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The boy is from Northern Ireland, but his family do not want him to be named to protect his identity. His mother had to give up her job to look after him. In June, his parents made the difficult decision to remove him from mainstream schooling because he was not coping. They requested a place for him at a special school but are still waiting. In September, the family was told that all the special schools in the South Eastern Education Board area were full to capacity and no time frame could be given as to when a place would become available. The boy's mother told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that her son does not understand why his brother and sister are able to go to school but he is not. "He really misses being around people, he doesn't like being isolated, but unfortunately the way the system has been working so far has actually worked to isolate him more," she said. The family has now been told that an extra classroom assistant has been employed at a local special school and the hope is that their son will be able to start there in the next few weeks. However, the boy's mother is worried that this same situation will happen to other families as the special needs school system is packed to capacity. "The schools are being put in the position where they have a family like us who desperately require a place in the school, but they really have no capacity there because the school is already over-subscribed." The BBC asked the Education Authority for a response to the concerns the family has raised but its spokesperson said they could not comment on individual cases. "As we have a duty to protect the privacy rights of the child, it would be unacceptable to publicly discuss their specific and highly sensitive needs", they said. In relation to special school provision in general, they said the Education Authority was "currently reviewing the profile of need for special school places in Northern Ireland and is endeavouring to ensure that places are available close to where the children reside". "This work is ongoing and is designed to assist with the placement of children with effect from 2016," the spokesperson added.

A nine-year-old boy with autism has been unable to go to school for three months because all the special schools in the area near his home are full.

The company also said it had seen "no evidence" of any impact of the vote in markets outside the UK. Its comments came as it reported an 11% rise in pre-tax profits to £173m for the year to 30 June. Its profits were driven by strong trading in Asia and the rest of Europe. In the UK, Hays said net fees were flat, with trading "more challenging" towards the end of its financial year, which coincided with the run-up to the EU referendum. Conditions were particularly challenging in local government and healthcare markets in the UK. Hays also said conditions were tough in banking in the City of London, and there were weakening trends in the construction and property business towards the end of the financial year. Hays chief executive Alistair Cox said: "Following the EU referendum, there is increased uncertainty in the UK market, but we have seen no evidence of any impact elsewhere. "It is too early to tell what the longer term impact may be and as ever, we will monitor activity levels closely." Kean Marden, an analyst at Jefferies, said: "In construction and property, London and larger corporates have been most impacted. To date, Hays has seen no evidence of contagion into Europe." "We are mindful that July and August are seasonally quiet months for the industry and September (which can be one of the largest revenue contributors of the year) will provide more meaningful insight." The UK comprises about a third of Hays' business. It employs about 9,200 people across 33 countries. In the Asia Pacific region net fees grew by 4%, with Australia up 5%, boosted by strong public sector growth. In continental Europe and the rest of the world, net fees increased by 15%.

Recruitment giant Hays has said the UK job market weakened "significantly" around the time of the EU referendum, but it is too early to judge the long-term impact of the vote.

Two hundred and sixty people have already been convicted. The officer in charge of Operation Titan, Det Supt Sean Wright, appealed for anyone taking part in planned protests later this month to do so lawfully and peacefully. Operation Titan was set-up to investigate public order-related incidents since 12 July. Police released the figures at a press conference at PSNI headquarters in Belfast on Monday. ACC Will Kerr said 2013 had been a challenging year for policing. He said the last four years had seen a severe dissident republican threat, however recently there had been an upsurge in activity. In relation to the loyalist paramilitary group, the UVF, ACC Kerr said that elements of the group, particularly in east Belfast, had been involved in a range of criminal activity, however the issue of respecification was a political decision.

Police have said 560 people have been charged or reported in connection with flag protests in Northern Ireland.

Colin Gregg, 75, is said to have indecently assaulted four boys aged between 10 and 14 over three decades. Leeds Crown Court heard how Mr Gregg, of Gosforth, Newcastle, who helped build the family business in the 1960s, molested boys at his home, in his car and in a swimming pool. He denies nine counts of indecent assault. Paul Greaney QC, prosecuting, told the court Mr Gregg concealed his true nature behind a "veneer of respectability" and despite a life of distinction was "an abuser of children." The allegations relate to a period when Mr Gregg was a teacher and head teacher, beginning in 1963. He has dismissed the allegations as "evil lies" motivated by money. The jury were told of Mr Gregg's time building up the bakery chain into one of the most recognised brands on the high street and of charity work in the north-east of England. Mr Greaney said: "On the surface Colin Gregg deserves the respect and thanks of our community. "The prosecution case is that he was an abuser and that during two periods 20 years apart, he engaged in the sexual abuse of boys." The trial, which is due to last two weeks, continues.

The heir to the Greggs bakery business has gone on trial accused of sex offences against boys.

Systems at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center had been affected for more than a week. Staff had been forced to carry out some tasks on paper. However, the hospital's chief executive Allen Stefanek, said that the incident had not affected the delivery or quality of patient care. Ransomware is a form of malware which infects a victim's computer, locking it, and demanding that a ransom - often in bitcoins - be paid in order to restore access. Previously, local news sources had reported that the hackers were demanding a ransom payment of $3.4m - but Mr Stefanek denied this. "The amount of ransom requested was 40 bitcoins, equivalent to approximately $17,000," he wrote. "The quickest and most efficient way to restore our systems and administrative functions was to pay the ransom and obtain the decryption key." All systems currently in use had been cleared of malware and thoroughly tested, he added. Ransomware attacks are increasingly common. Last year, security firm Kaspersky acknowledged what it said was a "bitter fact" - "unless precautions are taken, victims may not be able to recover their data in any other way than by paying the demanded ransom." However, when the English county council for Lincolnshire was faced with a £350 ransomware demand last month, it refused to pay. The council has since told the BBC that all systems have been restored without having to pay off the hackers.

A Los Angeles hospital has paid $17,000 (£11,800) to hackers after its computer systems were taken offline by ransomware.

The 73-year-old man who died from a stab wound at a property at Oxford Court in Ogmore Vale has been named as Gwilym Jones. A 49-year-old local man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and the attempted murder of a 21-year-old woman. Extra patrols are taking place and witnesses are asked to come forward. South Wales Police said the pensioner died some time between Sunday and Monday and the attempted murder was reported at about 22:45 BST on Sunday. Detective Superintendent Kath Pritchard said Mr Jones' family is being supported by a family liaison officer and a murder enquiry is underway to establish the circumstances leading up to his death. "The local community is understandably shocked and saddened by this incident and we urge anyone with information to please contact South Wales Police," she said. "I want to pay tribute to local residents at Oxford Court who have had to put up with considerable disruption in the past 24 hours while we have carried out our investigations." Det Supt Pritchard added: "Ogmore Vale is a close knit community where incidents of this type are very rare. "

Police are continuing to question a man over the murder of a pensioner in Bridgend county.

22 May 2017 Last updated at 07:13 BST A team of researchers say they've come up with a new exercise that cuts the risk of kids getting hurt when playing rugby. The exercise could now be introduced in schools. Watch Jenny's report for more.

Rugby is not the most gentle of sports and it's been hitting the headlines because of some bad head injuries.

Michelle O'Neill hosted a departmental breakfast at the Balmoral Show on Thursday morning. In attendance was the Chinese consul general Madam Wang Shuying. Chinese inspectors visited Northern Ireland pork plants in April as part of a process to approve local pork for export. Ms O'Neill said she was also hoping to agree access to Chinese markets for beef and chicken. US consul general Greg Burton was also at the event. Northern Ireland is hoping to sell beef into the United States. Ms O'Neill said she was also working with Irish agriculture minister Simon Coveney to resolve labelling issues that have hit Northern Ireland lamb sales to meat plants in the Republic of Ireland. She told guests that the quality of Northern Ireland food was "something that carries our reputation around the world." She said it was "safe, traceable and sustainably produced" and she would seek to use that reputation to open doors. It is the second day of the Balmoral Show, the biggest showcase for Northern Ireland's farming and food industries.

The agriculture minister is to return to China next month as attempts to access markets there continue.

The semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest took place on Saturday 15 April, 1989. The match was sold out, meaning more than 53,000 fans from the two sides would head for Hillsborough for the 15.00 kick-off. Despite being a far larger club, Liverpool supporters were allocated the smaller end of the stadium, Leppings Lane, so that their route would not bring them into contact with Forest fans arriving from the south. Football crowds at the time had a reputation for hooliganism and strict segregation was enforced. Fans began arriving at Leppings Lane at about midday. The entrance had a limited number of turnstiles, of which just seven were allocated to the 10,100 fans with tickets for the standing terraces. Once through the turnstiles, supporters would have seen a wide tunnel leading down to the terrace and signposted "Standing". As was common practice in grounds at the time, the terrace was divided into "pens" by high fences that corralled fans into blocks and separated them from the pitch. The tunnel led directly into the two pens behind the goal, pens 3 and 4. Access to other pens was poorly-marked - a sign for refreshments was bigger than one showing the way to pens 1 and 2, the inquests heard. There was no system on the day to ensure fans were evenly distributed across the pens and no way of counting how many were in each pen. The match commander was Ch Supt David Duckenfield. He was new in his post and had limited experience of policing football matches. Police expected supporters to "find their own level" by spreading out across the pens in search of space, but this was difficult to do as movement between the pens was by narrow gates at the rear. By 14.15 a crowd had started to build outside the Leppings Lane turnstiles and it swelled rapidly over the next quarter of an hour. Progress through the seven turnstiles was slow and by 14.30 just 4,383 people had entered, meaning 5,700 ticketed fans were set to enter the ground in the half hour before kick-off. The inquests were told Mr Duckenfield and Supt Bernard Murray discussed delaying the kick off to allow fans to enter but decided against it. By 14.45 CCTV footage showed there were thousands of people pressing into the turnstiles and alongside a large exit gate, called Gate C. The funnel-shaped nature of the area meant that the congestion was hard to escape for those at the front. The turnstiles became difficult to operate and people were starting to be crushed. The police officer in charge of the area, Supt Roger Marshall, told the inquests he thought somebody was "going to get killed here" unless the exit gates were opened to alleviate the pressure. He made several requests and at 14.52, Mr Duckenfield gave the order and the gates were opened. About 2,000 fans then made their way into the ground. Most of those entering through Gate C headed straight for the tunnel leading directly to pens 3 and 4. This influx caused severe crushing in the pens. Fans began climbing over side fences into the relatively less packed adjoining pens to escape. The pens' official combined capacity was 2,200. It was later discovered this had not been updated since 1979, despite modifications made to the ground in the intervening decade. At 14.59, the game kicked off. Fans in the two central pens were pressed up against the fences and crush barriers. One barrier in pen 3 gave way, causing people to fall on top of each other. Those who survived told of seeing people lose consciousness in front of their eyes. Supporters continued to climb perimeter fences to escape, while others were dragged to safety by fans in the upper tiers. At 15.06 Supt Roger Greenwood ran on to the pitch and told the referee to stop the game. In the chaotic aftermath, supporters tore up advertising hoardings to use as makeshift stretchers and tried to administer first aid to the injured. The authorities' response to the disaster was slow and badly co-ordinated. Police delayed declaring a major incident and staff from South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service at the ground also failed to recognise and call a major incident. The jury decided this led to delays in the responses to the emergency. Firefighters with cutting gear had difficulty getting into the ground, and although dozens of ambulances were dispatched, access to the pitch was delayed because police were reporting "crowd trouble". Only two ambulances reached the Leppings Lane end of the pitch and of the 96 people who died, only 14 were ever admitted to hospital. For the jury in the inquests, police errors in planning, defects at the stadium and delays in the emergency response all contributed to the disaster. The behaviour of fans was not to blame. Match commander Ch Supt David Duckenfield had a duty of care to fans in the stadium that day, the jurors decided. They found he was in breach of that duty of care, that this amounted to gross negligence and that the 96 victims were unlawfully killed. The jury also concluded:

After two years of inquest evidence, a detailed picture has built up of how an FA Cup match at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough ground turned into a disaster that claimed 96 lives and left hundreds more injured.

The comments came ahead of his Budget speech, in which he cut the country's growth forecast for 2016 to 0.9%, down from 1.7%. He conceded the economy was struggling with shrinking growth, 25% unemployment, and widespread poverty. The South African currency, the rand, which has halved over the past five years, fell after the speech. It dropped 2.25% to make one rand worth around $0.0639. In a briefing ahead of the Budget, Mr Gordhan said: "There is no doubt about the fact that we are in crisis." The measures announced in Parliament were aimed at stopping the country falling into recession and to appease the rating agencies who have threatened to downgrade South Africa to junk status, which would raise borrowing costs for the country. Mr Gordhan unveiled government spending cuts, a civil service job freeze and some moderate tax rises. These tax increases affect property sales, fuel, sugary drinks, alcohol, tobacco and and capital gains, as well as environmental levies, which are expected to bring in an extra 18bn rand ($1.18bn; £840m). He had been expected to announce plans on privatising state assets - he fell short of that but said the government was looking at the possibility of merging the loss-making national carrier, South African Airways, with the state-owned SA Express airline "with a view to engaging with a potential minority equity partner". Privatisation has long been resisted by sections of the ruling African National Congress. Mr Gordhan was blunt on his outlook for the country. "We cannot spend money we do not have. We cannot borrow beyond our ability to repay. Until we ignite growth and generate more revenue we have to be tough on ourselves." Maike Currie, investment director at Fidelity International, said she was unsure if the measures announced would stop the rating agencies cutting their outlook for the country, as they have warned: "There was no increase in VAT, which has remained unchanged at 14% for two decades now, or income tax hike as the finance minister looked to moderate the impact of tax increases on struggling South African households amid a testing economic backdrop. "Whether this will be enough to appease rating agencies and businesses, however remains to be seen". She added that it was interesting that Mr Gordhan had focused on cutting down government spending without enforcing austerity measures on everyday South Africans, such as raising income tax. In his Budget speech, South Africa's finance minister Pravin Gordhan was cautiously optimistic and realistic about the challenges facing the country. He spoke about the need to tackle wasteful expenditure and was candid about corruption. The most blatant example of misuse of public funds is the Nkandla scandal where officials used taxpayers money to renovate the president's private country home. His strategy seems to be that of spending less in order to save more. The minister said that his focus will be to reduce the government deficit to 3.2% this year, and over the next three years. The rand weakened after he had finished speaking which suggests the markets are not convinced that the minister has a recovery plan that will lift growth and convince the ratings agencies before they take a decision around May or June. The ruling ANC party faces municipal elections later this year and much was riding on this Budget to turn the economic situation around. Although the country is rich in mineral resources it has been hit hard by the fall in global commodity prices. South Africa's farmers have also been hit by the worst drought in more than a century. Last December, President Jacob Zuma shocked the nation and the business community by suddenly replacing the well-respected finance minister Nhlanhla Nene with an ally and backbencher David Van Rooyen. The markets took a dim view, with foreign investors withdrawing money and there were complaints within his own ruling African National Congress party. Four days later President Zuma did a U turn and re-appointed Mr Gordhan who had served as finance minister for five years to 2014.

The South African economy is 'in crisis' says the country's finance minister Pravin Gordhan.

Steven Dunne, 42, failed to return to Southview Low Secure Unit, Hellingly, at 17:00 BST on Wednesday. After a police appeal on Saturday, Dunne later went into Bootle Street police station in Manchester, where he is in custody. Dunne will return to hospital under a higher level of security. Earlier, in their appeal, Sussex Police had said they believed he had gone to Manchester because he had family links in the city. In November 2010, Dunne admitted the manslaughter of Gordon Stalker, 51, on the grounds of diminished responsibility and was detained indefinitely. Sussex Police said the level of security he was originally detained under was approved by the Ministry of Justice. After Dunne handed himself in, Lisa Rodrigues, chief executive of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We were concerned for Mr Dunne's welfare and we worked closely with Sussex Police throughout their investigation." The NHS trust had said Dunne posed a "low risk" after he was reported missing. During the court case, Dunne, formerly of Chates Farm Court, Brighton, told Lewes Crown Court he believed Mr Stalker was controlling his mind and he could only be freed by killing him. The pair were neighbours in a shared house in Elm Grove, Brighton, where they were friends and often socialised together. But Dunne's mental health deteriorated and he began to believe that Mr Stalker was a witch who had captured his soul. He stabbed Mr Stalker repeatedly in their communal hallway. The judge ordered him to be detained under the Mental Health Act.

A paranoid schizophrenic who killed a former neighbour and went missing from his secure unit in Sussex has handed himself in to police.

The eight-day race, a precursor to the Tour which begins on 2 July, starts with a 4km time trial on Sunday. "There will be many challengers [in the Tour]. But if I must pick two, I would say Froome and Nairo Quintana," said Contador, also a two-time Tour winner. "The Criterium will allow me to test myself against my rivals." Team Sky rider Froome has won the Criterium in each of the two years he has won the Tour - 2013 and 2015 - but Contador, who rides for Tinkoff, has never won the Criterium. "My primary objective is to finish [the Criterium] in good physical condition with respect to the Tour - to be ready," said the Spaniard. "I'm not thinking about the overall victory but, obviously, if the chance is there..." Astana's Fabio Aru and FDJ's Thibaut Pinot will also contest the Criterium, but Movistar's Quintana is not competing in the race.

Alberto Contador believes the Criterium du Dauphine is the perfect stage to renew his rivalry with two-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome.

The star will play Mrs Potts, the housekeeper magically transformed into a teapot whom Dame Angela Lansbury voiced in the 1991 animated version of the film. Fellow Oscar-winner Kevin Kline has also signed on to play Maurice, the father of the 'Beauty' character Belle. The film will be released in US cinemas on 17 March 2017. It was announced in January that Harry Potter star Emma Watson had been cast as Belle. It was subsequently confirmed that Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens will play the Beast and that Luke Evans will co-star as the villainous Gaston. Josh Gad, who voiced Olaf the snowman in Disney's animated hit Frozen, is also on board as Gaston's sidekick LeFou. Bill Condon, director of Dreamgirls and the last two Twilight films, will direct the movie, which begins filming at Shepperton Studios in May.

Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson has joined the cast of Disney's live-action take on Beauty and the Beast.

When Peter Young was in charge of mental health services at Australia's refugee detention centres, he says it became increasingly clear that authorities wanted to "keep the lid" on health issues that asylum seekers were experiencing. The senior Australian psychiatrist says immigration authorities wanted details about the high rates of mental illness among children at the centres to be removed from his official reports. He was asked to delete clinical opinions that made a direct link between prolonged detention and mental health problems. Dr Young was director of International Health and Medical Services (IHMS) - a private health service contracted by Australia's Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) to provide health care to detention centres - a role he held for three years. Its services covered the country's controversial offshore facilities on the Pacific island of Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, where all asylum seekers who try to reach Australia by boat are sent - never to be resettled in Australia even if their refugee claims are proven. In advising on treatment, Dr Young argued with authorities who considered acts of self-harm by detainees as "a type of bad behaviour, rather than a manifestation of people in extreme states of hopelessness". He says he was later refused permission to use data he had collected about health issues in detention centres in presentations or publications. "They made it very clear this type of information should never get into the public domain," he told the BBC. Now there is fear that health workers could go to prison for such revelations under new Border Force laws that threaten "entrusted people" with up to two years in prison if they reveal protected information about Australia's detention facilities. In recent months, hundreds of doctors and nurses have staged public protests in cities across Australia, posing with their hands over their mouths to highlight the risk of being silenced. Their concerns are shared by Australia's 13 peak medical groups, who have accused the government of trying to "gag" health professionals. The World Medical Association has also warned the laws are "in striking conflict with basic principles of medical ethics". Critics say the gag is the latest act in a "culture of secrecy" around tough Australian policies designed to stop boatloads of asylum seekers from arriving on Australian shores. The government is unapologetic about its stance on "stopping the boats" It denies it is trying to silence doctors and nurses or that it wants to suppress health information. The Border Force says the new laws are to protect "operational security" and insists robust internal mechanisms are in place through which medical concerns can be raised and addressed. The federal Labor opposition agrees. It supported the legislation and says health workers will be protected by 'whistleblower' protections under the Commonwealth Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013. However, legal experts say it is not clear what sort of information would be protected and there are a range of internal hurdles that could delay or deter disclosures. That confusion alone may suit the government, says human rights lawyer George Newhouse. "I think the government is very happy with the uncertainty around the laws and how they are likely to have a 'chilling effect' on potential whistleblowers," he told the BBC. Given very restricted public access to Australian detention centres, health and social workers have been key sources of information about conditions. Two former medical officers at the Christmas Island detention facility, last year graphically catalogued a range of health concerns in an article in the Medical Journal of Australia, saying, among other things, that "degrading, harmful and inappropriate incidents" had occurred at the centre. "Degrading, harmful and inappropriate incidents have occurred, including requiring asylum seekers to undergo health assessments while exhausted, dehydrated and filthy, with clothing soiled by urine and faeces; addressing individuals by number instead of name, artificial delays in transfer of patients for tertiary care; confiscation and destruction of medications, medical records and medical devices; and detention of children despite clear evidence of significant harm." --Medical Journal of Australia, Volume 201, October 2014 Dr Young believes the risk of being sent to prison will discourage medical staff from speaking out in future, even if no prosecutions are launched. Other detention centre practices like employing staff from developing countries who are not protected by Australian labour or whistleblower laws also "keep the lid on all information flowing out of the system", he says. "My position is that the medical profession is expected to speak out when it comes to issues that harm people's health. "There would be no controversy if I was speaking about cigarette smoking or asbestos exposure. "The evidence is very clear that prolonged detention in such circumstances causes a negative health impact, and keeping those health impacts secret makes the situation worse." Marie McInerney is a Melbourne-based writer.

Australian laws forbidding people working in the country's detention centres from speaking out about what they see have raised grave concerns in the medical community.

While the site has remained quiet about its canary's demise, it has hosted a discussion on the subject by a group of lawyers. A warrant canary is a statement saying a company has not received secret requests for user data by government or law enforcement officers. It is named after the birds that were taken down mineshafts to alert workers to toxic gases. If the canary died in the mine the workers knew they had to leave quickly. Similarly, the existence of a warrant canary on a website indicates the "all clear". When it disappears, visitors might assume the website has received classified requests for data. Many websites publish a warrant canary in an effort to be transparent with visitors. The concept gained popularity after the extent of US government surveillance was revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. In the US, law enforcement can issue requests for user data that come with a gagging order, preventing the demand from being disclosed. Demands known as national security letters are designed to allow law enforcement agencies to conduct an investigation without interference or alerting the target. But critics say the confidential nature of national security letters, which can be issued without a court order, makes them ripe for abuse by law enforcement. Reddit, Adobe and Tumblr are among the sites that have published warrant canaries. The disappearance of a warrant canary usually only reveals that a website has received at least one secret surveillance request. They are often written in broad terms, as their legality has not been tested in court. "The more practically useful and informative they are, the more legally risky they are too," said Brett Max Kaufman, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union. Before it was killed, Reddit's warrant canary said: "Reddit has never received a National Security Letter, an order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or any other classified request for user information." One Reddit member asked whether websites could print an individual warrant canary on every member's profile, making it immediately obvious when a specific user had been targeted by a secret request. "The government would have a pretty strong argument in that case that the removal of the individual's canary was simply an end-run around the gag order, and that it would jeopardise the government interests in completing its investigation without interference," said Mr Kaufman. "That's not to say an individualised canary could never be lawful." While the disappearance of a warrant canary could indicate that a company has received a classified data request, it remains possible that Reddit removed the canary to avoid a future fight over its legality. "I strongly suspect it is the first," said Alex Abdo of the ACLU. "Unless they received a national security request, nothing else would have changed between the 2014 transparency report and now. "If they abandoned it for the second reason, Reddit likely would not have issued the very cryptic statement that they could not comment on the disappearance of the canary." Reddit did not respond to the BBC's request for comment. One Reddit member questioned whether the government could force a website to falsely keep its warrant canary online, disguising the existence of a national security letter. "If the government asked a company to leave its warrant canary up (and therefore communicate something false to the public), the company would have the right to challenge any gag (under the First Amendment... or under certain provisions of the USA Freedom Act) in court," said Mr Kaufman. "But if a court upheld the government's request... the public would be none the wiser, at least for some time. "Indeed, that would be the entire objective from the government's perspective." When asked whether the disappearance of Reddit's canary was a cause for alarm, Mr Abdo said it was "difficult to know". "It's possible that the request was very targeted and in pursuit of someone we would all agree should be investigated," he said. "But we don't know the facts at this point, and we don't even know which legal authority the government was relying on. "And we might not know either of those things for a long time."

In March, online community Reddit killed its "warrant canary" - a statement on its website declaring that it had not received any secret data snooping requests from government or law enforcement agencies.

The key moment was a fumble by Mayo keeper Robert Hennelly early in the second half which gifted Dublin a penalty scored by Diarmuid Connolly. Hennelly was a late inclusion in place of David Clarke but the move backfired. Deep in injury-time, Cillian O'Connor missed a difficult free which would have levelled the scores. Lee Keegan's goal put Mayo ahead midway through the first period but Dublin regrouped to lead 0-10 to 1-6 by half-time. Hennelly struggled badly with his kick-outs early on with one of his misdirected clearances leading to the black carding of the influential Keegan late in the first half in what was a huge blow for the Connacht county. Earlier, Dublin's Jonny Cooper was also black carded and a number other players from both sides - notably Dublin's John Small - were fortunate not to suffer the same fate. In the end, Dublin's stronger bench proved decisive as Cormac Costello came on to kick the champions' three final scores from play. Cillian O'Connor's ninth point of the contest left the minimum between the teams with three minutes of injury-time left but the Mayo free-taker then missed a high-pressure free from 40 metres which would have levelled the scores again. As Dublin celebrated back-to-back titles for the first time since the county's triumphs in 1976 and '77, Mayo's players looked crestfallen as they attempted to come to terms with a fifth All-Ireland final defeat in 12 years. With Hennelly struggling to pick out team-mates from his kick-outs, Dublin moved into a 0-4 to 0-0 lead by the sixth minute which included three Dean Rock points - two of which were from play. But Mayo were on terms within six minutes after a run of four points started by Patrick Durcan's superb point. Two Rock frees edged Dublin ahead again but Mayo were suddenly in the lead as the over-lapping Keegan took a perfectly weighted pass from Aidan O'Shea before hammering past Stephen Cluxton from 14 yards. Cooper's black carding moments later for a hand trip appeared a further boost for Mayo but the Dubs outscored them 0-4 to 0-2 during the remainder of the first period to lead 0-10 to 1-6 at the break. Mayo regained the lead within two minutes of the restart but were soon three in arrears after another Rock free was followed by Hennelly's howler as he was forced to concede a penalty after spilling a harmless looking ball, with his inevitable black carding followed by Connolly superbly stroking past Clarke. Mayo cut Dublin's lead to the minimum on four occasions during the remaining half hour of action but their habitual woes of errant shooting and a lack of composure prevented them from getting on terms. Once again, Aidan O'Shea was not the force that Mayo would have hoped for despite his good work for their first-half goal. Mayo: R Hennelly, B Harrison, D Vaughan, K Higgins, L Keegan, C Boyle, P Durcan, S O'Shea, T Parsons, K McLoughlin, A O'Shea, D O'Connor, J Doherty. A Moran, C O'Connor. Dublin: S Cluxton; P McMahon, J Cooper, M Fitzsimons; J McCarthy, C O'Sullivan, J Small; B Fenton, P Mannion; P Flynn, K McManamon, C Kilkenny; D Rock, D Connolly, B Brogan.

Mayo's 65-year wait for an All-Ireland Senior Football title goes on after holders Dublin edged a 1-15 to 1-14 win in the final replay at Croke Park.

John Guidetti drove home the free-kick that followed Pascali's professional foul on Stefan Scepovic. Kilmarnock keeper Conor Brennan limited the damage with a string of saves for the Ayrshire side. But he could not prevent Scepovic knocking in a second after the break. Media playback is not supported on this device Pascali's dismissal changed the nature of the match. Before his red card on 34 minutes for pulling Scepovic back as he bore down on goal, the teams had been evenly matched. Both sides had shown flashes of skill - a Guidetti flick here, an Alexei Eremenko dummy there - but the goalkeepers had been under-employed. Tope Obadeyi advanced from midfield to offer some threat to Craig Gordon's goal on occasion but was stymied by the alertness of the Scotland keeper or the positioning of Virgil van Dijk and Jason Denayer in the home defence. Van Dijk headed a corner a fraction wide and Celtic captain Scott Brown broke off from his midfield tussles with Jamie Hamill and Sammy Clingan to fire a few shots at Brennan's goal but they were bravely blocked by defenders. And Mubarak Wakaso thumped a header straight into Brennan's arms from the corner of the six-yard box. Gordon's only real save of the first half was to parry a 25-yard pile-driver by Eremenko. Pascali, who had been the key figure in organising the Killie defence, was lucky when referee Willie Collum awarded him rather than Guidetti a free-kick after making a mess of ushering the ball out for a goal kick with the Swede snapping at his heels. But the Italian offered little complaint when Collum flashed him a straight red for his panicked challenge on Scepovic. Killie boss Allan Johnston immediately withdrew Eremenko and sent on Lee Ashcroft to partner Mark Connolly in defence but within seconds Guidetti had stroked his free-kick past the despairing Brennan. Celtic had Killie on the back foot and the visitors had a close shave when Connolly headed an effort off the line and Brennan saved well from a Stefan Johansen crack from 18 yards. As the Rugby Park men struggled to play in Celtic's half, so the chances came for the hosts. Brennan palmed away an angled shot by Scepovic, relied on his post to keep out a Guidetti effort from 12 yards and was well placed, again, to block the centre-forward's effort 10 seconds later. But the Serbia international would get the last laugh over Brennan, who was in for the injured Craig Samson. Moments after side-footing horribly wide from 18 yards as Wakaso found space on the left, Scepovic was rewarded for his persistence when he met the winger's cross to hit the ball across Brennan and into the net. Celtic manager Ronny Deila replaced the scorer with Leigh Griffiths and sent on Charlie Mulgrew for Johansen - but the match was over as a meaningful contest and Celtic were able to follow up Thursday's Europa League win over Astra by moving up to fourth in the Scottish Premiership, overtaking Kilmarnock in the process. Match ends, Celtic 2, Kilmarnock 0. Second Half ends, Celtic 2, Kilmarnock 0. Foul by Virgil van Dijk (Celtic). Michael Ngoo (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Jason Denayer (Celtic). Michael Ngoo (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Conor Brennan. Attempt saved. Adam Matthews (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Attempt missed. Charlie Mulgrew (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Foul by Jason Denayer (Celtic). Michael Ngoo (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Leigh Griffiths (Celtic). Mark Connolly (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Celtic. Aleksandar Tonev replaces Mubarak Wakaso. Attempt blocked. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Foul by Adam Matthews (Celtic). Michael Ngoo (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Charlie Mulgrew (Celtic) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Michael Ngoo (Kilmarnock). Substitution, Kilmarnock. Michael Ngoo replaces Josh Magennis. Attempt missed. Virgil van Dijk (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Ross Barbour. Substitution, Celtic. Charlie Mulgrew replaces Stefan Johansen. Substitution, Celtic. Leigh Griffiths replaces Stefan Scepovic. Attempt blocked. Stefan Johansen (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Attempt saved. Stefan Scepovic (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Attempt saved. Mubarak Wakaso (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Goal! Celtic 2, Kilmarnock 0. Stefan Scepovic (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mubarak Wakaso. Attempt missed. Stefan Scepovic (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Jason Denayer (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Josh Magennis (Kilmarnock). Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Lee Ashcroft. John Guidetti (Celtic) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Attempt missed. Jamie Hamill (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is just a bit too high. Ross Barbour (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card. Mubarak Wakaso (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Ross Barbour (Kilmarnock). Stefan Johansen (Celtic) is shown the yellow card. Foul by Stefan Johansen (Celtic). Jamie Hamill (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Kilmarnock paid heavily for the first-half sending-off of their captain Manuel Pascali as Celtic jumped to fourth in the Scottish Premiership with a comfortable win.

When Adidas, Gazprom, Hyundai-Kia, McDonald's, Budweiser, Coca-Cola and Visa signed their deals, they would have envisaged seeing their brands beamed into millions of households around the world. Pitch-side exposure at World Cup matches, accompanied by high-profile advertising campaigns, means that backing the World Cup guarantees getting your company promoted in all parts of the globe. However, having spent tens of millions of pounds to be associated with sporting excellence, those famous brands now find their name and products associated with the increasingly tarnished Fifa brand, arrests and allegations of "rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted corruption". A number of the sponsors - Coca-Cola, Kia, Adidas and Visa - have made known their concerns about what is happening at Fifa, with the latter particularly vociferous, warning that unless the global governing body makes "changes now", it would "reassess our sponsorship". And McDonald's said it "takes matters of ethics and corruption very seriously and the news from the US Department of Justice is extremely concerning. We are in contact with FIFA on this matter. We will continue to monitor the situation very closely". For the four years of the last "World Cup cycle", from 2011 to 2014, Fifa's six top tier Global Partners (as was - it is now five) paid a total of $177m (£116m) annually, which would mean each partner paid roughly $30m a year for this status. Tier one sponsor Sony decided not to renew its contract last year - it had been a Fifa partner since 2007, after signing a contract in 2005 worth $38m annually. One publicity-savvy bookmaker has offered odds on which sponsor will be the first to pull out of its association with football's Swiss-based powerbrokers. It has Visa as the favourites, followed by Hyundai-Kia, although none of Fifa's backers have said yet they are ending their deals. Russian gas firm Gazprom is bottom of the betting to leave, and indeed it has put out a statement saying the current situation will have "no influence" on its agreement. But as the scandal is not likely to go away any time soon, what damage is being done to these well-known companies, some of whom have associations with Fifa stretching back decades? "This is disastrous for the main core group of big Fifa sponsors. For them, this is a major issue," says Anastasia Kourovskaia, a brands expert at agency Millward Brown. "The idea of sponsorship is to transfer the goodwill that supporters feel for the sport, to the benefit of a brand's equity." She suggests that the big seven corporations may have to position themselves at arms-length from Fifa, if they do not want to be hit by the fall-out from the sensational developments. "The solution is to emphasise that they are supporting football for the benefit of the game itself, and the pleasure and challenge of winning and playing football, rather than Fifa as an organisation," she says. "They have to differentiate themselves from Fifa's management." In addition, she points out that as this is not the first scandal to hit Fifa, it might be a good time for the sponsors to form a committee of their own "to ensure the ethical running of big global football events". One other unforeseen outcome of the furore may be that in future, potential sports sponsors may look to back smaller, grass-roots, events - which traditionally have been more complex and costly to back - rather than global blockbusters such as World Cups, which have a greater potential for scandal. "This might be the tipping point that sees sponsors move away from events which are 'uniform' across the world, and towards more local events," she says. Adidas - the German sportswear firm has been supplying the official match ball for all Fifa World Cup tournament matches since 1970. Also involved in all other Fifa events, such as the Confederations Cup Brazil 2013, and the Fifa U-20 World Cups for women and men. Coca-Cola - the US soft drinks firm is one of the longest-standing corporate partners of Fifa, with a formal association since 1974 and an official sponsorship of the Fifa World Cup that began in 1978. Coca-Cola has had stadium advertising at every Fifa World Cup since 1950. Gazprom - the Russian energy giant signed up with Fifa in 2013 as a partner for all competitions in the period of 2015 to 2018, including the 2018 Fifa World Cup, which is due to take place in Russia for the first time. (The firm is also an official partner of the Uefa Champions League 2012 to 2015). Hyundai/Kia - the South Korean carmaker began its Fifa alliance in 1999, in a deal to sponsor 13 Fifa competitions including the 2002 World Cup, an agreement extended to the 2006 event. It again backed the 2010 World Cup and is now the official Automotive Partner of Fifa until 2022. Visa - the credit card company became a top-tier Fifa partner in 2007, taking over from rivals Mastercard in controversial circumstances, and recently extended its relationship until 2022. It is a sponsor of five Fifa events this year, including the Women's World Cup in Canada. Budweiser - the US beverage has been a World Cup sponsor since the 1986 event in Mexico, and is the Official Beer of the tournament, with its product on sale in all stadiums at the finals, and it also sponsors the Man of the Match award at each game. McDonald's - the American fast food chain has been a sponsor since the 1994 World Cup in the US. Its products are available at all matches in the finals tournament, and it also sponsors the World Cup Player Escort programme, in which children accompany the teams onto the pitch. Meanwhile, it appears that Nike, which is not an official Fifa sponsor (but does come up with clever marketing campaigns around the World Cup) has also been dragged into the furore, with the US Department of Justice questioning its deal with the Brazilian Football Association. The American indictments state that an unidentified "major US sportswear company" is alleged to have been involved in the payment and receipt of bribes. The Department of Justice did not name the firm, but Nike and the Brazilian football federation have been partners since a $400m sponsorship deal was signed back in 1996. Nike did not confirm it was the company alluded to, but said it "believes in ethical and fair play in both business and sport and strongly opposes any form of manipulation or bribery. We have been co-operating, and will continue to co-operate, with the authorities." Meanwhile, the editor-in-chief of Dutch newspaper Nederlands Dagblad says he does not want to see any adverts from Fifa sponsors in his paper until they have "converted". And the sponsorship industry's trade body in Europe is taking a dim view of the arrests and indictments. The European Sponsorship Association says that the developments "underline the critical importance of transparency and high ethical standards in sport and in business". They said that sponsors did not want to be associated with alleged "shady practices" and were "increasingly asking rights-owners tough questions on a range of compliance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues".

It has not been an easy week for the big multinational corporations that sponsor football's world governing body Fifa.

While $50m is the starting point for serious wealth, "in reality your spending power and investing power really gets to the next level when you get to around $100m", says Catherine Tillotson. Ms Tillotson is joint managing partner of Scorpio Partnership, a London-based firm which advises the super-rich on how to manage their assets, and she says there is a reason for this dividing line between the wealthy elite and the rest of us. "This is the point at which families will start to think about employing people purely to help them manage their financial affairs," she says. There may now be more multi-millionaires and billionaires than ever before in the world, but since the 2008 global financial crisis the wealth gap between the world's top 1% and the rest of us has grown. This increasingly stark division between haves and have-nots is leading to increasing rancour towards the very wealthy, say many social commentators. Robert Kuhn is better placed than many to understand this hostility - a former investment banker and corporate strategist, he is himself among the world's wealthy elite. The world is getting wealthier - we live longer, eat better, are better educated and fewer people live in extreme poverty. But with the gap between rich and poor feeling bigger than ever, the BBC is investigating the winners and losers of this richer world in 2015. A Richer World 2015 "I think much of it is justified," he says, perhaps surprisingly, "and I think we should describe why that's the case." One of the main reasons for this, he says, is the web. "We have a very highly wired world with the internet, people are more aware of things - and I think that's a good thing." Mr Kuhn is coy about his own net worth. When asked if it is "tens of millions" of dollars, he replies, "I would not like to be too specific, but I wouldn't contradict what you just said." Trained as a neuroscientist, Mr Kuhn became an investment banker and then in the early 1990s sold his mergers and acquisitions firm "at the right time". He says he worked hard, "but if I don't acknowledge there was a lot of luck involved I would be fooling myself". He wants to encourage more and more people to become wealthy, but also to place limits on the amount of wealth that can be passed on to the next generation. "That gives each generation a chance to have higher social mobility." But given that the gap between rich and poor has reached its widest level for 30 years in most developed countries, according to says the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) group of developed nations - that social mobility is getting harder for many. In the 1980s, the richest 10% had incomes seven times greater than the poorest 10% in the average industrialised country. Now, in those same countries, the richest have incomes nine-and-a half times greater than the poorest, on average. The actual figures vary widely across the 34 OECD's member states. In Denmark the top 10% earn about five times more than the bottom 10% - in Mexico they earn 30 times as much. How much more do the top 10% earn than the bottom 10%? Source: OECD (2011) Other organisations, too, are highlighting this discrepancy between rich and poor. A report this month from the charity Oxfam says the world's wealthiest 1% will own more than 50% of the world's wealth by 2016. "This is something that we should be very worried about," says Mark Pearson, the OECD's deputy director of employment, labour and social affairs. If countries want to boost their economic growth, then they need to take steps to narrow this wealth gap, says the OECD. This goes against the longstanding free market argument that rising wealth at the top will trickle down to everybody else. But, the OECD research suggest that the reverse is true. "Our finding is that by reducing income inequality, you can boost economic growth," Mr Pearson told BBC World Service's Business Daily programme. An increasing wealth gap hinders economic growth because it limits investment in a country's labour force, argues the OECD. Poorer people cannot afford to spend as much as the rich can on their children's education. And that lack of investment in education means a less educated and less flexible workforce in the long run, says the group in its research. It is not just the super-rich that are doing well - those whose business is dealing with super-rich customers are profiting too. Alex Cheatle is chief executive of Ten Group, a lifestyle concierge service that can helps its clients get that exclusive restaurant table, sell-out theatre ticket - or finds that vintage sports car in a particular colour. Ten will even do your window-shopping for you, if you are too rich or famous to be able to do it yourself. "Very often they will want us to take a picture of the window and get it to them, so they do their window shopping as and when they want to," says Mr Cheatle. "There hasn't really been a crisis for many of our members. Business is booming for us, we've grown every year since 2008 - growing at an average rate of 25-30% a year." When you consider how much the super-rich spend, that growth is perhaps not surprising. Over the course of a year, it's reckoned the world's top 1% spend a staggering $45bn (£30bn) on travel and hospitality, $40bn (£26bn) on cars, and $25bn (£16bn) each on art, jewellery and watches. Or course, the ultimate statement of wealth is to have your own super-yacht - complete with helicopter pad, speedboat tenders and even a submarine or two. The world's biggest such boat is currently the Azzam, 180m (590ft) long, launched in 2013 at a reported cost of up to $600m (£400m) - and the sector has certainly weathered the global slowdown better than many others. Source: Boat International So with the wealth gap rising should the rich pay more tax, and if so would that help? Robert Kuhn - now business and financial commentator - argues that countries that decide to increase taxes on the rich may not see any benefit. He believes increasing income taxes to too high a level would "inhibit the creation of new wealth which is detrimental to society". "I'm just worried about the behaviour and implications if you put too high a tax rate, what that will do to current generations in their energy and focus to create new wealth," says Mr Kuhn. At Scipio Partnership, Catherine Tillotson says that focussing on tax misses out the contributions made by many rich patrons to philanthropic and charitable causes. "The tax question is hugely complicated," she says. "Most families that I've met will say that it is absolutely critical to them that they pay the right amount of tax according to the rules." However, "in many ways those dollars spent on philanthropic passions may be doing more good than they would have done in the tax system", she says. Yet ever since the financial crisis of 2008, and subsequent global economic slowdown, politicians have come under increasing pressure to increase tax contributions from the richest in their societies. Protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street, which started in 2011 and has since spread to many other countries, have highlighted concern over social and economic inequality worldwide. For his part, Robert Kuhn is not convinced that a widening wealth gap matters in economic terms, but "it matters in social stability for sure", he agrees. "It matters in terms of social mobility of subsequent generations." "To me that's the biggest problem, for any country," he says. "And many countries are facing that." Click here for more from BBC's A Richer World, a season exploring the world's wealth, poverty and inequality

These days it is not enough just to be a millionaire to count yourself as one of the super-rich - you need to be worth between $50-100m (£33m-£66m).

Australia wrapped up the victory in three days after dismissing the tourists for 148 in the second innings. Playing his first Test for 18 months, Pattinson ran through the fragile Windies top order to secure his fourth five-wicket haul in Test cricket. Kraigg Brathwaite was the only visiting batsman to show any resistance at the Bellerive Oval with a patient 94. Australia take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series, and could return to the top of the ICC Test rankings if they complete a 3-0 series win with victories in Melbourne and Sydney. Australia captain Steve Smith chose to enforce the follow-on after Josh Hazelwood and Peter Siddle took just five overs to take the West Indies' remaining three first-innings wickets. There was time for Darren Bravo, 94 not out overnight, to complete his seventh Test century as West Indies posted a first-innings total of 223 in response to Australia's 583-4 declared. Australia skipper Smith has "no doubt" he will be fit for the second Test in Melbourne starting on 26 December despite suffering discomfort in his knee and hip at Hobart. Smith will sit out his Big Bash League side Sydney Sixers' domestic fixtures against Sydney Thunder and Hobart Hurricanes after aggravating an injury in his right knee and straining his right hip. Usman Khawaja could return to the squad after missing the last two Tests with a hamstring injury, but coach Darren Lehmann wants the Sydney Thunder batsman to prove his fitness in the Big Bash first. "Usman's first got to be fit - if he's not fit he won't play, there's no doubt about that," Lehmann said. West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel will return home after suffering an ankle injury in the first Test defeat. Gabriel could not bat in either innings after suffering a stress-related injury to his left ankle late on the opening day on Thursday. The West Indies have lost seven of their nine Test matches this year, with a win and a draw against England the only positives for Caribbean cricket in 2015. Amid the loom, Windies legend Brian Lara has suggested that could be tempted by a role on the West Indies coaching team. Lara, 46, who has been playing festival cricket in Western Australia this week, told former Australia spinner Shane Warne on Twitter that he would be willing to help out coach Phil Simmons and his team. Lara scored 11,953 Test runs in 131 Tests for the West Indies between 1990 and 2006.

James Pattinson took 5-27 as Australia beat the West Indies by an innings and 212 runs in the first Test in Hobart.

Manuela Carmena in Madrid and new Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau are the most striking examples of the change, having led completely new political organisations to success. In Madrid's Cibeles city hall, where many gathered to cheer the counting of votes for a new mayor, Ms Carmena said she wanted to begin "governing by listening". The former judge's main occupation before the campaign was running her shop selling children's clothes stitched by female prisoners. She now plans to arrange for council sessions to focus on single policy objectives, such as child poverty, calling in experts and all available data to help formulate solutions. To the city's poorest, Carmena said: "We are going to improve the situation." Apart from their policy priorities to tackle poverty caused by Spain's economic crisis, all three mayors insist that the style of their rule will be very different. Spain's leading anti-austerity party Podemos is part of the two groups taking hold of city hall in Madrid and Barcelona - Ahora Madrid and Barcelona en Comu. In Valencia, Mayor Joan Ribo's Coalicio Compromis was formed by leftists, Valencian nationalists and greens in 2010. However, more than a simple jerk to the left on the political spectrum, the new mayors say they want to redefine politicians' roles, becoming unalloyed conduits for popular will and participation. Thousands gathered to listen to Ada Colau's acceptance speech in Barcelona on Saturday, watching on screens in Sant Jaume square outside the city hall. "Voting every four years is not enough," she said. "Never trust the idea that we will represent you well. Kick us out if we don't do what we have promised." Until last year when she got involved in BComu, Ms Colau was regularly photographed being removed by police from a cordon of people blocking a repossession. Now she will be in charge of Barcelona's metropolitan police force. In Valencia, as in Madrid, 24 years of uninterrupted Popular Party rule were brought to an end by a veteran left-winger espousing a new way of doing politics. "Authoritarianism is over," said 67-year-old Joan Ribo. "I don't want the rod or the rule. I prefer talking with citizens [and] working side-by-side with neighbourhood movements." However, the three new mayors do not enjoy majorities in their respective council chambers. In Madrid and Valencia, potentially stable deals with other left-of-centre parties have been struck, but the situation in Barcelona is more complicated due to the fragmentation of politics along the axes of left and right as well as Catalan sovereignty. Despite her publicised sympathy for Catalonia's "right to decide", Ada Colau has so far resisted signing up to the nationalist parties' "road map" for independence. Elsewhere, the Podemos-linked Zaragoza en Comun group took control of Spain's fifth most populous city, while Santiago de Compostela, A Coruna and Cadiz are among other towns and cities which now have left-wing coalition chiefs as mayors. With a general election looming at the end of the year, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy described deals between left-wing groups and the chief opposition Socialist Party as "eccentric and sectarian". His Popular Party was the most-voted for option across Spain and in cities such as Madrid and Valencia, but has only found support from centrist anti-corruption party Citizens in some towns and regions.

A 71-year-old anti-Franco judge, an anti-evictions campaigner and a teacher have been elected mayors of Spain's three biggest cities - as left-wing coalitions swept to power promising an end to corruption.

Glass Butter Beach was supposed to run from Friday to Sunday at Abersoch, Gwynedd. But organisers have cancelled Saturday's event due to "extremely severe weather conditions." A yellow "be aware" warning is in place for every council area in Wales until 21:00 BST Saturday with heavy showers expected. A message on Glass Butter Beach's Facebook page on Saturday said: "In light of today's extremely severe weather conditions, we are unable to open the main arena and the festival for today has unfortunately been cancelled." The programme is set to go ahead as planned on Sunday. Saturday tickets will be valid for Sunday's programme. The Met Office warned gusts of up to 60 mph could hit most of Wales on Saturday. Coastal areas face the strongest winds, which will bring large waves in the most exposed places. Flood alerts for Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Swansea are also in place, with high tides predicted to last from Friday to Monday. In Swansea, the Ride with the Pros cycle event has been cancelled because of the weather.

A three-day music festival has cancelled its Saturday programme due to strong winds and heavy rain.

Media playback is not supported on this device Rogers needed 14 stitches in his lip after a challenge by Tyrone's Tiernan McCann at the start of the game. "I think Brendan was quite shocked. Some people were quite horrified," said the Derry manager. "I'll leave it to other people to make up their minds." The Slaughtneil man had the stitches inserted last Sunday and Barton expects Rogers to be out of action for a couple of more weeks. Rogers was named at midfield for the McKenna Cup final and the match video suggested he may have been caught by McCann's right elbow immediately after challenging for the initial throw-in. After the ball was thrown in, McCann came in from the side and the footage showed the Tyrone man clattering into Rogers although the Red Hand county player appeared to be focusing on the ball rather than the Derry midfielder when the contact was made. "Brendan has been very quiet about it and we have been very quiet about it as well," said Barton after Derry's opening 3-13 to 1-10 Division 2 Football League victory over Fermanagh at Celtic Park. "It was quite an horrific incident. I wouldn't like to expand on it to be quite frank. Media playback is not supported on this device "It was an incident that thankfully you don't see very often." Barton added that he "couldn't speak" after the game such was his upset about the incident. "I think it affected the mood of all of us. "It overshadowed for me what was a positive night for football. "I think the amount of respect that was shown between Derry and Tyrone was very evident but it's one of those things I'll let people make up their own minds about." In terms of Sunday's opening league win, Barton felt that his team had laboured badly in the first half before going on to clinch a nine-point victory over the Erne County. "We were very flat at the start of the game. We turned over a serious amount of ball under no pressure. "I was glad to see our first goal going in (before half-time) and I was very happy to see half-time because it gave us an opportunity to restructure and talk about what we felt we were going wrong. "Getting in the ball in early in the second half to our men inside worked nicely in the inclement conditions but we'll have to up our performances over the next couple of weeks."

Derry football manager Damian Barton has described the facial injury sustained by his player Brendan Rogers in last weekend's Dr McKenna Cup final as "horrific".

Mr Abbott has said more Syrian asylum seekers would be let in but has stopped short of boosting overall refugee numbers. But members of his own party, including several state premiers, have called for more to be done for refugees. Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Monday called for temporary housing of Syrian and Iraqi asylum seekers. Mr Frydenberg said there was a good case for a Kosovo-type solution that would see Syrian and Iraqi refugees housed in Australia, then returned home once the countries were safe. The Federal Opposition on Monday called for 10,000 additional places for refugees from the Middle East, with priority to be given to those from conflicts in Syria and Iraq. Opposition Labor leader Bill Shorten also said the government should spend an extra $A100m ($69m; £45.6m) on aid for refugees. The Liberal Premier of Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, Mike Baird, on Saturday challenged Mr Abbott to do more than just stopping refugees making their way to Australia by boat. Reacting to a photo of a Syrian child refugee recently found drowned on a Turkish beach, Mr Baird said he felt "sick with overwhelming sorrow" about the situation. Mr Baird, a close colleague of Mr Abbott's, said it was a great thing that Australia was no longer seeing children drowning at sea after trying to get to Australia by boat with their families. "But stopping the boats can't be where this ends ... I believe we should do even more. And we should do it now," he said, adding that he would talk to the Federal government about what could be done. Australia detains any migrants trying to reach its shores by boat, and takes them to offshore processing centres to be resettled elsewhere. Last week, the New York Times described the policy as "brutal". The lightly-populated island state of Tasmania has also said it would accept an extra 500 refugees, with Liberal Premier Will Hodgman declaring "our door's open". Australia has accepted about 4,500 people fleeing Syria's conflict, under its current commitment of 13,750 refugees for 2015. Mr Abbott has claimed Australia is "already the most generous country in the world on a per capita basis when it comes to dealing with refugees through the UNHCR". Several organisations have challenged that claim. During a press conference on Sunday, the Prime Minister spoke of how horrified he was by the image of the drowned Syrian boy. "No parent could fail to be moved by what we saw," he said. "I have asked the Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to go urgently to Geneva to talk to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees on what more Australia can do to assist on the migration crisis that is being driven by the problems in the Middle East," he said.

Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott is under pressure to increase the country's total refugee intake.

A working reactor caught fire, explosively. Radioactive debris was sent 30,000 feet into the air - the height at which airliners conventionally fly. Some of that debris came down thousands of kilometres away, in concentrations strong enough to prohibit the eating of meat and the drinking of milk produced locally. The upgrading of Japan's Fukushima incident to a level seven - the maximum - on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) puts it on a par with Chernobyl. And a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which runs the plant, suggested it could even end up being worse than Chernobyl. This, though, appears to be a minority view among engineers - both those who generally support nuclear power, and those who have in the past voiced criticisms. Timeline: nuclear accidents "The classification of seven means there's a leak of radiation into the wider environment; and although it'll be interpreted as being 'the same as Chernobyl', it's not the same," said Paddy Regan, professor of physics at the UK's University of Surrey. "The amount of radiation release is a lot less, and the way it's released is very different. "The Chernobyl fire was putting lots of radioactive material into the atmosphere and taking it over large distances; here, there have been a couple of releases where they've vented [gas from] the reactor, and then released some cooling water." Don Higson, a retired Australian nuclear safety specialist, was more pithy. "To my mind, [rating Fukushima equivalent to Chernobyl] would be nonsense," he said. In the month following the Chernobyl explosion, he said, 134 workers were hospitalised with acute radiation sickness and 31 died. The equivalent figures for Fukushima are none and none. (Although workers have been taken to hospital with radiation burns, this is not the same as acute radiation sickness.) So why the uprating? What it does not mean is that things have got worse at the plant; in fact, conditions appear to be markedly more stable than in the days following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, although not completely under control. Rather, Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) has re-analysed data from the incident and decided that collectively the releases of radioactivity mean it slots into a level seven categorisation. The manual for agencies using the INES scale, published by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), runs to 218 pages. One of the criteria for evaluating the severity of an incident is the total release of radioactive material. This is derived by first adding up the amounts of each different radioactive isotope released, then multiplying each by a conversion factor related to the characteristics of that particular isotope, then adding up all of the resulting numbers. Radioactivity is measured in becquerels (Bq); a million million of these is a terabecquerel (TBq). A level seven rating is defined as "An event resulting in an environmental release corresponding to a quantity of radioactivity radiologically equivalent to a release to the atmosphere of more than several tens of thousands of TBq of Iodine-131." NISA puts the Fukushima figure at 370,000 TBq of Iodine-131 equivalent; the Nuclear Safety Commission, which has a more over-arching role in the Japanese system, says 630,000 TBq. Either way, it's clearly beyond the threshold for classification as an INES level seven event, although an order of magnitude lower than the 5.2 million TBq released from Chernobyl. But that tells you nothing about the danger to people. Becquerels are a measure of the rate of radioactive decay; if one atomic nucleus decays per second, that is defined as one becquerel. By contrast, sieverts - another unit commonly used during the last month's reporting - measure the likely medical impact of the radiation to which an individual is exposed. And a huge number of becquerels does not automatically translate into a huge amount of sieverts. "It's hard to make a comparison between Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima because the radioactive release is different and so is the population," said John Large, a UK-based independent nuclear engineer. "In Ukraine and Belorussia (now Belarus) it was primarily a rural population, whereas in Japan you've got a highly sophisticated public living in fairly dense population groups. "And the way the state intervenes is different. With Chernobyl, loads of workers were brought in with no concern for their health - but Japan's a democracy." In some quarters, Japan's swift decision to establish an exclusion zone, initiate monitoring of people and food, and dispense iodine tablets has received praise - and the volume of advice and warnings issued to the public has been very different from the silence that pertained after Chernobyl, despite criticisms from other quarters over the quality and timing of some of the Japanese advice. Nuclear experts are cautioning, however, that the situation at Fukushima is still very much in play. Where most attention has centred on reactors 1, 2 and 3, there is also concern about the spent fuel pond in reactor building 4. In the week following the tsunami, it became clear that the pond was running dry, meaning that fuel rods would have heated up. This meant likely degradation of their zirconium alloy cladding, the possible release of hydrogen, and - by Tepco's admission - the risk that a nuclear chain reaction could begin. "The potential for atmospheric release is very large, with 250 tonnes of material sitting in that pond," said Dr Large. "If you were to have an energetic event you could have a very large release indeed." The priority is, as it has been all along, to restore adequate coolant to the fuel ponds and the reactors themselves - while hoping that earthquake aftershocks and bad weather do not hamper operations any more.

Chernobyl is regularly labelled "the world's worst nuclear accident" - and with good reason.

James Bisset, 23, of Yatton, struck the pedestrians with his Volvo in Nailsea near Bristol, last February. Alex Gould, 18, later died in hospital and another man was seriously injured. At a previous hearing at Bristol Crown Court, Bisset admitted causing death by dangerous driving, causing serious injury by dangerous driving and possessing a Class A drug. He was jailed for seven years and four months. The court heard he was driving along Clevedon Road in the early hours of 14 February 2016 when his car hit Mr Gould and another man before striking a man and a woman and smashing into a telegraph pole. Bisset was also disqualified from driving for seven years and ordered to take an extended re-test. Speaking after the crash, Mr Gould's family said he had been "the perfect son, brother, nephew, grandson and cousin". Sgt Peter Truch, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: "This incident has had a huge impact on all those involved and the wider community in Nailsea."

A motorist who drove into four people killing a teenager has been jailed.

PC Ed Barker, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), stopped the man falling 40ft (12m) from Rochdale Town Hall. Seeing the man in distress, PC Barker ran up the building's fire escape steps before catching him just as he tried to throw himself to the ground. PC Barker has been awarded the force's John Egerton Trophy. Chief Constable Ian Hopkins presented the trophy, which is awarded annually to a GMP officer who has performed an exceptional act of valour. The award is named after PC John Egerton, who was killed in the line of duty on 11 March 1982, aged 20. PC Barker is also due to meet Prime Minister David Cameron during the Police Bravery Awards on 14 July. Mr Hopkins said his officer showed "incredible bravery" during the incident, which happened in January 2015. "There was a genuine risk of him being carried over the edge of the snow-covered fire escape, which could have had tragic consequences for both men," he said. "His cool head and quick thinking saved this young man from certain death and I am delighted that he is now safe and well." PC Barker said the 21-year-old man's friends had tried to help him but were "losing their strength" when he arrived. "I managed to get hold of him around the neck and shoulders because the rest of his body was hanging off the edge of the fire escape," he said. "I was so relieved when I saw the blue lights arriving to help take him to hospital. "It's nice to get some recognition and appreciation, but I was helped by his friends and my colleagues."

A police officer who saved the life of a suicidal man by grabbing him by the neck as he tried to jump from a snow-covered roof has won a bravery award.

The Academy Selsey suffered extensive damage and much of its contents was destroyed in the blaze on 21 August. The school's 453 pupils are currently being taught at four locations in the Selsey area. As well as classrooms, the temporary buildings will house science labs, workshops and food technology areas, the school said. The buildings, some of which have already been placed on the site by two large cranes, had previously been used to house staff and students from Bohunt School in Worthing while building work was carried out. Tom Garfield, head teacher of the academy, said: "We are absolutely delighted to see the first temporary school buildings arrive on site. It's a great milestone for us, the staff and students alike." He said once the remaining structures had arrived over the next few days the school would begin preparing the rooms for teaching.

Temporary classrooms are being set up at a school that was damaged by fire.

All glass and concrete beside a fast-flowing stream, the Longford Town Centre was to be a cathedral of commerce - now it stands as a monument to the end of the Celtic Tiger and the Republic of Ireland's economic crash and burn. But local traders believe the bad times are slowly changing. Matt O'Brien runs a family-owned men's clothing shop in the town centre. Recent years have been bad - 30% down on the boom - with a member of staff having to be laid off. But he can now see a turnaround. "Over the last year we've noticed that business has increased, although it was coming from a low base, but we have improved," he says. "We've done extra things to try to improve things. We've got into childrenswear and we do a very substantial dress-hire business. We've branched out into other areas, which have helped us." Fianna Fáil, the main opposition party, is highly critical of how the Fine Gael-Labour coalition is dealing with the midlands, arguing that the half-a-billion euro investment in water meters that won't be operational for several years should instead be spent on broadband improvement. Its local TD Robert Troy accuses the government of negligence and says a targeted approach is needed for the area. "The Industrial Development Authority (IDA) haven't brought one potential client to Longford in over four years," he says. "And if the IDA, which is charged with bringing foreign direct investment to the regions, isn't marketing Longford, isn't showing Longford to potential clients, how then can we expect foreign direct investment to come to Longford?" But the government says it is doing its bit for County Longford, with the recent announcement that holiday company Center Parcs hopes to employ about 1,000 people at its planned tourism development in Ballymahon in the county when it opens in 2019. However, the proposed 200m euro (£146m) centre in 340 acres of wooded area still has to get planning permission. Nevertheless, James Bannon, the local Fine Gael TD, is confident the venture will be a success. He says: "The midlands has some of the finest scenery and watersports that you could avail of anywhere in the world. "You have the Shannon, just three miles from here you have the River Inny, you have the Royal Canal, you have huge infrastructure here and we're always open for new tourists to come in to this area." The Center Parcs announcement will not harm the government's chances in next year's expected general election, but traders like Matt O'Brien believe more could be done to boost local business. "At the moment a lot of people are unhappy at paying for parking on the street," he says. "Some of our neighbouring towns don't have parking charges. There are issues with the council and if we had free parking it would help bring more people into the town." So, the message coming from the midlands is that while it, too, is starting to see the beginnings of an economic recovery more still needs to be done.

At one end of the main thoroughfare in the centre of Longford town is the shopping centre that never opened.

Last year's event, the first at Strathallan in Perthshire, was criticised over traffic issues and antisocial behaviour. DF Concerts said improvements include colour-coded zones, better signage and 24-hour dedicated management teams. This year's event will take place between 8 July and 10 July. The Stone Roses, Calvin Harris and Red Hot Chili Peppers will headline the main stage over the three nights. Last year's T in the Park had a daily attendance of about 85,000 people with an estimated 70,000 of those camping. DF Concerts has produced an animated video highlighting the new campsite layout. T in the Park security manager Colin Brown, said: "We have overhauled the campsite layout and management and guarantee there will be well-informed stewards on hand to assist with any questions. "The layout, clearly marked-out zones and improved signage will make getting about much easier, meaning our campers can concentrate on having a good time." DF Concerts said the Slam and King Tut's tents would open exclusively for campers on Thursday 7 July. Last week, the promoter announced that this year's festival arena will increase in size by a third. It will publish revised transport plans for the event next week. Campsite entertainment manager Gail MacKenzie said: "We know that the campsite is a huge part of the T in the Park experience and have listened to feedback from last year. "As a result the entertainment will be enhanced and we're even opening the King Tut's Tent on the Thursday for the first time ever. "

T in the Park organisers have announced an overhaul of the festival's campsite that will see it increase in size by a quarter.

The reaction to Taylor's death on Thursday at the age of 72, and the affection expressed for him, was the true measure of his standing inside and outside football. Born in Worksop in Nottinghamshire, Taylor was the son of a journalist and rose to prominence in the game as a manager after retiring as a player with Lincoln City in 1972. He became manager and coach at the club, winning the Fourth Division title with them before moving to Watford in 1977. It was here, in tandem with his chairman Sir Elton John, that he produced arguably his finest work, taking the club from the Fourth Division to the top flight in the space of five exhilarating years. Media playback is not supported on this device Taylor nurtured Watford legends such as Luther Blissett and John Barnes, remarkably finishing second behind Liverpool in their first season at that elite level and reaching the FA Cup final in 1984, where they lost 2-0 to Everton. Not so long ago he joked with me, with his usual broad smile: "You know I have never watched any of that game from that day to this - but I don't need to see it again to know that second goal from Andy Gray was a bloody foul on our goalkeeper Steve Sherwood." Taylor's unlikely partnership with the flamboyant rock star worked against the odds, the manager's down-to-earth approach dovetailing with his chairman's lavish lifestyle. They remained friends for life, as demonstrated by Sir Elton's heartfelt tribute. On trips abroad when he worked as a BBC Sport pundit, Taylor would gladly tell stories of that partnership, always with a laugh and underlining the genuine affection they shared. Taylor's brilliance inevitably attracted attention from elsewhere and, perhaps feeling he had achieved all he could at Vicarage Road, he left for Aston Villa in May 1987. Villa were in reduced circumstances having been relegated to the second flight. Taylor soon put that right by winning promotion in his first season - and, not content with that, rebuilt the club with such success and shrewd management that he took them to second place behind Liverpool in 1990. Taylor's methods were tried and trusted and yet he often received criticism for what his detractors perceived as "long ball" football. He, with much justification, pointed out his willingness to use wingers and flair players such as Barnes and the young Mo Johnston, whom he brought to England from Partick Thistle. England inevitably looked in Taylor's direction after Sir Bobby Robson left following the 1990 World Cup in Italy, where his side lost to West Germany on penalties in the semi-final. Media playback is not supported on this device This was, without doubt, the darkest and most frustrating period of Taylor's career and is one of the reasons his other work has been so criminally underrated over the years. Taylor took over at a tough time after the loss of England mainstays such as goalkeeper Peter Shilton and past captains such as Terry Butcher and Bryan Robson. He gave players like Alan Shearer and Martin Keown their first England caps - but he drew criticism for selecting players many simply felt were not international class, such as Carlton Palmer. England reached Euro 92 in Sweden under Taylor but produced a series of disappointing performances, going out at the group stage after losing 2-1 to Sweden in Stockholm. Taylor courted controversy and criticism in that decisive game by substituting England captain and main marksman Gary Lineker for Arsenal striker Alan Smith with a goal still needed - it never arrived and Lineker never played for England again. The manager was vilified and lampooned as a "turnip" in the Sun newspaper. The campaign to qualify for the World Cup in the United States in 1994 also ended in failure, and was brutally chronicled in the fly-on-the-wall documentary 'The Impossible Job', which gave an intimate insight into the pressures Taylor was under. Those struggles were illustrated starkly in the game that effectively sealed his fate, the 2-0 loss to the Netherlands in Rotterdam. He may have operated at the highest level but he never talked down to supporters and was always interested in how they viewed the game The tortured Taylor is seen on the sidelines pleading with officials after Ronald Koeman somehow escaped a red card for a foul on England's David Platt, only to be reprieved and score the brilliant free-kick that sent the Dutch on the way to victory. He resigned the following month and stayed out of the game until returning at Wolves in March 1994. During his spell in charge he took them into the second-tier play-offs in 1994-95, where they lost to Bolton Wanderers. Taylor left in November 1995 before returning to revisit old glories. Sir Elton John was back at the helm at Watford so it was no surprise when he turned to Taylor to come back to Vicarage Road as general manager in February 1996. It was once more the perfect fit and he was back as manager a year later, winning the third-tier title in 1998 before putting Watford in the Premier League at the end of the following season after a play-off final victory over Bolton. Media playback is not supported on this device Watford, despite an early win at Liverpool, were relegated and the following season Taylor decided to retire - only to change his mind and make a comeback at Villa in February 2002. He retired for a second and final time after they struggled the following season. It was the end of one chapter and the start of another as Taylor became a respected pundit on BBC Radio 5 live, a role he performed with total assurance and perception. Taylor was part of the radio team that covered England. It was a sign of the esteem in which he was held by fans as well as players that whenever he encountered supporters abroad, he was treated with complete respect. There was barely a reference from England followers to any of his struggles in charge of the national team. To them, Taylor was a true gentleman, to be given his due not just for his work but for his warm personality and willingness to discuss football matters with anyone he met. He may have operated at the highest level but he never talked down to supporters and was always interested in how they viewed the game. As a BBC Sport colleague, Taylor was unfailingly co-operative and the consummate professional, willing to take a call at any time, even when he was meant to be spending time with his beloved wife Rita. And as well as a fount of knowledge and a man with strong opinions, Taylor was also an endless source of entertainment and stories, just as happy to poke fun at himself as everyone else. Graham Taylor was a top-class manager at club level and a true gentleman inside and outside of football. He will be greatly missed and perhaps now his work in management, viewed through the prism of this sad news, will finally get the credit it fully deserves.

Graham Taylor will be remembered by many for his unfulfilling spell in charge of England - but by plenty more as an outstanding club manager at Watford and Aston Villa and one of the nicest, most genuine men in the game.

Hilda Gaddum, the mayor of Cheshire East, said her fellow Conservative Michael Jones's position had become "untenable". The council waived its own financial rules three times when granting Core Fit Ltd contracts totalling £156,000. Mr Jones said he was "clear" that he had "not misled council". The fitness company runs classes in schools and is owned by Mr Jones's personal physiotherapist, Amanda Morris. Neither Ms Morris nor her company have commented on the claims. Mr Jones has previously said he had publicly declared his interest in the firm, while a council spokesman said there had been no "unlawful expenditure or any breach of EU procurement rules". However, Ms Gaddum said Mr Jones had "misled" councillors at a meeting in October, where he questioned why his link with the company was "being brought up", and had lobbied for it to receive help. The BBC has seen a letter written by Mr Jones to local MP George Osborne - whose Tatton constituency is included within Cheshire East - in which work carried out by Ms Morris's company is praised. Emails released following a BBC Freedom of Information Act request show Mr Jones helped Ms Morris write a positive assessment of how Core Fit had fulfilled one of the council's contracts. Core Fit Ltd contracts June 2014 March 2015 Ms Gaddum said she had written to Mr Jones asking for his resignation, which led to "a very, very difficult meeting with him". In a statement, Mr Jones said he would "not be resigning but thank the mayor for recognising the many good things I have achieved". "I am disappointed, given that I vigorously sponsored her mayoralty to my group, at the comments made. But that is Hilda for you." The council has not responded to requests for a comment.

The leader of Cheshire East Council has rejected a call to resign over claims he "misled" councillors about contracts awarded to his physiotherapist's firm.

Ms Khobragade was arrested in New York on suspicion of visa fraud and making false statements, after being accused of underpaying her Indian maid. She has denied all the charges and was later released on bail. India has demanded an apology from the US over her alleged "humiliation". Ms Khobragade was handcuffed and strip-searched last Thursday after a complaint from her maid, Sangeeta Richard. She has in turn accused Ms Richard of theft and attempting to blackmail her. US Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed his "regret" over the incident, but a government minister on Thursday said that was not enough and that the US must apologise and admit it had made a mistake. Delhi has ordered a series of reprisals against the US. Security barricades around the US embassy in the city were removed and a visiting US delegation was snubbed by senior Indian politicians and officials. State Department spokesperson Marie Harf answered in the negative when asked if Ms Khobragade would go "scot free" and the US courts would be asked to drop the charges against her. "We take these allegations very seriously. We're not in any way walking back from those allegations or the charges," she said adding that this was "really a law enforcement issue". Ms Harf said the US informed every country annually about "obligations they have for their staffs when they bring them to the US". "We make those obligations very clear and we take any allegations that they haven't done so very seriously," she added. On Friday morning, India again insisted that the US must apologise as the action taken against Ms Khobragade was "unacceptable". "The US is playing games with India. But America must understand that the world has changed, times have changed and India has changed," Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath told reporters. On Wednesday, angry MPs from several Indian parties called on the government to take tough action against the US and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described Ms Khobragade's treatment as "deplorable". Who, What, Why: Does consul have immunity? But US prosecutor Preet Bharara said in a statement that Ms Khobragade "was accorded courtesies well beyond what other defendants... are accorded". According to documents filed in a New York court, Ms Khobragade wrote on a visa application that the maid would be paid $4,500 (£2,746) a month. But investigators said she instead paid only $573 per month - less than the New York state minimum wage. If found guilty, Ms Khobragade faces a maximum sentence of 10 years for visa fraud and five years for making false statements.

The US will not drop charges against Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, the state department has said after her arrest last week led to a huge diplomatic row.

Centre-back Anderson, 27, has cancelled his Barrow contract by mutual consent to join their National League rivals. The ex-Aldershot and Exeter player, who has also played in Italy, could feature against his old club on 18 February. Striker Keating, 21, was recommended to Gulls boss Kevin Nicholson by ex-Port Vale manager Micky Adams. He has previously had spells with Sligo Rovers, Galway United and Finn Harps, with his move subject to international clearance. "Myles hasn't played a huge amount of games for a 27-year-old, but he is the stature, the voice, and is the leader-type I've been after." Nicholson told BBC Radio Devon. "Ruairi is young, a little bit raw, but incredibly hungry to show what he's about." The Gulls are currently four points above the relegation zone, and have won only one of their last six games. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

Torquay United have signed Barrow defender Myles Anderson on a permanent deal, and Irish forward Ruairi Keating on non-contract terms.

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier have been charged with attempted murder over the attack. Last week, a Wisconsin judge decided that they should be tried as adults, meaning they could face decades in jail if convicted. The victim, 12 at the time, was stabbed 19 times but survived. She was found by a cyclist crawling from the woods where she was attacked with stab wounds to her arms, legs and torso, after the attack in May 2014. A judge entered not guilty pleas on behalf of both girls at a hearing on Friday. Investigators say the two girls had been plotting for months to kill their victim in "dedication" to Slender Man, a fictional horror website character. They spoke of their desire to become the paranormal figure's "proxies" by killing to demonstrate their loyalty, police said. A lawyer for one of the girls told the AP news agency before the hearing that his client would enter a plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. Their lawyers have previously argued for the case to be heard in juvenile court, saying both teenagers were suffering from mental illness. Following the attack, the suspects were found walking near a local highway and a knife was found in one of their backpacks. The victim has recovered and since returned to school.

Two 13-year-old girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please the online horror character Slender Man have pleaded not guilty in court.

Police officers and veterinarians had chased the animal around the course near Toki city in the central Gifu prefecture for hours. It ran into the lake shortly after it was shot with a tranquiliser dart. The animal died despite being pulled out within minutes. Officers said it had likely drowned and that its heart had stopped. The two-year-old male zebra was owned by a mobile zoo, reported the newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, but was being housed at the Mikuni West Farm, a local stable and riding club. On Tuesday evening, farm managers were bringing in the zebra for the night when it became agitated, trampled the paddock fence, and escaped, fleeing towards a nearby mountain. By early Wednesday morning police were receiving reports of a zebra running along a highway. They quickly tracked it to the Toki International Golf Course, where veterinarians and police tried to catch it. It ran into a lake shortly after being darted. "We pulled it out, but its heart had stopped," said police spokesman Takahiro Taniguchi, saying it had likely drowned. The unusual story quickly became a talking point among Japanese netizens who expressed shock and sadness on Wednesday, with the Japanese word for zebra "shimauma" trending on Twitter. Many retweeted a photo by a girl who said she had spotted the animal galloping down a road on Tuesday night and expressed surprise at spotting "a zebra in the forest".

A zebra that ran away from a horse riding club in Japan has died in a golf course lake after it was tranquilised.

Ministers are to increase the maximum discount - currently £16,000 to £38,000 - to more than the expected £50,000. They hope it will persuade more tenants and mortgage lenders to get involved in the scheme first started in the 1980s. But housing charity Shelter says the plans risk diminishing the stock of "genuinely affordable" social housing. It also says the plans could saddle low-income families with mortgage debts they cannot afford. The "right to buy" scheme was first started under Margaret Thatcher's government. In December the government launched a consultation on "re-invigorating" the right to buy, which has dwindled in recent years, and suggested the maximum discount may be raised to £50,000. Currently, discount levels differ across the country, ranging from £16,000 to £38,000. Now ministers believe discounts should be as high as £75,000, the BBC understands. The government insists all social homes that are sold "will be replaced on a one-for-one basis by a new affordable rent property, ensuring there is no reduction in the number of affordable homes". But Shelter says it will still have the effect of damaging social housing. Roger Harding, Shelter's head of policy, research and public affairs, said: "The government is not going to replace like-with-like. "The 'affordable rent' model means landlords can charge rents of up to 80% of market rates, which is typically higher than council rents. "The net result will be a reduction in the number of genuinely affordable homes for families on modest incomes." He added: "That could have the added effect of pushing up the housing benefit bill, if there are fewer council houses and more 'affordable rent' properties with higher rental costs." Mr Harding said: "We are also concerned that ownership is not necessarily the most financially suitable form of tenure for a lot of social housing tenants. "Many are on very low incomes and could find themselves unable to afford the mortgage repayments. Statistically, right-to-buy mortgage holders are far more likely than other purchasers to have their homes repossessed." Later this week Housing Minister Grant Shapps is expected to say: "This coalition government backs the dreams of those who want to own the roof over their own head." He has promised to triple or even quadruple the discounts available to "hard-working families". Mr Shapps will say: "New home buyers will have the satisfaction of knowing that for each property sold, we'll be aiming to replace it with a new affordable home for the record numbers left languishing on Labour's housing waiting lists. "It's a win/win that backs aspirational council tenants whilst dealing with the legacy of Labour's record waiting lists."

Social housing tenants could be offered discounts of up to £75,000 under plans to increase the numbers exercising the "right to buy" their home in England.

Coleraine's Peter Chambers and Englishman Will Fletcher are into the semi-finals of the men's lightweight double sculls. Holly Nixon, Joel Cassells and Rebecca Shorten have all moved straight into Sunday's finals of their respective boat classes. Chambers and Fletcher began the quest for a lightweight double sculls European title fresh from their gold medal winning performance in the first World Cup regatta in Belgrade earlier this month. However they were forced to qualify for Saturday's semi-finals through the repechage after finishing behind Germany in their heat with only the winners progressing directly. The duo regrouped and in the afternoon session held off the fast finishing Greek boat to take first place. Ireland's Rio Olympics silver medal winning brothers, Gary and Paul O'Donovan, who are defending their European title won in Brandenburg twelve months ago, had to follow the same path as Chambers and Fletcher. They were beaten by Poland in their heat but won their repechage ahead of Ukraine. Enniskillen's Holly Nixon and her team mates Jess Leyden, Bethany Bryan and Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne moved up from fourth place to second behind the Netherlands to claim an automatic qualifying place in Sunday's women's quadruple sculls final. With only five entrants in the women's eight an exhibition race took place to decide the lane draw for Sunday's final with Great Britain finishing second behind Romania. The GB crew includes Belfast's Rebecca Shorten who is making her senior international debut. Likewise Coleraine's Joel Cassells and partner Sam Scrimgeour were fourth in their lightweight pairs exhibition race behind winners Mark O'Donovan and Shane O'Driscoll from Ireland. Cassells is aiming for a third European gold medal in consecutive years.

Four rowers from Northern Ireland in the Great Britain squad have advanced from the heats at the European Championships in Racice, Czech Republic.

The win would normally be an indicator of Oscar success as the Directors Guild recipient nearly always goes on to claim the same prize at Hollywood's biggest night. But Affleck missed out on an Oscar directing nomination. "I don't think that this makes me a real director, but I think it means I'm on my way," said Affleck of the win. In Argo, set amidst the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, Affleck also plays the lead role of a CIA agent entrusted with extracting six Americans from the country after the US embassy was stormed. While Affleck was overlooked by the Academy for his directing role, the film has dominated other awards since the Oscar nominations, winning best director and best film at the Golden Globes and at the Critics Choice Awards. Last weekend, Argo was victorious at both the Producers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild awards, leaving Steven Spielberg's Civil War-era epic Lincoln in its wake. Many of the film professionals who vote in guild awards also cast ballots for the Oscars, so recognition from the DGA further seals Argo's status as best-picture front-runner at the Oscars on 24 February. Only six times in the DGA's history has the winner failed to take the Oscar for best director. This will be the seventh, as Affleck missed out on an Academy nomination, along with several other key favourites, including fellow Directors Guild contenders Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty and Tom Hooper for Les Miserables. Backstage at the DGA ceremony on Saturday, Affleck said he had nothing but respect for the Academy, adding that "you're not entitled to anything." "I'm thrilled and honoured that the Academy nominated me as a producer of the movie," he said. "I know our movie, we're a little bit underdog and a little bit the little engine that could, and you take me out of it maybe helps ... it's just about that picture. I feel like it's OK, I'm really lucky, I'm in a good place." Among the other DGA winners were Searching for Sugar Man director Malik Bendjelloul, who won the guild's documentary award for his study of the obscure singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriquez. The film also is nominated for best documentary at the Oscars. Lena Dunham won the TV comedy directing prize for Girls, about the lives of a group of girls in their 20s, while Rian Johnson won in the drama series series category for Breaking Bad. Milos Forman, who directed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, was honoured with a lifetime-achievement award. The 65th Annual DGA Awards, hosted by Kelsey Grammer, were held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles.

Ben Affleck has won the top film honour from the Directors Guild of America for his Iran hostage drama, Argo.

Steve Finnigan said the county faced the harshest budget cuts in England, which could potentially see the force becoming a "blue light" service, responding to emergencies only. Mounted and dog sections along with road policing units could be lost and community policing cut. Since 2010, the force has axed about 700 officers and 275 members of staff. Lancashire's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) said "savage" budget cuts would have a "devastating impact" on policing. Clive Grunshaw said communities would be "left at risk" as the government continued to implement austerity cuts. Details of the force's cuts will be revealed after the government's Comprehensive Spending Review at the end of November. But Mr Grunshaw said proposed changes to the way forces are awarded grant funding means Lancashire will have to cut a further £24.8m on top of £74m already saved. He said: "The likely outcome for Lancashire is far worse than we had expected. "While the full implications are not yet clear there is no doubt that these savage cuts, which come on top of the already significant savings which have had to be made, will have a devastating impact on the standards of policing which the Constabulary is able to deliver and which our communities have come to expect." The Home Office is yet to comment.

Lancashire Police will "not be viable" after 2020 because of cuts to funding, the chief constable has warned.

Albert Newman drove for 30 miles in the wrong carriageways on the M42, the A42 and the M1 before crashing into a van. An inquest heard one force had no motorway patrols on duty and another had earlier failed to notice Mr Newman's licence had been revoked. The coroner adjourned the hearing so officers could answer more questions. Dementia patient Mr Newman, from Nottingham, crashed his Mazda Premacy into a Transit van near Kegworth, Leicestershire, in October last year, killing passenger Michael Luciw and injuring the driver, Andy Harrington. The inquest was told that Warwickshire police took the first call about a car on the wrong carriageway on the M42, but officers incorrectly recorded the direction he was heading. The error was put right, but Mr Newman crossed the county boundary into Leicestershire on the A42, where the specialist roads policing unit had finished work for the night. This meant the force had no specialist motorway patrols in the county. Pamela Oxlade, who was travelling towards Birmingham Airport with her husband, told the inquest: "We were fortunately just past a lorry when suddenly, out of nowhere, there were two balls of light. "It was really quick and it was just unreal because you couldn't see the outline of the car in the dark. "I dialled 999 and spoke to a gentleman, explained what had happened and he just said they were aware of it. "We said we were almost half an hour from the M1 and going towards Birmingham. It was such a great relief to hear that he was aware of it." The inquest was told that about 20 minutes later, Mrs Oxlade spotted signs warning motorists to slow down because of a car travelling in the wrong direction. Coroner Trevor Kirkman, speaking about Leicestershire police's involvement, said: "It does seem as if the procedure does not seem to be working very satisfactorily. "This vehicle had travelled a long distance with no intervention." It emerged at the hearing in Loughborough that Nottinghamshire Police spoke to Mr Newman months before the crash after reports about him driving while showing signs of dementia. An officer did not check the paperwork before visiting him. That would have revealed his licence had been revoked on medical grounds two years earlier. Mr Kirkman adjourned the hearing until December to establish whether the force could have seized his car at that time. At the end of the hearing, a senior officer from Nottinghamshire police offered an apology to the families if there was anything the force could have done to prevent the deaths.

Police have been criticised for failing to stop an 87-year-old driving the wrong way on major roads before killing himself and another man in a crash.

Peter Halliday accused the councillors who prompted a scrutiny meeting next Tuesday about the Holland Haven-to-Clacton defences of "scaremongering". Councillor Pierre Oxley, who called in the meeting, said Mr Halliday's accusation was "garbage". "We're not against the project because we want it to happen," he said. Mr Oxley claimed the council had been unclear about how much of the beach would be sand, and how much would be shingle. "We want to know what the mix is," he said. "Residents are saying they want to be able to lay on the beach and play on it, but if it's all stone or shingle that will be an issue." The Conservative-run council last week submitted its application to the Environment Agency, which it hopes will contribute £22m towards the project. If successful, 25 groynes will be installed and the beach will be recharged. Mr Oxley said the council could have avoided the scrutiny meeting if they had "put all the percentages in the report". Mr Halliday said: "We have been completely open and transparent throughout the entire process. "Samples of the sand and shingle mix were available to all councillors at last Tuesday's council meeting and the report clearly stakes the composition of the material being proposed for the beach recharge." The council will discuss the concerns at the council chamber, Weeley, on Tuesday evening.

A £30m sea defence project in Essex is being jeopardised by questions over the materials being used, the leader of Tendring District Council has said.

Part of the road from the West Circular Road to Lanark Way had been cordoned off since early on Tuesday afternoon. A police spokeswoman said Army bomb disposal officers "carried out an examination of a suspicious vehicle, however, nothing untoward was found". She said the vehicle has now been seized for examination.

The Springfield Road in west Belfast has reopened after a security alert.

Glamorgan were beaten in under two-and-a-half days against Worcestershire having failed to last two days in their opening loss at Northamptonshire. Rudolph says discussions have been held with the senior players and head coach Robert Croft. "We've had some good, strong conversations," Rudolph said. "I think it's important for the senior players in the team to stand up. "We have a good blend of senior players and a lot of young Welsh talent in the likes of Aneurin Donald and Kiran Carlson. "We've refocused and we're ready for Friday's game against Leicestershire and it will be nice to start off with a win. "I've always been of the belief that in County Cricket as soon as you can gather some momentum you've got to try and carry it on for a long time." Glamorgan were beaten by an innings and 22 runs by Northants in their opening game of the season before an eight-wicket loss at home to Worcestershire. Despite his side's poor start to the season, South African Rudolph still believes Glamorgan can make an impression in Division Two of the County Championship. "If you look at last season we started with three losses and during the season there were about three or four games where we just missed out on winning opportunities," Rudolph told BBC Radio Wales Sport. "If that had happened we would still have finished in the top three or four so it's not all doom and gloom at the moment."

Captain Jacques Rudolph has said Glamorgan's senior players need to "stand up" after the county's poor start to the Championship season.

Nether Edge Green Party councillor, Alison Teal, was served with a legal notice for her involvement in protests against Sheffield City Council's tree felling programme. Ms Teal was previously arrested for protesting against the tree removals. Charges against her and 13 others were dropped earlier this year. More stories from across Yorkshire Sheffield City Council maintain that the removal of street trees in the city is lawful and necessary. A "pre-action protocol letter" from the council's legal department to Ms Teal warned the authority will seek a High Court injunction to stop her, and others involved in "direct action", from taking part in future protests. The council said the process would give protesters "a chance to further and finally consider their position" before it begins legal proceedings on 12 July. Councillor Bryan Lodge, cabinet member for Environment and Street Scene, said there had been months of "unlawful and costly disruption" to tree replacement works in Sheffield by a small number of protesters. "We continue to support the right to peacefully protest, and the majority of protesters who are doing so peacefully will not be affected," he added. "But there is a big difference between this and direct action which deliberately and unlawfully stops works from being carried out." Mr Lodge said protesters had been sent a letter several weeks ago confirming their actions were unlawful. "Streets Ahead is not just about street trees, it's about ensuring we have roads, pavements and a street scene to be proud of for many years to come," he added. "In addition, it presents us with a unique opportunity to sustainably manage, increase and maintain our diverse street tree stock over a 25 year period." The council said, despite the letter, works were still being disrupted "causing city-wide delays".

A council is to seek a civil injunction and damages against one of its own councillors and other members of the public.

Convicted criminal Steven Johnson had been wanted since January 2014 after breaching the terms of his parole. Police believe the 40-year-old went to Spain, where he posted Facebook and Twitter messages challenging officers to find him. He was arrested in Whiston, Merseyside, on Thursday and returned to jail. Read updates on this story and more from across Merseyside and Cheshire. Johnson, of Prescot, was serving a sentence of six years and 11 months for possession with intent to supply class A drugs, before being released on licence. During his time on the run, he used aliases on social media sites to post messages and photographs, including several of himself posing in front of luxury cars. In one message, he wrote: "Just got out of bed. Going for a massage." Merseyside Police said Johnson had now "got his wish". Sgt Mark Worrall said: "The arrest of Johnson shows that we never give up. "Johnson has been wanted on recall to prison for two years and he has obviously been living the high life abroad, but that has been cut short and he's now back behind bars."

A man wanted on recall to prison who taunted police with social media posts telling them "catch me if you can" is back behind bars.

Mr Vine was riding his bicycle in Kensington, west London, on 26 August when a row occurred, Hammersmith Magistrates' Court was told. Shanique Pearson, 22, from Vauxhall, is said to have formed the shape of a weapon with her fingers and "cocked it" at Mr Vine's head. Ms Pearson denies acting in a threatening manner. In response to the charges she denies using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour and driving without reasonable consideration for other road users. Ms Pearson has admitted driving an unlicensed vehicle on the day in question. The defendant claimed Mr Vine was mistaken in what he thought he had seen and said she instead raised her middle finger at the presenter, who she thought was "a bit crazy" for following her after their initial row. Footage of the argument, which took place in Hornton Street, west London and was filmed on Mr Vine's helmet camera, has since been viewed online millions of times, the presenter said. The video was played in court. After initially clashing when Mr Vine stopped his bike in front of Ms Pearson's Vauxhall Corsa, Ms Pearson drove past the Radio Two presenter, the court learned. But the argument erupted a short while later when Ms Pearson spotted Mr Vine trying to take a photograph. Explaining the next few moments to the court, he said: "She's gone back in the car, she's sitting at this junction. I am behind her with my cycle, the lights are red. I draw parallel to the car because I want to see inside. "As I draw level and I look in [to the car] she produces her fingers like this, and aims them at me, and cocks her thumb and goes like that, in a firing sign." In her evidence, Ms Pearson said she had initially reacted to Mr Vine's stopping in front of her car because: "It was too quick, it kind of shocked me. "I could have hit him [with the car] and I don't think he understood the danger of that, hence why I was so angry." The hearing has been adjourned until 26 January.

A driver "made a gun sign" at BBC presenter Jeremy Vine during an alleged road rage incident, a court heard.

Banbury's Horton General has been trying "very hard" since April to recruit new obstetricians. But Victoria Prentis, Banbury MP, said the "contingency" midwife plan, which she is to discuss with health secretary Jeremy Hunt, was "terrifying". Campaigners staged a rally earlier against the changes. "Our bottom line in Banbury is we want our maternity unit to be the best it can be," Mrs Prentis said. Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has told Horton staff the plan could take effect from the end of September if it did not successfully recruit the obstetricians, who are specially-trained maternity doctors. Paul Brennan, director of clinical services, said the Oxford trust was trying "very hard" to fill the posts, which have been advertised since April. He described the changes as "contingency arrangements in case recruitment continues to prove unsuccessful". But Sophie Hammond, who was among campaigners at the rally, said "lives would be put at risk". "The thought that these key consultants and this access to emergency care and surgery could be taken away from here doesn't bear thinking about," she said. Mr Brennan said they had worked to make the obstetrician posts "more attractive to applicants". "This includes enhanced pay and additional training at the John Radcliffe Hospital," he explained. "We believe we have got a good offer for doctors wanting a role that offers some responsibility and also some variety, and are again re-advertising the posts." According to the trust, women who do not want to give birth at the unit will be offered alternatives at other hospitals. A decision is expected in late August.

A hospital's maternity services may become midwife-led because it is struggling to recruit doctors, an NHS trust has admitted.

Pauline King, described by police as a "reclusive hermit", was found at The Avenues on 22 February. Alexander Kerry, 23, of Kinghorn Road, Norwich, was sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court after he entered a guilty plea. He denied a charge of sexual assault and the prosecution chose not to proceed on that count. Ms King died as a result of a sustained assault with a knife and hammer during a burglary at her home, the court was told. She lived alone in what police described as a "dilapidated" detached house and neighbours said she was a pleasant but reclusive woman. Kerry was found later the same day wandering nearby streets covered in blood. Det Sup Paul Durham described it as a "vile murder" which "sent a shudder of fear" through the community. Prosecutor Andrew Jackson said Kerry, desperate for money after drinking in a Norwich city centre pub, had broken into the home and beat Ms King to death. He then tried to set fire to the house to destroy the evidence, he said. The court heard he was left deeply damaged after his father murdered his mother as he and his brother slept at their home in 2002. Mr Justice Stuart-Smith said he acted with "animal brutality" to murder Miss King and sexually abuse her dying body in an "act of desecration". He said: "Nothing begins to explain what you did to Pauline King. She must have suffered terribly." Kerry had a criminal record including violence and disorderly behaviour dating back to his teens, he said. Jonathan Goodman, mitigating, said his client had "self-medicated" through alcohol and drugs following the almost "unimaginable" events of his childhood.

A man who admitted the "vile murder" of an 82-year-old woman in her Norwich home has been jailed for life, with an order to serve 25 years and six months.

Liam Cann, 22, of Blind Lane, Goldhanger, Essex, contacted a number of boys while playing Xbox games online, Chelmsford Crown Court heard. He was convicted of 23 sex offences in October last year, having abused six boys from 2006 until 2014. Judge John Dodd described the defendant as "clever and calculating". The judge told the court that Cann, a bell-ringer at his local church, had bribed his victims "with Fifa game currency", which players can use to buy in-game features and build their teams of footballers. Cann, who admitted one offence of possessing indecent images, was given an extended licence period of six years to remain in place after his release, and was placed on the sex offenders register for life. His other offences included sexual grooming, attempted rape of a child under 13, and nine counts of sexual activity with a child. A police investigation was started after one of the boys' mothers contacted the NSPCC. One of his victims told the court he had been contacted by Cann "by messaging" and had later received a naked image of the 22-year-old. "He gave me £20-£50 through the Xbox and I drew it on Liam's account. I knew he gave another boy £200."

A bell-ringer who "wheedled, connived, bullied and bribed" boys as young as eight has been jailed for 10 years for a string of sex offences.

Michael Gunn, a retired chartered accountant, wants to spend some of it on a new roof for the church hall. But in defiance of experts, he also wants to use the money for a transatlantic cruise. The changes take effect on Bank Holiday Monday, so Mr Gunn will receive the payment on Tuesday morning. "I had no idea they'd whisk me into the limelight, and say I am the first," he told the BBC. "But I don't mind that." Initially he wants to donate cash to the fund for the church hall roof - in the village of Newton Poppleford - after it burnt down in a fire. But later in the year he is planning to take his wife across the Atlantic on board the Queen Mary Two. Mr Gunn was not prepared to say how much he would be taking out of his pension pot, but he has taken care to heed warnings about tax bills. "What I like about this is that you are totally in charge of how much tax you are exposed to - to stay within a lower tax band," he said. Last week the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said thousands of people withdrawing money might find themselves paying much more tax than they needed to. Other experts have pointed out that, in any case, people taking out cash will have to pay what is called "emergency tax". Unless individuals can show a P45 tax form, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will treat any payments as if they are a new monthly salary. In other words, they will charge tax on the basis that the new income is repeated every month for a year. So anyone cashing in a pension of £18,000 - assuming nothing is taken tax-free- would be charged an immediate tax bill of £6,592. Those in that position will have to reclaim the tax using forms P50 or P53. However HMRC has promised they will get the money back within a month. Meanwhile, hundreds of staff from Citizens Advice - and Citizens Advice Scotland - are preparing to offer free face-to-face interviews with anyone who needs help, from Tuesday. Those aged 55 or over can go to one of 500 offices in England and Wales, or 90 in Scotland. Those living in very remote areas of Scotland can arrange home visits. But customers will only receive "guidance", not advice. "What we don't do is provide any details of which companies people can go to for pensions - or which particular products," said Richard Chilton, one of those who will be conducting the interviews. "But we provide guidance on what the options are," he said. Anyone wanting to book an interview, or receive telephone guidance, should call the Pension Wise service, on 030 0330 1001. Are you planning to cash in your pension? What do you think about the changes? Email [email protected] with your stories. If you would be happy to speak further to a BBC journalist, please include a contact telephone number. Email your pictures to [email protected], upload them here, tweet them to @BBC_HaveYourSay or text 61124. If you are outside the UK, send them to the international number +44 7624 800 100. Or WhatsApp us on +44 7525 900971 Read our terms and conditions.

A 57 year-old man from a Devon village has emerged as one of the first people to cash in their pensions under the government's reforms.

The cels, from the 1937 release Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, were brought along to a valuation day in Leicestershire. One image depicts the moment the Wicked Queen hands Snow White the poisoned apple. Auctioneer Charles Hanson said that one alone sold for £10,500. The other, depicting Snow White with animals, was sold for £5,600 when it went under the hammer in Etwall, Derbyshire. Mr Hanson said the cels were sold on the internet to the same buyer. "We had bids from all over the world: America, Italy... the theatre and drama in the saleroom felt like a magical movie moment," he said. Snow White was released in 1937 and was briefly the highest grossing film of all time, before being overtaken by Gone with the Wind. Source: IMDB It is believed the images were first sold in 1938 at an exhibition in London of the original paintings for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Charles Hanson, from Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers, said: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves by Walt Disney is a film that has provided so much joy to so many people over the generations. "Such familiar and famous characters are right here at the very beginning of this success. "Of all the scenes that could be captured on a cel the famous poisoned apple takes some beating - it's the very heartbeat of the film."

A pair of original pieces of cine reel from Walt Disney's first animated feature-length film has sold for more than £16,000 at auction.

Built in the 13th Century, it overlooks Aleppo's Old City and is part of a UN-listed World Heritage site. Syrian government forces have been using the citadel as a military position. Government and rebel forces have been fighting for control of the city for over three years. It is not known which side caused the explosion. Fighting on the ground and government air strikes have left thousands dead, and destroyed more than 60% of the Old City. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said the explosion occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning. "The blast caused the collapse of part of the wall of the citadel," the organisation's chief, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP news agency. The government says that rebel fighters set off a bomb in a tunnel beneath the citadel. The use of tunnel bombs has become a common rebel tactic. Since the start of July, rebel groups have been waging a major offensive against President Bashar al-Assad's troops in the city. More than 230,000 people are believed to have been killed in Syria since the uprising against President Assad began in March 2011. Some 11.5 million others - more than half of the country's population - have fled their homes.

A bomb explosion has caused part of the walls of Aleppo's ancient citadel to collapse.

The airline had suffered years of financial losses even before it was hit by two major disasters in 2014. Flight MH370 disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and is still missing, while MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine. Mr Mueller said he was leaving due to "changing personal circumstance." He took up his role in May 2015 to oversee a $1.56bn (£1.1bn) turnaround plan which included massive job cuts and dropping unprofitable destinations. "We are very disappointed to lose Christoph as CEO but we fully understand his reasons and respect his need to do this," Malaysian Airlines Chairman Md Nor Yusof said. Mr Mueller will continue to serve until September 2016 and will stay on the board as a non-executive director. The carrier has already begun to look for a new chief executive and says it is considering both internal and external candidates. It said that Mueller had set up a strong management team which would be the foundation for a successful turnaround.

Malaysian Airlines chief executive Christoph Mueller has resigned after less than one year of leading the carrier's reorganising efforts.

Carwyn Jones told The Guardian newspaper that people's "sense of disengagement with Brussels" could attach itself to London after Brexit. The UK government said it will trigger the Article 50 process on March 29. Mrs May, visiting Swansea, promised to seek the "best possible deal" that would work for everyone across the UK. Mr Jones told The Guardian the prime minister had a "tin ear" on matters of devolution. He warned the future of the UK could be under threat if the UK government did not listen to the other administrations. "If they are not careful, people's sense of disengagement with Brussels will simply attach itself to London," he said. "They are giving the impression sometimes that they do not listen. "And what kind of message is that to the people of Wales?" Amid calls in Scotland for a second referendum on independence, the first minister said Wales needed to see a "dividend" for his government's continued support of a United Kingdom. "Otherwise people in Wales are going to start saying, well, the government is listening to the Scots, we need to be like them," he said. "And that's a dangerous path for the UK." Last week, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced her intention to seek approval for a second independence referendum, to be held between Autumn 2018 and Spring 2019. Mr Jones met Mrs May in her visit to Swansea on Monday, during which she also signed the £1.3bn Swansea Bay Region city deal. Following the meeting, the first minister said the talks had been "constructive". "It was made clear that Welsh interventions had helped change and strengthen the UK positions on transition arrangements and on workers' rights," Mr Jones said. He called for more "partnership working" in the vein of the city deal as Article 50 approaches. Mrs May said she wanted to get "the best possible deal for the United Kingdom that works for everyone across the United Kingdom". She said the objectives included a "good free trade deal" and co-operation on matters such as security. Later in the afternoon, Mr Jones warned the assembly's constitutional and legislative affairs committee there could be Supreme Court challenges if the UK government took back powers from Europe and then decided which were to be devolved. "I think that's wrong," he said. "That's not the way we read our devolution settlement. It is the way that many in the UK government see it." He also told the committee, meeting in Newport, that it was "not always clear" that the Wales Office had "much influence" within the UK government.

Welsh support for the UK could be in doubt if Theresa May does not listen to concerns about devolution, the first minister has warned.

Smith, 34, lost WBO title bouts with Arthur Abraham in 2014 and 2015, and trainer Joe Gallagher said Saturday's fight was a "last roll of the dice". The Briton has now been beaten seven times in his 45 professional fights. The three judges in Wetzlar, Germany, each ruled the fight 119-108 in Zeuge's favour. It was Zeuge's third defence since he won the WBA title from Italian Gioavanni de Carolis in November 2016. In a largely one-sided contest, Smith was given a count by the referee in the closing seconds of the final round despite appearing to slip. "Is it the end at world level for him? 100%. Is there another level he wants to compete at? That is one for Paul Smith," promoter Eddie Hearn said on Sky Sports. "We talked about last-chance saloon before the fight, he left it much too late. I think he will be kicking himself for that. "He had a good spell in the third round when he wobbled Zeuge, and he did in the 11th and 12th rounds too. We would have liked to see that earlier, but it's easy for us to say. Zeuge was very good and countered well."

Paul Smith lost a third attempt to win a world title as Tyron Zeuge retained his WBA world super-middleweight belt with a unanimous points decision.

At the start of each month Elena, a 40-year-old Muscovite, spreads all the family cash on the table and starts dividing it into small piles. "When I do this I shake, I feel nauseous," she says. "This goes to one bank, that to another, then the third one… There's one more bank, but we don't have the money for them - I had to go and buy some food. I guess we'll have to put up with their telephone reminders." Elena and her husband owe well over 1m roubles (about £10,800; $17,000) to those four banks. After the cash piles are sorted the family of three is left with only 10,000 roubles (£107; $167). That puts them below the poverty line - and recently Elena lost her job. Millions of those in debt live like Elena. According to the Russian United Credit Bureau (UCB), 40 million Russians have loans or mortgages. By June, 12.5m of those loans had not been paid for at least a month, and in another 8m cases the arrears stretched back over three months. The Russian Central Bank says total personal debt has risen to 1tn roubles (£10.7bn; $16.7bn). At least 10% of that amount cannot be recovered by the banks. For Elena and her husband, this is a story of almost two decades of borrowing. They started getting loans in the mid-1990s to pay for their daughter's medical treatment. Then they took a bigger loan to pay off the smaller ones. It all seemed manageable, says Elena, but then new expenses came along - and two banks offered credit cards with generous conditions. "We were a bit stupid," Elena says. "They told us the minimum payment was 5,000 roubles a month and we paid that every month. But that was just the interest, not the loan itself." During Russia's boom years credit history checks meant virtually nothing. An individual already saddled with loans could take out another one, hoping to pay off previous debts. The small print was often too small to bother about. Then the music stopped. Money got tight after the 2008 global financial crisis and Western sanctions against Russia over its role in the Ukraine conflict. The average personal loan in 2014 was 54,600 roubles. Olga Mazurova is head of Sentinel Credit Management, one of Russia's largest debt-collecting agencies. She says that often Russians are hit by a sudden drop in income, because "the firm goes bankrupt, the working week is cut, there are layoffs or wage cuts - we see that especially in industrial cities in Siberia and the Urals". Few Russians have insurance for such contingencies, she says. Debtors cannot get much help. There are plans to amend the law on insolvency, to allow individuals to be declared bankrupt. But nothing will happen on that until October. Russian MPs decided that criminal courts were unprepared for the likely flood of such cases and that courts of arbitration should handle debt cases instead. Each debtor has to beg the bank to cut them some slack. But Russia's financial ombudsman Pavel Medvedev says that rarely works if someone owes money to more than one institution. A former adviser to President Vladimir Putin, he knows many top Russian financiers personally - but that does not help him to lobby on behalf of indebted callers. Typically, he says, lenders refuse to restructure personal debts with the words: "I've got a business to run and shareholders demand profits - I can't do it!" Mr Medvedev says his success rate in helping debtors has dropped from 51% to 33% and "this year it's probably going to be around 16%". He had no solution for one caller, Vladimir Frolov, living near Moscow. Mr Frolov started borrowing four years ago to help his partner, living separately from him, in Ukraine. The debts snowballed. Finally, unable to get an unsecured loan, he mortgaged the flat he shares with his elderly parents. His father Anatoly, who co-signed the agreement, is bewildered when asked which bank it was. "How should I know? They took us into some room, the light was dim and the print was tiny. I just asked if everything was alright and they told me it was." Besides the mortgage, Vladimir Frolov's parents took out two loans to help him, which eat up 18,000 of their 22,000-rouble monthly pension allowance. And now Vladimir has defaulted on the mortgage. The bank is suing and they may well lose their only dwelling. "There must be a normal way out - maybe give the bank a fixed share of my wages?" Vladimir wonders. But so far he has not found anyone at the bank to discuss his dilemma. "Isn't there a law against this?" asks his father, equally helplessly. "How can they let people borrow so much without checking them first?" After the good years many Russians are now getting a harsh lesson in capitalism - and inadequate regulations mean there is nothing to soften the blow.

Millions of Russians took out loans during the economic boom years, but now they face crippling debts and the law is not on their side, the BBC's Oleg Boldyrev reports.

Media playback is not supported on this device Belgium, ranked second in the world, are the next test for Chris Coleman's side as they look to continue their remarkable progress in France. Legendary Wales strikers Dean Saunders and John Hartson, who between them won 126 caps and scored 36 goals for their country, explain how Wales can win and book a place in the semi-finals. Media playback is not supported on this device Saunders: Belgium are going to dominate possession, which is fine, but we have got to stop them from hurting us - that is difficult because they have so many different weapons in their attack. We will have to close down Kevin de Bruyne, who has been playing behind Romelu Lukaku and has got a stinging shot in him on either foot, but if Eden Hazard is fit then he will be Belgium's most dangerous player. When we beat Belgium in Cardiff in June, Coleman kept Hazard quiet by bringing in Jazz Richards at right wing-back and moving Chris Gunter infield to be the right-sided centre-half in our back three. Between them, they handled him really well down Belgium's left, but I don't see Chris doing the same this time because continuity has been a big part of why we have done so well in France, especially at the back where we have been unchanged in all four games. Media playback is not supported on this device I can see Chris sticking with the same team that started against Northern Ireland, but our right-sided defensive midfielder - either Joe Allen or Joe Ledley - will have to get across to help Gunter as soon as Hazard gets the ball, along with James Chester, the right-sided centre-half. Their job will be to stop Hazard from coming inside and to show him down the line instead. When that happens, Gunter will also try to stop the cross from coming in, but you have to be realistic - Hazard is so good, he is going to get some balls over. So all our midfield players will have to pick their runners up around the box, not just De Bruyne, and the most important thing will be to mark Lukaku tightly because he will be trying to get between our other two centre-halves when the cross comes in. Media playback is not supported on this device Saunders: When we clear those crosses, we have got to counter-attack like I know we can do, because while Hazard's attacking play is one of Belgium's strengths, it is also a weakness. Jan Vertonghen's injury means we do not know who will play as Belgium's left-back against Wales but, whoever it is, we will be able to isolate them because Hazard does not run back. Hungary did it effectively, and they do not have the same attacking threat as us. The mistake they made was leaving their wide players too far up the pitch and that allowed Hazard to hurt them more - he was on fire in that game and Belgium should have won by more than 4-0. After watching that game again on Wednesday, though, I now have a clearer picture of what Wales will have to do to win. There is no way we will be as open as Hungary were from the start because we have so many unselfish and disciplined players like Allen and Ledley who do a lot of running just to support our defenders and ensure we do not lose our shape. But, when we steal the ball back, we have to use it properly. That starts with the first header clear from one of those Hazard crosses. I would be telling Gareth Bale or Aaron Ramsey to drift over to Belgium's left where they will have space - and the aim should be to get the ball to them and build the attack from there. Media playback is not supported on this device Hartson: There is a decision to be made up front because Hal Robson-Kanu played in both games against Belgium in the qualifiers and did not let us down. Hal is very mobile and gives us a threat in behind their defence with his pace, and he can also carry the ball better than Sam Vokes can. Sam is a big centre-forward that you can hit the ball to, and he will keep hold of it. He has a similar role to the one I had up front for Wales - winning headers and winning fouls so the team can advance up the pitch. It depends which way Chris wants to go, but Sam has started the past two games and I don't think he has done an awful lot wrong. He will contain both of Belgium's centre-halves like he did against Russia and give them problems in the air and on the ground - you cannot get around him. Media playback is not supported on this device Sam missed a good chance against Northern Ireland but the next one he gets like that, he will put it away. I have worked with him and I know how good he is. I also think he will now be feeling like the Wales number nine, not a bit-part player, which is something else I can relate to. At first I was always behind Ian Rush, Mark Hughes and Dean Saunders, but when Hughes became manager he made me first choice and my confidence went through the roof. I took on the mantle of being the main striker and I think Sam is in that position now, as an important member of this team. Media playback is not supported on this device Hartson: Coleman has got pretty much every tactical and selection issue right at this tournament so far but we have to appreciate how good this Belgium team is and what an incredible victory this would be. For it to happen, we need to have total focus at the back and we will rely on our best two players again - Ramsey and Bale, who have been involved in every Wales goal at this tournament - if we are going to score. I am optimistic we can get through, but I would not say I was overly confident about it because watching Belgium the other night was frightening, even if it was only against Hungary. One big factor in our favour is that we are unbeaten in our past three meetings, including a win - so we do know how to get a result against them. Saunders: Belgium are favourites for a reason but we have a good record against them, even going back to when I was in the team. Wales have a winning formula and Bale is part of that. He is a proper match-winner and, for me, the best player in the tournament. With him in the team, anything is possible. Pick the XI that you think can take Wales far at Euro 2016 - and then share it with your friends using our team selector.

Wales are the only home nation left in Euro 2016 and are in the last eight at the finals of a major tournament for the first time since 1958.

Katy Bethel, 28, and Aaron Harris, 33, were arrested on 4 July 2015 at Coquelles' Eurotunnel check-in. The couple were returning from Calais to Folkestone when they were stopped by customs officers after a four-hour trip to France. Both were charged with aiding and abetting unlawful immigration. Harris had previously pleaded guilty to the charge. Ms Bethel, of Dial Road, Gillingham in Kent, appearing at Maidstone Crown Court, denies the charge. Ms Bethel was six months pregnant with her fourth child when the Mercedes van she was in was stopped for border checks, the jury was told on Thursday. When Harris was asked to open the van doors a police officer glimpsed a person's legs, and discovered 12 people concealed amongst tyres in the back of the van. Ms Bethel told the court she had "no idea" the people were in there. The prosecution questioned why she had previously stated they were going to buy alcohol and cigarettes for a party, but did not return with any purchases on what was a very short day out. In the four hours the pair were in France, they sent and received 67 messages and voicemails to and from unknown numbers, the court heard. Ms Bethel said Harris was using her phone on the trip to make calls and texts and she was unaware of their content. She and Harris, the father of two of her children, were loaned the van from a friend of Harris' for a last minute day trip, the court was told. They got lost while looking for a beach so instead left the van on a roadside to take an hour-long walk to a strawberry field near Calais, she said. The prosecution accused Miss Bethel of talking "nonsense". The case continues.

A pregnant mother had "no idea" there were 12 Vietnamese migrants in the back of a van she was travelling in, a court heard.

The US Geological Survey said the quake struck at 08:23 GMT, 420km (260 miles) north-west of the capital, Port Vila. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said the threat of tsunami waves had now mostly passed. The USGS said the quake was fairly shallow - at a depth of about 35km (21 miles) - but no damage had been reported so far. The quake, originally measured at 7.2, struck in the north of Vanuatu off Espiritu Santo. Quakes are fairly common in the region. Two similar sized tremors last October and December caused no damage. Vanuatu has a population of about 270,000, with some 44,000 living in Port Vila.

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake has struck off the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.

The 19-year-old was held in Barking on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. Police said six other suspects remain in custody and searches are ongoing. Eight people were killed when three men drove at pedestrians on the bridge and stabbed people in Borough Market. The man arrested on Sunday is being held at a police station in south London. The six men still in custody, all aged between 27 and 30, were also arrested in east London - four in Ilford, one in Newham and one in Barking. Thirteen people arrested as part of the investigation have been released without charge, while a 33-year-old man held in Ilford on 8 June has been bailed. Over the weekend, police released images of fake explosive belts worn by the three attackers, named as Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba. Borough Market is hoping to re-open "later this week", managing director Darren Henaghan has said. Traders were officially given access to the market on Monday - for the first time since the terror attack - to allow them to start clearing up and prepare to resume business. On Saturday night, bars and restaurants across the capital donated money to a British Red Cross UK fund for victims of terror attacks and their families, as Londoners were encouraged to show "unity and resilience" a week after the attack. The fund has raised more than £700,000 since it started on 4 June. And on Sunday, Southwark Cathedral - which had been cordoned off in the days after the attack - re-opened its doors for the first time.

Another man has been arrested in connection with the 3 June terror attack on London Bridge, bringing the total number of arrests to 21.

Douglas Carswell also told the BBC's Sunday Politics that the party needed to ensure it got the "tone" right in order to attract more voters. It comes after Mr Carswell said in an article in the Times on Saturday that Mr Farage "needs to take a break now". A bitter internal row has developed within UKIP after Mr Farage's resignation was rejected by the party. Mr Carswell said: "I'm suggesting he takes a break as leader. I'm not suggesting he takes a break from being leader. "Clearly the national executive has the authority, they're the ruling body. "I'm told that they made a decision. I'm told it was a procedurally correct decision, he is the leader but I think it's important that as leader he takes a break and I think it's important that we work out how these complex questions are answered by a team. "No one person has all the answers. I'm particularly concerned about tone, making sure we get a tone that ensures that the 27 million people who didn't vote for UKIP last week may be persuaded to vote for us in future." The party has been beset by wrangling since Mr Farage agreed to stay on as leader, days after standing down after failing to get elected in Thanet South. He had pledged before the general election that he would quit the post if he failed to get elected to Parliament. Senior aide Matthew Richardson has left the party, following claims from MEP Patrick O'Flynn that Mr Farage had fallen under the influence of "inexperienced" advisers. UKIP has also confirmed the departure of Mr Farage's chief of staff Raheem Kassam. Mr Farage ruled out quitting as leader on BBC's Question Time on Thursday, saying he had "phenomenal" support, and has challenged his critics to decide whether they want to stay in the party. In his article, Mr Carswell had said that "knowing how difficult it is to lead a party makes me admire Nigel Farage all the more". "I know that I never could," he added, stressing that he would find it "impossible to simultaneously lead UKIP, be the voice of the party in the Commons, represent my Clacton constituents and at the same time be a husband and a dad". However, he said that "even leaders need to take a break", adding: "Nigel needs to take a break now." UKIP got nearly four million votes at the election, but returned only one MP - former Conservative Mr Carswell in the Clacton constituency.

Nigel Farage should take a break "as leader" of UKIP but not a break from being leader, the party's only MP says.

In a 2005 letter, the prince referred to "the most pressing and urgent problem" of tuberculosis (TB) in cattle, which was "caused and spread" by badgers. He wrote: "I do urge you to look again at introducing a proper cull of badgers where it is necessary. The Labour government later rejected a cull in the English countryside. The revelations come from private letters sent by the Prince of Wales to Labour ministers a decade ago, which have been published after a lengthy legal battle. Prince Charles wrote: "I, for one, cannot understand how the 'badger lobby' seem to mind not at all about the slaughter of thousands of expensive cattle, and yet object to a managed cull of an over-population of badgers - to me, this is intellectually dishonest." In reply, Mr Blair said he could "personally see the case for culling badgers" but did not want to prejudge a decision by environment ministers". The coalition led by David Cameron gave the go-ahead for pilot culls in England in 2013. These are expected to resume for a third year in the Southwest this year and may be rolled out to other areas of England. Other letters written by the prince reveal more details of his interest in agriculture. He appealed for support for farmers and British-grown produce, and raised his "anxiety" about the country's lack of self-sufficiency in foods such as meat and vegetables. He also mentioned "the enormous problem of climate change", praising "the remarkable leadership role" the government was taking in this area.

Prince Charles asked the Blair government to consider the culling of badgers, historic documents reveal.

Media playback is not supported on this device Cheshire, 21, who has missed much of the past three years because of repeated concussions, finished sixth. "I'm really happy with my progression, but I just couldn't put it down tonight," she told BBC Sport. "It happens and I'm going to take positives from being out there against the best in the world." Japan's Ayana Onozuka (89.80) took gold in Sierra Nevada ahead of France's Marie Martinod (87.00) and American Devin Logan (84.20). Cheshire was regarded as a potential medallist at the Sochi Winter Olympics, but a heavy crash in training resulted in a serious concussion that meant she missed the event. She suffered two further concussions and experienced panic attacks over the next 18 months, only returning to full-time competition this season with under a year to go to the Pyeongchang Games. "I'm over all of my head injuries," she said. "I'm in a really good place, feeling super-confident and enjoying it more than ever." Earlier on Saturday, James Woods and Izzy Atkin qualified for their respective slopestyle finals, which will take place on Sunday. Woods, who finished fifth in Sochi, scored 86.00 to finish fourth in his heat while Atkin, who won GB's first ski slopestyle World Cup gold medal earlier this month qualified in third place. Although GB's Tyler Harding, Cal Sanderson and Michael Rowlands all missed out, organisers subsequently revised their rules and have added a semi-final on Sunday with the top four to qualify for an extended 16-strong final.

British halfpipe skier Rowan Cheshire crashed in all three of her final runs, but still secured Britain's best-ever World Championship result in the event.

The tortoise, known as Speed, had been in geriatric decline for some time. Keepers at San Diego Zoo had used acupuncture and hydrotherapy to treat his arthritis and other ailments. Speed had been brought to California in 1933 as part of a programme to preserve the endangered species from the Volcan Cerro Azul island of the Galapagos, off Ecuador. Thirteen Galapagos tortoises remain at the zoo. The group has produced more than 90 offspring which can be found in many other zoos. Many of them have been sired by Speed.

A giant Galapagos tortoise more than 150 years old has been put down at a zoo in California.

The city also ranks second in a list of Britain's most congested cities, while Glasgow is third. Only London ranked worse than Scotland's largest cities in the survey of the UK's roads by Inrix Roadway Analytics. It found that the jams could cost drivers in Scotland £5.1bn in wasted time over the next decade. The firm studied traffic hotspots in 21 UK cities in September 2016. It assessed the impact of the congestion by looking at the average duration of traffic jams, their average length and the number of times they occurred. The research found that the impact of Edinburgh's 455 traffic hotspots was second only to London and was likely to cost drivers £2.8bn by 2025. Glasgow was ranked third in the same list - worse than Birmingham, Manchester and Bristol. It's 357 hotspots could cost £2.3bn over the next 10 years, Inrix said. Researchers calculated the time wasted by drivers in traffic jams across the UK could cost £61.8bn by 2025 if congestion levels are not reduced. And in their survey of 123 cities across Europe, London was found to have more traffic "pinch points" than any other city. It also ranked worst in an assessment of the impact of its traffic jams. Rome was second and Paris was third. Inrix chief economist Graham Cookson said: "Only by identifying traffic hotspots and analysing their root causes can we effectively combat congestion."

Four of the UK's worst traffic bottlenecks occur on the Edinburgh bypass, according to new research.

This afternoon, the Labour leader returned to the stage - in shirt sleeves this time - to face questions from his audience. One introduced herself: "Christina Rees, newly-elected Labour councillor for Bridgend." So far so good. But then it got trickier. "And you haven't kissed me, Ed, but you kissed Barbara yesterday and I'm extremely jealous," joked Christina. A look of mock alarm came over the leader's face as he assured delegates: "Don't get the wrong idea by the way." Christina told her leader how Labour had won a by-election in Bettws: "The Tories only got 12 votes!" Ed Miliband started to look concerned: "Don't give us all the Bridgend results because we might be here....." He cut swiftly to his next questioner - Barbara Jones, from Caerphilly, who introduced herself thus: "I am the lucky one that got the kiss yesterday and I've had so many texts you wouldn't believe it." Had he not been wearing television make-up, Ed Miliband surely would have blushed. Instead, he briefly referred to delegates as "comrades" for the first time, while imploring Barbara to move on. Barbara moved on, but 24 hours into the era of "one nation Labour" the leader has discovered that you can't please all the people all the time.

Ed Miliband may have wowed delegates with his "look - no notes" speech to the Labour conference but not everyone is going home happy.

JP Nadeau was reportedly struck by lightning mid-sentence in his apple orchard in New Brunswick, Canada. "And just as I told my new son-in-law 'You're a lucky guy' - Boom!" he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Aside from a small scar on his thumb, Mr Nadeau says he was unscathed and the wedding proceeded. Storm clouds had gathered behind him at the ceremony on 8 July, he said, and his daughter saw lightning strike the ground nearby. "I had the microphone and the shock jumped into the sound system and my hand just lit up and I saw the spark," he told the CBC. "And I'm looking at my hand and it's all flared up… It was like I was holding a lightning bolt in my hand, it was amazing." Everyone was stunned at first, but that didn't stop the happy couple from continuing with the festivities. "It was a beautiful wedding," Mr Nadeau's wife, Maggy Thomas, told the CBC. "But that was pretty terrifying for a second." Mr Nadeau says he's a lucky-unlucky man - in 2015, a cruise ship he was working on near the Falkland Islands caught fire, and he was rescued by the British Royal Air Force. "I've had lots of brushes with death," said Mr Nadeau. "But death keeps ignoring me."

No one likes a dull wedding, but one father-of-the-bride's speech was a little too electrifying at his daughter's ceremony last weekend.

Sarries' Australian lock Skelton slapped the GB Olympic Sevens Rio silver medallist in the face late in the 22-22 European Champions Cup draw. BBC pundit Brian Moore was among those to accuse Davies, 26, of over-reacting. "It's not good is it? If one of our players did that I'd be devastated," said McCall. "But I don't think they would. It's terrible, but you don't need me to tell you that." Moore wrote: "Scarlets should have won but, had they done so, it would have been spoiled by another example of simulation (cheating by exaggeration) from Davies." Scarlets head coach Pivac defended Davies' behaviour - and questioned how clean former England hooker Moore was as a player. "I've spoken to our medical staff, and they tell me he [Davies] is getting acupuncture on his neck," Pivac said. "The facts speak for themselves: 140kg, swinging arm, hit him on the chin. We've confirmed that. "Unless you've been hit by 140kg or been struck on the jaw, you really should keep your comments to yourself. "James tells me it [falling over] was more shock from being struck. He fell to the ground and he got straight back up. "If I was the Saracens coach I'd be sanctioning my player for throwing a punch which is against the rules of the game." Asked about Moore's criticism, Pivac added: "I don't condone taking a dive, that's why I don't watch football. "Brian Moore? Well, he was squeaky clean as a player wasn't he?"

Saracens boss Mark McCall has criticised Scarlets' James Davies after Will Skelton was sin-binned during the meeting of the side last weekend.

The 78-year-old ex-Scotland international says several of his old team-mates are affected. He believes it is as the result of heading heavy footballs in the 1950s and '60s. "People of our era, the balls we played with were big, heavy things," he told BBC Radio 5 live. "To lift them up to take a throw-in you'd have to do special training, and the conditions we played in - snow, rain and mud - and we trained with these things as well, every day, heading practice as well. "Whether this problem of dementia hastens the end of your life or not I don't know, I'm not a medical person - but what I am saying is these were my pals, these were the guys I played with and they have got these problems." St John believes football as an industry should help ex-pros with care costs and said: "If someone needs special care as a result of their career and their career was football, then football should pay for that." The Football Association said it was committed to supporting research into degenerative brain disease among former players. St John's former Liverpool team-mate Geoff Strong, who won the FA Cup in 1965 alongside the Scot, died aged 75 from Alzheimer's in 2013 while last year it was revealed that three members of England's 1966 World Cup squad - Martin Peters, Nobby Stiles and Ray Wilson - have the condition. Former West Brom striker Jeff Astle died in 2002, aged 59, from brain trauma caused by heading footballs throughout his career. He was originally diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, but a re-examination of his brain found he had died from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) - a progressive degeneration caused by repeated head trauma. St John praised the work that Astle's family have done through the Jeff Astle Foundation, which aims to raise awareness of brain injury in all forms of sport. But he still believes the Professional Footballers' Association and other football authorities can do more to help former players and the families who are caring for them. "The game is awash with money, absolutely, so you can't turn round and say it's a finance thing," said St John, who played 336 times for Liverpool, scoring 95 goals. Last year, the FA said it wanted world governing body Fifa to investigate whether former players have dementia as a consequence of playing the game and added that it took concerns about concussion and head injuries "extremely seriously". "In 2015 we established an expert panel which led to the publication of the FA concussion guidelines," it said. "The expert panel further agreed that research is particularly required into the issue of whether degenerative brain disease is more common in ex-footballers. "The FA is determined to support this research and we have recently agreed with the PFA to jointly fund and support this research as we believe that a collaborative approach will strengthen the credibility and resource available."

Former Liverpool striker Ian St John has called on football's leaders to look after former professionals who have dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

The film's trailer attracted more "dislikes" than any trailer ever on YouTube, which suggested a concerted campaign by some fans of the original. The Guardian is one of the papers that gives the film four stars: "Call off the trolls - Paul Feig's female reboot is a blast," it said. "Fun oozes from almost every frame," Nigel M Smith said. "Most crucially, the mean-spirited reception to the film before anyone had seen it does not seem to have put a dampener on the movie itself." Robbie Collin in The Telegraph said: "The 2016 vintage of Ghostbusters speaks to its time with the same withering comic accuracy and hot-air-balloon-sized sense of fun as the 1984 original." The New York Times' Manohla Dargis said: "the new, cheerfully silly Ghostbusters is that rarest of big-studio offerings — a movie that is a lot of enjoyable, disposable fun. "Girls rule, women are funny, get over it." Empire magazine has given the film three stars. Jonathan Pile said: "an effectively spooky opening gives way to a film that's fun, funny and full of energy. It's almost as if it never mattered that the four main characters were women. Strange that." While Screen International's critic Tim Grierson said the remake was "a consistently funny pleasure". "Never quite as sharp or inspired as the 1984 original, but radiating such good cheer that comparisons between the two films don't much matter." But not all reviews were positive. Vanity Fair critic Richard Lawson was one of those not so impressed. He called it "a flat, occasionally charming disappointment". "It spends so much time doing battle with its legacy that it forgets to be its own movie, putting a talented cast to waste and marking another disappointment in this dreadful summer movie season." Chief film critic Peter Debruge with Variety agreed - he said the film spent "far too much energy channelling the original to establish its own identity." Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney said: "The unfunny mess that hits theatres Friday, like a big goopy splat of ectoplasm, will no doubt make those naysayers feel vindicated. "But the fact is that an oestrogen-infused makeover, particularly one with such a comedically gifted cast, was a promising idea. Sadly, that's where the inventiveness ended." The film, which stars Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon and Kristen Wiig, had its world premiere in Los Angeles on 9 July. Speaking at the premiere Ghostbusters director Paul Feig said he understood fans were "nervous" about the film. "I understand people are very passionate about this movie ... I get it. People are nervous. If I wasn't doing the movie, I would have been nervous. "All I can say is we came to it with such a purity of spirit and so desperate to give a new audience what we all felt 32 years ago when we first saw it in a theatre." Jamie East, film editor for The Sun, was one critic who received tweets questioning whether he had been paid for his review. He tweeted: "Ignore the haters - #Ghostbusters is really, really good." Helen O'Hara, who reviewed the film for GQ, was also questioned by fans online about her positive review. "Ghostbusters is a very, very funny and occasionally scary movie, which features jokes aimed squarely at the misogynistic commenters who risked RSI attacking it for its female-led cast," she said. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or email [email protected].

The Ghostbusters all female reboot has opened to mainly positive reviews.

13 April 2016 Last updated at 10:30 BST Helen Fairhead captured the charming footage of the three-year-old gorilla, called Lope, on a visit to Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire. More than one million people have watched the video on Facebook with hundreds leaving comments. The zoo's director of life sciences Dr Charlotte Macdonald said Lope's "dance" is evidence of him playing - an important aspect of young apes' behaviour.

A dancing gorilla video has gone viral with more than one million people viewing the pirouetting primate.

Thirty-two people died when the cruise ship hit rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio in January 2012 and tipped on to its side. Capt Schettino was also convicted of causing the shipwreck and abandoning ship before his passengers, earning him the title "Captain Coward" in the Italian media. He has accepted some responsibility but denies the criminal charges, arguing that he has been made a scapegoat for the tragedy. While a prosecutor condemned him as a "careless idiot", Capt Schettino has long maintained his actions after the ship ran aground prevented a much greater loss of life. Born in 1960 in the southern coastal town of Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples, Capt Schettino has lived a life dominated by the sea. He attended a nautical institute in the nearby town of Piano di Sorrento and then joined Costa Cruises in 2002, initially as an official in charge of security. In 2006, he was promoted from second-in-command to captain. Costa Concordia: What happened Eyewitness accounts Salvaging the Costa Concordia Capt Schettino was singled out for blame by the official report into the sinking of the Costa Concordia, almost a floating city with its 4,300 passengers and crew members. It alleged he deliberately changed course to perform a risky night-time sail-past salute to people on the tiny island of Giglio. He told his trial he "wanted to kill three birds with one stone": to please the passengers, salute a retired captain on Giglio and do a favour to the vessel's head waiter, who was from the island. He has rejected rumours that he had wanted to impress his lover, Domnica Cemortan, with him at the helm. As details of the unplanned change of course emerged, ship owner Costa Cruises distanced itself from the captain who, it said, had made "serious errors of judgement" and carried out a manoeuvre "unauthorised, unapproved and unknown to Costa". The captain told the court that he had been been sacrificed to safeguard "economic interests", arguing that the court should be considering an entire organisation rather than one man. In a TV interview given hours after the ship ran aground, Mr Schettino's shock and disbelief was clear as he told reporters the rocks had not been shown on his charts. "We were about 300 metres from the rocks, more or less, we shouldn't have hit anything." Widely vilified in Italy for leaving his ship while passengers were still on board, Capt Schettino's reputation was further damaged when transcripts suggested he had not told the coastguard initially of the gravity of the damage to the ship. "Listen Schettino, perhaps you have saved yourself from the sea, but I will make you look very bad. I will make you pay for this. Dammit, go back on board!" says Coastguard Capt Gregorio De Falco, repeatedly ordering him to return to the ship. Speaking by radio from a lifeboat, Capt Schettino said he was co-ordinating the rescue from there, pleading at one point: "Do you realise that it is dark and we can't see anything?" The coastguard shouts back: "So, what do you want to do, to go home, Schettino?! It's dark and you want to go home? Go to the bow of the ship where the ladder is and tell me what needs to be done, how many people there are, and what they need! Now!" A taxi driver who says he took the captain to a hotel the morning after the sinking said the captain had asked only where he could buy some socks. "He looked like a beaten dog, cold and scared," the taxi driver said. Capt Schettino has accepted some degree of responsibility, asking for forgiveness in a television interview in 2012 as he talked of those who died. He said he blamed himself for being "distracted" but said that he had not been on the bridge when the ship ran aground. In the interview, he broke down when asked about the youngest of the 32 victims, a five-year-old girl. As the accusations against Capt Schettino grew, there were those who came to his defence, including sailors, who agreed with his assertion that his decision to steer the ship towards shallower waters had probably saved dozens of lives. His defence lawyers accused the prosecution of focusing on him while offering plea bargains to five co-defendants, jailed in July 2013 for up to two years and 10 months. According to an interview in Naples-based Il Mattino newspaper quoting his sister, the first person Capt Schettino called after the incident was his 80-year-old mother, Rosa. "He called her at five in the morning on Saturday to tell her there had been a disaster, that he had tried to save as many passengers as possible and not to worry, because it was all over," she said. As he asked for a 26-year sentence, prosecutor Stefano Pizza listed all the mistakes Capt Schettino had made and said: "May God have pity on Schettino, because we cannot."

Capt Francesco Schettino has been found guilty of multiple manslaughter in Italy and sentenced to 16 years in jail for his role in one of the country's worst maritime disasters.

21 October 2016 Last updated at 15:03 BST In 2008, about 40 were recorded on the seahorse study site at South Beach in the bay, but none have been spotted there since 2013. Miranda Krestovnikoff has been investigating for Inside Out and speaking to Neil Garrick-Maidment, from the Seahorse Trust, and the Royal Yachting Association's Emma Barton.

Spiny seahorses may soon be locally extinct at Studland Bay in Dorset, according to the Seahorse Trust.

Speaking to Huw Edwards on The Wales Report, Andrew RT Davies defended his party from criticism that it simply opposes Labour policies rather than putting forward its own programme for government. "At every juncture we bring forward an alternative, we don't just criticise," he said. "There is a clear agenda for what the Welsh Conservatives stand for, and it's action. "It's action to improve the economy, it's action to improve public services in Wales and it's action to strengthen communities the length and breadth of Wales." Asked about his priority if the Tories won power after the assembly election in May, Mr Davies said: "The first spending commitment is protecting the NHS budget for the lifetime of this parliament, or the assembly's term, the five years. "I would suggest that the outcomes in Wales regrettably aren't as good as we want them to be. "And we want to make sure those outcomes are improved. "That's why we've called for an independent Keogh-style enquiry into the NHS here in Wales so we can make those improvements, not on political whims, but led by clinicians themselves telling us what we need to be doing to improve the health service here in Wales." Prof Sir Bruce Keogh investigated 14 NHS trusts in England for a review into higher-than-expected hospital death rates, published in 2013. Speaking about the Wales Bill on further devolution, the Welsh Conservative leader praised Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb's handling of the legislation, put on hold on Monday after MPs called for a re-think. It followed claims that the draft bill was confusing, and would leave Welsh ministers with fewer powers rather than more. Mr Davies said: "The secretary of state deserves huge credit; for instead of ploughing on with this bill, actually saying 'I've listened to what people have said to me'. "Actually, the Welsh Labour government could learn a lot from this legislative process." First Minister Carwyn Jones had called Monday's announcement on the Wales Bill an "avoidable delay to clear up an avoidable mess".

Labour has been "ploughing on as if they have a divine right to rule" in Wales, the Welsh Conservative leader has said.

Cwmbran-based Douglas Willis Ltd could not prove when the meat was frozen and admitted 12 offences of mislabelling. Caerphilly Magistrates' Court heard the firm broke labelling laws by creating a risk that "hazardous" food could enter the food chain. The case went ahead following a ruling from the Supreme Court. The company, which supplies meat products to catering outlets, was told it had no case to answer in 2011 because it was judged that frozen meat did not pose a risk to public health. But a clarification from the Supreme Court last summer ordered Thursday's retrial, ruling the prosecution did not have to prove the meat was a hazard - only that it was not labelled correctly. Douglas Willis Ltd failed to record when meat was first frozen, and some was found to be several years past the "use by" date given to it when fresh, the court heard. District Judge Richard Williams said the company was "not alleged to have acted intentionally, but it did". The firm was fined a total of £15,000 for 12 offences and must pay £12,000 in costs. The company, which has been in the Willis family for three generations, employs 41 people in Cwmbran, and had a £7.1m turnover last year. In any similar cases in future where frozen meat has a use by date, trading standards officers will be able to prosecute regardless of whether the meat poses a safety risk.

A meat wholesaler has been fined £15,000 for having meat in its freezers which had passed its "use by" date, in some cases by several years.

Seven straight wins have lifted the Warriors into third place in the table. "We've put ourselves in a good position and the players are confident they can finish off well over the next three games," Murray told BBC Scotland. "There is a great desire and passion among the guys to do well again this year. I'm confident that we can do it and go to another Pro12 final." Glasgow lost in the semi-finals in 2013 before reaching the final 12 months later, and went one better last year by beating Munster in the final to be crowned champions. The Warriors are two points behind leaders Leinster and Connacht with three games remaining - away to Scarlets, home to Zebre, and away to Connacht in the final round on 7 May. The top four enter the end-of-season play-off semi-finals, with the top two enjoying home advantage. "We've managed to steadily climb our way back up the league and we've got ourselves back into the top four," said Murray. "Our target is to get in the top four and then, from our performances, we might get in the top two. "But we are in a good place and we're starting to play some really good rugby at the right time of the season." Glasgow travel to Wales to face a Scarlets side sitting three points behind them in fourth and who will be looking to leapfrog their visitors with a victory. "We've played them there already this season in Europe and we beat them 9-6, so we'll take a lot of confidence from that," said Murray. "Our target is to win all three of those games and it depends on what happens in other games. "Other teams in the top four all have hard games, so there could be a lot more ups and downs for all the teams. "There are four good sides in the top four at the moment and, for us to put ourselves in a position where we win it, we have to be better than them." Murray thinks the prospect of a final in Scotland, on Saturday, 28 May, should also provide motivation. "What a great opportunity to go play at a Pro12 final at Murrayfield, but there's a lot of rugby to be played before then," he added.

Assistant coach Kenny Murray says there is a growing belief at Glasgow Warriors that they can retain the Pro12 title.

Government limits to teachers' pay and "real terms cuts" to school budgets risk undermining standards, they warn. "Teachers need a pay rise," they urge, in a joint statement to the School Teachers' Review Body (STRB), which sets their pay. The government said it was attracting "the best and brightest" to teaching. Teachers' pay increases have been limited to 1% or less for the past five years, and the government aims to keep to this limit for the next four years. With long, hard working hours and a relatively low starting salary for a graduate, it is hardly surprising that teacher recruitment is struggling. Qualified teachers in England can expect to start on £22,000 outside London or £27,000 in inner London. In most cases, this is after post-graduate training, a year's school placement and a degree course. And although there is room for growth and progression - based on performance of course - many newly-qualified teachers find the pressures of the job too much and leave soon after taking their first post. Teachers in England have some of the longest hours and largest classes in the developed world, says the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Teaching unions have complained that although their staff were promised a 1% pay rise, this has had to be found from within existing school budgets. Head teachers say school budgets are already at breaking point as they struggle to deal with other inflationary pressures. But the DfE maintains new trainees can benefit from financial support, a good salary, enviable job security and a generous pension. In October, England's education secretary, Nicky Morgan, wrote to the STRB to remind them of this policy. But the joint statement warns that "as pay and prospects improve in comparable occupations", further pressure will be placed on teacher recruitment and retention. This means more children will be taught by teachers who are not specialist in the subjects they teach, it adds. With budgets "at breaking point", schools will struggle to maintain current spending - "let alone afford pay increases", it continues. "The government must fully fund the necessary pay increases for teachers and school leaders in both England and Wales." The six unions are: Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, described four more years of pay austerity as a "false economy". Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said teachers "are already leaving in droves and new graduates looking elsewhere for a career". Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, claimed 160,000 more teachers would be needed over three years to cope with a rapid increase in pupil numbers. But she warned unless the picture improved the government would have little chance of meeting this target. "Schools will have to start increasing class sizes or shutting courses and cutting the subject options available to pupils". And Elaine Edwards, UCAC's general secretary urged the government to reconsider its pay policies "for the sake of our children and young people and the education system as a whole". The STRB is expected to make its recommendations on teachers' pay in April. A Department for Education spokeswoman said it had worked with the profession to "raise the status of teaching", adding that that a record number of highly-qualified graduates and "experienced career changers" were now teaching. She added: "But we are determined to go further, and recognise that some schools find it harder to recruit the teachers they need, which is why we are expanding the great Teach First and Schools Direct programmes and we are launching the National Teaching Service, which will mean more great teachers in schools in every corner of the country."

A "national crisis" in teacher numbers is looming, six unions representing teachers and school leaders in England and Wales have warned.

Scotland Office minister Lord Dunlop was speaking as the House of Lords debated the Scotland Bill. Talks between the UK and Scottish governments on the fiscal framework continued over the weekend, although no agreement has yet been announced. Lord Dunlop said the talks were at a "sensitive and critical point". But he told peers that "significant progress" had been made. Peers agreed to go ahead with detailed scrutiny of the new powers contained in the Scotland Bill despite the lack of agreement on the fiscal framework. Tory former Scottish secretary Lord Forsyth had called for the final day's committee stage debate to be delayed until the fiscal framework was published. But he withdrew his demand after opposition from both the government and Labour. Labour's former chancellor, Lord Darling, said it was "deeply regrettable" that parliament still did not know what the fiscal framework was going to look like. Lord Darling said there were "massive considerations" to take into account in determining tax and welfare. He added: "I struggle to see how it's going to work. If we don't get it right, we could be simply storing up problems for the future, providing rich and fertile grounds for those who seek out grudge and grievance as a way of life." Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney held talks with his UK government counterparts in London on Friday. Mr Swinney said afterwards that progress had been made, but some "significant issues" still remained before a final deal could be agreed. The two government have been locked in protracted discussions about how the block grant that Holyrood receives should be adjusted when new tax powers are devolved to Scotland. Any deal must meet the principle of "no detriment" - the idea that neither the UK or Scottish governments should lose out financially simply as a result of the decision to devolve. Mr Swinney and Scottish Secretary David Mundell are both due to appear before the Scottish Parliament's Devolution Committee on Tuesday, where they will be asked to lay out their positions. With the Scottish Parliament being dissolved next month ahead of May's elections, MSPs on the committee had warned of "very substantial impacts" on their ability to scrutinise any proposals if talks were not concluded by 19 February. But Chief Secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands has said he will not be able to appear before Holyrood's Finance Committee on Wednesday to give evidence to MSPs about the talks. Mr Hands, who has been negotiating on behalf of the UK government during the talks, had previously said he would be "very happy" to appear before MSPs once a deal had been reached. In a letter to the committee, he said: "I fully intend to honour that commitment. Unfortunately, due to parliamentary business I can not attend your committee on 24 February. "I look forward to appearing before your committee once the framework is agreed." In response, committee convenor Kenneth Gibson told Mr Hands: "This would appear to suggest that you do not think an agreement will be reached on the fiscal framework before then." He urged Mr Hands to reconsider, stating: "If this is indeed the case, then it is essential that the Finance Committee has the opportunity to hear from both governments as to why it has not been possible to reach an agreement." The Scottish government has already warned it will pull the plug on the Scotland Bill by recommending MSPs veto the legislation if an agreement over the fiscal framework cannot be found.

A deal on the financial arrangements that will underpin Scotland's new devolution powers "seems within reach", a UK government minister has said.

An altercation broke out between two men inside a fast food outlet about 00:35 BST on Sunday which then continued outside. Police said the suspect is described being aged in his early 20s, of slim to medium build, with cropped dark hair shaved on both sides. Police have appealed for information.

A man in his 30s is in a serious condition in hospital after suffering a head injury during an assault in Belfast city centre.

Researchers said measuring DNA sections in cancer cells gave an "accurate indicator" of disease progression. Shorter DNA structures can leave chromosome ends exposed, accelerating cancer progression and drug resistance. The team believe the study could help doctors in choosing the most effective treatment for individual patients. Researchers from the university's School of Medicine said the tests can be used to predict the outcomes of patients with two different types of blood cancer - the bone marrow cancer myeloma and pre-leukaemia myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The latter is a bone marrow disorder often leading to life-threatening bone marrow failure and even acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Results from two studies, which were funded by the charities Bloodwise and Cancer Research UK, have been published in the British Journal of Haematology. The researchers analysed samples from 134 myeloma patients, 80 MDS patients and 95 AML patients as part of the study. Prof Duncan Baird, who led the research, said: "Our research provides strong evidence that shortening of telomeres [the DNA sections] plays a vital role in the progression of these blood cancers and that a significant number of patients should be receiving different levels of treatment. "The next step is to assess telomere length in larger studies to establish how it can be integrated into existing assessments that predict patient outcome."

A new test that could hold the key to predicting blood cancer patients' survival has been developed by Cardiff University.

Dyfed-Powys Police took to social media on Tuesday to ask for help in tracing Rebecca, saying officers were "very concerned for her". The force said the mother and child were found in the early hours of Wednesday. A spokesman said it was thanks to the public response on Facebook. "Our communities' response to this appeal was significant, with over 1,000 Facebook shares achieved in the first hour and with all parts of Pembrokeshire covered according to the comments posted by our concerned followers," he added.

A missing woman and her baby in Pembrokeshire have been found safe and well after a police Facebook appeal was widely shared.

For 70 years, my father has lived with the shame of what happened to his ship, HMS Hebe, in June 1940. During the evacuation of Dunkirk, he was the chief engine room artificer on board the Hebe, a minesweeper deployed to Dover as a control vessel. The Hebe crossed the Channel to Dunkirk three times during those chaotic days between 27 May and 4 June. "It was torrid, dangerous and nerve-wracking with all-day long German air attacks", says Harold Biles who marked his 28th birthday during the height of the bombardment. "The Hebe was lying about 200 metres off the beach at Dunkirk, and there was just a seething mass of soldiers. All we knew was that we were on the water, they were on the beach and were trying to get to us. "There was constant bombing and shellfire. We just used to wait for nightfall when there was a relaxation, and we could perhaps get some sleep." In the early hours of 29 May 1940, the captain of HMS Hebe sent a gig ashore to the beach at Dunkirk. It was to collect Lord John Gort, the commander-in- chief of the British Expeditionary Force and take him to England. "As we sped back to Dover, I remember seeing Lord Gort standing in the waist of the ship, holding the guardrail to offset the rise and swell of the waves. He was resplendent in his red-trimmed uniform, but he was motionless, with his head sunk to his chest". "It was not for him to receive any acclaim for the evacuation of some 330,000 men and saving them from Nazi POW camps. In his eyes, there was only defeat. He had lost an army." The German bombardment, the trauma and the fatigue were taking a toll on the crew of HMS Hebe, and no doubt other ships involved in the evacuation. My father describes how on the morning of 1 June, he witnessed the first signs of what we now know to be post-traumatic stress, but in those days was sometimes referred to as a "lack of moral fibre". "We were embarking more stores and ammunition back in Dover. An RAF plane flying low overhead was the starting point. A seaman looked up, screamed and fell into convulsions with hysteria. It was contagious and he was joined by three or four others. "Later in the day an order was issued, amazing and ill judged. Anybody feeling the stress of the last week was told to leave the ship and assemble on the dockside in preparation for going to hospital. "About 20 men left the ship and I can still see their grins as they trooped over the gangway. The majority were malingerers but in fairness, the prospect of that final trip was frightening as the Germans were almost on the French beaches." The captain of the Hebe sent for Harold Biles as the Chief Engineer, and the Coxswain. "We both had to tell him that the ship was so depleted of crew that a further sailing was impossible. And so we remained alongside while other craft made the trip, some never to return." To my father's dismay, HMS Hebe played no further part in Operation Dynamo. "This was the greatest blow which sometimes I feel to this day," he says, on the eve of his 98th birthday.

BBC world affairs correspondent Peter Biles has been talking to his father, Harold, about his recollections of the Dunkirk evacuation.

Media playback is not supported on this device Rachel Morris led GB's rowing success with arms-shoulders single sculls gold. Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley won the trunk-and-arms mixed double sculls and the mixed coxed four added a third gold for ParalympicsGB. In track cycling, Lora Turnham won the B 3km individual pursuit and the men's C1-5 team claimed sprint gold in a world record time. Compatriot Neil Fachie won cycling B 1km time trial silver, with Sophie Thornhill, gold medallist in the 1km time trial on Friday, and her pilot Helen Scott taking bronze in the B 3km pursuit. There were British triathlon silvers for Lauren Steadman in the PT4 and Alison Patrick in the PT5, with Melissa Reid taking bronze in the same event. GB's Tom Aggar won bronze in the men's arms-shoulders single sculls. The four rowing medals were won within an hour on the Lagoa water in Rio and Great Britain have now claimed 20 gold medals and 46 overall to sit second in the medal table behind China. Morris, who had both legs amputated because of complex regional pain syndrome, finished ahead of China's Lili Wang, while Israel's Moran Samuel took bronze. The Welsh competitor switched to rowing in 2013 and now has three Paralympic medals across two sports, adding to the hand-cycling time trial gold she won in Beijing in 2008 and bronze at London 2012. "That was the hardest thing I've ever done," she said. "It just goes to show if you have stuff drilled into you every day by the coaches and you do it you can win." The pairing of Whiteley and Rowles was only created last year, when 18-year-old Rowles switched from wheelchair racing to rowing. The duo won silver at last year's World Championships and in Rio beat the silver medal-winning pair from China and the third-placed French team to add a Paralympic title to their collection. James Fox, Pam Relph, Dan Brown and Grace Clough, along with cox Oliver James, defended Great Britain's gold from London 2012 in the mixed coxed four, finishing ahead of the USA and Canada. GB have dominated this event in recent years, taking gold at the past three World Championships - although only Relph, 26, remains from the boat that prevailed in London four years ago. "It feels amazing. Coming through that last 250 metres I knew that we had won it," said Relph. "We knew we were fitter, stronger and faster than our rivals but we still had to deliver." Media playback is not supported on this device Turnham, 26, who has a hereditary sight-loss condition, teamed up with her pilot Corrine Hall to beat New Zealand's Emma Foy to improve on her fourth place at London 2012 and bronze at the World Championships. Jody Cundy, who won gold in the 1,000m time trial on Friday, Jon-Allan Butterworth and Louis Rolfe, bronze medallist in the C2 3,000m pursuit, beat their own world record, set in qualifying, to take team sprint gold. The trio clocked a winning time of 48.635 seconds to beat China by 1.279secs. It was Cundy's seventh Paralympic title across both swimming and Para-cycling and his second in Rio following his disastrous disqualification in the time trial at London 2012. "After four years ago and being the lowest I've ever been this is probably the highest I've ever been," said the 37-year-old. "I was properly nervous for the kilo, I didn't really enjoy it that much. But this one, with these two guys, and the way they have been riding in the last couple of months, it's a pleasure to get up there and perform." London 2012 gold medallist Fachie, who has a congenital eye condition, and his pilot Pete Mitchell finished 0.419 seconds behind gold medallist Tristan Bangma of the Netherlands in the B 1km time trial. Britain had high hopes of bolstering their gold tally in the Para-triathlon, with the event included at a Games for the first time. But Andy Lewis' PT2 gold on Saturday will be GB's only gold, although the women added two silvers and a bronze. Steadman, who was born without a lower right arm, had been favourite to add a Paralympic title to her 2013 and 2014 world crowns. But the 23-year-old former swimmer from Peterborough lost out to the USA's Grace Norman by one minute and four seconds. In the PT5 classification for visually impaired athletes, world champion Patrick, with her guide Hazel Smith, and world bronze medallist Reid, with her guide Nicole Walters, finished second and third respectively behind Katie Kelly of Australia. Britain's Bethany Firth and Jessica-Jane Applegate will take their 200m freestyle S14 rivalry into Sunday's final (22:37 BST). Defending champion Applegate set a new Paralympic record of two minutes 7.95 seconds in her heat, only for Firth, already 100m backstroke gold medallist, to beat that time by 1.99secs. Tom Hamer set a Paralympic record of 1:57.31 in the 200m freestyle S14 heats and Rebecca Redfearn followed suit in the 100m breaststroke SB13 with a time of 1:17.08. Their finals are at 22:29 BST and the 22:09 BST respectively on Sunday. GB's men's wheelchair basketball team made it three wins from three in their group to qualify for the quarter-finals. They beat Germany 66-52 on Friday and will face London 2012 bronze medallists USA on Monday to decide who will be the Group B winners. There is the prospect of double gold in table tennis for Britain, after Will Bayley and Rob Davies progressed to their finals. Bayley, who was born with the muscle-shortening illness arthrogryposis and was a silver medallist four years ago, beat Spain's Jordi Morales 3-1 in the class seven to set up a gold-medal match with Israel Stroh of Brazil on Monday. Davies, who uses a wheelchair after breaking his neck playing rugby, overcame Endre Major of Hungary 3-1 in his semi-final and will meet south Korean Young Dae Joo in the class 1 final on Tuesday.

Britain claimed five more gold medals at the Rio Paralympics, including a best-ever tally of three in the rowing.

After the League Two side's bright start, two quick goals from Diafra Sakho and Andre Ayew gave the Premier League side control before half-time. Sakho slotted in his first goal since November from Sam Byram's pass, before Ayew tucked into the same bottom corner moments later. The hosts went close via Harry Pell's volley and Jordon Forster's header. James Collins and Byram both could have added further goals for the visitors, who made seven changes following top-flight losses at Manchester United and Southampton. The best moment for Cheltenham, who were unchanged from Saturday's 3-0 league defeat by Carlisle, came with Pell's low volley across goal, but onrushing substitute Dan Holman could not quite get the required touch as he slid in at the far post. The two sides' only previous meeting came at the same stage of this competition four years ago, resulting in a narrow 2-1 win for Hammers at their old home Upton Park. The fourth-tier side performed respectfully again on Wednesday, but did not sufficiently test Hammers goalkeeper Adrian. Slaven Bilic's side could have won by a greater margin, but Robins captain Kyle Storer cleared Angelo Ogbonna's fierce header off the line in the first half and, moments later, keeper Jonathan Flatt did well to stop Sakho turning in Ayew's low cross. Cheltenham's exit ended League Two's representation in the EFL Cup before Thursday's third-round draw. Match ends, Cheltenham Town 0, West Ham United 2. Second Half ends, Cheltenham Town 0, West Ham United 2. Foul by Sam Byram (West Ham United). Kevin Dawson (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Cheikhou Kouyaté (West Ham United). Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the right wing. Substitution, West Ham United. Domingos Quina replaces Edimilson Fernandes. Attempt missed. Jordon Forster (Cheltenham Town) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Kyle Storer with a cross following a corner. Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Sam Byram. Attempt missed. Pedro Obiang (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Chicharito with a cross following a corner. Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Jordon Forster. Angelo Ogbonna (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Nigel Atangana (Cheltenham Town). Chicharito (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Carl Winchester (Cheltenham Town). Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Pedro Obiang (West Ham United) because of an injury. Pedro Obiang (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Kyle Storer (Cheltenham Town). Offside, Cheltenham Town. Jamie Grimes tries a through ball, but Brian Graham is caught offside. Attempt missed. Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right misses to the left. Assisted by Kevin Dawson with a cross. Substitution, West Ham United. Cheikhou Kouyaté replaces Mark Noble. Foul by Sam Byram (West Ham United). Dan Holman (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Dan Holman replaces Mohamed Eisa. Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Jordan Cranston. Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Jordon Forster. James Collins (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Brian Graham (Cheltenham Town). Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Brian Graham replaces Daniel Wright. Substitution, West Ham United. Chicharito replaces Diafra Sakho. . Attempt missed. Diafra Sakho (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Pedro Obiang with a cross. Attempt saved. Mohamed Eisa (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin Dawson. Attempt blocked. Mohamed Eisa (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Dawson. Attempt missed. James Collins (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Mark Noble with a cross. Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Jordan Cranston. Attempt blocked. Diafra Sakho (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Arthur Masuaku. Sam Byram (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Kevin Dawson (Cheltenham Town).

West Ham earned their first win of the season as they saw off Cheltenham Town in the EFL Cup second round.

Symbols of every event feature on the design, while the London skyline is included with Tower Bridge, the London Eye, the Shard and Big Ben. The reverse features London Stadium, the championships' venue. The event takes place from 4-13 August and there will be live coverage across the BBC. Medals at July's World Para Athletics Championships, taking place from 14-23 July, will be similar, but feature distinctive disability sport equipment such as a prosthetic running leg and throwing chair. Rather than engraving, the reverse will be inscribed with braille. For the first time at the World Championships, 'coaches medals' will also be handed out to recognise those who prepare athletes.

The World Championships medals that will be won in London this summer have been revealed, with a shape based on the curves of an athletics track.

Reports on Friday had indicated that search teams found survivors six days after the aircraft crashed. But the country's minister for communication later said the message had been put out before it was confirmed. Thirteen people, including civilians, were on board the Mi-17V-5 helicopter. One of them was a four-year-old child. Venezuela's defence minister tweeted a picture of soldiers around a map on Saturday, adding that the search continued with "optimism and faith" despite adverse conditions. The weather in southern Venezuela, where the helicopter crashed, is currently cloudy and stormy with heavy rain.

Officials in Venezuela say the search for a missing military helicopter is continuing in the country's Amazon region.

Ecuele Manga, 27, last featured for Cardiff in their 2-1 defeat at Fulham. "It might be the case that he has malaria. He is out of hospital and will be commencing training later this week," manager Russell Slade told BBC Radio Wales. "That is good news, having suffered a virus of that kind of capacity. We see it all at Cardiff City."

Cardiff City centre-back Bruno Ecuele Manga is recovering from malaria having been released from hospital.

The Murrayfield side are seventh in the table and face a difficult run-in as they seek a top-four finish. "We have five huge games coming up and I think we need to win all of them if we want a shout of the play-offs or even the top six," said Dickinson, 32. "It's really tight in the middle of the table." Dickinson, with Willem Nel and Ross Ford part of an all-Edinburgh first-choice Scotland front row, has returned from international duty for the run-in. The immediate target is a win in Wales on Sunday against Newport Gwent Dragons before a home match against second-bottom Zebre five days later. Away games against Leinster and Munster follow before a Murrayfield date against Cardiff Blues. "We have to think about winning every game, that's what we have to target, starting with Dragons away which is always a brutal encounter," continued the former Gloucester prop. "It's a real tough run-in. We just have to take each game as it comes. We have a tough turnaround Sunday to Friday." Asked to pinpoint what has led to Alan Solomons' men losing five of their last six matches in all competitions, he replied: "It's hard to know exactly what's gone wrong. "We have let ourselves down with errors, a couple of soft tries at times, which have killed us. "Sometimes these breaks between the Six Nations (games) don't help, you lose a bit of momentum, but this morning we had a good session so we are looking at things we need to improve on, just little things. "The guys who haven't been away with the national squad are good enough to win these games. "It's just touching up on our detail and being clinical and finishing the opportunities that we get and in the last few games we just haven't managed to do that."

Edinburgh will probably need to win all five of their remaining Pro12 matches to secure a play-off place, claims loosehead prop Alasdair Dickinson.

Edward Maher was questioning the soldier in charge of risk assessment during the exercise in July 2013. He said instructors did not notice for nearly an hour that his son, L/Cpl Edward Maher, was "overdue, over time, and off track" on the march. Fellow reservists L/Cpl Craig Roberts and Cpl James Dunsby also died. L/Cpl Maher's father questioned why a soldier, known as 1B to protect his identity, did not did not realise his son had gone "off track" until 16:10 BST when he had been expected at the next checkpoint at 15:34 BST. Soldier 1B explained he had only noticed L/Cpl Maher's tracking device on the screen at that time. Mr Maher said: "They were overdue, overtime, off track… do you think that your process had failed?" "At that time sir, no I [didn't]," the soldier replied. Earlier on Tuesday, soldier 1B told the inquest it was not in his thought process to stop the test because most soldiers were doing well during the 16-mile (26km) test on one of the hottest days of that year. He told the hearing in Solihull that of the 78 reservists taking part that day, six had withdrawn by early afternoon - two for medical reasons. But he said he was not concerned because the course was "tough". "They were all completing the march on time.... at that time the two casualties had recovered within 10 minutes… none of the qualified medics there told me they needed qualified assistance," he said. "All of the other runners were all within time… that includes Craig, that includes Ed, that includes James. "Were there alarm bells ringing in my head at that time? No there was not." David Turner QC, representing Cpl Dunsby's widow Bryher, asked 1B if he would have continued the march if commanding officer 1A had told him about the heat illness casualties. "I would have looked at what was going on… everyone is pushing themselves… it takes a different type of person to operate within that theatre, at that time I would have said it would not have been within my thought process to stop that march," he said. Soldier 1B said he told candidates to be aware of the hot weather and rising temperatures, but he did not consider heat exhaustion to be a greater risk than normal. He also said he was not made aware of new guidance on heat injuries and when an exercise should be stopped, following the death of a marine in similar circumstances in 2008. The inquest is continuing.

The father of a reservist who died after attempting an SAS selection exercise in the Brecon Beacons has told an inquest processes "failed" that day.

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Mostly made up of narrow streets, date trees and mud houses, the paramilitary Frontier Corps have a strong presence here as they do in the rest of the province. And it was the Frontier Corps which found itself at the forefront of the violent tremors which flattened much of the town. Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Arif is the officer in charge of the area, and saw his headquarters collapse before his eyes. "My residence is on a small hill. From there, I saw the shockwave ripping through the town and destroying houses with it." "It was a terrible sight which I can never forget." Officials estimate that about 80% of the houses in the Mashkel area collapsed - either partially or completely - in the quake. Army helicopters have been delivering tents from the provincial capital, Quetta. But we saw family after family sitting amid the ruins of their mud-brick houses under open skies with no shelter. Mashkel social worker Lareef Baloch says that most houses in the town are uninhabitable. "The structures still standing are dangerous because they have cracks in them," he told the BBC. "We see army helicopters flying in and out of town, but we haven't received any tents, blankets, medicines or food." The relief operation has been hampered by the remoteness of the affected area. The road journey from Quetta to Mashkel is long and dangerous. Since Tuesday, small aftershocks have continued to hit the area. One survivor told the BBC that he was traumatised by the experience and now has difficulty sleeping at night. The Pakistani army says it has tried its best in the rescue and relief effort. But an army spokesman told the BBC that people of the area will need help from national and international aid groups in the rehabilitation and reconstruction process in the weeks ahead. It could be that ties on the ground will also play a role in providing help to quake victims. Residents of Mashkel have close ties with ethnic Balochs in Iran's Sistan province. Many people have families and relatives on both sides of the border. The town's economy depends on oil smuggling from Iran and the annual date harvest. The BBC saw several vehicles with Iranian registration plates being used to transport people on sandy tracks. When the earthquake struck this week, many people preferred to take their injured across the border to the city of Zahidan in Sistan province. The Iranian authorities were quick to relax border movements to facilitate the relief effort. The road journey from Mashkel to Zahidan takes a few hours, compared with the 15 to 18 hours it takes to reach Balochistan's capital, Quetta. So far, one of the few Islamic charities that has managed to reach the remote town is Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The group, considered close the Pakistani army, is led by Hafiz Saeed, the founder of the banned jihadist outfit, Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The worst affected area of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake which hit south-western Pakistan on Tuesday is the dust-strewn town of Mashkel, located just a few kilometres from the Iranian border in the province of Balochistan.

Instead, it was her namesake, Irish politician Joan Collins, who was arrested at a protest against new water meters in Dublin yesterday. The former Dynasty star tweeted: 'No I am not the Joan Collins Who was a rested (sic) yesterday At a Dublin protest meeting !!! The very idea !!" United Left TD Ms Collins said she was taking part in a "peaceful protest". She later tweeted that she should not be confused with the British screen icon. "For the record I'm not @JoanCollinsOBE as I'd never take an honour from a monarch nor did I wear shoulder pads in the 80s. The very idea!" Veteran actress Joan, 81, was made a dame in the Queen's New Year's honours list last year. She is famous for her roles in films like The Stud and The Bitch, and more recently starred in the TV series The Royals. She was previously a patron of UKIP, but said that does not mean she would vote for them, and has declared herself an admirer of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Irish parliamentarian Ms Collins sits on the opposite end of the political spectrum. She was among 13 people arrested at the demonstration, which was part of continuing protests against the introduction of water charges in Ireland.

Actress Joan Collins has taken to Twitter to deny that she was arrested in the Republic of Ireland.

An app which helps people share pictures of litter and report it to their local council may not seem a threat. But to one of the world's largest corporations it was, with the US internet giant's lawyers saying the name was "unacceptable". Trademark infringement cases are not new, so how have they been won or lost in the past? Back when the iPhone and Macbook were a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye, there was a bigger Apple. Set up by The Beatles in 1968 to release their songs and manage their creative affairs, Apple Corps was the first. The dispute dates back to 1980, when the George Harrison noticed an advert for a fledgling computer company in a magazine. The sides reached a deal in 1981 allowing Apple to use the name as long as it stuck to computers, while The Beatles' company would continue in the entertainment field. With the advent of iTunes and the iPod this changed and battle recommenced. A deal was finally struck in 2007 with Jobs' Apple taking full control of the brand, licensing certain trademarks back to Apple Corps. A popular sandwich bar in Birmingham faced the wrath of Hollywood with its choice of Hungry Hobbit as the name for its business. The cafe chose the name in honour of the author who grew up in the Moseley area. But in 2012 lawyers for the Saul Zaentz Company objected saying it was trademark infringement. A campaign ensued with actor Stephen Fry voicing support for the eatery. As of 2016 its name remains the same. Before Little Mix became chart sensations they were plain old Rhythmix- a group of X Factor contestants pushed together in the hope of forming a successful girl band. Unfortunately for them, and X Factor, the name Rhythmix was already being used by a Brighton charity. Simon Cowell's show eventually caved in and a new name was sought. The four girls were said to have come up with the name Little Mix themselves. A comedy club chain may be responsible for forcing one of the biggest TV hits of the past 10 years to change its name. The owner of The Glee Club, Mark Tughan, took 20th Century Fox to court in 2014 arguing its TV show Glee breached its trademark rights. He won his case. What's more, he recently won an appeal. However, 20th Century Fox said it is planning a fresh round of appeals.

Instagram has ordered the owner of a British anti-litter app to change its name from Littergram, but how have other "David v Goliath" corporate name battles panned out and does the big guy always win?

The 25-year-old has made three appearances since joining the German Bundesliga side on a three-year deal last summer. Greece international Petsos began his career at Bayer Leverkusen, and has had spells at Kaiserslautern, Greuther Furth and Rapid Vienna. He becomes Fulham's first signing of the January transfer window. Meanwhile, striker Stephen Humphrys has extended his contract at Craven Cottage until the summer of 2019, and joined League One side Shrewsbury on loan until the end of the campaign. The 19-year-old has featured three times for the Whites since making his senior debut in December. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here.

Fulham have signed Werder Bremen midfielder Thanos Petsos on loan until the end of the season.

MEP Nathan Gill said he "could not stay in a party that suddenly represented all the things that for 12 years I said it didn't represent". Ms Waters, who founded the Sharia Watch pressure group, is one of 11 candidates in the race. Her bid has split the party, with many angry she has been allowed to run. Former Labour activist Ms Waters believes her anti-Islam message, including a proposed ban on burkas, the closure of sharia councils and a temporary freeze on all immigration, will appeal to many voters. She has argued UKIP could regain support if it had the "guts" to be "honest about Islam" and challenge the view that it had "nothing to do" with jihadist violence. But Mr Gill said he could not support those views and said "a lot of my colleagues feel the same way as well". He told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme: "I don't have a dog in this race, I am not backing any of the candidates. "But I do know that I have got red lines and if I see the party going in any direction that it absolutely should not be going in then I cannot remain a member of that party." The candidates to replace Paul Nuttall - who stood down after UKIP's poor performance in June's general election - are: Voting papers will be sent to party members over the next few weeks and the new leader will be announced at the party's annual conference in Torquay, held on 29 and 30 September. Mr Gill also criticised the party's delay in addressing concerns raised about UKIP assembly member Michelle Brown, following a row over racial slurs she made about a Labour MP. The North Wales AM called Streatham MP Chuka Umunna a "coconut" in a recorded call in May 2016 to her then senior adviser Nigel Williams. She later apologised. Mr Gill claimed the issue, which the party postponed making a decision on at its National Executive Meeting, had been "kicked into the long grass". "I have said very clearly that I think that Michelle Brown should be expelled from the party," he said. "We have to show, very clearly, what we are not - and we are not a racist party and I fought so strongly for that."

The former leader of UKIP in Wales has said he would leave the party if anti-Islam campaigner Anne Marie Waters won the leadership election.

United trail Kilmarnock by five points with six games left for play in the quest to remain in the Premiership. "I think it will be tough and I think it will go right down to the wire," said the United manager. "We do know that Kilmarnock will lose, Kilmarnock will win and they will probably draw. We just need to win more than them in order to survive." Paatelainen thinks his side can still overtake Kilmarnock even if the gap remains the same after the Ayrshire side host St Johnstone as Inverness Caledonian Thistle visit Tannadice on Saturday. There will be five games left as the Premiership splits into two sections of six teams and the United manager does not rule out Hamilton Academical, who are four points ahead of Kilmarnock, being drawn into the relegation battle. "It is still a comfortable cushion Kilmarnock have, but there is still a long way to go with plenty of points at stake," he said. "We have certainly given ourselves a chance. "It depends on how the teams above us do. If they win all their matches, it will be very difficult for us, impossible for us. "A lot can happen in those five matches. You play one another and play against teams pretty close to you and it will be a very interesting end to the season." United were 13 points adrift at one stage, so Paatelainen was not too downhearted about the midweek defeat by Partick Thistle. "We've been playing well, but we haven't been winning enough for our liking," he said. "We need to find more of that consistency in order to survive. Media playback is not supported on this device "I think our players have shown tremendous character not to give up, not to put the tools away, keep believing. "That's why the gap is down to five points and that gives us hope." One thing Paatelainen is sure of is that Kilmarnock will at some point secure their first win since Lee Clark took over as manager from Gary Locke. "Look at their squad," he stressed. "Some excellent players and they have a manager whose been around, who knows the score, he knows the game. "They will win. They've got goalscorers and solid defenders and very energetic midfielders."

Dundee United manager Mixu Paatelainen expects the battle to avoid relegation to last until the season's final game.

Media playback is not supported on this device Victory in Toulouse on Monday would secure Wales' spot in the knockout phase, in their first major international tournament since 1958. "This team has got the potential to go on and on. They've got everything to look forward to," said Coleman. "We are in a fantastic position. Nevertheless, there's more to come." Wales, who beat Slovakia 2-1 in their opening game before losing 2-1 to England, could still qualify for the last 16 with a draw against Russia. Coleman added: "Whilst everybody will look at this game as the be all and end all, whether we progress or not it's not the end of the journey for this team. "Our players have done unbelievably well. It's been an eye-opener and hard, of course. It's really intense but it's been enjoyable." Coleman said that, however far Wales progress in France, the players will "learn from this tournament". He said: "This group, this team, they can't lose because whenever we go home, whenever that time is, we have gained so much experience. "Normally we get to a certain level and in June we are playing a friendly game - we are playing the Netherlands, who are already qualified and who are planning for a tournament. "Now we are at a tournament ourselves and this group gets all the praise and accolades they deserve. And it is not over for us." Joe Allen has welcomed Wales' Euro 2016 day of destiny by saying the squad are determined to have no regrets over the tournament. "You don't want it to be the be all and end all in the sense that you take your foot off the pedal at any time in the future," said Allen. "You want to make sure that this is something that we get to experience again, but playing at this stage as a footballer is the highest level - and we certainly want to make sure that there are no regrets on our part. "I think coming off the pitch no matter what happens, we're confident we'll do the business. "We want to make sure that we throw absolutely everything at it. "We're confident that we can get ourselves into the knock-out rounds and, after that, who knows what could happen?" Allen says Wales will shut out what is happening in the England game with Slovakia as qualification is in their own hands. The two matches will be played simultaneously as Group B draws to a conclusion. And the Liverpool midfielder promises a positive approach against Russian opponents who need to win to keep their own last 16 hopes alive. "It's a difficult one," he said. "It's one where people think if you set up just to cling on to that point it can often be the downfall of teams. "That won't be our approach, but it is one where we want to make sure we are more in control of how we go about our performance. "Performing well is first and foremost what we want to do, because we know when the focus is on doing that then the results come with it." Wales assistant boss Osian Roberts confirmed Wales have a fully-fit squad to choose from for the Russia game. Pick the XI that you think can take Wales far at Euro 2016 - and then share it with your friends using our team selector.

Wales boss Chris Coleman says Euro 2016 is "not the end of the journey" for his squad as they prepare to face Russia for a place in the last 16.

His side beat Cheshire on Sunday to retain the title they won last year. However, with crowds at the final falling, there is speculation that the Rugby Football Union could take the game to a smaller ground in future. "Hopefully they don't take it away from the stadium, because young players want to play at this stadium," said Dawe. "It all depends on the RFU, doesn't it? How they keep this competition going, how they keep it alive." Cornwall have now reached the showpiece game in each of the last four years. The final of the competition, also known as the Bill Beaumont Cup, has been played at Twickenham since 1984. "It is a problem, it's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination," Dawe added to BBC Sport. "All you can do is the best with what you're dealt and don't look at it too gloomily, but who knows what the future holds."

Cornwall coach Graham Dawe hopes the County Championship final is not moved from Twickenham as part of a potential revamp of the competition.

Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are due to join an EDL march in Woolwich, where Drummer Lee Rigby was killed. The pair are prominent "anti-Islamisation" campaigners in the US. Home affairs committee chairman Keith Vaz claims their presence will fuel hatred and is calling for them to be denied visas. Mr Vaz said: "I am alarmed that the EDL is planning this type of march in Woolwich. It is clear that the location, motivation and attendees at this march will incite hatred. "Adding incendiary speakers such as Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer just fuels the fire. "Before we have to pay the costs for the extra policing required for this demonstration, the Home Secretary should consider using her discretion to ban these two speakers from entering the country. "A ban should be enforced properly and physically stop people entering our borders." The Home Office said it did not routinely comment on individual cases but the home secretary was aware of Mr Vaz's letter and would be responding in due course. Mrs May has the power to exclude non-British citizens from the UK if she considers their presence to be "not conducive to the public good" but she must act in a "reasonable, proportionate and consistent" way. Ms Geller, of the Atlas Shrugs blog, and Mr Spencer, of Jihad Watch, are co-founders of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, best known for a pro-Israel "Defeat Jihad" poster campaign on the New York subway. The poster, which caused controversy in the US when it appeared last year, read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad." The pair plan to join Danish activist Anders Gravers, of Stop Islamisation of Europe, and EDL leaders Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll, at the event, on Armed Forces Day, Saturday, 29 June, where they will lay a wreath at a memorial to Drummer Rigby. Anti-fascist campaign Hope Not Hate has started a petition calling on Mrs May to deny Ms Geller and Mr Spencer a visa on the grounds that "their very presence in the UK will give encouragement to racists and extremists". A spokesman for Hope Not Hate told the BBC News website the group was also unhappy about Mr Gravers' planned presence at the EDL event, but said he could not be denied entry to the UK because he was an EU citizen. He denied the group wanted to stifle free speech and said it would also be against "Islamist hate preachers" entering the UK, adding: "We don't need people coming to this country to cause trouble." On Twitter, Ms Geller has reacted to the campaign by calling it an example of "fascism and hate" and "SS-like thuggery". On her blog, she claimed "Islamic supremacists and leftist thugs are strong-arming British authorities to ban us" and vowed to resist efforts to ban her and Mr Spencer from the EDL event. Scotland Yard said that it was aware of the march and would have an appropriate policing plan in place. Last month, British National Party leader Nick Griffin was stopped from attending a march in Woolwich on the grounds that it would inflame community tensions. Instead members of the right wing party marched at Westminster, sparking clashes with rival anti-fascist protesters.

Home Secretary Theresa May is considering banning two US bloggers from entering the UK to speak at an English Defence League rally.