The original contract signed by The Beatles and manager Brian Epstein has sold at Sotheby's for £365,000.

Article: William Tolcher, 51, denied attacking Alex Cusworth, 37, with the 10in (23cm) knife at Dartmoor Prison last November.
A jury at Plymouth Crown Court found him guilty of murder and he is due to be sentenced on Friday.
Tolcher, from Liverpool, is serving a life sentence for the murder of a woman in Newquay, Cornwall, in 1996.
Mr Cusworth suffered internal bleeding after the attack and died at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.
Judge James Dingemens said he was considering a minimum 30-year jail sentence.
Tolcher was convicted of murdering a woman in Newquay, Cornwall, in 1996 and was already serving a life sentence.

Summary: A convicted killer has been found guilty of stabbing a fellow prisoner to death with a prison issue kitchen knife.
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Article: Disability charities said it was not acceptable, with Transport for All saying it showed "clear disrespect".
Eurostar said it was "occasionally" using one of two disabled toilets on some trains as a "temporary measure".
It follows the introduction of new trains which do not have goods carriages for bike storage.
Last October, Eurostar told cyclists that bicycles would have to be taken apart and carried in special bike boxes for travel on its services.
The new rules were quickly reversed after thousands of emails of complaint, and criticism from then Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.
The use of a disabled toilet as alternative cycle storage was "appalling", one member of train crew who spoke to BBC News anonymously said.
"The company has caved in to the bike lobby. This sends a terrible message to disabled passengers."
Eurostar said wheelchair passengers were always seated near the available disabled toilet and the number of disabled passengers that could be booked on each train was not affected.
"This temporary arrangement hasn't had any impact on passengers with reduced mobility," it said.
"All passengers using wheelchairs have been able to travel and have full use of the accessible toilet facilities and this will continue to be the case."
But charities say that those who might need accessible toilets are not always in wheelchairs, may not identify themselves as requiring assistance and could be seated near a toilet being used for a bicycle.
"This inconsiderate action demonstrates a clear disrespect for many passengers," said Transport for All chairman Alan Benson.
"These facilities are essential for people with a variety of impairments, not just wheelchair users.
"Disabled passengers must not be allowed to suffer as a result of extremely poor design of these multi-million pound trains."
Philip Connolly of Disability Rights UK said the move amounted to "discrimination" against disabled people.
The BBC understands that a number of internal reports have been raised after distressed passengers complained at the...

Summary: Bicycles are being stored in disabled toilets on some of Eurostar's international services to and from France, the BBC has learned.
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Article: Last year the Burstow Commission called such homes "islands of misery".
One alternative is the idea of retirement villages, common in the United States, New Zealand and Australia, but only now catching on in the UK.
In such villages you buy or rent your own apartment, but have access to dozens of basic support and care services as you need them.
Many older people who move in to such villages find the experience so positive that their final years are transformed.
But, there is what some people see as a catch.
The biggest bill only arrives when you move out or die. And since it will often run into tens of thousands of pounds, it can come as a shock for your next of kin.
Unlike in a care home, retirement village residents usually buy an apartment on the site, although in some schemes they can part-buy, or even rent the property.
Residents bring their own furniture, decorate as they wish, and are free to have friends and family come to stay. Most villages allow pets to come too.
They can also pay for care and support services, which are on-site, as and when they need them.
They can get help with everything from shopping, for example, to assistance with washing or getting dressed.
Pat Wood moved into Hagley Road Village in Birmingham two years ago, and loves it.
"Whoever came up with the idea excelled themselves," she says.
"In my mind it's what the future holds."
There's a busy social scene here too. Activities include everything from tai chi to abseiling, while Kiki Dee will be playing in the bar in a few weeks' time.
"Everybody talks to you. It's aptly named a village," says Pat.
Apart from buying an apartment, and paying a regular service charge, residents are obliged to pay what is variously known in the industry as an exit or "event" fee.
This becomes due when a resident dies, or moves on to full-time medical care elsewhere, and the apartment is sold. Some describe it as the "enjoy now, pay later" model.
The exit fee depends on how long a resident has lived in the village, but is typically capped at 10% of...

Summary: Spending our last days in a residential care home is something that few of us would relish.
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Article: Fraudsters used to be able to pretend to be from a bank to con people into giving out financial details.
Now when a person hangs up, an incoming call to a BT line should disconnect within two seconds.
Regulator Ofcom says similar changes have been made to most of the UK's other major phone networks.
Thousands of people have lost money to scammers who have exploited the fact that a telephone line would previously stay connected.
The fraud works when criminals ring someone pretending to be from the police or a bank's fraud department.
To convince the victim they are genuine, the fraudster asks him or her to hang up and call their bank immediately.
But the scammers stay on the line waiting for the victim to make the call, and may even play dial tones down the line to convince them they are dialling out even though the line is still connected.
The fraudsters then "answer" the call and try to dupe the victim into handing over their financial details. They may persuade them to reveal their Pin code before sending a courier to the victim's home to collect their bank card.
In other cases, they have convinced their victims to "protect" their money by transferring it into other supposedly safe accounts.
BT started work to upgrade its exchanges in 2014, and completed the work in September.
Ofcom says all of the UK's mobile operators have now made changes to their phone networks to try to prevent this fraud by reducing the time a phone line stays open to just a couple of seconds.
Most major landline providers have also made the change. BT is the biggest. Its work will have knock-on benefits for the customers of other providers who use its network.
The advice to consumers is to remain wary just in case they are using a phone line which has yet to be upgraded.
They should ring their bank using a telephone number they know to be genuine, ideally from a different phone.
They should also watch out for the latest tactic - "number spoofing".
This is where criminals use software to copy the telephone number of a trusted...

Summary: BT has finished upgrading its exchanges as part of efforts to stop scammers exploiting telephone lines which are held open.
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Article: The 1962 document is said to be one of the most important contracts in popular music, marking the beginning of the band's journey to international fame.
The contract had been expected to fetch up to £500,000 in a sale of other rock memorabilia.
It last went under the hammer in 2008 at an auction in London when it went for £240,000.
It is the only managerial contract signed by both the final line-up of the Beatles - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - and their manager.
The contract was signed on 1 October 1962 at Epstein's office in Whitechapel, days before they released their first single, Love Me Do. It was witnessed by Epstein's secretary, Beryl Adams.
A single page from John Lennon's high school's detention book was also sold for £2,500, recording 29 occasions when he received detention at Quarry Bank High School in Allerton, Liverpool.
£1.75m Rolls Royce Phantom V belonging to John Lennon
£1.45m The piano on which John Lennon wrote Imagine
£800k Handwritten lyrics for A Day in the Life
£500k Drumskin on Sgt. Pepper album cover
The lots were part of Sotheby's sale also featuring a grand piano used in almost all of Abba's studio recordings between 1973 and 1977, which did not sell.
Instruments, clothing and manuscripts from the collection of Cream bassist Jack Bruce sold for between £688 for a manuscript book to £9,750 for a Warwick Fretless Thumb Bass.
A powder blue Fender Stratocaster played by Eric Clapton sold for £45,000.

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Motorists and rail passengers in Wales are being advised to check for disruption before travelling this Easter weekend.

Article: A 500,000-tonne landslide at Eden Brows forced the line's closure between Appleby and Carlisle early last month.
Network Rail has revealed plans to build a structure underneath the track at Armathwaite to support it.
The project, expected to take many months, will also involve major earthworks to stabilise the embankment.
There is no exact timetable, due to the scale of the slip, the fact the earth is still moving and the remoteness of its location.
Friends of the Settle Carlisle Line said it remained "open for business", with trains running between Leeds and Appleby and a bus replacement service to Carlisle.
Rhiannon Price, from Network Rail, said: "Our aim is to do a thorough job that leaves the Settle-to-Carlisle railway line in better shape than it was before this land slip.
"We are acutely mindful of the impact on communities served by this line, including businesses reliant on tourist trade.
"We are working to fix this slip as quickly as possible."

Summary: Plans to repair a damaged section of the Carlisle-to-Settle railway line have been agreed by engineers.
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Article: The picture of Madame Valentine Clapisson was painted by the great French Impressionist more than 130 years ago.
The original's impact has been degraded and dulled by the action of light.
But by using the latest analytical tools, conservators have been able to recover a sense of Renoir's rich reds.
"When we first brought this picture into the conservation studio for examination and removed the frame, we noticed that at the top and at the left-hand side there was a sliver of very intense colour," recalls Dr Francesca Casadio from The Art Institute of Chicago.
"This tipped us off to the fact that the mood of this painting that is now pretty cool and restrained with light purples and blues was once far more vibrant," she told BBC News.
Dr Casadio was speaking here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
She and other specialists in her field have been discussing the technologies they now use to investigate and restore artworks.
The visualisation of Madame Clapisson was produced after subjecting tiny samples of paint from the 1883 canvas to a technique known as Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS).
Pigments fade over time as the molecular structures responsible for colour are broken down through exposure to light.
SERS enables researchers to pick out even the smallest fragment of intact structure and determine its molecular composition.  This was done with tiny samples taken from the newly uncovered edges of the canvas.
Dr Casadio's and colleague's investigation showed that the picture we see today has lost the impact of Renoir's use of the carmine lake, or cochineal, pigment.
Extracted from the bodies of certain insects, this crimson colour should dominate the scene around Madame Clapisson.
"The manuals from the 19th Century were already warning artists that carmine lake was a 'fugitive pigment'; it wasn't a permanent colour. And yet, the artists clearly loved it because they continued to use it over and over again even though they had more stable options...

Summary: Researchers in Chicago have produced a visualisation of how they think a Renoir could have looked before its colours faded.
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Article: The zoo is also going to try to mate the pandas naturally before the end of the short breeding season.
Edinburgh zoo acquired the pandas on loan from China in 2011 and previous attempts to mate the pair have failed.
Tian Tian, which means Sweetie, and male Yang Guang (Sunshine) were the first giant pandas to live in the UK for 17 years.
The last pandas in the UK, Ming Ming and Bao Bao, left a zoo in London in 1994 after failing to mate.
Iain Valentine, director of giant pandas for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, said artificial insemination took place on Tian Tian in the early hours of Thursday.
"The procedure was carried out by the expert team of three veterinarians at RZSS, alongside Chinese colleague Doctor Wang Chengdong from the China Conservation and Research Centre for Giant Pandas (CCRCGP)," he said.
"Only semen from male panda Yang Guang was used during the procedure.
"Natural mating will also be attempted today before the short breeding window comes to a close this afternoon (Thursday) as both pandas remain extremely interested in one another, but as Tian Tian's transition to peak was so rapid it was a priority to move straight to artificial insemination first."
Libby Anderson, policy director of animal protection charity OneKind, criticised the move.
She said: "Unlike a human mother who makes the choice to undergo artificial insemination, Tian Tian has no say in whether she has these procedures.
"OneKind has always believed that it is misguided to attempt to breed more captive pandas in Edinburgh Zoo when they will never return to the wild or improve protection for the wild population in their native habitat.
"We are extremely disappointed to hear that the zoo is going down the route of artificial insemination again following previous unsuccessful attempts to breed from Tian Tian.
"We think that now is the time to leave these animals in peace and OneKind has expressed this view to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland."
An Edinburgh Zoo spokeswoman said: "It is misleading to say that...

Summary: The female giant panda at Edinburgh Zoo has been artificially inseminated.
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Article: Knight's Peak had been listed as a Munro Top, with a height of 3,002ft (915m).
Munros and Munro Tops are mountains of more than 3,000ft (914.4m). They are prized by hillwalkers and climbers.
Knight's Peak, however, has lost its status after surveyors using GPS technology found it to be 6in (16.5cm) too short to qualify as a top.
A Munro Top is a subsidiary of a nearby Munro. Climbers do not regard them as having the "sufficient gap" from a neighbouring mountain to be considered as a Munro proper.
The classifications take their name from Victorian climber Sir Hugh Munro, who began writing a list of Scotland's highest mountains in the late 1800s.
Knight's Peak, a subsidiary of Sgurr nan Gillean, was named after W Knight, who made the first recorded ascent of it 140 years ago.
John Barnard, one of the surveyors involved in calculating the new height, said GPS allowed measurements to be made down to a few centimetres.
He told BBC Scotland: "It doesn't take anything away from the hill. The hill is still there and it is a fantastic hill. It is just the categorisation that has changed."
Alistair Milner, who co-ordinates height records for The Munro Society, said new technology made it "inevitable" that some peaks would lose their status.
He added: "We want to make the list as accurate as we can.
"Sir Hugh Munro was a stickler for accuracy. We are just carrying on his tradition."
Mr Milner said that because of the challenging route up to Knight's Peak climbers would still want to tackle it.
The same survey team also found that another Munro Top on Skye, Basteir Tooth, was 4ft (1.2m) higher than previously recorded.
Last year, Beinn a'Chlaidheimh, a Munro near Ullapool, was demoted to Corbett status after a fresh measurement of its height.
Corbetts are Scottish hills of 2,500-3,000ft (762-914.4m).
Also last year, two peaks that had twin Corbett status because mountaineers could not determine which was taller were separated by new measurements.
Buidhe Bheinn above Kinloch Hourn and Sgurr a' Bhac Chaolais, overlooking...

Summary: A rocky peak on Skye's Pinnacle Ridge is shorter than previously thought, according to a new measurement.
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Article: More than 16 million drivers are set to take to UK roads, with four million travelling on Good Friday and 4.5 million on Easter Sunday.
Arriva Trains says passengers in Wales will face delays if travelling to London due to engineering works.
Details of affected services can be found on Arriva Trains Wales website.
Motorists can check for planned works, delays or latest incidents on the Traffic Wales website.
A South Wales Police spokesman said: "Motorists are advised to take note of travel information and allow plenty of time for their journeys."
Motoring organisation the RAC said the millions travelling would make it "hectic" on UK roads this weekend.
A spokesman said: "The first spring bank holiday of the year traditionally heralds the start of busier weekends.
"This Easter is set to be a hectic one.
"We recommend considering starting a journey earlier in the day if the plan is to drive a long distance."
It is also expected to be a busy weekend at Cardiff Airport with more than 11,000 passengers expected to fly to and from the Welsh capital.
Topping the list of destinations from Cardiff is Amsterdam with Dublin, Tenerife and Malaga also popular as Easter getaways.

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Italian police say four teenagers accused of 12 robberies in Milan gloried in violence like the notorious gang in the film A Clockwork Orange.

Article: The singer gave the record player as a wedding gift to Ellen Marschhauser in Germany in 1959, where he was stationed during his Army service.
She and husband Jim Jenkins retired to Cornwall, where she died in 2010.
The Perpetuum Ebner Musical 5v Luxus was expected to fetch £2,000, but sold for £4,400 to an overseas bidder at Penzance Auction House.
Proprietor David Lay said he had never come across anything that had created so much interest.
Mr Jenkins said the record player had also been a "thank you" from Elvis to his wife for doing some translation work for the singer's father, Vernon.
He said he and his wife had used the record player at parties, but it had been put away in the loft when the needle broke.
As well as playing records on it, it is believed that Elvis also used the player as an amplifier for his guitar.

Summary: A record player that once belonged to Elvis Presley has sold for double its estimated price at auction.
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Article: Last year 1,657 allegations were recorded by police, of these 670 were child victims under the age of 16.
The total is more than double the 785 allegations recorded in 2011-12, according to Rape Monitoring Group data.
South Wales Police logged the largest number of allegations, while Dyfed Powys recorded the least.
The data is drawn from official figures by the Home Office, Office for National Statistics, Crown Prosecution Service and Ministry of Justice.
End Violence Against Women Coalition said the figures showed rape was not a "rare crime".
Its co-director Sarah Green said the spike in reporting showed the "desire to seek justice was increasing".

Summary: The number of rape allegations in Wales has more than doubled in the last five years, new figures show.
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Article: The Independence party polled 26.7% and the Progressive party 24.4%, putting them on track to win 38 of the 63 seats.
The ruling Social Democrats' share of the vote dropped to below 13%.
It is a dramatic comeback for the parties widely blamed for Iceland's economic meltdown in 2008.
Iceland saw its prosperity evaporate, as the country's three banks collapsed, and the Social Democrats came to power a year later, with a programme of austerity tailored to international lenders' requirements.
"The Independence party has been called to duty again," said leader Bjarni Benediktsson, who looks likely to become prime minister.
"We've seen what cutbacks have done for our healthcare system and social benefits... now it's time to make new investments, create jobs and start growth," he said.
But the party seen as the major winner of the election was the Progressives, whose vote almost doubled. "I'm very pleased," said leader Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson.
The centre-right camp has promised debt relief and a cut in taxes.
The two leading parties, which will now enter coalition negotiations, are also seen as Eurosceptic, and their poll success could slow down Iceland's efforts to become a member of the European Union.
The Eurosceptics argue that Iceland already gets most of the benefits of full membership through existing free trade arrangements with the EU and by being part the Schengen visa-free travel zone.
Many Icelanders have become frustrated with the outgoing Social Democrat government, saying that its austerity policies were too painful.
Two new parties performed particularly well: Bright Future, which won six seats, and the Pirate party, with three.
The Social Democrats saw their share of the vote fall dramatically to 12.9% (nine seats) while the Left-Greens' vote fell to 10.9% (seven seats).
Social Democrat leader Arni Pall Arnason, while disappointed, refused to acknowledge that the two centre-right parties had been given a major vote of confidence. "Their democratic mandate to change society is absolutely zero," he said.

Summary: Centre-right opposition parties in Iceland are set for a return to power with all the votes counted after Saturday's parliamentary election.
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Article: It comes as about 80 Tory MPs prepare to discuss ways of pressing for a renegotiation of the UK's position.
Conservative grandee Lord Heseltine has criticised the move, saying it is the equivalent of "lighting a tinder box".
The ex-deputy prime minister told the BBC talk of clawing back powers from Brussels at a time of economic crisis was "the last thing anybody wants".
Attitudes to Europe on the Conservative benches have hardened in recent weeks amid signs that EU leaders are considering closer fiscal union in response to the debt crisis crippling the eurozone.
On Monday, about 80 Conservative MPs are expected to attend the first meeting of a new umbrella group designed to air grievances over Europe and a build a platform for influencing government policy.
The gathering is designed to create a focused strategy out of different Conservative concerns and demands for action, ranging from changes to EU institutions such as the European Court of Justice, the repatriation of powers to the UK and outright withdrawal from the EU.
One of the group's convenors has said he would like to open future gatherings to Labour MPs in order to try to build a cross-party dialogue about resisting further integration.
But Lord Heseltine, one of the most pro-European members of the Thatcher and Major governments, said Conservative prime ministers were used to having to deal with "very substantial" Eurosceptic elements.
He said he "strongly" supported the stance of David Cameron, who has said the UK must focus on influencing the development of the EU and make the union "work" in British interests.
He accused those pushing for a referendum on EU membership of "opportunism", and suggested all Conservative prime ministers stretching from Harold Macmillan to John Major had pursued the same policy on Europe.
"They have all presided over a closer relationship of Britain and Europe for one reason - it is in Britain's interests," he told BBC Two's Daily Politics.
He added: "In what is an extremely fragile world situation, if you want to...

Summary: Tory and Labour MPs are among 100,000 signatories of a new petition calling for a referendum on EU membership.
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Article: The four are now in police custody, after a crime spree that included raids on hotels, small shops and amusement arcades, Italian media report.
On one occasion they allegedly raced off in a Porsche Cayenne after pointing a pistol in the driver's face.
The gang reportedly boasted of their crimes in video clips on social media.
They stole cash, smartphones, tablets and even on one occasion a youth's luxury shoes worth â‚¬530 (Â£465; $601), according to police. The crimes took place in Milan's Quarto Oggiaro district.
Two of the young suspects are Italians aged 14 and 16, the others are of foreign origin, aged 15 and 17.
They came from broken homes and are thought to have been controlled by an Egyptian man, aged 23. He is under arrest on a drugs charge and was convicted for previous offences.
Police found that the youths - dubbed a "baby gang" in Italian media - possessed several firearms, including a pump-action shotgun.
Italy's Rai news website said investigators "stressed that the baby gang used brutal violence on their victims in the style of A Clockwork Orange".
One victim, a young man attacked in the street, was pistol-whipped and needed 10 stitches for a deep wound.
The 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick, was a box-office hit. Based on a futuristic novel by Anthony Burgess, it portrayed a gang of juvenile delinquents who made a cult of gratuitous violence.

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The pound rose 0.3% against the euro to $1.4685, and was also 0.3% higher against the dollar at â‚¬1.3174.
The pound rose 0.3% against the dollar to $1.4685, and was also 0.3

(Noon): Banking shares helped to lift the market, but shares in M&S slid after the retailer said its turnaround plan was set to hit profits.

Article: Action Comics No 1 cost 10 cents when it first went on sale in 1938.
The copy sold by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions is one of about 100 originals known to still exist. Its condition was rated 5.5 out of 10.
But it is far from the most expensive comic ever sold - a nine out of 10-rated copy of the same edition fetched $3.2m (£1.9m) in 2014.
Heritage said the copy sold on Thursday came from the collection of an unnamed East Coast comic book fan who had bought it in the 1990s for $26,000 (£19,800).
After his appearance in Action Comics No 1, Superman soon became a hit and was given his own dedicated comic in 1939.

Summary: A rare copy of the comic in which Superman made his debut has been sold at auction for $956,000 (£728,000).
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Article: So-called "Spads" are appointed by ministers to provide political advice over and above the impartial work carried out by civil servants.
The Cabinet Office put the increase down to the "unusual" pressures caused by coalition government.
But Labour said David Cameron's pre-election promise to limit the number of special advisers was in "tatters".
A leap from 85 to 98 in the number of special advisers - who work directly to ministers and often speak for them - contributed to a 16% rise in the total wage bill in 2012-13.
According to the Cabinet Office, the total salary bill was £7.2m last year, up from £6.2m in 2011-12 and more than the £6.8m the previous government spent in its final year.
To David Cameron
To Nick Clegg
Source: Cabinet Office
Special advisers played "an important role... advising ministers and contributing to the smooth running of government", a spokesman said.
"This is particularly important in a coalition and the number of special advisers reflects the unusual circumstances of this government - the first coalition government for more than 60 years."
He added that special advisers represented 2.2% of the senior civil service.
Labour accused the government of double standards and said it came against cuts across the rest of the country.
And Labour MP Phil Wilson accused the prime minister of breaking his 2010 manifesto pledge to "put a limit on the number of special advisers".
"While he tells the rest of the country to accept cuts, he's happy to spend more and more on his own spin doctors. It's more evidence of how out of touch he is that he thinks the rules don't apply to him," he added.

Summary: The salary bill for ministers' special advisers has risen by £1m in the last year, according to official figures.
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Article: About 70% of lights have been turned off between midnight and 05:00 since March 2013 to save £1m annually.
Safety and crime concerns led some local councils to offer to fund the night lighting themselves.
Essex County Council said the lights would now be turned off between 01:00 and 05:00 six days a week, costing an extra £300,000 a year.
Rodney Bass, Conservative cabinet member for highways and transportation, said the decision to roll out the new scheme followed a successful trial in Epping Forest.
He said it was "not a change of policy", but a "fine-tuning" of the system, particularly to help those living closer to London who arrived back on trains late from the capital.
The lights will remain off between 00:00 and 05:00 on Mondays due to fewer commuter journeys, except near the Epping Forest underground.
The changes come into effect on 30 March.
Harlow Council voted last month to raise council tax by 1.5% to pay for the cost of having the street lights turned back on all night.
It followed complaints of theft, robbery and injury as people walked in the darkness.
But the county council rejected the £121,000 offer, saying it was "bizarre" as it had seen no evidence of a rise in crime or injury.
Colchester Borough Council said it had allocated up to £185,000 in its budget to pay for the lights to be turned back on. Tendring District Council is due to debate the issue later.
Jon Clempner, leader at Harlow Council, said: "I am pleased that the Essex County Council's position of inflexibility has changed to illustrate that it can respond to local needs."

Summary: Street lights will be turned on for an extra hour across Essex following a decision by the county council.
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Article: The UK's second-largest pound shop chain began as a Wakefield market stall set up by Christopher Edwards in 1974.
The family firm now has more than 280 outlets, as well as 50 Bargain Buys shops selling items at various prices.
The US acquisition will enable Poundworld - a rival to Poundland - to open new stores and invest in new distribution facilities.
Mr Edwards, 64, along with family members and other senior executives, will retain a minority stake in the retailer.
They stand to make millions from the sale.
Mr Edwards said: "I began this business as a market trader and we now have millions of customers from all corners of the nation and all walks of life. Still, there is so much more for us to achieve."
He had "very ambitious goals", he said.
Abel Halpern, a partner at TPG, said: "Poundworld has succeeded in building one of the leading positions in the market with a focus on consumer preference, convenience and value. The business is now well positioned for continued growth."
James Hughes, an analyst with eToro, said. "For a long time we've had the supermarkets all competing in a price war, trying to gain market share from each other - we've got no-one really looking at these real discount stores. And it's the growth of these discount stores ... which has been massive."
The Poundworld sale follows Poundland's £55m purchase of rival, 99p Stores, in February.
However, the Competition and Markets Authority said the Poundland-99p Stores merger could result in less choice for consumers.
Last week Poundland asked the watchdog to move to a full review.
The company said it "remained confident that the combination of the two businesses will provide better choice, value and service for 99p Stores' customers".
Unlike its rivals, Poundworld is the first single-priced UK retailer to offer online shopping.

Summary: Poundworld, the discount retailer, has been sold to US private equity firm TPG for £150m.
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Article: Shortly after midday, the FTSE 100 was 37.55 points higher at 6,256.81.
M&S shares sank 8% after the retailer warned of a hit to short-term profits as it attempts to revive its clothing business.
New chief executive Steve Rowe says he intends to lower clothing prices and reduce the number of sales promotions.
But bank shares helped to bolster the wider market, with RBS up 3.6% and HSBC 3.4% higher.
Royal Mail shares rose 1% to 526.5p after regulator Ofcom said it would not impose any new price controls on the company.
Ofcom said it had decided against new controls because of the declining market for letters and increasing competition for parcel deliveries.
Electrical goods and mobile phone retailer Dixons Carphone rose 0.5% as it pushed up its full-year profit forecast after enjoying strong sales. It now expects profits of between Â£445m and Â£450m.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.3% against the dollar to $1.4685, and was also 0.3% higher against the euro at â‚¬1.3174.

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Rail said the situation would be monitored as more heavy rain is forecast for Wednesday.
The line is expected to be closed for several days with flood waters having reached platform level

The Conwy Valley rail route in north Wales could remain closed for several days after heavy rain caused flooding.

Article: Who are these men in bowler hats and orange sashes?
Most Orange Order parades pass off peacefully but the rest of the world has often only seen images of those that don't.
So who is marching and why, and why do some people sometimes object to parades?
The Orange Order is a 'fraternal' organisation, named for William of Orange, the Protestant Dutchman who seized the thrones of Catholic King James II back in the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688.
Two years later, 'King Billy' saw off James for good at the Battle of the Boyne, near Dublin. He is revered by the Orange Order as a champion of his faith and the man who secured the Protestant ascendancy in Ireland.
The 'marching season' is a period of events from April to August, with the highpoint on 12 July when Orangemen march to commemorate William's victory.
For many Catholics, these marches are triumphalist and sectarian - a means of very publicly 'rubbing in' a historical wrong - with some traditional Orange routes passing through or by staunchly Catholic and nationalist areas.
Some of those marches have been re-routed but some remain contentious. At Garvaghy Road in Portadown, County Armagh, Orangemen make an annual protest at not being permitted to parade along the route they want to take.
Efforts are made to reduce problems around contentious parades with re-routing and highly visible policing.
The Orange Order itself has also attempted to move with the times, rebranding the 12 July celebrations 'Orangefest' in a public relations charm offensive that presents the day as a fun and inclusive dash of local colour. There was even, briefly, a superhero mascot called Diamond Dan.
It's a canny decision, with membership of fraternal societies generally in sharp decline. The Orange Order's secrecy, ceremonies and archaic titles - all distantly derived from Freemasonry - smack of a bygone age. While staunchly loyal to its traditions, the Orange Order also understands it must reach out to a new generation.
"It's full of tradition and history, but you have to make that fit...

Summary: If you're not from Northern Ireland, you may be wondering what on earth the 'marching season' is all about.
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Article: Green Hedge Renewables has drawn up initial plans for the development of Baldoon Airfield near Wigtown.
They claim it could generate up to 20MW of renewable energy annually.
The developer outlined its proposal for the 53.8 hectare (133 acres) site in a "pre-application" submission to Dumfries and Galloway Council.
Rows of solar panels would be built on former runways and on farmland south-east of the airfield, under the plans.
Fixed at a 20 degree angle, the front of the panel would be 80cm (31 inches) from the ground, the back would be two metres (6.5 feet) high.
The farm would be surrounded by a two metre high boundary fence, with infra-red motion sensor CCTV cameras "to deter trespassing or any criminal activity".
The site borders the Crook of Baldoon RSPB reserve and it is close to two sites of special scientific interest (SSSI) - Wigtown Bay and the Cree Estuary.
The developers have mooted plans to re-seed the ground beneath the solar panels built on farmland.
It would allow sheep to continue to graze the land, therefore managing the growth of vegetation.
In a report to Dumfries and Galloway Council, project planner Adam Banting, of Green Hedge Renewables, stressed that the plans are at a very early stage.
He said: "Any proposal that is considered viable on this site will be subject to full consultation and liaison with the local community and other stakeholders who may have an interest in this proposal."
The energy it generates would be fed into the National Grid.
After 25 years, the development would be decommissioned, all equipment removed and the site reinstated to its current state, the developer said.

Summary: A large solar farm could be built on a disused airfield in Dumfries and Galloway.
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Article: The new note will debut in 2020 to mark the 100th anniversary of the US Constitution's 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
The treasury will seek the public's input in the selection, looking for a "champion for our inclusive democracy".
Former US political leaders - all white men - currently headline US notes.
The woman who the Treasury Department ultimately selects will replace Alexander Hamilton, a key figure in the American Revolution and the first secretary of the US Treasury.
Hamilton began appearing on the $10 note in 1929. He along with diplomat and inventor Ben Franklin are the only non-presidents featured on current US notes.
Women have been featured on US money before, but the notes and coins were not widely used. Most recently women's rights activist Susan B Anthony and Native American Sacagawea appeared on dollar coins, but both coins quickly went out circulation.
The primary goal of the redesign is to add measures to thwart counterfeiters, the Treasury Department said. But women's groups have recently pressed for more representation on US notes.
"We have only made changes to the faces on our currency a few times since bills were first put into circulation, and I'm proud that the new 10 will be the first bill in more than a century to feature the portrait of a woman," said Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew.
In March, an independent group held a contest to select a woman to headline the $20 note, replacing former President Andrew Jackson.
Abolitionist Harriet Tubman was the public's top choice, beating out finalists, former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, civil rights activist Rosa Parks and leader of the Cherokee nation Wilma Mankiller.
Tubman was known as the "conductor" of the Underground Railroad that allowed many slaves to escape to freedom in the 1850s.
Mr Lew will make a decision about the selected woman by the end of year.

Summary: The US Treasury Department says a redesigned $10 note will feature a woman, but who she will be has not been decided.
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Article: Consultants estimate the project could cost between Â£60 and Â£70m if adopted.
Roads authority Transport NI asked experts to examine creating additional capacity on motorways due to "recurrent traffic congestion at peak times".
Their report suggested the M1 and M2 in and out of Belfast become so-called "smart motorways".
Similar schemes are already in operation in England.
The hard shoulder on each side of the M1 between Stockman's Lane and Blaris would be turned into traffic lanes.
On the M2, the hard shoulder would be converted to carriageway on both sides between York Street and Greencastle.
A summary of the report, seen by the BBC, said the idea was at the concept stage but was considered "value for money".
It highlighted that one drawback could be that it may encourage car use at the expense of public transport.
The Freight Transport Association, which represents haulage firms, said the idea should be "given serious consideration."

Summary: Hard shoulders on parts of motorways should be turned into carriageways to ease traffic congestion, a report on Northern Ireland's roads has said.
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Article: The line from Llandudno Junction, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, was shut after water reached platform level at North Llanrwst station.
In Ceredigion, a tree has been removed from the line between Aberystwyth and Birmingham International after a reported landslip at Llanbadarn.
Network Rail said it was "pulling out the stops" to keep services running.
On Anglesey, speed restrictions remain in place around Gaerwen due to flooding. Network Rail said the situation would be monitored as more heavy rain is forecast for Wednesday.
Wales route managing director, Paul McMahon said: "We're working really hard to keep services running, but unfortunately the Conwy Valley line will be closed for several days with flood waters having reached platform level at North Llanwrst.
"Elsewhere in Wales the impact on services has been relatively limited so far. However, we are monitoring the situation very closely, and with more bad weather predicted it's really important passengers check before they travel, via the National Rail Enquiries website or by calling 03457 48 49 50."
Four flood warnings are in place for north and south west Wales, along with dozens of alerts.
Check if this is affecting your journey

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A convicted killer has been sent back to jail after he admitted carrying out a brutal attack on Christmas Day, months after being freed early.

Article: Russia was told to pay the money to former shareholders in the now defunct oil producer Yukos.
The Hague court said Russian officials had manipulated the legal system to bankrupt Yukos, and jail its boss.
The Russian finance ministry said the ruling was "flawed", "one-sided" and "politically biased".
The ministry added that the Permanent Court for Arbitration in The Hague "had no jurisdiction to consider the questions it was given".
The claim was filed by a subsidiary for the financial holding company GML, once the biggest shareholder in Yukos Oil Co.
GML Executive Director Tim Osborne said: "The majority shareholders of Yukos Oil were left without compensation for the loss of their investment when Russia illegally expropriated Yukos."
"It is a major step forward for the majority shareholders, who have been battling for over 10 years for this decision."
In an interview with the BBC's World Business Report, Mr Osborne added that his next step would be to use local courts worldwide to pursue Russian state property which could be seized as recompense.
Commenting on the tribunal's findings, he told the BBC: "In their view Rosneft, for instance, is an instrumentality of the state and was the vehicle that the Russian state chose to bankrupt and expropriate Yukos."
Pursuing Rosneft for the funds is a "distinct possibility", he said.
However, in a statement, the Russian ministry said: "Because of substantial shortcomings in the rulings of the arbitration court, the Russian Federation will challenge the rulings of the arbitration court in Dutch courts and expects to obtain a fair result there".
GML's lawyer Emmanuel Gaillard said: "This is an historic award. It is now judicially established that the Russian Federation's actions were not a legitimate exercise in tax collection but, rather, were aimed at destroying Yukos and illegally expropriating its assets for the benefit of State instrumentalities Rosneft and Gazprom."
Dr Florian Otto from risk advisory company Maplecroft said that Russia will be hoping to win time...

Summary: Russia will appeal against a international court ruling that it should  pay $50bn (£29.5bn) in damages, the biggest compensation package ever.
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Article: The Aslef union has announced a three-day strike next week in a dispute over driver-only operated trains.
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), which has claimed all Southern services could be halted, argues the strike would breach customers' rights.
Meanwhile, the latest strike by RMT conductors has entered its third day.
Southern has said the High Court hearing, which started on Wednesday, is expected to reach a judgement at 14:30 GMT.
Aslef members have also launched an indefinite ban on overtime which, coupled with the RMT action over changes to the role of conductors, has led to about half of Southern's services being cancelled during the current three-day strike.
The long-running RMT dispute, which has seen several strikes throughout 2016, is set to continue in the run-up to Christmas.
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Summary: The High Court is due to rule later on whether the parent company of Southern rail can stop a planned train drivers' strike.
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Article: Kezia Dugdale addressed the issue during a speech in Glasgow.
She said it would be "unfair" to exclude EU citizens from such a fundamental decision.
Earlier this week, No 10 said citizens from most EU countries living in the UK would not get a vote on whether or not to sever ties with Brussels.
The franchise for the referendum, which is expected by the end of 2017, will be based on that for a general election - meaning Irish, Maltese and Cypriots resident in the UK will get a vote, but other EU citizens will not.
Ms Dugdale claimed that last September's referendum on Scottish independence was enhanced by the participation of around 90,000 EU nationals registered to take part in the ballot.
"Put simply, I believe EU nationals who have chosen to live their life here, and make the UK their home, should have the right to vote in a referendum on the future of the country," she said.
The Lothians MSP - the Scottish party's deputy leader - set out her position in a keynote speech to the Scottish Fabians, in which she also argued that Scottish Labour has to be seen as a party with ideas for the future rather than stuck in the past.
She told the audience she would be campaigning to stay in Europe and keep the "strong ties" with the UK's neighbours.
She said that referendums should be conducted "as inclusively and democratically as possible" and argued that 16 and 17-year-olds should be able to vote in the EU referendum, as they did in the Scottish independence ballot.
She said: "We as a country benefit from the free movement of people across Europe, and we should not continue to enjoy this freedom while restricting political participation.
"Voting rights are a matter of democratic principle, and I strongly feel it is unfair to exclude EU nationals from a fundamental referendum.
"The referendum reinvigorated political participation in Scotland. A referendum on Europe can afford us the same opportunity."
Ms Dugdale is expected to face a challenge from Labour MSP Ken Macintosh in the bid to replace outgoing Scottish...

Summary: EU nationals who have made the UK their home should be able to vote in the referendum on Europe, according to a Scottish Labour leadership candidate.
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Article: The majority of the buildings are in the Western Isles, but there are examples all over Scotland, including on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Thatch used to be a common roofing material in rural Scotland, but has now largely disappeared.
The 632-page survey was compiled by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) and funded by Historic Environment Scotland (HES).
It includes photographs of every building, information on the type of thatch and its condition, as well as stories from those living in them.
HES said thatch was the first roofing material used in Scotland, and a very wide range of thatching techniques can be found in the country.
Rye, heather, reed and marram grass were all used to thatch buildings.
Colin Tennant, from HES, said: "Thatched buildings are an iconic part of our heritage and Scotland's wider historic environment, particularly in our rural areas. They form a unique part of our diverse built heritage and culture, providing a real insight into the craft skills and traditional practices of our past.
"These new findings allow us to identify Scotland's surviving thatched building stock and will also inform discussions with our partners in the sector on how we can help conserve these buildings for future generations, whether that be through skills training, technical advice or different funding approaches."
In some parts of Scotland, thatching continued until the start of the 20th Century.
The practice declined because of a loss of skills and when other roofing materials like corrugated iron and slate became widely available.
According to the survey, the Western Isles have 67 buildings with thatch remaining and the Highlands 44. Perth and Kinross has 21 and there are 13 in Argyll and Bute.
Matthew Slocombe, director of SPAB, said: "These buildings are quintessentially Scottish and their historic value is immense.
"Yet perhaps because they are humble working structures or perhaps because of the very way they were built - lying low to protect and shield their former occupants - we...

Summary: Scotland's 305 thatched roof buildings have been surveyed for the first time.
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Article: Steven Souley, 26, and his accomplice Zico Malavin, 20, were remanded in custody after they admitted attacking Robert Eadie, 25, in Glasgow in 2014.
The victim required surgery to repair a wound to his groin and penis after being hit with an axe and knife.
Souley was previously jailed for seven years for killing a man in 2010.
Sentence on both accused was deferred at the High Court in Glasgow after they admitted assaulting Mr Eadie to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement.
The court heard that the attack happened at a Christmas party hosted by Mr Eadie's sister at her flat in the city's Summerston area.
Souley and Malavin, who were not invited, turned up at about midnight. Souley was armed with an axe and Malavin - who was wearing a red Christmas jumper - was clutching a knife.
Mr Eadie's sister, who knew the pair, demanded that they leave. Her brother was attacked after he tried to put them out of the flat.
Souley and Malavin both fled the scene and police and paramedics were called.
A knife and a Christmas sweater were later found at a property linked to Souley.
It was months later that the pair were charged.
The court heard that Mr Eadie needed an operation to repair a "deep wound" to his groin and to his penis. He also suffered injuries to his head and hand.
He was released from hospital days later, but will be permanently scarred.
Souley and Malavin, both from the city's Drumchapel area, will be sentenced next month.
Souley was jailed in 2011 after being convicted of the culpable homicide of 41-year-old Andrew Curran.
In May 2014 he was deemed safe enough to be freed early.
Zico Malavin's brothers were both found guilty of murder over the attack on Mr Curran.
Angus Malavin was jailed for 18 years and younger brother Zak for 17 years.
Mr Curran died from a sword wound to the neck.
The fatal park attack happened following a row over a bottle of Buckfast.
A fourth Malavin brother, Kris, was jailed for seven years in 2014 after he tried to run down and kill a key witness in the murder trial.

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Four-time Olympic medallist Louis Smith may face "suspension or expulsion" by British Gymnastics over a video in which he apparently mocks Islam.

Article: The 50m (164ft) tall structures are set to disappear at Dunford Bridge in South Yorkshire as part of National Grid plans to remove ugly overhead lines.
The project has shortlisted 12 stretches of pylons in eight areas across the country.
A final decision on the Peak District plan will be made in March.
The pylons can be seen across a 12.8km (8m) stretch of the national park, starting near Penistone in South Yorkshire and ending at Tintwistle in Derbyshire.
Steve Knight-Gregson, from the National Grid, said: "We have looked at national parks in England and Wales where we have overhead lines and a panel of experts and landscape architects have helped narrow it down to this shortlist.
"In the Peak District, this section of line is one of those that's made it through for further work."
The scheme is funded by Ofgem, which will claw back the cost through an increase in customers' bills.
Plans to remove the pylons include replacing overhead lines with underground cables, screening lines from viewpoints and re-routing lines.
Anne Robinson, from Friends of the Peak District, said: "There [were] a lot of studies done before this was set up to make sure the customers were behind it.
"There's no doubt that customers are willing to pay and have a very small sum added to their electricity bills a year to make sure these landscapes are enhanced."
Pylons were introduced in the Peak District national park in the 1960s.
John Scott, from the Peak District National Park Authority, welcomed the news that they could be removed.
He said: "These measures would greatly improve the appearance of the valley, which runs through some of the wildest moorland landscape in the Peak District.
"The pylon towers and the overhead cables are some of the most intrusive modern elements in a valley. This is clearly a very welcome proposal which would be of great benefit to the special character of this part of the Peak District."
Other parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty shortlisted for the work include:
Nick Clack, from the  Campaign to...

Summary: A stretch of power lines running through the Peak District national park could be buried underground as part of a £500m scheme.
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Article: If Greece went, would others be the next targets in the financial markets? Would they find themselves pushed relentlessly towards the eurozone's exit?
This time we are actually closer to Greece leaving, and yet there is very little sign of the dreaded contagion. In 2011 and the following year there was a lot of it about. Not so today.
Why? It's largely down to the European Central Bank (ECB).
But perhaps the first thing to spell out is what that earlier contagion looked like.
The key element was the impact on the market for government debt, the bond market.  Investors worried that some governments might struggle to maintain their debt payments.
They also worried that if any of those countries did end up leaving the euro, the debts would be repaid in a national currency that would in all likelihood lose value.
Inevitably investors buying the bonds concerned wanted compensation for the risk in the shape of a higher return or yield.
When the return on government bonds in the market rises, it generally means the government will have to pay higher borrowing costs when they next raise money in the markets.
There's a vicious cycle that can get going in these circumstances.
If a government's ability to pay its debts is looking suspect that tends to raise its borrowing costs, which in turn makes it harder to maintain the payments, making borrowing more expensive still.
That is what happened when the eurozone turmoil was at its worst.  A benchmark often used is the return or yield on government debt that is due for repayment in ten years' time. To take two countries at the eye of the earlier storm: for Italy that figure peaked at 7.2%, for Spain 7.5%.
Earlier this year those figures went below 2%. They are a little higher now but still at eminently sustainable levels.
The leading force behind that change is the European Central Bank.
In August 2012 it unveiled a programme with the characteristically snappy title of "Outright Monetary Transactions", or OMT - you might well respond with OMG!
What did it mean? The ECB was...

Summary: The last time Greece was on the brink, the word on lips around the eurozone was "contagion".
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Article: But attempts to land may face a major hazard: jagged "blades" of ice up to 10m long.
A major US conference has heard the moon may have ideal conditions for icy spikes called "penitentes" to form.
Scientists would like to send a lander down to sample surface regions where water wells up through the icy crust.
These areas could allow a robotic probe to sample a proxy for ocean water that lies several kilometres deep.
Details of the penitentes theory were announced as scientists outlined another proposal to explore the jovian moon with robotic spacecraft.
On Earth, these features (so named because of their resemblance to the pointed caps worn by "penitents" in Easter processions around the Spanish-speaking world) form in high altitude regions such as the Andes.
Here, the air is both cold and dry, allowing ice to sublimate (turn from a solid into vapour without passing through a liquid phase).
Penitentes begin to form when irregularities in the surface of the snow are enhanced by the Sun's energy. These furrows then act as a trap for solar radiation, and, as they deepen, the tall peaks are left behind.
Dr Daniel Hobley, from the University of Colorado, who presented his research at the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas on Tuesday, said the formation of penitentes also required the Sun to be overhead as much as possible.
Jupiter's moon
"Light coming in at a high angle will illuminate the sides of the blades, causing them to retreat away," he explained.
On Earth, this restricts them to between 30 degrees latitude from the equator.
"Europa is very strongly tidally locked to Jupiter and Jupiter is very strongly tidally locked to the plane of the Sun. So the Sun is always coming down straight from above on Europa," said Dr Hobley, so the moon fulfils this requirement nicely.
He added: "You need a strong thermal gradient between the spike at the top of the penitente and the pit at the bottom. So any mechanism that acts to suppress that, i.e. warm cloudy days - or hot air - will also kill them."
With...

Summary: Jupiter's icy moon Europa is a prime target for future space missions as it harbours a buried ocean that could have the right conditions for life.
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Article: Andreas Schleicher, in charge of the international Pisa tests, faced questions from MPs about how he thought England's academy system was working.
Mr Schleicher said the global evidence suggested local flexibility for schools was linked to higher results.
He described free-standing academies as a "promising trend".
Describing the features of the most successful education systems around the world, he praised "local discretion" for head teachers and school leaders combined with a shared expectation of high standards.
The flexibility of individual schools needed to be balanced by a strong culture of transparency and accountability, he told MPs.
The House of Commons Education Select Committee was taking evidence from Mr Schleicher in its inquiry into academies and free schools in England.
He gave his broad endorsement of the academy system in England, where state-funded schools are given more control over their budgets and flexibility over their curriculum.
But Mr Schleicher warned that autonomy on its own was not a way of improving schools.
He pointed to the example of the United States as evidence that more autonomy could be "part of the solution or else part of the problem".
In the US, the negative side could be isolation and a lack of coherence in maintaining standards, he said.
"You need a very strong education system to make autonomy work, you can't leave it to market forces alone," he told MPs.
Within Europe, he said that autonomy was linked to high performance in the Netherlands but not in Sweden, which has seen a fall in its Pisa test ranking.
He told MPs that high-performing systems had a culture of expecting good results from all pupils - and that there was nothing inevitable about the under-achievement of children from poorer families.
Within England, he commended the achievement of the former London Challenge initiative, which had seen schools in the capital improve more quickly than elsewhere in the country.
In England, academies are now the most common type of secondary school.
There have been...

Summary: The most successful education systems combine local autonomy for schools with strong public accountability, the OECD's education expert has told MPs.
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Article: The video, filmed by Smith and obtained by a newspaper, appears to show him laughing while retired gymnast Luke Carson mimics Islamic prayer practices.
Smith, who won pommel horse silver at Rio 2016, later said he was "deeply sorry" for his "thoughtless actions".
British Gymnastics said: "We will be investigating the behaviours reported."
In a statement, the governing body added: "Members who break our code of conduct can face suspension or expulsion from our organisation."
Smith, who has won medals at the past three Olympic Games, has already been censured twice this year by British Gymnastics.
In April, the 27-year-old apologised for questioning the judging at the British Championships, where he was beaten to pommel gold by Max Whitlock.
He was also reprimanded in June for posting an image on social media of an American gymnast, who was 16 when the photograph was taken, accompanied by a comment British Gymnastics said was "unbefitting to a participant".
That reprimand was to remain on his record for two years with the added warning "any further misconduct may lead to even greater consequences".
Smith is one of Britain's best-known gymnasts and won the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing in 2012.
He is taking a break from the sport and is instead touring as a guest celebrity on the Keep Dancing stage production.

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An organic farmer has persuaded Tesco to take down a photograph of him from its website.

Article: Current guidelines were written in 1994 and should be updated to reflect legal changes and the effect of social media, the Universities UK taskforce said.
Key areas to be considered include better reporting systems and creating a "zero-tolerance culture", it said.
The National Union of Students (NUS) and the government welcomed the review.
Though not legally binding, universities often rely on the so-called Zellick guidelines when dealing with allegations of sexual violence or harassment between students. They have been criticised for causing universities to leave investigation of complaints to the police rather than investigating them themselves.
The guidelines' author, Prof Graham Zellick, has said they are still valid, but that they only cover discipline, and not other requirements such as a system of recording sexual assaults.
But BBC education editor Branwen Jeffreys said there had been increasing pressure for action from campaigners who accuse universities of being "more concerned with reputation than supporting students".
The Universities UK taskforce said "significant elements" the Zellick guidelines were still useful to universities.
But it said developments including the Equality Act 2010 and "changes in the wider social environment, including the significant impact of social media" meant guidelines should be reviewed and updated.
The taskforce will produce a final report on violence, harassment and hate crime later this year.
NUS women's officer Susuana Amoah said: "We hope this review will lead to the creation of a new set of guidelines centring around the welfare of survivors rather than institutional reputation."
Sarah Green, of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, welcomed the recognition that "it is time for universities to change the way they respond to allegations of rape and other abuse and harassment".
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills welcomed the "progress" the taskforce had made and said it looked forward to seeing the final report.

Summary: Universities should overhaul guidelines on dealing with allegations of sexual assaults and harassment, according to a taskforce set up by the government.
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Article: Cases have included officers snooping on their children and ex-wives, social media blunders and breaching data protection regulations.
More than 100 staff were sacked and nearly 200 resigned as a result of breaches in England and Wales.
Avon and Somerset Police reported the highest number of incidents with 289.
In one case revealed by the force, a chief inspector received management action for being "negligent when disclosing personal information".
A PC was subject to a complaint, also with Avon and Somerset Police, when they disclosed the name of an individual "to the media after they had made it known that they wished to remain anonymous". The complaint was later withdrawn.
*Data relates to a longer period than other forces' statistics
Source: Press Association Freedom of Information request
Police forces from across England and Wales recorded a total of 2,031 cases of data protection breaches between January 2009 and October 2013, figures obtained by the Press Association showed.
Investigations led to 186 resignations, while 113 were sacked. At least 34 of those investigated were inspectors or chief inspectors, while 474 were civilian officers.
Of 43 police forces contacted, 35 responded with information.
Javed Khan, chief executive of Victim Support, said: "It is very worrying to think that the personal data of victims of crime - who are often extremely vulnerable - might be being accessed and used inappropriately by people in a position of trust."
Avon and Somerset Police's corporate information spokesman, Ian Marsh, said: "We take an extremely robust approach to the recording and investigation of alleged Data Protection Act breaches.
"We recognise police integrity is of the upmost importance to the public and would like to reassure people that any potential breach is investigated fully."
The force said that the figure of 289 incidents relates to a 55-month period and that in 72 of the episodes there was no case to answer because no breach had been committed.
Mr Marsh added that "in the spirit of being...

Summary: Hundreds of police staff, including high-ranking officers, have been censured for breaching data protection laws over the past five years.
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Article: Property consultant Colliers International found 76 out of the UK's main towns and shopping centres will see an increase in their rates bill.
Some parts of London will see an increase of more than 400%, it says.
The winners, mainly in the Midlands and north of England, will see business rates plummet, it adds.
Newport in south Wales could see bills fall by some 80%, the report found.
"The business rates losers are found only in London and the South East and it could turn highly profitable stores, including independent retailers, into failing businesses," said John Webber, ratings expert at Colliers International.
Business rates are a tax based on property values. They are usually revalued every five years.
The last revaluation in England and Wales was in 2010 but this year's revaluation was controversially postponed to 2017.
The Government's Valuation Office Agency is busy updating its figures but Colliers has done its own research on how the rating revaluation will affect High Street retailers, based on analysis of rental data from 2010 to 2015.
It says it found big variations across the country:
Marlow faces an increase of 58% in rateable value, followed by Guildford at 42%, and Brighton up by 18.5%.
But Rochdale in Greater Manchester, hit hard by the economic downturn,  will see a decrease of 30%. Kidderminster in the West Midlands is down by 42%.
And in London, it is Dover Street which is the biggest loser, with an increase of 415%. Brixton faces a potential 128% increase in rateable value, although Ealing will see a decrease of 46%.
Mr Webber believes some retailers are going to be in for a nasty shock when the business rates change in 2018.
"Business rates is a major cost for retailers and it's really important that they are able to budget for these once-in-a-generation changes," he adds.
The government has promised a review of the current system and will deliver its findings by next year's Budget.
Business rates are expected to raise around £28bn for the Treasury's coffers this year, more than the sum...

Summary: High Streets in the UK are set to face radical changes in the amount of money they pay in business rates in future, new research suggests.
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Article: Incoming NAHT leader Kim Johnson, who is an academy head, says he knows the merits of autonomy and freedom.
But in a letter to the Daily Telegraph, he warns that the programme is costly and the benefits uncertain.
The government says it wants all schools to be able to enjoy academy freedoms.
It has published plans to require all schools to become academies by 2022.
But there has been opposition from teachers, Labour politicians and from some Conservative MPs and councillors.
Now the National Association of Head Teachers, which mainly represents primary schools, has expressed its concerns.
Mr Johnson says in the letter: "I will happily persuade my colleagues of the merits of autonomy and freedom. But I have doubts about forcing every school in England to convert to academy status.
"The cost of this initiative is high and the benefits are uncertain. Smaller schools could suffer.
"We should be devoting our energy to what happens inside the classroom rather than top-down structural reform and I'll be disappointed if legislation is rushed into the Queen's Speech."
He told the BBC many schools had made the decision that working within a local authority structure worked for them and their community.
"Why change that? If the choice is become an academy because you know that actually you can improve the quality of what's going on, then that would seem the right thing to do. So give the choice. Trust in us. We do know what we're doing," he said.
His comments come as Education Secretary Nicky Morgan is preparing to address the NAHT conference in Birmingham.
Earlier this week, she defended the plans in front of the Education Select Committee, saying they would create "a strong, consistent system".
A dual system with academies running alongside local authority schools would be less efficient, she said.
Russell Hobby, general secretary of the NAHT, said there were concerns from some members who were leading good or outstanding schools.
"They've had the chance to convert to academy status for five years or more - they've...

Summary: A head teachers' leader has expressed doubts about government plans to force all schools in England to become academies.
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Article: Martin Godfrey said he had never supplied Tesco and was surprised to find the picture being used on the firm's website.
The supermarket chain acquired the image through an agency.
A Tesco spokesperson said: "We work tirelessly to support farmers and suppliers and we are sorry for any upset that has been caused."
Mr Godfrey, from Okehampton, Devon, said the picture was originally taken when he was working for Shillingford Organics near Exeter, but was later sold on as a stock image.
Tesco later got the image through its advertising agency, which acquired it from Getty Images.
Mr Godfrey owns an organic produce business and campaigns with the Land Workers' Alliance.
He said the picture of him pulling carrots on the organic farm was a "marketing blunder".
"This inappropriate use of the organic farming image and myself... was taken whilst working at Shillingford Organics some 10 years ago, which has no connection to Tesco whatsoever," he said.
The image has been removed from the supermarket's online promotions, but remains printed in some of its magazines.
Tesco has promised not to use the image in future promotions.
It has offered to donate Â£1,000 to a local charity, Mr Godfrey said.
He said he appreciated the supermarket was "doing something about food waste" and suggested other chains should do the same.

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Conservationists are to visit Skye to learn more about otter habitats ahead of a proposed reintroduction of the mammals to Japan.

Article: Those falling below the targets, including some rated as "good" by Ofsted, will be labelled as "coasting".
The new threshold for secondary schools will require 60% of pupils to achieve five good GCSEs, including English and maths.
"I'm unapologetic about shining a spotlight on complacency," said Mrs Morgan.
"For too long a group of coasting schools, many in leafy areas with more advantages than schools in disadvantaged communities, have fallen beneath the radar," said the education secretary.
These might be "very good schools but young people are not fulfilling all of their potential".
The education department says that "hundreds" of schools will have to raise their results to meet these higher expectations.
But head teachers' leader Brian Lightman said the definitions for this new category were "muddled and unfair".
Schools falling into this coasting category will be given help to improve, but those that fail to make progress could be turned into academies. The classification will be based on three years of results.
The plans, introduced in the Education and Adoption Bill, are aimed at raising standards in hundreds of schools that are achieving adequate exam results, but where the government believes achievement could be much higher.
There will also be a target for primary schools to stay above this coasting label, requiring 85% of pupils to achieve the expected standard in their national curriculum tests.
As well as those failing to reach these targets, schools will be labelled as "coasting" if a below-average proportion of pupils are making the expected amount of progress.
The plans are aimed at pushing schools to achieve more than the "artificial borderline" of sufficient numbers of good grades at GCSE and in primary tests.
Mrs Morgan says schools should be "stretching every pupil to unlock their potential".
Schools falling into the coasting category will be expected to produce a "credible plan to improve" and will be given assistance by "expert" head teachers.
Those that do not improve will be turned...

Summary: Schools in England will face tougher exam targets, under plans announced by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.
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Article: He was visiting Scotland on Tuesday to speak in support of the union after opinion polls put the two sides in next week's referendum neck-and-neck.
The three main UK parties have all proposed extra powers for Scotland if its people vote to stay in the UK.
But former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Wigley said Wales should have confidence to push for independence.
Mr Jones has urged the people of Scotland to reject independence and help "rebuild" the UK.
Asked if he feared the impact of a yes vote, Mr Jones said: "Yes, I do."
He said Scotland brought "balance" to the UK, and its population "seems a lot bigger" than Wales' "because of the weight it carries in the UK".
Scotland's population is 5.3m, while Wales' is 3.1m.
He added: "With Scotland gone, a lot of work would need to be done in order to make sure what is left was stable going forward. You'd have a very big nation in England, and two much smaller nations in Wales and Northern Ireland.
"You have to work out what it would be called, work out what flag it uses. These things can be done, but I come back to the point: why do you need to do that? Why do you need to take the risk?"
Mr Jones accepted it had taken time for the pro-union parties to agree on "a common way forward", and called again for a constitutional convention to discuss the UK's future.
In an earlier interview on BBC Radio Wales, he said: "It's not all about fear... there is a positive alternative vision for Scotland."
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies also called on Scottish voters to support the UK as a "positive example of social, economic and national union".
"Everyone can celebrate their own nationality but also get the strengths that the union has brought for the last 300 years," he said.
"We should be celebrating that and emphasising what exactly is on offer for the next 300 years of the most successful economic and social union the world has ever seen."
The former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Wigley said Wales should have the same confidence as Scotland in pushing for independence.
"If I...

Summary: First Minister Carwyn Jones has said he fears for Wales' future if Scotland votes for independence.
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Article: Mr Warmbier died without recovering on Monday, having been brought back to the US last week. His family blames the North Korean authorities for his death.
US President Donald Trump called the North a "brutal regime".
A spokesman in Pyongyang was quoted by Reuters as saying Mr Warmbier's death was "a mystery".
Mr Warmbier, 22, a student at the University of Virginia, had been travelling with a tour group when he was arrested at Pyongyang airport in January 2016.
Accused of stealing a propaganda sign from a hotel, he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour.
His family had no news of him until 13 June when Pyongyang announced he had been in a coma since his trial, attributing it to botulism.
More than 2,500 family, friends and well-wishers gathered for his funeral in Ohio on Thursday.
The North Korean spokesman quoted by Reuters suggested the student had returned to the US "in his normal state of health".
"The fact that Warmbier died suddenly in less than a week just after his return to the US in his normal state of health indicators is a mystery to us as well," he said.
Accusations that the student died because of torture and beating during his captivity were "groundless", he added.
A North Korean spokesman quoted by AFP news agency accused the US of mounting a "smear campaign".
"Our relevant agencies treat all criminals... thoroughly in accordance with domestic laws and international standards and Warmbier was not an exception," a spokesman for the National Reconciliation Council said.
"Those who have absolutely no idea about how well we treated Warmbier under humanitarian conditions dare to utter 'mistreatment' and 'torture'."
They say he suffered a "severe neurological injury", the most likely cause of which was a cardiopulmonary arrest that had cut the blood supply to the brain.
They say there was no evidence he suffered from botulism.
A post-mortem examination was not carried out at the request of the family.
The family maintain he died as a result of "awful torturous mistreatment".
Mr Warmbier's death...

Summary: The North Korean government has denied mistreating US student Otto Warmbier, who fell into a coma while being held in prison in the communist state.
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Article: The RIFC chairman expressed his fears in an email to an associate of Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley.
Somers also asked why a funding offer had been changed to a "particularly stupid alternative".
Two weeks later, Ashley's £2m loan offer was accepted ahead of a loan offer from Brian Kennedy and the funding proposal made by the consortium.
In the correspondence, Somers referred to a "formal proposal of a deal from Dave King and my board are clamouring for a call to discuss it and no doubt approve it. A board on which James [Easdale] and I are a minority".
Somers also revealed that the consortium's proposal included board seats "which means Sandy, James [Easdale] and I will not survive on this board very much longer. Yes, you can vote them off at the next AGM but they can do a great deal of damage before then."
Describing himself as "very angry", Somers also said that he was prepared to terminate Sports Direct's retail contract.
The RIFC board was seeking funding to cover for a shortfall in season ticket sales. The consortium involving King wanted boardroom control in return for a £16m funding package. Kennedy was prepared to provide a £3m loan in return for security against the assets and one board place. Ashley's loan offer was also secured, and sought two board places.
The long-time Ashley associate Derek Llambias, who was previously managing director of Newcastle United - the club Ashley owns outright - is now chief executive of Rangers, having been appointed as a consultant then a non-executive director in the weeks following Ashley's loan offer being accepted.
David Somers responded to BBC Scotland: "The Dave King proposal started well but, as I stated, fell at the first hurdle of 'show me the money' and 'who are the eight people in your consortium'.
"Sadly this proposal quickly began to look more like one designed simply to impress the media rather than a proper proposal.
"The mystery to me is if Dave King really wants to support Rangers then why doesn't he buy some shares, then he can participate in...

Summary: David Somers was concerned that he would lose his seat on the Rangers International Football Club board if a consortium including Dave King was successful with a funding offer.
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Article: Otters were declared extinct on the Japanese islands by its Ministry of the Environment in August 2012.
The Skye-based International Otter Survival Fund (IOSF) has been helping with the reintroduction preparations.
Dr Takahiro Murakami, who will lead the Japanese visit to Scotland, has never seen otters in the wild.
The Japanese otter was believed to be either a subspecies of the Eurasian otter or possibly even a separate species.
Conservationists have suggested reintroducing otters to Hokkaido, an island in north Japan.
IOSF supports conservation projects across the world.
It also rescues and raises orphaned otter cubs.

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A man has been jailed for life after a woman was sexually assaulted in a Rotherham pub.
The court heard that the victim, who was in her 30s, was in the pub with her partner and friends when she was approached by a man.
The man then sexually assaulted her, before leaving the pub

Two men arrested on suspicion of sexual offences against underage girls between 1994 and 2003 have been bailed.

Article: Construction workers are required to hold a CSCS card to prove skills and a knowledge of health and safety.
But a joint BBC London/Newsnight investigation found organised cheating.
Carl Rhymer, of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), one test provider, said 6,000 card-holders would be required to re-sit the exam.
CSCS (Construction Skills Certification Scheme) cards are widely seen as the UK's flagship scheme for certifying builders and are required by nine of the UK's biggest construction companies as well as Crossrail and Heathrow.
But the investigation found numerous test centres were offering guaranteed passes for cash, enabling workers lacking English to obtain qualifications and entry to dangerous construction sites.
During the investigation the BBC exposed Wep HSE, in Ealing, after its award-winning director, Garet Estensen, read exam answers from a big screen, instructing candidates: "Follow me on screen, guys. I'm going to shout the correct answer."
Confronted with the evidence, Mr Estensen made no comment.
The other two centres exposed during the investigation were Future Training 4 Jobs in Ilford and Training Xpress Limited in Colindale. Both have now been suspended from testing.
Mr Rhymer, director of delivery and customer engagement at the CITB, said it was aware of fraudulent incidents and was "tackling this head-on".
He said: "We are working hard with CSCS and the police to crack down on fraud and we are accelerating existing plans to install mandatory CCTV in all testing centres.
"We've also increased the number of spot checks on centres, to act as a deterrent."
Mr Rhymer said following a review it had found the "vast majority" of tests were legitimate but it would "require 6,000 individuals to be retested... to eliminate any doubt".
But Alistair Donaghey, health, safety and environmental manager of Willmott Dixon, a construction company with a Â£1bn turnover said: "I'll never trust the scheme again."
Those required to re-sit the test will be issued with vouchers to cover the cost...

Summary: More than 6,000 builders issued with industry certificates will have to re-sit exams after the BBC uncovered the rigging of health and safety tests.
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Article: Christopher Jones started a fire in his Park Avenue property after causing gas to build up for several days in April.
Perth Sheriff Court was told residents of eight flats were evacuated as a result.
Jones, 42, of Perth, will be sentenced later in June after admitting causing the explosion.
He also admitted a charge of stalking a woman at her home and various locations.
The court was told that Jones had attempted to take his own life by causing the explosion after losing his sight.
Depute fiscal Nicola Gillespie said gas engineers had been called to the premises several times after neighbours reported leaks.
She said:  "There was an explosion and smoke could be seen.  All the residents were evacuated.
"The accused was topless, wearing jeans and covered in soot.
"He had burns to his face, hands and neck.
"He said he had been sitting on the toilet when he lit a cigarette and the flat exploded."
Miss Gillespie said a joint investigation discovered a fire had been started deliberately in the bedroom and that Jones was not in the room when it exploded, as he would have been unlikely to survive the blast.
The fiscal said that the repair bill for each flat ran to "tens of thousands of pounds".
Solicitor David Holmes, defending, said: "He lost his sight and it has significantly deteriorated in the last year and he has found it difficult to adjust."
Sheriff William Wood remanded Jones in custody and deferred sentence for social work and psychiatric reports.

Summary: A man who deliberately caused a gas explosion in a block of flats in Dundee has been remanded in custody.
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Article: Raft of the Medusa, by Lucy and Jorge Orta, is based on a painting of the same name by Gericault, depicting the aftermath of a shipwreck.
The work is about "remembering the many lives lost at sea", the artists said.
Somewhere Becoming Sea, another exhibition at the same venue, explores Hull's relationship with the North Sea.
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Both exhibitions are part of Hull's City of Culture programme, and are taking place at Humber Street Gallery from 5 April.
Commenting on the exhibition, Ms Orta said the treacherous conditions faced by the doomed sailors in Gericault's work reminds us of the fateful journeys of slaves and migrants throughout history.
"Even more so today, we all play witness to the perilous journeys of the thousands of refugees navigating the oceans in search of a safe haven."
She said the exhibit related to Hull's maritime history, and its story moving forward.
The Raft of the Medusa exhibit is also said to incorporate debris from the Japanese tsunami in 2011, found washed up on the shores of Alaska four years later.
Steven Bode, curator of Somewhere Becoming Sea, said the exhibition explores Hull's longstanding place as a gateway to the North Sea.
He said: "Hull has been at the sharp end of some recent economic changes - the decline of the local fishing industry, shifting patterns of maritime trade - but it is also potentially at the forefront of a new relationship to the sea, through things like the green energy of wind turbines."

Summary: Sensory artwork featuring the "pungent smell of decaying rubber, seaweed, wooden planks and oil drums" has gone on display in Hull.
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Article: A team was able to make the mice wrongly associate a benign environment with a previous unpleasant experience from different surroundings.
The researchers conditioned a network of neurons to respond to light, making the mice recall the unpleasant environment.
Reporting in Science, they say it could one day shed light into how false memories occur in humans.
The brains of genetically engineered mice were implanted with optic fibres in order to deliver pulses of light to their brain. Known as optogenetics, this technique is able to make individual neurons respond to light.
Just like in mice, our memories are stored in collections of cells, and when events are recalled we reconstruct parts of these cells - almost like re-assembling small pieces of a puzzle.
It has been well documented that human memory is highly unreliable, first highlighted by a study on eyewitness testimonies in the 70s.  Simple changes in how a question was asked could influence the memory a witness had of an event such as a car crash.
When this was brought to public attention, eyewitness testimonies alone were no longer used as evidence in court. Many people wrongly convicted on memory statements were later exonerated by DNA evidence.
Xu Liu of the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics and one the lead authors of the study, said that when mice recalled a false memory, it was indistinguishable from the real memory in the way it drove a fear response in the memory forming cells of a mouse's brain.
The mouse is the closest animal scientists can easily use to analyse the brain, as though simpler, its structure and basic circuitry is very similar to the human brain.
Studying neurons in a mouse's brain could therefore help scientists further understand how similar structures in the human brain work.
"In the English language there are only 26 letters, but the combinations of letters make unlimited words and sentences, this is also true for memories," Dr Liu told BBC News.
"There are so many brain cells and for each individual memory,...

Summary: False memories have been implanted into mice, scientists say.
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Article: The men, aged 36 and 37, were arrested on Monday in the Rotherham area.
South Yorkshire Police said the arrests were part of an investigation into allegations of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham.
Three men, aged 35, 38 and 39, arrested in Goole, East Yorkshire, in November as part of the same inquiry remain on bail.

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