A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a man found in a car in Liverpool.
The man, aged in his 20s, was found in a car in the Old Swan area of Liverpool on 27 January.
The man was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The man's next

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of murder over the shooting of a man at a meat market.

Article: They found the encryption system used in many car immobilisers can be cracked, potentially letting a thief steal the car.
Vehicles made by 26 separate car firms including Volkswagen, Porsche and Honda use the "weak" security system.
The researchers first released their findings two years ago but legal action prevented publication.
Security researchers Roel Verdult, Flavio Garcia, and Baris Ege from Radboud University in Holland investigated the encryption system used by the Megamos immobiliser.
This stops a car engine being started if the correct radio chip in a key fob is not close by.
These systems can be fooled with boosters that amplify the signal on the corresponding chip but the researchers took a different approach that tackled the data passing between car keys and the Megamos system.
Eavesdropping on the exchange of data between the car key and crypto system a couple of times gave the trio useful hints about which secret key was being used to scramble the data.
This helped them find which cryptographic key was being used in about 30 minutes. Some car makers were using very weak secret keys that could be found in just a few minutes using a laptop.
In a paper describing their work, the three researchers said it was "trivial" to accomplish the attack on the immobiliser system. The research was completed three years ago but legal action by Volkswagen and French defence group Thales initially prevented publication. The restrictions on publication have now been lifted after the paper was edited.
The BBC has contacted Megamos for a comment but the company has not yet responded.
Fixing the flaws in the cryptographic system overseeing the data exchange will be hard as it involves replacing radio chips in car key fobs and the corresponding hardware in affected vehicles.
The team said it had been talking to car makers about its findings, and measures had been taken to prevent some of the attacks working.
The paper comes after several other security researchers revealed ways to take over in-car computer systems....

Summary: Anti-theft devices found on millions of cars are vulnerable to a "trivial" attack, say security researchers.
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Article: Thomas Baker, known as Tommy, was found badly injured at Stanley Meat Market in the Old Swan area of Liverpool on 27 January.
The 44-year-old, from Everton, had been shot in the head and chest. He died later in hospital.
The three Liverpool men arrested - two aged 29 and the other 32 - remain in police custody for questioning.
Merseyside Police said Mr Baker had left Phoenix Gym at the market shortly before he was shot while getting into his car.
Detectives believe those involved in the shooting had been waiting outside the gym for about an hour.
Det Ch Insp Bev Hyland said officers were still searching for a silver VW polo, which "left the scene at speed" and travelled along a number of roads including Balmoral Road, Molyneux Road and Queens Road.
She added that a number of people captured on CCTV near the meat market had yet to come forward and while "they may not think what they saw would be of any significance, they could have information which is key to our inquiries".

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The Hull 2017 Culture Company has announced a new partnership with the University of Hull.
The university will be the main partner in the organisation's new Hull 2017 Festival, which will run from September to December.
The festival will be a celebration of the city's culture, heritage and creativity.
The university will be the

Hull City of Culture 2017 has raised £32m to produce the year-long festival, according to the charity set up to deliver it.

Article: Nissan's NSC-2015 is only a prototype, but its name suggests the carmaker aims to have it on the market by 2015.
Many car companies have been working on autonomous technology, with a number of driverless cars unveiled in recent months.
But one analyst warned that the mass use of such cars was a long way off.
The NSC-2015 is a modified version of Nissan's Leaf model.
It relies on sensors, cameras, computers and 4G communication technology for wireless links to navigate, and robotics to turn the steering wheel, change gears and brake.
When demonstrated at Ceatec, the car drove itself at about 3mph (5km/h) in a straight line forward and in reverse, and was able to turn.
It was shown that the car could recognise road markings and was able to stop at a crossing.
A Nissan representative also controlled the car from the outside, making it drive towards him as he pressed some buttons on his phone.
"After the driver exits the NSC-2015, it starts to park itself automatically, following the instructions given by smartphone," the company said.
"The vehicle looks for a vacant parking space while identifying its surroundings; once it detects an open parking space automated parking begins.
"The driver can also use smartphone commands to make the NSC-2015 vehicle leave the parking space and return to the place where he or she is.
"While parked, the car's security camera system automatically works with a camera installed in the vehicle. If the system detects suspicious behaviour, the driver is alerted automatically by a report to his or her smartphone."
However, Tooru Futami, engineering director at electronics engineering development division at Nissan, told Forbes that the car was not yet able to self-drive down the street or park itself in any space.
He said the demo version could only self-park in an area equipped with sensors and restricted to other robotic cars to avoid the risk of collision.
Several car manufacturers and other companies such as Google have recently demonstrated driverless vehicles and three US states -...

Summary: An electric car that is able to park itself and come to the driver when "called" has been unveiled at the Ceatec 2012 show in Tokyo.
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Article: The Hull 2017 Culture Company said fundraising had exceeded its public target of £18m, raised with investment from 61 partners.
The full programme of events is to be announced next week.
Martin Green, of Hull 2017, said the money was "a massive vote of confidence" in the city.
The chief executive and director of Hull 2017 said Hull was a "great city" and "the northern powerhouse argument was a good one".
Mr Green admitted his personal target for funding had been about £30m.
He was the man behind the London 2012 Olympic ceremonies, oversaw the torch relays ahead of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 and was the executive producer of the Tour de France's opening ceremony in Leeds.
About £22m will be spent on cultural events and another portion of the money will support events after 2017, the charity said.
More than 2,000 people have already signed up to volunteer during the year and 60,000 school students will take part in some way.

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The UK's economy grew by 0.1% in the second quarter of the year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Friday.
The ONS said the economy grew by 0.1% in the second quarter of the year, compared with the first quarter of the year.
The ONS

From September, girls joining the Brownies and Guides in the UK, will no longer have to pledge their devotion to God.

Article: It predicted that growth would pick up to 1.7% next year, from 1.5% this year.
However, the IMF warned that the region was still "vulnerable to shocks".
This could tip the block into "prolonged stagnation," the fund said in its latest assessment of the region.
It cited uncertainty arising from the situation in Greece as a potential trigger for such a shock, saying that further volatility from the situation could not be ruled out.
Greece is currently negotiating its third bailout with creditors.
"Several factors cloud the outlook for growth over the next five years," said the IMF's Mahmood Pradhan.
"These include high unemployment, especially among the youth; large corporate debt; and rising non-performing loans in the banking system.
"A moderate shock to confidence - whether from lower expected future growth or heightened geopolitical tensions - could tip the block into prolonged stagnation," he said,
Inflation would remain near zero in 2015 and rise to 1.1% in 2016, the IMF predicted.
Earlier this year, the ECB launched a â‚¬60bn-a-month asset-buying programme in an attempt to stimulate the economy and avoid deflation.
The IMF praised the plan, saying it had boosted confidence and improved financial conditions, and suggested that it should remain in place until September 2016, if not longer.
The message from the IMF is that the eurozone has more work to do. And it is not just the obvious calls for reform of the structure of the eurozone and for further work from the countries that have struggled.
There is a call for Germany to do more - not screaming out from the headlines of the report it must be said, but it is there.
The IMF refers to countries with what it calls excessive current account surpluses - which means international trade in goods and services and some financial flows.
It says they should invest more in infrastructure and, less directly, it suggests that they should boost demand.  The report names Germany and the Netherlands as countries where these surpluses are continuing to grow.
These...

Summary: The outlook for the eurozone has improved, says the International Monetary Fund (IMF), thanks to a falling oil price, a weaker euro and action taken by the European Central Bank (ECB).
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Article: Girlguiding UK found they needed a new vow that includes non-religious members and those who follow other faiths.
It has been replaced with a new promise to "be true to myself and develop my beliefs".
The new oath drops the reference to God for the first time since Guides began in 1910.
Brownies and Guides currently vow to "to love my God, to serve my Queen and my country".
I promise that I will do my best
To be true to myself and develop my beliefs
To serve the Queen and my community
To help other people
and
To keep the Guide (Brownie) law
The consultation about the vow was carried out earlier this year and involved nearly 44,000 Girlguiding UK members and non-members.
Chief Guide Gill Slocombe said: "Guiding believes in having one promise that is a clear statement of our core values for all our members to commit to. We hope that our new promise will allow all girls - of all faiths and none - to understand and feel proud of their commitment."

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The discovery of a new species of dinosaur in the US state of New Mexico has been hailed as a "major breakthrough" in the study of the evolution of theropods.
The new species, named Pachyrhinosaurus, is the first new species of dinosaur to be discovered in the state in more than

A study that claims humans reached the Americas 130,000 years ago - much earlier than previously suggested - has run into controversy.

Article: The letters are intended to confirm the accuracy of HMRC's records for the 2.6 million taxpayers who live in Scotland and who will pay the new rate.
Recipients will not need to take any action if the address details HMRC holds for them are correct.
The Scottish Rate of Income Tax comes into effect on 6 April next year.
It will be paid by UK taxpayers who live in Scotland, regardless of where they work, with the rate to be announced by the Scottish government in its draft budget on 16 December.
Those paying the new rate will see their tax code prefixed by an 'S' and their income tax will continue to be collected from pay and pensions in the same way as it is now.
The new system was a recommendation of the Calman Commission and has been devolved under the Scotland Act 2012 along with powers over stamp duty and landfill tax
It will see the UK income tax rate being reduced by 10p in the pound across all bands in Scotland, with the Scottish Parliament then setting its own rate, which could be lower, higher or exactly the same as the rest of the UK.
The first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has already hinted that her government is likely to keep the Scottish rate at the same level as the rest of the UK as any tax rises or cuts would need to be applied across all tax bands.
The Scottish Parliament is to receive greater powers over income tax under the new Scotland Bill proposals which are still going through the UK Parliament and which are expected to come into force in 2018.
The Scotland Bill will hand Holyrood control over income tax rates and bands, which would give the Scottish government greater flexibility to introduce a higher rate of income tax for high earners if it wished to do so.

Summary: Taxpayers in Scotland are to receive a letter from HM Revenue and Customs this week as part of preparations for the new Scottish Rate of Income Tax.
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Article: Humans are thought to have arrived in the New World no earlier than 25,000 years ago, so the find would push back the first evidence of settlement by more than 100,000 years.
The conclusions rest on analysis of animal bones and tools from California.
But many experts contacted by the BBC said they doubted the claims.
Thomas Deméré, Steven Holen and colleagues examined material from the Cerutti Mastodon site near San Diego. The site was originally uncovered in 1992, during highway construction work. Possible stone tools were discovered alongside the smashed up remains of a mastodon (Mammut americanum)- an extinct relative of mammoths and living elephants.
The researchers behind the latest study were unable to carry out radiocarbon dating on the remains, so they used a technique called uranium-thorium dating on several bone fragments, coming up with a date of 130,000 years.
The team members found that some of the bones and teeth bore a characteristic breakage pattern known as spiral fracturing, considered to occur when the bone is fresh. Additionally, some of the bones showed typical signs of being smashed with hard objects.
Rocks found alongside the mastodon remains show signs of wear and being struck against other surfaces, the researchers say. They conclude that these represent hammerstones and anvils - two types of stone tool used by prehistoric cultures around the world.
Dr Deméré, curator of palaeontology at the San Diego Natural History Museum, said the totality of evidence at the site had led team members to the conclusion that "humans were processing [working on or breaking up] mastodon limb bones using hammerstones and anvils and that the processing occurred at the site of burial 130,000 years ago".
Dr Steve Holen, co-director of the Center for American Paleolithic Research in South Dakota, commented: "We have conducted two experiments breaking elephant bones with large rock hammers and anvils. We produced exactly the same kind of fracture patterns as we found on the Cerutti mastodon limb bones."
He...

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A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found dead in a car in Torquay.
Police were called to the scene in the early hours of this morning (Monday, April 8) after reports of a man being found in a car in the town.
A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall

A soldier who was killed while on patrol in Afghanistan has been repatriated to the UK.

Article: Torbay Council has had a mayor and cabinet since 2005, but will now adopt a leader and cabinet from 2019.
The referendum was held after post holders were accused of making wrong decisions and having too much power.
But supporters of the role said it was good to have a single visible figure who was above political infighting.
The turnout for the referendum was 25%, with 15,846 votes placed in favour of a leader and cabinet and 9,511 in favour of the current mayor and cabinet system.
Conservative Gordon Oliver was re-elected as mayor for his second term, which will last four years, in 2015.
Jenny Kumah, BBC Radio Devon's political reporter, said: "The main differences between the two systems is that the mayor is directly elected by residents and has more power to get decisions through.
"Mayors cannot be removed before the end of their four-year term.
"A council leader is chosen by councillors of the winning party after an election, but councillors can vote to remove the leader at anytime."

Summary: An elected mayor and cabinet system will be scrapped after a Devon referendum.
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Article: L/Cpl James Brynin, who served with the 14th Signal Regiment (Electronic Warfare), was shot while on patrol in Helmand Province on 15 October.
The 22-year-old, who was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, joined the Army in February 2011 and entered the Intelligence Corps.
He was repatriated via RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
L/Cpl Brynin worked as an intelligence analyst and had been selected for promotion to corporal when his patrol was attacked in Kakaran, north east of Lashkar Gah.
L/Cpl Brynin, known as Jay, received immediate medical attention but died from his injuries at the scene.
After his initial training, he was posted to 14th Signal Regiment (Electronic Warfare), which is based at Cawdor Barracks in Pembrokeshire, and had already served a tour in Afghanistan in 2012.
He returned to Afghanistan this August as an intelligence analyst working for a light electronic warfare team (LEWT) within the Brigade Reconnaissance Force (BRF) of 7th Armoured Brigade.
In a tribute, L/Cpl Brynin's family said: "Heart of a lion, we will always stand strong for you. We will never forget. Rest in peace."
Lt Col Mark Purves, commanding officer 14th Signal Regiment (Electronic Warfare), said: "Bright and engaging, Lance Corporal Brynin was immensely popular and an outstanding soldier in every respect.
"Having already completed one tour to Afghanistan, his appointment to support the Brigade Reconnaissance Force was indicative of his talent and leadership qualities.
"He was fit, determined and genuinely wanted to make a difference."

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The UK's first ever national school food standards have been published.
The government says the new standards will help children to make healthier choices.
The new standards, which cover the main food groups, are based on the government's Healthy Eating Plan.
The plan was launched in 2010 and aims to help children and young

Meat-eaters "easily cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes", according to a controversial school textbook available in India.

Article: The Boundary Commission for Scotland is consulting on proposals to create three new constituencies.
Fears raised include difficulties for MPs servicing larger constituencies and the break-up of traditional areas.
The commission, whose consultation runs until 11 January, said it recognised "there may be tensions in some areas" over the planned changes.
UK Parliament boundaries are to be changed under plans to reduce the number of MPs from 650 to 600.
No changes are to be made to the boundary of the Western Isles constituency, Na h-Eileanan an Iar.
The three new Highlands constituencies are to be known as Argyll, Bute and Lochaber; Inverness and Skye; and Highland North.
The seat of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey is to be largely absorbed into the new Inverness and Skye. Part of Lochaber would form Argyll, Bute and Lochaber.
Highland North would be the UK's largest-ever constituency, covering Caithness, Sutherland, Wester Ross and Easter Ross.
Highland councillor Audrey Sinclair said it would be difficult for an MP to service such a big area.
She said: "I feel sorry for the constituents because just how often would they see an MP?
"Also, the person who is actually elected would have a very difficult job to make sure that they do cover all the area."
Lyn Kilpatrick, of Kilmallie in Lochaber, said communities and community assets would be lost from the traditional area of Lochaber.
The boundary changes would, for example, see the base of Lochaber Rugby Club inside the new constituency of Inverness and Skye, she said.
She added: "It may seem a marginal issue, but I think it is important. The commission says itself that it tries to retain people's traditional communities and people's sense of who they are and what they belong to for UK parliamentary purposes."
Full reviews of UK Parliament constituencies are carried out every five years and Scottish Parliament boundaries about every 10 years, with interim reviews of selected areas sooner if considered necessary.
Isobel Drummond Murray, of the Boundary...

Summary: Concerns have been raised about the size and layout of planned new Highlands UK Parliament constituencies.
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Article: New Healthway, a book on hygiene and health aimed at 11 and 12 year-olds, is printed by one of India's leading publishers.
Academics have urged the government to exercise greater control.
But the authorities say schools should monitor content as they are responsible for the choice of textbooks.
"This is poisonous for children," Janaki Rajan of the Faculty of Education at Jamia Millia University in Delhi told the BBC.
"The government has the power to take action, but they are washing their hands of it," she said.
It is not known which Indian schools have bought the book for their students, but correspondents say what is worrying is that such a book is available to students.
"The strongest argument that meat is not essential food is the fact that the Creator of this Universe did not include meat in the original diet for Adam and Eve. He gave them fruits, nuts and vegetables," reads a chapter entitled Do We Need Flesh Food?
The chapter details the "benefits" of a vegetarian diet and goes on to list "some of the characteristics" found among non-vegetarians.
"They easily cheat, tell lies, forget promises, they are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes," it says.
The chapter, full of factual inaccuracies, refers to Eskimos (Inuit) as "lazy, sluggish and short-lived", because they live on "a diet largely of meat".
It adds: "The Arabs who helped in constructing the Suez Canal lived on wheat and dates and were superior to the beef-fed Englishmen engaged in the same work."
The publishers, S Chand, did not respond to the BBC's requests for a comment.

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A man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to

Three men, including a police officer, have been arrested following a hoax terror plot to kidnap an officer.

Article: A hurricane making landfall is never welcome but it looked set to strike Ms Kent's home in Florida at the worst possible time.
Back then, Ms Kent was fighting hackers seeking to take over her digital cash start-up Krypton - a services firm based around a variant of Bitcoin's underlying technology, the blockchain.
Ms Kent and her coding team had just recovered from one attack and had seen early signs that another was under way.
"We were hit by the hurricane during the second attack," she says.
Then, the savage storm knocked the power out.
"That really didn't help," she says.
Undeterred, Ms Kent decamped to a local convenience store, plugged in her laptop and got back to work battling the hackers.
Krypton defeated them by drawing on some rarely-used features in the blockchain code which helped to thwart the attempted takeover. But that was not before the bad guys got away with virtual Krypton cash worth about $6,000 (Â£4,900).
Ms Kent wasn't alone in getting hit. A similar attack, probably by the same group, was used against a separate crypto-currency start-up called Swift.
"There are a lot of malicious actors in crypto-currency right now," says Ms Kent. "It's the gunslinger era."
The amounts of money involved might be small but the attacks signal a growing interest by hackers in fledgling firms seeking to build businesses around blockchains and digital currencies.
That is troubling given the current fever of interest in the blockchain. Many see it as the element of the Bitcoin crypto-currency that will have lasting influence.
Visa has announced plans to launch a blockchain payments service in 2017, central banks are investigating the technology and many finance firms are keen to use it to keep track of the deals they do.
The blockchain is the open accounting system underpinning Bitcoin. It involves large networks of computers working together to do the complicated cryptography-based maths that verifies who spent which bitcoins and where they spent them.
For a well-established virtual currency such as Bitcoin,...

Summary: In early September, developer Stephanie Kent watched the approach of Hurricane Hermine with growing trepidation.
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Article: The West Midlands officer and two other men are being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Police said they were given "false and malicious information" suggesting an officer was to "be kidnapped as part of a terrorist plot".
West Midlands police were put on high alert because of the hoax.
The three Birmingham men are questioned by anti-terrorism and anti-corruption teams.
The 28-year-old officer at Birmingham West & Central Local Policing Unit has also been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in a public office and misuse of police systems.
The other men, aged 25 and 31, are also being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office.
The force issued an alert to officers and staff after receiving the anonymous tip-off on 8 December last year.
It urged them to take extra precautions, including not wearing uniform during journeys to and from work.
"At a time when the national threat level was severe, the threat was considered credible and police acted swiftly to protect officers and police staff," a police spokesman said.
The three men are being questioned by detectives from West Midland Police's Anti-Corruption Unit, with support from the Counter Terrorism Unit.
A 31-year-old man, who was arrested on the day of the offence, was eliminated from inquiries and has been deported.

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The business secretary, Greg Clark, has told MPs that Vauxhall workers in Luton and Ellesmere Port have no reason to fear for their jobs.
### The business secretary, Greg Clark, has told MPs that Vauxhall workers in Luton and Ellesmere Port have no reason to fear for their

A sculpture honouring Spiders From Mars guitarist Mick Ronson has been unveiled in his home town of Hull.

Article: His assurance came as he answered questions about the possible takeover of General Motors' European operations, including Vauxhall, by the French PSA.
PSA owns both Peugeot and Citroen and its interest in buying the GM businesses was announced last week.
Mr Clark met the PSA board and French industry minister last Friday.
Speaking in the Commons, the business secretary said his French counterpart, Christophe Sirugue, had told him it was important that all Opel's factories across Europe were treated fairly.
"We have a very strong domestic market and Vauxhall has a large share of that - something PSA recognises," said Mr Clark.
"One of the points the PSA executives made to me was that since the new management of PSA has been in place, they have taken some pride in having part of their strategy not to close plants," he added.
Meanwhile, Germany's deputy economy minister, Matthias Machnig, said that GM and PSA were yet to give any binding guarantees on German jobs, but that there had been some encouraging signs.
Vauxhall employs abut 4,500 workers in the UK, making cars in Ellesmere Port and vans in Luton.
Mr Clark sidestepped a question about whether any sweeteners were on offer to ensure that the PSA Group - if it takes over the loss-making GM businesses in Europe - will maintain manufacturing in the UK.
However, he said the UK car industry was very competitive, had a flexible workforce, and was investing in technology.
"The UK is a beacon of success in this, and other, industries," Mr Clark said.
"From my initial conversations [with PSA and General Motors] I think it is understood that Vauxhall's plants are very efficient," he added.
Asked by Labour MP Pat McFadden about the future of the UK's supply chain for the car industry, the minister hailed the UK's competitive car parts sector.
"That makes it attractive to investors," he said.
Mr Clark also told MPs that he had mentioned the importance of looking after current and former employees who are members of the Vauxhall pension scheme, which has a deficit of...

Summary: The business secretary, Greg Clark, has told MPs that Vauxhall workers in Luton and Ellesmere Port have no reason to fear for their jobs.
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Article: The 8ft guitar statue has been erected in East Park, where he worked as an attendant before gaining musical fame working with David Bowie in the 1970s.
Ronson led Bowie's backing band, Spiders From Mars. He died in 1993, aged 46, after developing liver cancer.
His sister Maggie Ronson said: "He absolutely loved his gardening job so this couldn't be more perfect.
"We're very, very happy and I'm sure he'd be very proud."
More on this and other stories from East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire
Councillor Mary Glew, who unveiled the sculpture at a ceremony, said it was "a fitting tribute" to the musician who "left an enduring legacy to the world of contemporary music".
The sculpture was designed by 18-year-old Hull College student Janis Skodins, whose artwork was chosen in a competition.
It has been installed in the Michael Ronson Garden of Reflection, near the park's pavilion.
The sculpture is among 100 plaques and memorials honouring notable people across Hull for its City of Culture celebrations.
Fellow musician Trevor Bolder is also due to be honoured.
As well as working with Bowie, Ronson recorded several solo albums, the most successful of which was Slaughter on 10th Avenue, which reached number nine in the UK album chart.
He also played on, produced or arranged songs for artists including Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, and Morrissey.

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A new exhibition at the V&A Museum in London is celebrating the work of the late Sir Peter Blake.
The exhibition, Peter Blake: The Art of the Album, is the first major retrospective of the artist's work in the UK.
It features more than 100 of his album covers, including the Sgt Pepper

A Beatles sleeve which features the faces of music executives in place of the Fab Four has been named the world's rarest album cover.

Article: London Design Festival is hoping to raise £120,000 for the Visionary Crazy Golf, which has been dreamed up by artists and designers, including the late Dame Zaha Hadid.
Festival organisers say it will be "futuristic, functional, fun and free for the public to play".
Funding permitted, the golf course will run from 16-22 September.
The dates coincide with the London Design Festival.
Members of the public who pledge funds, from £5 up to £5,000, will receive rewards, including clothes and mugs, by one of the designers.
Organisers have until 6 June to raise the money.
The design teams involved include Mark Wallinger, Tom Dixon, Camille Walala, Ordinary Architecture, HAT Projects, Neon Studio, and Atelier Bow-Wow.
Each will create a miniature art installation, as part of the golf course, with each one making a statement about the future of architecture.
Holes include Tom Dixon's, with its funnel and nest of pneumatic tubes through which golf balls will hurtle; a circuitous maze by Mark Wallinger; and a netted driving range by the Japanese studio Atelier Bow-Wow.
The mayor's office has given permission for the scheme if funding is secured.

Summary: A "futuristic" crazy golf course could be brought to London's Trafalgar Square after a crowd-funding campaign.
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Article: The adapted artwork for the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album is worth about ??70,000.
It was created to celebrate the success of the record - released in June 1967 - for Christmas of that year.
The artwork is one of five Beatles album sleeves to feature in the top 10, compiled by Record Collector magazine.
Sir Peter Blake's original Sgt Pepper collage was doctored to replace the faces of The Beatles and other notable figures with those of executives from the band's US label Capitol.
Only about 100 are thought to have been made.
'Main attraction'
In second place, valued at ??7,000, are the first 10 numbered copies of the Beatles' self-titled 1968 record, which became known as The White Album because of its plain white cover.
The band's name was embossed on the front of the sleeve, which was designed by pop artist Richard Hamilton, along with a unique stamped serial number.
In third position was a pair of sleeves designed by Andy Warhol.
Madrigals' 1953 work Magic Key To Spanish Volumes 1 and 2, and spoken word anti-crime lecture The Nation's Nightmare, from 1951, have been valued at ??3,500 and ??3,000 respectively.
At number four was the bizarre US-released compilation album Jolly What! England's Greatest Recording Stars: The Beatles and Frank Ifield on Stage.
The 1964 album, featuring the songs of both the Fab Four and crooner Ifield, is valued at ??3,000.
The Beatles  were also in eighth place for the original album sleeve created for the US release of their Yesterday And Today record in 1966, which is valued at ??2,000.
Known as "the butcher sleeve" because it featured the musicians posing with dismembered doll parts and slabs of meat, it was quickly withdrawn from the US market.
List compiler Ian Shirley, editor of the Rare Record Price Guide 2012, said: "While pristine records and inserts are vital to securing a top price, the numbered sleeve is the main attraction.
"The hunger to collect low numbers remains undiminished amongst Beatles fans."

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The US administration has proposed a $1.1bn cut to the United Nations, in its budget proposals released on Tuesday.
The US foots more than a quarter of the UN's $7.9bn (Â£6.1bn) peacekeeping bill.
A spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio G

The United Nations has warned that President Donald Trump's plans to cut contributions to peacekeeping will make such work "impossible".

Article: UK government papers from 30 years ago, released by the National Archive, include briefings from David Willetts.
He said Scotland benefited from Â£900m "over-provision" compared with England.
At the time he was serving in the Number 10 Policy Unit.  He later served as a minister under David Cameron and is now a Conservative peer.
In a briefing he wrote for the prime minister, dated 8 January 1986, he said Scotland was a "juicy target" for the Treasury to "pursue".
But he also noted that George Younger - who was Secretary of State for Scotland at the time - was "reported to be very 'emotional' on the subject" of cuts and "may well threaten to resign" at the prospect.
In another document, from the 12 February 1986, he said the position of the Tories in Scotland was "so bad that it might not deteriorate any further", and that the "envious North of England" might "welcome an attack on the pampered Scots", leading to more votes for the Tories.
Commenting on the release of the files, SNP MP Stewart Hosie said: "No one will be surprised at secret Tory plots to slash Scotland's budget."
He added: "To describe Scotland as 'pampered' and  a 'juicy target' may go some way to explaining why the Tories were wiped out in Scotland."

Summary: An advisor to Margaret Thatcher argued that the "pampered Scots" were a "juicy target" for spending cuts, according to newly-released records.
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Article: The US administration signalled heavy cuts to UN operations, in its budget proposals released on Tuesday.
The US foots more than a quarter of the UN's $7.9bn (Â£6.1bn) peacekeeping bill.
A spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the organisation was willing to discuss how peacekeeping could be made more cost-effective.
Mr Trump's budget proposal declares new "attention on the appropriate US share of international spending at the United Nations".
The document does not provide a detailed breakdown, but Reuters news agency reports the drop in funding for the operations could amount to $1bn.
The spokesman said the UN was studying Mr Trump's plan. "The figures presented would simply make it impossible for the UN to continue all of its essential work advancing peace, development, human rights and humanitarian assistance," he said.
The BBC's Nick Bryant at the UN says such a warning from the organisation is unusually blunt.
The US president does not set the budget, but makes recommendations to Congress. It is understood that the UN secretary general has been lobbying Congress members on the importance of international peacekeeping.
The US provides 28.5% of the United Nations peacekeeping budget - almost three times as much as the next-highest contributor, China.
While Mr Trump's plan does not include details, the US is known to want to cap its contributions to a maximum of 25%.
There are currently 16 active peacekeeping operations, including Syria, South Sudan, and on the border of India and Pakistan.

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The Scottish Government has announced that it will be investing £1.5m in a new project to help tackle the problem of illegal fishing in the North Sea.
The project will see the Scottish Government working with the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) to develop a new approach to tackle illegal fishing in the North

Two bottles of whisky recovered from a shipwreck that inspired the book Whisky Galore may have been missed from official statistics.

Article: Vehicles were allowed on to the eastbound carriageway of the new M8 for the first time on Sunday, a week after the westbound carriageway opened.
It means the entire stretch between Edinburgh and Glasgow is now motorway.
The works were the latest stage in the Â£500m M8, M73 and M74 motorway improvements project.
The completion of the missing link means drivers no longer need to use the old A8 between Newhouse and Baillieston.
Transport Scotland said the new road layout was expected to cut journey times at peak periods by up to 20 minutes.
However, temporary speed limits will remain in force at various locations to allow remaining works to be completed safely.
Graeme Reid, project manager with Transport Scotland, said: "This is a huge milestone in the project.
"It has been ongoing for three years and this is a huge section of brand new motorway open in both directions between Edinburgh and Glasgow for the first time.
"Drivers have been patient during that time and we thank them for that. The end is very much in sight and drivers will experience the benefits during the week."
Transport Scotland said local road users should note that whilst access to all routes to and from the A8 will be maintained, signed diversions for traffic to Coatbridge, Airdrie, Bargeddie and Bellshill will be in place to allow necessary works to be completed.
Drivers were urged to plan their journeys in advance using the Transport Scotland and Traffic Scotland websites.

Summary: Scotland's busiest motorway has opened fully to traffic following the completion of the so-called "missing link".
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Article: The cargo ship SS Politician, which had 28,000 cases of whisky, sank off Eriskay in Western Isles 75 years ago.
Eight bottles of the whisky were recovered by a diver in 1987.
The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) has suggested that two bottles it has on the Isle of Canna could be added to these eight known bottles.
The bottles in the care of NTS are kept at Canna House and belonged the late John Lorne-Campbell and his wife Margaret Faye-Shaw, who gifted the property and Hebridean island to the trust.
Fiona McKenzie, archivist at Canna House, said: "According to the previous archivist, the bottles have 'always been at the house'.
"She was here from the 1960s and that's well before the diver brought up eight bottles in 1987. So looks like we may have two bottles that are not included in the official stats."
Many other bottles were salvaged from the SS Politician at the time of its sinking in 1941 and still thought to survive, but have not been officially recorded.
Hundreds of cases of whisky were hidden from customs officers by islanders. Some locations of these secret stashes have since been forgotten, according to islanders today.
The SS Politician was headed for Jamaica when it ran aground on the northern side of Eriskay in bad weather.
Scottish author Compton Mackenzie, published the novel Whisky Galore in 1947, which was loosely based on the shipwreck.
It was adapted for the cinema in a 1949 Ealing comedy.

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A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a woman was found dead in a house in Pontyclun.
The woman, who was found in the house in Penn Road, was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Police were called to the house at around 8.30pm on Wednesday.

Teachers in Wales are to be given more support to develop their careers and improve teaching in the classroom.

Article: The property in Penn Road completely collapsed in the blast, suspected to have been caused by a gas leak.
The woman, who was trapped for about two hours, suffered cuts, bruises and a broken ankle and was taken to hospital.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said the woman was "extraordinarily lucky" not to have been seriously hurt.
One man who lives nearby said: "Our house just shook - we woke up immediately and my partner was screaming and we thought there was something a lot closer. We heard sirens going off for about 30 minutes.
"It took me a second to work out what had happened, I walked down to have a look, and I could see the two other houses - but the house wasn't there. It was just rubble."
Two neighbours and a taxi driver who witnessed the explosion as he was driving past, were treated for shock.
There is debris on the street, which has been shut between Lonsdale Road and Claremont Road.
Emergency services advised the public to avoid the area.

Summary: A 76-year-old woman has been rescued from rubble after an explosion at a house in Wolverhampton.
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Article: The so-called New Deal will reshape how they are trained as their career develops and help them to deliver the new "made in Wales curriculum".
Each of Wales' 37,600 teachers will be given a learning passport by September to record professional development.
Education Minister Huw Lewis said having "high capacity, high skilled professionals" was essential.
Policies for recruiting and developing teachers and other school staff are "underdeveloped," according to a report by the OECD think-tank, looking at schools in Wales last year.
There has been a small improvement in the quality of teaching, which is now good or better in half of schools, says the schools watchdog Estyn in its annual report.
But there are fewer schools where teaching is excellent.
The quality of assessment was also found to be variable in a minority of schools.
Teachers will be offered support but be expected to continually update their skills.
Mr Lewis will visit Brynnau Primary school in Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, to highlight its record in developing its staff to benefit pupils.
He said: "We are currently undertaking one of the most ambitious series of educational reforms Wales has ever seen, aimed squarely at improving standards right across the board.
"However we know that excellent teaching and leadership is crucial to the learner experience and to our ongoing work of raising outcomes for all learners at all levels."
He added that "the quality of the professional at the chalk face has a huge impact on the quality of teaching and learning".

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A man has been arrested after a woman was attacked in a car park in the city.
The incident happened in the city centre at around 6.30pm on Wednesday.
The woman, who is in her 30s, was walking along the pavement when she was approached by a man.
The man then punched

An anti-bullying charity has called for a gym billboard poster to be removed for being "offensive".

Article: The MSP, who is battling against current deputy leader Kezia Dugdale for the job, says he is "confident" he will win the vote.
Ms Dugdale is widely seen as being the favourite to win, but Mr Macintosh said that the momentum was with him.
The result of the ballot will announced next Saturday.
Speaking after an event in Glasgow attended by undecided Scottish Labour members, Mr Macintosh said that his canvas returns still showed that more than 50% of those entitled to vote were yet to make up their minds.
He said that the majority of those who had decided were backing him, adding that "all the switchers" were also moving in his direction.
Ms Dugdale has received 90% of the support from constituency Labour branches who nominated a candidate.
She is also backed by 80% of the local councillors who nominated a leadership candidate, 10 trade union and affiliate groups, and 30 fellow parliamentarians.
But Mr Macintosh said the move to the one-person-one-vote system had helped his campaign.
He claimed Ms Dugdale was the candidate of the party machine, and added: "The good thing for me is that this is not going to be decided by elected representatives, or by the trade unions, it is going to be decided by the members.
"The majority of members are undecided, and whatever switchers there are all going my way. My canvas returns are showing me that I am in the lead and momentum is with my campaign."

Summary: The majority of Scottish Labour members remain undecided about who they will elect as the party's new leader, according to contender Ken Macintosh.
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Article: The poster, on Tamworth Road, in Sawley, Derbyshire, shows aliens beaming up a person into their spaceship with the text, "they'll take the fat ones first".
Combat Bullying, based in Nottinghamshire, said it would "further harm" those who are being bullied.
Fit4Less said it wanted to create a "light-hearted and humorous" advert.
It reads: "They're comingâ€¦ and when they arrive they'll take the FAT ones first!". It then has "save yourself!" with an arrow pointing to the gym's website.
One passer-by said the poster was "ridiculous" and he would "rip it down" because "being a big lad myself, it upsets you".
Many other people said it was "in poor taste" and "offensive".
Natalie Harvey, founder of the charity, said the poster has caused her concerns because it would "aid bullying".
"This week alone three cases have been brought to my attention of children being bullied because of weight issues," she said.
"If those children or the perpetrators saw this poster it would cause further harm for the children who are being bullied.
"The poster should be removed and replaced with something more tasteful to attract the gym goers."
Kerry Matthews, from the gym in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, said: "We really didn't mean it offensively.
"It was supposed to be a bit cheeky, hence the alien image, and grab people's attention in a couple of seconds.
"So many campaigns use ultra skinny people and that's not the reality."
Ms Matthews added that the gym wanted to get people talking about getting fitter.

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A man has been arrested after a woman was found dead in a car in the city of Lincoln.
Police were called to the scene in the city's West End at around 8.30pm on Saturday.
The woman, who is believed to be in her 30s, was found in the car.
She

The RSPCA has issued a warning against what it says is a growing trend for keeping raccoon dogs as pets.

Article: The Confederate battle flag has been removed from Alabama's state capitol and Mississippi officials have urged the state flag have the emblem removed.
The backlash against the flag was sparked by a mass shooting at a black church in South Carolina last week.
Nine worshippers were killed and the suspected gunman has appeared in photos holding the flag.
Police believe the slaughter at a bible study group week was racially motivated.
The New York Times reported that the US Department of Justice "will likely file federal hate crime charges" against Dylann Roof.
His embracing of the flag, which was the Civil War battle flag of the southern states, has prompted politicians to shift positions on this once revered emblem of southern identity.
Four Confederate flags were taken down from a Civil War monument outside the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after  Governor Robert Bentley said he did not want the flag to be a "distraction".
Meanwhile, debate has been revived in Mississippi over the presence of a smaller version of the rebel flag within the current state flag.
Mississippi's House Speaker has called for the state flag to be changed and Senator Roger Wicker has said it should be in a museum.
"I have not viewed Mississippi's current state flag as offensive," Mr Wicker said, but many of his fellow citizens "feel differently" and "our state flag increasingly portrays a false impression of our state to others".
The debate over Confederate imagery in the Mississippi flag is exposing a generational divide in the state's Republican Party - and even within one of its most prominent families.
Former Governor Haley Barbour said the Confederate flag has nothing to do with the shootings in Charleston.
"It is part of history, just like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, who were all slave owners," he said. "Are we now going to change the name of the Washington Monument, too?"
His nephew, state Republican official Henry Barbour, countered: "How can we keep things the same? The flag didn't cause...

Summary: Anger at the presence of Confederate symbols on public property in the US south is growing.
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Article: It comes after one was found hiding under a water tank in a garden at Kirton Holme, near Boston, Lincolnshire, over the Easter weekend.
Inspector Becky Harper said: "While he is very cute, we'd like to stress that raccoon dogs don't make good pets."
"They are wild animals and we would strongly discourage people from buying or keeping one," she said.
"They need a great deal of space, and their needs cannot be met in a typical domestic environment."
More on this and other local stories from across Lincolnshire
The RSPCA said it had dealt with a number of call-outs in recent years to stray pet raccoon dogs that have escaped, or been deliberately released to the wild.
Ms Harper added that the animals posed a high level of threat to our native wildlife.
The raccoon dog - now nicknamed Cedric by RSPCA staff - is being cared for at a specialist centre after efforts to trace its owners failed.
He is due to be re-homed to a specialist keeper.

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A man who was accused of selling horsemeat to a number of UK supermarket chains has been found guilty of conspiracy to defraud.
Ulrik Nielsen, 58, the owner of FlexiFoods, and his "right-hand man", Alex Beech, 44, have already admitted their involvement in the conspiracy.

A businessman has denied being part of a conspiracy to pass off horsemeat as beef, claiming he was only storing the product for another company.

Article: They found dogs were four times more likely to steal food they had been forbidden, when lights were turned off so humans in the room could not see.
This suggested the dogs were able to alter their behaviour when they knew their owners' perspective had changed.
The study, published in Animal Cognition, conducted tests on 84 dogs.
The experiments had been trying to find whether dogs could adapt their behaviour in response to the changed circumstances of their human owners.
It wanted to see if dogs had a "flexible understanding" that could show they understood the viewpoint of a human.
It found that when the lights were turned off, dogs in a room with their human owners were much more likely to disobey and steal forbidden food.
The study says it is "unlikely that the dogs simply forgot that the human was in the room" when there was no light. Instead it seems as though the dogs were able to differentiate between when the human was unable or able to see them.
The experiments had been designed with enough variations to avoid false associations - such as dogs beginning to associate sudden darkness with someone giving them food, researchers said.
Dr Juliane Kaminski, from the University of Portsmouth's psychology department, said the study was "incredible because it implies dogs understand the human can't see them, meaning they might understand the human perspective".
This could also be important in understanding the capacities of dogs that have to interact closely with humans, such as guide dogs for the blind and sniffer dogs.
Previous studies have suggested that although humans might think that they can recognise different expressions on their dogs' faces, this is often inaccurate and a projection of human emotions.
"Humans constantly attribute certain qualities and emotions to other living things. We know that our own dog is clever or sensitive, but that's us thinking, not them," said Dr Kaminski.
"These results suggest humans might be right, where dogs are concerned, but we still can't be completely sure if the...

Summary: Dogs are more capable of understanding situations from a human's point of view than has previously been recognised, according to researchers.
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Article: Andronicos Sideras, 55, is accused of mixing horsemeat with beef before selling it on through his company Dinos & Sons.
Two men who ran FlexiFoods - a meat suppliers linked to Dinos & Sons - have admitted passing horsemeat off as beef.
Mr Sideras denies one count of conspiracy to defraud.
The discovery of horsemeat in processed beef products sold by a number of UK supermarket chains in 2013 resulted in a series of product recalls.
The plot to pass horsemeat off as beef only came to light after horse identification chips were found in the meat by inspectors.
Ulrik Nielsen, 58, the owner of FlexiFoods, and his "right-hand man", Alex Beech, 44, have already admitted their involvement in the conspiracy.
Mr Sideras, of Southgate, north London, told the court in that in 2012 he agreed to store horsemeat for FlexiFoods.
He admits he relabelled the shipment because the packaging had been damaged during transit, but denies purchasing, selling or using the horsemeat.
The trial continues.

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North Tyneside and Northumberland NHS Foundation Trust has been forced to close its urgent care centres overnight.
The trust said the closures were necessary to ensure the best use of staff resources.
The trust said the closures were necessary to ensure the best use of staff resources.
The trust said the closures were necessary

Three emergency care units are to remain closed to overnight patients in an effort to keep "precious staffing resources" focused on daytime care.

Article: Jovenel Moise, a 48-year-old banana exporter, was sworn in at a ceremony at the National Assembly.
His predecessor, Michel Martelly, stood down a year ago at the end of his term, and was replaced by an interim president while rival political parties disputed the result of the elections.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas.
It is still struggling to recover from a series of natural disasters, including a devastating earthquake that hit the capital, Port au Prince, seven years ago.
Mr Moise, who has never before held public office, was appointed by Mr Martelly in 2015 as his preferred candidate.
He won the October 2015 poll, but the election was annulled for alleged fraud.
Mr Martelly left office in February 2016, at the end of his five-year-term, passing on power to Senate President Jocelerme Privert.
A new election was held in November.
It was delayed by a month because of Hurricane Matthew, which destroyed 90% of some of Haiti's southern areas at the beginning of October.
Mr Moise won in the first round, with some 55% of the vote against 20% for his closest rival, Jude Celestin.
But the result is still being contested by the opposition, which held protests outside the National Assembly building.
He is due to lay out his plans for the next five years in a speech later on Tuesday.
Mr Moise and former president Martelly are both members of the centre-right Parti Haitien Tet Kale (Haitian Bald Head Party).

Summary: Haiti has sworn in a new president after a political crisis that has lasted more than a year.
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Article: The units in North Tyneside and Northumberland have been shut between midnight and 08:00 since December.
Overnight emergencies have been diverted to the recently-opened Northumbria Hospital in Cramlington.
The closures at North Tyneside, Hexham and Wansbeck hospitals, will continue for a further three months.
The Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust said the impact on patients had been minimal as the units were underused at night.
Staff from the units have been moved to the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, in Cramlington, which opened in 2015, to deal with a "very high demand" in day-time admissions.
A spokesman said it would be "inappropriate" to deploy staff back to the urgent care centres overnight at the current time.
He added: "This is to ensure best use of precious staffing resources to deliver patient care where it is needed most."
The trust said since opening the Northumbria hospital in June 2015, activity overnight at the urgent care centres had been "minimal" with, on average, less than 10 overnight attendances a day across all three centres.
The spokesman added: "We'd like to assure residents that this decision to temporarily extend the current arrangements at our urgent care centres has not been taken lightly.
"It was entirely correct for us to put in place the interim changes in the wake of services being extremely busy across the NHS. They have helped us successfully meet the high demand we continue to see, even now during the summer.
"As a result, it would simply not be the best use of our staff's time and expertise to deploy them back now."

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The first day of the Great Fire of London was 31 May 1866.
The Great Fire of London was a devastating fire that destroyed the majority of the city's buildings.
The fire started in a bakery in Pudding Lane, London, and spread quickly through the city.
The fire was so devastating that it

London's first History Day will be held on the anniversary of Big Ben's first day in operation.

Article: They were discussing their goal of purchasing Wanlockhead from landowner the Duke of Buccleuch.
Proposals for a community buyout began when neighbouring village Leadhills started the same process back in 2014.
Representatives of Community Land Scotland and the Scottish government attended the meeting to give advice.
Among the aims of the proposed buyout would be to provide economic development opportunities for the village.
They include plans to turn it into a "tourism centre" based around its mining heritage as well as recreational opportunities on the Lowther Hills.
It comes after recent plans emerged which could see up to 140 turbines located in the area.
The next step for the group would be to create a community company for the proposed buyout.
It would then be tasked with registering an interest in buying the land within the current legislation.
South of Scotland MSP Claudia Beamish, who attended the meeting, said local people had "highlighted an inspiring range of opportunities for the future".
"If the community buyout goes ahead, decision making will be in the hands of the people who live there," she said.
"They will be given support and funding advice by Scottish government bodies."
Ms Beamish added that as a member of the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee (RACCE), she was working to make the Land Reform Bill "more robust".
"The bill will act as a backstop if owners refuse to negotiate on an application by a community," she said.
"I wish the Wanlockhead group and other groups across south Scotland well for amicable arrangements with the landowners concerned."

Summary: Residents of Scotland's highest village have met to take forward their plans for a community buyout.
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Article: It will be first celebrated on 31 May in 2017 with celebrations and events run by Historic England.
The date was decided upon after a poll involving 1,000 Londoners. It was closely followed by 5 September - the date of the Great Fire of London.
The YouGov questionnaire also declared the Houses of Parliament as the building that best sums up London.
People voted for the Queen as their favourite historic London hero for the moment she secretly joined the crowds to celebrate Victory in Europe Day.
The results of the poll were released to mark the launch of Historic England's "Keep it London" campaign.
People were asked to select a date to celebrate the capital's history, their historic hero and the building that sums up London.
Big Ben's first day in operation was 31 May 1859.
The campaign is intended to encourage Londoners to notice, celebrate and speak up for the heritage of their city, Historic England said.
The public body has also launched a film entitled I am London, which celebrates the historic buildings and places that have borne witness to the capital's history.
Duncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England, said: "Our heritage is a source of pride, a reminder of the city's past, a foundation for its present and the building blocks for its future."

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A man who was shot in the back by police in Cheshire has been jailed for four years.
Jason Duff, 44, of Cowdenbeath, Fife, was shot in the back by police in Polmont, Stirlingshire, on 31 May last year.
The incident was described by a

A drink driver found by another motorist lying in the road with his trousers down has been ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work.

Article: The Greater Manchester Police officer has been interviewed under criminal caution over Anthony Grainger's death.
Mr Grainger, 36, was shot in the chest after the car he was in was stopped in Culcheth, Cheshire, last month.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said the officer had been interviewed on suspicion of committing a criminal offence.
It said potential offences he could be charged with include manslaughter and murder.
The police watchdog served a formal notice of investigation on the officer on 2 April.
In a statement, it said: "The IPCC remains in close liaison with the Crown Prosecution Service and at this stage a range of potential offences are under consideration, including unlawful act manslaughter and murder."
It confirmed no firearms or weapons were found on Mr Grainger when he was shot in a village car park.
It said the red Audi that he was in had been stolen and had false registration plates on it.
Greater Manchester Police officers shot the car's tyres twice and threw a CS canister into the vehicle.
The fatal shot was one round fired by an officer carrying a Heckler and Koch MP5 carbine, which pierced the windscreen and hit Mr Grainger.
Mr Grainger, an "odd job man", was originally from Salford and lived in Deane Church Lane, Bolton.

Summary: A police firearms officer who shot an unarmed man dead in Cheshire has been warned he could face a murder charge.
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Article: Jason Duff was discovered falling in and out of consciousness on Bo'ness Road in Polmont, Stirlingshire on 31 May last year.
The case was described by a prosecutor as one with "unusual circumstances".
The 44-year-old, of Cowdenbeath, Fife, was also banned from driving for four years.
Depute fiscal Siobhan Monks said a member of the public was driving along the road when he came across Duff's 15-year-old Peugeot 206.
Miss Monks said the Peugeot engine was running, but the vehicle was stationary, and Duff was not in it.
The other motorist stopped and found Duff "lying in the road, under the influence, with his trousers down, falling in and out of consciousness".
A blood sample taken at Forth Valley Royal Hospital three hours later showed Duff was still over twice the legal drink drive limit.
Duff told police he had drunk alcohol and slept in his car following an argument with his girlfriend.
Miss Monks said that when Duff woke up he decided to drive to work, but felt unwell, stopped his car and got out, but could remember nothing more.
Solicitor advocate Stephen Biggam, defending, said: "He had become dehydrated, that's why he passed out."
Duff pleaded guilty at Falkirk Sheriff Court to a charge of drink-driving.
In addition to the driving ban and unpaid work order, Sheriff John Mundy placed Duff under social work supervision for 18 months.
He said: "This is a serious matter.
"The court does have the power to impose a custodial sentence, but it would be better for you to receive some kind of structured support."

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The Care Quality Commission has published a report on the care of people with learning disabilities and autism.
The report, which is based on a review of the care provided by the NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, found that the quality of care was generally good.
The CQC said that the quality of

The number of murders in Scotland has fallen again, according to new figures.

Article: It will draw on the case of Elizabeth Dixon, from Hampshire, who died 14 years ago after a breathing tube was not dealt with correctly.
The CQC says it wants to identify what barriers can stop hospitals from providing good or outstanding care.
The report, expected to be published in March 2016, may lead to new guidelines.
The inspection will involve around 20 neonatal services in England. These services, both inside and outside hospitals, involve the care of babies born early and those needing treatment in hospital after birth.
Inspectors will look at how well staff spot problems that develop during pregnancy and how these are dealt with.
And in particular the commission will examine the care of babies who need breathing tubes.
This follows the experiences of the Dixon family.
Elizabeth Dixon died in 2001 as a result of failures in the tracheostomy care she received at home, while under the care of a newly qualified agency nurse.
Prof Edward Baker, deputy chief inspector of hospitals at the CQC, said: "Everyone has the right to care which is safe and effective but we know from our inspections of maternity services there is a marked difference in the quality of the care provided.
"We want to highlight good practice so that it can be shared, but also to identify what is stopping hospitals from providing good or outstanding care."

Summary: A review of the care available to newborns and young babies with severe health problems has been announced by the Care Quality Commission.
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Article: In the year to the end of March, 57 victims of homicide (murders and culpable homicides) were recorded - down five on the previous 12 months.
This is the lowest number of recorded homicide cases for a single 12-month period since 1976 and half the figure of nine years ago.
As of 31 March 2016, only one case of homicide recorded in 2015-16 was unresolved.
The report Homicide in Scotland showed that a sharp instrument remained the most common method of killing in Scotland and accounted for 51% of homicides (29 cases) in 2015-16.
Nearly all of these cases (26 out of 29) involved a knife.
While the majority of the accused had an unknown status for alcohol and drugs, 31% (20 people) were identified by the police as being under the influence of alcohol or alcohol and drugs.
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: "While it is encouraging to see continued falls in homicide cases alongside the long-term decline in violent crime, the sustained efforts that have helped achieve this - through education and enforcement - must continue, because each of the lives lost is one life too many.
"There is a clear role across a range of public services, in addition to the critical work of our police, to continue to support communities that may remain at risk from violent crime and to challenge irresponsible attitudes both to alcohol misuse and to so-called 'casual' violence.
"We will continue to work with partners and invest in a range of projects to help steer our young people away from the risks of a life of violence and crime, while also ensuring our law enforcement agencies and the courts have the powers and resources needed to deal with those who do harm to others."
Scottish Labour's justice spokeswoman Claire Baker said: "Whilst I welcome the overall downward trend in homicides in Scotland we have to take these statistics with a note of caution.
"Last year when the Scottish government were heralding 'record low' homicide figures after a supposed similar drop, the actual figures were being revised upwards to show an...

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The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has announced that the RFU World Cup will be held in Japan in 2020.
The decision was made at a meeting of the RFU's executive committee in London on Tuesday.
The decision was made after a meeting of the RFU's executive committee in London on Tuesday.

A hall of fame celebrating rugby union's past has been officially opened at the sport's birthplace.

Article: A local democracy campaigner obtained the Highways England documents using Freedom of Information (FoI) requests.
Campaigner Dave Orr said: "We now know it's been value engineered down because the budget is constrained."
Highways England says it will listen to all feedback from its current single option consultation for the upgrade.
"We've ended up with a scheme which delivers more problems with noise, pollution and disturbance, accidents than if we did nothing which I think is absurd," added Mr Orr.
In March, the government and Highways England put forward one option to dual the A358 between Southfields roundabout and Taunton in Somerset.
Since then councils have criticised the plans saying they lack detail and residents have complained that only one option was being consulted on.
The FoI documents show ideas which include linking the M5 to a planned new hi-tech business park at Henlade were ruled out, along with other proposals as they would cost between £366m and £451m.
According to the released documents, the single option was estimated to cost £366m but was "still in excess of the budget of £251m".
The report also stated: "We cannot commit to a Junction 25 link on affordability grounds."
A Highways England spokesman said: "The current scheme cost remains within the Road Investment Strategy allocation of £250m - £500m."
Taunton MP Rebecca Pow has raised the issues with the Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling.
She said: "We need to look at why only route was offered because there was a feeling that initially more routes were going to be offered."
She added that the upgrade needed to bring "economic gain" to Taunton and link to the new business park, which is set to attract more than 4,000 jobs.
The consultation closes on 16 July.

Summary: Highways England proposed the cheapest way to upgrade the A358 despite more costly options having more benefits, an investigation has found.
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Article: The World Rugby Hall of Fame was launched by ex-England and British and Irish Lions captain Bill Beaumont at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum in Warwickshire.
World Cup winners Lawrence Dallaglio and Jonny Wilkinson were among 12 stars inducted in to the "hall".
Members of the public will be able to visit from Friday.
The World Rugby Hall of Fame was established in 2006, and absorbed the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 2014, but has previously never had a physical home.
The attraction, which honours players and administrators who have enhanced the game through exceptional achievements, features video archive of rugby matches and memorabilia.
The 10 other players inducted in the Hall of Fame were England's Jeremy Guscott and Maggie Alphonsi, Wale's Shane Williams, John Dawes and Arthur Gould, Scotland's GPS Macpherson, Ireland's Brian O'Driscoll, Japan's Daisuke Ohata, Canada's Heather Moyes and Australia's Daniel Carroll.
Players, teams, coaches, media and rugby personalities can all be considered for the hall of fame but they need to have been retired from the game for at least three years and have demonstrated rugby's "core values" to be eligible,
The sport of rugby is said to have been accidentally invented in 1823 after William Webb Ellis, a pupil at a public school in Rugby, caught the ball and started running forward with it.

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The US government has given a $12,000 reward to a man who spotted a flaw in the domain name system that allowed him to buy the right to control the domain on 29 September.
The flaw was discovered by Sanmay Ved, a student at the University of California, Berkeley, who was working on a project

A man who briefly bought and owned the Google.com web domain has been rewarded by the search giant.

Article: Rachael Hamilton - who stood down as a list MSP to fight the seat - took Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire with a majority of more than 9,000.
She held the constituency for her party from closest rival Gail Hendry of the SNP.
Labour's Sally Prentice was third with Lib Dem Catriona Bhatia fourth.
The by-election was called after John Lamont stood down to fight the Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk seat at Westminster which he also won.
"We had an all-female line-up and I was just pleased to be one of those," said Ms Hamilton.
"I am pleased to be going back to the Scottish Parliament - I am absolutely delighted.
"And I am also delighted for John in his Westminster seat as well. The number of seats that we are winning throughout Scotland for Westminster - I think that is really encouraging as well - I think the Conservatives are on the up."
She added that the push for another independence referendum had definitely helped her "on the doorsteps".
"We can stand up and oppose independence and I believe that is what voters in the Borders were really gunning for," she said.

Summary: The Conservatives have won a Scottish Parliament by-election in the Borders held on the same night as the general election.
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Article: An administration oversight allowed US student Sanmay Ved to buy the right to control the domain on 29 September.
The oversight left him in charge of Google.com for about a minute until Google caught on and cancelled the transaction.
Now Mr Ved has been given a cash reward for spotting the error, which he has decided to donate to charity.
Google declined to comment on the story.
Mr Ved detailed his experience in a post on the LinkedIn site saying that he had been keeping an eye on Google-related web domains for some time because he used to work at the search giant. Mr Ved is currently an MBA student at a US college.
In the early hours of 29 September he noticed a for sale sign next to the Google.com name while browsing sites on Google's own website-buying service.
He used a credit card to pay the $12 (Â£8) fee to grab google.com and got emails confirming he was the owner. Almost immediately he started getting messages intended for Google's own web administration team.
This was followed by a cancellation message sent by the website buying service which said he could not take over Google.com because someone else had already registered it and his $12 payment was refunded.
Now it has emerged that Mr Ved has been given a "bug bounty" by Google's security team for revealing the weakness in the domain buying system. The internal emails Mr Ved received while in charge of google.com have been passed to this team.
Mr Ved decided to give the cash to an Indian educational foundation and in response, Google doubled the reward.

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The SNP's new leader has said the party will not be "pigeon-holed" by the Tories.
"We are not going to be pigeon-holed by the Tories," Nicola Sturgeon said.
"We are not going to be pigeon-holed by the Tories.
"We are

Labour makes a difference in power, not in "principled opposition", the shadow Welsh secretary has told the party's Welsh conference in Llandudno.

Article: "The ship has just left the port," the head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Ahmet Uzumcu, said in The Hague.
An investigation into alleged use of chlorine in Syria's civil war is still ongoing, Mr Uzumcu added.
More than 160,000 people have died in three years of the Syrian conflict.
The operation to completely destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile was meant to have been completed by 30 June but is now several months behind schedule.
Fighting and the threat of attack by rebel groups severely delayed the removal of the weapons, analysts say.
The Syrian government approved the initiative last year after a chemical weapons attack outside Damascus left hundreds of people dead.
The US had threatened missile strikes on military sites in the country.
The final 8% of the 1,300-tonne stockpile was loaded on to ships in the Syrian port of Latakia on Monday, Mr Uzumcu said.
The chemical cargo is being shipped to a specially modified US naval vessel, the MV Cape Ray.
The destruction of the most toxic agents will take place on board, at an undisclosed location somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea.
The remaining chemicals will be destroyed in Finland, the US and Britain.
However, the BBC's Anna Holligan says many military experts suspect President Bashar al-Assad may not have revealed the full extent of his chemical capabilities.
A recent OPCW fact finding mission concluded that chlorine gas is likely to have been used in "systematic attacks" in Syria.
Mr Uzumcu said the consequent investigation into use of chlorine, which is being jointly carried out with the UN, "may take a little more time."
Chlorine is an industrial chemical and was not part of the weapons stockpile that Syria agreed to hand over. However, use of it as a weapon would contravene conventions signed by President Assad.
Syria's chemical weapons
•21 August 2013: Chemical weapons attack in Ghouta region near Damascus
•14 September: US and Russia agree deal on destruction of Syria's chemical weapons
•31 December: Initial...

Summary: The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons have been shipped out of the country for destruction, the international watchdog OPCW says.
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Article: Nia Griffith said her party offers "investment in Wales, versus cuts from Westminster" by the Tories.
She urged people to "imagine the price" if there was a Conservative government in Wales as well.
"Labour changes peoples' lives when we are in government", Ms Griffith added.
She reinforced the message of First Minister Carwyn Jones, who told delegates on Saturday that the assembly election in May would be a straight fight between Labour and the Conservatives.
"Together we are fighting for Wales in Westminster and taking on the Tories' appalling treatment of our nation," Ms Griffith said.
"We need to tell families up and down the country about what our Welsh Labour government is delivering.
"Investment in Wales, versus cuts from Westminster - jobs for our young people, not leaving a generation behind.
"That's the difference that a Labour government makes. Labour policies promised then delivered because we are in government.
"So don't listen to those who say we should be happy just shouting from the sidelines, that principled opposition is better than political power.
"If we take that attitude we may as well shut up shop."
Ms Griffith pointed to Labour's establishment of the NHS, introduction of the minimum wage, and delivering devolution with the creation of the National Assembly.
Meanwhile Mr Jones has said income tax rates in Wales would stay the same as those in England under a Labour Welsh government.
He told the Sunday Supplement programme on BBC Radio Wales he would not use new powers to increase income taxes if Labour won the assembly election.
"People have a real squeeze on their personal finances and the last thing I want to do is add to that pressure," he said,
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has proposed an increase of 1p in the pound for taxpayers in Scotland.

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The Cotswolds could become part of Thames Valley Police District.
Article: Cotswolds MP says he is "very concerned" about the plans.
Summary: Cotswolds MP says he is "very concerned" about the plans.
Article: Cotswolds MP says he is "

The Cotswolds could be policed by the Thames Valley force if plans to "break away" from Gloucestershire County Council go ahead, it is claimed.

Article: The social media site said the request was "by far the largest" it had ever received from a government body.
Photographs, private messages and other information were supplied to a New York court last year, but the process was only made public by a judge this week.
The ruling defined Facebook as a "digital landlord".
A judge said this definition meant the company must comply with search warrants.
The original case investigated fraudulent claimants of US federal disability benefits, whose Facebook accounts apparently showed that they were in fact healthy.
The web giant was ordered to hand over information from the 381 accounts, which the court said contained "evidence of criminality".
After an appeal was denied, Facebook complied with the request but protested that it violated the Fourth Amendment of the US constitution, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures".
Facebook also voiced concerns about the lack of date restrictions on the warrant, which it argued allowed the US government to keep the data indefinitely, and the range of data requested, which it said would contain private material which bore no relation to the trial.
The proceedings have been kept private by the court, but after a fresh appeal by Facebook a New York judge has now made the court filing public.
Facebook said the government had obtained "gag orders", preventing it from telling the account holders that it had been forced to hand over their data.
"This unprecedented request is by far the largest we've ever received - by a magnitude of more than ten - and we have argued that it was unconstitutional from the start," wrote Chris Sonderby, a legal adviser to Facebook.
"Of the 381 people whose accounts were the subject of these warrants, 62 were later charged in a disability fraud case.
"This means that no charges will be brought against more than 300 people whose data was sought by the government without prior notice to the people affected."
But a spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney defended the court's...

Summary: Facebook is fighting a US court order in which it was forced to hand over data belonging to almost 400 people involved in a benefit fraud trial.
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Article: There could be "serious implications" for Gloucestershire Police, the police and crime commissioner has warned.
Cotswold District Council's proposal to form a unity authority with West Oxfordshire has proved controversial.
But CDC says the plans - dubbed 'Coxit' - are at an early stage but aim to improve accountability.
CDC leader Lynden Stowe has said Gloucestershire's "historic borders" would remain under the proposals, which aim to improve the "administration and the delivery of council services".
He told BBC Radio Gloucestershire a few weeks ago: "We would expect the police to patrol up to the existing county borders, exactly as now, so if there's a crime in Cirencester, Gloucestershire Police attend and if there's a burglary in Burford, Thames Valley Police attend."
But Gloucestershire's PCC Martin Surl said he had taken legal advice on the "Coxit" proposal, and warned it could "signal the end of Gloucestershire Police as we know it".
Under the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, he said the Cotswolds could become part of Thames Valley Police District.
"If they break away to a new district, we can't continue policing just half a district," he told the BBC.
"So, either we start taking some of Thames Valley's area in Oxfordshire, or they start policing parts of Gloucestershire. Neither want that ."
A spokesman for Cotswold District Council said they "fully understand the initial concerns" but they were "best addressed through the detailed studies that will now take place to assess the feasibility of the unitary proposal".
Mr Surl, an independent, is standing for re-election as Gloucestershire PCC on 5 May, alongside Labour's Barry Kirby and the Conservatives' Will Windsor Clive.

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The Isle of Man government has said it is "committed to ensuring the safety of the nuclear industry" and is "committed to ensuring the safety of the nuclear industry in the Isle of Man".
The government has also said it is "committed to ensuring the safety of the nuclear industry in the Isle of Man

The Manx government is "concerned" about the safety of the Sellafield nuclear site, a spokesman said.

Article: About 11,000 people who have had early bowel, breast, prostate, stomach and oesophageal cancer will be involved.
Uncertainty about the drug's possible anti-cancer qualities has led to fierce medical debate in recent years.
If it is proven to work, scientists say it would be "game-changing", by providing a cheap and effective way to help more patients survive.
During the study, funded by the charity Cancer Research UK and the NIHR - the research arm of the NHS - patients will take a tablet every day for five years.
Researchers will compare groups of patients taking different doses of aspirin with people taking dummy (placebo) pills and check for any recurrences of cancer.
Dr Fiona Reddington from Cancer Research UK said: "The trial is especially exciting as cancers that recur are often harder to treat so finding a cheap and effective way to prevent this is potentially game-changing for patients."
The trial will run across 100 UK centres, involving patients who are having or have had treatment for early cancer, and will last up to 12 years.
But scientists warn that aspirin is not suitable for everyone and should not be used without medical advice.
Taking the drug every day comes with a serious health warning as it can cause side effects such as ulcers and bleeding from the stomach, or even the brain.
Prof Ruth Langley, lead investigator on the trial, said: "There's been some interesting research suggesting that aspirin could delay or stop early stage cancers coming back but there's been no randomised trial to give clear proof.
"The trial aims to answer this question once and for all.
"If we find that aspirin does stop these cancers returning, it could change future treatment - providing a cheap and simple way to help stop cancer coming back and helping more people survive."
Alex King, 51, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2009 and has been given the all-clear, said: "Having cancer was one of the toughest experiences of my life.
"Any opportunity to reduce the chance of cancer coming back is...

Summary: The world's largest clinical trial to examine whether aspirin can prevent cancers returning has begun in the UK.
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Article: On Monday, the BBC's Panorama programme uncovered several safety concerns, from staffing levels to waste storage.
The Mannin Branch of the Celtic League has called on the Manx government to campaign for a full, independent inspection of the plant in Cumbria.
Sellafield says the site is safe and has been improved with significant investment in recent years.
A spokesman added: "Safety is our priority and we are managing a very complex site which has got a great deal of hazardous radioactive materials on it."
The Isle of Man is located about 34 miles (55km) from the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant.
Due to its potential impact on the Manx fishing industry, the Manx government began monitoring radioactivity levels in the Irish Sea in 1989.
A government spokesman said: "Seafood fished in Manx waters can contain traces of radio-nuclides associated with effluent discharges from Sellafield to the Irish Sea, therefore these are monitored regularly to confirm that they remain well below maximum safe limits."
The BBC investigation was prompted by a whistle-blower - a former senior manager who was worried by conditions at the plant.
He said his biggest fear was a fire in one of the nuclear waste silos or in one of the processing plants.
The Manx government said it was particularly concerned about "the structural integrity of ageing waste storage ponds and silos".
A spokesman added: "However we are content that Sellafield Ltd and the nuclear regulators are trying to improve the safety situation.
"The government has asked questions about the technical solutions being developed to decommission these redundant structures and representatives have visited the site to look at the work under way".

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The National Trust has been accused of "bashing" the duchy over its decision to close a popular beach in Cornwall.
The charity said it was "extremely concerned" about the safety of the public at Crantock Beach, which is popular with surfers and bodyboarders.
The charity said it

The Duchy of Cornwall was warned of the risk of a "potentially fatal situation" at a beach it owns, ahead of a man's death there last week.

Article: The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has issued new experimental data.
They estimate what spending occurred in each country or region of the UK, and what revenues were raised in each of those countries or regions.
Spending per head in Northern Ireland was £14,020 while the lowest expenditure was in the South East of England at £10,580 per person.
The statistcs suggest that Northern Ireland also had the biggest per-person deficit - the gap between what is raised in revenues and what is spent.
Revenues were estimated at £8,580 per person, giving a deficit of £5,440 per person.
The lowest per-person revenue was in Wales at approximately £7,980 per person followed by the North East of England at £8,200 per person.
The only areas to run per-person surpluses were London, the South East of England and the East of England.
London had the highest net fiscal surplus per person at £3,070.
This is the first time the ONS has published these statistics and is still refining the methodology.
It points out that certain assumptions have to be made because taxes are generally not levied, or collected on a regional basis and most spending is planned to benefit a category of individuals and enterprises irrespective of location.

Summary: Northern Ireland had the highest public spending per head of any region of the UK in 2016.
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Article: Oneil Din, 27, from Coventry, got caught in a rip current and died at Crantock beach, Cornwall on 15 August.
Crantock Parish Council told the duchy in April it was "extremely concerned about the safety risks to the public".
The duchy said new warning signs were put up in 2016 and it planned to "see what more can possibly be done".
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The duchy was involved in a series of meetings and concluded there was no "simple solution" as the area had protected status, and that re-engineering the course of a river was a complicated and long process with no guarantees of success.
The council said the beach had become more dangerous since a breakwater was damaged by storms in 2015, causing the River Gannel to change course.
Earlier this month 11 bodyboarders had to be rescued at the same beach.
The council said: "Since the river diverted, very significant movements of sand have occurred that have made bathing conditions extremely dangerous at certain states of tide and sea condition".
The council met the duchy, the National Trust and the Marine Management Organisation on 27 January to discuss the issue but no repairs were authorised.
It also wrote a letter to the duchy in April saying it remained "extremely concerned about the safety risks to the public at large on a very busy beach, especially in the summer, and the possibility of an unfortunate, and potentially fatal, situation occurring".
RNLI lifeguard supervisor John Steadman said after the recent death: "Crantock beach has some unpredictable currents at the moment due to the topography of the beach constantly changing."
The duchy, which has land in 23 counties and funds the activities of the Prince of Wales, expressed its condolences and said in a statement: "In 2016 new signs were installed to alert people to the danger of strong currents and other risks.
"We plan to meet again with the parish council, National Trust and other stakeholders to see what more can possibly be done."
The National Trust, which has...

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The UN refugee agency says it is the world's biggest refugee camp, with more than 45,000 people living in squalid conditions in a squalid town.
The camp is in the north-east of Malakal, on the border with South Sudan.
The UN says it is the world's biggest refugee

The roads of central Juba, the capital of South Sudan, bear witness to the British colonial town it once was: They are lined with neem trees, tall and narrow-leafed, their seeds transported from India.

Article: Tobacco is the biggest culprit, causing 23% of cases in men and 15.6% in women, says the Cancer Research UK report.
Next comes a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables in men's diets, while for women it is being overweight.
The report is published in the British Journal of Cancer.
Its authors claim it is the most comprehensive analysis to date on the subject.
Lead author Prof Max Parkin said: "Many people believe cancer is down to fate or 'in the genes' and that it is the luck of the draw whether they get it.
"Looking at all the evidence, it's clear that around 40% of all cancers are caused by things we mostly have the power to change."
For men, the best advice appears to be: stop smoking, eat more fruit and veg and cut down on how much alcohol you drink.
For women, again, the reviews says the best advice is to stop smoking, but also watch your weight.
Prof Parkin said: "We didn't expect to find that eating fruit and vegetables would prove to be so important in protecting men against cancer. And among women we didn't expect being overweight to be more of a risk factor than alcohol."
In total, 14 lifestyle and environmental factors, such as where you live and the job you do, combine to cause 134,000 cancers in the UK each year.
About 100,000 (34%) of the cancers are linked to smoking, diet, alcohol and excess weight.
One in 25 of cancers is linked to a person's job, such as being exposed to chemicals or asbestos.
Some risk factors are well established, such as smoking's link with lung cancer.
But others are less recognised.
For example, for breast cancer, nearly a 10th of the risk comes from being overweight or obese, far outweighing the impact of whether or not the woman breastfeeds or drinks alcohol.
And for oesophageal or gullet cancer, half of the risk comes from eating too little fruit and veg, while only a fifth of the risk is from alcohol, the report shows.
For stomach cancer, a fifth of the risk comes from having too much salt in the diet, data suggests.
Some cancers, like mouth and throat cancer, are...

Summary: Nearly half of cancers diagnosed in the UK each year - over 130,000 in total - are caused by avoidable life choices including smoking, drinking and eating the wrong things, a review reveals.
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Article: In their broad shade, there is another familiar sight: Lines of men, in plastic chairs, most of them jobless. They wait and talk, scouring the thin pickings of the local newspapers.
Victor Lajar is one of them. He is 51 - his purple-striped shirt is perfectly pressed; his grey trousers have crisp vertical creases.
Over a cup of clove-laced tea, he tells me he used to be a local government official.
He was from the northern city of Malakal. He fled, during the civil war.  He has a family to support and no job.
I ask my first guileless question: "The war's over; why don't you return?"
Mr Lajar answers with his own question: "You don't know about Malakal?" he asks. "It's ashes," he tells me.
Few journalists go to Malakal. There are horrors aplenty elsewhere, and for long periods, the airport at the town has been inaccessible because of the fighting.
I arrive, on a tiny United Nations charter, at Malakal airfield. We swiftly have company.
A queue of large Russian-made transport planes, with no tail markings, land: Three in one hour, to re-supply the government forces, the SPLA, who currently hold the city.
Before I head to Malakal itself, though, I visit the UN camp, just to the north-east. It is where 45,000 former residents of the city now live.
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I am lucky - the rainy season is almost over. All I have to contend with is the broiling sun and the clouds of mosquitoes.
When it is wet, the ground is awash with mud and human waste.
The place carries the marks of the refugee camp. The new arrivals, strung out, hollow-eyed at its entrance.
The tents and shacks for long-term residents crammed into a crazed puzzle; the attempts to winnow a bit of extra cash: Men selling heaps of rusty nails; children selling single cloves of garlic; women selling small piles of...

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