The BBC has announced a new deal with the US cable network Fox to show new episodes of Family Guy.
The deal will see the show air on Fox in the US from later this year.
The deal will also see the BBC show new episodes of The Cleveland Show and The Cleveland Show: The Cleveland Show.

The Griffin family is moving home - to ITV2.

Article: Unison opposes plans to introduce 30 "operational clusters", ending the system of one janitor per school.
The union also wants janitors to be paid extra for tasks that are dirty or involve outside work and heavy lifting.
The proposals aim to save £515,000 while creating a modern facilities management service for primary schools.
The Glasgow City Council body Cordia has refused to pay janitors Working Context and Demands Payments, which range from £500 to £1,000 per year.
Unison has said these payments would cost Cordia about £120,000 per year.
A union spokesman said Cordia had already saved about £477,000 in wages over the 62 days of strike, with about 100 janitors losing out on £77 in wages per day.
Instead, janitors have been offered a pay rise of up to just over £1,000 in return for new working conditions.
There are currently 219 janitors employed at schools across the city.
The Cordia Janitorial Reform review would cut 33 jobs and see janitors given the new job title of "facilities assistants".
Within the remaining 186 posts, there would be 30 promoted posts of "facilities co-ordinators" to manage the operational clusters.
Cordia said there would be no compulsory redundancies, with jobs lost when people left or moved to other roles within the organisation.
Unsion's Glasgow branch said the cluster model would leave schools without a janitor at certain points of the day, compromising many aspects of health, safety and security.
A Cordia spokesman said "The Cordia janitorial reform will create a modern facilities management service that places Cordia staff at the heart of local communities.
"When implemented, janitorial staff will see an increase in salary and other benefits and there will be promotion opportunities."
There had been concern that some janitors who live in a "tied house" as part of their job could lose their accommodation.
Cordia had said janitors were no longer needed 24/7 due to CCTV, alarms linked to control centres, and timers on heating systems.
However, the union said Cordia had since...

Summary: Glasgow primary school janitors have started another two-week strike in a long-running dispute over plans to re-organise the service and pay.
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Article: "I stupidly got on my bike this morning and got the sleet right in my face," she winces.
Having dried off and freshened up, she settles down to chat. Marling has a reputation for being a shy, sometimes reluctant interviewee - but LA clearly has rubbed off on her.
She chews gum as we talk, laughing bawdily as she discusses her penchant for dating drummers. ("What do they bring to a relationship? Rhythm!")
The 27-year-old also reveals her mum keeps a "very meticulous scrapbook" of her career, and admits to cooking up her own brand of Halloumi cheese.
"I'm aiming for direct competition with Alex James," she says, referring to the cheese-making Blur bassist. "But bloody hell, what a boring thing to talk about".
So instead we circle back to that new album.
It's her sixth, and possibly best, record since she emerged at the age of 17 as part of the indie folk movement that also spawned Mumford and Sons, Lucy Rose and Noah and the Whale.
Sumptuous and sensual, Semper Femina adds a hint of West Coast sheen to her delicate, acoustic melodies. Marling generously credits her band and producer Blake Mills for the progression.
"All of the musicality of the album is down to them," she says. "I wanted to be in the middle of it, but for someone else to be painting the picture around it."
If you don't have a Latin textbook to hand, the album's title is taken from a line in Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid.
The line is "varium et mutabile semper femina", which translates as "woman is always fickle and changeable". "I thought that was very jolly," says Marling, apparently without sarcasm.
She came across the phrase years ago and had a truncated version - "Semper Femina", or "always a woman" - tattooed on her leg when she was 21.
It's a fitting title for a record that explores femininity in all its forms, from the archetypal wild teenager to the artist's muse, while reflecting on female friendships and betrayals.
Marling prompted a lot of speculation when she announced in a press release that the album was written during a...

Summary: Laura Marling's latest album was recorded in her adopted home of Los Angeles, so coming back to London to promote it in mid-February has been something of a rude awakening.
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Article: The festival in Ullapool will mark its 13th year when it takes on a different format on 29 and 30 September.
For the first time it will be held on the town's pier after the organisers were unable to secure the continued use of the site's usual venue.
Acts include The View, Glasvegas, The Pigeon Detectives, Hunter and the Bear, The Rezillos and the Vatersay Boys.
The Wonder Stuff, Twin Atlantic and Mark Radcliffe's band Galleon Blast have previously played at Loopallu - which is Ullapool backwards.
A spokesman for the festival said: "The whole team would like to say a big thank you to all who have come over the years, your support and enthusiasm made the event what it was and what it is.
"Loopallu may come back in the future in a different guise, but for now let's have a party one last time."
He added: "Loopallu is dead. Long live Loopallu."

Summary: The Loopallu music festival is be held for the last time, its organisers have said.
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Article: The channel's signed a deal with 20th Century Fox to show new episodes of Family Guy from later this year.
The agreement also includes other Seth MacFarlane animated comedies American Dad, The Cleveland Show and new series Bordertown.
Family Guy has been a major part of the BBC Three schedule since 2006, becoming one of the channel's highest rating shows.
But it's not the last we'll see of the Griffins on the BBC as the corporation has one more new series to show - the one currently being broadcast in the States.
The BBC also still has rights to repeat episodes from previous series - for the moment.
The BBC says Family Guy will be on the BBC for "at least the next two years".
There's been discussion over what would happen to the offbeat comedy, given plans to move BBC Three online.
More than 270,000 people have signed a petition against the move.
The BBC said: "We are incredibly proud that the BBC has successfully aired Family Guy for the past nine years and built the series into such a hit in the UK.
"However, when a show becomes so successful it often becomes a target for other broadcasters.
"We are sorry that it will not have a long term home on the BBC."
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A man has been jailed for four years for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of sexually assaulting the girl in Vermont, USA, in 2004.
He was also found guilty of assaulting the teenage girl in Vermont, USA, in

An injured dog has been found dumped in a bush with an illegally docked tail and having had her claws "forcibly" removed, the RSPCA says.

Article: A French inquiry has found that Poly Implant Prostheses - or PIPs - are filled with an unapproved gel and are missing protective barriers.
About 50,000 British women may have these implants.
The body for plastic surgeons warned against alarm, but said those with PIPs needed a check-up within six months.
If an ultrasound establishes that the implant is weakened or ruptured, then both should be removed, the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) advised.
"This is certainly an unusual situation but so far there is no serious cause for alarm - whilst further tests are conducted into the substance, we recommend that women who've undergone breast augmentation contact their surgeons to find out what type of implant was used," said its president Nigel Mercer
"If it's PIP they should have an ultrasound in the next six months to establish whether there is any weakening or rupture.  At present removal is recommended in these cases, but if there is one ruptured implant, the contralateral one should be taken out as well, as a preventative measure."
In March, The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said no more PIPs should be implanted and that any remaining should be returned to the manufacturer.
The French company which produced PIPs has gone into administration. All the devices were recalled in France earlier this year.
The inquiry by the French association of plastic surgeons reported that the company had from 2005 dispensed with the protective barrier and was also using a gel with a composition different from that approved.
To determine how the altered version might react with the human body, BAAPs says French colleagues contacted the gel manufacturers for any studies. There were none, as they had understood the substance to be intended for use in mattresses.
Nigel Mercer added that surgeons who had fitted PIPs should not be held accountable for doing so.
"There was no way of knowing the gel was untested or that the protective envelope, which adds strength and restricts the...

Summary: Women with breast enlargements are being advised to contact their surgeon amid concerns about the safety of a certain type of implant.
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Article: Cambridgeshire Police investigated Benjamin Morris, 32, after he was accused of travelling to the USA to assault a 14-year-old girl.
At Cambridge Crown Court, Morris, of Bourn Road, Cambridge, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the two boys when they were aged under 13-years-old.
He was also found guilty of assaulting the teenage girl in Vermont, USA.
Cambridgeshire Police said its investigation discovered Morris had befriended the boys in 2004, when they were aged eight and nine and attending an after school club.
He began to babysit them and assaulted them over a six year period, officers said.
Morris pleaded guilty to two counts of engaging in penetrative sex with the boys when they were under 13 and a further two counts of the same charge when they were under 16.
He was also found guilty of two counts of sexual activity with a girl aged between 13 and 15.
Det Con Jo Nicholson said: "Morris abused his position of trust and showed no remorse for his actions, blaming the victims for what happened.
"I hope this sentence will provide some form of closure for the victims and allow them to move on with the rest of their lives."
Once he has served the prison sentence he will be on an extended licence for four years.
Morris was also placed on the sex offenders register for life and made subject of a sexual harm prevention order for life.

Summary: A man who sexually assaulted two boys he befriended at an after school club has been jailed for 16 years.
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Article: Homosexuality among men was illegal in Scotland until 1980.
Same-sex contact between women had never been targeted in law and was not illegal. Scottish society just chose to believe lassies did not do that kind of thing.
When the Sexual Offences Act was granted royal assent on 27 July 1967 it applied to England and Wales only, Scotland, along with Northern Ireland, was excluded.
England and Wales can now mark 50 years since the historic reforms which partially decriminalised homosexuality between two consenting men in private over 21 years of age.
But Scotland took 13 years to adopt the same legislation into Scots Law.
Why did it take so long and what effect did it have on the men who lived through that period?
Nick Mitchell and Phil Duffy converted their civil partnership to marriage on the first day it was allowed by law, 16 December 2014. So they believe they are the longest-married gay couple in Scotland.
Nick, 71, grew up in England and moved to Scotland to be with his partner Phil, 64, in the early 2000s. Both men were secondary school teachers and struggled to reconcile their public and private lives.
"In the 90s and in the 80s, I could be quite aggressive, quite angry, quite frustrated," recalls Phil.
"I think I suffered a kind of trauma. Even though the law changed in Scotland in 1980, I was getting messages 'you're wrong, you're diseased, you're this, you're that'.
"So I shut my mouth. And suppressing all that, natural urges and so on, does have an effect on you."
Phil adds: "Making a law that says that something is legal doesn't necessarily change attitudes.
"So when the law changed in 1967 in England and Wales, and in 1980 in Scotland that didn't necessarily make it any different.
"I don't think it actually came into my conscious mind that the law made it legal to be gay or homosexual.
"And when I eventually came out, when I met Nick, and I had to tell family and friends, I was amazed with the reaction.
"'It's about time you told us', 'What were you worrying about?'
"If I had been told that...

Summary: Scotland prides itself on being one of the most progressive countries in Europe on issues of sexuality and gender identity but for gay men it was not always such an open-minded place.
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Article: The one-year-old spaniel bitch was found on the A20 in Harrietsham, near Ashford, on Tuesday.
She had some "really nasty wounds" on her feet and legs which were "covered in pressure sores and urine scald", an RSPCA spokesman said.
The dog, which has now been named Flick, has already been offered a home.
She had no form of identification and was not microchipped, the RSPCA said.
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A spokesman for the charity said: "She has a docked tail and some really nasty wounds on her feet and her legs. Vets believe she has had her claws forcibly and traumatically removed, while her legs are covered in pressure sores and urine scald."
Under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, owners are only allowed to dock the tails of dogs who were certified working dogs under five days old, or for medical reasons as recommended by a vet.
"To forcibly remove a dog's claws is an abhorrent act and is illegal under animal welfare law in this country," the spokesman added.
"And to simply abandon her by the side of the road like rubbish when she is clearly injured and in need of veterinary treatment is unbelievably shocking."

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The UK's biggest supermarket chain Tesco said it was "disappointed" with the outcome of the EU referendum.
The company said it was "disappointed" with the result of the EU referendum.
"We are disappointed that the UK has voted to leave the European Union," said a spokesman.
"We

(Open): The UK market opened lower, but a well-received trading update from Dixons Carphone sent shares in the retailer higher.

Article: The law limits protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
Businesses, entertainers and sports teams have boycotted North Carolina over the controversial bill.
But state legislators were unable to reach agreement after late additions were made to the proposed deal.
The law, known as HB2, was introduced in response to an ordinance from the city of Charlotte, which would have afforded extensive protections to LGBT people.
HB2 placed limits on this, particularly by requiring transgender people to use toilets that correspond to the sex listed on their birth certificates.
A compromise deal was announced several days ago, when Charlotte agreed to repeal its ordinance and the Republican-dominated senate agreed to repeal HB2 - effectively a "reset" of the entire controversy.
The city of Charlotte went ahead and voted to reverse its ordinance. The senate's repeal of HB2, however, never materialised.
Republicans added a provision on Wednesday which included a ban for several months on cities passing any similar ordinances to grant protections to the LGBT community.
"This wasn't the deal," said Senator Jeff Jackson, a Charlotte Democrat. "This bill breaks this deal. Charlotte would have not repealed its ordinance if this was the deal."
North Carolina's legislature is deeply divided. Last week, the Republican-controlled legislature took unprecedented steps to strip powers from the Democrat governor-elect following his election victory.
"The legislature had a chance to do the right thing for North Carolina, and they failed,'' Governor-elect Roy Cooper said. "This was our best chance. It cannot be our last chance."
The political fallout from HB2 was enormous, costing the state millions of dollars.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) moved its all-star game to another state, Bruce Springsteen and others cancelled concerts there, and PayPal dropped expansion plans, costing the state 400 jobs. The US Justice Department has taken legal action against North Carolina over the bill.
The controversy...

Summary: A deal to repeal North Carolina's so-called "bathroom bill" collapsed on Wednesday, as each side accused the other of broken promises.
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Article: The process assumes GM plants pose greater risks than conventional plants, which is not backed by scientific evidence, the parliamentary Science and Technology Committee report says.
It calls for GM crops to be regulated on the basis of their characteristics not the method used to produce them.
Opponents say GM may have an impact on wildlife and needs careful scrutiny.
EU countries recently agreed to give individual nations more power to decide whether or not to allow GM crops to be grown on their territory.
But the committee said there was a need for more radical reform to meet the challenge of feeding a growing population, using fewer resources, under a changing climate.
In their report, Advanced genetic techniques for crop improvement: regulation, risk and precaution, MPs say agricultural innovations could be hindered, or even halted, by inappropriate regulation.
The committee's chairman, Andrew Miller, said: "Opposition to genetically modified crops in many European countries is based on values and politics, not science.
"The scientific evidence is clear that crops developed using genetic modification pose no more risk to humans, animals or the environment than equivalent crops developed using more 'conventional' techniques.
"Unfortunately, the way the EU's regulatory system works means that countries opposed to genetically modified crops can block their growth in other countries.
"This has driven research activity out of the EU and put at risk the UK's ability to be a global player in advancing agricultural technology."
But organic food and farming group the Soil Association said research had shown that GM crops could have a negative impact on wildlife.
Policy director Peter Melchett said: "In our evidence to the committee, the Soil Association reminded them that the UK government had spent millions of pounds of public money over five years, researching whether GM crops would be beneficial or damaging for British wildlife.
"This research found that, overall, GM crops would have a negative impact on...

Summary: Europe's approval system for genetically modified (GM) crops is "fundamentally flawed", say MPs.
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Article: It also argues the bulk of committee convenors and the presiding officer should come from opposition parties.
The proposed ban on second jobs would include paid directorships and consultancies.
An SNP spokesman said it would try to find agreement but it was up to parliament to decide its rules in a "consensual, democratic way".
Scottish Labour's democracy spokeswoman Claire Baker said the changes would improve parliamentary scrutiny.
Speaking ahead of MSPs returning to the parliament on Monday, she said: "Our manifesto contained many proposals for reforming the Scottish Parliament that received backing from all opposition parties.
"We will work with other parties to make them a reality.
"As a start, the presiding officer and the majority of committee convenerships should not come from the governing party.
"We saw in the last term that SNP-dominated committees did not provide anywhere near the level of scrutiny that the government's work required. We will work to change that - but we must go further.
"People require confidence that the politicians they elect to serve are giving them the full attention they deserve.
"Being a member of the Scottish Parliament is an immense privilege and it should be the only job that MSPs do. That is why we will push for a ban on MSPs holding second jobs, including paid directorships and consultancies."
The Scottish Conservatives - now the main opposition party after returning 31 MSPs in the Scottish Parliament election -  have also called for improved parliamentary scrutiny.
The Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson also argues that Holyrood committees should have opposition MSPs as their convenors.
An SNP spokesman said: "Parliament will decide all of these issues in a consensual, democratic way, as it always has done.
"The shape of Holyrood's committees is determined by the strength of parties in the parliament - again in line with democratic principles.
"And it isn't for any single MSP or party - certainly not those who lost the election by a country mile - to try and dictate...

Summary: MSPs would be banned from holding second jobs under a package of Holyrood reforms proposed by Scottish Labour.
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Article: Dixons Carphone shares were up 1% after it said full-year profits were set to be slightly higher than previously forecast.
The FTSE 100 index was down 17.61 points at 6,910.66.
Shares in WH Smith rose 2.9% after it reported flat like-for-like sales in the three months to 30 May.
Like-for-like sales at its travel business rose 4%, but fell 4% at WH Smith's High Street stores.
Shares in Royal Mail rose 0.7% to 527.50p. The company announced on Wednesday that Peter Long, joint chief executive of travel firm TUI, would be its next chairman.
On the currency markets, the pound was flat against the dollar at $1.5345 and rose 0.1% against the euro to â‚¬1.3772.

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The US Olympic Committee has announced that it will not be taking part in the London 2012 Games.
The decision was made after the US Olympic Committee (USOC) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) failed to reach an agreement on the financial terms of the US$1.5bn (£1.1bn

One relationship, 10 Olympic gold medals.

Article: US researchers found those with access to dogs were less stressed as the day went on than those who had none.
The preliminary study published in theInternational Journal of Workplace Health Managementlooked at 75 staff.
The researchers suggested access to dogs boosted morale and reduced stress levels, whether people had access to their own pets or other people's.
The study was carried out by a team of researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University who looked at a manufacturing company where people are allowed to bring their pets to work.
They compared those who brought in their own pets, with those who had dogs - but left them at home - and staff who did not own pets.
Over a week, the researchers compared employees' stress levels, job satisfaction and feelings about support from and commitment to the company.
Stress hormone levels were measured using saliva samples during the day.
In the morning, there was no difference between the three groups.
But during the course of the work day, stress levels appeared to decline for employees with their dogs present and increased for non-pet owners and dog owners who did not bring their dogs to work.
The researchers also noted that stress rose significantly during the day when owners left their dogs at home compared to days they brought them to work.
Randolph Barker, lead study author and professor of management at the VCU School of Business, said dogs can make a positive difference in the workplace.
"The differences in perceived stress between days the dog was present and absent were significant. The employees as a whole had higher job satisfaction than industry norms."
Prof Barker said having dogs around the workplace may contribute to employee performance and satisfaction.
And he reported positive comments from employees such as "pets in the workplace can be a great bonus for employee morale", "having dogs here is great stress relief" and "dogs are positive; dogs increase co-worker cooperation."
Past research has shown that stress can contribute to employee...

Summary: Bringing pet dogs to work can reduce stress and make the job more satisfying for other employees, a study suggests.
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Article: The Backyard Brains company says that the device is intended to get children to be interested in neuroscience.
A spokeswoman told the BBC that the device - being formally launched on Saturday - was not a gimmick.
But critics say that the company's stance is "disingenuous".
For the "electronic backpack" to work the cockroaches have to be placed in icy water to subdue them before sandpaper is used to remove the waxy coating on the shell of the insect's head.
Source: Natural History Museum
An electrode connector and electrodes are then glued on to the insect's body and a needle is used to poke a hole in their thorax in order to insert a wire.
Their antennae are then cut and electrodes are inserted. A circuit is attached to their backs, and signals are received through a mobile phone app allowing users to control the cockroaches' movements to the left and to the right.
Animal behaviour scientist Jonathan Balcombe has been quoted on US scientific websites as saying that the insects are harmed in the process.
"If it was discovered that a teacher was having students use magnifying glasses to burn ants and then look at their tissue, how would people react?" he is quoted as saying.
Likewise Queen's University philosophy Professor Michael Allen warned that the device will "encourage amateurs to operate invasively on living organisms" and "encourage thinking of complex living organisms as mere machines or tools".
The Michigan-based company has even received emails saying the the backpack - known as Roboroach - "teaches kids to be psychopaths".
But Backyard Brains says the backpacks "allow students to do graduate level research early in life".
A company spokeswoman told the BBC that the backpack had been developed solely to encourage children to take an interest in neuroscience which, she said, needed to be better taught in American schools.
"At the moment this crucially important subject is woefully under-taught," she said, "with many schools teaching neuroscience within the biology syllabus when it should be a subject...

Summary: A US company that has developed an "electronic backpack" that fits onto a cockroach allowing its movements to be controlled by a mobile phone app has defended itself against cruelty claims.
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Article: Mobile network Verizon told Fortune magazine that it planned to divert calls made via the phones so that they reached its staff instead.
It follows dozens of reports of the devices overheating and in some cases bursting into flames.
Samsung is expected to reveal the cause of the problem on Monday.
It pulled the product from the market and cancelled further production in October after an earlier botched recall and re-release.
US operators had already released a software update intended to prevent Note 7s from being able to recharge and connect to their networks.
But Verizon said that thousands of its customers had still not returned the devices, possibly because they had managed to prevent the firmware from being installed.
"The recalled Note 7s pose a safety risk to our customers and those around them," it told Fortune.
It said it would still allow 911 calls to connect to the emergency service, but all other calls would be redirected to its employees, who would demand the return of the handsets.
Customers who refused might be billed the full retail cost of the device, it added.
"This is all about liability," commented Ben Wood from the CCS Insight tech consultancy.
"People may be willing to accept the risk now, but that could change if they experience a catastrophic incident like it burns down their house or seriously injures someone.
"Samsung and the operators have no option but to put whatever measures in place they can to try and retrieve all the remaining devices."

Summary: Galaxy Note 7 owners in the US who have ignored the global recall of Samsung's smartphone face a fresh effort to make them return their devices.
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Article: You might forgive Laura Trott and Jason Kenny for leaving Rio rather full of themselves. Five competitions between them, five golds won. As of Tuesday night, had the couple been a country they would have sat 13th on the medal table, above Jamaica, Kenya and Brazil.
That would be to misunderstand what makes them tick. This is a couple who got engaged while on the sofa watching an episode of EastEnders.
You might think too that it would get competitive around the breakfast table in the cottage they share just outside Knutsford in Cheshire. Kenny now has six Olympic golds from three Games, more than Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Bradley Wiggins. Trott has four, more than any other British woman, and from one fewer Olympics.
That would be to misjudge their relationship. Cycling superstars on their own, together they can be almost ordinary, almost invisible. After the gold rush, after their tearful embrace in the Rio velodrome with the world watching on, that may be about to change.
"The difference in their characters is what makes it work for them," says Trott's father Adrian.
"Until he gets to know you, Jason is a little bit shy. He's quiet and understated. Laura is bubbly, chatty, just as you see in her interviews.
"If they were both like Jason, God only knows how they'd talk about anything. And God forbid having two Lauras in a household!"
The relationship between the two began in the build-up to London 2012, with Kenny about to come out of Chris Hoy's muscled shadow at his second Olympics and Trott about to experience her first.
"I remember seeing Laura at the velodrome years ago," says Kenny's mother Lorraine.
"I said to my husband, 'Flipping heck, you need to watch this young lady.' She was in the elimination race, only a tiny thing, and she kept sprinting over the top of everyone. She was amazing.
"The first time I knew something was happening between the two of them was when Jason phoned me up and said, 'I'm bringing Trotty home for a bacon butty.'
"I said to him, 'Is she your girlfriend?' 'No, she's just a...

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The government has announced a new £1.5bn fund to help councils pay for the cost of replacing cladding on buildings.
The fund will be available to councils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The government said the fund would be available to councils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The government

The judge leading the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire has written to the prime minister with recommendations for its terms of reference.

Article: Almost 650 ballot papers were sent out across the city in April without the names of the Labour, Green and Yorkshire First candidates.
The EC said it had assessed the officer as not meeting "performance standards" as a result of printing errors.
Hull City Council said it would prevent similar incidents in the future.
Labour's Karl Turner and the Green Party's Sarah Walpole were left off 484 postal ballot packs for the Hull East constituency in the UK parliamentary election.
While Yorkshire First's Colin Worrall, who stood in the Bransholme West Ward, was omitted from 164 ballot papers for the local election.
In its report, the EC said: "...Although the errors did not affect the outcome of the election, this could have resulted in those voters concerned not having the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice.
"In addition, the errors could have affected the confidence of those standing for election in the management of the process and the result."
In a statement, the authority said the ballot papers were incorrectly cut by an external printing company and the firm had now put measures in place to "prevent such an episode occurring in the future".
"The council acted immediately on both occasions when problems with the ballot papers were identified.
"We have put our own steps in place with Presiding Officers and Inspectors to identify and prevent any similar incidents occurring in future elections."

Summary: A returning officer for the 2015 general and local elections in Hull did not meet the Electoral Commission's (EC) standards, the watchdog has said.
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Article: The legislation aims to deal with the hundreds of drivers said to be misusing blue badges, by giving councils powers to confiscate and cancel them.
The Disabled Persons' Parking Badges Bill was brought forward by SNP MSP Dennis Robertson, who is blind.
He said abuse of the system was a growing problem and had become "unacceptable".
There are 245,000 legitimate blue badge holders in Scotland, and Holyrood's local government committee said misuse of the blue badge scheme was having a "major impact" on the lives of people who rely on disabled parking spaces.
In addition, research by agency Transport Scotland said 83% of legitimate badge holders had encountered misuse.
Misuse of a blue badge is already an offence, but enforcement powers currently lie with the police.
The legislation will come into force next year.

Summary: New laws to crack down on drivers who abuse disabled parking have been passed by the Scottish Parliament.
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Article: The party wants a central body to take control of the creation of money, which would require a major overhaul of the financial system.
You may be surprised to hear there is not already such a body.
There are two common misconceptions about how money currently works:
Neither of these is quite true.
The vast majority of money is created by private-sector banks - not the Bank of England.
Positive Money, a group that argues for reforming the monetary system, says 97% of money is created by banks.
Each time a bank makes a loan, it essentially creates money.
And it is basically up to banks to decide how many loans they create.
Money then disappears when the loans are paid back.
So the Bank of England actually does not have much control over how much money there is circulating around the UK economy.
Also, a bank's ability to lend is not really restricted by the amount of money held in its vaults.
Textbooks often refer to the reserve ratio, which says that for every loan a bank makes, the lender should set aside some cash, which it cannot lend out to other people.
This would require banks to actually remove money from circulation and keep it locked away in their vaults or the electronic equivalent.
But this has never really happened in the UK.
Instead, there is financial regulation governing how banks manage their balance sheets.
Banks need to maintain a buffer to cover losses arising from when borrowers default on their loans.
The size of the buffer depends partly on the riskiness of the banks' assets.
Under this system, the more profit a bank makes, the more it can afford to lend - even while maintaining a cash buffer.
These rules might restrict the amount banks lend when the economy is doing badly, but they do not affect how much banks can lend when the economy is doing well.
Advocates of reform say the fact the current system leaves it up to banks to decide how much money is in the system is problematic.
Too much money can lead to financial over-exuberance and pump up asset bubbles, while too little money can...

Summary: Buried half-way through the Green Party's manifesto is a pretty radical suggestion that could fundamentally change how money works.
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Article: Sir Martin Moore-Bick sent the letter late on Thursday following weeks of discussion with survivors.
There has been controversy over Sir Martin's suitability for the role and the areas the inquiry will cover.
The prime minister will set out the terms of reference for the process in the coming weeks.
Downing Street said: "The prime minister has received the letter and will consider it and respond shortly."
How far the inquiry can go has been a source of controversy since the Sir Martin's appointment was announced.
He angered survivors on his first day in the job by indicating the investigation would be "pretty well limited" to examining the cause of the fire, how it spread and how to prevent future incidents.
But he later vowed to consider a "broad range of evidence" which could include why residents' warnings about fire safety were allegedly ignored by authorities.
Survivors, bereaved families and other involved parties spent weeks making their case about what questions the inquiry should answer.
More than 400 submissions were received during the consultation period.
The "Justice 4 Grenfell" campaign said earlier this month it wanted an examination of local and national social housing policy and whether it "increased risks to residents".
Questions were raised in the aftermath of the disaster about the cladding used on Grenfell and other buildings. More than 100 buildings have failed the latest fire safety tests set in the wake of the fire.
Sir Martin has previously faced calls to resign from residents, while Labour MP David Lammy said he was a "white, upper-middle class man" who had "never" visited a tower block housing estate and should not have been appointed.
The inquiry is due to start in September. Sir Martin has previously said an interim report could be produced within a year.
The prime minister will set out the terms of reference for the process in the coming weeks.

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The Scottish government has said it is "working closely" with the Arches management to find a solution to the closure of the venue.
The Scottish government has said it is "working closely" with the Arches management to find a solution to the closure of the venue.
The Scottish government has said it is "

The Scottish government has said it will examine what it can do to help safeguard the future of Glasgow's troubled Arches arts venue.

Article: Shadow chancellor Ed Balls told the BBC that the government was "foot-dragging" on the issue.
Labour is proposing that the sold-off branches should be used to create "challenger" banks, to increase lending and competition within the sector.
But the government said it was already working to reform finance.
The coalition says it is committed to creating challenger banks, to compete with the "big five" of Barclays, Lloyds, HSBC, RBS and Santander.
Labour believes there should be a minimum of two challengers in place by 2015, meaning more than 1,000 branches would need to be sold off by the existing large banks to create seven sizeable lenders in the UK.
The government replied that it was already facilitating the creation of two challenger banks, in the shape of Co-operative Bank and Virgin Money, with a source telling the BBC: "Labour is simply demanding what we've already done."
The Mail on Sunday suggests that, in a speech on Monday, Labour leader Ed Miliband will say the "big five" of Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, RBS and HBOS should divest of hundreds branches to enable the privately run challenger banks to emerge.
Mr Balls said: "The government and [Business Secretary] Vince Cable are foot-dragging on the floor."
But Mr Cable told the Andrew Marr Show the government was already acting to reform banking, adding: "I want to see more competition. It's a good idea and it's happening... we are creating a more competitive banking system."
He accused some of the existing banks of not providing enough lending to businesses but concentrating on "short-term trade profits and not focusing on the long-term".
"It's throttling British industry," he added.
An investigation by US and UK regulators into the rigging of inter-bank lending rates has resulted in a record fine for Barclays, with the Serious Fraud Office confirming it has formally launched an investigation.
Mr Balls said this should result in criminal proceedings, telling BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: "The reason why people are so angry is they think when people avoid...

Summary: Labour has demanded that top High Street banks should be forced to sell off hundreds of branches in a "root-and-branch" reform of the industry.
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Article: The 27-year-old met up with the squad on Monday morning as they gathered ahead of their match against England.
Webb made his comeback from injury for Ospreys in mid-February and has not played for Wales since injuring a foot against Italy in September.
He led the team and played 80 minutes in Ospreys' 19-16 defeat by Leinster.
Webb established himself as Wales' first-choice scrum-half ahead of Mike Phillips after crossing for three tries in the 2015 Six Nations Championship.
However, he left the field on a stretcher in Wales' final warm-up game before the World Cup, where his place was taken by Gareth Davies.
The Scarlets number nine has since gone on to score six tries - five of them in the World Cup - and was named man of the match in Wales' 19-10 win against France.
Webb suffered a setback on his return for Ospreys when a clash of heads ruled him out for a week.
But he has looked assured in two matches since, and completed the full game against Leinster.
Both teams are unbeaten in this season's Six Nations, with England on course for a first Grand Slam since 2003 and Wales likely to be tournament favourites if they win at Twickenham.

Summary: Wales have called Ospreys scrum-half Rhys Webb into their Six Nations squad after six months out of international rugby with injury.
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Article: But Asda's regular income tracker found some other parts of the UK saw a faster rise, reflecting a better jobs market.
Real spending power, after accounting for household essentials, has risen for two years, helped by low inflation.
But the growth has slowed up between the second quarter of this year and the third, falling from 9.8% to 6.7%.
The analysis, carried out by the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR), starts with a weekly income for the average household of £740. Various taxes reduce that to take-home pay of £622.
Essential costs include food, housing, utility bills, children's schooling, communications and transport, at a total weekly outlay of £430.
That leaves discretionary spending of £192 for the average UK household to cover leisure, sport, entertainment, eating out, savings, holidays and luxury goods.
For Scotland, that discretionary spending was £190 in the third quarter of this year, up from £178 a year before, and £171 in the same part of 2013.
With UK net incomes up by 3.1% in the past year, prices have been falling. The CEBR reckons mortgage costs are down 1.3% in the year to September, food by 2.3%, vehicle fuels by 14.9%, and household energy by 4.3%.
Commenting on the findings, Asda's chief customer officer Barry Williams said: "Two years of solid growth on discretionary income shows real stability in the economic recovery.
"It's interesting that people continue to spend differently - carrying their savvy shopping habits from the financial crisis with them, and re-prioritising their spending on treats and activities with their families, making the most out of their new-found spare income."

Summary: Household spending power in Scotland has risen by £12 per week to £190 over the past year, according to an analysis of income and prices.
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Article: The Arches announced on Wednesday that it had gone into administration.
Management said they had been left with no choice after a midnight closing time was imposed on its nightclub by the city's licensing board.
The restriction followed police complaints about drug abuse and disorder.
It was said to have cut total revenues at the Arches by more than 50%, making it untenable as a business.
Sandra White, the SNP MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, raised the plight of the venue at First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament, where Deputy First Minister John Swinney was standing in for Nicola Sturgeon during her trip to the US.
Ms White said 130 jobs had been put at risk by the Arches going into administration.
She added: "Aside from the fact that the Arches is one of Glasgow's most cultural venues, this is obviously a very worrying time for the staff facing redundancy.
"Can the deputy first minister assure those affected that the Scottish Government will offer all the support that it can?"
Mr Swinney replied: "Creative Scotland is working hard with the organisation and with other partners to explore options regarding the future of arts programming of this nature in Glasgow.
"Creative Scotland agreed with Glasgow Life and Glasgow City Council to bring forward some of this year's support for the Arches - £92,000 from Creative Scotland and £37,000 from Glasgow City Council - to assist with the delivery of the current arts programme in the short-term.
"I reassure Sandra White that we will look in all ways that we possibly can do to assist in safeguarding the future of what I recognise as a significant cultural venue in the city of Glasgow and a venue that contributes a great deal to the cultural life of Scotland."
Ms White said she was now calling on Glasgow City Council, Police Scotland and the management of the Arches to get round the table and "see what can be done to either reverse the closure or see what can be done to reopen the doors as soon as possible".
The Scottish government has also said staff potentially...

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The Liberal Democrats have lost a "true champion" and a "true champion of the Liberal cause".
"He was a true champion of the Liberal cause, a true champion of the Liberal cause," said Mr Porteous Wood.
"He was a true champion of the Liberal cause, a true champion of the Liberal

The longest-serving Lib Dem peer and veteran human rights campaigner, Lord Avebury, has died at the age of 87.

Article: Predicted grades are an important part of the university application process.
Only 48% of predicted grades were correct for pupils taking the OCR exam board's A-levels in summer 2012, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Almost one in 10 of the wrong forecasts, more than 15,000 entries, were incorrect by more than one grade.
For this one exam board, there were more than 186,000 incorrect forecasts for that summer's A-levels.
These teacher forecasts were gathered by the OCR board in May, a few weeks ahead of the exam season.
As such they should have been more accurate than the January predictions used in the university admissions system.
The findings could re-ignite questions about the fairness of a prediction-based university application system, before pupils know their results.
Although, the exam body says, it means more than 90% of forecasts were correct within a margin of one grade.
The A-level statistics published by Cambridge Assessment, OCR's parent body, show that teachers were much more likely to be over-optimistic about results - with 39% over-predicting, compared with 13% whose predictions turned out to be lower than the actual grades.
Independent school teachers were the most accurate in predicting the right grade, followed by grammar schools, academies, sixth form colleges and comprehensives.
The lowest level of accuracy was for teachers in further education.
Predictions from further education colleges, as the least accurate at both ends of the scale, were both the most likely to be over-optimistic and the most likely to be wrongly pessimistic.
Independent and grammar schools were the toughest in terms of predictions, with the lowest levels of over-optimism.
Teachers were much stronger at predicting the highest grades, A* and A, with more than 60% accuracy. For C-grades, only 47% had been correctly predicted.
But the figures also show that over a range of subjects, when a pupil is forecast three A-grades or better, only 35% of these predictions prove to be correct.
Oxford University said that...

Summary: Most A-level grade predictions made by teachers are incorrect when the final results are published, according to data revealed by an exam body.
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Article: Lance Ferguson-Prayogg, from Liverpool, died from kidney failure two days after the fight in Nottingham in June 2014.
The hearing was told tubs of T5 were found at the 32-year-old's house.
Ruling the death drug-related, assistant coroner Jane Gillespie called the legal but unregulated substances "extremely dangerous".
The inquest at Nottingham Coroners Court heard "white collar" boxing is an unlicensed and unregulated - though not illegal - form of the sport where part-time fighters compete for cash prizes.
Privately hired paramedics who staffed the event said Mr Ferguson-Prayogg seemed fit and well before and during the match.
However, he began to breath erratically as he left the ring and soon collapsed, with paramedics battling to keep him breathing.
After being placed in a coma, he suffered kidney failure and then cardiac arrest.
A pathology report found the rapid acidification of blood from broken down fat, combined with lactic acid from exercise, was the most likely cause.
However, it said it was "impossible to say" whether Mr Ferguson-Prayogg would have died if he had not gone into the ring.
Members of Mr Ferguson-Prayogg's family wept as Ms Gillespie read out her judgement.
She said: "By coincidence, warnings about these kinds of drugs have been in the media recently.
"I cannot emphasise enough how strongly I now add my voice to these sentiments.
"These drugs are easily available on the internet but they are unregulated and extremely dangerous."

Summary: The death of a boxer who collapsed after a "white collar" match was partly caused by a fat burning drug he took, an inquest has concluded.
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Article: The book, The New Harvest, by Harvard University professor Calestous Juma, calls on African leaders to make agricultural expansion central to all decision-making.
Improvements in infrastructure, mechanisation and GM crops could vastly increase production, he claims.
The findings are being presented to African leaders in Tanzania today.
The presidents of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi are holding an informal summit to discuss African food security and climate change.
Speaking to the BBC ahead of the meeting, Professor Juma said African leaders had to recognise that "agriculture and economy for Africa are one and the same".
"It is the responsibility of an African president to modernise the economy and that means essentially starting with the modernisation of agriculture," he said.
Global food production has rocketed in recent decades but has stagnated in many parts of Africa, despite the continent having "abundant" arable land and labour, says Professor Juma.
He estimates that while food production has grown globally by 145% over the past 40 years, African food production has fallen by 10% since 1960, which he attributes to low investment.
While 70% of Africans may be engaged in farming, those who are undernourished on the continent has risen by 100 million to 250 million since 1990, he estimates.
The professor's blueprint calls for the expansion of basic infrastructure, including new road, irrigation and energy schemes.
Farms should be mechanised, storage and processing facilities built, while biotechnology and GM crops should be used where they can bring benefits.
But what was needed above all else was the political will at the highest level.
"You can modernise agriculture in an area by simply building roads, so that you can send in seed and move out produce," he told the BBC.
"The ministers for roads are not interested in connecting rural areas, they are mostly interested in connecting urban areas. It's going to take a president to go in and say I want a link between agricultural transportation...

Summary: A new book claims Africa could feed itself within a generation, and become a major agricultural exporter.
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Article: Born Eric Lubbock, he became Liberal MP for Orpington in 1962 when he won a by-election with a huge 22% swing from the Conservatives.
He held the seat for eight years, moving to the Lords in 1971 when he inherited the title of Baron Avebury.
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron paid tribute to a "true Liberal", "great campaigner" and "committed internationalist".
Lord Avebury: Obituary
Mr Farron  said the peer, who had been suffering from leukaemia, would "be remembered as much for his unyielding commitment to fighting for Liberal causes as his sensational by-election victory".
"He campaigned to lower the voting age, founded the parliamentary human rights group and fought for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, taking up the cases of hundreds of individuals fleeing persecution.
"He was a committed internationalist, regularly promoting human rights around the world. The Liberal Democrats have lost a great campaigner, a great friend and a true champion of the Liberal cause."
A Buddhist, Lord Avebury was the patron of Angulimala, which promotes the teaching and practice of Buddhism in British prisons.
He also campaigned on behalf of secular causes, fighting to remove mandatory daily worship in maintained schools.
In 2009, the National Secular Society named the peer secularist of the year, jointly with Evan Harris, for his work on abolition of blasphemy laws in England and Wales.
His biography on the Lib Dem website says he also "sought and won" a battle with the senior parliamentary official known as Black Rod to keep the right to park bicycles against the front of the Houses of Parliament.
Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, said Lord Avebury had supported countless human rights campaigns.
"His knowledge of foreign affairs, particularly of remote parts of the developing world, was second to none. The weak and oppressed in these places have lost a true champion.
"I have lost a very close friend. The nation has lost a human rights champion."

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The UK's National Audit Office has warned that the government's plans to cut the number of civil servants could lead to a "significant" increase in the number of civil servants being sacked.
The NAO said the government's plans to cut the number of civil servants by 1.5 million by 2015 could lead to a

Whatever plot the US eavesdroppers overheard the top two al-Qaeda leaders discussing clearly rattled the US intelligence community so badly that Washington shut 19 of its diplomatic missions around the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

Article: Sam James, from Salisbury, now 13, entered a competition to design the helmet's artwork two years ago.
It will be worn by Andy Green when he attempts to exceed 1,000mph (1,609km/h) in the Bloodhound SSC next year.
It has been hand painted by the same artist who paints many F1 helmets, including Lewis Hamilton's.
The artwork by Sam was selected from thousands to form the basis for the final design.
Sam and his family met the driver and the team behind the record bid at the technical centre near Bristol where the car is being assembled.
He said it was "really interesting" to see how his design had been used to make an "amazing helmet".
He added: "I thought the colour orange was like fire, and it would be a good way to interpret it.
"They've even included my signature at the back."

Summary: A helmet designed by a schoolboy at the age of 11 is to be worn by the driver of a supersonic car when he attempts to break the land speed record.
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Article: Labour retained majorities in Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead and North and South Tyneside.
In Cumbria, the Liberal Democrats came out on top in South Lakeland again while the Conservatives took control of Eden Valley for the first time.
On Teesside, control of Redcar and Cleveland Council will be decided by a recount on Monday.
Thirty seats are needed for a majority with Labour currently holding 27 and opposition parties a combined 29.
A recount will be held for the Skelton ward, which has three seats.
Elsewhere on Teesside, Labour held Darlington and Hartlepool, and became the biggest party in Stockton where there was previously no party in overall control.
Following a drawn-out count for the post of Middlesbrough's elected mayor, the council had still to declare the results of some wards at 21:45 BST.
It was due to announce the results on its website.
In Cumbria, Labour retained its position as the largest party in Copeland and also held Barrow and Carlisle.
There was no change in Allerdale where no party is in overall control. Labour has 28 of the 56 seats.

Summary: Controlling parties largely stood firm in council elections across the North East and Cumbria.
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Article: He said businesses will have to pay higher wages but will pay lower taxes in return - while  workers will get higher pay but fewer benefits.
This created a "new centre" in British politics and was a "fair deal" for all, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Labour has attacked the Budget for being too hard on the poor and called the National Living Wage a "con".
Budget Calculator: How will the Budget affect you?
The Institute for Fiscal Studies, in its Budget analysis, said Mr Osborne was "plain wrong" to argue that the National Living Wage he announced on Wednesday would compensate for benefit cuts and said it will cost three million families an average of £1,000 a year.
IFS director Paul Johnson told BBC News: "The cuts will be bigger for people in work than they will be for people out of work and in the new universal credit system it will reduce the incentive for people to move in to work."
He also questioned whether another of Mr Osborne's announcements, a four year freeze on public sector pay, was sustainable as it will leave public sector pay at its lowest level compared to private sector pay since records began.
"The tax and welfare changes between them mean that poorer households have lost quite significantly and as a result of yesterday's Budget, much more significantly than anything that has happened to richer households," added Mr Johnson.
Downing Street said the combination of the living wage, higher personal tax allowance and welfare changes meant the typical family with a full time worker on the minimum wage would be better off in 2020.
Mr Osborne unveiled the National Living Wage in a surprise announcement at the end of his Budget speech on Wednesday. Paid to over-25s, it will start at £7.20 and rise to £9 an hour by 2020.
But a £4.5bn cut to tax credits, part of a £12bn package of welfare cuts announced on Wednesday, will kick in next April, leading Labour to accuse Mr Osborne of "pulling the rug from under" many poor families.
Shadow Chancellor Chris Leslie said: "Don't underestimate how...

Summary: Chancellor George Osborne has rejected criticism of his Budget insisting it offers the country a "new contract".
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Article: In the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, where the threat of attack is considered greatest, the UK, France and Germany have also shut their embassies.
The British embassy has emptied completely, with all remaining British staff leaving the country on Tuesday, while the US air force flew out American personnel.
So just what is it about al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen that triggers such warning bells in Washington?
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen, is not the biggest offshoot of the late Osama Bin Laden's organisation, nor is it necessarily the most active - there are other, noisier jihadist cells sprawled across Syria and Iraq, engaged in almost daily conflict with fellow Muslims.
But Washington considers AQAP to be by far the most dangerous to the West because it has both technical skills and global reach.
Plus it is loyal to the nominal al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and what remains of the group's core leadership hiding in Pakistan.
For the West, AQAP presents three dangers:
AQAP has form. In August 2009, its master bomb-maker Ibrahim al-Asiri, a Saudi national, built an explosive device so hard to detect it was either packed flat next to the wearer's groin or perhaps even concealed inside his body.
He then sent his brother Abdullah, a willing volunteer, as a human bomb to blow up the Saudi prince in charge of counter-terrorism. He very nearly succeeded.
Pretending he wanted to give himself up, Abdullah al-Asiri fooled Saudi security into letting him get right next to Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef before the device was detonated, possibly remotely by mobile phone.
The blast blew the bomber in half, but with most of the explosive force directed downwards, the prince had a miraculous escape with only a damaged hand. AQAP boasted that it would try again and it did.
In December 2009, Ibrahim al-Asiri devised another device to put on a volunteer, this time a young Nigerian called Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
He was able to fly all the way from Europe to Detroit with a viable explosive device...

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The building in Hammersmith's Margravine Cemetery, London created in 1869, has been given Grade II listing.
The building in Hammersmith's Margravine Cemetery, London created in 1869, has been given Grade II listing.
The building in Hammersmith's Margravine Cemetery,

A cemetery's unique Victorian reception house which stored coffins to stop poor people keeping bodies in their homes, has been given protected status.

Article: The animal rescue centre took in the rabbit, named Atlas, when his original owner could no longer look after him.
But Atlas is no ordinary rabbit - even though he's still young, he's already the size of a small dog, and could grow even bigger.
Hundreds of people applied to look after the giant bunny. There were even offers from America, Canada and France.
Anna O'Donnell, manager of the Scottish SPCA's rescue centre in Glasgow, said:
"It was great there was so much interest in Atlas but we decided to find him a home here in Scotland to avoid a long journey as rabbits are very susceptible to stress."
Atlas's new owner, from North Ayrshire in Scotland, has lots of experience looking after rabbits.
She said: "Animals are just pets to some people but my rabbits are family members."

Summary: A giant rabbit who became famous after an appeal by the Scottish SPCA has found a new home.
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Article: Tesco sells about 700 million single-use carrier bags a year, the highest among the major supermarkets, but sales will end in stores on 28 August.
The supermarket said the decision followed a trial which led to a 25% cut in bag sales.
Charges for plastic bags have been in place in the UK since October 2015.
In 2011, Wales started charging 5p per bag and saw a 71% drop in the number used by customers. Northern Ireland introduced charges in 2013, followed by Scotland in 2014. England was the last country in the UK to charge, recording an 83% drop in use.
Tesco conducted a 10-week trial in Aberdeen, Dundee and Norwich in May. Plastic, single-use bags were withdrawn leaving shoppers with the choice of bringing their own or buying a "bag for life".
That will now be a permanent move at stores across the UK. The more expensive bags are made from 94% recycled plastic and will be exchanged without charge when damaged, the supermarket says.
Online shoppers can still opt to receive their deliveries in single-use carrier bags after store sales end, Tesco says, although just over half already choose a bagless delivery.
Sales of the more expensive "bags for life" fund grants for community projects - similar to other supermarkets' charity donations following the introduction of plastic bag charging.
Tesco said that its scheme had paid Â£33m to more than 6,400 groups.
Matt Davies, UK and Irish Republic chief executive at Tesco, said: "The number of bags being bought by our customers has already reduced dramatically. [This] move will help our customers use even fewer bags but ensure that those sold in our stores continue to fund thousands of community projects across the country chosen by customers."
Sainsbury's scrapped single-use bags from stores when carrier bag charges were introduced.
Louise Edge, senior campaigner at Greenpeace UK, said: "It is great to see major retailers moving away from disposable plastic. For too long we've seen plastic as something to be used once and thrown away. But there is no such place as...

Summary: Tesco will stop the sale of 5p carrier bags across the UK in three weeks' time, and will instead offer 10p "bags for life" to shoppers.
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Article: The daredevil skydiver and helicopter pilot has made a career out of pushing the boundaries of human flight, always seeking to go faster, higher, further.
Born in Salzburg, Austria, in 1969, he began skydiving when he was 16, polishing his aero-acrobatic skills in the Austrian military's demonstration and competition team.
In the 1990s, he moved from traditional skydiving to Base jumping, leaping off fixed objects and using a parachute to break the fall. The acronym stands for the categories of fixed objects aficionados can jump from: buildings, antennas, spans (bridges) and earth (cliffs, mountains).
There followed a series of high-profile jumps off very famous - and often very dangerous - landmarks.
In 1999, he set the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the Petronas Towers in Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia.
The twin skyscrapers were the tallest buildings in the world at the time, only overtaken by the Taipei 101 in 2004. Naturally, in 2007, he also jumped off the Taipei 101.
For his next stunt, he went to the opposite end of the scale, completing the world's lowest ever base jump from the 30m-high arm of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.
At the time, the organiser of that jump, Stefan Aufschnaiter, described Baumgartner as "the craziest base jumper in the world".
"Normally, you need 50m or 60m. It's extremely dangerous," he said.
Having survived that leap, placing flowers on the statue's shoulder first as a sign of respect, he went on to become the first person to literally fly across the English Channel in 2003.
Using a pair of specially-made carbon fibre wings, Baumgartner leapt from a plane above Dover, landing 22 miles (35km) away in Cap Blanc-Nez near Calais just 14 minutes later.
"You're totally alone, there's just you, your equipment, your wing - and your skills. I like it," he said.
The former mechanic goes through a rigorous training programme before all his flights, which are sponsored by Red Bull. For the Channel glide, he strapped himself to...

Summary: Felix Baumgartner has made history by breaking the world record for the highest-ever skydive, jumping from a balloon more than 39km (128,000 ft) up in the stratosphere.
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Article: The building in Hammersmith's Margravine Cemetery, London created in 1869, has been given Grade II listing.
Families unable to immediately pay for a burial previously used to keep dead relatives in their homes, contributing to cholera outbreaks in the city.
Historic England said the store was "ghoulish and absolutely fascinating".
Director of listing Roger Bowdler said many had to keep their relatives' bodies in their small cramped homes during the early 1800s, "so you've got the living cheek-by-jowl with the dead".
The small octagonal building used for holding the dead before funerals, was an example of the facilities proposed by Edwin Chadwick, secretary to the Poor Law Commission, who led a review of sanitary conditions.
The store also addressed people's fears that their relatives would be buried before they had actually died.
The use of reception houses was phased out with the introduction of undertakers in the 1880s and the building is the sole survivor of its kind in the capital, according to Historic England.
Heritage minister Tracey Crouch said the building was "an important part of London's history" as it "gives us a glimpse into how cholera outbreaks changed Victorian attitudes to burials and public health."
Receiving the listing could help secure funding for any conservation work on the reception house.

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The Â£622,000 construction project will see the superstructure of the existing bridge replaced.
The Â£622,000 construction project will see the superstructure of the existing bridge replaced.
The bridge is expected to be closed to traffic for six weeks while the work is carried out.

A time capsule containing items from the 1890s including what is thought to be a bottle of whisky has been uncovered by construction workers.

Article: When asked by BBC reporter Colin Paterson whether video games should be an Olympic sport, Rob Pardo told BBC Radio 5 Live: "There's a very good argument for e-sports being in the Olympics."
Mr Pardo said: "Video games are well positioned to be a spectator sport."
Some video game events already attract thousands of spectators.
A recent video game tournament held in South Korea filled a stadium with 40,000 people.
He said: "Look at these professional gamers - [their] reflexes are lightning quick and they're having to make very quick decisions on the fly."
But he also said people would need convincing that video games can count as a sport.
Mr Pardo said: "If you want to define sport as something that takes a lot of physical exertion, then it's hard to argue that video games should be a sport."
"But at the same time, when I'm looking at things that are already in the Olympics, I start questioning the definition," he added.
For e-sports to appear at the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee would first have to recognise video games as a sport, which is highly unlikely.
Board game fans have previously called for chess to be an Olympic sport, but the IOC said it is a "mind sport" and therefore not welcome in the Olympic Games.

Summary: Competitive video gaming - known as e-sports - should be included in the Olympic Games, according to a top video game designer.
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Article: In a report, net firm Akamai said in the last 10 months it had seen 141 attacks on its customers by the group.
The gang, called DD4BC, threatens to swamp servers with data unless a ransom of up to 50 bitcoins (Â£8,000) is paid.
The attacks mounted by the gang can flood sites with more than 56 gigabits of data a second, it said.
DD4BC had been active since September 2014, said Akamai in a report about the group, but had recently stepped up its attacks against net-based businesses.
"The latest attacks - focused primarily on the financial service industry - involved new strategies and tactics intended to harass, extort and ultimately embarrass the victim publically," said Stuart Scholly, manager of Akamai's security division, in a statement.
Mr Scholly said that as well as threatening to knock companies offline, DD4BC said it would also post messages on social networks to shame firms if they did not pay up.
DD4BC had a substantial network of computers to call on to mount its attacks, said Akamai, and was capable of rapidly increasing the amount of data being directed at a site to overwhelm it.
The group's main tactic is to use what are known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks which, on average, were able to pipe about 13.3 gigabits of data every second (gbps) towards victims. The average connection that most firms have to the net can run at a speed of about 10gbps, said Akamai, so such an attack would completely overwhelm that link.
The largest attacks seen by Akamai involved more than 56.2 gigabits of data per second - far more than most companies could cope with.
In emails sent to targets, DD4BC claimed to have the ability to direct about 500 gigabits of data at victims but Akamai said it had seen no attacks of this magnitude.
Analysis of the attacks DD4BC had carried out showed it was using 10 separate methods of generating DDoS data floods. One method exploited weaknesses in the WordPress blogging tool to bounce data at targets.
The payments demanded by the group ranged from 25 to 50 bitcoins....

Summary: Banks, media groups and gaming firms are being hit with extortion demands by a cyber gang who threaten to knock them offline unless they pay up.
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Article: The Â£58m facility will house the university's School of Computing Science, with 1,500 staff and students.
It is the latest addition to the Â£250m Science Central project - a partnership between academia, the public sector, business and industry.
The site, a former colliery, was the home of Newcastle Brown Ale, until production moved to Gateshead in 2005.
Professor John Fitzgerald, a lead member of the university's Science Central team, said: "This is a significant step in the design and development of the Urban Sciences Building and gives us an opportunity to make the plans more widely available to staff, students, our key partners in business and industry and the public.
"The vision for the Science Central site is urban sustainability underpinned by digital technology and the School of Computing Science will be central to that plan."

Summary: Plans for an "urban sciences" building on the site of a former brewery in Newcastle have been unveiled.
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Article: The capsule, a metal box about the size of a shoe box, was discovered buried deep inside part of Ruthven road bridge near Kingussie in the Cairngorms.
In the box was a folded newspaper from September 1894, a paper scroll and the bottle.
The items have been donated to a museum in nearby Newtonmore.
Workers from construction and infrastructure company Morgan Sindall uncovered the capsule during work to replace the bridge under a contract from Highland Council.
Robert Ogg, of Morgan Sindall, said: "It is fascinating to think these items have been sitting in the bridge's structure for 121 years.
"The changes which have occurred since it was placed there are extraordinary. If you think that the bridge was being used by horses back then, it gives you a sense of the time which has passed."
He added: "We have actually been working with Kingussie Primary School to create our own time capsule which we hope will last as long."
The Highland Folk Museum has taken the 1800s artefacts.
The single-track road bridge spans the River Spey and links the B970 to Kingussie and the trunk road network.
The Â£622,000 construction project will see the superstructure of the existing bridge replaced.
However, the stone masonry abutments and piers will be retained and repaired where necessary.
Work on the bridge is expected to be completed later this year.

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A German scientist has revealed a major new discovery about one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous paintings, shedding new light on his techniques.
The painting, The Lady with an Ermine, is a portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, a young woman in the Milanese court who was mistress to Ludovico

An employee of the German intelligence agency (BfV) has been arrested after making Islamist statements and sharing agency material, German media report.

Article: Margie Carranza and her mother Emma Hernandez were delivering newspapers early on 7 February when officers fired about 100 bullets into their car.
Ms Hernandez was shot in the back and Ms Carranza sustained minor injuries.
Christopher Dorner is believed to have killed three people in California before dying in a shootout with police.
The ex-Navy reservist died in a gunfight at a mountain cabin near the Big Bear Lake ski resort, after a massive manhunt across southern California.
Los Angeles police were looking for Dorner when they misidentified the vehicle the women were driving and opened fire.
A lawyer representing Los Angeles said a "fair and swift" settlement had been reached, which was a "win-win" for both parties.
"In reaching the settlement we hope that Margie and Emma will be able to move on with their lives," lawyer Carmen Trutanich said, adding, "The city will be spared literally millions of dollars in litigation fees."
The two women will split the settlement, taking $2.1m each.
Glen Jonas, the lawyer representing the women, said his clients would accept the payment after the end of the current fiscal year on 30 June, to help ease the city's financial troubles.
He added the police and other city leaders were consulted throughout the negotiation process.
"The LAPD, the chief, were consulted at every step of the way," Mr Jonas said. "We weren't going to have an agreement unless the city leaders - all of them - thought that it was a fair agreement for everyone involved."
Dorner's killing spree began on 3 February when he shot dead the daughter of a former police captain who represented him at a police disciplinary board, and her fiance.
Police say he then shot and killed a Riverside policeman in an ambush on 7 February.
In an online manifesto, Dorner, who was black, suggested that racism was still rife in the LAPD.
It was an unwelcome allegation for a department that overhauled itself after the notorious police beating in 1991 of a black man, Rodney King.
During the manhunt police guarded about 50...

Summary: The city of Los Angeles will pay $4.2m (£2.8m) to two women shot by police as they searched for an ex-policeman on a murder spree.
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Article: Known as the Eemian, this time period extended from roughly 129,000 years ago to about 116,000 years before present.
The poles were known to have been a few degrees warmer than they are today.
But by pulling together more than 40 ice core and marine sediment records, researchers, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), have obtained the most comprehensive assessment yet.
It confirms that the Antarctic emerged from Ice Age conditions first. The Northern Hemisphere followed.
"Interglacial conditions, warm conditions, were in place earlier in the Southern Hemisphere than in the Northern Hemisphere," explained Dr Emilie Capron from BAS.
"Eventually, the Northern Hemisphere catches up and then both poles are warmer than they are today.
"It's something we knew looking at a few records, but now we have more records showing exactly the same pattern," she told BBC News.
The researcher was speaking here in Vienna at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly.
The data synthesis has been completed as part of the UK iGlass programme and the Past4Future project - initiatives that seek clues about what will happen to the Earth's climate in the decades ahead from an understanding of its past behaviour.
Scientists will now use the information to test their computer models.
If their simulations can reproduce the variation in temperatures across the land and ocean surfaces during the Eemian there will be greater confidence in the models as they look forward in time.
This has already been done for one model, "and its simulations are on the right track," confirms Dr Capron.
For her analysis, the BAS researcher combined five ice cores and 39 marine sediment records.
These can be used to infer past temperatures.
Fore example, by studying the ratio of light to heavy molecules of water in the layers of the ice cores,  it is possible to gauge the likely precipitation conditions, and therefore the prevailing temperatures, during the ancient snowfalls on Antarctica and Greenland.
And something similar can be done using the mud...

Summary: Scientists now have a fuller picture of what happened at the poles during the last warm phase on Earth.
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Article: Engineer Pascal Cotte has spent three years using reflective light technology to analyse The Lady with an Ermine.
Until now, it was thought the 500-year-old painting had always included the ceremonial animal.
Mr Cotte has shown the artist painted one portrait without the ermine and two with different versions of the fur.
Leonardo experts have described the new findings as "thrilling" and said the discovery raises new questions about the painting's history.
The Lady with an Ermine is a portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, a young woman in the Milanese court who was mistress to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan.
It is believed to have been painted between 1489 and 1490.
The Duke was Leonardo's main patron during his 18 years in the city, and he was nicknamed "the white ermine".
Mr Cotte, who is a co-founder of Lumiere Technology in Paris, has pioneered a new technique called Layer Amplification Method (LAM).
It works by projecting a series of intense lights on to the painting.  A camera then takes measurements of the lights' reflections and from those measurements, Mr Cotte is then able to analyse and reconstruct what has happened between the layers of the paint.
Following the discovery, new theories have now been applied to the well-known portrait, including a suggestion the artist may have introduced the ermine into the painting to symbolise Gallerani's lover, later enhancing the animal to flatter his patron.
Another theory is that Gallerani asked the artist to add the animal into the painting, so that the Milanese court was made fully aware of her relationship with the Duke.
Mr Cotte said: "The LAM technique gives us the capability to peel the painting like an onion, removing the surface to see what's happening inside and behind the different layers of paint.
"We've discovered that Leonardo is always changing his mind. This is someone who hesitates - he erases things, he adds things, he changes his mind again and again."
Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford, said: ...

Summary: A French scientist has revealed a major new discovery about one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous paintings, shedding new light on his techniques.
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Article: A BfV spokesman did not confirm a report in Die Welt newspaper that the man was suspected of planning a bomb attack on the BfV's Cologne office, Reuters news agency said.
"There is no evidence to date that there is a concrete danger," he added.
The man is reported to be of Spanish origin and a convert to Islam.
The BfV said the suspect, who now has German citizenship, had previously "behaved inconspicuously".
"The man is accused of making Islamist statements on the Internet using a false name and of revealing internal agency material in Internet chatrooms," the spokesman added.
Die Welt also reported that the man was caught by an agency informant, with the pair having online conversations about a possible attack.
BfV did not confirm which part of the intelligence agency the accused worked in, though German news magazine Der Spiegel said the man was recently hired to observe the Islamist situation in Germany.
It also reported that the man's family had no knowledge of his conversion, which the publication said took place in 2014.
The BfV - the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution - is Germany's domestic intelligence agency. Its counterpart, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), deals with foreign intelligence.
There are an estimated 40,000 Islamists in Germany, including 9,200 ultra-conservative Islamists known as Salafists, the head of the BfV told Reuters news agency earlier in November.

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A coroner has said he will reflect carefully on whether a soldier who fired a rubber bullet that killed a boy is too ill to give evidence.

Article: Foxconn said it had received new information from Sharp which needed to be clarified.
The news came hours after the announcement that the $4.3bn (£3.08bn) deal had been agreed.
Foxconn assembles most of the world's iPhones. Sharp is one of Japan's oldest technology firms.
Foxconn Technology Group said that Sharp had couriered over "new material information" to the management.
The Taiwanese company said in a statement: ``We will have to postpone any signing of a definitive agreement until we have arrived at a satisfactory understanding and resolution of the situation,''
If the deal goes ahead, it would be the first foreign takeover of a major Japanese electronics firm in a historically insular technology sector.
Japanese officials had been reluctant to let Sharp fall under foreign ownership because of the distinctive technology behind its display panels.
Before the announcement of a deal with Foxconn, Sharp had been discussing a rival offer from a Japanese government-backed consortium of Japanese investors.
Founded in 1912, innovations by Sharp include a mechanical pencil in 1915 and pioneering developments in television engineering.
Although recent years have seen a downturn in its fortunes with heavy debts, the firm continued to be a leader in liquid display technology, a key asset for Foxconn.
The takeover plan involves Sharp, which employs more than 50,000 globally, issuing new shares to Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, which trades under the Foxconn name.
Sharp's shares were halted from trading ahead the announcement. They later reopened and closed down by nearly 15%.
Technology specialists said the two companies were a logical fit.
"Sharp is strong in research and development, while Hon Hai knows how to market products to customers such as Apple, and it also has expertise in production. Together they can go global,"   Yukihiko Nakata, a technology professor and former Sharp engineer told AFP news agency.
What's behind the takeover? - Karishma Vaswani, Asia Business Correspondent
Trying to save one of...

Summary: A deal to take over Japanese electronics giant Sharp by Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn, has been thrown into question by a last minute delay.
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Article: But the Plaid leader refused to be drawn on whether she would work with Labour in coalition.
The two parties ran a government together in Cardiff Bay between 2007 and 2011.
At the general election, Plaid said it wanted to work with a UK Labour government to keep David Cameron out of Downing Street.
But looking to ahead to next May's assembly election, Ms Wood said: "It's a straight fight in many people's minds between Plaid Cymru and Labour.
"People need to ask themselves who is going to be the next first minister of Wales and they have got a choice between the existing first minister or myself as the first minister candidate for Plaid Cymru - it's as simple as that really."
Her party will go into the election as the third largest in the assembly behind Labour and the Conservatives.
But speaking to BBC Wales' Sunday Politics programme, she said the Tories - who she has ruled out working with - were "not relevant" in the assembly.
A Conservative party spokesman responded by saying Leanne Wood was the only person in Wales who believed this, adding: "In reality, most voters know that a vote for Plaid Cymru is a vote for Labour."
He added that "despite general election coverage beyond their wildest dreams", Plaid had failed to make an impression outside the seats they already held.
"Voters seeking respite from 17 painful years of Labour dominance will be looking to Andrew RT Davies and the Welsh Conservatives to deliver a new Wales, and we will be taking that positive message to the doorsteps between now and May 2016," he said.
Plaid failed to add to its tally of three parliamentary seats at the general election.
The party's campaign was criticised by one of its most prominent AMs, former Plaid leader Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas.
His comments have angered some in the party and Ms Wood confirmed Plaid's national executive is talking to his local party about whether to take action against him.
Asked whether that could mean he does not stand again for Plaid in the Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency, she said she was "not...

Summary: Next year's assembly election will be a "straight fight" between Labour and Plaid Cymru, according to Leanne Wood.
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Article: In a televised interview, Mr Hollande acknowledged he had made mistakes since taking office in 2012 but vowed to go "to the end" to reform the economy.
The BBC's Lucy Williamson in Paris says the interview is widely seen as an attempt by Mr Hollande to revive his flagging popularity.
Earlier on Thursday, a new poll put the president's approval rating at 12%.
Unemployment in France is currently at 11% and economic growth has all but ground to a halt.
With Mr Hollande's popularity at an all-time low, the far-right Front National led by Marine Le Pen has been making steady gains.
"I've got a thick skin. For two-and-a-half years I've been hanging on," said Mr Hollande.
"I have made mistakes. Who hasn't?"
The BBC's Lucy Williamson in Paris writes:
Bruised by personal scandal, with his popularity sunk to 12% and a rebellion growing within his party, this was a key moment for Mr Hollande to reclaim some support.
At times nervous, frequently interrupting his challengers, he fielded questions from voters about his personal life, rising unemployment and France's business environment.  He had some tough debates, and announced some small initiatives to help those seeking work, but this felt more like an endurance test than a magic bullet.
The stakes, though, were high.  France is beset by rising unemployment and high levels of debt, and Mr Hollande's reforms have yet to bear fruit.
"I am not deaf. I hear the anger. I see the dissatisfaction, and I have to go faster," he said.
Having been elected on a promise to boost employment, Mr Hollande admitted that jobs had not materialised and staked his political future on turning the situation around.
Referring to his failed promise to "invert the trend" of unemployment, he said: "Do you think I can say to the French people, 'I didn't manage it for five years, but I promise I'll do it in the next five?' It doesn't work like that.
"If I don't manage it before the end of my term, do you think I will go before the French people in 2017? The French people would be unyielding and...

Summary: French President Francois Hollande has said he will not seek re-election in 2017 if he fails to cut unemployment.
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Article: Coroner Jim Kitson said the inquest into the death of 11-year-old Francis Rowntree in 1972 would be "severely hampered" if he could not attend.
He said the man's heart condition had to be a factor when deciding whether to compel him to give evidence.
The coroner told the preliminary hearing it was a "fine balancing act".
Francis was playing with friends at the Divis Flats complex off the Falls Road in west Belfast in April 1972 when he was struck on the head by the rubber bullet. He died in hospital several days later.
Controversy surrounds the shooting, with disputed claims about whether the young boy was struck directly or hit by a ricochet, and if the bullet had been doctored to make it potentially cause more injury.
The former Royal Anglian Regiment member who fired the rubber bullet is known to the court as soldier B.
A barrister for the Ministry of Defence told the hearing that soldier B's consultant cardiologist had expressed "significant reservations" about his fitness to attend, in a report produced for the coroner's court.
"It appears on the face of it to be quite a severe condition involving multiple medical interventions over the years," the lawyer said.
He added: "The likelihood of a heart attack or death would be small but not zero.
"There is a significant risk to the health of this man to compel him to give evidence."
A barrister representing the Rowntree family said a number of steps could be taken to make the witness feel at ease.
She suggested the former soldier could give evidence via video-link; there could be regular breaks in the hearing; medical assistance could be on standby and the court could be partially cleared.
She told the coroner: "You know the gravity of the case and you know he's essentially the key witness and very important to the case."
Mr Kitson said: "This is a key witness and clearly the inquest would be severely hampered if this witness is not in attendance, but I'm acutely aware of the impact on this man's health.
"It's a fine balancing act between the two prerogatives...

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The University of Glasgow has announced a new £1.5m fund to support the development of new research projects.
The fund will be used to support the development of new research projects, including those that have the potential to make a significant impact on the lives of people in Scotland.
The fund will be managed by

A charity has donated £500,000 to help Glasgow School of Art (GSA) expand its Garnethill campus and repair the fire-damaged Mackintosh building.

Article: A House of Lords committee said the interventions have led to an opaque, complicated and uncompetitive market.
The peers blame "poorly designed government interventions in pursuit of decarbonisation" that they say have put pressure on energy supply and bills.
The government said its priority was ensuring secure, affordable energy.
In recent years policy has been focused on the so-called "energy trilema" of delivering security of supply at an affordable cost to consumers while meeting our climate change goals.
However, the report states energy security should be the priority and that low-carbon policies have contributed to higher bills for households and businesses, leading some energy-intensive firms to relocate abroad.
"It's a very high price that is being paid," says Lord Hollick, who chairs the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee.
He points out that green levies, which account for around 10% of energy bills, are set to soar: "Those renewable costs are estimated to go up to nearly 25% by the mid 2020s."
The committee says decarbonisation should be achieved at the lowest cost to consumers with targets managed flexibly.
"The government should vary the pace of emissions reductions rather than adhere to a linear approach", the report says.
It suggests that this may mean waiting for the development of technology that can reduce emissions.
"We are not in any way saying we should take the foot off renewables," says Lord Hollick.
"In fact we're saying we should put more effort into the R&D for renewables and deploy more renewables and make the UK at the leading edge of innovation for renewables and other means of managing demand like storage."
The report is particularly scathing of the recent agreement between the government and EDF for a new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
That guaranteed EDF will be paid Â£92.50 per megawatt hour, inflation linked for 35 years, for the energy the plant will provide.
"We thought that it was extraordinarily expensive," says Lord Hollick. "Where is this technology...

Summary: Interventions in the energy market by successive governments have pushed up prices, but not secured supplies, peers found.
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Article: The New York Times has revealed that the former Florida governor identified himself as Hispanic in 2009.
It published a voter registration form where Mr Bush had marked "Hispanic" rather than "White, not Hispanic".
On Twitter Mr Bush came clean, "My mistake! Don't think I've fooled anyone!, after his son called him a "honorary Latino".
The newspaper posted a fuzzy copy of the form, which it said it had obtained from the Miami-Dade County Elections Department.
The Bush camp said it was unclear how the error was made.
"The governor's family certainly got a good laugh out of it," spokeswoman Kristy Campbell said. "He is not Hispanic."
The Republican politician has excellent credentials for his alternative ethnicity. He is a fluent Spanish speaker and his wife, Columba Bush, was born in Mexico. He also spent two years in Venezuela during his early twenties.
Born in Texas, Mr Bush is the brother of former US President George W Bush and son of former President George HW Bush. He is believed to be considering seeking the Republican nomination for president in the 2016 elections.
He is widely seen as a centrist Republican who can appeal to different demographics, hopefully including Hispanic voters.

Summary: Politicians want to appeal to a range of voters but Jeb Bush may have overreached chasing the Hispanic vote.
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Article: Manav Arora, 37, from Birmingham, performed oral sex on the man, who had limited movement, while inserting a catheter.
The married father of three was convicted at a trial at Norwich Crown Court in September.
He was working at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital when the incident happened in September last year.
Arora was also given a sexual harm prevention order prohibiting him from working in any medical capacity with access to patients for 10 years.
The victim, who cannot named to protect his identity, said he was assaulted behind a curtain on a busy hospital ward as five other patients lay nearby.
In sentencing at King's Lynn Crown Court, Judge Guy Ayers said: "There is a high level of trust between doctor and patient and you betrayed that trust.
"The victim was incapable of much physical movement, as he was in great pain, and was in no position to prevent what was happening."
The trial also heard from two men who claim they were assaulted in the same way by Arora at the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, four years earlier.
After the verdict, prosecutor Andrew Shaw said Arora had also been suspended in 2005 after a similar accusation was made at a hospital in Portsmouth.
Indian-born Arora also received a caution from West Midlands Police after being caught engaging in a sex act with another man in Sandwell Valley Park near West Bromwich less than two weeks after the incident in Norwich.
Alan Jenkins, for Arora, said he would be struck off by the General Medical Council, and added it was highly unlikely he would ever work in the medical profession in this country again.

Summary: A locum doctor has been jailed for two years for sexually assaulting a male patient he was treating in hospital.
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Article: The Garfield Weston Foundation made the award to the Mackintosh Campus Appeal, which aims to raise £32m.
The Mackintosh building was badly damaged by fire on 23 May 2014.
Contractors who are restoring the iconic Grade A-listed art nouveau building hope to have completed their work by the end of February 2019.
Philippa Charles, director of the Garfield Weston Foundation, said: "The Garfield Weston Foundation supports organisations and activities that share a commitment to making a positive impact on the lives of the communities in which they work, and that are driven by a desire to achieve excellence.
"The Glasgow School of Art sits at the heart of the Garnethill community and the people of Glasgow hold the Mackintosh building dear.
"We are delighted to be able to support the Mackintosh Campus Appeal which will enable the GSA to bring this iconic building back as part an extended campus and enable the internationally-renowned Glasgow School of Art to recover fully from the impact of the fire."
The art school announced earlier this year plans to purchase the former Stow College building in nearby West Campbell Street for its expanded Garnethill campus.
The aim is to provide additional space to accommodate a 25% increase in student numbers by 2018.
News of the £500,000 donation emerged as the Secretary of State for Scotland, David Mundell, prepared to host an event for the Mackintosh Campus Project at Dover House in London.
Mr Mundell said: "It is a real pleasure to host tonight's fundraising event for the Mackintosh Campus, and to support the rebuilding of an iconic British institution which has produced so many leading architects, designers and artists."
Professor Tom Inns, director of GSA, added: "It is an important opportunity for us to share our ambitious plans for the campus redevelopment, including bringing together all pathways of the School of Fine Art for the first time in many years in a refurbished Stow Building, and to give an update on the restoration of the Mackintosh Building."
After the...

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