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Provide a summary of the section below. | About 70 firefighters were called to the grass fire at Stoney Castle Ranges near Pirbright on Saturday evening.
Surrey Fire and Rescue Service said 50 hectares of heathland was alight, with 200 more being affected by the blaze.
The smoke can be seen for miles around. Nearby residents have been urged to keep their windows shut.
The heath at Pirbright is home to species including the silver-studded blue butterfly, slow worms and lizards.
A spokesman for Surrey Fire and Rescue Service said: "We have been fighting the fire overnight with six fire appliances and a number of specialist wildfire vehicles, with approximately 50 firefighters.
"These fire crews are using over 10km of hose."
He added: "The fire is affecting 200 hectares, with 50 hectares alight, this can be seen from a considerable distance, with smoke affecting surrounding areas including Pirbright Common, Ash Ranges, Deepcut and Mytchett."
People living nearby have been urged to keep their doors and windows closed due to the smoke.
Surrey Police want to speak to a man wearing a camouflage top, blue jeans and black boots who was seen in the area when the fire started.
Pienaar suffered a knee injury in the defeat by Leinster and may also miss Ulster's two upcoming European games.
Front-rowers Rob Herring and Rodney Ah You will be out for four to six weeks after suffering knee ligament damage in the Leinster game.
Forwards Wiehahn Herbst and Roger Wilson have also suffered injuries.
Prop Herbst will be out for at least a month after sustaining a calf injury in training last week, while Wilson will miss the Scarlets match after straining a knee in the game at the RDS.
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Wing Craig Gilroy remains on the absentee list after suffering an ankle injury in training and prop Kyle McCall's absence for four to five months has been confirmed by Ulster following surgery on his torn hamstring before Christmas.
Marcell Coetzee (knee), Peter Nelson (foot), Ricky Lutton (toe), Alan O'Connor (concussion), Stuart Olding (calf), Jared Payne (kidney) and Matthew Rea (shoulder) remains out of contention for Friday's game, although Robbie Diack and Ross Kane will be available following injury absences.
Ulster will also hope to have Ireland stars Rory Best, Iain Henderson and Paddy Jackson available after they were ruled out of the Dublin game because of the IRFU's player management programme.
South African star Pienaar is being forced to leave Ulster at the end of this season following a controversial decision by the IRFU and will be disappointed to miss the upcoming games as his departure looms.
After leading the Pro12 table following five opening wins, Ulster have slipped to sixth spot having lost four of their past six games.
Ulster do have a game in hand on the top five sides following the postponement of their home match against Zebre but defeat in Wales would leave Les Kiss's side at least eight points off a play-off spot. | Fire crews are tackling a large wildfire in Surrey days after a blaze destroyed about 40 hectares of heathland in the same area.
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Struggling Ulster have suffered further injury blows including the loss of South African back Ruan Pienaar for Friday's Pro12 game against Scarlets. |
Summarize the provided information. | The Magpies were woeful and conceded in the fourth minute when Shane Long ran past a hapless defence and slotted in.
Graziano Pelle swept home the second just before the break and Victor Wanyama drilled in to make it 3-0 after Pelle's shot was blocked.
Newcastle barely threatened but earned a consolation through Andros Townsend's stunning strike.
The result leaves the Magpies six points shy of 17th place Norwich, who have played a game more, with six matches remaining.
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It says a lot about Newcastle's fans - many travelling more than 330 miles - that they applauded their side off after yet another insipid display.
They provided the only solace for the players, who slumped to their ninth successive away defeat. Rafael Benitez's side now have six games remaining to preserve their Premier League status. With four of those games at home, it is possible, but not even their passionate supporters will be confident.
Newcastle went into the game having only twice won at Southampton in 16 league attempts. And after just four minutes they looked set for a fourth successive loss at St Mary's when Long drifted past weak challenges from Vurnon Anita and Steven Taylor to open the scoring.
Anita was playing out of position at left-back, while neither Chancel Mbemba nor Steven Taylor impressed at centre-half.
The best of the defensive bunch, Daryl Janmaat, slipped and injured himself in the build-up to Pelle's goal before Mane exposed further frailties on Newcastle's left side after the break, resulting in Wanyama's strike.
Yes, but the defence has to improve markedly. Under Benitez's short tenure there had been initial improvements, but Newcastle have now conceded six goals in two games.
The saving grace might be the attack. There is enough firepower through Aleksandar Mitrovic, Giorginio Wijnaldum and Andros Townsend.
Townsend, who signed in January, scored a peach of a goal, having gone close moments earlier. Sadly for the Magpies, it came when they 3-0 down.
Good, but they probably only reached third gear. They pressed the Newcastle defence from the whistle, knowing that they could force a mistake.
Long troubled the backline with his pace, while Pelle pulled both Mbemba and Taylor - who was substituted at half-time - out of position.
Jordy Clasie was once again tireless in his closing down, with Newcastle playmaker Jonjo Shelvey failing to impose himself on the contest.
The Saints are within spitting distance of a European spot and they will assisted by the long-awaited return of Jay Rodriguez. The England forward made his first appearance since October after recovering from foot surgery.
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Southampton manager Ronald Koeman, speaking to BBC Sport: "The performance was not everything I wanted, because I think in the second half, we had to score more goals. We created good chances. The key to winning was how we started, with a good spirit and a high tempo.
"It's all about how you start the game. We know the situation of Newcastle. If you give them the belief at the start, it can be very dangerous. A fast goal gave us the boost to continue. There was good movement and good goals.
"It's fantastic to see Rodriguez back, first of all for the player. He worked very hard to come back. It's up to the manager to give him that game time. He will be a very good player us in the future for us. It's important for Jay to get that game time to improve. That will not happen in one or two weeks. You need more time for that."
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Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez, speaking to BBC Sport: "To be fair, the last three games have been the same. I've been saying the same thing. Second half we did much better but I'm really disappointed with the first half. Everyone needs to know that we have a lot of people behind us and so we need to give everything.
"Normally when you are in the position we are in, when you start the game conceding a goal, it's not the best.
"We have to show more character like we did in the second half. We have four more games at home and we will need everyone's support there. In the second half, the team showed we had character.
"It important that everybody continues to believe. The anxiety is killing us sometimes. If we can control these things then things will change."
Newcastle host Swansea next Saturday and Southampton are away at Everton on the same day. | Southampton eased to a comfortable win over desperate Newcastle, who edge closer to Premier League relegation. |
Provide a concise overview of the following information. | The deadline for reaching an agreement was 30 June, but all parties agreed to extend it by another week, to 7 July.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that a deal was now "within reach".
But US President Barack Obama has said he will still "walk away from the negotiations if... it's a bad deal".
And Iran's President Hassan Rouhani warned: "If the other side breaches the deal, we will go back to the old path, stronger than what they can imagine."
The so-called P5+1, which includes the US, UK, France, China and Russia plus Germany, want Iran to scale back its sensitive nuclear activities to ensure that it cannot build a nuclear weapon.
Iran, which wants international sanctions that have crippled its economy lifted in exchange, has always insisted that its nuclear work is peaceful.
The extension of the talks for a few days was widely expected, the BBC's Bethany Bell reports from Vienna, where the talks are being held.
She said differences on the key issues remained, including the timing of sanctions relief and the question of access for UN nuclear inspectors.
However diplomats say the sides are closer to a deal than they have ever been, she notes.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif returned to the talks on Tuesday, along with Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) chief Ali Akbar Salehi and Hossein Fereidoun, President Rouhani's younger brother and special adviser.
The presence of Mr Salehi was a sign of Iran's serious desire to accelerate the negotiations and achieve a comprehensive deal, Iran's state news agency Irna said.
On Monday, the US warned that a framework deal agreed in Switzerland in April had to remain the basis for a comprehensive agreement.
It followed a speech by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters, in which he rejected the key demands of the P5+1.
He insisted Iran would only dismantle its nuclear infrastructure if the sanctions were lifted first. He also ruled out a freeze on research and development for 10 years, as well as inspections of military sites.
In the US, President Obama has until 9 July to submit details of a final accord to Congress, triggering a 30-day review period before it can be signed and any US sanctions waived.
If a deal is submitted after 9 July, the review period will be doubled to 60 days. | Iran and six world powers have extended into next week their talks on finding a comprehensive agreement of Tehran's nuclear programme. |
Summarize the information in the following document. | The collapse of retailer BHS will be discussed in a week's time, following a highly critical report by the Business and Pension Committees.
An amendment has now been added to that debate, calling for Sir Philip's honour to be cancelled.
It is believed to be the first time that MPs have ever debated a motion on whether to annul an honour.
The motion has been put forward by Conservative MP Richard Fuller and independent MP Michelle Thomson, and comes less than two months after the final BHS store closed its doors. The vote will be on 20 October.
The task of annulling knighthoods is not in the gift of the House of Commons, but instead rests with an ad hoc committee, known as the Honours Forfeiture Committee, which is chaired by the head of the civil service. The parliamentary motion "calls on the Honours Forfeiture Committee to cancel and annul [Sir Philip Green's knighthood]".
Sir Philip, whose retail empire includes Top Shop, Top Man, Burton and Dorothy Perkins was granted an honour just over a decade ago, in June 2006. It was given "for services to retail", but his reputation as a retailer has been severely damaged over the past year.
Sir Philip has come under relentless scrutiny since selling BHS for £1 to a little-known entrepreneur, Dominic Chappell, in March 2015.
Mr Chappell had barely any experience of working in retail, and had been declared bankrupt at least twice. What followed was a year of decline and collapse, with the chain going into administration a year after its sale, before closing its doors for good a few months later.
The failure of BHS put 11,000 people out of work, and also left behind a pension scheme that had a shortfall of around £570m. Sir Philip says he is in talks about how to close that gap, but he has faced criticism for his stewardship of the company, and his failure to sort out its troubled pension scheme.
"His actions at BHS were of such a nature as to make it faintly ridiculous for him to continue to warrant an award for services to retailing," Mr Fuller told BBC Newsnight. "I'm putting forward this amendment for the simple reason that he warrants losing his knighthood.
"This is about expressing a legitimate sentiment about the way someone has behaved - it's not populist screaming, it's not a deal being done behind closed doors."
The prospect of Sir Philip losing his knighthood was first raised in June by Frank Field, chair of the Pensions Committee. At the time, Sir Philip said it was an attempt "to destroy my reputation".
Sir Philip has a fortune estimated at more than £3bn. During his ownership of BHS, he was paid more than £400m in dividends. Those close to him say his knighthood remains a source of great pride to him and to his family. | MPs are set to vote on whether Sir Philip Green should be stripped of his knighthood, BBC Newsnight has learned. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | How many British people have bought a bar of chocolate on holiday somewhere outside Europe and been surprised at how different it tastes?
EU rules demand chocolate contains 30% cocoa - compared with only 10% in the US - and that is what makes British chocolate so delicious, says emeritus Professor Mike Gordon.
"A high cocoa content is important to give it a good flavour," said the retired food and nutritional sciences lecturer at the University of Reading.
"I remember having a Hershey bar in the 1960s which was pretty poor quality, but I've not tried US chocolate for many years," he said.
The quintessentially British Cadbury's chocolate has been made at the Bournville factory in Birmingham since 1905.
The regal-looking purple-wrapped bars contain up to 5% vegetable fats under EU law but it is not added to the recipe across the pond.
So if the UK left the EU, could Cadbury's American owner change the recipe to suit its own tastes or even take production away from Britain altogether?
Snack giant Mondelez International, which owns Kraft and took over Cadbury in 2010, said it was watching the EU referendum campaign closely.
"As a business that sells products across the EU, we look forward to having clarity on the UK's role within Europe so that we can have certainty and make long term plans for our business," a spokesman said.
But there were no plans to move production out of Bournville, which he called "the heart and home of Cadbury".
In 2014, Mondelez invested £75m to upgrade lines at the factory, which it hailed as "the best place in the world" to make bars such as Dairy Milk.
But the company remained tight-lipped when pressed on the possibility of recipe changes in the event of the "leave" vote winning the EU referendum on 23 June.
"We can't say anything else at this point," the spokesman said.
Changes to the nation's favourite chocolate brands do not go unnoticed.
There was online outcry last year when the chocolate shell of Cadbury's Creme Eggs was changed from Dairy Milk to "standard, traditional Cadbury milk chocolate".
Fans of the Fruit and Nut bar were similarly unhappy a few months later when sultanas were added to the recipe along with raisins.
And the new curved shape of Dairy Milk, which saw the bar shrink from 49g to 45g, sparked a debate on whether it changed the taste.
"The big confectionery companies go to great lengths to ensure consistent flavours at the lowest price, so the chances of noticing any change [if Britain left the EU] are very low," said chocolate expert Dom Ramsey.
Mr Ramsey runs a craft-chocolate making business in London and believes companies such as his would be hit hardest by leaving the EU.
"Smaller makers are more likely to be focused on quality, making it increasingly difficult to sell an already higher-priced product if things like import duties come into play," he said.
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Since 2000, all EU member states must sell British chocolate containing:
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Brits and Americans were united in spotting differences in taste between US and UK chocolate in BBC blind tests.
One British taster, Alexandra Dimsdale, described US Cadbury as having a "chemical fruity taste", UK Cadbury as "delicious and comforting" and Hershey's as "more oily".
Meanwhile, Sidhartha Nilakanta said the Cadbury made in his home country was "creamy and sticky", the UK version "just average" and Hershey's a "little chalky".
Hershey, which has the licence to make Cadbury products in the US, blocked the import of the UK version to protect its American brand but said that was nothing to do with differences in taste.
The ban led to Brits living across the Atlantic stockpiling their favourite bars before shops ran out.
Another London-based chocolate consultant, Jennifer Earle, said the UK had a history of doing chocolate differently from the rest of Europe.
In 2000, the UK won a 27-year-battle to make its EU partners sell British chocolate made with up to 5% vegetable fats or up to 20% milk content across all member states.
"We've always had that exception and that's what people like over here so I don't think it would have much effect if we left the EU," she said.
Before the EU ruling "chocolate purist countries" Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Germany, Greece and Holland banned vegetable fats from their own and imported chocolate.
"Cocoa butter is the only fat that should be used in chocolate," says fellow purist Angus Thirlwell, who co-founded British high-end brand Hotel Chocolat.
Mr Thirlwell's mantra is "more cocoa less sugar" and his milk chocolate contains a minimum of 40% cocoa.
He said two world wars and rationing were to blame for diminishing the cocoa content of British chocolate.
"There was a temptation that people had got used to that taste and sugar was 10 times cheaper than cocoa so British chocolate has never really recovered," he said.
"Historically the amount of cocoa in counter line chocolate has gone down and down and down and I can't see that bottom being reached yet.
"British chocolate brands have been taken over by American companies and they are increasingly pulled towards the orbit of American approach to chocolate."
Mr Thirlwell believes it is "unacceptable" for a bar to be called chocolate if the largest ingredient is not cocoa.
"It should be called candy," he said. "If we leave the EU perhaps Britain could create our own standards that are more rigorous."
So leaving the EU could allow British chocolate makers to break free from regulations and change their recipes.
But as a nation so passionate about our bars, with palates highly sensitive to change, it seems unlikely the chocolate manufacturers would want to leave a bad taste in our mouths. | The British are a nation of chocolate lovers but could leaving the EU make our best-loved bars taste bad? |
Summarize the information in the following document. | Newport will face the Premier League giants if they beat Plymouth Argyle in their second-round replay on Wednesday.
County are using a special pitch cover at Rodney Parade to ensure the games is not a victim of the weather.
"It's a massive game for us. The lads are buzzing, they are ready to go," Jackson said.
"The money would be massive for the club and we as players know we would get to play at Anfield.
"In League Two that's not something you get to do every day. It would be something to tell the grandkids.
"It would be the biggest game of my career so I'm going to be doing everything I can to help my team get there."
County boss, Graham Westley, said he had no fresh injury concerns, but Newport will be without Sean Rigg, who is still suspended after being sent off in the original game at Home Park, which ended 0-0. | Newport County striker Marlon Jackson says the chance to play Liverpool at Anfield in the FA Cup would be "something to tell the grandkids". |
Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | Plans, backed by councillors in December, call for exclusion zones.
In a report to be discussed on Thursday, head of legal services Gary Williams says: "Merely passing a resolution banning drones would have no legal effect."
The UK Government is currently consulting on the safe use of drones.
Council officers have been examining what legal powers they might have.
Mr Williams said an order introduced in 2016 under the Civil Aviation Act dealt with drones and contained strict controls over their use.
"It does not seem possible to further govern drones in flight (but) it may be possible to regulate the take-off or landing of drones from council-owned property," he added.
"There is a risk that any byelaw created in respect of this issue is, to all intents and purposes, practically unenforceable."
Mr Williams said Welsh Government guidance states councils should not all adopt byelaws over the matter. | Efforts to ban drones from being flown over public places in Denbighshire are "virtually unenforceable", a senior official has said. |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | The incident happened on the Glasgow to Aberdeen service on Saturday between 21:55 and 22:15.
BTP said he was racially abusive towards staff in the middle carriage.
He was described as about 5ft 8in tall, with short dark hair and olive-coloured skin, wearing dark jeans, a maroon top and a dark jacket. | A man who used "racially-offensive language" on a train between Stonehaven and Aberdeen is being sought by British Transport Police. |
Please summarize the passage below. | After an unsuccessful loan spell with Wolves, the 34-year-old rejoined Dale from Wigan on a short-term deal.
"You've got to give advice at times in the game when we could have done things better," he told BBC Radio Manchester.
"It's not naivety, it's youthfulness - they'll learn. You pass advice on and they take it and if they use it, it's fantastic."
Holt scored in Rochdale's 2-0 win against Sheffield United, his first goal in 19 competitive games, during which he has played for four clubs in a run stretching 15 months.
"Everyone can see I'm enjoying myself," he said. "It's been difficult, I haven't had much game time for the last few months.
"I've still got a career ahead of me and I want to keep playing football and keep enjoying it."
The former Norwich City and Aston Villa forward feels satisfied with his progression at Rochdale, despite being limited to substitute appearances since his return to Spotland.
"You always want to play and start games but that's a manager's prerogative to do what he feels, I haven't played 90 minutes for a long time due to injury," he added.
"We're doing it the right way, we're building it up. I'm doing what is needed to do and it's another step closer to where I want to be."
Catherine Johnston went missing on Tuesday. Her car, a white Seat Leon, was later found in the Ballintoy Harbour area.
Police and Ms Johnston's family said they are becoming increasingly concerned for her safety.
Initial searches were suspended in the early hours of Wednesday due to poor light.
It is understood that the search operation, involving police and the coastguard, is concentrated around the Dunseverick Castle and Carrick-a-rede areas.
Insp Sammy McConnell said: "A white Seat Leon car, which we believe Catherine was driving, has been found in the Ballintoy Harbour area. There is currently a joint police and coastguard search under way.
"I would appeal to anyone who saw this white Seat Leon car travelling between Belfast and the North Coast or anyone who has any information to contact police."
Ms Johnston is described as being approximately 5'9" tall, of average build and with light brown shoulder length hair. | Rochdale striker Grant Holt says he can act as a mentor to younger players after returning to the club.
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A major air and sea search is under way in County Antrim for a missing 39-year-old woman from east Belfast. |
Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | The Welsh government blamed "technical issues" but Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant said it would restart.
The move follows calls by Whale and Dolphin Conservation, Marine Conservation Society and ClientEarth to pull it.
They said it was unfairly weighted towards dredging, which destroys almost everything". | A consultation over plans for a protected marine area in Cardigan Bay for scallop dredging has been halted. |
Summarize the content provided below. | Darren Gilpin, from Edinburgh, was in the boat with another man when it capsized in the Killin area on Saturday evening.
His companion made it to the shore and raised the alarm. A major operation was launched, involving shoreline patrols and a search and rescue helicopter.
But on Sunday night, police said they had recovered a body.
Couch, who claimed a career-best individual 10m World Series silver at the weekend, has regularly finished on the podium alongside new synchronised partner Lois Toulson this season.
Elizabeth Ferris was the last GB woman to secure an Olympic diving medal, with bronze at the 1960 Games in Rome.
"To get to the top you have to aim for the top," Couch, 26, told BBC Sport.
"At my first Olympics in 2008 I was there to enjoy diving for Team GB and there was no chance of a medal, but now I have more experience and I'm competition ready, so it would be lovely to achieve my [Olympic medal] dream."
Couch was controversially denied a place in the individual 10m platform competition at London 2012 and finished fifth alongside Sarah Barrow in the 10m synchronised event.
Barrow's chronic shin injury problems saw the pair broken up last year, with Couch partnered by rising star and European Games champion Toulson for the National Diving Cup in January.
A sluggish performance there saw Barrow and Couch re-united for the Rio Test Event, where they secured Team GB a 10m synchro Olympic berth.
However, Barrow has since been dropped from the GB squad, with Couch and Toulson going on to secure four successive World Series medals over the last couple of months.
"It hasn't been easy," admitted Couch. "But I'm quite laid back and easy-going, so I've not let it affect me too much.
"At the beginning it was a bit rushed [with Toulson] as we hadn't had much time together to practise, but now we're training really well and we're on the right track."
British Diving is currently enjoying a period of impressive World Series success, which follows a record-breaking 2015 World Championships.
Olympic bronze medallist Tom Daley and new synchronised diving partner Dan Goodfellow, as well as 3m springboard duo Jack Laugher and Chris Mears have regularly finished on the podium this season.
"It's amazing to watch and it's incredible what Great Britain is doing at the moment," she told BBC Sport.
Couch's next major event will be the European Championships at the London Aquatic Centre in May, ahead of the Olympic selection trials in Sheffield the following month.
"I would love to get a gold medal with Lois at the Europeans and it would be an amazing confidence boost," she said.
"The last time I won one was in 2012 with Sarah Barrow, so it would be great to do it again in Olympic season.
"I just can't wait to get out and perform in front of a big crowd.
"All of that support and competing for Great Britain is what you dream of as a child and, although it's a bit of pressure, it's good pressure and I think it always helps to have a few nerves."
With 100 days to go until Rio 2016, the British Olympic Association [BOA] have launched the Team GB fan club where people can sign up for updates about GB athletes in the build up to the Games and beyond. | Police searching for a 29-year-old canoeist who went missing on Loch Tay in Perthshire have found a man's body.
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Tonia Couch believes she can end Britain's 56-year wait for a women's Olympic diving medal at Rio 2016. |
Summarize the provided section. | Perry, who is 65, had been performing with his side project the Hollywood Vampires, alongside Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper in Brooklyn.
Footage posted online by fans showed Perry staggering off stage mid-song, while the band continued to play.
He was taken to hospital where he is said to be in a stable condition.
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"He sat down during the song and then walked off behind the drum set," Kevin Phalon, an audience member, told NBC News.
"After that, you could see a whole bunch of backstage people run off to the left side of the stage."
A tweet from Perry's Twitter account thanked fans for their concern.
"He is stable right now, with family and is under the best care," it said.
Alice Cooper also tweeted his thanks to "everyone asking about our brother @JoePerry".
The band's Twitter account said: "Joe Perry is stable and resting. His brother Vampires and fans wish him a speedy recovery."
The supergroup are in the middle of their US tour and are due to play next in Kettering, Ohio, on 12 July.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or email [email protected]. | Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has been taken to hospital after becoming ill on stage in New York. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | The international trade secretary told the BBC he had no ideological objection to interim arrangements to minimise disruption after the UK's exit in 2019.
But he said he did not want them to "drag on" beyond the date of the next general election, scheduled for 2022.
The cabinet is said to be united behind a transition although reports it could last four years have been downplayed.
Chancellor Philip Hammond is reported to support a lengthy transitional period to bring certainty to business, which is concerned about the impact on trade and employment of a "cliff-edge" departure.
Newspaper reports on Friday suggested ministers had accepted it could last anywhere between two and four years.
Mr Fox, who is in Washington for discussions on future trade relations with the US, told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that it was "perfectly reasonable" for there to be a transition period to ensure the process was as "smooth as possible" for British business and foreign investors.
But he suggested that voters would want any "voluntary" arrangement to end by the time of the next general election, due to take place in May 2022.
And he said he would want the UK to be able to negotiate its own trade deals during that period so it could take "full advantage" of its new status.
"Having waited over 40 years to leave the EU, 24 months would be a rounding error.
"Whether that is 23 or 25 is not a huge deal and neither is it an ideological one.
"It is about the practical issues we would face, such as getting any new immigration system into place, getting any new customs system into place."
However, he made clear there would have to be clarity not only on the duration of any transitional phase but what limitations it would place on the UK.
Several Conservative MPs have suggested that any deal which required the UK to accept continued free movement for a limited period of time or the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in return for continued temporary membership of the single market would be unacceptable.
Mr Fox added: "I think we would want to get it out of the way before the election.
"I don't think people would want to have it dragging on. I think we would have to be very clear it was time-limited and limited in its scope."
"It is imperative that we leave the EU first and that any implementation period is done "voluntarily" alongside the EU to minimise any disruption."
The head of the powerful trade body representing German car manufacturers has told the BBC there will be a threat to jobs and investment in Britain if the UK leaves both the single market and the customs union.
Matthias Wissman, whose members include Volkswagen, BMW and Porsche, said his preferred option was for the UK to adopt a Norwegian-style membership of the European Economic Area but, failing that, a lengthy transitional period was a bare minimum.
"You need a transition period," he told Radio 4's The World This Weekend. "We hope that on the British side that gets deeper and deeper into the intellectual capabilities of those who decide."
Urging British politicians to put pragmatism ahead of ideology, he said a tariff-free trade deal with the EU was possible but only if "the UK understands what the preconditions are".
"Any kind of unwise, dramatic changes would have an effect on investment and jobs in the automotive industry. Hard Brexit would mean barriers, control of goods."
Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he accepted the UK would be leaving the single market, as it was in his words "inextricably linked" with EU membership, but suggested he had not reached a final view on whether it would be better to remain within the customs union.
He also suggested future trade deals should be linked to commitments on environmental protection and human rights.
"What is interesting is that the EU has said quite clearly, and rightly in my view, that they would only do new trade agreements with countries that sign up to the Paris climate change accord," he said.
"The US has said it wants to leave... so it calls into question the whole of the UK government's strategy on a one-off trade deal with the US."
Police have discovered ammunition and items they believe to be component parts of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at Jenkinstown, County Louth.
The search operation is focused on a home and lands in the area.
Local officers, a dog unit and members of the Garda (Irish police) Special Detective Unit are involved. | Any transitional arrangement with the EU after Brexit must end by the time of the next election, Liam Fox has said.
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The Irish Army's bomb disposal team has been called to examine suspected bomb parts found near the Irish border in a dissident republican investigation. |
Summarize the following piece. | Logan Peters was arrested in Plymouth on 7 May on suspicion of criminal damage. He was charged and released but was found dead the next day.
The IPCC will consider a complaint from the 22 year old's family that excessive force was used during the arrest.
IPCC Commissioner Tom Milsom will oversee the investigation.
Mr Milson, who will meet Mr Peters's family as part of the investigation, said: "I would like to assure them that we will look at the force used at arrest and all of the actions and decisions taken in relation to the risk assessments during Logan's time in custody.
"Additionally, we will look at the communication processes between the custody staff, and the period of detention, to determine whether all national and force policies and guidelines were adhered to."
The charges are in connection with a police investigation into comments made at a republican commemoration event in Lurgan on Easter Sunday.
Detectives searched properties in north Belfast and Lurgan as part of the investigation.
The man is expected to appear at Craigavon Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
Officers are looking into alleged improper electoral campaign spending returns in the region.
Nine other forces are investigating whether expenses should have been filed by MPs' agents as local spending.
The West Midlands force said it was working with National Police Chiefs Council and the Electoral Commission.
Umar Balogun, 16, of Waltham Forest, London. died at Bawsey Pits, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, on 16 July 2013.
The inquest heard that Umar had been tagged under a court order and was being cared for at a Castle Homes' centre in Cambridgeshire.
Umar and another boy had been taken to Bawsey by two care home workers.
Senior residential care worker Sue Neve told the inquest jury that one of the care home workers, Kevin Roweth, suggested the visit to Bawsey.
She said Mr Roweth had said the trip would be a "hiking" trip and no mention was made of swimming.
"When Kevin described the area to me, he did not mention swimming there," said Mrs Neve.
She said Umar was carrying a red towel when he left. "I asked him why he was taking it. He just flicked it and walked out of the door," said Mrs Neve.
Mr Roweth is expected to give evidence on Tuesday. The inquest is due to finish on Friday.
When Umar went missing, a major search and rescue operation was started by the emergency services.
A post-mortem examination carried out on Umar confirmed the cause of death as drowning.
Swimming in the lakes, which are deep and thick with undergrowth, is banned, but the warning signs are ignored by many people. | The way police treated a man who was found dead at his home in Cornwall less than 24 hours after being released from custody is being investigated.
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A 33-year-old man has been charged with encouraging terrorism and supporting a proscribed organisation.
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West Midlands Police says it is investigating allegations of electoral fraud during last year's general election.
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A teenager who drowned after swimming in a quarry lake at a beauty spot was being looked after by a private care firm, an inquest in Norwich has heard. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | Jazza Dickens' fight against Rigondeaux in Liverpool on Saturday is off.
Frank Warren's Queensberry Promotions said Rigondeaux, who has been training in Russia, will "not be arriving in the UK" before the fight.
WBA and IBF champion Carl Frampton has been ordered to fight Rigondeaux after beating Scott Quigg in February.
Queensberry Promotions say 35-year-old Rigondeaux is currently in Miami "for some unexplained reason" having been due to fight the Briton on Saturday night.
"We are all extremely disappointed by the situation."
Rigondeaux applied for his UK visa in Moscow on 29 February, with Warren's company being told it would take five working days for the process to be completed.
It said it was told by the application centre that the visa would be issued by Wednesday at the latest and Rigondeaux "would then arrive in the UK shortly thereafter".
Queensberry Promotions claims that Rigondeaux boarded a flight to Miami on Tuesday.
It added: "We have yet to establish how and why he flew to the USA and, further, how he managed to fly anywhere when the normal practice is, when applying for a visa, that you hand your passport in and get it back when the visa is issued."
WBA bosses said former champion Rigondeaux - a two-time Olympic champion who is unbeaten in 16 professional bouts - must face Frampton before 27 July. | A fight involving Carl Frampton's mandatory WBA super-bantamweight challenger Guillermo Rigondeaux has been cancelled because of visa issues. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | Details including names, addresses and phone numbers have been emailed to other customers.
The information has come from the retailer's "contact us" form, which has then been sent on to others.
Angry customers have complained on social media. WHSmith said that no payment details had been compromised.
"We have been alerted to a systems processing bug by I-subscribe, who manage our magazine subscriptions. It is a bug not a data breach," the retailer said.
"We believe that this has impacted fewer than 22 customers who left a message on the 'contact us' page where this bug was identified, that has resulted in some customers receiving emails that have been misdirected in error."
WHSmith has not revealed how many people received the details of those customers, but it is understood to be thousands.
The BBC has seen some emails which show people using the contact form to complain about the initial problem, in an apparent vicious circle.
WHSmith added that the problematic form had been taken down and those affected were being contacted with an apology.
"We can confirm that this issue has not impacted or compromised any customer passwords or payment details," it said.
The Information Commissioner's Office, which polices data security, said: "We are aware of an incident regarding WHSmith and are making enquiries." | Thousands of magazine subscribers with WHSmith have received emails containing the details of other customers owing to a processing "bug". |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | The accelerator is due to come back online in March after an upgrade that has given it a big boost in energy.
This could force the first so-called supersymmetric particle to appear in the machine, with the most likely candidate being the gluino.
Its detection would give scientists direct pointers to "dark matter".
And that would be a big opening into some of the remaining mysteries of the universe.
"It could be as early as this year. Summer may be a bit hard but late summer maybe, if we're really lucky," said Prof Beate Heinemann, who is a spokeswoman for the Atlas experiment, one of the big particle detectors at the LHC.
"We hope that we're just now at this threshold that we're finding another world, like antimatter for instance. We found antimatter in the beginning of the last century. Maybe we'll find now supersymmetric matter."
The University of California at Berkeley researcher made her comments at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Supersymmetry is an addition to the Standard Model, which describes nature’s fundamental particles and their interactions.
Susy, as it is sometimes known, fills some gaps in the model and provides a basis to unify nature's forces.
It predicts each of the particles to have more massive partners. So the particle that carries light – the photon – would have a partner called the photino. The quark, the building block of an atom’s protons and neutrons, would have a partner called the squark.
But when the LHC was colliding matter at its pre-upgrade energies, no sign of these superparticles was seen in the debris, which led to some consternation among theorists.
Now, with the accelerator about to reopen in the coming weeks, there is high hope the first evidence of Susy can be found.
The machine is going to double the collision energy, taking it into a domain where those theorists say the gluino really ought to emerge in sufficient numbers to be noticed. The gluino is the superpartner of the gluon, which "glues" the quarks together inside protons and neutrons.
The LHC’s detectors would not see it directly. What they would track is its decay, which scientists would then have to reconstruct.
But importantly, those decay products should include the lightest and most stable superparticle, known as the neutralino – the particle that researchers have proposed is what makes up dark matter, the missing mass in the cosmos that gravitationally binds galaxies together on the sky but which cannot be seen directly with telescopes.
"This would rock the world,” said Prof Heinemann. "For me, it’s more exciting than the Higgs."
So, not only would supersymmetry proponents be elated because they would have their first superparticle, but science in general would have a firm foot on the road to understanding dark matter.
Dr Michael Williams, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said: "We sometimes talk about the dark matter particle, but it’s perfectly plausible that dark matter is just as interesting as [normal] matter, [which] has a lot of particles that we know about.
"There might be just as many dark matter particles, or even more.
"Finding any particle that could be a dark matter candidate is nice because we could start to understand how it affects the galaxy and the evolution of the universe, but it also opens the door to whatever is on the other side, which we have no idea what is there."
Particle physicists have three major conferences in August and September, one of which is the main gathering of the supersymmetry community. All these meetings are bound to draw huge interest.
But Prof Jay Hauser, who works on the CMS detector at the LHC, added a little caution on timings. "Even if we did see something, remember it might be complicated enough that it takes us a while to explain it," he told reporters.
[email protected] an follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | A senior researcher at the Large Hadron Collider says a new particle could be detected this year that is even more exciting than the Higgs boson. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | It said attackers could exploit this by requesting users to preview or open a specially crafted email or web content.
Microsoft said it was "aware of targeted attacks" and was investigating.
The issue affects Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Office 2003 - 2010, and Microsoft Lync.
Recent versions of Microsoft Windows and Office are not affected by the issue - which centres on a graphics component. Details of which products are at risk are listed on the firm's site.
Microsoft said it would take appropriate action to address the issue, which "may include providing a security update through our monthly release process or providing an out-of-cycle security update, depending on customer needs".
In the meantime, it has advised customers to apply workarounds - a setting or configuration change that "does not correct the underlying issue but would help block known attack vectors before a security update is available".
According to Microsoft, the flaw lies in the handling of the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) image files by a graphics processing component in the affected software versions.
In a blog post on the Microsoft Security Response Centre, Dustin Childs a communications manager, said any move by hackers "requires user interaction".
He said that the attacks are disguised as an email requesting potential targets to open a specially crafted Word attachment.
If the attachment is opened or previewed, it attempts to exploit the issue using a malformed graphics image embedded in the document.
"An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the logged on user," Mr Childs said.
Microsoft added that hackers could also exploit the issue via a web-based attack.
"An attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit this vulnerability and then convince a user to view the website," it said.
However, it added that an attacker would have "no way to force users to view the attacker-controlled content".
"Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to take action, typically by getting them to click a link in an email message or in an Instant Messenger message that takes users to the attacker's website." | Microsoft has warned that hackers could exploit a "vulnerability" in its operating system to gain user rights to the affected computers. |
Give a brief overview of this passage. | Jermaine McGillvary put Giants ahead, before Wildcats opened up an 18-6 lead through Tom Johnstone, Michael Sio and Reece Lyne.
Two Jake Connor tries and a Danny Brough penalty tied the scores before Max Jowitt put Wakefield back in front.
Aaron Murphy replied but Johnstone and Nick Scruton went over to hand Wildcats head coach Chris Chester his first win.
Chester, who was appointed following Brian Smith's resignation, took charge of his first home game with his side having lost 22-4 away at Hull FC last week.
But it was Huddersfield who began the brighter as Leroy Cudjoe found McGillvary on the wing and Brough converted.
Wildcats produced a stirring response as they crossed the whitewash three times only to be pegged back.
Jowitt's superb sidestep gave Wakefield the advantage as the game became scrappy and both Huddersfield's Larne Patrick and the hosts' Mickael Simon were sent to the sin-bin.
Giants replied through Murphy, but Brough missed the conversion to draw his side level and Johnstone and Scruton claimed the victory for the Wildcats.
The defeat means Huddersfield, who reached the Super League semi-finals last season, sit bottom of the table having recorded just one win all season.
Wakefield coach Chris Chester:
"Over the 80 minutes I thought we were the better side - we set the tone early doors, played some decent football, threw the ball around and defended our own line well.
"They have some quality players and we knew it would be a grind and it wasn't until the last six or seven minutes that the game finally went away from Huddersfield.
"Tom Johnstone (who scored two tries) looked good and young Max Jowitt had a fantastic game.
"There was bags of effort from everyone and collectively we worked hard for each other. From one to 17 the attitude was first class."
Huddersfield head coach Paul Anderson:
"We're in hole and we are where we are for a reason because we just aren't good enough at the moment.
"The one thing we must do is stick together and work hard because ultimately it's effort that gets you through and gets wins.
"I'm very disappointed - it's a tough one to take. It's only so long you can keep saying when we get this back and that back... the reality is we've got to stop talking and start doing.
"We'll be in (training) tomorrow because we have some questions to ask."
Wakefield: Jowitt, Lyne, Arundel, Gibson, Johnstone, Miller, Finn, Scruton, Moore, England, Kirkmond, Ashurst, Sio.
Replacements: Simon, Annakin, Howarth, Molloy.
Huddersfield: Simpson, McGillvary, Cudjoe, Connor, Murphy, Brough, Brierley, Huby, Wood, Rapira, Ta'ai, Lawrence, Hinchcliffe.
Replacements: Patrick, Johnson, Leeming, Mason. | Wakefield recorded their second victory of the season to leave Huddersfield bottom of the Super League table. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | Nissan, a 22-month-old male, was being moved to Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster when the four men climbed aboard the truck in slow traffic.
They were described as "shocked" to see the animal, but three of the four remained with the unusual cargo.
French police were alerted and the men were ordered off of the lorry.
Simon Marsh, animal collections manager at the park, said Nissan's transfer from Moscow to Doncaster had gone to plan apart from the issue in northern France.
"There was a slight hiccup at Calais," he said. "Nissan had some unexpected guests in the back of the lorry.
"Obviously he was in a crate, so it was all very safe and secure, but I think they were a bit surprised when they saw a polar bear."
Nissan arrived at the wildlife park in South Yorkshire after his unscheduled overnight visit and staff are preparing to introduce him to the park's two other polar bears, Victor, 16, and Pixel, 2.
Strict welfare regulations were in force throughout the 1,800 mile (3,000 km) journey from Moscow to Doncaster via Frankfurt in Germany, by road, sea and air.
The bears will be introduced over the next few weeks in the purpose-built 10-acre Project Polar reserve designed to replicate their Arctic habitat.
Nissan was born at Izhevsk Zoo, in Russia, on 12 December 2013 and has been moved to the UK as part of the European breeding programme. | A group of migrants who jumped onto the back of a lorry in Calais bound for the UK found some unexpected company onboard - a polar bear. |
Summarize the provided information. | The team will present its findings at the National Cancer Research Institute conference next week.
They plan to use liposomes - tiny bubbles of fat which carry materials round the body - to release toxic drugs when their temperature is raised.
The "grenades" are intended to avoid side-effects by ensuring the drugs target only the tumour.
Experts said such technology, which has been effective in animal experiments, was the "holy grail of nanomedicine".
Cancer scientists are trying to harness the transporting abilities of these fatty spheres by getting them to carry toxic drugs to tumours.
"The difficulty is, how do you release them when they reach their target?" Prof Kostas Kostarelos, from the University of Manchester, told the BBC News website.
The Nanomedicine Lab in Manchester has designed liposomes that are water-tight at normal body temperature. But when the temperature increases to 42C they become leaky.
"The challenge for us is to try to develop liposomes in such a way that they will be very stable at 37C and not leak any cancer drug molecules and then abruptly release them at 42C," Prof Kostarelos added.
He suggests heat pads could be used to warm tumours on the body surface such as skin, head or neck cancers.
Probes can heat tumours inside the body, and there is also discussion about using ultra sound to warm tumours.
In early tests on mice with melanoma there was "greater uptake" of drugs in tumours using the thermal grenades. And that resulted in a "moderate improvement" in survival rates.
Prof Kostarelos said similar techniques were being trialled in patients and this "is not a fantasy."
Prof Charles Swanton, the chairman of the conference, said targeted liposomes were a "holy grail of nanomedicine".
He added: "These studies demonstrate for the first time how they can be built to include a temperature control, which could open up a range of new treatment avenues.
"This is still early work but these liposomes could be an effective way of targeting treatment towards cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed."
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The 44-year-old from Cumbria, who was working on the pier, was pronounced dead at the scene after falling on to the beach just before 16:00 BST.
The Health and Safety Executive has been informed as the man, who suffered head injuries, was working at the time.
The fire on 30 July destroyed about a third of the 144-year-old, Grade II-listed pier.
Earlier Sussex Police had said the man had received serious head injuries in the fall and been flown to hospital.
His next of kin have been informed.
At the height of the fire, up to 80 firefighters, together with RNLI crews, tackled the blaze, which police say may have been started deliberately.
It broke out behind some wood panelling in the arcade building, sending huge plumes of smoke into the air.
The owners of the pier have said the structure could be partially open by Christmas.
David Cameron has pledged £2m to help support businesses and traders suffering in the wake of the fire.
Duckett and Rob Newton (75) shared a 167-run first-wicket stand before the latter was caught off Ravi Bopara.
The 21-year-old hit 28 fours and a six before falling 11 runs short of a second double century this season as he was bowled by Bopara (4-64).
Adam Rossington and Steven Crook both then fell cheaply to medium pacer Bopara as Northants closed on 376-5. | Scientists have designed microscopic "grenades" that can explode their cancer-killing payload in tumours.
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A man has died in a fall from the fire-damaged Eastbourne Pier, the South East Coast Ambulance Service has said.
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Ben Duckett's fine 189 put Northants in a commanding position against Essex on day one at the County Ground. |
Provide a concise summary of this excerpt. | Aerial photographs from 2013 gave glimpses of what lay beneath the surface, with parch marks revealing possible buildings.
A geophysical survey has now confirmed the outline of a late-medieval building in the outer ward, where the king could have been born.
Neil Ludlow, consultant archaeologist, said it shone new light on the castle.
Much of the interior of the castle, which dates from the 11th Century, was destroyed after the Middle Ages.
The survey also revealed up to three previously unknown buildings in the inner ward, as well as several buildings and a possible well in the outer ward. All are invisible to the naked eye.
The work was carried out by Dyfed Archaeology Trust and was funded by the Castle Studies Trust.
Mr Ludlow said knowledge of the castle's history "has been increased immeasurably" by the research.
Edward Impey, Castle Studies Trust patron, added: "The survey work carried out by Dyfed Archaeological Trust has greatly advanced our understanding of Pembroke Castle, one of Wales' greatest but also least understood castles."
Henry VII was king of England from August 1485 until his death in 1509. | Researchers believe they might have uncovered the location of Henry VII's birthplace at Pembroke Castle. |
Summarize the provided information. | Customers have likened the smell to cat urine and rotten animals. They say the smell gets stronger in hot weather and if the windows are open.
Valspar says the problem is caused by an additive being removed from some of its paint. It has now re-added it.
Valspar and B&Q say they will pay for the cost of redecoration.
Charlotte Quine from Brighton recently redecorated her spare room using Valspar paint. She told Radio 4's You and Yours it took her a long time to figure out what was making the smell.
She said: "I assumed a cat must have got into the room through the window and sprayed everywhere. Eventually I moved all the furniture out, washed down all the walls, got some carpet cleaner, but again nothing."
Ms Quine later saw messages left by other Valspar customers on the company's Facebook page complaining that the paint smelt bad. She sniffed her walls and realised where the smell was coming from.
Ms Quine complained and Valspar offered to cover the cost of new tins of paint. Their suggestion to fix the problem was to paint the walls with an alkaline-based sealant, and then reapply the paint, but she was worried that it would just mask the problem.
She said: "What concerns me is it seems that this problem is caused by bacteria growing in the paint and emitting the smell, and until Valspar are prepared to investigate, I am slightly concerned about just painting over it."
Graham Hill is managing director of ECHA Microbiology in Cardiff. He says the problem is likely to be caused by bacterial contamination in the can.
He said: "It's a well known issue in the paint industry. The bacteria grow in the can and release hydrogen sulphide gas which is the bad egg small, and ammonia which is the urine smell."
Mr Hill also suggested that changes in EU law, which restricts the types of preservatives that paint manufacturers can use, mean this problem is becoming more common.
"There's tighter and tighter restrictions on what preservatives we can use," he said. "We've taken solvents out of paints and this does make them more susceptible to bacterial growth. Alkali [sealant] should break down hydrogen sulphide, so it shouldn't smell as much."
Valspar said: "The ammonia-type odour occurs very rarely and when used on walls that are particularly porous, and where the wall is exposed to excessive heat or direct sunlight. The odour naturally wears off over time."
B&Q says anyone affected should ring their customer service helpline on 0333 014 3098.
The individual should have received a short-acting type of the drug, but was given a long-acting variety.
Details of the so-called 'Never Incident' - where serious harm or death could occur - were revealed in a report to the Betsi Cadwaladwr health board.
The findings will be discussed by the board at a meeting next week.
According to the quality and performance report, the incident at the unnamed clinic took place in August.
It was one of four separate 'Never Incidents' reported to the board so far in 2015.
In July, a swab used during a surgical procedure at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire was unaccounted for, leading to a patient requiring an additional x-ray test to ensure it had not been left inside them.
In June, a patient underwent treatment on the wrong knee at Wrexham Maelor Hospital.
In April, another patient had a procedure carried out on the wrong body part at Glan Clwyd.
This incident has already been the subject of a serious incident review report, which has been passed to the Welsh government.
Jill Newman, assistant director for improvement and business support at the health board, said a full investigation has begun into the August incident, with immediate steps taken to prevent similar errors in future.
A review of the missing swab case has also taken place with "learning points" identified and an action plan being developed.
In the third case, the patient with the wrong knee treatment has gone through follow-up appointments and is pain-free, the report said. | B&Q says it will compensate hundreds of people who experienced bad smells after painting their homes with Valspar paint that it sold them.
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Officials in north Wales have held an investigation after a patient at a Wrexham health centre was given a potentially fatal dose of insulin. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | The Guardian newspaper claims Whisper has an in-house tool which can track the locations of all its users.
This includes some who have specifically opted out of sharing location details, the report claims.
Whisper editor Neetzan Zimmerman tweeted that the article was "riddled with outright lies and made-up quotes".
The Guardian also claimed the app was tracking "newsworthy" posters and was sharing data with the US Department of Defense in instances where secrets were uploaded from military bases.
"We are not sharing specific user data with any organisation," wrote Mr Zimmerman in response.
"We noticed how frequently suicide is mentioned among those living on US military bases or compounds and reached out to organisations to see how we could work together to address this important issue."
However, he added that "violent or child-endangering threats" were reported to law enforcement agents "to protect our users and the public".
"We comply with the legal process in all instances," he wrote.
"We respond to both subpoenas and preservation requests from law enforcement. Whisper is not a place for illegal activity."
Two journalists from the newspaper had visited Whisper's offices in the US to explore a working relationship, which the Guardian says it will no longer pursue due to concerns over user privacy.
The Guardian has been contacted by the BBC for comment.
News and community site Buzzfeed has also announced it is "taking a break" from its partnership with the platform following the report.
"We're taking a break from our partnership until Whisper clarifies to us and its users the policy on user location and privacy," it said in a statement.
Millions of "secrets" - a short sentence written over a picture - have been shared via the social media platform since its launch two years ago.
"You look at all of these services like Facebook and Instagram, and they're all about, 'Let me show you the best version of me,'" Whisper co-founder Michael Heyward told the BBC earlier this year.
"Whisper is about showing people the behind-the-scenes stuff that we're not always comfortable posting on Facebook."
In his response to the Guardian's report, Neetzan Zimmerman added that the firm did not store geographical data or any other information which might identify a user.
"There is nothing in our geolocation data that can be tied to an individual user and a user's anonymity is never compromised," he wrote.
"Even for users who opt into geolocation services, the location information that we do store is obscured to within 500m of their smartphone device's actual location.
"Whisper does not follow or track users. Whisper does not request or store any personally identifiable information from users, therefore there is never a breach of anonymity."
Tracey Ullman played Dame Judi last year as a nefarious national treasure - stealing, smashing china in a boutique and hurling bags of dog poo into trees.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Front Row about Ullman's portrayal, she said: "I love it. I dote on it.
"But I get into trouble now if I go into a shop with a bag over my arm."
Ullman is "brilliant", the actress said - but joked that the sketches in the BBC One comedy show have caused problems.
"It's tricky, people look at me in a funny way," she said, adding: "A man came up to me in M&S the other day and said to me, 'I've got my eye on you'."
Dame Judi was speaking as she unveiled a blue plaque for her friend, the late actor Sir John Gielgud, at his former London home.
She told Front Row that Sir John was one of the greatest Shakespearean actors and that young actors would do well to learn from his performances.
She said: "He used to present the whole of a sentence, the whole arc of a sentence, or the meaning of a passage of Shakespeare.
"We're in an unfortunate century where people think, 'oh Shakespeare, it needs to be changed because we don't understand what things mean'. That's not so. One can understand it and John was sublime at being able to tell you exactly what it meant."
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | The editor of Whisper, an app for people to share secrets anonymously, has angrily denied reports that it has been tracking users and sharing data.
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Dame Judi Dench has declared herself a big fan of comedy sketches that show her using her fame to get away with shoplifting and other petty crime. |
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The rule states that any contact with the head in "reckless tackles" will be penalised with at least a yellow card.
Pro12 players from Ulster, Scarlets and Ospreys were sin-binned this weekend.
Davies told Scrum V: "It's a brilliant directive but it's not being refereed properly. They've gone to the letter of the law, and it's gone crazy."
The former union and league player wants referees to adopt a common sense approach, adding: "You know a high shot, you know a cheap shot, you know a fair shot and referees have got to understand the difference as well."
In September 2015, World Rugby's chief medical officer Martin Raftery told the BBC that the game's rules may have to change to reduce concussions.
On Friday, Ulster's Sean Ready was sin-binned for a tackle on Scarlets scrum-half Aled Davies in their 16-13 defeat in Llanelli.
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Italian referee Marius Mitrea then awarded a penalty try to Scarlets that proved the game's decisive score.
Davies and fellow Scrum V pundit Sean Holley said Ready should not even have been penalised.
They also believe Ulster captain and wing David Trimble's attempted tackle on Aled Davies in the same passage of play, which appeared to connect with his head, warranted a yellow card, but went unpunished.
Scarlets lock Jake Ball was also sin-binned in that game - another decision that drew the ire of Davies and Holley.
In Ospreys win over Connacht on Saturday, Wales fly-half Sam Davies was shown a yellow card by Scottish referee Neil Paterson.
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Ospreys boss Steve Tandy said the new laws are making the game "unreffable".
"Sam Davies goes into the tackle, he goes low, the player's falling on him because he's being dragged down and he (Sam Davies) hits and it's a yellow card," Davies said.
"It will be interesting to see if something like that crops up in England v Wales (in the 2017 Six Nations).
"Say England score a try or Wales have a player sent off for 10 minutes and lose the game, there's going to be absolute ructions."
Davies also spoke of a cousin who he says has been in a coma and suffered brain as a result of a tackle in a match.
The former Neath, Llanelli and Wales union player, said: "He made a tackle, a legitimate tackle under the hip and he got injured.
"So now we're worried about the ball-carrier, not the tackler.
"So if you're going down and (the attacker is) leading with an elbow and the knee or the hip, then the tackler's in danger of getting damaged as well."
Former Ospreys head coach and Bristol assistant Holley fears some fans will lose interest in the game if the trend continues.
He disagreed with Saracens boss Mark McCall, who described Richard Barrington's sending-off in their Premiership draw with Exeter as neither reckless nor dangerous.
Holley said it was a "dangerous effort".
Referring to events in the Scarlets v Ulster game, Holley said: "What Sean Reidy's done there is try to prevent the score, which is ultimately his job and it's, in our view, a good tackle - it's not even a penalty let alone a yellow card.
"Trimble's is perhaps the more malicious, dangerous one.
"As for Jake Ball and Sam Davies, crikey, we're going to switch people off the game here if we are going to be stopping the game and sending people off for that." | Inexperienced referees "have gone berserk" in imposing yellow cards after a new rule was introduced in 2017, says ex-Wales star Jonathan Davies. |
Can you summarize this content? | Details of a "minor criminal offence" were referenced in the stories regarding an individual, the ICO said.
Earlier links about the case had already been removed - but this act of removal itself later became news.
It is the links to those new articles, when searched for via the individual's name, which must now be removed.
In a statement, the ICO revealed that Google had refused to remove the links when asked by the complainant, which is why officials are now stepping in.
Being able to access the links by searching for the complainant by name constitutes a breach of the Data Protection Act, according to the ICO.
"Let's be clear. We understand that links being removed as a result of this court ruling is something that newspapers want to write about," said deputy commissioner David Smith.
"And we understand that people need to be able to find these stories through search engines like Google.
"But that does not need them to be revealed when searching on the original complainant's name."
The ICO says that Google must remove the links within 35 days of the order, dated 18 August.
Google has so far declined to comment.
The situation was described as a "messy compromise" by Ian Walden, professor of information and communications law at Queen Mary, University of London.
"You can search under 'right to be forgotten', 'takedown', and you can look at the whole discussion about whether it's being taken down," he told the BBC, "but if you search the individual's name you should get a different set of search results."
Dr Walden added that as the complexity of removal requests grows, it's possible that search engines like Google may become less willing to challenge them.
"In five years' time perhaps Google will say, 'It's not worth the hassle, let's take down more stuff, let's not spend as much time evaluating the case,' - they obviously have to employ people for this," he said.
"My concern is it [will become] easier and easier to get stuff taken down when in fact there continues to be a balancing act that needs to be carried out," he said. | Google has been ordered to remove nine links to news stories by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) under the "right to be forgotten". |
Provide a concise summary of this excerpt. | The former WBO super-featherweight and lightweight champion had lost three of his previous four bouts, but showed his experience in the closing stages.
Burns struggled to make his superiority tell in the first half of the fight.
However, the Scot floored King with a stinging body shot in the 11th and the Australian failed to beat the count.
A spokesman said discussions were "at a very early stage" and there was no certainty a deal would take place.
The Wall Street Journal, where it was first reported, said the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) was discussing an offer with private equity firms.
Yahoo is under pressure from shareholders to turn itself around.
The activist hedge fund investor Starboard Value recently called for the replacement of the entire board at the loss-making company.
The spokesman for Daily Mail said: "Given the success of DailyMail.com and Elite Daily we have been in discussions with a number of parties who are potential bidders.
"Discussions are at a very early stage and there is no certainty that any transaction will take place."
DMGT shares were flat in early trading at 695p after initially falling 0.4%. The company is valued at £2.34bn.
The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, said that the potential bid could take two forms.
In one scenario, a private-equity partner would acquire Yahoo's core web business with the Mail taking over the news and media properties.
In another scenario, the private-equity firm would acquire Yahoo's core web business and merge its media and news properties with the Mail's online operations.
Yahoo has set a deadline for 18 April for interested parties to submit their offers.
Time Inc is also reported to be weighing a bid together with a private equity firm.
Earlier this year, Yahoo said it would cut 15% of its workforce as part of chief executive Marissa Mayer's "aggressive" plan to return the company to profit.
Richard Dunbar, of Aberdeen Asset Management, told the BBC: "[Yahoo] has struggled against Facebook and Google. Its sales have halved over the past 10 years. In contrast Mail Online has been unbelievably successful - the most visited English language news website in the world.
"It will be interesting to see whether the terms of this deal are acceptable to what have been long suffering shareholders at Yahoo."
Yahoo's shares have fallen by about 30% since the end of 2014.
27 February 2016 Last updated at 13:05 GMT
Scott Ellis reports on the soldiers and air crews from the region were in the battle. | Ricky Burns captured the vacant WBO inter-continental lightweight title with an 11th-round stoppage of Josh King in Liverpool.
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Andy has been at the helm of the Coleraine FC Academy since it was set up in 2008, providing a wide range of activities for thousands of people.
He has also spearheaded the local Small-Sided Games Centre.
It now has more than 1,000 children between the ages of seven and 12 playing on 16 pitches.
In addition, Andy is chairperson of the Harry Gregg Foundation, named in honour of the former Manchester United and Northern Ireland goalkeeper.
Andy and his 80-strong team of Foundation volunteers have been at the forefront of developing a range of community projects in the area including mental health, first aid, child protection training and working with Coleraine Special Olympics.
"I am humbled and very proud to have been nominated by my fellow volunteers, all of whom must share in this accolade," said Andy.
"To see how popular and readily established the work of the Harry Gregg Foundation has become is satisfaction in itself. It works on the very simple principle of creating opportunities which may just inspire dreams."
Alison Wallace , who nominated Andy, described the award winner as an inspiration.
"He has selflessly devoted his spare time to innovatively lead and inspire programmes that have seen thousands of youngsters develop their sporting and social abilities, and at the same time being a husband, father and holding down a full-time job."
Harry Gregg said: "The coaches give their time for the future and benefit of children. What they do every Saturday morning is incredible, helping thousands of young boys and girls.
"I am so proud of it. It is giving the chance for children to progress and express themselves through football."
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Andy will be among 15 regional winners from across the United Kingdom.
The overall UK winner will be announced during the BBC Sports Personality of The Year Awards, which will be held in Birmingham on Sunday, 18 December.
Last year's Northern Ireland winner, Damien Lindsay, went on to lift the overall UK award at the event which was held in Belfast. | Andy Alcorn has won the BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero for Northern Ireland for his work with young footballers in the Coleraine area. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | The claims were made by Lisburn and Castlereagh councillors Geraldine Rice and Vasundhara Kamble.
Mrs Rice said she believed she was viewed as "old school" while Mrs Kamble - originally from India - said the party had been a "cold house" for her.
However, Mrs Long said there was no basis for the allegations.
"I'm disappointed that these councillors decided to resign and, in doing so, to sling mud at the party on their way out the door," Mrs Long said.
"That's unfortunate, but that was their decision.
"Obviously, given their good relationship with me in the past - I know both of them very well - there is no reason they wouldn't have been able to come to me and talk about it had there been any substance to these allegations at all."
The allegations by the two councillors, who have now left the party, were made to the Belfast Telegraph.
Mrs Rice, 70, has been a councillor since 1989 but claimed to have been told that she was not "an acceptable face for Alliance today".
She told the newspaper she felt stabbed in the back by a party that she "loved and loyally served for 28 years".
Mrs Kamble, who came to Northern Ireland from Mumbai in 1995, told the Belfast Telegraph she had "never felt welcome in the party".
However, Mrs Long told The Nolan Show that "all of the evidence in terms of our diversity of party membership and diversity of age within our party would actually stand against those claims".
She added: "Neither of them ever raised any concerns with me in this regard.
"This is not about racism or ageism or any of those things, this is about disappointment - natural disappointment - on their part for not being selected for particular roles.
"In Gerry's case, the evening before she went to the press she was not selected to be the next mayor of Lisburn."
However, speaking on the BBC's Talkback programme, Mrs Rice rejected Mrs Long's claim that she left Alliance solely because she was not given the mayoral position.
"That wasn't the only reason that I decided enough was enough. It was the total disrespect they showed to me, undermining me constantly," she said.
"There's only so much a person can take and, if people that you're working with do not show you any respect, then you can't go any further than that, you have to call it a day."
Mrs Kamble also rejected allegations that her resignation from Alliance had been motivated by a "sour grapes attitude" over this week's council appointments.
She told Talkback: "I was ready to leave this party long before this whole thing surfaced on Tuesday evening. It is only because my friend Geraldine Rice made me stay on in the party.
"I was really very disappointed and disillusioned with the general atmosphere towards me in the party and I was ready to leave the party long ago."
The 26-year-old was also due to be in the squad for five one-day internationals and two Twenty20s.
Chris Woakes, Chris Jordan or Mark Footitt will replace him for the final Test, while his place in the limited-overs squads goes to Liam Plunkett.
Finn is expected to be fit for the World Twenty20 in India.
England's first match in that tournament is on 22 March against New Zealand.
Middlesex right-armer Finn, who returned to the England Test side during the 2015 Ashes after a two-year absence, was not originally part of the squad to tour South Africa.
He missed the series against Pakistan in the UAE with a foot injury but, after returning to fitness, was added to the party for South Africa and named in the Test side.
Finn has taken 11 wickets to help England to a series victory that was sealed with a seven-wicket win in Johannesburg on Saturday.
However, he felt discomfort in his left side on day two of the match at the Wanderers and scans subsequently revealed a strain.
England will chase their biggest series win in South Africa for more than 100 years in the fourth Test at Centurion on Friday.
Warwickshire's Woakes played the first Test in place of the injured James Anderson, his fellow right-armer Jordan has not played a Test since May, while Surrey left-armer Footitt - capable of bowling in excess of 90mph - is uncapped.
South Africa, meanwhile, have added uncapped opener Stephen Cook to their squad. | Alliance leader Naomi Long has said she "absolutely refutes" allegations of ageism and racism within the party by two councillors who have resigned.
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England fast bowler Steven Finn will miss the fourth Test and the rest of the tour of South Africa because of a side strain. |
Can you summarize this passage? | A 40m (130ft) newly-built section of the bridge, as well as scaffolding around it, fell 20m onto workers, said police spokesman Bjorn Schmitt.
It was not immediately clear what caused the accident, which happened on Wednesday near the town of Werneck.
There are thought to have been around 20 workers on the site at the time.
Initial police reports at the scene of the collapse in northern Bavaria suggested at least two people had been killed.
Mr Schmitt said he was concerned that workers were buried under the wreckage of the scaffolding.
Authorities are trying to establish if any cars had been travelling along the country road which passed underneath it at the time.
Traffic on the A7 road, which still uses the old undamaged bridge that is being replaced, was not affected by the incident, Deutsche Welle reported, although temporary speed restrictions are being enforced around the accident zone.
Work on the new 236-metre (774ft) bridge started last year and was supposed to be completed by the end of 2017.
The bridge is more than 50 years old. | A scaffolding collapse on a bridge being built in Germany has killed at least one worker and seriously injured several others, police say. |
Please summarize the document below. | It has long been one of the biggest events in the British fashion calendar and is treated as an opportunity for thousands of women to sport hats ranging from the sublime to the, frankly, ridiculous.
BBC News takes a look at some of the more outlandish headgear designed to make headlines. | Ladies Day at Royal Ascot has come around again - the third day of the world-famous racing event that is perhaps better known for its hats than its horses. |
Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | Lawro's opponent for this week's Premier League fixtures is England rugby league captain Sam Burgess.
You can make your own predictions now, compare them with those of Lawro and other fans, and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the new BBC Sport Predictor game.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
In the last round of fixtures, Lawro got six correct results, including one perfect score, from 10 Premier League matches. That gave him a total of 90 points.
He was beaten by Olympic kayak gold medallist Joe Clarke, who got four correct results, but with two perfect scores, for a total of 100 points.
All kick-offs 15:00 BST unless otherwise stated.
Sunderland 1-4 Arsenal
Lawro's prediction: 1-2
Sam's prediction: 0-2
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Sam's prediction: My team-mate James Graham is a massive Everton supporter, so I am going to back West Ham. Sorry James. 0-1
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Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Lawro's best score: 140 points (week three v Laura Trott)
Lawro's worst score: 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)
Healy is alleged to have struck Toulon's Guilhem Guirado with his knee.
The initial striking charge was found to be not proven but the incident was deemed to be foul play and he was banned for two weeks.
Healy won his appeal against the ban but an independent committee decided the citing complaint should be reheard.
Leinster had argued that Healy was cited for one offence yet suspended for another.
The 28-year-old was cleared by organisers European Professional Club Rugby to play in the return fixture, won 20-16 by Toulon in Dublin on 19 December.
Welsh judicial officer Roger Morris amended the charge to "dangerous charging or obstructing or grabbing of an opponent without the ball, including shouldering", in breach of World Rugby's regulations.
The decision that the complaint should be reheard by a different judicial officer from the original disciplinary hearing was made by an independent appeal committee on 23 December.
Jeremy Summers has been appointed as the independent judicial officer for the new hearing. | BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson will be making a prediction for all 380 Premier League games this season against a variety of guests.
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Leinster prop Cian Healy will have his citing complaint for an incident in a Champions Cup defeat by Toulon on 13 December reheard in London on Thursday. |
Write a summary for this information. | The driver made off and the birds escaped from the boot when Cleveland and Durham Police stopped a vehicle in Horden, Peterlee, on Monday night.
The man was arrested after officers gave chase. It is thought 12 chickens and tools found in the car could have been stolen from a farm.
It is unknown whether all of the fleeing birds were recovered.
The suspect remains in custody. | A dozen chickens were discovered in the back of a car after a police chase in County Durham. |
Write a brief summary of the provided content. | Braniff fired all four Glenavon goals in their 4-3 Irish Cup semi-final over league champions Crusaders last month.
The ex-Portadown striker signed for Glenavon in June 2014 after returning home from a brief stint in Australia.
Braniff, 33, has earned two Northern Ireland caps.
Both of Braniff's Northern Ireland appearances came in 2010.
Glenavon face Linfield in Saturday's Irish Cup final. | Kevin Braniff has given Glenavon a boost ahead of Saturday's Irish Cup final by agreeing a one-year contract extension with the Lurgan Blues. |
Can you summarize the following content in brief? | A man in his 20s was found injured by police at a property in Jubilee Court, Banbury, at about 08:00 BST.
He was taken to Horton General Hospital but later died. His next of kin have been informed.
The woman, 26, and man, 22, both from Banbury, are being held in police custody.
Det Supt Chris Ward, from the Thames Valley Police major crime unit, said: "This is not believed to be a random incident.
"We are currently at the very early stages of this investigation and are in process of determining the exact circumstances which led to the victim's death." | A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a stabbing in an Oxfordshire town. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | The reconstruction was carried out by local stonemasons working for the UN's cultural organisation, Unesco.
On a visit to the city, Unesco's chief said she wanted those responsible for the destruction to be brought before the International Criminal Court.
The entire city of Timbuktu is listed as a World Heritage Site by Unesco.
The city was considered the centre of Islamic learning from the 13th to the 17th Centuries. At one time it counted nearly 200 schools and universities that attracted thousands of students from across the Muslim world.
The mausoleums were shrines to Timbuktu's founding fathers, who had been venerated as saints by most of the city's inhabitants.
But this practice is considered blasphemous by fundamentalists who occupied the city along with much of northern Mali in 2012, until they were forced out by French forces in January 2013.
During their occupation, the militants vandalised and destroyed mosques and mausoleums, and burnt tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts.
Unesco's Irina Bokova, inaugurating the rebuilt mausoleums on Saturday, said the destruction of cultural heritage is considered a war crime under the UN's 1954 Hague Convention.
"Unesco has involved the International Criminal Court with the destruction of the mausoleums," she said.
"Two months ago I met the prosecutor and I believe they are progressing rapidly, and I hope they will be ready to present the case to the ICC."
Local stone masons used traditional building methods and cultural knowledge of the area in the year-long rebuilding of the mausoleums.
Paying tribute to them, Ms Bokova said: "Your work is a lesson in tolerance, dialogue and peace... it is an answer to all extremists whose echo can be heard well beyond the borders of Mali." | Fourteen mausoleums in the city of Timbuktu in northern Mali have been rebuilt, three years after they were destroyed by Islamist extremists. |
Summarize this article briefly. | Director General Tony Hall announced that Mr MacQuarrie, 64, would be taking up the newly-restored post of BBC director nations and regions.
The broadcaster said he would be responsible for "bringing together and enhancing the BBC's offer to the nations and regions of the UK".
Mr MacQuarrie will also become a member of the BBC's new executive committee.
A new director of BBC Scotland, based at Pacific Quay in Glasgow, will be appointed in due course.
The post of director of nations and regions was abolished in 2009 but in July this year Lord Hall announced his plan to reinstate it as part of an ongoing shake-up at the corporation.
The BBC's proposed new senior management structure includes a unitary board and executive committee replacing the current Trust board, executive board and executive team.
The corporation said that Mr MacQuarrie would take up the role with "immediate effect".
It added that he would also be;
Reacting to the news, Lord Hall said: "I am delighted to appoint Kenny to this important post.
"Reflecting the nations and serving them well is vital for the BBC and a key part of the new charter.
"There is no one better than Kenny to get this right.
"He is a supremely able leader and manager and is hugely respected, not just within the BBC, but outside as well.
"I know he's the right person to give the nations and regions a strong voice across the BBC."
Mr MacQuarrie said he was "really looking forward" to the challenges of his new job. | The current head of BBC Scotland, Ken MacQuarrie, has been appointed to a UK-wide role at the corporation. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | William Couston pulled out of a junction and into the path of the oncoming motorcycle, causing the death of 55-year-old Orkney man Nigel Mills.
The incident happened at the junction to the Alness Business Park in the Highlands on 6 March last year.
Sentence was deferred for background reports and bail was continued.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard Mr Mills and his wife were on their way from their Orkney home to the Scottish Motorcycle Show at Ingliston, near Edinburgh.
However, bad weather in the north persuaded them to take an earlier crossing between St Margaret's Hope and Gills Bay.
Fiscal depute Roderick Urquhart told Sheriff Margaret Neilson that Couston was heading for Invergordon to attend the gym when he pulled out of the junction.
The prosecutor said: "Both Mr and Mrs Mills were thrown off their bike and on to the carriageway. The first witness on the scene said Couston's car was in the middle of the road, its right indicator still flashing and steam was coming from it.
"Ambulance and police were called and Couston identified himself to officers as being the driver. There appeared to be no signs of life in Mr Mills.
"Mrs Mills suffered a right leg fracture, a compound fracture to the left, a crushed pelvis, a fractured vertebra and a perforated bladder. She is still using crutches and a wheelchair and was in hospital in Aberdeen for three months after the accident." | A 47-year-old man had admitted causing the death of a motorcyclist and seriously injuring his wife by careless driving on the A9 last year. |
Summarize the passage below. | The body of Kirk Cole, 36, was found in a flat in Cairnhill Drive, Crookston, at about 09:15 on Thursday.
Police Scotland previously said they were treating his death as murder.
A spokesman said the arrested man was in police custody and a report would be submitted to the procurator fiscal. | A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death of a man in Glasgow. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | Two children were among the dead in the Nihm district, which is held by the rebel Houthi movement, medical and security sources told AFP news agency.
Initially the rebel-controlled Saba news agency put the death toll at eight and said the school was "flattened".
There has been no comment by the coalition, which has conducted air strikes on the rebels since March 2015.
The coalition says it does not target civilians, but the UN says its air strikes have caused thousands of civilian deaths and injuries.
Saba cited residents and rescuers as saying the al-Falah primary school, about 53km (33 miles) north-west of the rebel-controlled capital Sanaa, had been "flattened" in Tuesday's attack.
The agency reported that eight children were killed and 15 others critically wounded, and that other casualties might be buried under the rubble.
But medical sources told AFP that two children were killed, identifying the other fatalities as three members of staff.
AFP also initially reported that the school had been hit but later corrected its story, saying a market near the school was struck.
The conflict has taken a toll on children's access to education in Yemen.
The UN says more than 1,600 schools are currently unfit for use due to damage, presence of displaced people, or occupation by combatants. Some two million children are out of school.
In August, 10 children were killed in what medics said was a coalition air strike on a Koranic school in the northern province of Saada. However, a coalition investigation subsequently concluded it had not bombed the area at the time of the incident. | A Saudi-led coalition air strike is reported to have killed five people near a primary school in north Yemen. |
Write a summary of this document. | The 32-year-old made his name through his scoring feats at Hibernian before signing for Celtic where he played infrequently in his two-year stay.
He returned to Hibernian and had spells in China and with Bristol Rovers before returning to Scotland.
He has been playing as a triallist for East Fife in recent weeks.
The New Bayview side are fourth in Scottish League Two and are aiming for promotion, with the play-offs the most likely route.
The firms operate India biggest natural gas field, KG-D6, and had won an approval to nearly double their prices.
But the implementation of that move was deferred by India's election watchdog ahead of the ongoing general elections.
The firms said the delay in increasing the prices was impacting their plans to develop the field.
The companies said in a statement over the weekend that without clarity on when the prices will rise, they "are unable to sanction" planned investments of close to $4bn (£2.4bn) this year.
"In addition, this will also delay the ability of the parties to appraise and develop other significant discoveries made last year."
The discovery of the KG-D6 field in 2002 was hailed as India's largest offshore gas find.
In 2007, India's government - which sets domestic gas prices - had approved a price of $4.2 per million metric British thermal units (BTU) of gas from the field for the first five years of production.
It started production on 1 April 2009 and therefore that price expired on 31 March 2014.
The new pricing mechanism was debated for nearly two years and was a hot political topic in India.
The government finally approved a price of $8 per million metric BTU in 2013.
Meanwhile, gas output from the block has fallen since 2010.
For its part, Reliance - which has a 60% stake in the field - has said the fall was due to the geological complexity of the block.
However, the government has alleged the firm did not meet its projections and has fined Reliance $1.7bn for the shortfall.
Over the weekend, the three firms issued a joint statement saying they have been "working diligently to arrest the decline from currently producing fields".
They said there was 5 trillion cubic feet of discovered gas resources in the block that "await investment and development to be able to bring them to market".
"As we have stated before, these resources need clarity on long term gas prices to be developed economically."
BP bought a 30% stake in the field for $7.2bn in 2011.
The ballot was triggered by the death of Lord Avebury, the former MP Eric Lubbock, earlier this year.
Those standing include Viscount John Thurso, a former MP and Earl Lloyd-George of Dwfor, the great grandson of the former Liberal prime minister.
Only the three current Lib Dem hereditary peers in the Lords are entitled to vote in the contest.
The small but select band of electors consists of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith - the great grandson of former Prime Minister Herbert Asquith - the Earl of Glasgow and Lord Addington.
Ballots must be cast by 17.00 BST on 18 April, with the result due to be announced the following day.
John Thurso was MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross for 14 years before losing his seat last year, while Earl Lloyd-George of Dwfor has worked in industries ranging from fishing to risk insurance.
The five other candidates are:
Each has been asked to submit a 75-word statement about their background and relevant experience.
Reforms to the Lords by the last Labour government left just 92 hereditary peers in place. Since then vacancies arising from the death of members have been filled through a series of by-elections. | The former Hibernian and Celtic striker Derek Riordan has joined East Fife, the club has announced, "subject to receiving SFA approval".
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India's Reliance Industries, UK oil giant BP and Canada's Niko have filed an arbitration notice against the Indian government over gas prices.
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Seven candidates are standing for election to become a Liberal Democrat hereditary peer in the House of Lords. |
Please summarize the following text. | The Esk District Salmon Fishery Board said giving Usan Salmon Fisheries an additional 14 days to catch fish was "recklessly irresponsible".
It has described the move as making "no sense at all" in terms of conservation.
A government spokeswoman said there was no evidence the extension would have a detrimental impact on stocks.
Usan Salmon Fisheries will be allowed to net and kill salmon between 1 September and 14 September, after the end of the statutory netting season on 31 August, for three years from 2012.
The reason for the extension had been stated as "to compensate the fishery for disruption" caused by Marine Scotland Science having "access to fish and genetic samples during the commercial fishery season" for tagging research purposes.
Hugh Campbell Adamson, chairman of the fishery board, said: "We are perturbed by the government's unilateral intention to allow netting in September.
"It makes no sense at all from a conservation perspective to permit any additional pressure on salmon stocks."
Mr Campbell Adamson said the government had paid Usan £30,000 for its assistance in procuring 95 salmon for radio-tagging between February and April, but an offer by the board to continue to make cash payments to the company as compensation for the tagging programme in May and June was rejected by Scottish government.
The chairman said that instead the government is allowing Usan to kill up to 1,000 more salmon with a potential gross value of some £50,000.
Mr Adamson said the move was in stark contrast to the government's promotion of catch and release to fishery boards and anglers, he added: "Usan's nets in the South Esk district killed 6,500 salmon last year.
"It beggars belief that the netting season is now being lengthened."
A spokeswoman for the Scottish government said it was fully committed to salmon conservation and that no license would have been granted had there been evidence it would have a detrimental impact on stocks.
She added: "The licensed fishery has been granted in support of the National Fisheries Management Demonstration Project being carried out on the South Esk.
"This is an innovative three year research project, being carried out by Marine Scotland Science, applying science-based management techniques to better understand the status of salmon stocks on the Esk." | A fishery board has condemned the Scottish government's decision to extend the season for the country's biggest wild salmon netting company. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | China has banned red meat imports from Brazil, while the European Union said it would stop buying from companies implicated in the scandal.
The crisis was triggered by a huge federal police operation on Friday.
It found evidence that meat-packers had been selling rotten and substandard produce for several years.
The meat industry plays an important part in the Brazilian economy, with exports worth more than $12bn (£9.7bn) a year.
The Brazilian government has done all it could to avoid a total or partial ban on meat imports from other countries.
President Michel Temer held emergency meetings during the weekend and even invited foreign diplomats to a steak house on Sunday evening to try to reassure them.
"The Brazilian government reiterates its confidence in the quality of a national product that has won over consumers and obtained the approval of the most rigorous markets," said Mr Temer.
But the effort was in vain. China, the EU, South Korea and Chile have now announced restrictions on Brazilian meat products.
Together they accounted for nearly one third of Brazilian meat exports in 2016, O Globo newspaper reported.
Brazil is the world's biggest red meat and poultry exporter.
On Friday, federal police raided meat-producing plants and arrested more than 30 people.
The government suspended more than 30 senior civil servants who should have spotted the unhygienic and illegal practices.
They are being investigated for corruption.
Three meat-packing plants have been closed and another 21 are being investigated.
Mr Temer said the plants under scrutiny represented a tiny proportion of Brazil's meat industry.
"Only 21 units out of 4,837 in Brazil subject to government inspection are facing allegations of irregularities. And only six of them have exported in the past 60 days," said Mr Temer at a meeting with foreign diplomats on Sunday.
Operation Weak Flesh was launched in the early hours of Friday in six Brazilian states after a two-year investigation.
Federal police carried out raids in 194 locations, deploying more than 1,000 officers.
The investigators allege that some managers bribed health inspectors and politicians to get government certificates for their products.
They accuse more than 30 companies of a number of unhygienic practices. Among them are JBS, the world's largest beef exporter, and BRF, the world's top poultry producer.
"They used acid and other chemicals to mask the aspect of the product. In some cases, the products used were carcinogenic," the police said.
Both JBS and BRF said they followed high quality standards and sanitary regulations.
Prosecutors say a percentage of the bribe money was paid to two parties from the governing coalition - the PP and President Michel Temer's PMDB. | Some of the biggest consumers of Brazilian meat have suspended imports over allegations that companies have been selling unsafe produce for years. |
Can you write a short summary of this section? | The Gunners kept the trophy they won against Hull City a year ago and earned Arsene Wenger a sixth triumph.
It's the 12th time the team have won the world's most famous cup competition.
Arsenal's victory was never in doubt as they dominated with a magnificent display.
Five minutes before half-time their control was rewarded with a goal from Theo Walcott.
Alexis Sanchez scored again shortly after with an amazing goal - a swerving, dipping 25-yard thunderbolt that flew high past startled Villa keeper Shay Given.
Per Mertesacker took advantage of a lack of marking to head the third.
And substitute Olivier Giroud's fourth in the final moments completed their stunning victory. | Arsenal have become the most successful club in FA Cup history after beating Aston Villa 4-0 at Wembley. |
Can you summarize the following information? | Dartmouth, ridden by Olivier Peslier for trainer Sir Michael Stoute, won June's Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Earlier, second favourite Hawkbill was ruled out of the £1.15m race.
The Coral-Eclipse winner is likely to run instead in next month's Juddmonte International at York.
Stoute will seek a record sixth victory in the King George, with Frenchman Peslier lined up to keep the ride.
The Queen has won the Group One race named after her parents only once before, when Aureole triumphed in 1954.
Hawkbill, owned by Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin team, was about a 6-1 chance for Saturday's race.
Trainer Charlie Appleby said the horse was in fine form at his Newmarket base.
"We have decided he will miss the King George and be saved for races over a mile and a quarter," Appleby said.
"The Juddmonte is the likely next target."
Last year's King George winner Postponed is the odds-on favourite for a second win in Flat racing's mid-season showpiece over a mile and a half.
Postponed was trained by Luca Cumani 12 months ago before being switched to Roger Varian, and won the Coronation Cup at Epsom in June.
The van, registered in Poland, burst into flames. The driver's identity is not yet known.
Nine Eritreans were found in one of the lorries and taken into police custody.
In 2016, the so-called Jungle migrant camp at Calais was closed, but hundreds of people have returned to the area in the hope of reaching the UK.
Roadblocks, often built from tyres or rocks, were regularly placed on the A16 motorway leading to the port of Calais before the camp was dismantled in October. Migrants aimed to slow lorries down as they approached the port in the hope of climbing on board.
An Eritrean man was killed in an accident involving a British motorist in October. But no further incidents had been reported on the A16 until late last month.
The crash in the early hours of Tuesday was described as the first fatality involving a driver.
Two lorries were forced to stop when tree trunks were placed in the road near Guemps, 12km (8 miles) east of Calais, at around 03:45 local time (01:45 GMT), local media said.
The van was unable to brake in time and ran into the back of them. The driver died at the scene.
Police said the nine Eritreans were being questioned on suspicion of manslaughter.
Several hundred migrants are living in the Calais area in poor conditions. Some 7,000 had lived at the Jungle camp before it was dismantled. | The Queen is set to have a runner in Saturday's King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot after her colt Dartmouth was added to the line-up at a cost of £75,000.
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Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | Bolt is carrying a hamstring problem, but said that was not to blame for his modest time of 10.09 seconds.
"It was just a bad race. It wasn't a bothering pain so I can't blame it on that," the 26-year-old said.
Bailey-Cole, one of Bolt's training partners, was given the same time.
Bolt, the triple Olympic champion from London 2012, added: "I felt it [hamstring injury] slightly. I just have to go back and figure out with my coach what went wrong."
Antigua's Daniel Bailey finished third in the Cayman Islands with a time of 10.23 secs.
America's Carmelita Jeter won the women's 100m in a world leading 10.95 secs. | Six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt won his first 100m of the season in a photo finish, beating fellow Jamaican Kemar Bailey-Cole at the Cayman Invitational. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Grabban, a former Norwich striker, latched on to James Vaughan's flick-on to open the scoring before half-time.
Aiden McGeady added a superb second from 20 yards and crossed for Grabban to nod in his second at the far post.
Grabban poked into his own net after Sunderland failed to clear a set-piece, while Norwich also hit a post late on.
Captain Russell Martin struck the woodwork as Norwich sought a second goal that would have set up a dramatic finish, but the Canaries fell to their first defeat under new boss Daniel Farke.
Simon Grayson's Sunderland, meanwhile, have taken four points from their two league games since being relegated from the Premier League last season.
Summer signing Grabban, on a season's loan from Bournemouth, scored on his Sunderland debut as they drew their opening Championship match 1-1 at home to Derby, and was on form at Carrow Road.
Norwich dominated possession for much of the contest but Sunderland's clinical finishing proved the difference between the sides.
Norwich boss Daniel Farke: "I thought it was a really good performance - we had 75% of possession in the first half, just over 70% in the second, it was 13-1 in corners and we had a lot more chances than them.
"But in this game it doesn't matter about your philosophy or your performance, it is about the results and it is down to the small things that we lost this game.
"It is very frustrating but the fact that we dominated a game against a side who have only just come down from the Premier League is a good sign."
Sunderland manager Simon Grayson: "This is a tough place to come to and we knew they would be putting us under pressure in their first home game of the season, but I thought the lads stuck to the game plan really well.
"It's a great win and it has been a strongish start for us - but that's all it is, a good start, and no-one is getting carried away.
"What has happened here is in the past - it's all about what happens in the future now and what I will say is that I have got a good, hard-working group here - it's a working class city and that's what the people demand."
Match ends, Norwich City 1, Sunderland 3.
Second Half ends, Norwich City 1, Sunderland 3.
Foul by Harrison Reed (Norwich City).
James Vaughan (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Lynden Gooch.
Foul by James Maddison (Norwich City).
Darron Gibson (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Marley Watkins (Norwich City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan with a cross.
Attempt saved. Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by John O'Shea.
Substitution, Sunderland. John O'Shea replaces Lewis Grabban.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Brendan Galloway.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Darron Gibson.
Attempt blocked. Josh Murphy (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcel Franke.
Substitution, Sunderland. Lynden Gooch replaces Aiden McGeady.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Tyias Browning.
Russell Martin (Norwich City) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the right side of the box.
Attempt saved. James Husband (Norwich City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan.
Attempt saved. Aiden McGeady (Sunderland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Lewis Grabban with a headed pass.
James Maddison (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Didier Ndong (Sunderland).
Attempt missed. Lewis Grabban (Sunderland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Lamine Koné following a set piece situation.
Attempt missed. Lamine Koné (Sunderland) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Foul by Marley Watkins (Norwich City).
Aiden McGeady (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Own Goal by Lewis Grabban, Sunderland. Norwich City 1, Sunderland 3.
Substitution, Norwich City. Wes Hoolahan replaces Steven Naismith.
Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Billy Jones (Sunderland).
Offside, Sunderland. Aiden McGeady tries a through ball, but James Vaughan is caught offside.
Foul by Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City).
Brendan Galloway (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Steven Naismith (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lewis Grabban (Sunderland).
Substitution, Sunderland. Darron Gibson replaces Lee Cattermole.
Foul by Marley Watkins (Norwich City).
Didier Ndong (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Norwich City 0, Sunderland 3. Lewis Grabban (Sunderland) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Aiden McGeady with a cross.
Attempt missed. Marcel Franke (Norwich City) header from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by James Maddison with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Lee Cattermole. | Lewis Grabban scored twice for Sunderland and also netted an own goal as the Black Cats beat Norwich for their first league win of the season. |
Can you summarize the given article? | Promoters Top Rank say Conlan will fight on the Brisbane bill providing he wins his contest in Chicago on 26 May.
Pacquiao will defend his WBO welterweight title against Australia's Jeff Horn.
"If all goes well, Michael will fight on 2 July in Brisbane," said Top Rank's vice-president Carl Moretti.
Super-bantamweight Conlan, a former world amateur champion and London Olympics bronze medallist, impressed on his professional debut in New York on St Patrick's Day.
He stopped American Tim Ibarra inside three rounds at Madison Square Garden.
The Belfast man's opponent for his Chicago bout is yet to be confirmed. | Belfast boxer Michael Conlan is set to fight on the undercard of Manny Pacquiao's world title fight in Australia in July. |
Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | It said about 12,000 people attended the neolithic site in Wiltshire to watch the sun rise at 04:52 BST.
The figure was well down on the estimated 23,000 who attended last year, while 25,000 had been expected.
Organisers said low attendance was due to the event falling on a weekday and not as a result of an alcohol ban.
The lead-up to the event also coincided with international football games involving England and Wales, and this may have had an impact, organisers conceded.
This year's solstice celebrations saw revellers facing a ban on alcohol and drugs for the first time, in a bid to curb "drunken and disrespectful behaviour".
A £15 charge per vehicle was also introduced by EH to encourage more people to car share or travel by bus.
Merlin, an archdruid, described the charge as an "unnecessary profit-making enterprise".
"A lot of the people, they're not rich people, they're quite poor most of them, and [English Heritage] make millions already," he said.
But Kate Davies, Stonehenge general manager, said it was "really happy with the number of attendees".
"It's a Monday night, so we knew it was going to be quieter because that's what traditionally happens on a weekday," she said.
"We also had terrible weather earlier yesterday - that would definitely have put some people off and there were also a couple of big football matches last night, so again some people may have chosen to stay at home."
Wiltshire Police said the celebrations were "positive and peaceful" with two arrests, including a 24-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.
Supt Mark Sellers said: "These changes for Solstice 2016 have proved a great success, with people celebrating at Stonehenge in a positive, friendly atmosphere as they waited for the sunrise."
Up to 400 people also enjoyed the solstice at the nearby Avebury stone circle, where police said the atmosphere was "jovial" and there were no arrests.
Pagan festivals: Summer solstice
• Solstice, or Litha, means a stopping or standing still of the sun
• The summer solstice is the longest day of the year and is celebrated by thousands of pagans across the world. In the northern hemisphere, the solstice usually falls around 21 June
• Stonehenge is believed to have been used as an important religious site by early Britons 4,000 years ago. Recent pagan celebrations at the site began in the 20th Century
• On Litha, the central Altar stone at Stonehenge aligns with the Heel stone, the Slaughter stone and the rising sun to the north east
Why do my days get longer and shorter?
What are the mysteries behind the Summer Solstice?
Find out more: BBC Religion Paganism | Crowds who gathered at Stonehenge at dawn to mark the summer solstice were down by about half this year, English Heritage said. |
Please give a summary of the document below. | Eskom made the announcement after deliberating with Zola Tsotsi on a motion of no-confidence.
Mr Tsotsi recently made headlines when he suspended four senior executives over ongoing problems at the company.
South Africa has been plagued by power outages in recent months, leading to widespread criticism of Eskom.
An inquiry is underway at Eskom into the reasons behind poor generation capacity and cash-flow issues.
A decision on the suspended bosses will only be taken once the investigation has been completed, the power utility has said.
Economists warn that if the energy problems are not resolved in Africa's most developed economy, it could further stunt the country's growth prospects. | The chairman of South Africa's power utility has resigned following calls for him to be sacked over allegations of interfering with operations. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | He died at his home in Connecticut of natural causes, his family said.
Frank Gifford won the 1956 NFL title with the New York Giants and was inducted into the American Football Hall of Fame in 1977.
After his playing career he moved into TV commentary, working for ABC's Monday Night Football from 1971 to 1997.
"Frank Gifford was the ultimate Giant. He was the face of our franchise for so many years," Giants President John Mara said.
Bob Iger, chairman of ABC's owner, the Walt Disney Company, described Gifford as "an exceptional man who will be missed by everyone who had the joy of seeing his talent on the field, the pleasure of watching his broadcasts, or the honour of knowing him".
Gifford made 367 catches for 5,434 yards with 43 touchdowns, whilst also running for 3,609 yards and 34 touchdowns.
He was the MVP in 1956 and was an eight-time selection to the Pro Bowl.
In a statement released to NBC News, the Gifford family said: "We ask that our privacy be respected at this difficult time and we thank you for your prayers."
Gifford married Kathie Lee Gifford, a host on NBC's Today show, in 1986.
In a Twitter post, she said: "Deeply grateful to all 4 ur outpouring of grace. We r steadfast in our faith and finding comfort in knowing where Frank is."
The Iron, under new manager Graham Alexander, dominated a scrappy first half as goalkeeper Adam Davies saved George Williams' low effort and Jim O'Brien twice shot wide.
Conor Hourihane came close for Barnsley after the break but goalkeeper Luke Daniels tipped his effort over the bar.
Josh Brownhill's strike in the final minutes then went wide for the Tykes.
The draw keeps Barnsley in the final League One play-off position, just one point ahead of Bradford City.
Scunthorpe United manager Graham Alexander told BBC Radio Humberside:
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"We were the better team in the first half. We caused some problems and mixed the play up really well when we had possession.
"I don't think some of the decisions helped. There were too many nothing 50/50 goings against us. But I want to have a good relationship with referees and he was good enough to have a proper chat with me.
"For the team and the players the effort was fantastic. You could see the determination to get a result."
Raven was first aired in 2002 and last shown in 2010.
The fantasy adventure children's game show involves contestants being guided on a quest by "an immortal shape-shifting Scottish warrior".
The revamped show, which is filming in the Cairngorms National Park between July and September, stars River City's Aisha Toussaint.
She takes over from original Raven, James Mackenzie, who will be returning to feature during the "new quest to find an ultimate warrior".
Toussaint, 21, said: "I'm absolutely thrilled to be the new Raven.
"I was a massive fan of the original series and remember rushing home from school so I didn't miss an episode - it was always so exciting.
"I used to dream of one day being a warrior contestant - I never for a second imagined that I'd one day be Raven. My 11-year-old self would be gobsmacked."
"Pulling on the costume for the very first time was a very special moment."
Cheryl Taylor, Controller, CBBC, said the overwhelming response was testament to Raven's popularity.
She added: "Raven has always inspired a passionate and loyal following from CBBC fans and it's clear from the number of children keen to participate in the new series that its enduring and powerful appeal lives on.
"The return of Raven has caused great excitement and we wait with anticipation to meet the new cast and immerse ourselves in this legendary battle."
The series is expected to be aired later in the year. | Frank Gifford - a star American football player and later a broadcaster who helped to popularise the sport - has died aged 84.
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Scunthorpe extended their unbeaten run to seven games by holding play-off-chasing Barnsley to a draw at Oakwell.
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What is the brief summary of the provided content? | Four men on motorbikes shot at members of the Sao Geraldo samba school practising for next month's carnival in the city of Sao Joao Del Rei.
Police officials said they believed the attack was gang-related.
However, they said it was not clear if those killed were the intended targets.
The victims were between 14 and 19 years old.
Police officials said three suspects had been arrested in connection with the case.
Gun violence is high in Brazil but attempts at banning the sale of guns have in the past failed.
A 2005 referendum on the issue was defeated by a clear majority.
Leslie Cooper, 36, will appear before Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court later.
Mr Arwani, a British national, was believed to be a critic of President Bashar al-Assad.
The father of six was found shot dead in the Greenhill area of the city on 7 April.
Rob Davis, from the Crown Prosecution Service, confirmed it had authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge Mr Cooper following an investigation by counter-terrorism officers.
Mr Arwani was found with bullet injuries to his chest in a parked car at the junction of Greenhill and The Paddocks.
He had been an imam at the An Noor mosque in Acton, west London, from 2005 to 2011, and is believed to have attended protests against the Assad regime outside the Syrian embassy in London in 2012.
In 1982, he claimed he was forced to flee Syria after being sentenced to death for photographing damage in his home city of Hama following government suppression of a rebellion.
The Shanghai Shenhua club was also fined 1m yuan (£103,000) and stripped of its 2003 league victory for fixing a match on its way to the title.
In recent years, China has increased efforts to clean up its football, which has been hit by a series of scandals.
Over the past year, more than 50 officials, referees and players have been jailed.
The corruption and rigging has at times been blatant, says the BBC's John Sudworth in Shanghai.
One infamous match ended with a team clearly seen trying to score an own goal, he says.
Shanghai Shenhua was found guilty of offering bribes to officials to secure a 4-1 victory against Shanxi Guoli, Chinese media report.
In addition to the fine, the club was given a six-point penalty for the coming season, as was another top-division side, Tianjin Teda, which was also fined 1m yuan, said China Daily.
In total, 12 clubs have been given financial or points-based penalties, Xinhua reports.
Among the officials banned for life were two former heads of the Chinese football league, Nan Yong and his predecessor Xie Yalong, who are already serving 10-and-a-half years each in jail after being convicted of accepting bribes.
Another 25 players and officials have been given five-year bans.
China's football authorities hope that by cracking down on corruption cases they will raise standards and attract foreign talent to play in the country.
Former English Premier League players Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka both joined Shanghai Shenhua in 2012, but left after just one season. | Three Brazilian teenagers have been killed and three other people injured after gunmen opened fire during the rehearsal of a samba school in the eastern state of Minas Gerais.
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A man has been charged with the murder of Syrian-born preacher Abdul Hadi Arwani, who was found shot dead in his car in north-west London.
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China's football association has banned 33 players and officials for life after a three-year probe into match-fixing. |
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The paper's Dublin-based owners, Independent News and Media Limited (INM), said the move is down to the closure of its printing operation within the Royal Avenue premises.
BBC News NI's business correspondent Julian O'Neill reports.
The Raiders plan to move from the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum to a proposed 65,000-seater stadium which is expected to cost $1.9bn (£1.54bn).
Relocation to the USA's famous gambling destination must be approved by three-quarters of NFL team owners (24 of 32).
The Raiders extended their lease on their current stadium by a year for the current season and will remain there until they move.
The NFL website states that owners will vote on the team's relocation proposal at a meeting in March.
Mayweather, 38, took his unbeaten record to 48 fights with a one-sided points victory over Pacquiao.
Khan, 28, who takes on former light-welterweight world champion Chris Algieri on 29 May, says he has also been invited to fight Pacquiao, 36.
"I'm in a position where I could face either but I want Mayweather," he said.
Khan told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek that Mayweather's manager, Len Ellerbe, approached him after Saturday's fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
He said: "Financially they know it will be a big fight and it will be an exciting fight.
"I think Mayweather's team want the fight - but I've spoken to Manny's team and they've said the same thing, that they want a fight."
Mayweather has said he intends to retire after one more fight, probably in September, because he no longer enjoys the sport.
But Khan, who is Muslim, will be fasting then.
"I really believe I have Mayweather's number and I'm ready for whatever he wants," he said.
"I can't do September because of Ramadan. It just depends on my schedule this year but if we can do this year or early next year I will definitely jump to it."
Khan, who has won 30 of his 33 fights, produced a dominant performance to secure a unanimous points victory over American Devon Alexander in Las Vegas in December.
And the Bolton-born welterweight believes he can succeed where Pacquiao failed against Mayweather, now the WBO, WBC and WBA champion.
"The mistake Manny made was to drop to Mayweather's pace," said Khan. "You need to stick to your own pace and that's what a younger man could do.
"Mayweather is a very classy fighter but he is not the biggest puncher. He won't hurt you.
"One boxer who can get to him, throw a lot of shots, and show a lot of heart, is Amir Khan." | The Belfast Telegraph is to cut up to 89 jobs and sell its famous 19th Century office building in Belfast city centre.
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NFL team Oakland Raiders have applied for relocation to Las Vegas in 2020.
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Britain's Amir Khan says Floyd Mayweather's manager told him "let's get that fight on" after the American beat Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | One hundred years on from the birth of the popular children's author, the website revealed Dahl's top 10 books in both digital and print format.
The BFG - recently adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg - was second, followed by George's Marvellous Medicine.
Matilda and James and the Giant Peach rounded out the top five.
Dahl published his first children's book more than 70 years ago - yet he still ranks in the top five best-selling children's authors on Amazon's UK site.
Dahl appeared in the top five alongside the modern day best-sellers, Julia Donaldson, JK Rowling, Jeff Kinney and David Walliams.
Dan Mucha, books director for Amazon.co.uk, said: "Having grown up with Roald Dahl's books and seeing my children read them today, I understand firsthand the joy and enduring quality of his stories.
"The centenary of his birth marks a big moment in the literary calendar and we have seen his books continue to sell incredibly well in both print and on our Kindle store.
"We expect that he will remain one of the top children's authors for years to come."
Sales of the titles were tracked over a five-year period.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is Roald Dahl's most popular book on Amazon.co.uk. |
Can you summarize the given article? | He got 422 votes out of the 729 total cast in the secret ballot, despite strong opposition earlier from Britain.
He told reporters in Strasbourg he was prepared to discuss repatriating some powers from Brussels to member states.
A firm believer in EU integration, he will succeed incumbent Jose Manuel Barroso of Portugal in November.
In a speech to MEPs, he pledged the Commission would be a "political body", not just Europe's civil service.
He got sustained applause when he said the euro "protects Europe".
By Gavin HewittEurope editor
Europe's Mr President
Mr Juncker was well over the 376 votes minimum that he needed. There were 250 votes against him, 47 abstentions and 10 spoilt ballots.
Mr Juncker, a veteran of Brussels deal-making, was lead candidate of the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), which won May's European elections. He played a key role in the eurozone bailouts.
The presidency is the most powerful job in Brussels. The Commission drafts EU laws, oversees national budgets, enforces EU treaties and negotiates international trade deals.
On Wednesday EU leaders are expected to nominate a new EU foreign policy chief, to replace Baroness Ashton.
At his news conference, Mr Juncker reiterated previous comments that any repatriation of powers would be a matter for renegotiation with UK Prime Minister David Cameron and other heads of government of EU states.
But he said he would be prepared to make a "fair deal" with Britain.
As chair of the eurozone finance ministers, Mr Juncker steered the massive bailouts for Greece, Portugal and other struggling countries at the height of the euro crisis in 2010-2012.
He likened that role on Tuesday to "trying to keep a burning plane in the air while repairing it - you burn your fingers sometimes".
Elsewhere in his speech he said:
When he sought to argue that the euro represented monetary stability, UK Independence Party MEPs shouted "rubbish".
Last month, Mr Juncker won the backing of 26 out of 28 leaders of the EU.
Mr Cameron - supported by his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban - called the move "a serious mistake" because Mr Juncker, 59, was too much in favour of closer political union and might block EU reform. He pushed for - and lost - a vote on Mr Juncker, breaking with tradition.
In the past such appointments were made by the EU leaders - meeting in the European Council - by unanimity.
After the European Council vote Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said there would be a review of how the Commission president was nominated - but only after the new Commission team was in place.
Mr Juncker's supporters value his record of consensus-building and commitment to EU integration.
Under new EU treaty rules, the leaders have to take account of the European election result when nominating a Commission chief.
In the coming months, the other 27 new members of the Commission - one from each country - will be appointed. The EU will also appoint a new foreign policy chief and new president of the European Council.
Jean-Claude Juncker: A man for Europe?
Arguments for and against Juncker | A majority in the European Parliament has approved former Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Juncker to be President of the European Commission. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | Police found Hannah Pearson unconscious at a house in the Nottinghamshire town of Newark in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Ambulance crews tried to resuscitate her, but she later died in hospital.
James Morton, 23, of Pierson Street, Newark, has appeared in court charged with her murder.
Hannah's family said in a statement: "Hannah was a beautiful daughter, granddaughter, sister, aunty, niece and friend.
"She was a bright and bubbly girl with a lively spirit who embraced life.
"She will be missed by everyone whose life she touched."
Mr Morton has been remanded in custody and is expected to stand trial in January 2017. | The family of a 16-year-old girl killed in a suspected murder has said she was a "bright and bubbly girl with a lively spirit who embraced life". |
What is the summary of the following document? | The ex-Aberdeen, Metz and Scotland striker, 52, was brought in as coach in January and took charge of the last seven games of the Premier League season after Remi Garde's departure.
He was officially the man at the helm when Villa were relegated on 16 April.
Di Matteo's two main backroom men will be Kevin Bond and Steve Clarke.
Black began his playing career under Sir Alex Ferguson at Aberdeen, helping the Dons win the European Cup Winners' Cup in Gothenburg in 1983.
He then spent five seasons playing for Metz, where he became fluent in French.
After his playing days ended, he managed both Motherwell and Coventry City, before becoming number two to Steve Bruce first at Birmingham City, then also at Wigan Athletic and Sunderland.
He then worked for Blackburn Rovers and briefly at Blackpool before becoming number two to Steve Evans at Rotherham United.
Black began the first of last season's two stints as a caretaker boss when Evans left the Millers in October, but was kept on under new boss Neil Redfearn until getting the call from Garde to go to Villa.
His departure continues the shake-up following the takeover by Dr Tony Xia, which has also seen chairman Steve Hollis make his expected departure.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Former Aston Villa caretaker manager Eric Black has left the relegated club following the appointment of new boss Roberto di Matteo. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | The Met Office said outbreaks could bring up to 20mm of rain in a relatively short period of time.
It also warned of possible transport disruption.
The warning from 08:00 GMT on Saturday until 12:00 GMT on Sunday is for all of south Wales and Powys. | A warning has been issued for rain across south and parts of mid Wales over the weekend which could lead to localised flooding. |
Give a short summary of the provided document. | The latest figures show that between September 2010 and September 2016 police workforce numbers in England and Wales fell by 18,991, or 13%, according to the Home Office.
Numbers of special constables and police community support officers (PCSOs) who patrol the streets have fallen by 7% and 11% respectively in the past year alone.
These figures are for England and Wales only, because policing in Scotland and Northern Ireland is devolved.
In Scotland, police numbers have risen more or less continuously for the past 30 years while in Northern Ireland there has been a smaller decrease since 2010 than in England and Wales.
Overall police budgets, excluding counter-terrorism grants, fell by 20% between 2010 and 2015. Since 2015, the overall policing budget has been protected in real terms, but not every force will benefit.
But over the same period, the ring-fenced counter-terrorism grant has been rising in line with inflation.
In light of the Manchester attack, which left 22 people dead, questions have been asked about whether the police have the resources to tackle the threat from terrorism.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said on the BBC's Question Time programme: "I have asked the head of counter-terrorism whether this is about resources. It is not. We must not imply that this terrorist activity may not have taken place if there had been more policing."
There has been a large increase in counter-terrorism spending since a specific grant was introduced in 2001-02.
How this grant is shared out across police forces has not been made public in recent years for security reasons but the Metropolitan Police force is the national lead on counter-terrorism and is likely to receive a significant share.
In Autumn 2015, the then Chancellor, George Osborne, promised to spend £3.4bn extra on counter-terrorism - an increase of 30% - over the following five years. This was to be allocated to several different agencies working on counter-terrorism, not just police forces.
Counter-terrorism policing operates as a network with bases across the UK and resources, including officers and other staff, can be allocated where the need is greatest.
The National Police Chiefs' Council does not disclose counter-terrorism police officer numbers.
Richard Keen QC is stepping down from his position as chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party to become the new Advocate General for Scotland.
He was previously dean of the Faculty of Advocates.
Mr Keen said it would be a "great honour" to support the UK government at a "crucial point" as new legislation brings further devolution to Holyrood.
He said: "I am delighted to be appointed Advocate General for Scotland.
"It is a great honour to join the UK government and I look forward to working with my ministerial colleagues to support the work of the UK government in Scotland at this crucial point in our political and constitutional history."
Mr Keen is one of the most prominent figures in Scottish legal circles. He stood down from his role at the Faculty of Advocates to become the chairman of the Scottish Conservatives.
Scottish Secretary David Mundell said: "This is a key job for Scotland and Richard is exactly the right person to take it on.
"He is one of our most respected and experienced legal minds, and will have a central role in supporting the UK government in Scotland, not least as we work to strengthen devolution to the Scottish Parliament." | In a speech as Labour resumed its election campaign, Jeremy Corbyn said he would "reverse the cuts" to police.
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One of Scotland's leading lawyers has been appointed as the UK government's most senior adviser on Scots law. |
Summarize the information in the following section. | Ajer, 17, will join the club on a four-year deal in the summer, after agreeing personal terms following a trial.
The midfielder has captained and been a regular for IK Start in Norway, but recognises he has to develop further to succeed at Celtic.
"I come here as a 17-year-old that surely no-one has heard about, so I need to prove myself," he said.
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"I expect much from myself."
Highly-rated in his homeland, the Norway Under-17 cap revealed his decision to join the Scottish champions was influenced by the presence of his compatriot Ronny Deila as Celtic manager.
The midfielder did not seek assurances about Deila's long-term future at the club before committing to a contract, though.
"He's the manager now and that's what's important," Ajer said. "You don't know what will happen. Ronny's a great manager and I am really sure that he will be manager for a long time.
"Back in Norway, he won the Premiership and I will prove that I am good enough to play.
"I'm a full member of the A squad. I need to prove myself, develop and be good in training. Hopefully I will play a lot, that's my goal.
"I'm a holding midfielder that likes to be on the ball and win it back again. I've had many role models who I've seen on YouTube, such as Patrick Vieira - a great player in that position.
"At Celtic, there are holding midfielders who are so good that I need to learn from. I can't wait to start training with them and learn everything.
"I've played almost 50 matches in the Premiership in Norway and I felt I was ready to come to such a big club as this and develop as much as I can."
Ajer admitted other teams had been keen to sign him but that Celtic was his "number one club", explaining: "I wanted to come here.
"My parents have my whole life told me to keep my feet on the ground and never think you are better than someone else, you have to prove yourself," he added.
"I will [now return home to] take the driving licence and finish second grade at my high school, so I have many things to do back in Norway."
The Portuguese, 50, insists the title race is more open than during his first spell as Blues boss between 2004-2007.
"Tottenham are a big contender. They have bought players with quality," he said ahead of Saturday's trip to Spurs.
"Six teams are competing for the position. Any one of the six teams can be first, any one can be sixth."
Mourinho joined Chelsea in June 2004 and led them to two Premier League titles in his first two seasons, with Manchester United lifting the trophy in his final season at Stamford Bridge.
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Chelsea and Manchester United were the only Premier League winners between 2005-2011, before Manchester City broke their dominance in 2012.
Mourinho's side go into Saturday's match, which kicks off at 12:45 BST, fourth in the table, two points behind second-placed Tottenham.
"In my first time it was a clear race between Chelsea and Manchester United, two fantastic teams who were probably better than any team at this moment," he said.
"Finally, Man City broke that period of blue and red dominance. At the moment the situation is different.
"At this moment six teams are competing for the position, that is the beauty of the league. It is better like this."
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has also said six teams are challenging for the Premier League title, claiming Liverpool and Tottenham have joined Manchester United, Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea as realistic contenders. | Kristoffer Ajer says he has joined Celtic to show he can perform at a higher level.
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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes Tottenham are a "big contender" for the Premier League title, claiming they are one of six possible champions. |
Can you summarize this passage? | 19 March 2017 Last updated at 13:32 GMT
Kat Parker, from Plymouth, was 26 when she was diagnosed with the disease and had to have her breasts and ovaries removed.
She has been clear of cancer for two years but her hair has never recovered.
Following a community fundraising effort, she has now had specialist extensions for people suffering severe hair loss and says she feels like a "different person".
Watch Inside Out South West's story on BBC One on Monday 20 March at 19:30 BST and on the iPlayer for 30 days thereafter. | A young mother-of-two who was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago says the damage to her hair left her feeling "unfeminine". |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | Homes in the Rumney area of Cardiff and Bristol were raided by police on Monday morning.
Four men from Rumney, aged 57, 37, 34 and 33, are being held at Ystrad Mynach police station.
The alleged slavery offences relate to two men, who police said were safe and being supported by officers.
Three men - aged 57, 37 and 33 - were held on suspicion of knowingly or conspiring to hold a person in slavery, servitude or requiring another person to perform forced or compulsory labour, kidnap, false imprisonment and assault.
A fourth man, 34, was arrested on suspicion of knowingly or conspiring to hold a person in slavery, servitude or requiring another person to perform forced or compulsory labour and assault.
A Gwent Police spokeswoman said the four arrests related to two alleged victims, who were not recovered from the addresses raided.
The arrests were made by officers working on Gwent Police's anti-slavery Operation Imperial.
South Wales Police and Avon and Somerset Police were also involved in Monday's operation, as warrants were executed at five addresses in the Cardiff and Bristol area.
Det Supt Paul Griffiths, who leads Operation Imperial, said: "All four arrests relate to two victims, both men, who are being supported by specially trained officers. The alleged offences we are investigating are extremely serious.
"Allegations from one of the victims cover slavery, servitude and forced labour and span a period of 26 years. Allegations from the other victim cover kidnap, false imprisonment and assault and span a lesser timeframe.
"Anyone with any information that could help is asked to call the Imperial team directly by dialling 01633 647174.
"Alternatively, if someone has information and would rather not pass this directly to the police then I would urge them to contact Crimestoppers, which is independent of the police and guarantees complete anonymity on 0800 555111."
Jacqueline Parry, a local councillor from Rumney said: "There will be absolute shock (over the arrests).
"You do not expect it in a suburban area, an area where people know each other, where there are communities."
Officials said the six men who had stormed the transport ministry facility and taken several hostages were killed.
Two policemen who had been guarding the building also died, they added. But one security source put the toll at 18.
No group has claimed responsibility, though Sunni militants linked to al-Qaeda have mounted similar attacks.
Violence has surged across Iraq in the past year, reaching levels not seen since the height of the sectarian insurgency in 2007.
The United Nations says 7,818 civilians and 1,050 members of the security forces died in 2013. More than 900 people are reported to have been killed since the start of the year.
The brazen assault on the transport ministry facility in the capital's north-east began just after midday.
Officials told the AFP news agency that the attackers had all been wearing explosive vests and had initially tried to detonate a car bomb at the entrance to the building.
When it did not explode, one of the men blew himself up to clear the way for the others, the officials added. A second man then detonated his suicide vest at an inner gate.
The four remaining militants then held a number of people hostage for several hours before they were killed by security forces, interior ministry spokesman Gen Saad Maan told the BBC.
One of the police guards who died had been at an entrance and the other had been in charge of monitoring security cameras, he said.
A senior security source told the Reuters news agency that the militants killed at least 18 people including themselves and four hostages. It is not clear who the others were.
During the operation security forces sealed off the surrounding area, which is also home to the transport ministry's headquarters and a human rights ministry building.
Also on Thursday, at least four people were killed by a car bomb in the northern Kasra district of Baghdad, according to the Associated Press. Nine people were killed in bombings in the capital on Wednesday night.
The violence comes amid a month-long stand-off between the security forces and Sunni militants linked to al-Qaeda who have seized control of two cities in the western province of Anbar. | Four people remain in custody after being arrested on slavery and kidnap charges spanning a period of 26 years.
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Iraqi security forces have ended a hostage crisis at a government building in Baghdad, but there are conflicting reports about the number of casualties. |
Give a short summary of the provided document. | London Underground staff have been told to say "hello everyone" in an effort to become more gender-neutral.
TfL said the move was to ensure all passengers felt "welcome".
LGBT campaign group Stonewall welcomed the decision, which was supported by London mayor Sadiq Khan at a session of Mayor's Question Time last month.
The revised phrasing will be applied to all new pre-recorded announcements made across the capital's transport network.
Mark Evers, director of customer strategy at TfL, said: "We want everyone to feel welcome on our transport network.
"We have reviewed the language that we use in announcements and elsewhere and will make sure that it is fully inclusive, reflecting the great diversity of London."
Mr Khan said he was "keen" TfL speak in a "more neutral way".
He said: "TfL serves a vibrant, diverse and multicultural city, and provision of an inclusive transport service is at the heart of TfL's purpose.
"I am aware however, that some customers may not relate to or feel comfortable with the way that certain station announcements are made."
TfL said it had briefed staff on use of the new language "though from time-to-time, well-meaning staff may still use the term 'ladies and gentlemen"."
"If this happens frequently, we will issue reminders to staff," it added.
Stonewall said: "Language is extremely important to the lesbian, gay, bi and trans community, and the way we use it can help ensure all people feel included.
"We welcome gender neutral announcements to be rolled out across TfL as it will ensure that everyone - no matter who they identify as - feels accounted for."
A statement from Jan Jedrzejewski's family described him as "an amazing, caring and sincere son, brother, brother in law, uncle and friend".
Mr Jedrzejewski, who lived in the city, was found on Keene Street, Lliswerry, at about 23:00 GMT on Thursday.
He was taken to the Royal Gwent Hospital, where he later died. Police have arrested four people.
His family released a statement in Polish and English, which said: "We will never forget the smile on your face when your favourite football team Real Madrid scored a goal.
"You will forever stay in our hearts. We love and miss you, until we meet again."
Two men aged 18 and a 17-year-old boy were arrested on Friday and a 43-year-old man was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of murder.
Bond died in Florida after a short illness, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said in a statement.
US President Barack Obama said he had been "privileged" to have called Bond a friend.
Bond was also a writer, poet, politician and professor.
He co-founded the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee in the 1960s, organising anti-segregation protests and voter registration drives.
"Julian Bond helped change this country for the better - and what better way to be remembered than that," President Obama added.
The Southern Poverty Law Center described him as a "visionary and tireless champion for civil and human rights".
He was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives when black people became eligible to vote in the 1960s and served in the Georgia legislature for two decades.
He served as the SPLC founding president in the 1970s.
As board chairman of the NAACP in the 2000s, when asked by the BBC whether black Americans had achieved equality with white people, he said that they were "far, far from it".
"Black skin still acts as a mark of difference - for many white Americans, a negative difference," he said.
He continued to champion the cause in newspaper columns and on TV shows - even hosting NBC's late-night comedy show, Saturday Night Live.
"With Julian's passing, the country has lost one of its most passionate and eloquent voices for the cause of justice," the SPLC said in its statement.
"He advocated not just for African-Americans, but for every group, indeed every person subject to oppression and discrimination, because he recognised the common humanity in us all."
Mr Bond is survived by his wife, Pamela Horowitz, a former SPLC staff attorney, and five children by his previous marriage to Alice Clopton. | The "ladies and gentlemen" greeting on Tube announcements is to be scrapped, Transport for London (TfL) has announced.
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Tributes have been paid to a 41-year-old man who died after being found unconscious on a street in Newport.
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The US civil rights activist and former board chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Julian Bond has died, aged 75. |
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"Nodular sclerosing is the most common of all types of Hodgkin lymphoma in the UK. Nearly six out of 10 of all diagnosed cases are this type and it is the most common type in young adults. It is usually found at an early stage when lymph glands in the neck become enlarged."
Cancer Research UK
The 28-year-old stopped playing football in March having again been diagnosed with nodular sclerosing Hodgkin lymphoma after previously overcoming the disease in 2014.
Thompson's treatment has included a course of chemotherapy and stem cell replacement in Manchester.
He said on Twitter: "Simple terms, I'm cancer free."
Thompson, who has also had spells with Tranmere, Bury and Southport, rejoined Rochdale, where he began his career in their youth system, from Carlisle at the start of last season.
He made 27 appearances, scoring three goals, in all competitions for his hometown club, who finished ninth in League One, and played his most recent game in the 2-2 draw at MK Dons on 11 March.
The football world was quick to congratulate Thompson on his good news. | Rochdale midfielder Joe Thompson says he is in "complete remission" after his second battle with cancer. |
Can you summarize this passage? | Domenico Rancadore, 64, was arrested in Uxbridge in August where he was living with his wife and two children under the assumed name of Marc Skinner.
He was found guilty of Mafia association and extortion in Italy in 1999 and given a seven-year jail term.
Westminster Magistrates' Court heard he wanted "a normal life" for his family.
The hearing was also told Rancadore, who was known as The Professor in his native Sicily, suffered from the heart condition angina.
Since taking refuge the UK in 1994, Rancadore and his family used the surname of Skinner, the maiden name of his wife's British mother.
Giving evidence, Rancadore explained why he had used a different name, saying: "I change my name, I change my life, I don't want to go back to Italy."
Referring to his stay in the UK he said: "I never commit any crime in this country. I love this country."
He said there were 460 defendants in the trial in Italy in which he was a defendant along with his father in the 1980s, and he described it as a "terrible experience".
Talking about his angina, he said: "I'm not very well. I feel destroyed. I feel very painful."
But prosecutor Hannah Hinton said Rancadore was "deliberately absent" from the 1999 trial, where he was subsequently sentenced, and had deliberately "hidden" his identity as he knew he was a wanted man and had changed his story.
Ms Hinton said: "What I'm going to suggest, Mr Rancadore, is that when you came to this country, that you were worried, concerned, that you were going to be arrested again and now you accept that.
"But previously what you were telling the court was that you only came here to make a new life for yourself, having collected your pension," she said.
Rancadore was also questioned as to why his signature was on a document instructing two lawyers to challenge an Italian judgment by appeal - implying that he knew he was wanted by police.
But Rancadore said it was not his signature and had not been in contact with lawyers or with his parents.
"I never gave my address to anyone in Italy. I never contacted anyone in Italy," he said.
Ms Hinton suggested Rancadore was aware when the trial began and also came to know about the sentence, but he claimed to have learnt about the sentence after his arrest in the UK.
Rancadore's wife, Anne, told the court the extradition would be "devastating" for her husband.
"If my husband was to go to Italy it would be difficult for me to visit him," she said.
"It would really be devastating for me and for family life as well."
She also said her husband's father was a Sicilian Mafia leader and her son would have been hassled by police if they had remained in Italy, forcing them to leave.
The judge also heard from law professor and Italian prison expert Patrizio Gonnella who said: "Italy has the highest rate of crowded prisons in the whole of Europe.
"Today the matter of safeguarding of health is the biggest, the most critical, issue in our prisons."
The case continues. | A convicted Mafia boss who had been hiding in west London for 20 years has told an extradition hearing "I want to cut every tie with my past". |
Summarize the following excerpt. | New signing Stuart Beavon looked to have secured Coventry a valuable three points when he fired home in the 69th minute to put the hosts 2-1 ahead.
The diminutive striker - signed from Burton 24 hours before the game - fired home a low shot after a superb run from Ryan Haynes, who ghosted past three defenders before putting Beavon in inside the visitors' area.
But Clayton's late leveller saw Bolton snatch a point to remain in second spot in League One.
Beavon was also involved in Coventry's opening goal in the 37th minute, the experienced forward showing dogged determination to rob defender Mark Beevers of possession and help set up Marcus Tudgay for his 100th career goal.
It was a rare moment of quality in a desperately poor first half but Bolton were far more on their game after the half-time break.
David Wheater headed wide for the visitors on the hour but, five minutes later, they were back in the game when Haynes pulled over striker Gary Madine, allowing substitute Zach Clough to convert from the penalty spot.
Beavon's goal two minutes later appeared to have won it for his new side but Clayton showed a cool head to convert from inside the area right at the end.
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Match ends, Coventry City 2, Bolton Wanderers 2.
Second Half ends, Coventry City 2, Bolton Wanderers 2.
Attempt missed. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Foul by Jamie Sterry (Coventry City).
Max Clayton (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Coventry City 2, Bolton Wanderers 2. Max Clayton (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jamie Proctor.
Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jay Spearing (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Sammy Ameobi (Bolton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Jamie Proctor replaces Derik.
Substitution, Coventry City. Gael Bigirimana replaces Kyel Reid.
Attempt missed. Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Coventry City. Ruben Lameiras replaces Stuart Beavon.
Attempt blocked. Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Jamie Sterry (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Max Clayton (Bolton Wanderers).
Jordan Turnbull (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers).
Goal! Coventry City 2, Bolton Wanderers 1. Stuart Beavon (Coventry City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Haynes.
Marcus Tudgay (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers).
Goal! Coventry City 1, Bolton Wanderers 1. Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Ryan Haynes (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Ryan Haynes (Coventry City) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Bolton Wanderers. Gary Madine draws a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Nathan Clarke (Coventry City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a set piece situation.
Marcus Tudgay (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jay Spearing (Bolton Wanderers).
Foul by Nathan Clarke (Coventry City).
Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. David Wheater (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Nathan Clarke.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Max Clayton replaces James Henry.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Zach Clough replaces Liam Trotter.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Jordan Turnbull.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Ryan Haynes.
Marcus Tudgay (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jay Spearing (Bolton Wanderers).
Jamie Sterry (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Henry (Bolton Wanderers). | Max Clayton salvaged a stoppage-time point as Bolton twice came from behind to draw with Coventry at the Ricoh Arena. |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | The "General Lee" Dodge Charger driven by Bo and Luke Duke in the 1980s show spent many an episode escaping the law.
However, on this occasion a replica of the car had broken down in Shefford and needed a bit of help.
"Finally managed what 'Bosshog' couldn't. Caught up with those pesky Duke boys", police tweeted.
"Broken gearbox, one too many jumps maybe," they added, referring to the hectic driving style of the Duke boys in the TV show.
Officers from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire road policing unit had popped in to a car show when they came across the General Lee lookalike.
"Like all classic cars this one was having a bad day and had broken down," an officer said.
"Whilst waiting for breakdown assistance the owner requested the photo opportunity for his own records - understandably - and we were happy to oblige."
The car was "fully road legal" and no offences had been committed, he added.
Following on, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 181 on the third day as off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took 4-68 and Mohammed Shami 3-32.
Niroshan Dickwella, who top-scored with 41, was one of only three Sri Lanka batsmen to pass 16.
India made 487 in their first innings before bowling Sri Lanka out for 135.
India won the first Test in Galle by 304 runs and the second in Colombo by an innings and 53 runs, which was their first victory by an innings in Sri Lanka. | In an unlikely turn of events a policeman came to the aid of the car that played a starring role in the hit US TV series The Dukes of Hazzard.
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India beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 171 runs in Pallekele to complete their first whitewash in an overseas three-Test series. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | Cardiff University's team uses damage sensors from aircraft wings to catch subsonic cracking sounds in joints before the disease fully develops.
They believe a disposable patch using them could save expensive diagnosis and treatment of advanced osteoarthritis.
A cheap screening tool is "the holy grail", they said.
Dr Davide Crivelli, of the School of Engineering, said: "The idea has got huge potential to change the way we diagnose osteoarthritis (OA).
"If we're able to link the sound signature of a healthy knee and a knee with disease, we will be able to lower the costs on society a lot."
He said he was "pretty confident" the patches could be widely used within a decade.
Arthritis Research UK estimates 8.75 million people in the UK have sought treatment for OA.
When human joints develop OA, they can make audible grating or clicking noises during movement due to damage - otherwise known as crepitus.
In the early stages of the disease, these rubbing noises are confined to higher, non-audible frequencies.
The team hope to exploit acoustic emission sensors, usually used to detect shockwaves created by damage in structures such as aircraft wings, to pick up these sounds using a thin patch worn on the skin.
Unlike typical laboratory devices previously developed, Dr Crivelli said his would be less chunky and with the use of cheap sensors - some as little as 10p - they could be entirely disposable.
This could allow detection, for example, in a GP surgery or at home using a self-monitoring app on a mobile phone or tablet.
Prof Cathy Holt, director of the university's musculoskeletal biomechanics research facility, said a cheap means of early diagnosis could be a real boon.
"The key thing is most people, once they have got joint pain, it's too late - they have got the disease already. Whereas, there might be points where we can intervene earlier," she said.
"So, the holy grail really is some sort of screening tool."
She said a cheap option could help save millions of pounds spent on diagnosis via X-ray and MRI scans, as well as improving the lives of patients through targeted, bespoke treatments.
There is currently no cure or drugs for osteoarthritis but people can use exercise or assistive devices to arrest the condition, if it is caught early enough.
The university believes a prototype could be ready within a year, with the realistic possibility of the product being in surgeries in seven or eight years, if trials are successful and a manufacturer can be found.
"If we can show proof of concept, there would be a lot of interest," Prof Holt said. | Scientists are hoping to create a smart patch which could detect the early onset of osteoarthritis in patients' knees. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | Luis Alviarez, 17, was hit in the chest during clashes with police in the western state of Tachira.
At a separate protest in the state, Diego Hérnandez, 33, was also killed.
Near-daily demonstrations began seven weeks ago, demanding early elections and an end to the country's deep economic crisis.
President Maduro has accused the leader of the opposition-led National Assembly, Julio Borges, of inciting violence by calling people on to the streets.
About 40 people have been killed since the unrest began.
Protesters began taking to the streets from 07:00 (03:00 GMT) on Monday morning to set up road blocks to "paralyse the country".
Offices of the state-run power company, Corpoelec, were also set alight in the northern Carabobo state on Monday, with the government blaming the opposition.
Three policemen were injured during protests in the state, authorities said, with one mistakenly reported dead by the local governor.
Meanwhile, video emerged online of Hérnandez, lying in the street with blood pouring from his chest, apparently having been shot in the town of Capacho Nuevo.
Ombudsman Tarek Saab said he had contacted various authorities to instigate an "exhaustive investigation" into Monday's deaths.
Last month, Saab's son, Yibram Saab, posted a video on YouTube, calling for his father to do more to stop the violence.
"That could've been me!", he said in relation to a previous death of a young protester, Juan Pablo Pernalete.
The recent unrest began when the Supreme Court attempt to take over powers from the assembly on 29 March.
It reversed its decision a few days later but by then the opposition had seized the momentum.
Despite having the world's largest known oil reserves, Venezuela is facing a shortage of many basic items, including food and medicines.
Its economy has collapsed, with inflation expected to top 700% this year, and crime is rampant.
The opposition says the socialist governments of Mr Maduro and his predecessor, the late Hugo Chavez, have mismanaged the economy since coming to power in 1999.
It is calling for early elections and the release of opposition politicians jailed over the past few years.
Mr Maduro accuses the country's business elite of boycotting the economy to create unrest and topple his democratically elected government. His term ends in January 2019. | Two Venezuelans, including one teenager, were killed on Monday during another day of mass protests against President Nicolas Maduro. |
Provide a concise overview of the following information. | Rutherford Castle Golf Club closed down in 2015 due to falling membership.
Development firm Richmond Wight Estates bought the 200-acre site near Carlops, and plans to transform it with 300 luxury lodges, a dry ski slope, and leisure and equestrian centres.
Detailed plans, which include retaining nine holes of the golf course, are to be submitted later in the year.
It is thought the project could create about 200 jobs.
Richmond Wight Estates has previously developed parks in Perthshire, Moray and Dumfries and Galloway.
Managing director Chek Whyte said: "We are very pleased to have concluded this deal to buy the land at Rutherford Castle and expand our leisure portfolio, in a fantastic location well placed for both Edinburgh and Glasgow."
Plans were previously approved to build a £50m hotel at the site, although developer Manor Kingdom eventually used its part of the site to build luxury housing instead.
Denis O'Brien has used a High Court injunction to prevent the Irish media covering details of his personal finances mentioned in parliament.
The purchase of one of his companies was discussed last Thursday.
However, an injunction was deemed to outweigh parliamentary privilege.
This is the principle that politicians have the right to say anything in parliament and they can never be sued for libel for doing so.
The principle also means the public and media have a right to report what is said there.
The Republic of Ireland's national broadcaster RTÉ and other media outlets will make an application to the High Court this week seeking permission to broadcast statements made last Thursday in the Dáil [Irish parliament] by left-wing independent politician Catherine Murphy.
Fianna Fáil has called for legal counsel for the Irish parliament to join in this action to reassert constitutional protection for the privilege principle.
Government minister Paschal Donohoe of Fine Gael has said it is unacceptable that Irish media outlets cannot fully report her comments while foreign ones can.
Mr O'Brien is the Republic of Ireland's richest man.
With a fortune estimated to be around £5bn, Mr O'Brien has extensive media and telecommunication interests around the world and is the biggest shareholder in Independent News and Media, the company that owns the Belfast Telegraph.
Mr O'Brien has an injunction stopping RTÉ and other media outlets from reporting on certain details of his personal finances and his relationship with the former Anglo Irish bank.
The subsidiary of Siteserv, one of the companies he owns, is currently involved in installing the controversial meters for the highly unpopular water charges in the Republic of Ireland.
Miss Murphy, a left-wing independent politician, has obtained details through freedom of information requests about the sale of the company to Mr O'Brien by the nationalised former Anglo Irish Bank, now the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation or IBRC.
In that deal, £75m (105m euros) of taxpayers' money was written-off.
Miss Murphy said in the Dáil that there was a significant public interest in Mr O'Brien's finances.
She added that there are large outstanding sums and that the interest rate he was paying should arguably be much higher.
The Irish media have not been able to report the detail of what Miss Murphy said because the Dáil's privilege is outweighed by the High Court injunction.
The full details of what she said are available on the Dáil website and in the media beyond the island of Ireland.
Because of the injunction, the BBC can only report that Mr O'Brien was a major debtor to the former Anglo Irish bank, and that when his loans had expired he sought the same terms from the bank that had allowed him to pay off his own loans in his own time at low interest rates.
Mr O'Brien is a noted philanthropist with an interest in human rights and was involved in bringing the Special Olympics to Ireland in 2003.
But his critics describe him as a tax exile.
They point out that the Moriarty tribunal into suspected corruption found that, in the 1990s, Mr O'Brien received assistance from the then Fine Gael communications minister Michael Lowry in securing a mobile phone licence.
Mr Lowry received large sums from Mr O'Brien in complex financial transactions.
Both men have strongly denied any wrongdoing and no criminal charges were ever brought in relation to the findings. | Plans have been unveiled to turn a former Borders golf course into an upmarket holiday estate.
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Lawyers for the Irish parliament should join a High Court challenge to allow the media to report comments made under parliamentary privilege, the opposition Fianna Fáil party has said. |
Please provide a summary for the content below. | The council is axing 1,300 jobs as it attempts to cut £100m from its budget over three years.
Its original plans were modified after residents, community groups and partners came forward to help keep some closure-threatened facilities open.
The updated proposals will now be considered by the full council for approval on 6 March.
The Labour leader of Newcastle City Council, Councillor Nick Forbes, said: "This has attracted a lot of comment - quite understandably - but I believe it is important to be frank about what the city faces so we can work together in good time to try to find alternatives.
"I am proud of the spirited response from our communities which will enable some facilities and services to continue whilst we set about trying to minimise the 1,300 job losses in the council - but no one should be mistaken about the scale of the challenge public services face."
Liberal Democrat opposition leader, Councillor David Faulkner, said the budget process had been dealt with in an "unprofessional" manner, and more could have been done to save services.
The updated budget plans state that the council will end or reduce funding for seven of its 18 libraries in June.
A proposal to close two respite centres for people with learning disabilities has been placed on hold. But Cheviot View in Longbenton and Castledene in South Gosforth could still close in 2014.
The council said that the city would retain a "comprehensive" library service. It remains hopeful that investment will emerge to allow Fenham and Cruddas Park libraries to remain open.
Talks are also ongoing with groups interested in taking over libraries at Jesmond and High Heaton, but Dinnington, Moorside and Denton Burn will shut their doors in June. Others will close in March 2015 unless a solution can be found.
Community partnerships are also being sought as a means of keeping leisure facilities open.
The council had originally proposed a 100% cut to its support for the city's arts and cultural organisations but it has now announced an annual fund of £600,000 to support the sector. It is also proposing a freeze in council tax at current levels for 2013-14.
The light show, which is caused by electrically charged particles from the Sun entering the Earth's atmosphere, was visible as the Earth moves into a new alignment with the Sun.
The display was spotted across the North East, Yorkshire and Cumbria.
Here are some of the images that were captured.
Aurora hunting in the UK
iWonder: How can I see the Northern Lights in the UK?
Stuttgart, the 2007 Bundesliga champions, lost 3-1 on the final day at Wolfsburg to go down.
Bremen, who could have been relegated, scored a late winner to beat fellow strugglers Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0 and secure safety.
Eintracht finished 16th and face a promotion-relegation play-off with Nurnberg, third in the second tier.
Relegated in 1975, Stuttgart secured promotion back to the top flight in 1977. | Plans by Newcastle City Council to save £100m over the next three years have been agreed by its cabinet.
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The Aurora Borealis - better known as the Northern Lights - has been giving rare and spectacular displays over parts of England.
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Stuttgart were relegated after 39 years in Germany's top flight as Werder Bremen pulled off a dramatic escape. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | Warriors dominated the first half at the DW Stadium but only led 6-0 at the break through John Bateman's try after a solo 80-metre run by Dom Manfredi.
Wigan extended the lead with scores from Oliver Gildart, Manfredi, Tony Clubb and Anthony Gelling.
Zak Hardaker's 100th career try gave struggling Leeds a late consolation.
Leeds looked on course to be without a score in a game for the first time since 1998 until Hardaker's intervention, and they remain ninth in the table, with their only victory in five league outings this season coming against Huddersfield in their previous fixture.
The Rhinos, who were 22-20 winners in last year's Old Trafford showpiece, were boosted going into Friday's game by the return of forward Jamie Jones-Buchanan after nine months out with injury.
Wigan were on top from the start, though, having Liam Farrell's early score ruled out by the video referee for an obstruction by Dan Sarginson.
But Shaun Wane's side comprehensively ran out victors to win their fifth consecutive league match this campaign, ahead of Thursday's home match against Super League leaders Widnes.
Wigan coach Shaun Wane: "We had to earn it in the first half. We tried to force it, but in the second half I thought we were ruthless. There were some good attacking plays.
"That was still a good Leeds side. I thought our back five were good and our middles were really good. It was a pleasing performance."
Leeds coach Brian McDermott: "It probably should have been about 24-0 at half-time. Wigan let us off the hook.
"I thought we were way off from the start. The absentees may have had some effect, but the nucleus of our team were off and defensively we were nowhere near (good enough).
"There comes a point in time when numerically you don't want to give yourselves a mountain to climb. I'm confident we will get where we need to be but we're not there yet."
Wigan: Sarginson; Charnley, Gelling, Gildart, Manfredi; Burke, Smith; Clubb, Powell, Flower, Bateman, Farrell, O'Loughlin.
Replacements: Mossop, Tautai, Sutton, Gregson.
Leeds: Hardaker; Handley, Watkins, Keinhorst, Hall; Sutcliffe, Lilley; Galloway, Burrow, Cuthbertson, Achurch, Ferres, Singleton.
Replacements: Falloon, Jones-Buchanan, Garbutt, Mullally.
Referee: Ben Thaler
Darren Starkey, 51, admitted the attack on the woman at a shop in Bishop's Stortford, where he made off with £150 to £200.
He also admitted possessing an offensive weapon and threatening a cashier with a knife in another robbery at a bookmakers in Clacton, Essex.
St Albans Crown Court heard Starkey had a gambling problem.
He was given an "extended" sentence after pleading guilty to the attack at a Coral bookmakers in Bishop's Stortford in May and the earlier robbery at another betting shop in Clacton.
In the first attack he got away with £1,000 from the till after threatening the lone woman cashier behind the counter with a knife.
Two weeks later, 29 May, he used the ammonia and water mixture and made off with between £150 and £200 from the Bishop's Stortford shop.
Starkey, who is homeless, had been "down on his luck" and had no money, the court was told.
In a letter to the judge, Starkey said he had never done anything like it in his life and would never do it again.
The woman who had ammonia sprayed in her eyes had been left terrified that she would be blinded, the court was told.
Recorder Leslie Cuthbert told Starkey he had planned the crimes and would serve a six-year jail term followed by three years on probation. | Wigan Warriors continued their 100% Super League record this season with victory over champions Leeds Rhinos in a rematch of last year's Grand Final.
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A man who sprayed ammonia into the eyes of a cashier at a Hertfordshire betting shop has been jailed for six years. |
Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | The Home Office is in talks with internet companies to refuse access to violent films that are hosted abroad.
The plans have been drawn up by James Brokenshire, the ex-security minister who was promoted to immigration minister after the resignation of Conservative colleague Mark Harper.
Ministers are keen to tackle the threat from jihadists in Syria.
One minister told the BBC that about 2,000 Europeans are thought to be fighting in Syria, including at least 200 known to the British security services.
It is feared that fighters returning to the UK will seek to radicalise young men in particular to launch terrorist attacks both at home and abroad.
Currently, the police and the Crown Prosecution Service can demand that videos posted on websites hosted in the UK be taken down.
Since February 2010, the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit, or CTIRU, has taken down more than 21,000 pieces of illegal terrorist online content.
If the CTIRU and prosecutors deem material to be illegal it can be blocked from parts of the public sector, including schools and hospitals.
But this does not extend to domestic users - and filters can be turned off.
The BBC has also been told it has proved difficult for the government to act against sites hosted abroad, both in the Middle East and in the US, where freedom of speech is protected by the constitution.
"Through proposals from the extremism taskforce announced by the prime minister in November, we will look to further restrict access to material which is hosted overseas - but illegal under UK law - and help identify other harmful content to be included in family-friendly filters," James Brokenshire said.
The taskforce was set up to examine the government's strategy for dealing with extremism and radicalisation after the murder of the soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich in south east London in 2013.
Mr Brokenshire added that the new controls could also be used to block access to images of child abuse online.
Last October, Prime Minister David Cameron condemned Facebook's decision to allow videos showing people being decapitated back on its pages.
He said it was "irresponsible" of the social network.
The Home Office also hopes it can also make it easier for people to report extremist content online.
Emma Carr, deputy director of campaign group Big Brother Watch, said: "Politicians and civil servants should not be deciding what we can see online. If content is to be blocked then it should be a court deciding that it is necessary and proportionate to do so.
"As people riot on the streets of Turkey over freedom of speech online and government censorship, this issue must be handled in a way that cannot be exploited by oppressive regimes around the world." | The government is attempting to block all online extremist videos that help to radicalise impressionable young men. |
What is the summary of the given information? | Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd plan to send a "mother ship" to transport satellites beyond Earth's orbit.
It is being called a "new model of low-cost, high-value, space exploration".
The SSTL-GES Lunar Pathfinder team wants the project to appeal to organisations worldwide, including space agencies.
SSTL's executive chairman, Sir Martin Sweeting, said he hoped the project would address the high cost of sending satellites to space - "a common barrier to the international development and exploration of our local solar system".
Goonhilly Earth Station is upgrading one of its antennas as part of the development of a commercial deep space network and will provide a mission operations centre in Cornwall.
Dr Tamela Maciel, from the National Space Centre in Leicester, said the project would provide exciting opportunities.
"It would be exciting to see the science that's coming out of it, but also the educational possibilities.
"Imagine if you're a university student and you get to work on developing a mini satellite that's going to be sent to the Moon...
"How amazing would that be to put on your CV?" | A British partnership has announced plans for low-cost lunar missions and space exploration. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | A Met Office yellow warning to "be aware" of snow is in place for north-west England and much of the Midlands, while snow has also fallen in parts of Scotland.
Here are images from the areas that have seen plenty of the frozen side of winter so far.
This robin stood out among the snowy landscape in County Durham.
Cows were seen being fed on a snowy farm in Loch Lomond, which is located between central Scotland and the Highlands.
This shopping trolley got a dusting of the snow that fell in Buxton, Derbyshire.
Black sheep stand out even more when they are grazing in the white fields of Ashbourne in Derbyshire.
By contrast, these swans are hard to spot in the snow at Tarnfield Park in Yeadon, Leeds.
Unfortunately the icy conditions have also meant driving has become treacherous in some areas - this car fell foul of the roads in Sheffield.
Frozen weather was not enough to stop these dogs from going out on a walk in Bradford.
These dog walkers were also out, despite the freezing conditions, alongside the A58 near Ripponden, West Yorkshire.
Also out on the roads was this bus, tackling the snowy A62 near the village of Marsden, West Yorkshire.
The Pro12 sides meet on Sunday at Murrayfield and then again at Scotstoun on 2 January.
As well as league points, the teams will be battling to win the 1872 Cup over two legs.
"Dealing with pressure is really, really important," said former Edinburgh and Scotland back Paterson.
"Your opportunities could be very, very few and far between. Your opportunity could be in the opening five minutes of the opening game and you've got to take it.
"You may not get another opportunity because everybody will be so tense over the two games. That's the key thing - keeping a calm head under pressure.
"You need some of your players, obviously, to get wound up and be more aggressive than others but you need the decision makers to be really clear under pressure and strike when you have opportunity to because there won't be a huge amount of opportunities."
Paterson, now an MBE, does some coaching with the Warriors and had two spells at Edinburgh as he became Scotland's most-capped and highest scoring player.
"It's your typical derby in many ways," he said of meetings of Scotland's two professional sides. "It's fiercely competitive on the field and off the field. There's a great tradition that the supporters compete as well.
"On the field, it's real - it's hard rugby, it's meaningful rugby, it's league points at stake but there's an 1872 trophy at stake as well.
"There's a real edge to it. What we have now is two teams that are really strong, really competitive. We've got reigning [Pro12] champions in Glasgow and you've got an Edinburgh team that are vastly improving - final of the European [Challenge Cup] last year.
"All that goes out the window when you come head-to-head. It comes down to you against your opposite number in a derby match and it's hard.
"They will be close. You've got two teams playing towards the top of their games, over two legs, it's an aggregate score in the 1872 Cup. The team that wins the first leg has a huge advantage." | A spell of cold weather across the UK has seen some parts of the country being covered in snow.
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Chris Paterson believes "a calm head under pressure" could be the key to success in Edinburgh and Glasgow Warriors' annual double-header. |
Can you provide an overview of this section? | If approved by MPs, she will succeed current chair Sir Ian Kennedy in the role for a five-year term.
A former chief executive of the National Consumer Council, Ms Evans has held a number of non-executive roles.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority was set up in 2010 in the wake of the MP expenses scandal.
Since it was set up the watchdog has faced some criticism from MPs for the way it interprets the new, stricter expenses rules, while its decision to award MPs a 10% pay rise last year was attacked across the political spectrum.
There were 29 applications, with four candidates shortlisted. The interview panel chose Ms Evans, with Speaker John Bercow and the Speaker's Committee agreeing to put her forward to the House of Commons to approve.
Ms Evans has been a non-executive director of the SFO since January 2015. Prior to that, she was chair of the Bar Standards Board and deputy chair of Ofcom's Consumer Panel. She has also sat on the boards of the General Medical Council, the National Audit Office and the Independent Police Complaints Commission. | Ruth Evans, a director of the Serious Fraud Office, has been named as the new chair of IPSA, which sets MPs' pay and expenses and investigates abuses. |
Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | Balotelli, 25, has scored three goals in 17 appearances this season for Milan, who sold him to the Reds for £16m in 2014.
"He has an immense desire to stay at the club. I hope he shows that with his performances," said Adriano Galliani.
"I've told him that based on what he's shown, he doesn't deserve to stay."
Italy international Balotelli is set to return to Liverpool after his loan spell ends in June.
"I told him to convince me that he should stay, as we want the best for him," added Galliani.
"He has promised me he will do that and I hope he does."
On Saturday sixth-placed Milan host Serie A leaders Juventus, who are six points clear of second-placed Napoli with seven games of the season remaining. | On-loan Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli "does not deserve" to join AC Milan on a permanent basis, says the Italian club's chief executive. |
Summarize this article briefly. | Five people are still missing and more than 30 were injured in the TGV crash near the eastern city of Strasbourg.
Investigators are trying to determine who the children are and why they were on board when access was meant to be restricted to technicians.
It is not clear whether children were among the dead.
"That's not a practice that the SNCF recognises," said company chief Guillaume Pepy. "A test train is a test train".
SNCF said it was possible that railway workers' children were on board when the train crashed, reportedly at around 350km/h (217mph).
Excessive speed has been blamed for the crash, the first fatal accident since TGV trains began operating in 1981.
The train ended up partially submerged in a canal under a bridge.
Trevor Gibbon stabbed Alison Morrison 33 times before fleeing the scene in Harrow, north-west London.
She named him as she lay dying in the street in December.
Sentencing at the Old Bailey, Judge Timothy Pontius said the murder "robbed a close-knit family of a devoted and caring wife, mother, sister and aunt."
The judge, who described the killing as "brutal", added: "This was not a frenzied loss of control on the defendant's part but a merciless act of vengeance indubitably with the intent to kill Alison Morrison in the forefront of his mind."
He said victim impact statements made clear how devastating her death had been for her husband Cedric and their son.
Mr Morrison had told the court: "A bright light has been extinguished forever."
Gibbon, from Windsor Crescent, Harrow, denied murder but admitted the killing on the basis that he was "suffering from an abnormality of mental functioning".
The jury rejected his defence and he was convicted of murder.
The court heard that the day before the killing Gibbon, 48, admitted harassing the family and was given a restraining order.
He had armed himself with two knives and ambushed Mrs Morrison from behind as she made her way to work as a senior manager at Which? the jury was told.
As she lay dying in the street near her home, Mrs Morrison, 45, told residents who went to help her: "Trevor Gibbon did this to me."
Gibbon fled the scene in his car but was picked up in Lincolnshire.
The court heard the trouble dated back to 2011 when Mrs Morrison, her husband Cedric and their teenage son moved next door to Gibbon and his partner.
Gibbon complained about the noise from her son's skateboard before embarking upon a long campaign of harassment.
Mrs Morrison reported the harassment to the council and police and, in the days before she was killed, described in a written statement shown to the jury how "it got so bad" that she could not sleep properly and "felt it would never end".
Ch Supt Simon Ovens, who worked with Mrs Morrison when she volunteered with the local police, said: "Nothing can bring back Alison Morrison or make up for her loss, but I am pleased today that the man responsible for her death has been brought to justice.
"We all continue to miss Alison a great deal but her many friends and colleagues in the police and our partners will take solace from today's decision by the jury." | Several children were on board when a high-speed train derailed during a test run in France, killing 11 people, the rail company SNCF has said.
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A man who murdered his neighbour in "a merciless act of vengeance" after a campaign of harassment has been jailed for 28 years. |
Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | The cross-party group, including eight former cabinet ministers and London Olympics chairman Lord Coe, says any such move would damage press freedom.
Lord Justice Leveson is due to publish his report on Thursday.
The group, which has written to the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph, wants a stronger "self-regulatory" system.
The Leveson Inquiry was established by the prime minister in July last year and looked into the culture, practices and ethics of the press.
It was commissioned following allegations of illegal phone-hacking at the News of the World.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who has already warned politicians not to pre-empt its findings, will receive his copy of the report at lunchtime on Wednesday - 24 hours before its details are made public.
Full list of signatories
Lord Justice Leveson was asked to produce a list of recommendations for a more effective policy and regulatory regime for the press, which would preserve its independence while encouraging higher ethical and professional standards.
At the moment the press is self-regulated through the Press Complaints Commission (PCC).
Lord Justice Leveson is widely expected to recommend some form of statutory regulation overseen by an independent body.
But the politicians, led by former Labour home secretary David Blunkett and Conservative MP Conor Burns, argue in their letter this could be detrimental to free speech, saying: "As parliamentarians, we believe in free speech and are opposed to the imposition of any form of statutory control even if it is dressed up as underpinning."
They add: "No form of statutory regulation of the press would be possible without the imposition of state licensing - abolished in Britain in 1695. State licensing is inimical to any idea of press freedom and would radically alter the balance of our unwritten constitution.
"There are also serious concerns that statutory regulation of the print media may shift the balance to the digital platforms which, as recent events have shown through the fiasco of Newsnight-Twitter, would further undermine the position of properly moderated and edited print journalism."
The group - which includes Commons culture media and sport committee chairman John Whittingdale, Downton Abbey writer Lord Fellowes, former Commons Speaker Baroness Boothroyd and ex-cabinet ministers Lord Tebbit, Liam Fox, John Redwood and Peter Lilley - has written to the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph,
It backs a proposal from former PCC chairman Lord Hunt and Lord Black, one-time chairman of the body that finances the commission, for a "totally new" version of the regulator.
They propose an independent body with increased powers to investigate complaints and illegal behaviour, levy fines of up to £1m and award compensation, and enforce membership by newspapers for the first time.
By Nick RobinsonPolitical editor
Some campaigners say the current system of self-regulation, overseen by the Press Complaints Commission, is inadequate and that tougher rules are needed to curb newspapers' excesses.
Earlier this month, 42 Conservative MPs and peers wrote to the Guardian arguing in favour of some form of statutory underpinning for press regulation.
Broadcaster Anne Diamond, who gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry about her experience with the press, told BBC Breakfast that "self-regulation has been given its chance and it hasn't worked".
"The only way to have some real teeth behind some agreed code of conduct is to have some kind of statutory underpinning... You have to change the culture and the enforcement."
The actor Hugh Grant, who has been campaigning for stricter press regulation, told Breakfast: "What people are campaigning for is an end to newspapers being able to regulate themselves... because that is what has resulted in the kind of abuses of people like the Dowlers, the McCanns, Christopher Jefferies."
He added: "The only industry in this country which is allowed to regulate itself is the newspaper industry... We need a proper regulator, an independent regulator, meaningful, that will need some statute to oblige newspapers to sign up to it."
Martin Moore, director of the Media Standards Trust charity, said the challenge for Lord Justice Leveson was to balance the need for some sort of redress for "ordinary people" with freedom of the press.
It is up to David Cameron to decide whether to implement Lord Justice Leveson's recommendations.
Downing Street has said the prime minister was "open-minded" about the future regulation. Previously he said he intended to implement the findings of the Leveson inquiry, provided they were not "bonkers".
But the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson says the coalition is preparing for the possibility that it may be divided by the report's recommendations, with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg less likely to be hostile to Lord Justice Leveson's proposals. | More than 80 MPs and peers have urged the man carrying out an inquiry into UK media standards not to recommend a press regulation law. |
Can you summarize the following information? | O ganlyniad i'r helynt, mae'r llywodraeth wedi talu £100m mewn iawndal i ddau gwmni.
Dywedodd y Gweinidog Ynni Greg Clark y byddai ymchwiliad annibynnol yn cael ei gynnal, gyda'r posibilrwydd o gymryd camau disgyblu i ddilyn.
Roedd y cytundeb ariannol yn ymwneud â 12 pwerdy Magnox, gan gynnwys Wylfa ar Ynys Môn, a Thrawsfynydd yng Ngwynedd.
Yn 2014 rhoddwyd cytundeb 14 mlynedd i bartneriaeth Cavendish Fluor i reoli a dad-gomisiynu'r gorsafoedd.
Ond yn ôl y Gweinidog Ynni doedd y gwaith yn y cytundeb tendr ddim yn cyfateb i'r gwaith oedd angen ei wneud.
Fe ddaeth y gweinidog i'r casgliad fod nam sylweddol yn y broses dendro ac mae hyn wedi arwain at gostau ychwanegol sylweddol.
Dywedodd Mike Clancy, ysgrifennydd undeb Prospect: "Mae hyn yn sefyllfa ryfeddol o gofio pwysigrwydd a maint y cytundeb Magonx i'r diwydiant niwclear
"Bydd y cyhoedd a'n haelodau yn awyddus i gael eglurhad a sicrwydd ynglŷn â dyfodol y broses gomisiynu."
Mae'r wrthblaid yn San Steffan wedi herio gallu'r llywodraeth i ddelio â'r cytundeb ac wedi cwestiynu eu strategaeth dadgomisiynu niwclear.
Dywedodd llefarydd Llafur ar ynni Rebecca Long-Bailey: "Mae'r llywodraeth wedi dangos lefelau dramatig o ddiffyg gallu".
Mae disgwyl i'r gwaith ymarferol o ddadgomisynu'r safleoedd niwclear barhau wrth i'r llywodraeth geisio datrys yr anghydfod ariannol. | Mae llywodraeth y DU wedi atal cytundeb ariannol gwerth £6bn i ddadgomisiynu 12 pwerdy niwclear yn dilyn diffygion mewn proses dendro. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | The former aide to leader Nigel Farage said he was not "satisfied about the integrity of the process".
He added: "It is a decision I have not taken lightly, but following meetings this weekend I realised the path to victory is too narrow."
Mr Kassam urged his supporters to back Peter Whittle for party leader.
His withdrawal means there are four candidates left in the UKIP race, following the closure of nominations at midday on Monday.
They are:
Party chairman Paul Oakden said: "I'm pleased to confirm that there were no late or rejected applications.
"Further information pertaining to the ballot will follow at a later date but for now, I'd like to wish all four candidates the best of luck and will join with our party's members in looking forward to a positive contest."
In a statement announcing his withdrawal, Mr Kassam said those at the top of UKIP were treating the contest "like a coronation", adding he was "not satisfied about the integrity of the process".
He accused some Members of the European Parliament of using party databases to "effectively campaign against me - ostensibly against the rules".
Mr Kassam added that he had not raised enough money to run "more than a digital campaign from SW1" and said that not to "feature at events all around the country would have made me a hypocrite, given how much I criticise the establishment for ignoring the country".
He added: "I wish the UK Independence Party and whoever its new leader is all the best in ensuring Brexit happens, and in the upcoming electoral tests next year. I remain committed to the causes of the UK Independence Party, but sadly, at this campaign, it was a bridge too far for us."
Mr Kassam launched his official campaign last Friday, portraying himself as the "Farage-ist" candidate and pledging to increase UKIP's membership to more than 100,000.
After pulling out of the race, he said he would continue as editor-in-chief of the Breitbart London news website and would be travelling to the US to cover the conclusion of the presidential election campaign.
UKIP's only MP, Douglas Carswell, appeared to welcome the news that Mr Kassam had quit the race, tweeting an emoji depicting a smiley face wearing sunglasses shortly after the announcement.
Another candidate, London Assembly member David Kurten, withdrew on Sunday.
And Steven Woolfe quit the race and the party following an altercation with fellow MEP Mike Hookem in the European Parliament earlier this month which left him in hospital.
Mr Farage, for whom Mr Kassam worked as chief of staff, returned to the leader's role on an interim basis after his successor, Diane James, resigned only 18 days into the job.
The result of the leadership contest is to be announced on 28 November. | UK Independence Party leadership candidate Raheem Kassam has pulled out of the race just three days after the official launch of his campaign. |
What is the summary of the following document? | The 24-year-old fast bowler has been told that he must now require surgery.
Milne was signed in January to cover the second half of the T20 Blast qualifying group campaign, while Pakistan's Wahab Riaz was then brought in to cover the first seven matches.
But Riaz now joins up with Pakistan for the Test series with England.
Essex, second bottom of the southern group with just two points from five games, now hope to find a stand-in at short notice.
"We have a list of replacements that we are working hard to bring in," said Essex head coach Chris Silverwood. "Hopefully we can treat the fans to an exciting arrival in the coming weeks.
"It is disappointing for ourselves and Adam. We were excited by his arrival. But, unfortunately, he requires surgery on an elbow injury he picked up previously."
Although struggling in the T20, Essex remain top of Division Two in the County Championship and also head their One-Day Cup group after four games.
Adam Milne has not appeared since being ruled out with a hamstring injury after his Indian Premier League debut for Royal Challengers Bangalore in mid-April.
Playing in the same team as Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, he went for 43 runs from his four overs in a 45-run win over Sunrisers.
Milne is the third New Zealander forced to return home early from T20 duty, following in the wake of Worcestershire's Mitchell Santner (broken finger) and Birmingham Bears wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi, who has been selected for the Kiwis' forthcoming tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa.
The West Bromwich Albion player died in 2002, aged 59, from a brain condition normally linked to boxing.
His family met FA chairman Greg Dyke on Sunday after a long-running campaign.
The coroner at the footballer's inquest ruled Astle's brain had been damaged by heading heavy leather footballs in the 1960s and 70s.
Daughter Dawn Astle said a study would now be carried out looking at former players and instances of dementia.
The Justice For Jeff group has previously called on the FA to carry out research into the risks of heading footballs and players suffering concussion.
The striker was originally thought to have died from Alzheimer's disease.
Neurosurgeon Dr Willie Stewart, who carried out an examination of Astle's brain, also met Mr Dyke, alongside Astle's widow, Laraine, of Swadlincote, Derbyshire.
Dawn Astle described the meeting as "brilliant" and said the family finally felt as if they had been listened to.
"I didn't pull any punches," she said.
"I told him that we felt 12 years ago, when Dad's brain was examined, there was enough evidence for the FA to be considering 'have we got a problem here with our former players?'
"I said 'you didn't do anything, so me and my sister did.'"
Mr Dyke said the meeting was "constructive" and that the FA was working to address the "complex issue".
"We will keep in touch with family and have outlined our plans to look at what research is needed next and take the subject forward on a global level because, as we have seen in the recent World Cup, head injuries are not just prevalent in English football," he said.
The FA said it would now be working with partners including the Professional Footballers Association to establish the exact terms of the study.
The Premier League introduced new rules on how to deal with head injuries last week. | New Zealand international Adam Milne is to miss his scheduled seven-match T20 Blast stint with Essex following an elbow injury.
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The Football Association has agreed to carry out research into head injuries in the sport after meeting the family of former England striker Jeff Astle. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | The Bank of England's new Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has announced that all those whose accounts are in credit will be automatically moved to Bank of Cyprus in the UK.
This means that up to £85,000 of their deposits will be protected under the UK compensation scheme.
Laiki customers in Cyprus face losing much of their money above that amount.
It follows the country's bail-out deal with the European Union, under which customers with more than 100,000 euros in their accounts face a levy of up to 60% on the remainder of their deposits.
But 15,000 Laiki customers with an estimated £270m in their accounts in the UK are being told their money is safe.
They will now be able to access it via Bank of Cyprus UK. Unlike the UK arm of Laiki Bank, Bank of Cyprus UK is a full UK subsidiary and is regulated by the PRA.
On average, Laiki customers in the UK have £18,000 in their accounts.
About 5% of customers have more than £85,000, according to Bank of Cyprus UK.
Any money above that amount would not be guaranteed by the UK compensation scheme, but the Bank of England confirmed that all deposits had been moved to Bank of Cyprus UK.
"This is a good thing for customers," said a Bank of England spokesperson.
"Some of the deposits may be uninsured, but they have all been transferred," she said.
Speaking at the launch of the PRA, the Chancellor, George Osborne, paid tribute to one of its first decisions.
"In your very first day in existence, you sorted out a banking problem without having to come to me and ask for British taxpayers' money. And long may that continue," he said.
Authorities in Cyprus are in the process of winding up the Laiki Bank. "Good" parts of the bank are being transferred to Bank of Cyprus.
UK customers of the Laiki Bank whose accounts are overdrawn will not be allowed to transfer their money to Bank of Cyprus UK.
Their accounts will be frozen, said the PRA.
Those with mortgages or loans from Laiki Bank will see them transferred to Bank of Cyprus, not in the UK, but in Cyprus itself.
Such customers are advised to continue making payments as usual.
Those whose current or deposit accounts are being transferred to Bank of Cyprus UK are being told to contact their new bank with any questions.
The Tapi project aims to feed energy-deprived South Asian markets and transit fees may benefit Afghanistan.
But details about security and funding were not addressed in the framework agreement reached by the four states.
The pipeline will have to cross Taliban-controlled regions and Pakistan's troubled border region.
Turkmenistan has previously costed the project at $3.3bn (£2.1bn, 2.5bn euros) although other estimates are as high as $10bn.
Tapi, a project which dates back to the mid-1990s, is backed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The US has also encouraged the project as an alternative to a proposed Iranian pipeline to India and Pakistan.
The framework intergovernmental agreement was signed in the Turkmen capital Ashgabat by three presidents - Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan and Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan - and India's energy minister, Murli Deora.
"This will not be an easy project to complete - it is mandatory that we guarantee the security of the pipeline and the quality of construction work," ADP chief Haruhiko Kuroda told reporters in Ashgabat. | Thousands of customers with funds in the UK arm of Cypriot bank Laiki will escape any levy on their accounts.
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A deal has been struck on building a 1,700km (1,050m) pipeline to carry Turkmen natural gas across Afghanistan to Pakistan and India. |
Please summarize the following text. | The benchmark FTSE 100 gained 29.6 points or 0.4% to reach 7,514.90.
Retailer Kingfisher was the worst hit, down 7%, after reporting a first-quarter drop in revenues of 0.6% on the back of weak trading in France.
But High Street retailer Marks and Spencer recovered from a fall at the start of trading and was finished the day 1.47% higher.
Babcock, which had been the biggest FTSE riser on Tuesday, was down 1%.
The fall came despite the support services group announcing a 7.6% rise in annual underlying pre-tax profit.
Other fallers included private hospital operator Mediclinic International, which lost 6.44%, miner Randgold Resources, down 1.45%, and packaging group Smurfit Kappa which shed 1.12%.
The biggest gainers were airline Easyjet, up 3.31%, travel group TUI, which gained 2.8%, water company Severn Trent, which gained 2.49% and advertising giant WPP, which was up by 1.67%.
On the currency markets, the pound was down 0.19% against the dollar to $1.2938 and was also down by a marginal 0.08% against the euro to 1.1583 euros. | London's stock market was slightly ahead at the close of trade on Wednesday after sliding on Tuesday. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | The Japanese computer games firm posted a net loss of 2bn yen ($24.7m; £15.6m) for the six months to 30 September.
This compares with a net profit of 69.5bn yen for the same period in 2009.
Nintendo's sales for the first half of its financial year were down 34% to 363.16bn yen, partly due to lower demand for its Wii console.
The company did not release a net profit figure for its second quarter to 30 September, however its operating profit more than halved to 30.9bn yen.
Nintendo is forecasting that its annual profit will drop to the lowest level in six years, as sales of the Wii console decline for the second year in succession.
The firm has also been forced to delay the launch of the new 3D version of its DS hand-held console in the US until March, meaning it will miss out on key Christmas sales.
Nintendo's weak results were in line with market expectations, as it had already warned at the end of last month that profits would be lower.
The release of its latest figures came after the close of Thursday trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Nintendo shares had closed down 0.7%.
The new requirements would put "Australian values at the heart of citizenship processes", the government said.
But as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull explained the system, social media observers were keen to interrogate an obvious question.
That question appeared to trouble even Mr Turnbull, when a reporter asked him to provide a summary.
"What we will… the answer is yes, but the discussion paper that [the immigration] department has released is going to engage public discussion on this," he said.
After some further comments, he said: "Australians have an enormous reservoir of good sense, and we know that our values of mutual respect, democracy, freedom, rule of law, those values, a fair go - these they are fundamental Australian values."
Despite his clarification, Mr Turnbull's response drew rapid criticism from political commentators. "Wow... doesn't answer," said one; another dubbed the briefing "surreal"; a third suggested Mr Turnbull was in "full gibbering mode".
Sharing comments on a hashtag #AustralianValues, many people were quick to offer amusing alternatives.
Some joked that sporting fans complaining about rising match costs demonstrated "Australian values", while others poked fun at Australians' use of language and skill at making coffee.
Others took aim at politicians including one who resigned over an expenses scandal involving a chartered helicopter.
Some used it to protest government policy over the ailing Great Barrier Reef, or Australia's tough policy of offshore detention for asylum seekers.
There was also criticism of Australia's soaring house prices, a topic of much national discussion in recent weeks.
Others suggested that "Australian values" as a solitary concept would not necessarily result in wise policy.
Criticism included comparisons to last century's White Australia policy, when Australia took migrants from only certain countries, and the Stolen Generations, when Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families.
That may be difficult to immediately assess, given the specifics of the new test are not fully known.
However, although the opposition accused Mr Turnbull of playing domestic politics, it did agree some of his ideas were worthwhile.
"I think it is reasonable to look for English language proficiency and I think it is reasonable to have some period of time before you become an Australian citizen," said opposition leader Bill Shorten.
Mr Turnbull's linking of Australian values to gender equality, and preventing domestic violence, also drew praise.
"The Prime Minister is on the right track defending the fundamental right of every woman and child to live free from violence and domestic abuse," said Libby Davies, the CEO of anti-domestic violence group White Ribbon. | Nintendo has reported a half-year loss after being hit by falling sales and the high value of the yen, which lowers its overseas earnings.
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Australia unveiled significant changes to its citizenship process on Thursday, flagging - among several changes - new tests on English language and "Australian values". |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | Andrew Coates, 41, and assistant Polly Connor, 46, were preparing a display for a wedding reception near the shore of Lake Windermere when they died.
The wedding was held in the grounds of a luxury cottage in Ecclerigg, Cumbria, on 30 August 2014.
Explosions were heard three miles away, the hearing in Kendal was told.
It happened about 30 minutes after John Simpson, 61, wed Nicole Rothwell, 44.
Firefighters were called to Larch Cottage in mid-afternoon where they found the bodies of father-of-one Mr Coates and mother-of-three Mrs Connor, both from Kendal, near the entrance of an outbuilding.
Giving evidence Stewart Myatt, a fireworks expert from the Health and Safety Laboratory, said he could not find any evidence to say how any of the fireworks ignited.
The "most likely sequence of events" was a firework shell penetrated a partitioned wooden wall from outside and hit the back of a metal cabinet in the storeroom before bursting into flames, he told the hearing.
The outbuilding was an L-shaped single-storey wooden construction split into three compartments, also containing a garage and another storage room.
Mr Myatt said: "Going through the wall, through the cabinet and exploding seems to be the most likely, plausible mechanism where the people that were in there were rendered unconscious immediately, not able to do anything, not even to run to the door."
He thought Mr Coates, a builder, and Mrs Connor, a plumber and former racehorse work rider, would have entered the storeroom to either find shelter from exploding fireworks outside or to get firefighting equipment.
Mr Coates and insurance broker Mr Simpson were friends and had launched a joint business venture, Stardust Fireworks, with Mr Coates asked to organise the pyrotechnics for the wedding.
Both men were described as "incredibly safety conscious".
The inquest at Castle Green Hotel in Kendal continues with the jury expected to retire to consider its conclusions later.
The union that represents them wants better protection and pay for roles that cause "voice stress" such as repeated shouting.
It also wants a clearer definition between the roles of voice actors and those who are involved in motion capture.
Members are due to vote next month.
The Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (Sag-Afrta) said that, if more 75% of members agree, then all union members working on video games will go on strike.
It wants actors to get stunt pay for vocally stressful recording sessions and for such sessions to be restricted to two hours.
It is also calling for performance bonuses each time a game sells two million copies.
The strike has been supported by some prominent actors who have united on Twitter via the hashtag #PerformanceMatters.
In a blogpost, Wil Wheaton, who provided voice-overs for Grand Theft Auto, explained why he is supporting the strike.
"I fully realise that for anyone who doesn't work as a voice actor it sounds insane to care about vocally stressful sessions," he said.
He invited critics to "grab your favourite book" and read aloud from it for several hours.
"If you've done this as I asked, it's now six or seven hours after you started. Don't talk at all for the rest of the day and don't make any plans to go audition for any other voice work for the rest of the week, because your voice is wrecked."
The union also wants actors to be given more information about the roles that they are auditioning for. It called for stunt co-ordinators to be on set when actors do motion capture work - something which voice actors are increasingly being asked to do.
"Asking us to go into something with absolutely zero knowledge about the project, or what we'll be expected to do if we are cast, is completely unreasonable," said Mr Wheaton.
"Maybe someone has a moral objection to the content of a game, and they'd like to know what it is before they commit to it."
The 34-year-old defender played 27 times as the Toffees finished seventh in the Premier League last season.
Everton have made seven new signings this summer and Jagielka now wants to help create "special memories".
"The club is moving forward," said Jagielka. "I do not think the transfer business is finished but it is good we have got people in nice and early." | Fireworks display organisers "most likely" lost consciousness when a single firework flew into a storeroom and exploded, an inquest jury heard.
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The actors who provide the voice-overs for video game characters are considering striking over pay and conditions.
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Everton captain Phil Jagielka has signed a one-year contract extension to keep him at the club until 2019. |
Summarize the provided section. | Damage was caused to a door and window of the property during the incident in the Clon Elagh area at about 03:30 BST on Sunday.
Police have appealed for information about the shooting.
They want to hear from anyone who saw a number of men in a vehicle that sped away from the house in the direction of Skeoge Road. | A shot has been fired at a house in Londonderry. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | Fifteen militants were killed and seven others arrested during the operation, according to a statement.
Soldiers also destroyed half a tonne of the explosive TNT and seized two vehicles containing hand grenades and hundreds of mobile phones, it added.
An affiliate of so-called Islamic State (IS) is active in the Sinai peninsula.
It has been blamed for killing hundreds of soldiers and police since the military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013 following mass protests.
Last month, five soldiers were reportedly killed by a roadside bomb in north Sinai.
Dozens of Coptic Christian families also fled the region after several members of their community were killed and IS vowed to escalate a campaign of violence that saw a chapel adjoining St Mark's Cathedral in Cairo bombed in December.
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi ordered military and police chiefs "to completely eradicate terrorism in northern Sinai and defeat any attempts to target civilians or to undermine the unity of the national fabric" in response to February's killings.
Dilovan Fazil Mohammed, 30, was discovered injured early on Wednesday morning and died later in hospital.
Rajesh Chhagan Khunti, 30, of Kinley Road, Leicester, was remanded in custody by city magistrates on Saturday.
He is due to appear at Leicester Crown Court on Monday. | Ten Egyptian soldiers have been killed by two roadside bomb blasts during a raid against jihadist militants in the Sinai peninsula, the military says.
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A man has appeared in court charged with murdering a man who was found stabbed outside Leicester railway station. |
Can you summarize this content? | The Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the sector rose to 58.1 in June from 55.9 in May. A reading above 50 indicates expansion.
Markit added that confidence in the sector about the coming 12 months was at its highest for 11 years.
Residential house building remained the fastest growing area in the construction sector.
Looking ahead, nearly two-thirds of construction firms expect to see a rise in their activity as a result of increased investment spending among developers and robust demand for new residential projects.
Construction firms are also hiring staff at the fastest pace in six months the survey found.
Tim Moore, senior economist at Markit said the extent of the recent rise in construction optimism was "partly down to relief that pre-election uncertainty has now passed".
He added that the rise in output also suggested firms were confident that underlying demand would continue to recover.
Earlier in the week, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revised UK economic growth for the three months to March up to 0.4% from an original estimate of 0.3%, based on stronger than previously calculated activity in the construction industry.
The upbeat construction survey contrasts with the Markit/CIPS PMI reading for the manufacturing sector, which indicated growth slowed to its lowest pace in more than two years in June.
The manufacturing PMI reading fell to 51.4 in June from 51.9 the month before.
Markit's survey for the UK's services sector is due to be released on Friday.
South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb) trust data showed attacks rose yearly from 98 in 2011-12 to 184 in 2015-16, including a jump from 126 in 2014-15 to 184 last year.
Secamb said several ambulance services were looking at using "body-cams".
Unison has called for a government-led task force to tackle the problem.
Secamb security manager Adam Graham said current measures included CCTV, risk assessments and conflict resolution training.
He added: "One thing that's being looked at nationally is additional devices and additional training - so for the devices, body-cams, such as the police have, [are] being considered."
The ambulance service, which released its figures under a Freedom of Information Act request, can also take sanctions ranging from warnings to prosecutions over violence and aggression, he said.
In 2015-16, Secamb submitted 44 sanctions.
Paramedic Gemma Fitzgerald was assaulted while trying to help a lady who was collapsed in the street.
"When we got there, she was lying in the road and we knew that she was quite agitated, screaming and shouting at passers-by," said Ms Fitzgerald.
"She became really verbally abusive, so we backed off and made sure the road was safe with the ambulance and called police.
"But whilst we were waiting for them, she actually started to attack a friend. She also started to hurt herself.
"As we stepped in, she sort of caught my eye, and that was it. I became the target of her aggression.
"[She was] very verbally abusive, lashing out, and actually managed to - I was kneeling down next to her - kick up and kick me in the face, knocking me off my feet.
"The police arrived and pretty much arrested her straight away. I went to hospital and found I had a broken jaw."
When several services met last year for a presentation by Kent Police on body-cams, one of the features was the quality of evidence, Mr Graham added.
West Midlands Ambulance Service is also looking at body-cams - a spokesman said the trust was looking at costs but "nowhere near piloting it".
But Bea Adi, from Unison, said: "It's not just about things like CCTV, it's about educating people to let them know the impact that these incidents have on people who are working to protect them.
"Unison itself is calling for the government to set up a special task force that looks at ways of keeping people safer in their roles."
NHS Protect said it undertook research into assaults in the ambulance sector, including aggravating factors such as likelihood of injury, times incidents were most prevalent and the demographics of the perpetrator.
It said it was working to provide guidance for the future and the protection of NHS staff.
In a sample of 2,479 incidents between 2010 to 2015, NHS Protect found 1,184 had one or more aggravating factors and of those 22.1% were attributed to illegal drugs and 72.2% to alcohol. | Activity in the UK's construction industry grew last month at its fastest pace since February, a survey suggests.
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Paramedics could start wearing body cameras in the south east of England as part of efforts to tackle a 46% rise in assaults on them. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | Government guidelines recommend some groups, including the under-fives, should take a daily supplement.
However, recent research found that many parents and health professionals were unaware of the advice.
There has been an increase in childhood rickets over the past 15 years.
According to Dr Benjamin Jacobs, from the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, links to heart disease and some cancers are also being investigated.
The consultant paediatrician told BBC Breakfast that the hospital saw about one severe case a month of rickets - softening of bones through lack of vitamin D in childhood.
He said: "There are many other children who have less severe problems - muscle weakness, delay in walking, bone pains - and research indicates that in many parts of the country the majority of children have a low level of vitamin D."
The Feeding for Life Foundation report, published in October last year, suggested one in four toddlers in the UK is vitamin D deficient.
However, this may be an underestimate as only vitamin D from food was included, and not any vitamin D obtained through sun exposure.
Vitamin D supplements are recommended for all people at risk of a deficiency, including all pregnant and breastfeeding women, children under five years old, people aged over 65, and people at risk of not getting enough exposure to sunlight.
Vitamin D is mainly obtained from sunlight. However, too much sun exposure increases the risk of skin cancer.
According to one recent study, nearly three-quarters of parents and more than half of health professionals are unaware of the recommendations.
The Department of Health has asked the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition to review the issue of current dietary recommendations on vitamin D.
Dame Sally Davies: "We know a significant proportion of people in the UK probably have inadequate levels of vitamin D in their blood. People at risk of vitamin D deficiency, including pregnant women and children under five, are already advised to take daily supplements.
"Our experts are clear - low levels of vitamin D can increase the risk of poor bone health, including rickets in young children.
"Many health professionals such as midwives, GPs and nurses give advice on supplements, and it is crucial they continue to offer this advice as part of routine consultations and ensure disadvantaged families have access to free vitamin supplements through our Healthy Start scheme.
"It is important to raise awareness of this issue, and I will be contacting health professionals on the need to prescribe and recommend vitamin D supplements to at-risk groups."
It has long been known that vitamin D prevents rickets and children were once given food supplements like cod liver oil.
However, this practice was stopped in the 1950s because it was thought unnecessary.
In the last 10 years, doctors have been seeing more cases of vitamin D deficiency, leading to a debate over the use of food supplements and concern that many medical staff are unaware of the problem.
Most of them opened lower on Tuesday in anticipation of a weaker start in China, but once Shanghai and Shenzhen recovered some of their losses, things calmed down across the region.
It certainly helped that regulators in China announced that Monday's "circuit breakers" - trading curbs that kick in when stock drops too far, too fast - were an attempt to calm markets and "protect investors".
China's security regulator also injected some $19.94bn (£13.5bn) into the money-market system, and said it might restrict share sales by major shareholders.
It appears authorities are trying to inject along with the money a sense that they are in control of the situation, monitoring things so they can step in again if it all goes pear-shaped.
There is a precedent for this. The Chinese government put in place many measures after last year's crash, to stop shares from falling further.
They limited short-selling, threatened to arrest alleged market manipulators, ordered pension funds and large mutual funds to buy more stock, and imposed a six-month ban on large shareholders selling their stock.
That measure expires at the end of this week and there is speculation that smaller shareholders are selling their shares ahead of that, expecting further losses.
So markets are calmer - for now. But underlining Monday's falls was the continuing narrative that China's economy is slowing down.
That should not come as a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention, and it certainly should not come as a surprise to investors in China. What is under the spotlight though, is how authorities there manage China's "new normal". | The chief medical officer for England, Dame Sally Davies, is to contact medical staff about concerns young children and some adults are not getting enough vitamin D.
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Volatility is the word of the day - and perhaps of 2016 so far - at least when it comes to Asian markets. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | The winner is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on behalf of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel's estate, and awarded to whoever "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
Over the years, 10 individuals from Africa have been honoured for their efforts:
"The Nobel Committee for the second time chose a prize-winner who was being persecuted by his own authorities"
"After having taken the initiative in negotiating a peace treaty between the two countries"
"The Committee has attached importance to Desmond Tutu's role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa"
"For their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"
"For their work for a better organised and more peaceful world"
"For her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"
"For their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way"
"For their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work"
"For its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011."
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Over the next six weeks professional surfers will run one-to-one lessons for 20 young people with diagnosed mental health needs.
The aim is to give them therapy through building confidence and help them learn a new skill.
The project, which is costing a total of £5,000, is worth the money, said Cornwall Primary Care Trust (PCT).
Joe McEvoy, who commissioned the service for the PCT, said: "I think it will offer excellent value.
"It's a long-established body of evidence which shows that when you organise therapeutic activities around particular tasks, people benefit not just from social interaction but also build confidence.
"That's been one of the tenets of occupational therapy which has been an established therapeutic discipline in all sections of health care for many decades."
The participants are all aged between 12 and 25 and have been referred into the scheme by local charities and mental health professionals.
Another scheme, offering surfing therapy to armed forces personnel suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, started in Cornwall in 2009.
Mr McEvoy said: "The coast is one of our greatest assets and it makes sense to use it to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients.
"There are many positive health benefits that flow from physical activity and people who are suffering from poor mental health can also gain from improved self-esteem and doing things which are enjoyable."
The surfing lessons are being delivered by Polzeath-based adventure company Era Adventures, which came up with the idea of offering 12 half-day sessions at beaches including Watergate Bay.
A spokesman said: "This is a really exciting opportunity and a great way of using surfing in the community." | The Nobel Peace Prize, first awarded in 1901, has this year gone to four civil society groups in Tunisia.
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A pilot project is under way offering surfing as therapy on the NHS for young people in Cornwall. |
Provide a concise overview of the following information. | The crew made the discovery 18-months ago on the verge of the M74, near J6, opposite Hamilton Services.
It included two structures, coins and pieces of pottery and smoking pipes.
Archaeologist believe they may be more than 1,000 years old and could finally identify the location of the lost village of Cadzow.
Cadzow was the name given to a community on the edge of the River Clyde at this location until 1445.
King James II gave his permission for the area to be renamed and residents were forced to move a mile or so south to the town's current location.
The artefacts and structures were uncovered close to a memorial stone which rests against a tree on the motorway verge.
The stone marks the former position of the 1000 year-old Netherton Cross - one of the earliest symbols of Christianity in the town and one of the most valuable pre-Norman Christian relics in Scotland.
While preparing the ground for construction of a new motorway lane, workers uncovered two ancient stone structures beneath the surface.
Work was then stopped to allow a specialist team from Guard Archaeology to investigate the site and safeguard anything of historic interest.
Warren Bailie, from Guard Archaeology said: "Medieval remains rarely survive in industrial centres such as Glasgow due to widespread industrialisation of the nineteenth century, including mining, road and housing construction.
"Very few medieval settlements have survived, so we're delighted to recover and record such a rare and interesting piece of Scottish history."
Kevin Mooney, project director for the excavation, said: "It is believed one of the structures was literally on the position of the Netherton Cross, and there is a possibility that one or other of these buildings may have had some religious connection, although further analysis of the artefacts may shed some light on this.
"Despite the area being heavily mined in the early 1900s, it's possible the area around the Netherton Cross was not disturbed for religious reasons.
"We are not sure of the age of these structures just yet, however, the Netherton Cross dates from the 10th or 11th Century, therefore it is possible that the surrounding buildings could date from the same period - so we could be looking at a site and artefacts that are 1,000 years old."
During the dig the team found nine medieval coins, fragments of animal bone, clay smoking-pipe fragments and more than 200 sherds of glazed medieval pottery that could date to the 1400s or earlier.
Mr Mooney added: "It is very unusual to find so many coins in one place. We think it's possible that people thought it lucky to leave a coin at the religious shrine.
"We've also discovered two gaming pieces, one carved of stone and the other a circle of green-glazed medieval pottery, which could have been used in a medieval game of some sort.
"This provides us with an all too rare glimpse into the past, shedding light on the medieval beginnings of Hamilton."
The team also found a lead pistol shot in the floor of one of the structures, possible evidence that an officer involved in the Battle of Bothwell Bridge (1679) may have taken cover in the, then ruins, of the buildings at Netherton.
The remnants of the structures and the contents have been recorded and reported to Historic Environment Scotland.
Further analysis and dating will take place of the artefacts recovered.
The discoveries were made during work to widen part of the motorway as part of the £500m M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements Project. | Motorway construction workers have unearthed archaeological artefacts which experts believe may be from a lost medieval Scots village. |
Summarize the provided information. | Hamilton is 12 points behind Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, who will win the title if he finishes in the top three even if the Briton wins the race.
"It has been a challenging season in terms of ups and downs," Hamilton said.
"But I've managed to strengthen in terms of turning the negatives into positives."
Hamilton suffered an engine failure while leading in Malaysia at the end of September which created a 28-point swing in favour of Rosberg.
A win for Rosberg in Japan the following weekend left Hamilton 33 points adrift with only five races to go.
Hamilton also had engine failures in qualifying in early season races in China and Russia which meant he had to recover from positions down the grid.
Added to the victories Rosberg took after Hamilton made bad starts in the first two races in Australia and Bahrain, that gave the German a 43-point lead after the first four races.
Hamilton said: "I am really proud of what I've achieved.
"I was 43 points behind. I thought it was impossible to come back from that, and I have been 33 points behind and nearly turned that around.
"It has shown everything is possible and I will keep facing the races coming with that mentality."
By contrast, Rosberg has not had a single mechanical retirement.
Asked how he would feel if he was perceived to have won the title because of a skewed reliability record between the two, Rosberg said: "I'm aware of how the season has gone. But the season isn't even finished yet. So it would premature.
"But anyways those thoughts - I don't have them at the moment in any way because it's all about concentrating on myself this weekend.
"I am excited to be going into the race fighting for the championship. I am really focused on trying to get the season finished with a win."
Hamilton has made six bad starts this season, while Rosberg has made only three.
Hamilton said: "It his important to remember the negative races because they make you remember the wins.
"Japan, getting off the line terribly. I have had several like that but have always come back with a fighting spirit and that is something to be proud of - that I have given it everything."
Hamilton said his prime focus heading into the weekend at Yas Marina was to take pole position and that he had given no thought to how he would approach the race. However, he said he would not try to 'back up' Rosberg to bring rivals such as Red Bull into play.
"Nico has been pole the last two years here," Hamilton said. "He has been very quick. It has been a strong circuit for me generally but the last two years I have not delivered. So my sole goal is to be on pole.
"In terms of tactics, that is for Sunday but that has generally not been my thought process. When I am in the lead I want to be as far ahead as possible and that is more of an achievement than backing up your team-mate. Plus, practically, it's not a sensible thing to do. It would not be very easy or wise to do so. So, no."
Rosberg said he would not deploy any underhand tactics, such as taking Hamilton out, to secure the title.
"It will be a weekend like any other and I will go for the race win and will do what it takes to achieve that," he said. "Within the limits of what's acceptable, of course." | Lewis Hamilton says he will be "proud" of his performance in 2016 regardless of whether he wins the world title in Sunday's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. |
Can you summarize the following information? | In the Democratic race, Bernie Sanders scored a strong victory over Hillary Clinton in the Midwestern state.
Mr Trump leads the race, but could fall short of the number of delegates needed to secure the Republican nomination.
Mr Trump's rivals hope for a brokered convention where voting among candidates would start from scratch.
Mr Trump said on Tuesday he would prevail despite the loss and took aim at his main rival.
"Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet - he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination," the Trump campaign said in a statement.
Party leaders are concerned that Mr Trump would be a weak candidate in the general election and could harm other Republicans lawmakers on the ballot. Polls show that the real estate tycoon is extremely unpopular among key voting blocs including women, Latinos and young people.
On the Democratic side, Wisconsin adds to a recent spate of wins by the Sanders campaign, giving the Vermont senator a boost before key races in New York and Pennsylvania.
Mr Sanders won nearly every county in the state except Milwaukee, but as delegates are awarded proportionally he will not gain a significant advantage over Mrs Clinton. Of the 86 Wisconsin delegates, Mr Sanders is on course for at least 44, but Mrs Clinton will have at least 28.
Mrs Clinton still holds a sizeable lead and most analysts say she will eventually become the Democratic nominee despite her recent losses.
While Tuesday's loss was a setback for Mr Trump, his campaign has time to rebound. The campaign now moves to large north-eastern states, where polls show Mr Trump holds significant leads.
Mr Trump's loss in Wisconsin comes after a rocky week for the campaign, particularly with female voters. The New York businessman repeatedly struggled to articulate his position on abortion. At one point, he called for women to be punished for having abortions, then quickly changed his mind.
His campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was also arrested, accused of manhandling a female journalist.
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"Tonight is a turning point, it is a rallying cry to the people of America," Mr Cruz told supporters in Milwaukee on Tuesday. "We are winning because we are uniting the Republican Party."
Mr Cruz is unlikely to earn enough delegates to win the nomination outright, but Republican Party leaders have rallied around the Texas senator in hopes of wounding Mr Trump.
For nine months now it has seemed that Donald Trump could say and do whatever he liked without there being consequences.
But then he took on women. Well to be strictly accurate he had taken on women before, with seemingly no ill effect. But then a few things came together in quick succession.
The insulting photo of Heidi Cruz, the suggestion that women should be punished for having an abortion if it is outlawed, Mr Trump standing up for his campaign manager when he is charged with assaulting a female journalist, crystallised into his poll standings falling, too.
And so Wisconsin is lost. And Mr Trump has shown he is mortal.
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The New York Times said that in winning so convincingly, Mr Cruz had "showed he was capable of appealing to more than just the hard-line and religious conservative Republicans", but that capturing moderate Republicans and consolidating the anti-Trump vote would be a "daunting task".
The Washington Post said that the Wisconsin primary had taken the Republicans into a "new and critical phase in their volatile nomination battle" with a contested convention "more probable".
USA Today said Mr Cruz now "represents something very powerful for many GOP voters: their last best hope for denying Trump the nomination".
The Los Angeles Times said Wisconsin should have been "tailored" to Mr Trump's advantage but the frontrunner made a "series of tactical miscues", including insulting the state's popular governor, Scott Walker, and insulting Mr Cruz's wife, Heidi.
Analysis site Vox pointed out that even if Mr Cruz takes every delegate in Wisconsin, he will still trail Mr Trump by about 240 delegates.
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Full US election coverage from the BBC | Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has decisively won the Wisconsin primary, complicating front-runner Donald Trump's path to the nomination. |
Can you summarize this passage? | The Cumbrians lost 2-0 to their fellow promotion hopefuls but remain fifth in the table and four points off third.
Curle's side did not drop out of the top three between October and March before the recent slump.
"I'll turn results round," Curle told BBC Radio Cumbria. "I'll turn negatives into positives. That's what I do."
Curle continued: "That what I do as an individual, as a professional. I've got the full backing of the board, the owners and the dressing room - before all that starts.
"Those are the negatives which get thrown in, he's lost the dressing room, players aren't playing for him or the board aren't backing him. Watch me do my job now."
Curle has been in charge at Carlisle United since September 2014 and has won 55 of his 141 games in charge.
Emin, probably best known for her unmade bed installation, follows in the footsteps of Sir Peter Blake, Damien Hirst and Vivienne Westwood in designing the award.
Last year, hat designer Philip Treacy put his own stamp on the statuette.
Emin said: "I was thrilled to be asked to rework the Brits trophy."
She added: "It's so nice as a visual artist to have an involvement with the creative side of the music industry and it's such a sweet celebration of the amazing talent we have in Britain today."
My Bed, which Emin created in 1998, was recently sold at auction for £2.2m. The new owner, Count Christian Duerckheim, has agreed to loan the work to the Tate for at least 10 years.
Next year's Brit Awards will be held on 25 February at London's 02 arena, with a set created by Es Devlin, who has also worked for the likes of Take That and Kanye West.
Actor James Corden has stepped down from hosting the event after five years, and a new presenter has yet to be named.
Queenie Law, the granddaughter of the owner of the Bossini clothing chain, was taken from her home in the Sai Kung area of Hong Kong in late April.
The gang, who also seized valuables, held Ms Law until her family paid HK$28m ($3.6m; £2.3m).
The South China Morning Post reported that five other suspects had also been detained.
The men were arrested in Guangdong province in mainland China on Monday, the paper reported late on Tuesday, but this has not been confirmed by Hong Kong police.
The man in court on Wednesday, surnamed Zheng, was arrested at the Lo Wu border crossing on Sunday night as he was trying to leave Hong Kong.
He did not enter a plea and the case has been adjourned until Monday, said broadcaster RTHK.
On Tuesday, he was led hooded around parts of Kowloon by police trying to reconstruct the events around the kidnapping.
The case has gripped Hong Kong, which has very low levels of violent crime. Police had set up road blocks across the territory and combed rural areas looking for Ms Law.
She was released unharmed by the gang after four days, but the ransom money has not been recovered.
The BBC's Juliana Liu in Hong Kong says when the territory was still a British colony, a number of high-profile kidnappings targeting the city's richest families shocked the public.
Since reverting to Chinese rule, such cases have become much rarer, she says. | Manager Keith Curle is convinced he can help Carlisle United rediscover their League Two form, despite a fifth defeat in six at Mansfield on Saturday.
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Tracey Emin is the latest artist to be asked to design the winners' trophy for the Brit Awards in 2015.
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Write a summary for the following excerpt. | The Women and Equalities Committee said the fact that 30% of current MPs were women represented a "serious democratic deficit", for "no good reason".
It said the law must change after the 2020 general election, if that figure "does not increase significantly".
The government said it was considering the recommendations.
There are currently 195 women in the House of Commons. The cross-party committee's report said the meant the UK was ranked 48th in the world, in terms of female representations in equivalent institutions.
Women in the House of Commons
"Women make up more than half the population of the United Kingdom and, at a time when more women are in work than ever before, there is no good reason why women should not make up half of the House of Commons," it said.
"Yet only 30% of MPs are women. This constitutes a serious democratic deficit."
Until 1997, the proportion of women in the Commons was below 10%, rising to 18% at that year's general election.
The last election, in 2015, saw that increase to 29%, with recent by-election results moving it up to 30%.
But the committee said this was not enough progress and that Parliament should "actively encourage women to participate in democracy" through outreach projects and remove "barriers to women's participation".
However, it added: "Political parties have the primary responsibility for ensuring that women come forward to represent them and that they are put in positions from which they can win seats."
House of Commons Library figures showed that, at the 2015 election, all the largest parties' candidate lists were less than 50% female.
The proportions were:
The report said that "the government should be prepared to legislate to achieve parity among candidates, including setting out financial penalties for under-performance, if voluntary measures do not bear fruit".
Parties should "explicitly identify winnable seats and adopt ambitious targets for women candidates in those seats", it added.
The committee said: "We recommend that the government should seek to introduce, in legislation in this Parliament, a statutory minimum proportion of female parliamentary candidates in general elections for each political party.
"While the goal is equality, we recognise the difficulty inherent in setting this statutory minimum at 50%. Such a precise target would be difficult to meet while also ensuring that men did not become underrepresented.
"A minimum of 45% would therefore be acceptable. The measure would need to be subject to a minimum threshold for parties contesting only a small number of constituencies.
"This measure should be brought into force if the number and proportion of women MPs fails to increase significantly after the 2020 general election."
A representative of the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons said: "The government is considering the report and will respond in due course." | Political parties must face fines if they do not ensure at least 45% of general election candidates are female, MPs have recommended. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | It comes after a prisoner was stabbed to death and two others were injured in London's Pentonville prison on Tuesday.
The PGA called Tuesday's incident a tragedy, but said it was "no massive surprise" given the cuts to staff and funding,.
The government said new plans for prison safety and reform would be set out in the coming weeks.
Addressing the Lords at question time Justice spokesman Lord Keen of Elie dismissed the call for a public inquiry.
"It is not thought that a public inquiry would be the way forward when we are about to publish a white paper on prison safety and reform, in which we will address these issues," he said.
The family of Jamal Mahmoud, a 21-year-old of Somali descent who was killed on Tuesday, hit out at the prison for "neglecting him".
There have been several warnings about prison safety in the last year.
Pentonville was last year singled out by former Justice Secretary Michael Gove as "the most dramatic example of failure".
People living near Pentonville prison have called on the police to take action following what they say is a rise in criminal gangs smuggling drugs into the jail.
Former chief inspector of prisons and independent crossbench peer Lord Ramsbotham said the stabbings at the prison drew more attention "to the fact that our prisons are currently in crisis".
He said the call for an inquiry from the "very reputable" PGA amounted to a "vote of no confidence in the years of purely in-house tinkering with the system by successive ministers and officials".
Lord Keen said the government was determined to modernise the prison estate and tackle drugs and violence.
The government had already announced an extra £10m for prison safety and would deploy 400 extra staff by March next year, he said. | The Prison Governors Association (PGA) has demanded an inquiry the state of jails in England and Wales. |
What is the summary of the given information? | The 45-year-old American was taken from the water at Jeffreys Bay and rushed to hospital after he was struck by his board prior to his second-round heat.
Slater said the incident was "like smashing my foot with a big hammer".
Writing on Instagram, he said he is likely to need between four and six months to recover.
In an earlier post, which included an X-ray of his foot, he wrote: "You ever folded your entire foot backwards? If you try it sometime, this is what it might look like.
"Sorta feels like I'm giving birth out of my foot right now.
"It sucks but so many people deal with such horrible things around this world every day that a broken foot is pretty minor in the scheme of things. Sometimes a bad thing is a good thing."
Meanwhile, Australia's Mick Fanning and Brazilian Gabriel Medina were pulled from the water in Jeffreys Bay after a shark was spotted swimming into the competition zone.
Fanning, 36, escaped a shark attack while competing in the same event two years ago.
Surfing is one of five new sports confirmed for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the government will instead introduce faster trains with more seats and better on-board facilities.
He said: "We are making the biggest investment in the railways since the Victorian era."
Andy McDonald, Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary, accused him of "taking people for a ride".
Routes between Cardiff and Swansea, and between Kettering, Nottingham and Sheffield, and between Windermere and Oxenholme will be affected.
Mr Grayling said said the new trains on the Great Western and Midland Mainline would be bi-mode, meaning they could run on electrified sections of track and then transfer to non-electrified sections.
He said: "Thanks to this new technology disruptive electrification works... will no longer be needed.
"Passengers will benefit sooner and experience less disruption compared with putting up intrusive wires and masts along routes where they are no longer required."
However, Mr McDonald said: "The Tories have been promising the electrification of the Great Western Mainline from Paddington to Swansea since 2012 and today's announcement confirms that they have been taking people for a ride."
Eight years ago Network Rail dramatically over-promised how quickly and how cheaply it could electrify some of Britain's busiest rail lines.
Reality soon hit home.
A recent report by the Public Accounts Committee described the electrification of the Great Western line as "a stark example of how not to run a project".
The budget went from £874m in 2013 to £2.8bn two years later.
Why? Because when Network Rail first did their sums, it was based on guesswork. They hadn't looked in detail at what needed doing and it was just much harder than they thought to upgrade Victorian bridges and tunnels on a line that was being kept open at the same time.
So having kicked some of the promised electrification schemes into the long grass a while ago, the government's finally chopped them.
New trains which are part diesel, part electric, will be used instead.
Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary, Jenny Randerson, said: "The Liberal Democrats secured vital investment for rail electrification when in government.
"That was then delayed by the Tories and now has been scrapped altogether."
The government said it would introduce new Intercity Express trains in Wales with around 130 more seats and faster services.
Wales' Economy Secretary, Ken Skates, told Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme: "I don't buy it."
He accused the UK government of "years of broken promises" and said Mr Grayling had not responded to his requests for a meeting on the issue.
"I'm urging the UK government to clarify the situation immediately," he added.
The Department for Transport said the new services meant long distance journey times from Nottingham and Sheffield would be reduced by up to 20 minutes in peak periods.
It said four direct services a day in each direction between Windermere and Manchester Airport will be introduced from May 2018. | Eleven-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater will be out for up to six months after breaking his foot in the J-Bay Open in South Africa.
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The video assistant referee (VAR) technology can only review incidents relating to goals, red cards, mistaken identities and penalties.
"We will use video refereeing because we've had nothing but positive feedback so far," Infantino said.
Video assistance was introduced for the first time in a Fifa competition at the Club World Cup in Japan in December.
It was used to correct two decisions as Spain beat France in a friendly last month, having previously been used in France's 3-1 friendly win in Italy last September.
The system has been tested in several domestic leagues, with Australia's A-League becoming the first top-tier competition to employ the technology earlier this month.
It could also be used in English football as soon as August, bringing forward the start of a planned trial by several months.
The Football Association had initially said the technology could be trialled in the FA Cup in January 2018, but it might now begin in the EFL Cup first round. | Video referees will be used at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Fifa president Gianni Infantino has suggested. |
What is the summary of the given information? | The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is expanding efforts to source technology that can detect small, unmanned aerial vehicles near airports.
Three British companies developed the Anti-UAV Defense System (Auds), due to be included in new trials.
It works by jamming signals to drones, making them unresponsive.
A thermal imaging camera allows the Auds operator to target the unwanted drone before signal jamming, via a high-powered radio signal, is activated.
Auds was designed by Enterprise Control Systems, Blighter Surveillance Systems and Chess Dynamics.
"Sometimes people fly drones in an unsafe manner," said Marke "Hoot" Gibson, an FAA senior adviser.
"Government and industry share responsibility for keeping the skies safe, and we're pleased these three companies have taken on this important challenge."
The technology will be tested at several airports to be selected by the FAA.
Two other firms - Gryphon Sensors LLC and Sensofusion, both US-based - will also take part.
The event, now in its 131st year, celebrates the region's heritage, more than 20 years after the closure of the last local pit.
Banners from the former colliery villages were paraded through the city, as brass bands played.
Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn and trade unionists addressed a rally at the racecourse.
Liz Kendall, another candidate for the Labour leadership, and artist Grayson Perry were also among those taking part in the parade.
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Poland's Kubot and Brazil's Melo edged Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic 5-7 7-5 7-6 (7-2) 3-6 13-11.
Russian duo Makarova and Vesnina beat Chinese Taipei's Chan Hao-ching and Romania's Monica Niculescu 6-0 6-0.
The winning pairs will receive £400,000 each in prize money.
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Kubot, 35, and Melo 33, were broken in the 11th game of their match by Austrian Marach and Croat Pavic and lost the first set before bouncing back to claim the next two.
They lost the fourth set before falling 13-11 in the decider after more than four-and-a-half hours of play.
There was no such trouble for Makarova and Vesnina, who raced to victory without dropping a game, sealing the first set in 29 minutes and the second in 26 minutes. | A UK-developed system capable of jamming signals to small drones is to be trialled by the US aviation authority.
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Tens of thousands of people, including former pit workers, have attended the Durham Miners' Gala.
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Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo took four-and-a-half hours to win an epic Wimbledon men's doubles final, as Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina earned the women's title in 55 minutes. |