scottish government and the Scottish Parliament after Brexit.
The minister answered: "This government's plan is to engage with the Scottish government and with the other devolved administrations to discuss these very serious issues.
"It is not to go out and tell the people of Scotland that the devolved settlement is being undermined by Brexit - a Brexit which will lead to more powers being exercised by the Scottish Parliament.
"What I can give the right honourable gentleman is an absolute guarantee that after the UK leaves the EU the Scottish Parliament and Scottish ministers will have more powers than they have today."
Moments later, Mr Robertson continued the same line of questioning to Mrs May.
He said: "Prior to FMQs, Scottish ministers were unable to answer basic questions on government plans for agriculture and for fisheries.
"These are important industries for the rural economy and they are devolved areas to the Scottish government and the Scottish Parliament.
"With Brexit ending the role of Brussels in these areas, will all decisions about agriculture and fisheries be made at Holyrood - yes or no?"
The Conservative PM said Mr Robertson knew "very well" that the UK government was discussing with the devolved administrations "the whole question of the UK framework and devolution of issues as they come back from Brussels".
She added: "The overriding aim for everything that we do when we make those decisions is making sure that we don't damage the very important single market of the UK.
"A market, I might remind the honourable gentleman, that is more important to Scotland than the EU is."
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The strikes will affect hundreds of thousands of people who use the Southern Rail network in England every day.
But many commuters say strikes are just part of the ongoing daily disruption to Southern's service that is having a huge impact on the way they live.
Businesses are suffering and some workers have had to stay at home, while others have tried to find alternative routes into work, they say.
Frustrated by the continuing disruption, three passengers and a cafe owner agreed to video blog their mornings.
50-mile cycle ride again
John Holah, 36, is from Earlswood, Surrey. He works as a web developer in east London. John says it's not just on strike days that it's quicker to cycle the 50-mile (80km) round trip to work.
Cafe 'losing business'
Debbie Davis, 54, runs Beryl and Pegs Coffee, Tea and Sandwich Bar opposite Reigate station. Debbie says her cafe has been empty all morning.
Bus from Gatwick
Alison Braganza, 39, normally travels from Ifield, West Sussex, to central London. She's just started a new job and has been repeatedly late during her probation period.
Flying to meeting
Mark, 52, is an asset management consultant and had a meeting in Scotland. He couldn't catch a train into London so his company had to change its policy to allow him to fly to Glasgow.
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Rail passengers have faced more travel chaos as striking train drivers hold the first of six, day-long stoppages planned for this month.
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The Death of Poor Joe, which dates back to March 1901, was discovered by British Film Institute (BFI) curator Bryony Dixon, in February.
Until now the earliest known Dickens film was Scrooge or Marley's Ghost, released in November 1901.
"It's wonderful to have discovered such a rare and unique film," Ms Dixon said.
"It looks beautiful and is in excellent condition. This really is the icing on the cake of our current celebration of Dickens on Screen."
The Death of Poor Joe will be screened as part of the Dickens bicentennial celebrations on 9 March and 23 March at London's BFI Southbank.
The film organisation said it is also planning to release the footage on a DVD at a later date.
Accidental find
Ms Dixon stumbled across the find as she carried out research on early films of China.
A catalogue entry referred to The Death of Poor Joe, which she recognised as a reference to the character Jo in Bleak House.
After checking on the BFI's archive database, she found the film was listed as part of a collection under an alternative title of Man Meets Ragged Boy, which had been wrongly dated 1902.
The film, which is just one minute long, depicts Joe dying in the freezing snow against a churchyard wall.
As he falls to the ground a local watchman tries to help him and cradles him as he dies.
The footage, which was directed by film pioneer George Albert Smith, was handed to the BFI in 1954, by a collector in Brighton who had known Smith.
The BFI said it believes the director's wife, Laura Bayley, played Joe and the character of the watchman was played by Tom Green. The footage is believed to have been shot in Brighton.
The BFI said the storyline has similarities with Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl, which features a child dying in the snow and the tragic death of 'Poor Joe', the crossing sweeper in Dickens' Bleak House.
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Fridays Ltd, which produces thousands of free range eggs in Cranbrook, wants to expand its operation in Horsmonden.
Residents fear the extra traffic and noise from the 32-hectare site will have a detrimental impact on the area.
The company said it was responding to a 5% year-on-year increase in demand for free range eggs.
The family-run business is one of the three biggest egg producers and packers in the country.
If agreed, its new chicken farm would be located at Pullens Farm, in Lamberhurst Road, which is on the outskirts of the village of Horsmonden.
Resident Sarah Overton said: "The sheer scale of this development is extraordinary.
"We're talking the equivalent of 80 football pitches, 64,000 birds at any one time producing 360,000 eggs a week, using mechanical processes and only needing one full-time person to look after them, and three part-time egg collectors.
"It equates to industrialisation in the countryside, which is bad enough, but this is industrialisation of an area of outstanding natural beauty with protected species that we all need to be careful to preserve," she said.
Fridays Ltd has lodged its application with Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, with a provisional decision expected in August.
Horsmonden Parish Council is discussing the plans on Monday.
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Plans by a company that wants to put 64,000 chickens on an area of outstanding natural beauty in Kent have been met with anger by local residents.
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The Independent Paralympic Athletes (IPA) Team will appear under the Paralympic flag and will parade first at the opening ceremony on 7 September.
The team will stay in the Athletes Village, with travel and other expenses covered by the IPC.
A 10-strong refugee team will also compete at the Olympic Games.
"This is the moment to shine a light on the people with impairments affected, as well as highlight the broader situation," IPC President Sir Philip Craven said.
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A team of refugee athletes will compete at Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced.
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Police said the Bolton man was riding a BMW motorbike when it collided with a Citroen car driven by a local man on Hailwood's Rise on the (A18) Mountain Road at 06:45 BST.
The rider was treated at the scene but was pronounced dead on arrival at Noble's Hospital.
Both vehicles were travelling in the direction of Douglas.
Insp Dave Dobbie said it was a "very sad outcome".
Police closed the road for four hours following the crash and are appealing for witnesses.
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A 55-year-old motorcyclist from Greater Manchester has been killed in a crash involving a car on the Isle of Man.
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Once complete, Atlantic Shed will provide an extra 7,200 sq m (668,000 sq ft) metres of storage for the port, mainly for the steel industry.
Associated British Ports said the investment meant the site would be able to meet the increasing demands of its customers.
It said the development would support the future growth of the port.
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Work has started on a £2.7m project to redevelop part of the Port of Newport to increase cargo volumes.
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Those who died in Ondo state suffered from blurred vision and headaches, and then lost consciousness before dying within 24 hours.
A spokesman for the WHO said tests done so far had been negative for viral and bacterial infections.
He said the current theory was that the deaths were caused by weedkiller.
The outbreak started in the town of Ode-Irele.
All of those affected started showing symptoms between 13 and 15 April.
The WHO spokesman, Gregory Haertl, tweeted: "Current hypothesis is cause of the event is herbicides" and "Tests done so far are negative for viral and bacterial infection."
The tests were carried out at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, the WHO said.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says pesticide poisoning is the probable cause of 18 mysterious deaths in south-western Nigeria.
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The data for January from NHS England showed 88.7% of patients were dealt with in four hours. The target is 95%.
That is the worst monthly performance since the target came in in 2004.
NHS England blamed rising demand - overall attendances were up by more than 10% compared with the same time last year. There was also a sharp rise in emergency admissions and calls to NHS 111.
Richard Barker, from NHS England, said: "Against this backdrop it's not surprising hospitals saw a dip in their performance and it is credit to all those working in emergency care that we are still admitting, treating and discharging almost nine in 10 patients within four hours
"Winter pressures have come late this year with a sustained cold period and an increase in seasonal infections."
During January the BBC reported how hospitals were being forced into taking extreme measures to cope.
Some cancelled routine operations en-masse, while there were reports of GPs being advised not to cut back on hospital referrals and emergency treatment areas being set up outside A&E units.
The monthly performance publication also showed the NHS was struggling in other areas:
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A&E delays in England have reached record levels, official figures show.
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The larger than life billionaire retail tycoon, his Monaco-based wife, a former racing driver and bankrupt, surrounded by advisers and regulators, all help to weave a tale that affects 160 high streets and 31,000 mere mortals.
(That's 11,000 workers and 20,000 pension scheme members).
The parliamentary inquiry into the sorry tale begins in earnest on Monday.
Sir Philip Green, the former owner of BHS, has agreed in principle to appear before the inquiry in June.
With so many fingerprints on this scandal it's difficult to figure out how to apportion blame for a collapse that almost everyone in the industry seemed to predict but no-one seemed able to prevent.
Let's take a look at when some of the main players made their exits and their entrances:
No wonder the Serious Fraud Office, Pensions Regulator, Insolvency Service and two Commons select committees are queuing up to ask questions.
The biggest question is why no-one seemed to want to know BEFORE it happened.
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The cast of characters who have played a part in the demise of BHS is arguably worthy of a mini-series.
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The first year student at the University of Surrey died while returning from a sports trip to Italy.
The other two students have both been treated and are "recovering well", the university said.
The university is working with Public Health England (PHE) to inoculate students living in halls of residence.
All three students were diagnosed with meningitis, but two of them - including the one who died - had the meningitis B infection, prompting the "precautionary vaccinations".
A total of 4,200 full-time students - about one third of the student population - will be offered the jab.
Vice Chancellor Prof Max Lu said the university had been "reassured that the risk to staff, students and visitors is still very low".
Prof Kamila Hawthorne, associate dean for medicine at the university said evidence showed the infection was not "highly contagious, comparatively rare and the risk to the wider community remains very low".
"Only people who have prolonged, close contact with an ill person are at a slightly increased risk of becoming unwell."
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A student has died from meningitis and another two are recovering, prompting a university to offer undergraduates a vaccination.
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Cardiff Metropolitan University wants to create the seven-storey facility at Queenswood - part of its Cyncoed campus.
Residents and the Woodland Trust said it would affect species including bats, birds and foxes.
The university said it had done environmental impact studies.
On Cardiff council's website, the application is listed with 133 objections, mainly from Cyncoed residents and councillors, and three petitions against it.
A spokeswoman for Cardiff Metropolitan University said it was decided to build the new accommodation as demand from students to live on-site outstrips supply.
Its plans for the 518-bed facility is on a third draft, with its position moved four times to protect the woodland, part of the campus since the original college was established in 1962.
However, the Woodland Trust has objected to Cardiff council about "damage and loss" of the "irreplaceable habitat".
The body's Heini Evans said: "Ancient woodlands support a huge array of wildlife and we need to protect these special areas."
An ancient woodland is an area that has existed continuously since 1600 or before, with these supporting more than 256 species.
But only 2% of the UK's land area is covered by them.
Resident Neil Gardner said Queenswood has mature oak trees, bluebells, protected bats, hedgehogs, foxes and many species of birds.
"As the wood is destroyed all these will be lost to the community with a considerable environmental impact on local residents," he said.
"This is an ecological and environmental crime and is intolerable to local residents."
The university spokeswoman added: "There has been lots of work to negate possible impact on wildlife including biodiversity and environmental studies.
"The university has also completed the various 'in season' studies which have been forwarded to the planning authority."
A public consultation period ended last week and council planners will meet to discuss the proposal at a later date.
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Plans to build student flats on ancient woodland have been described as "an environmental crime" by campaigners opposed to the move.
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The plane took off at 12:40 and was bound for Hamburg, Germany, when it experienced a technical issue.
It diverted to Newcastle Airport and landed safely at about 13:25, where it was met by emergency services.
A spokeswoman for Easyjet said flight EZY6931 was diverted to Newcastle as a "precautionary measure" due to a technical issues.
"The safety of its passengers and crew is easyJet's highest priority and easyJet operates its fleet of aircraft in strict compliance with all manufacturers' guidelines," she added.
"We apologise to passengers for the resulting delay."
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An Easyjet plane has made an emergency landing shortly after taking off from Edinburgh Airport.
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Jackson Whistle is moving to the Giants from the Kelowna Rockets who play in the Western Hockey League in Canada.
The 21-year-old's father is Dave Whistle who led the Giants to league and play-off titles during his period in charge from 2000 to 2003.
First choice goaltender Murphy, from Dundee, has signed on for an eighth season with the Giants.
The 34-year-old has won the British Netminder of the Year award eight times.
Steve Thornton, Head of Operations at the Giants, said: "The decision to sign Stephen Murphy is one of the easiest for me to make each year.
"He has been the backbone of our organisation since I signed him back in 2009."
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The Belfast Giants have signed the son of their first ever coach as back-up netminder to number one Stephen Murphy.
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Some detainees began a hunger strike at Harmondsworth Detention Centre on Sunday in protest at living conditions.
Earlier, they were filmed protesting in the exercise yard by aerial cameras.
The Home Office said detention and removal were "essential parts of effective immigration controls" and it took detainees' welfare very seriously.
The detention facility in West Drayton holds 615 men who are awaiting removal or deportation from the UK.
A Home Office spokesman said: "Detention is only ever used as a last resort after all attempts to encourage individuals to leave voluntarily have failed."
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About 100 men at the UK's largest detention centre have been spotted in the exercise yard and are believed to be protesting about living conditions.
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Peter Dawson said he was also surprised to hear Rory McIlroy say he "probably won't watch the golf" from Rio on TV.
"Rory is entitled to his opinion but I found it disappointing," he said.
McIlroy is one of a string of players who have pulled out of the Rio Games, citing concerns over the Zika virus.
The world's top four - Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson and Northern Ireland's McIlroy - will all be missing after raising fears over the mosquito-borne virus, which has been linked to brain defects in newborn babies.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has said the withdrawals will be one of the factors taken into account when the roster of sports for the 2020 Games is confirmed next year.
The Rio Games will see golf return to the Olympics after a 112-year absence.
"We have a great competition, the players are going to have a wonderful experience and the withdrawals are restricted to players from only four countries," Dawson said.
"I am very confident golf has a place in the Olympic programme and we will do everything we can to keep it there."
The Olympics take place from 5 to 21 August, with the men's golf tournament running from 11 to 14 August.
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The absence of top players from the Olympics "isn't going to help" golf's case for staying at future Games, the president of the International Golf Federation has said.
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Christopher Oates, who runs camel treks at Rosuick Farm on the Lizard Peninsula, said they were very sociable animals and would make great pets.
He said a successful breeding season meant the farm had more camels than required.
The camels, which range in age and trekking experience, are expected to sell for between £3,000 and £8,000.
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Up to 10 camels have been put up for sale at a farm in Cornwall.
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Unseeded Puig, 22, beat the German world number two 6-4 4-6 6-1.
Reigning Australian Open champion Kerber, 28, simply could not match the intensity of her younger opponent in the deciding set.
Earlier, Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic beat USA's Madison Keys in three sets 7-5 2-6 6-2 to win bronze.
"It's just amazing," said Puig. "I know my country really appreciates this and I wanted to give it to them. The way that I did it tonight, I wouldn't want it any other way."
Puig, who was born in Puerto Rico but raised in Miami, added: "I always have been 100% loyal to where I was born and the roots I was raised in.
"I still have family in Puerto Rico and I have been back to visit quite a lot. I think it honestly is my favourite place to go when I want to go to the beach or see family.
"That island has given me so much. So much love and support throughout my career and I just wanted this one for them."
There will be a fifth Olympic medal for Venus Williams after the 36-year-old reached the mixed doubles final with Rajeev Ram.
Williams, the singles champion in Sydney in 2000 and winner of three doubles golds with sister Serena, made early exits from the singles and women's doubles.
But Williams and Ram defeated India's Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza in the mixed semi-finals, and will play fellow Americans Jack Sock and Bethanie Mattek-Sands for gold.
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Monica Puig beat Angelique Kerber in three sets in the women's singles final to win Puerto Rico's first ever Olympic gold medal.
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The Irish defender struck eight minutes from time after Danny Livesey looked to have put the hosts on course for victory with a headed opener three minutes earlier.
Bluebirds forward Jordan Williams came closest to breaking the deadlock in a tight first half, firing his first opportunity over the crossbar before being denied by Macc goalkeeper Scott Flinders minutes later.
Barrow, who were eight games unbeaten going into the game, eventually edged in front when captain Livesey rose to nod in Williams' 79th-minute cross.
But they were denied all three points as Byrne grabbed his first goal of the season.
Report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Barrow 1, Macclesfield Town 1.
Second Half ends, Barrow 1, Macclesfield Town 1.
Liam Hughes (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Jack Mackreth replaces Jack Sampson.
Goal! Barrow 1, Macclesfield Town 1. Neill Byrne (Macclesfield Town).
Goal! Barrow 1, Macclesfield Town 0. Danny Livesey (Barrow).
Substitution, Barrow. Andy Haworth replaces Richard Bennett.
Second Half begins Barrow 0, Macclesfield Town 0.
First Half ends, Barrow 0, Macclesfield Town 0.
First Half begins.
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The regulator said the bid did not comply with the laws of having its principal place of business in the Chinese territory.
The city's other carriers had also objected, it said.
Qantas said it would reconsider basing the low-cost carrier in Hong Kong.
The carrier is a three-way joint venture between Qantas Airways, China Eastern Airlines and Hong Kong investment firm Shun Tak Holdings.
"Jetstar Hong Kong cannot make its decisions independently from that of the two foreign shareholders," said the Air Transport Licensing Authority when handing down its decision.
It also said the city's other carriers, including Cathay Pacific and Dragon Airlines, had objected to Jetstar's application.
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said the decision was disappointing for shareholders as well as "for the travellers that Jetstar Hong Kong planned to serve".
"It's the travelling public who have lost out, because the message from this decision is that Hong Kong appears closed to fresh aviation investment even when it is majority locally-owned and controlled," he said in a statement on Friday.
He added that Hong Kong was going in the opposite direction of other aviation markets in Asia that were "opening up".
"Given the importance of aviation to global commerce, shutting the door to new competition can only serve the vested interests already installed in that market."
The airline, along with its partners, said it had not yet decided on whether to appeal the decision.
The joint venture was valued at $10m Australian dollars ($7.7m; £4.9m), according to Qantas.
Shares of Qantas were down 1.4% in Sydney in reaction to the news.
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Hong Kong authorities have rejected an application by Qantas-backed Australian budget carrier Jetstar to set up a local airline, after nearly two years of deliberation.
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Tower Hamlets Council said it would sell Draped Seated Woman after "unprecedented" budget cuts.
The work has not yet been valued but a Moore sold for £17m earlier this year.
The council said the rising threat of metal theft and vandalism made it too expensive to insure if it was on show.
The sculpture was bought by the former London County Council for £6,000 in 1960.
The bronze sculpture, nicknamed Old Flo, was installed on the Stifford council estate in 1962 but was vandalised and moved to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1997.
A council spokesperson said: "With unprecedented cuts to council budgets, the council finds itself in a difficult situation and being forced to make hard decisions.
"As the borough does not have the funds required to insure or maintain the upkeep of the work, releasing these necessary funds will enable the council to support front-line services."
Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman added: "It is with great regret that I take this decision but we are faced with a stark choice in these times of recession."
The sculpture is expected to be auctioned by Christie's in February. No valuation has been made but Tower Hamlets said estimates had ranged from £4m-£17m.
The council is having to make cuts of £100m per year over the next three years.
Richard Calvocoressi, director of the Henry Moore Foundation, said he sympathised with the council's position but added that it would be "very sad" if the sculpture was no longer on public display.
Metal theft has become a major problem in recent years. In 2005, a large Moore work was taken from the foundation in Hertfordshire, while a sundial by the artist was removed from the same location this July.
Last December, a bronze work by Barbara Hepworth was stolen from Dulwich Park in south London.
Tower Hamlets Council had considered moving Draped Seated Woman to private land in Canary Wharf but has instead chosen to "explore options" for a sale.
The auction of council artworks to meet budget shortfalls is normally frowned upon in the art world.
The last significant case was in 2006, when Bury Council was expelled from the Museums Association for selling an LS Lowry painting for £1.4m.
The Museums Association said it could not act in this instance because Draped Seated Woman was an individual piece of public art and not part of a museum collection.
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A major Henry Moore sculpture is to be sold by a London council to pay for front-line services after it was decided that it could not be safely displayed on council land.
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The cooling-off period for an online order has been extended to 14 calendar days from seven working days.
Shoppers can claim a full refund during this period without having to give a reason for the cancellation.
Companies must also offer phone lines that cost no more than a local call for customer inquiries or complaints.
The rules see the final stage of implementation of the EU Consumer Rights Directive.
The regulations cover a number of areas of consumer rights, including the introduction of a cooling-off period for digital music, films and books for the first time.
Retailers must not supply the content within the 14-day cancellation period unless the consumer has given their express consent to this happening, and the consumer must also acknowledge that once the download starts they will lose their right to cancel.
Any extra charges for those buying with a debit or credit card must be clear from the start, the rules state.
The rules should bring an end to calls that can cost up to 41p a minute, for those trying to make a complaint.
Companies will still be able to use phone numbers that carry higher charge rates when customers are purchasing goods or services, but not when they call afterwards to raise questions or complaints about them.
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Online shoppers now have longer to cancel orders while complaints calls should be cheaper, under laws that take effect on Friday.
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Households were sent a leaflet giving "three reasons to back Beverley Nielsen for West Midlands Labour mayor".
One reason not to do so would be that Ms Nielsen was actually standing for the Liberal Democrats.
A campaign spokesman said the leaflet had been created by the local party - the Hall Green group.
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Ms Nielsen said: "This leaflet was home published by a volunteer, not professionally published. It's clearly a mistake that is embarrassing to the person who made it, so we're not going to investigate further or name and shame.
"Our mayoral campaign relies heavily on volunteers and doesn't have the luxury of the big budget funding that some of the other candidates have, so I'm very grateful that supporters are contributing their time and effort in the Lib Dem fight back."
Other candidates include Graham Stevenson (Communist Party), Andy Street (Conservatives), James Burn (Green), Sion Simon (Labour) and Pete Durnell (UKIP).
They are bidding to become the first elected mayor of the West Midlands, leading the Combined Authority.
The polls open on 4 May.
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A Lib Dem mayoral candidate was mistakenly billed in campaign material as standing for Labour.
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Alan Cronin, 60, from Guilden Sutton, near Chester, was found with serious injuries near Rossett flyover on the A483 Wrexham bypass on Thursday.
Polish national Damian Niepieklo, 22, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving, failing to stop and failing to report an accident.
He was remanded in custody to appear before magistrates on Monday.
Mr Cronin, died following the collision at Junction 7 of the northbound carriageway at about 14.20 BST.
Ch Insp Darren Wareing repeated an earlier appeal for witnesses, urging anyone with information to get in contact via the 101 line.
In a tribute, the family of Mr Cronin, a member of Chester Triathlon Club, described him as the "best possible dad, husband, brother and partner to have, willing to do anything for anyone".
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Daniel Mason, who works for William Graham, said he had not "fully understood" the meaning of the speech.
Mr Powell was sacked as shadow defence secretary after his 1968 speech criticising the level of immigration.
In a Facebook post, Mr Mason asked if Mr Powell had been a "mad racist" or a "visionary". The post was removed.
A Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West, Mr Powell spoke of his concerns about immigration, claiming that "British" families could lose out on matters such as housing, resulting in racial tension.
Quoting Virgil's Aeneid during a speech in Birmingham, he said: "As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'."
The then Tory leader Edward Heath sacked Mr Powell from his front bench team, telling the BBC: "I believed his speech was inflammatory and liable to damage race relations."
Despite widespread condemnation, the MP said he received about 100,000 letters from ordinary people backing his comments.
Mr Mason had written on Facebook: "Enoch Powell gave a speech 'Rivers of Blood'.. worth reading today.. 'blood on the streets' the rantings of a mad racist? or a visionary?"
He later said: "I want to apologise unreservedly for this Facebook post.
"Ignorance is no excuse but had I fully understood the meaning behind the speech I would never have shared it."
A spokesman for Mr Graham said: "This misinformed, disappointing and deeply disrespectful post is unacceptable and totally at odds with the views of any right-thinking person.
"Clearly this is a matter for William as the employer and he will be taking appropriate action."
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An aide to a Tory AM has apologised for a social media post after the Paris attacks referring to Enoch Powell's notorious "rivers of blood" speech.
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The worst-affected state was Puebla in central Mexico, where at least 28 people were killed after torrential rains set off mudslides.
Puebla Governor Rafael Moreno Valle said dogs had been brought in to search for those missing.
Officials said some outlying areas had not yet been reached.
At least 40 people have been confirmed dead after Tropical Storm Earl moved over Mexico on Saturday.
Earl had earlier hit Belize and Guatemala in Central America.
But it was in the Mexican states of Puebla, Veracruz and Hidalgo where its heavy rains caused most damage.
Among those killed in Puebla were 15 children who died when their homes were buried by mud which slid down the rain-soaked hills.
A whole hill collapsed near Huauchinango, sweeping down on a nearby village.
"It is a tragedy what has happened to our people in Huauchinango," Mayor Gabriel Alvarado said.
About two hundred people were left homeless in the state of Puebla alone.
In neighbouring Veracruz, 11 people were killed and in Hidalgo a 15-year-old died in hospital after being pulled from the mud.
More than 10,000 people were affected and 18 villages remained cut off in the eastern state.
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) has warned of another storm approaching Mexico.
It said Tropical Storm Javier could strengthen into a hurricane by Monday afternoon local time.
"On the forecast track, the centre of the tropical cyclone should pass near or over the southwest coast of Mexico later today, and approach the southern portion of Baja California peninsula on Monday," the NHC said.
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The fee for the 19-year-old will be decided by a tribunal, with Liverpool expected to pay around £3m.
Solanke, who is currently part of England's squad at the under-20 World Cup in South Korea, spent the 2015-16 season on loan at Vitesse Arnhem, scoring seven goals in 25 games.
He made one senior Chelsea appearance.
As Solanke is older than 17 and will sign a professional contract, Liverpool's transfer embargo, which is enforced on signing academy players from other England clubs for two years, will not apply.
Celtic were also understood to be interested in Solanke, whose only Chelsea game came as a substitute in a Champions League victory against NK Maribor in October 2014.
Solanke will officially become a Liverpool player on 1 July.
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Liverpool are to sign Chelsea's teenage forward Dominic Solanke after he failed to agree a contract with the Premier League champions.
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MiHomecare had not been paying employees to travel between clients, meaning their hourly rates of pay did not comply with the legal minimum.
Richie Lewis, of the Unison union, said the firm was "rectifying systemic errors" and valuing its staff.
MiHomecare said it had taken steps to ensure there were no future problems.
Unison said, typically, care providers do not pay their employees to travel between clients and Mr Lewis urged other companies to review pay procedures.
"Home carers work long hours under increasingly difficult conditions and it is often the case that they end up out of pocket in order to provide the level of care that their clients need," he added.
MiHomecare, which operates Village Home Care, employs 6,000 home care workers in England and Wales who look after 10,000 elderly, disabled and infirm people.
The company, said it had completed a comprehensive review of payments for all of its care workers "to be absolutely certain that they are treated fairly and that we comply with wage legislation".
"We have found some errors in calculating travel time pay and we have decided to make a one-off payment to all affected people," a spokeswoman said.
"Additionally we took steps in June 2015 to ensure that this should not be an issue in future by revising some pay rates and amending care rosters."
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Known as the Queen of Ranthambore, Machli was described as one of the world's most photographed tigers. She had distinctive fish-shaped markings on the left side of her face.
She featured in many documentaries and amazed viewers when her fight with a 14-foot crocodile was caught on film.
She was one of the biggest draws for thousands of tourists visiting Ranthambore National Park,
India has more than half the world's tigers, at 2,226 in the latest estimate.
Machli was found starving and lying on her side near the park's boundary in northern Rajasthan state. She had not eaten in days, officials said.
"We were trying to provide her treatment but she died," Ranthambore tiger project director Yogesh Kumar Sahu told AFP news agency. "It was a natural death linked to her age."
Machli had slowed down in recent years and lost almost all of her teeth, according to the park's website.
Her death has made headlines in India, and fans have taken to social media to pay their respects to the Queen of Ranthambore.
She was named Machli, the Hindi word for fish, because of the markings on her face.
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Christophe Hillairet expressed concern that food produced outside the European Union could easily cross a "soft" Irish border and enter EU markets.
He is the president of the Chamber of Agriculture of Ile de France.
However, his comments were criticised as "disappointingly self-centred" by an Irish dairy industry leader.
Speaking to the Agra Europe website, [£] Mr Hillairet said he was worried that the British government will sign deals to import food from Commonwealth countries post-Brexit and that those products could then be transported across a future EU land border via Northern Ireland.
"Ireland is a big problem but for the French farmer, we will need to have a hard border between the north and the Republic, as otherwise we will have a lot of products that will cross from north to south.
"That would be very dangerous for our producers."
Both the British and Irish governments have repeatedly said they do not want a return to a hard border on the island of Ireland, expressing concerns over the potential impact on the economy and the Northern Ireland peace process.
However, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has said that there will have to be some form of customs controls along the Irish border after Brexit.
On a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland last week, Mr Barnier said: "We want to find solutions without rebuilding any kind of hard border, but we have to find solutions also compatible with the single market."
Mr Hillairet has been president of the Chamber of Agriculture of Ile de France since 2006.
He told Agra Europe that he believed it was "simply not possible to have a soft Brexit and still maintain the advantage which the EU has a trading bloc".
He urged remaining EU member states to "work together to protect Europe".
Mr Hillairet's remarks were criticised by the president of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA), John Comer.
He argued that the interests of Irish border communities, who had suffered during Northern Ireland's Trouble, must also be protected.
Mr Comer said that "with respect to our French friends, we would prefer them to reflect on the common good and not just on their own particular sectoral anxieties".
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The president of a French farming union has called for the re-introduction of a hard border between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland after Brexit.
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The man was hit by a vehicle also involved in the road repairs on Calderwood Road at about 16:30 on Saturday.
Police said he had died at the scene. No-one else was injured.
Firefighters and an air ambulance was sent to the scene. The Health and Safety Executive and South Lanarkshire Roads Department have been informed.
A Police Scotland spokesman added: "A full investigation into the circumstances of the incident is now under way.
"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal."
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A worker has been killed after being hit by a truck during resurfacing work in East Kilbride.
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan travelled aboard the first train in the service from Ankara, stopping at a town en route to make a campaign speech.
The tracks allow trains to reach speeds of up to 250 km (155 miles) per hour.
Mr Erdogan, a candidate in presidential elections in August, has pledged to overhaul Turkey's transport network.
"We made a promise. We worked hard. We crossed the mountains, and passed over rivers," Mr Erdogan said, at a campaign stop in the town of Eskisehir.
"Despite all the attempts of sabotage, blockade, and slowdown, we completed the line and opened it for service today."
The inauguration of the train link has been beset by hitches and delays, most recently when a train crashed into a maintenance vehicle.
The new service will terminate in the Istanbul suburb of Pendik, on the Asian side of the Bosphorus.
The government plans to build a further rail link, under the Bosphorus, to the centre of the city, but it is unclear when this will happen.
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Turkey has inaugurated a high-speed rail link between Istanbul and Ankara, slashing by half the seven-hour journey time between the two cities.
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The Robins have lost 11 of their past 12 league games, winning just once in that time, and are 20th in the table - two points above the relegation zone.
"It is a horrendous statistic," Johnson told BBC Radio Bristol.
"I'm ashamed of that. It hurts. We have to keep fighting."
Former Barnsley boss Johnson arrived at Ashton Gate in February 2016 and steered Bristol City clear of relegation last season.
A promising start this term saw his side occupy fifth spot in October, but Saturday's loss at the City Ground saw them drop below Forest - who had not won since 2 December.
"It was a frustrating watch for all of us," Johnson said. "We were good in the second half and had a couple of chances we needed to take.
"The Championship was never going to be easy - we are in a rebuilding phase.
"We spoke at the start of the season about history makers and it was supposed to be positive - not bad history.
"We've got to make sure we make history in positive ways and we can still do that this year. We need to fight our way back up the table. I believe that we can."
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Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson admitted he was "ashamed" to see his side set a new club record of eight straight league defeats with a 1-0 loss at fellow-strugglers Nottingham Forest.
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The 66-year-old was placed in interim charge of the R's after Chris Ramsey was sacked on 4 November.
He oversaw the 0-0 draw with Preston on 7 November and has brought in Kevin Blackwell to assist him at Loftus Road.
Warnock, who was boss of QPR from March 2010 to January 2012, returned to the Championship club in an advisory role in October.
QPR's next two matches are at Middlesbrough on Friday and home to Leeds next Saturday, suggesting an appointment before their trip to Reading on Thursday, 3 December.
Former Leicester boss Nigel Pearson has been linked with a move to west London, while Burton Albion say they have not received an approach from the R's to speak to manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.
Under Warnock's leadership, QPR were promoted to the Premier League in 2011 as winners of the Championship, but he was sacked the following January with the club 17th in the top flight.
He had been out of management since being dismissed by Crystal Palace in December 2014, after four months in charge.
After joining QPR in an advisory capacity to Ramsey in October, Warnock said "full-time management doesn't interest me any more".
Rangers are 13th in the Championship table, eight points off the play-off places.
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Neil Warnock expects to be in charge of Queens Park Rangers for two more games, BBC Radio London reports.
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Police, fire and ambulance personnel were called to scene at about 15:00. They were assisted by a coastguard rescue helicopter.
Unconfirmed reports have said a Ford Transit van and a campervan collided head-on.
One person is thought to have been taken to hospital by helicopter with serious injuries.
Traffic Scotland has warned drivers in the area to expect delays.
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The A9 Perth to Inverness road has been closed in both directions following an accident near Kincraig.
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Crowds gathered outside the presidential palace on Saturday morning and then marched to parliament.
Inside parliament itself, opposition MPs have continued a sit-in that began on Friday.
Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, in a televised address, called the MPs' actions "scandalous".
She said people were free to protest, but had to respect the views of others.
Poland's populist right-wing government wants to limit the number of reporters allowed to cover parliament.
But opposition MPs accuse it of trying to stifle press freedom.
Amid a heavy police presence, a crowd of about 2,000 people gathered outside the presidential palace on Saturday chanting "freedom, equality, democracy". Some held up copies of the constitution.
The crowd later marched to the parliament building where they remained throughout the day.
European Council President Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, urged the government to respect the constitution on Saturday.
Addressing reporters in the western city of Wroclaw, he criticised the government's plans, saying that without media access "democracy becomes dictatorship".
In extraordinary scenes on Friday, opposition MPs blockaded the parliamentary plenary chamber, forcing MPs from the PiS party into another room to vote on next year's budget.
It was the first time since the restoration of democracy in 1989 that such a vote was held outside the main chamber of parliament.
Outside parliament, several thousand protesters gathered overnight on Friday. Police had to forcefully remove people to allow MPs to leave the building.
Protester Szymon Roginski said on Saturday that the confrontation was entering "a new, more aggressive phase".
"Every day we hear news that makes us understand that we are further and further away from democracy. People have had enough," he said.
Leader of the opposition Nowoczesna party, Ryszard Petru, accused the government of usurping parliament's authority.
"They [the government] do not allow journalists [access], they close themselves off and meet in other places and call it the parliament," he said.
"This is an usurpation of power and there will be no consent from the opposition or Polish society for it. We will protest both at the parliamentary podium and on the streets of Polish cities."
PiS has been accused of restricting press freedom since coming to power last year.
Next year only a few reporters will be allowed into parliament, with five selected TV stations permitted to make recordings of parliamentary sessions.
PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Friday that the proposals were no different to the media access in many other European nations.
He accused protesters of hooliganism and threatened them with unspecified "consequences".
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The young sparrowhawk - nicknamed Jack - had spent three days among pipes and beams of the ceiling Monkton Stadium.
Staff dragged soft toys along the floor to imitate live prey, then brought in a Harris hawk to frighten it outside.
Eventually paper was hung from the ceiling which encouraged it to fly lower down, and it was caught in a net.
The bird then flew off into nearby woodland unharmed.
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Soft toys, paper and a hawk were used in a bid to lure a bird of prey which had taken up temporary residence in a South Tyneside sports hall.
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The World War Two cipher machine was bought at a flea market by a cryptography professor, who apparently recognised its true worth.
It was sold to an online bidder in Bucharest, Romania, on Tuesday.
Enigma machines were used to carry coded military communications during the war.
First developed in Germany in the 1920s, the codes created by the electromechanical encryption devices were eventually cracked by mathematician Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park.
Bucharest auction house Artmark put this particular Enigma machine on sale with a starting price of €9,000.
Cristian Gavrila, the collectible consignment manager at Artmark, told Reuters: "The collector bought it from a flea market. He's a cryptography professor and... he knew very well what he was buying."
However, the eventual sale price fell far short of the record amount for an Enigma machine at auction, after one sold at Christie's in New York for $547,500 last month.
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A 100 euros typewriter has sold for 45,000 euros (£40,000; $51,500) at auction, after it was discovered it was actually a German Wehrmacht Enigma I.
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The 33-year-old has not played for Celtic since Brendan Rodgers took over as manager at the start of the season, and will provide midfield cover.
Hibs are currently without John McGinn and Fraser Fyvie until January, while Dylan McGeouch suffered an ankle injury in training this week.
Commons could feature against Morton on Saturday.
"Kris is an experienced, technically gifted player," said head coach Neil Lennon.
"So him coming in at this time is of benefit to the side as the games start coming in over the festive period.
"With us missing a lot of our regular midfield players, it is good to bring in someone with a lot to offer, even just on a short-term basis."
Commons, who was a key player for Lennon during his time in charge of the Scottish champions, says that the deal can be beneficial for both parties.
"It has come about very quickly, but I think it makes sense on both parts," he said. "I can try to get some football under my belt and give Hibs a helping hand as well.
"As much as I am trying to help Hibs, the club are trying to help me out a lot, so I'm grateful to them for giving me the opportunity to play football. I'm also thoroughly looking forward to hopefully helping them on the way and putting on the jersey and doing my best."
Hibs remain top of the Scottish Championship on goal difference, though the Edinburgh side have lost their points advantage over Dundee United in recent weeks.
The two pre-season favourites for the title are eight points ahead of Falkirk, with Morton another three behind.
Commons joined Celtic in January 2011, but his current contract is due to expire at the end of the season.
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Celtic midfielder Kris Commons has joined injury-hit Hibernian on an emergency loan until 15 January.
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The blaze broke out at Coed Eva Primary School, in Cwmbran, at about 02:25 GMT on New Year's Day.
Most pupils returned on Monday, though nursery children will have to wait until 25 January when temporary classrooms will have been installed.
Six people, including four teenage boys, arrested in connection with the fire have been released on bailed.
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An infants and nursery school in Torfaen has reopened 10 days after it was gutted by fire.
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After mopping up Kent's first innings for 236 in the morning session, despite Sam Northeast racking up a century, Durham had a 212-run lead.
Graham Clark's career-best 83, helped by skipper Paul Collingwood's 51, saw Durham declare with a lead of 483.
Kent survived the final 10 overs of the day to end of 35 without loss.
Northeast had been the Kent hero on day two, with his unbeaten 109 aided by Yasir Shah's hard-earned 48 in a 113-run eighth-wicket partnership, before Durham hit back to reduce Kent from 236-8 to 236 all out.
South African opener Stephen Cook (44) continued his resurgence in Durham colours once he took to the crease, although partner Keaton Jennings was not so lucky as he departed for a first-ball duck.
Cameron Steel, who made 43, along with Clark and Collingwood put Jon Lewis' side in a decent position at the declaration, in spite of early exits for Ryan Pringle and Stuart Poynter.
Daniel Bell-Drummond and Sean Dickson nursed Kent to stumps without loss, but still trailing by 449 runs.
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Durham put themselves in strong position to earn a first Championship win of the season after declaring with a big lead on the third day at Kent.
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The Highways England scheme will take place between Low Newton junction and Meathop roundabout near Grange-over-Sands.
Resurfacing, drainage and sign improvements will also be carried out near the Brettargh Holt roundabout.
The work is due to be finished on 20 December and will involve some overnight closures.
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A £330,000 project to improve the A590 in south Cumbria by installing new safety barriers begins later.
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The facility at Brow Top, which has a 24m pool and squash courts, had to been due to open to the public on Saturday.
However, because of "a small number of snagging and technical issues" relating to the learner pool, the opening date has been put back by a least a week.
The council's deputy leader, Mark Fryer, said the centre would not open until it was "pristine".
He said: "We can handle it being late but we can't handle it not being perfect. I wanted this facility to open as soon as possible but I wanted it to be pristine.
"There's a technical problem with the small pool and problems with drains which are not finished."
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The opening of a new £11m leisure centre in Workington has been delayed.
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The collapse took place very close to the famous Ponte Vecchio, a medieval covered bridge over the Arno.
The hole is about 200m (650ft) in length and 7m (23ft) across.
Firefighters believe the chasm has been created by the failure of a large water pipe beneath the surface.
Florence's Mayor Dario Nardella tweeted (in Italian) that no-one had been harmed in the incident on Lungarno Torrigiani.
He appealed to motorists to remove their cars from the nearby area, and said the water supply to part of the city centre was cut off.
Regional paper Corriere Fiorentino reports that thousands of residents are without water.
The first sign of the problem came not long after midnight, when the police were called, the mayor told Italy's Ansa news agency.
The major collapse took place at 06:14 local time, Mr Nardella said.
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A section of the embankment of the River Arno in central Florence collapsed on Wednesday morning, sending part of the road and at least 20 parked cars into a newly formed ditch.
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Chile beat Argentina on penalties last year to win a first major trophy.
The 100th anniversary of football's oldest international championship sees hosts USA drawn with Colombia, Costa Rica and Paraguay.
Uruguay, the tournament's most successful team, play Jamaica, Mexico and Venezuela, while 2007 winners Brazil face Ecuador, Haiti and Peru.
The 2016 Copa America has been expanded by four teams and is being staged outside the South American Football Confederation for the first time.
The tournament starts on 3 June when USA play Colombia in Santa Clara, California.
The final is on 26 June at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
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Holders Chile have been drawn in the same group as Argentina, Bolivia and Panama at the 2016 Copa America.
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Last month, the BBC learned an undeclared payment of £6,195 was made to Conservative David Mackintosh's party by the director of a company overseeing work at Northampton Town FC.
Northamptonshire Police said the Electoral Commission (EC) was not investigating the payments.
The EC and Mr Mackintosh have been approached for comment.
Mr Mackintosh's local party received the payment for tickets from Howard Grossman, whose company 1st Land was set up to oversee the rebuild of the League Two club's Sixfields stadium.
Three individuals with links to Mr Grossman also paid £10,000 each into Mr Mackintosh's general election fighting fund, but one of the payments - from Gary Robert Platt - was also not declared to the EC.
By law, personal donations of more than £500 and donations to local associations of more than £1,500 must be declared to the EC.
The company 1st Land subsequently went into administration. Work on the stadium remains incomplete and the main contractor is owed £2m.
Mr Mackintosh was leader of the borough council when it approved a £10.25m loan for the Sixfields stadium plans, but millions of pounds of the money is currently unaccounted for.
Police said they are still investigating "alleged financial irregularities" surrounding the council's loan to the club.
A Northamptonshire Police spokesman said: "We have liaised with the Electoral Commission and understand they have considered both the undeclared £10k and the gifted £6,195.
"The Electoral Commission are not undertaking an investigation into either of these matters and nor are they referring any suspected criminality to Northamptonshire Police.
"On the basis of the Electoral Commission's position and in the absence of any direct link to the loan made by Northampton Borough Council to Northampton Town FC, we as a force will not be investigating the donations made to David Mackintosh MP".
Suresh Patel, chairman of Northampton South Conservatives, previously told the BBC the Electoral Commission was not informed of the payment by Mr Platt because of an administrative error and he had subsequently done so.
He has declined to comment on the police's latest announcement.
Mr Grossman previously told the BBC in a statement: "Howard Grossman paid £6,195 for tickets to attend an event hosted by Mr Mackintosh as part of his election campaign."
The BBC has been unable to contact Mr Platt.
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He said: "With significant Tory and UKIP power blocks in the next parliament, we will be the left-of-centre backbone of a Labour administration.
"Along with the SNP and Plaid Cymru, (we) will ensure that the next Labour government remains true to its values."
Dr McDonnell said that, while his party had always worked closely with Labour, the SDLP was not tied to any other party.
He said its MPs would be elected on their own manifesto.
"During the last Labour government, we were unwavering in opposition to the Iraq War," he said.
"Our MPs voted against the cut in the 10p tax rate. We refused to accept 42 day detention.
"These were all issues that Labour supported."
The SDLP leader added that his party would "categorically refuse" to support David Cameron and the Conservative Party.
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SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell has said if Labour leader Ed Miliband becomes the next prime minister "it will be with our support, on our terms, that he takes power".
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The Brit Award winner and three-time Mercury Music Prize nominee tops the bill at the 13th annual festival at Glanusk Park, Powys, on 20 August.
Fellow UK acts Belle and Sebastian, on Thursday, James Blake, on Friday, and Wild Beasts, on Sunday, have already been named as the other headliners.
The festival was a sellout last year, with about 20,000 people attending.
Festival director Fiona Stewart said: "Laura returns for her third performance at Green Man, her legendary performances have always gone down a storm and we're already feeling awestruck imagining her Saturday night set, full of new album material."
Other new acts booked for this year's Green Man festival include Charlotte Church's Late Night Pop Dungeon - "a karaoke experience unlike any other you've experienced before, or ever will again", re-formed 1990s alt-rockers Lush, and DJ Pete Paphides.
Among the other prominent acts appearing are Grandaddy, Tindersticks, White Denim, Fat White Family, Cate Le Bon, Gun Outfit, and The Membranes.
Previous headliners have included legendary Belfast-born blues and rock singer Van Morrison, ex-Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, US singer-songwriter Patti Smith, Cardiff rockers Super Furry Animals, Fleet Foxes, Jarvis Cocker and Doves.
Founded in 2003, Green Man has become one of the most popular alternative festivals.
It won the 2010 best medium-sized event and 2012 best "grass roots" event at the UK Festival Awards, and 2015 best festival at the Live Music Business awards.
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Alt-folk singer-songwriter Laura Marling has been unveiled as a headline act for the 2016 Green Man festival.
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This comes after the country's highest court ruled earlier this year that Mr Zuma repay some of the $23m of public funds spent on his house in 2009.
The upgrades included an amphitheatre, pool, chicken run and cattle enclosure.
Mr Zuma must now repay the money - about 3% of the total spent - within 45 days.
An anti-corruption body, known as the public protector, ruled in 2014 that Mr Zuma had "unduly benefited" from the non-security renovations to his rural home in Nkandla in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province.
In March, the Constitutional Court then ruled that he had violated the constitution when he failed to repay some of the money.
It gave the treasury two months to come up with a figure for Mr Zuma to repay.
The treasury says it hired two independent quantity surveyors to conduct separate investigations to come up with the figure.
The main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), one of the parties which brought the case, welcomed the treasury's report but said it had hoped the figure would be higher.
"This sends out a clear message to those involved in corruption, especially those in the ANC, that you will be held accountable for your actions, even if you are the president," the AFP news agency quotes DA spokesman Mabine Seabe as saying.
What has been a long and drawn out fight between President Zuma and opposition parties seems to be coming to an end, reports the BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg.
The Nkandla scandal has been a hotly debated subject in parliament for almost three years and has damaged the president's reputation, she says.
In April, President Zuma apologised for the controversy and said he would abide by the Constitutional Court's ruling.
A few days later he survived an impeachment vote in parliament, showing his opponents that he is a true political survivor, our correspondent says.
What Mr Zuma's money will go towards
How Zuma's Nkandla home has grown
Profile: Jacob Zuma
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South Africa's treasury has recommended President Jacob Zuma pay back $509,000 (£385,000) to the government for upgrades made to his private home.
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The mission would have a mandate for a year which could be extended if both sides request it.
Negotiators for the two sides issued a joint request for the UN's involvement last week during peace talks in Cuba.
They have set a deadline of 23 March for the signing of a peace accord.
The UN "political mission" will consist of unarmed observers from Latin American and Caribbean nations.
Colombia has seen decades of fighting between the government and the left-wing Farc movement, with more than 220,000 people killed and millions displaced in unrest which has also involved other guerrilla groups and right-wing paramilitaries. It is the longest-running armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere.
"It isn't common for a country to refer itself to the council, but it's exactly the kind of role the United Nations should be playing," said British UN Ambassador Matthew Rycroft.
"I hope today will mark the start of the final stage of peace talks."
US Ambassador Samantha Power warned that issues between the two sides still needed to be resolved, such as the removal of land mines and the re-integration of guerrillas into the population.
The UN resolution asks Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to make detailed recommendations on the mission's size and operation to be approved by the security council within 30 days of a ceasefire.
Last week, the Colombian government's lead negotiator, Humberto de la Calle, described the request to the UN as a "transcendental" moment.
He said it was an "unequivocal demonstration of our desire to end confrontation".
Since official peace talks started in Havana in November 2012, negotiators have reached agreement on key issues such as the political participation of the rebels, land rights, drug trafficking and transitional justice.
Last September, President Juan Manuel Santos and Farc chief Timoleon Jimenez, known as Timochenko, said they wanted an agreement within six months.
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The UN Security Council has approved the creation of an unarmed mission in Colombia to oversee a bilateral ceasefire, if Farc rebels and the government sign a peace agreement.
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The players in question are believed to include Sam Burgess and Danny Care.
Reports suggest they invested in an oil-drilling firm and lost a combined total in excess of £100,000.
An RFU spokesperson said: "The RFU takes the allegations extremely seriously. It is an internal matter and we are taking the appropriate action."
England boss Stuart Lancaster and his coaching team are understood to have had no knowledge of Tennison's alleged shares advice.
Lancaster's side endured a poor World Cup on home soil as they were eliminated at the group stages.
Their performance - and Lancaster's position - are being reviewed by the RFU and chief executive Ian Ritchie will report to a management board meeting on 17 November.
Burgess has since returned to rugby league, having left Bath to move back to Australia to join South Sydney Rabbitohs.
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England kit man Dave Tennison is under investigation by the Rugby Football Union over claims he urged players to buy shares which fell in value.
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The University of Glasgow's £32m Imaging Centre of Excellence (ICE) aims to bring clinical academics together with industry to improve patient care.
It is the first time a 7 Tesla MRI scanner will be used in the UK in a clinical setting.
It will be used to improve treatment for conditions such as stroke, vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
The facility was built in collaboration with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHS GGC), with £16m of funding from the Medical Research Council and Glasgow City Region City Deal.
The project is expected to bring 396 new jobs to the city over a seven year period, contributing about £88m to the local economy.
The 7 Tesla MRI scanner was delivered to the site last November. A giant crane eased the 18-tonne device down an alleyway with inches to spare on each side, then through a hole in the wall of the new building.
The building will also house the Clinical Innovation Zone to help biomedical companies improve healthcare technology through collaborative work.
There willl be a further floor of neuro-operating theatres, which will be funded by the NHS GGC.
Prof Dame Anna Dominiczak, of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, said it would be a "world-leading" example of a precision medicine centre.
"The ICE isn't about ivory tower research," she said.
"It is about bringing world-leading clinical academics together with industry to collaborate and to create something that not only positively benefits patients but also brings a meaningful economic benefit as well."
Glasgow City Council leader Frank McAveety said the facility was a great example of how the Glasgow City Region City Deal was helping to reinforce Glasgow's global reputation, while also delivering economic and social benefits.
Principal of the university, Prof Anton Muscatelli, said: "ICE exemplifies the university's goal to create visionary buildings that promote interaction with industry and other key stakeholders, bringing inspiring people together in a world-class environment to share knowledge that can ultimately change the world."
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A new state-of-the-art medical research facility, which houses a powerful MRI scanner, is to be officially opened.
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The tests have been made tougher and Mrs Morgan says lower results should not be interpreted as a decline in performance by pupils.
"They simply cannot be compared directly," says Mrs Morgan.
Heads have called for this year's test results not to be published.
Mrs Morgan's warning comes in advance of the publication of results from Sats tests taken by 11-year-olds, which this year have been made more difficult and based on a new curriculum.
There will be national level results published on Tuesday and individual schools will receive their results.
There has been an expectation of volatile and unpredictable results - and Mrs Morgan is pre-empting claims that they will show that standards are falling.
"I expect critics of the new primary curriculum will be quick to try and suggest that any lower results are evidence of a failure of the system," says Mrs Morgan.
"Nothing could be further from the truth. I don't know what the results will look like yet. But I have always been clear that politicians trumpeting ever-rising test results, at the expense of high standards is entirely wrong."
If results do turn out to be lower than previous years, then Mrs Morgan feels: "It wouldn't mean children have performed any worse this year; simply that we have raised the bar on what counts as good enough.
"Neither schools nor parents should try to compare this year's results with previous years. The tests are new and are based on a new, more rigorous national curriculum - based on the best evidence from across the world."
Mrs Morgan said that parents should "see the results as what they are - a reflection of how well children this year have performed against a new curriculum".
The National Association of Head Teachers had previously written to the education secretary calling for the publication of this year's results to be cancelled.
They warned that there had been "serious mistakes" in how changes had been introduced and said results were too "unpredictable" to be used for league tables.
Head teachers said the results were likely to be so "skewed" that "comparisons between schools become very risky".
Kevin Courtney, acting general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said the results would be used by the Department for Education and Ofsted to make judgements on schools, with potentially "serious consequences for the jobs of school leaders and the future of the school".
But he said that from the perspective of teachers, the changes to the tests had been "shambolic", with frequently changing guidance and leaked test papers.
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The results of Sats tests taken in primary schools in England, due to be published on Tuesday, should not be compared with previous years, says Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.
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Atherton, 28, became the first rider in history to complete a perfect downhill World Cup season and then won a fourth World Championship title a week later.
However, the downhill discipline is not an Olympic sport.
Atherton said: "I'm proud and content with what I have achieved. I don't need the validation of an Olympic medal."
Other British riders have changed disciplines in the pursuit of winning Olympic medals.
Mark Cavendish, the only member of the 2008 Beijing Olympic track team to miss out on a medal, returned to the velodrome for the 2016 Rio Games and was rewarded with silver in the omnium.
He quit this year's Tour de France early, after winning his 30th career stage in the three-week road race, to focus his attentions on Rio.
And four-time BMX world champion Shanaze Reade is also heading back to the more controlled environment of track cycling for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Reade, who won world team sprint titles in 2007 and 2008 with Victoria Pendleton, missed out on Olympic BMX medals in 2008 and 2012 despite starting as favourite because of the "lottery" nature of the sport.
Atherton said: "I definitely used to want to switch to track at some point but in mountain biking you spend a lot of time outside in the mountains - I think I would miss that lifestyle.
"Mountain biking has a huge following and a life on its own without [downhill being included in] the Olympics."
The Trek factory rider has won 13 downhill World Cup races in a row, including all seven this year to win her fifth title.
Atherton could now target the two-day enduro races, which include both uphill and downhill sections.
"That would be a huge challenge, having the fitness to do that, but it is something that I would be pretty excited to give a go," she said.
And, after a year "beyond anything" she imagined, Atherton has returned home to a small village north of Aberystwyth for the off-season.
"It is surreal getting back into home life. It is pretty cool to bring the trophy home to this tiny village in the middle of Wales," she said.
"When you are at the top of your sport it is a stressful thing, it is hard to enjoy because you are so focused.
"I'm actually looking forward to a year enjoying racing a bit more and not having to prove myself is going to be nice."
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The Dragons explained in a statement that Jackson suffered a 'non-rugby related injury on 8 April.'
"He has undergone a neck operation, which was a success, and the surgeons are satisfied with the results. Ed is making significant progress and is currently recovering," Dragons said.
Jackson, 28, signed a contract extension with the region in December.
However, he suffered a shoulder injury in February that required surgery.
Jackson has made 36 appearances for the Dragons since joining from Wasps in 2015.
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Newport Gwent Dragons forward Ed Jackson is recovering in hospital after undergoing surgery for a neck injury.
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As part of a discussion paper on the future of Defined Benefit (DB) pensions, it said financially "stressed" companies might be allowed to water down previous promises.
About 5% of businesses are in that category, according to the green paper.
As many as eleven million people are members of private sector DB schemes, which link pensions to salaries.
In particular, some companies might be allowed to adjust the way they up-rate pension payments annually to compensate for inflation.
Instead of using the Retail Prices Index (RPI), it could be that some companies would be allowed to use the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) instead, the government said.
Since CPI is usually lower than RPI, it would save firms money.
However, such a change could cost the average pensioner up to £20,000 over the course of their retirement, according to the discussion document.
Most public-sector Defined Benefit pensions schemes moved to the CPI measure in 2011.
Steve Webb, who was a pensions minister under the Coalition government, said allowing such a change would be worrying.
"There is a significant risk that relaxing standards on inflation protection - with the best of intentions for exceptional cases - could be exploited and lead to millions of retired people being at risk of cuts in their real living standards," he said.
In the paper, the government also raises the idea of temporarily suspending any sort of inflation indexation at all, when pension schemes are in serious trouble.
Yet it admits this could raise "moral hazard issues", whereby companies might be tempted to deliberately increase their deficits to save money on pension pay-outs.
Most DB pension schemes remain "affordable" for employers, the government said, even though most are currently in deficit.
So the government's message to employers is unequivocal: most can clear their pension deficits if they want to.
It said the total deficit of all DB schemes in January 2017 was £197bn, down from £459bn in August 2016.
"Our modelling suggests that these deficits are likely to shrink for the majority of schemes, if employers continue to pay into schemes at current/promised levels," the paper declares.
"While DB pensions are more expensive than they were when they were set up, many employers could clear their pension deficit if required."
DB schemes have declined over recent years, as employers have switched to more affordable defined contribution (DC) schemes, where pension payouts are linked to investment returns.
The pensions industry is now being asked to comment on the ideas in the green paper.
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Firms in financial trouble could be allowed to reduce the generosity of pensions, the government has suggested.
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Welsh economy minister Edwina Hart said despite criticism of UK ministers, her counterparts in London know how important the industry is.
She met UK Business Secretary Sajid Javid on his visit to Port Talbot steelworks on Friday.
Tata Steel has said it would sell its UK business, putting thousands of jobs at risk.
Mr Javid said he had been concerned at talk of a time-frame for the sale of three to four weeks, but says there is now an understanding it is "much longer" than that.
Ms Hart told the BBC: "It's very important to recognise in UK terms we can't allow the steel industry to go.
"What happens to defence contracts, what happens now in terms of nuclear? We need a steel industry. I think the UK government is as aware of that as us.
"We've got to be hopeful, because it's important we keep steel, and that is what both governments are trying to do, to ensure we've got the best results in terms of the purchase of the plant."
Port Talbot has the largest steelworks in the UK, with 4,000 jobs at risk.
Tata has other Welsh plants at Trostre, Shotton, Llanwern and Newport, while UK plants in Rotherham and Corby are also affected.
Eluned Parrott, Liberal Democrat economy spokeswoman, said: "It is all very well for Sajid Javid to come here and promise action, but his words of support for the steel industry are in stark contrast to his record.
"The fact is that Mr Javid and his Tory colleagues have done nothing to mitigate this crisis."
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said: "Inaction and indifference by governments at both ends of the M4 mean that months of lost time have gone by in which decisive action could have been taken."
A UKIP Wales spokesman said Mr Javid arrives in Wales "with a long face but an empty portfolio".
"As long as we are members of the EU we cannot decide to change our tariffs on Chinese steel and we are condemned to paying artificially expanded rates for energy."
Britain Stronger In Europe, which is campaigning for the UK to stay in the EU, said the European Commission had a record 37 anti-dumping measures in place, with 16 of those specifically targeting Chinese imports.
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The UK and Welsh governments are working to keep steel production in Britain, a minister has said.
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In a statement on Twitter, the band said it was "with great regret, due to illness, we cannot perform at Customs House Belfast".
Organisers said they were working to re-schedule the concert.
Many concert goers said they were disappointed with the last-minute cancellation.
Stephen Nelson said the stage was set-up for the band when the news was announced to the audience.
"They had set up everything, all the gear, their background was up, their roadies were on stage.
"Then 10 minutes before an announcement came on the PA that the gig was cancelled.
"People were like, 'are you serious?' Then the announcement was repeated and there was some booing."
Kathryn McKeown said the crowd were "disappointed" when the announcement was made.
"It was lashing rain on and off, everyone was drenched. Blossoms (the support band) were saying, 'are you excited for Kasabian?' before they finished.
She added: "About 10 minutes before the band were due on stage there was an announcement to say that due to last-minute illness the band would be unable to perform, tickets would be valid for a re-scheduled show.
"At first, I think everyone thought it was a joke. After about the third announcement it started to sink in and everyone started booing, some people were even chucking pints and plastic cups at the stage."
In a statement, organisers said: "Due to a last-minute illness we regret that the band have had to cancel tonight's show.
"We are working at this minute on scheduling a new date for Belfast. We will communicate with all ticket buyers via Ticketmaster and on the Custom House Square social media.
"Tickets will remain valid for the new date. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."
The band were due to play as part of a series of concerts at Custom House Square.
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Rock band Kasabian have cancelled a concert in Belfast minutes before they were due to take to the stage on Tuesday night.
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Luis Suarez scored twice, while Neymar and Andres Iniesta also scored as Barcelona moved six points clear of Real at the top of the table.
BBC Sport reviews each player's performance, with BBC Radio 5 live co-commentator Chris Waddle, who was at the Bernabeu, giving his ratings out of 10.
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Barcelona took the honours in the first El Clasico of the La Liga season with a dominant 4-0 win at Real Madrid on Saturday.
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It has proposed setting up a new Scotland-wide statutory board to co-ordinate the activities of Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
The government said services already provided in the Highlands and Islands would be protected.
A new service has also been proposed for the south of Scotland.
The activities of Scottish Enterprise and HIE include the running of Scottish Development International, Skills Development Scotland and the Scottish Funding Council.
The Scottish government carried out a review of enterprise and skills support earlier this year.
It examined the roles, responsibilities and relationships of HIE and Scottish Enterprise.
HIE supports businesses and promotes economic growth in the Northern Isles, Western Isles, Highlands, Moray and Argyll.
It began as the Highlands and Islands Development Board 50 years ago. HIE was established in 1990.
The CairnGorm Mountain ski resort and its funicular railway is among the assets it manages.
A report on the first phase of the review of enterprise and skills services has been released.
The contents of the report are due to be debated at Holyrood on Wednesday.
Concerns about the future of HIE have already been raised by Highlands MSPs David Stewart and John Finnie.
Mr Stewart said he would oppose any move to merge HIE with Scottish Enterprise.
Earlier this month, in a response to a question from Mr Finnie, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the Scottish government would make sure HIE could continue to provide its services.
Following the release on the new report, Economy Secretary Keith Brown said: "We are proud of our enterprise and skills agencies, and in recent years their efforts have contributed to real improvements in our economic performance.
"But we know that further improvement is required - our ambition is for Scotland to rank among the top-performing OECD nations for productivity, equality, sustainability and wellbeing.
"Since the review was announced, the EU referendum result has made the economic context more challenging. It requires that we renew our focus and prioritise our efforts.
"This review has focused on how we can build on existing strengths and successes to further improve the enterprise and skills support system in Scotland.
"This will ensure a system in which all of our agencies work both hand in glove with each other and collaboratively with our business, academic and civic partners to optimise economic impact across the whole of Scotland."
Scottish Conservative economy spokesman Dean Lockhart said: "While I am pleased that the SNP have followed our lead once again in suggesting a South of Scotland enterprise agency, a lot more needs to be done.
"Our enterprise agencies are already doing a great job in encouraging business growth, but as Audit Scotland have said, it's the Scottish government that is holding them back.
"They need far more support in the work that they do, and a clear plan on exactly how the Scottish government want them to deliver its economic strategy."
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The Scottish government has set out plans to reform Scotland's enterprise and skills agencies.
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Members of the Unite union working for Wood Group on eight Shell installations will vote on whether to strike.
The union said its members were "deeply worried" and felt they had no other option but to consider industrial action.
Wood Group said it was "extremely disappointed" at the news during the consultation process.
The platforms involved are Shearwater, Gannet, Nelson, Curlew, Brent Delta, Brent Alpha, Brent Bravo and Brent Charlie.
In February, Aberdeen-based Wood Group PSN announced it was cutting rates paid to about a third of its UK contractor workforce.
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Hundreds of North Sea workers are to be balloted for industrial action in a dispute over pay cuts.
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Each week in the UK, about 12 seemingly healthy people aged 35 or under are victims of sudden cardiac death, largely due to undiagnosed heart conditions.
If you have a family member who has been diagnosed with an inherited heart condition, or has a family history of premature deaths, doctors will suggest you be tested.
Having angina or a heart attack at a young age can also prompt a test.
Young people should also be checked if they have:
They carry out an electrocardiogram test - also known as an ECG.
This looks at the electrical activity of the heart.
It is painless and involves having small stickers placed on the chest, which are connected to the ECG machine.
A cardiologist checks the results.
Sometimes, an echocardiogram - an ultrasound test that looks at the structure of the heart - is also done.
If someone under 35 has died suddenly, the NHS will offer "cascade testing" to family members to see if they have inherited a faulty gene.
Just being identified helps. People can then be monitored, and encouraged to make any lifestyle changes that could help them.
There are drug treatments available - and people can be fitted with internal cardioverter defibrillators - a matchbox-sized device placed just under the collar bone that gives the heart electric pulses or shocks to get the heart rhythm back to normal.
Other procedures and surgery are also available.
Talk to your GP if you have any concerns.
These websites have more information:
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About 620,000 people in the UK have a faulty gene that puts them at risk of developing coronary heart disease or sudden death, and most are unaware, heart experts have warned.
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Cheap Trick, and Steve Miller also made the 2016 list, but Chic - nominated for a record tenth time - missed out on the honour.
The five acts were chosen by fans and more than 800 voters of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation.
They will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in a ceremony in April.
To be eligible, artists or bands need to have released their first single or album 25 years ago.
Others who were nominated this year but didn't make the cut include Janet Jackson, Nine Inch Nails and The Smiths.
It was the fourth time rap stars NWA - the subject of this year's hit biopic Straight Outta Compton - had been nominated.
Led by Dr Dre and Ice Cube, NWA are described as "unexpected, shocking, flawed, revolutionary and worthy," by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"NWA's improbable rise from marginalized outsiders to the most controversial and complicated voices of their generation remains one of rock's most explosive, relevant and challenging tales", it said.
It was the third nomination for British metal band Deep Purple.
A statement from the organisers said: "Deep Purple's non-inclusion in the Hall is a gaping hole which must now be filled," calling them "the Holy Trinity of hard rock and metal bands" along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath who are already inductees.
Seventies rock band Chicago, led by Peter Cetera is also an omission according to organisers.
"Chicago's early line-up created such an unmistakable sound and their inclusion into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not only well-deserved, but an honour that has been overlooked.
"With over 21 top 10 singles, five consecutive number one albums, 11 number one singles - fans that stretch across the globe and countless bands that have followed in their wake, Chicago's legacy is unquestionable."
Steve Miller and Cheap Trick are first time nominees.
Earlier this year, Green Day, Lou Reed, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and Ringo Starr were among those inducted into the Hall of Fame as the class of 2015.
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The law is to be changed in Spring 2017 to make directors personally liable for breaches of regulations.
At the moment only firms can be fined for ignoring rules on cold calling, but many declare bankruptcy - only to open up again under a different name.
Consumer group Which? said it was a "massive victory".
Companies offering to help to reclaim mis-sold payment protection insurance or with accident claims are behind some of the most common nuisance calls.
The change will mean the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) would be able to impose combined penalties of up to £1m on company directors and their businesses for breaches of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations.
The ICO has issued fines totalling almost £3.7m to companies behind nuisance calls and spam text messages.
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said companies behind the calls have "little regard for the anxiety and upset they cause all in the name of turning a fast profit".
"We are inundated with complaints from people who are left shaken and distressed by the intrusion on their daily lives," she added.
Source: BBC Skillswise
Which? has campaigned on the issue and its managing director of home and legal services Alex Neill said "the government has listened to consumers".
"This legislation will stop rogues dodging fines for bombarding consumers with nuisance calls and side-stepping the rules by closing one business and re-establishing a new one."
Digital and culture minister Matt Hancock said: "Nuisance callers are a blight on society, causing significant distress to elderly and vulnerable people.
"We have been clear that we will not stand for this continued harassment and this latest amendment to the law will strike another blow to those businesses and company bosses responsible."
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Company directors could be fined up to £500,000 if their business is behind nuisance phone calls, under government moves to clamp down on the problem.
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Explosives lit up the sky and loud bangs were heard as the fire took hold at 05:00 BST on Bitterne Road West.
Homes and properties within 100 metres (328ft) of the fire on the site of the Southern Fireworks Factory and the Flower Factory were evacuated.
No-one was injured. Surrounding roads are expected to remain closed overnight.
More than 70 firefighters in 13 engines and support vehicles helped bring the blaze under control.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service group commander Howard Watts said: "It was a challenging scene when we arrived - with all the explosions we couldn't get too close to the fire.
"Our main concern making sure everyone in the area was safe and to make sure no-one was in the building."
At the height of the blaze, a plume of black smoke billowed over the area.
Resident Jill Sainsbury said she heard an "almighty bang" and saw different colours appear in the sky at around 05:00.
She said: "We thought it was coming from the river until we saw a massive plume of smoke coming from the Fireworks Factory near the Flower Factory.
"The fireworks had been going off for at least an hour - it has stopped now - but certainly the plume of smoke is still pouring over the river and the city."
Ryan Gregory, who lives nearby, said he initially thought the bangs were gunshots.
He said: "I looked out of my window to see there was a lot of smoke. Immediately I knew it was from the Firework Factory, but I didn't expect it to go up in the blaze that it did."
The A3024 Bitterne Road West and and Bitterne Bridge have been closed in both directions while firefighters deal with the blaze.
Southampton City Council said it had lifted the toll on the Itchen Bridge until the road reopens.
The authority said the road closures were expected to remain in place overnight
Southern Water also warned the considerable use of hydrants in the area had left some residents with poor pressure or temporary loss of their water supply.
Bitterne Manor Primary School on Quayside Road was also closed.
A rest centre has been set up at the Ascension Centre in Thorold Road for 60 residents who have had to leave their homes.
The council confirmed a licence to store fireworks had been issued to Southern Firework Factory Ltd in September.
A spokesman said the storage conditions at the premises "complied with the relevant conditions".
"At the time of the licence application the premises was purely commercial with no residential accommodation attached. As such the licence permitted 250kg (550lbs) net explosive content to be stored in a steel container secured against unauthorised access," he said.
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A huge blaze broke out at a shop in Southampton, setting off dozens of fireworks stored inside.
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