The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for the whole of the UK for winds of up to 70mph.
The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for the whole of the UK for winds of up to 70mph.
The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for the whole of the UK for

Much of the UK will be hit by Storm Abigail on Thursday, bringing lots of rain and strong winds.

Article: Mohammed Alloush is the political leader of the powerful, Saudi-backed group Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam).
Both the Syrian government and its staunch ally, Russia, consider Jaysh al-Islam a terrorist organisation.
The opposition committee also warned that it would pull out of the talks if a third party was invited to attend.
Russia wants opposition groups tolerated by President Bashar al-Assad to participate in the negotiations on a political solution to the conflict in Syria, which has left more than 250,000 people dead since 2011.
Kurdish groups, which control large parts of the north, also want to attend.
An unprecedented meeting of Syrian opposition politicians and rebels in Riyadh last month led to the creation of a committee to oversee the talks with the government.
On Wednesday, the head of the Supreme Commission for Negotiations, Riad Hijab, announced Mr Alloush's appointment as its chief negotiator.
Jaysh al-Islam controls much of the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus. Its leader, Zahran Alloush, was killed in an air strike last month.
Russia says Jaysh al-Islam differs little from the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), but the two are violently opposed to each other and Zahran Alloush said before his death that he favoured allowing Syrians to decide whether they wanted Islamic rule.
Asaad al-Zoubi, a former Syrian army general, will serve under Mr Alloush as head of the opposition negotiating team, while his deputy will be George Sabra of the Syrian National Council.
Mr Hijab warned that the committee would not accept any attempts by foreign parties to "inject individuals in the form of a so-called third delegation, justifying their presence under unfounded pretexts merely to disrupt the political process and prolong the fighting in the name of combating terrorism".
The former prime minister also said that the opposition could not negotiate while Syrians "suffer from shelling, starvation and siege" by government forces.
"Dates are not sacred," he added. "Debased political bartering at the...

Summary: A Syrian opposition committee has named an Islamist rebel as its chief negotiator at peace talks that the UN hopes to convene in Geneva on Monday.
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Article: Abigail is the first storm to be given a name by the Met Office who keep track of our weather.
The storm will hit Northern Ireland with strong winds on Thursday afternoon, and move towards the west coast of Scotland and northern England on Friday.
As if one storm wasn't enough, the UK will also be battered by ex-hurricane Kate, which is the end of a hurricane from the Atlantic Ocean. Kate will bring lots more rain for Scotland, Wales and northern parts of England.
Weather forecasters have told people to make sure they are prepared for strong winds, especially in Scotland. Several schools have already shut in the Western Isles in Scotland because of the bad weather.

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The charity said the figures were "not good enough".
The charity said the figures were "not good enough".
It said the figures were "not good enough"
The charity said the figures were "not good enough".
It said the figures were "not good enough"
The charity said the figures were

Thousands of elderly people are missing out on free personal care because of delays to assessments and care arrangements, a charity has claimed.

Article: The charity said there was "not a clear need" to have a separate facility so close to its Eyemouth station.
It said it was confident the area could be safely covered by an extra boat provided at Eyemouth.
Campaigners opposing the closure are now looking at setting up an independently-run station.
The RNLI said the St Abbs lifeboat only launched about nine times a year, with a third of those being joint services with Eyemouth.
It said the new boat could reach St Abbs in "five to 10 minutes, depending on conditions".
Operations director George Rawlinson said: "Closing a lifeboat station is never an easy thing to do and this decision was made only after extensive research that considered the location of existing search and rescue assets and changing patterns of sea use.
"The review concluded that the area should be covered from one lifeboat station, rather than two stations so close together.
"St Abbs and Eyemouth are only two miles apart - and the coastline can be covered by placing an inshore lifeboat alongside the all-weather lifeboat already stationed at Eyemouth."
Mr Rawlinson said the charity was "very aware" of the impact of such change on local communities and did not take such decisions lightly.
However, he said it had to be mindful of its responsibility to make best possible use of donations.
"I know that this is a sad day for the community of St Abbs and the lifeboat station - the lifeboat station has served the RNLI proudly for over 100 years," he said.
"I'd like to take the opportunity to thank them for their support, service and commitment to saving lives at sea."
Opponents said the decision to close was "an error of judgement, based on flawed data".
They have argued lives will be put at risk due to the extra time needed to get from Eyemouth to St Abbs.
They also delivered a 13,000-signature petition against the move to the RNLI.
Earlier this week, campaigners announced plans to look at delivering an "entirely independent" lifeboat station in the village.
The RNLI said it would be happy to work...

Summary: The RNLI has closed its lifeboat station in St Abbs, bringing to an end a 104-year association with the Scottish Borders village.
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Article: Age Scotland says official figures suggest that each year about 8,640 people in Scotland wait longer than six weeks for a council care assessment.
The average "worst case" is between two weeks and five months, with the longest delay of 18 months recorded in 2014/15.
Cosla, the umbrella body for local councils, declined to comment.
Age Scotland's research, compiled using freedom of information requests, found significant variations across councils in the time taken to carry out assessments.
Under national guidelines, people should wait no longer than six weeks for care services to be provided after an assessment has taken place.
Age Scotland found that about 10% of people were not provided with services within the six-week limit over the past three years.
The charity said its research suggested that about 3,000 elderly people each year wait longer than six weeks for services to be put in place.
Most councils do not record the reasons why delays occur, but many cited instances where delays were caused by the person being admitted to hospital or waiting for a place in their chosen care home.
Staff shortages, financial constraints and delays in adapting homes were also cited.
Age Scotland received freedom of information responses from 25 out of 32 councils.
Chief executive Keith Robson said: "These are deeply concerning figures showing thousands of older people facing delays in the care provision they need being put in place.
"It also means payments for free personal care they are entitled to are not being received.
"This confirms the experiences of a number of older people and their families who have been in touch with Age Scotland's helpline to tell us their experiences of delays in the system.
"As we look to local authority elections next month, Age Scotland has contacted council candidates across Scotland to ask them to ensure providing high-quality health and social care services is made an urgent priority by new administrations."

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The Church of England has announced that it will be raising the cost of a wedding and funeral from £296 to £299 and for a funeral service from £102 to £160.
The Church of England has announced that it will be raising the cost of a wedding and funeral from £296 to £299 and for a

Fees for Church of England weddings are to increase by 40% and the cost of a funeral service by more than 50%.

Article: Police and crime commissioner Tony Hogg's decision came after the launch of consultation on Monday.
A spokesman said reaction on social media showed "probably two thirds" of people were against a rise.
"We got a very good idea of what people were thinking, so in a way social media has done the job for us."
Mr Hogg had been planning to hold a referendum next May on adding about Â£25 a year to the bill of the average band D property in Devon and Cornwall.
He said the rise in the police share of council tax could save 350 officers.
It came amid a projected budget cut of Â£39m next year, with the loss of up to 760 police officers and all 360 community support officers.
Reaction to a council tax rise on Facebook pages, including that of BBC Spotlight, included comments such as: "Why should we be asked to pay more for our policing? We are paying a fortune in council tax as it is this will just end up in the pockets of those at the top."
Other reactions included: "Council Tax is already too high" and "I'm against this proposal because it will let the Government off the hook".
In May, Bedfordshire council tax payers rejected a planned rise in council tax for the police.
Mr Hogg's decision came after the government admitted it had made a "statistical error" in a new formula which assesses population size and other data to calculate funding.
He is now waiting for an announcement from Chancellor George Osborne, expected later this month, on what funding the force will get.

Summary: Plans for a referendum on raising council tax for Devon and Cornwall Police have been dropped after a backlash on social media.
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Article: Church members have voted to raise the cost of a wedding from £296 to £415 and for a funeral service from £102 to £160 from January next year.
The fees include the costs of lighting and administration for the first time.
The moves come despite a warning from some members of the Church's governing body, the General Synod, that the rises could have an impact on poorer couples.
The Rev Canon Simon Killwick, a vicar in Moss Side, Manchester, said: "Such a fee increase seems to me hard to justify in times of financial austerity and even harder to justify in poor inner-city parishes.
"The Church of England ought not to be seen to be making a big increase at this time and ought not to be making it difficult for the poor to access these services at a time when a simple ceremony can be had at a register office for around £100."
Canon Killwick said the right to waive fees in cases of hardship put clergy in the "invidious position" of means testing parishioners.
"Waiving can cause real ill feeling," he said. "The poor don't want to be patronised by fees being waived, they want their church to be affordable to them.
"It would be a crying shame if poor people end up being married in register offices because the Church of England has priced them out of their parish church."
But the Rt Rev John Packer, the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, said the changes reflected the "reality" of the costs, and  reduced confusion over different fees being charged by different parishes.
He told the General Synod that the fees raised about £35m a year for the Church, including £15m towards the pay of clergy.
"The reality of what it costs matters, and it seems to me that those who are being married within our churches do understand that," he said.
The increases were approved after a 4% rise in the number of Church of England weddings in 2010.
Last year the General Synod rejected plans to increase the price of both weddings and funerals by 50%.

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The UK's biggest ever study of the impact of the EU referendum has found that the majority of people think leaving the EU would be a good thing for the UK economy.
The study, by YouGov, also found that the majority of people think leaving the EU would be a good thing for the UK economy.

Chloe Grace Moretz is not a fan of body shaming.

Article: The claim: Leaving the EU would make the UK economy grow more than staying in.
Reality Check verdict: This is not a mainstream view - but they are reputable economists. It is an optimistic vision of how the UK economy might fare outside the EU, although some of its assumptions are questionable.
They predict that, in 2020, the UK economy would grow 3.4% if the UK left the EU, while it would grow only 2.5% if the UK remained.
Their conclusions are outside the current economic mainstream on Europe, with most models assuming that free trade, free movement and open economies are automatically a good thing.
While we have previously warned about the uncertainties involved in economic modelling, that is why it is no surprise organisations such as the IMF, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Treasury and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) have all predicted considerable losses to the economy following a Brexit.
This means the Economists for Brexit have had to demonstrate in their paper that the EU is restricting UK trade.
The basis of their assumptions is that after leaving the EU, the UK would trade under World Trade Organisation rules and immediately drop all tariffs on imports from everywhere in the world to reduce the prices of products for people in Britain.
One problem with this is that they also predict a fall in the value of the pound, which would be good news for exporters, but bad news for UK consumers buying imported goods.
The weaker pound might go some way to making up for the likelihood that EU countries would impose tariffs on UK exports, which is included in the model.
How does this compare with other models?
The analysis from the CEP, an influential group based at the London School of Economics, considered what would happen if the UK unilaterally removed all tariffs.
It still predicted a negative effect on the economy from leaving the EU, but said going tariff-free improved the outcome by 0.3 percentage points.
Another problem with the Economists for Brexit...

Summary: A group of eight well known economists have released a report under the banner of Economists for Brexit, explaining how they think leaving the EU would be good for the UK economy.
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Article: Earlier this summer, the actress said she was "appalled and angry" about a billboard advert for her movie Red Shoes & the 7 Dwarfs, which suggested being overweight made you less beautiful.
And now, she's spoken for the first time about a time she was fat-shamed on set by one of her male co-stars.
She told Variety: "This guy that was my love interest was like, 'I'd never date you in real life,' and I was like, 'what?'. And he was like, 'yeah, you're too big for me' - as in my size.
"It was one of the only actors that ever made me cry on set."
Chloe didn't reveal who it was, but said the actor was in his mid 20s - while she was 15 at the time.
"I went bawling to my brother and he was like, 'what happened?'. And I was like, 'he told me I was too big'. My brother was so angry.
"I had to pick it up and go back on set and pretend he was a love interest, and it was really hard. It just makes you realise that there are some really bad people out there and for some reason, he felt the need to say that to me.
"You have to kind of forgive and not forget really, but it was just like wow. It was jarring. I look back on it and I was 15, which is really, really dark."
Chloe Grace Moretz isn't the first star to highlight the issue of body shaming.
From Kate Winslet and Jennifer Lawrence (pictured) to Meghan Trainor and Amy Schumer - more and more stars are refusing to feel guilty about their appearance.
"I heard my body is a topic of conversation so I wanted to say, I'm proud of my body and you should be proud of yours too," Lady Gaga said earlier this year.
Lena Dunham, meanwhile, has said: "I've accepted that my body is an ever changing organism, not a fixed entity - what goes up must come down and vice versa."
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The world's most famous panda has given birth to a healthy baby girl.
The zoo said the cub was born on Wednesday and was "doing well".
The cub is the first to be born to the female panda in the UK for more than a decade.
The cub is the first to be born

Edinburgh Zoo has said it believes its panda Tian Tian is pregnant and may give birth at the end of the month.

Article: Republicans made historic gains in the mid-term elections and now control both legislative chambers.
Incoming Senate leader Mitch McConnell said he would make the ineffective Senate function and pass bills.
Mr Obama said he was "eager to work with the new Congress to make the next two years as productive as possible".
The election campaign was characterised by widespread frustration expressed by voters about the inability of Congress to work together.
To the Americans who voted for change, the president said: "I hear you."
He told a White House news conference that both parties must address those concerns, but he admitted that as president he had a "unique responsibility to try to make this town work".
On Friday, he will host a meeting at the White House with Democratic and Republican leaders.
"We can surely find ways to work together," Mr Obama said. "It's time for us to take care of business."
But he warned he would act on his own to reduce deportations and improve border security - action he had delayed until after the election, to the fury of some Latino voters.
Earlier on Wednesday, Mr McConnell pledged to make the Senate more productive.
"The Senate in the last few years basically doesn't do anything," he said. "We're going to go back to work and actually pass legislation."
He also vowed to "work together" with Mr Obama on issues where they can agree, such as trade agreements and tax reform.
Working within a two-party political system did not mean "we have to live in perpetual conflict", he added.
Also on Wednesday, the chairman of the Republican National Committee called resounding Republican mid-term victories a "direct rejection of the Obama agenda".
"[Americans] want nothing to do with the policies of Barack Obama," Reince Priebus told reporters.
Barack Obama's unpopularity in the run-up to these mid-term elections is hard to exaggerate. One of the things that is lost in the big picture of the night is some of the sidebar poll findings - the American people are fed up with all their politicians....

Summary: The US Senate's new Republican leader and President Barack Obama have both promised to end the political gridlock that has so frustrated American voters.
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Article: She was artificially inseminated earlier this year after attempts to bring her together with male partner, Yang Guang, failed.
The zoo said new scientific tests had given a "strong indication" of pregnancy, but were "too new to be definitive".
Tian Tian also conceived last year, but the pregnancy failed.
Iain Valentine, director of Giant Pandas for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, said: "The latest scientific data suggests Tian Tian the giant panda is now pregnant and that implantation has taken place, therefore she may give birth at the end of the month.
"This is all very new and complex science and we still have a bit of time to go yet.
"As like last year, the late loss of a cub remains entirely possible."
The zoo said it had been able to confirm that Tian Tian did become pregnant last year.
However, it said it was most likely that she had reabsorbed the foetus late term.
The two pandas arrived in Scotland from China in 2011.
Tian Tian has had cubs in the past in China, before she came on loan to Edinburgh.
If she does have a successful delivery, it will be the first time a giant panda has been born in Britain.
The panda enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo is due to close to visitors from Saturday ahead of a possible birth.

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The Ospreys have named a strong squad for their first game of the Six Nations, with the likes of Ospreys' prop Adam Jones and fly-half Gareth Anscombe in the squad.
The Ospreys have named a strong squad for their first game of the Six Nations, with the likes of O

Lock Rory Thornton says he is "champing at the bit" ahead of winning his first Wales cap against Samoa in Apia on Friday, 23 June.

Article: Net income rose to a record 7.04tn won ($6.6bn; Â£4.2bn), up from 4.01tn won in the same period a year earlier, beating analysts' expectations.
The Korean firm said its mobile profits more than doubled over the same period.
Last year, Samsung became the world's biggest smartphone maker, overtaking Apple, its main rival in the sector.
"Overall its earnings momentum remains intact," said Lee Se-chul, from Meritz Securities in Seoul.
"Smartphone shipments will continue to grow, even in the traditionally weak first quarter, as Samsung's got a broader product line-up and Apple appears to be struggling in pushing iPhone volumes aggressively."
Samsung did not provide data on the number of smartphones it had shipped, but analysts estimate it sold 63 million smartphones in the quarter.
The strong sales numbers come after Apple shares tumbled 12% in the US on Thursday, over fears the company was losing its edge in key smartphone markets.
Apple had reported record quarterly revenues of $55bn, but there was disappointment over sales of the company's new iPhone 5.
Galactic sales
Samsung said its Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets has been its top seller, driving profits.
The handsets division, which sells about a quarter of all mobile phones in the world according to analysts, saw an operating profit of 5.44tn won, up from 2.56tn won a year earlier.
Earnings were also helped by Samsung's displays unit, which made a profit, after losses a year earlier.
The unit enjoyed a sales boost from its organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) screen, used in the Galaxy smartphones.
The firm said its capital spending this year will be similar to 2012 levels, despite analyst expectations that it would be cut.
However, it did caution that increased competition in the smartphone sector could lead to a softening of demand in some regions.
"The furious growth spurt seen in the global smartphone market last year is expected to be pacified by intensifying price competition, compounded by a slew of new products," the company said in its...

Summary: Samsung Electronics said its profits surged 76% in the last three months of 2012, helped by sales of its Galaxy smartphones.
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Article: The 22-year-old was an unused squad member during the 2017 Six Nations, as well as the 2016 autumn internationals.
"It's been building as I've been in a few camps now, but to finally get my name called out on that team sheet was an awesome feeling," he said.
"I've been champing at the bit these last few camps, training hard."
The Ospreys player comes in to replace Cory Hill, who was called up by the British and Irish Lions following Wales' 24-6 win over Tonga.
Coach Robin McBryde has made seven changes in all to the side that started that game at Eden Park last Friday
Another two uncapped players - scrum-half Tomos Williams and lock Adam Beard - are also on the bench.
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Thornton made 25 appearances for Ospreys in the 2016-17 campaign, but expects a big transition to international rugby.
"I've been playing a lot for the Ospreys this year and being involved in the Pro12 and the [European] Challenge Cup has given me quite a bit of experience," the former Wales Under-20s captain told BBC Wales Sport.
"But Test rugby is a completely different animal, so I'm really looking forward to the challenge on Friday against a strong Samoan team.
"Like every young Welsh boy I want to play for Wales, but when it actually comes round you get that sensation of pride."
Thornton is part of an inexperienced Wales side, with the forwards having won just 31 caps between them.
"Samoa have a big experienced pack and we have a couple of young guys here looking to blood themselves on the international stage, so I think it'll be a good challenge overall," Thornton added.
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The City of London Corporation has voted to support the campaign for Britain to remain in the EU.
The City of London Corporation has voted to support the campaign for Britain to remain in the EU.
The City of London Corporation has voted to support the campaign for Britain to remain in the EU.
The City of London

Canada Post will phase out home delivery in urban areas over the next five years as the postal service struggles to rein in persistent losses.

Article: The Corporation's committee of 125 elected members, who represent the Square Mile, do not normally adopt a political stance.
But its policy chairman said the City "cannot afford to remain quiet".
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is campaigning for Britain to leave the EU.
Mark Boleat, the policy chairman, said: "When City firms of all sizes and in different sectors, who we represent, are voicing their concerns about the risks of leaving the EU, we need to make sure the City of London Corporation remains relevant to our stakeholders.
"While we might be criticised for taking such a stance, we need to speak up and encourage others to follow suit.
"We have taken positions on controversial matters like a new Heathrow runway and immigration policy in the past and can no longer be a silent partner in the run up to the 23rd of June."
A number of City grandees, including the former chancellor Lord Lamont have criticised the Corporation's decision to hold the vote.
Alex Deane, one of the committee members, wrote in City A.M it was "strongly akin to adopting a party political stance".
"We steer clear of that; for we will need to be able to operate with people on both sides of this debate long after it is done.... Opinion in the City is divided, not united," he wrote.
The head of the British Chambers of Commerce has told a conference in London that referendum voters faced a "tough choice" between "the devil and the deep blue sea."

Summary: The City of London Corporation has voted "overwhelmingly" to support the campaign for Britain to remain in the EU.
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Article: Under a five-year plan released on Wednesday, the cost of stamps will also rise and as many as 8,000 jobs will be eliminated.
But the agency says it will also open more retail locations across Canada.
The service faces a projected 1bn Canadian dollar ($943m; Â£576m) loss by 2020 without "fundamental changes".
Canada Post lost C$73m in the third quarter of the current fiscal year, CBC News reported.
"Canadians expect Canada Post to continue to remain financially self-sufficient and not look to their hard-earned tax dollars for funding," the postal service said.
At the same time, "the rise in digital communications has dramatically changed the postal needs of Canadians".
Direct to the home delivery will be replaced by community post boxes installed throughout residential areas, Canada Post said in its plan.
The agency said two-thirds of Canadians, mostly in newer suburban neighbourhoods and rural areas, already receive their mail through this method.
The cost of postage stamps purchased in bulk will rise to $0.85 per stamp, up from $0.63 today, among other price rises.
In all, the plan will return the agency to financial sustainability by 2019, Canada Post said in a report, citing annual savings of up to C$900m.
Between 6,000 and 8,000 jobs will be eliminated as part of the plan - 12% of Canada Post's employees, although it says its workforce is ageing and it expects almost 15,000 workers will retire or leave the company in the next five years.
Canada Post delivers close to 10 billion letters and parcels each year but has seen a 24% drop in letters delivered since 2008.

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The Lionhearts were outclassed by their Cuban opponents, who claimed the first six bouts to seal a second WSB title in three years.
The Lionhearts were outclassed by their Cuban opponents, who claimed the first six bouts to seal a second WSB title in three years.
The Lion

British Lionhearts were beaten 9-1 by Cuba Domadores in the final of the World Series of Boxing in Uzbekistan.

Article: In modern times, the international credit markets could be seen as the confused multitude.
On Tuesday, attempts by Spanish Economy Minister Luis De Guindos to rally German, French and Italian counterparts to openly back a plan to speed up the implementation of plans agreed at the last EU summit to reduce Spain's borrowing costs ended in farce as France and Italy first denied all knowledge of the plan and then, a day later, pledged their support albeit with no concrete timetable.
Confusion.
So, it was no surprise that the "great beast" drove Spain's implied cost of borrowing over 10 years to a euro-era high of nearly 7.6% on Thursday in response.
Greece, Portugal and the Republic of Ireland all had to seek international bailouts when their own borrowing costs reached similar exorbitant levels.
But, on Thursday, everything seemed to change. A short sentence from Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank seemed to succeed where every single eurozone finance minister had failed: "The ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro."
The yield on ten-year Spanish bonds plunged to 6.55% in a couple of days.
Mr Draghi appears to be the only voice capable of commanding the international markets.
For that reason, the leader of the Eurogroup Jean-Claude Juncker and other eurozone leaders speaking over the weekend, have put the ECB at the heart of plan to drive down Spanish and Italian borrowing costs.
The ECB's SMP bond-buying programme, discontinued in January, had temporarily managed to bring down the implied cost of borrowing for governments as determined by the trade between banks and other institutions of government bonds on the secondary market.
However, governments' actual cost of borrowing is determined at auctions where they sell bonds direct to banks - the primary market - such as Monday's sale by Italy.
So, to have any lasting effect on government borrowing costs, the ECB would need to bring down costs in the primary market.
But the ECB's constitution prevents it from lending money...

Summary: The great enemy of virtue - that is how 17th century philosopher Sir Thomas Browne described the multitude, or "one great beast", when confused.
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Article: The Lionhearts were outclassed by their Cuban opponents, who claimed the first six bouts to seal a second WSB title in three years.
It was heading for a clean-sweep for Cuba but British super heavyweight Frazer Clarke beat Leinier Pero in the final bout to earn a consolation point.
This was the Lionhearts first appearance in the WSB final.
Johanys Argilagos (Cub) beat Galal Yafai (GB) 48:47/49:46/49:46
Robeisy Ramirez (Cub) beat Peter McGrail (GB) by round three KO
Yasniel Toledo (Cub) beat Dalton Smith (GB) 49:46/49:46/49:46
Arlen Lopez (Cub) beat Troy Williamson (GB) by round three KO
Erislandy Savon (Cub) beat Lawrence Okolie (GB) by round one KO
Yosvany Veitia (Cub) beat Muhammad Ali (GB) 48:47/49:46/47:48
Lazaro Alvarez (Cub) beat Luke McCormack (GB) 50:45/50:45/50:45
Roniel Iglesias (Cub) beat Ekow Essuman (GB) by round two KO
Julio Cesar La Cruz (Cub) beat Thomas Whittaker (GB) 50:41/50:41/50:41
Frazer Clarke (GB) beat Leinier Pero (Cub) by round four KO

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The actor, who played the role of Chandler Bing's best friend Ross Geller, has revealed that he is "very excited" to be back on the small screen.
"I'm very excited to be back on the small screen," he told the Daily Star.
"I'm not sure what the future holds

Matthew Perry "will not" attend the Friends reunion show due to rehearsals for his West End play.

Article: The body of Kevin Turnbull, 52, was discovered with a head injury at a property in Samuel Street Walk, Bury St Edmunds, at 12:15 BST on Wednesday.
A 51-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman, both from the town, were arrested on Friday evening.
They were taken in for questioning but have been released on police bail to return on 15 November.
Suffolk Police said inquiries into the death of Mr Turnbull, who was from Great Whelnetham, are continuing.

Summary: Two people arrested on suspicion of murdering a man found dead in Suffolk have been released on police bail.
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Article: According to his spokeswoman, "Matthew may tape something" for the tribute to the show's creator James Burrows.
"In other words, this is not the reunion people have been hoping for," Lisa Kasteler told Us Weekly.
His former co-stars, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc are all expected to take part in the special.
It is set to be aired on NBC on 21 February.
Friends ended in 2004 after 10 series. As well as Friends, Burrows worked behind the camera on sitcoms including Cheers and Frasier.
Perry has written and will star in the play The End of Longing... which is set to run in London's West End from 2 February until 14 May. It will be directed by Lindsay Posner.
The dark comedy follows four disparate people approaching middle age, who meet in a bar one night.
It marks Perry's first return to the West End since 2003, when he starred in David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago.

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A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found dead in a flat in south London.
The Metropolitan Police said the man, in his 30s, was arrested on suspicion of murder and was in a critical condition in hospital.
The man was arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in hospital.

A 23-year-old man has been remanded in custody following the deaths of a 10-year-old boy and his aunt who were a hit by a car being pursued by police.

Article: The aim is to give up-to-date information to parents submitting application forms for secondary school places this month for September 2016.
Full secondary school league tables will be published in January as usual.
Head teachers warned the partial, provisional tables may give parents an "inaccurate and incomplete picture".
The Department for Education data, to be published at 09:30 BST on Thursday, will include the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C, including English and maths.
They will also show the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (GCSEs at grades A* to C, including maths, English, two science qualifications, a foreign language and either history or geography).
But the tables will be based on results given out in August, before the appeals process took place, and will not include subsequent changes to grades following re-marks.
In 2014, more than 54,000 GCSE grades were changed after being challenged.
Announcing plans to publish "early" league tables, in July, Schools Minister Nick Gibb said it would provide parents with a more informed choice.
The Department for Education said: "By improving the timeliness and accessibility of these statistics, this will also mean that results are published in advance of the 31 October deadline for secondary school admission applications.
"This will support parents who may wish to use the information when applying for a secondary school place for their child."
But the Association of School and College Leaders said there were "serious problems" with the information being published early.
ASCL general secretary Brian Lightman said: "It's not uncommon for schools to have several grades altered after challenges to results, and this can have a dramatic effect on performance tables.
"There is a real risk that the information being published early will not accurately reflect the achievements of some schools, and this may have a damaging effect on them and give parents an impression which is not correct."
Mr Lightman also...

Summary: The education department is publishing league tables for secondary schools in England, based on provisional data from this summer's GCSE results.
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Article: Joshua Dobby appeared at Bromley Magistrates' Court earlier charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
Makayah McDermott and Rozanne Cooper died after the car crashed in Penge, south-east London on Wednesday.
Three girls were also injured and remain in hospital.
No application for bail was made during the short hearing and Mr Dobby was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on 30 September
He was also charged with:
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The Met said the three injured girls - two aged 13 and one aged eight - were related to Makayah and his aunt, who was a 34-year-old hairdresser.
The car struck the group at about 14:05 BST on Lennard Road. It had been pursued by police from nearby Birkbeck Road in Beckenham.
One witness said the car was being followed by two police vehicles when the driver "lost control and ploughed into a family".
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating.
Over the past 10 years, 252 members of the public have died following road traffic incidents involving the police in England and Wales, according to the IPCC.
In London, there were 498 crashes involving a pursuit by Met officers in 2015-16.
Friends and neighbours left floral tributes at the scene of the crash on Thursday.
Family friend Emma Cameron called the news "devastating" and said Ms Cooper was "a genuinely lovely girl".
"She never had a bad word to say about anybody. She was the kindest friendliest warmest person. It's just awful," she added.
Makayah had recently auditioned for a part in a television series.
His agent Sam Brown, managing director of Brown and Mills Entertainment, described Makayah as "an extremely talented young actor" and "joy to be around".
"We cannot express enough our sadness and our thoughts are with the family at this terrible time," she added.
A victim support fund for those injured in the crash on the Gofundme website had raised nearly Â£5,000 by Friday morning.

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The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has said it is ready to begin work on destroying Syria's chemical weapons.
The OPCW said in a statement on Friday that its inspectors were due to complete their visit to the last four of the 23 sites by the end of the day.
The

Syria has handed in a plan for the destruction of its chemical weapons to the watchdog monitoring the process.

Article: The Commission has called for mandatory national quotas to relocate many migrants who have reached Europe. That is highly controversial, and there will be intense government discussions about the proposal.
Countries in the front line of the migration surge want a fairer EU-wide distribution of the burden. Italy faces unprecedented migrant boatloads in the Mediterranean, while Germany faces by far the most asylum claims.
What is the Commission asking member states to do?
The Commission has issued the "European Agenda on Migration", setting out common policy goals for the 28-nation EU to adopt and make law.
It argues that the current system is failing to cope with the migrant influx, which is fuelled by the profits made by people traffickers. The war raging in Libya has exacerbated the flow from there.
There is a human rights imperative for the EU too, as the Mediterranean has seen more than 1,800 migrant deaths at sea this year. Migrants who make it to Europe are often deeply traumatised by the traffickers' brutality.
The impulse for this far-reaching agenda came from the escalating crisis in the Mediterranean and a 10-point emergency plan from EU governments. It called for "a systematic effort to capture and destroy vessels used by the smugglers". It also said the EU must "consider options for an emergency relocation mechanism" for migrants.
The Commission has come up with a "distribution key" to spread the burden of processing asylum claims in the EU. Italy, Greece and Malta are struggling to cope.
That new mechanism is based on countries' population size, GDP, unemployment rate and numbers of existing asylum applications.
Separately, the EU aims to bring 20,000 refugees to Europe in the next two years, at a cost of â‚¬50m (Â£36m). That is being organised in non-EU countries with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).
Under the Geneva Conventions, refugees fleeing from persecution or life-threatening violence have a right to claim asylum in Europe.
The Commission acknowledges that too many poor economic migrants...

Summary: The European Commission has unveiled new proposals for dealing with Europe's migration crisis.
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Article: In a statement, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons (OPCW) said the declaration was submitted three days ahead of schedule.
OPCW inspectors are also due to complete visiting the last four of 23 weapons sites declared by Syria.
The OPCW's mission was set up following outrage at a chemical weapons attack near the Syrian capital in August.
Sixty inspectors have been in Syria since 1 October. The OPCW, which is based in The Hague, said on Friday that its  team in Syria had visited 19 of the 23 sites disclosed by Syria.
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Under the UN resolution which set up the mission, Syria's chemical weapons production equipment must be destroyed by 1 November and stockpiles must be disposed of by mid-2014.
The organisation's work in Syria marks the first time the international chemical weapons watchdog - which won this year's Nobel Peace Prize - has been asked to oversee the destruction of a weapons armoury during a conflict.
More than 100,000 people have been killed in the fighting that has ravaged Syria for two-and-a-half years, according to the UN.
More than two million people have fled Syria and some 4.5 million have been forced from their homes within the country.
Casualty figures vary for the chemical weapons attack on the Ghouta agricultural belt around Syria's capital, Damascus, on 21 August.
It was estimated to have killed hundreds of people. The United States and other Western powers blamed the attack on President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
But Mr Assad accuses Syrian rebels of being behind it.

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A new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland will explore the history of the Scottish Highlands.
The exhibition, which opens on 1 February, will be called The Highlands: A History.
It will explore the history of the area from the earliest times to the present day.
The exhibition will include objects from the museum

Bird flu has been confirmed in a flock of 19,500 turkeys at a farm in Boston, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.

Article: Middlesbrough's mima will receive the money from the Esmee Fairbairn Collections Fund.
It will allow it to explore the possibility of lending its collections to other museums and non-museum venues, such as schools, shopping centres or town halls, for a fee.
Under the scheme, mima will recruit a registrar and conservator.
Mima curator James Beighton said: "We hope that this will become a case study that can be used by other museums to justify appointments to these positions in the future."

Summary: Collections owned by a Teesside arts centre could be shown at other venues after it was awarded a £68,912 grant.
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Article: It is the third confirmed diagnosis of the H5N8 strain of avian flu in Lincolnshire in about four weeks.
Some of the birds at the undisclosed premises in Lincolnshire have died. The rest are due to be culled.
Defra said an investigation was "under way to determine the source of the infection".
A 1.8-mile (3km) protection zone and a six-mile (10km) surveillance area have been set up around the turkey rearing farm to reduce the risk of the disease spreading.
An outbreak of the virus in a flock of about 6,000 turkeys at Low Farm, in Fulstow, near Louth, was "unlikely to be directly linked to the previous case" at the nearby Austen Fen Farm, Defra had said.
All restrictions were removed around Austen Fen Farm on 18 January but still remain at Low Farm while an inquiry there continues.
This latest case in Boston comes two days after bird flu was found in pheasants that were being bred at a farm in Wyre, Lancashire.
The same strain has been discovered in birds in Settle, North Yorkshire, a swannery in Dorset and flocks in Carmarthenshire, south west Wales.
In December, the government introduced an avian influenza prevention zone, which lasts until 28 February, to help protect poultry and captive birds from avian flu after the strain was found in 14 European countries including Germany and France.

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A partial eclipse was visible in Australia, parts of South East Asia and the Pacific.
The total eclipse of the sun was visible in the UK, with the best views in the south-east.
The eclipse was visible from the UK, with the best views in the south-east.
The total eclipse of

People across Indonesia and the Pacific have witnessed a total solar eclipse, with some parts of Indonesia in total darkness for up to three minutes.

Article: Cardiff University's survey of 152 hospitals found 188,803 people were admitted for injuries from a fight or assault - 10% fewer than in 2015.
The figures are the lowest since 2001, when the survey first recorded data.
But they are at odds with police statistics which have recently recorded increases in violent crime.
The study's lead author, Professor Jonathan Shepherd of the Violence Research Group at Cardiff University, said there had been a substantial decrease in violence-related injuries for both men and women in 2016 compared with 2015.
Since 2010, researchers found a decline of 40% in people needing treatment in emergency departments after violence, he added.
Decreases in drug uses and binge drinking were said to be possible reasons for falls in violent incidents.
But the group's latest report, which also assessed records from minor injury units and walk-in centres, said casualties peaked at weekends - suggesting that alcohol-related violence remained a significant problem.
The data showed males and people aged 18 to 30 continued to be at most risk from violence.
Violence-related injuries sustained by children aged up to 10 showed a year-on-year rise of 10% in 2016.
The research does not examine the reasons for the decline in violence but better detection and reporting of serious violence by emergency departments and more targeted policing were also cited in the report as possible factors.
Prof Shepherd told the BBC that increased CCTV which allowed police to target incidents quicker and efforts to reduce domestic violence should also be taken into account.
He said the substantial year-on-year decline meant "costs imposed on health services and the criminal justice system by violence have been substantially reduced".
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Earlier this month, Metropolitan Police figures showed sharp jumps in recorded knife and gun crime.
And police in England and Wales recorded an annual rise of 22% in offences recorded as "violence against the person" in the year to...

Summary: Injuries from violence in England and Wales fell "substantially" in 2016, an annual study of people treated in accident and emergency units suggests.
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Article: A partial eclipse was visible in Australia, parts of South East Asia and the Pacific.

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The attack was discovered on Wednesday, and made public on Saturday.
The Information Commissioner's Office has confirmed it is aware of the incident.
The Information Commissioner's Office has confirmed it is aware of the incident.
The Information Commissioner's Office has confirmed it is aware of the incident.
The Information Commissioner's Office

The UK's data watchdog is "making inquiries" after Carphone Warehouse said the personal details of up to 2.4 million of its customers may have been accessed in a cyber-attack.

Article: Its research shows staff are victims of more than 1,500 physical and verbal attacks by pupils every year.
Two schools in England are taking part in a three-month trial where all teachers are wearing police-style body cameras to stop pupil disruption.
One teacher said there was one problem pupil in "most classes".
"I've been stabbed with a pencil, I've had my fingers slammed in a door, I've had a child bite me, I've had the backs of my hands clawed with fingernails, furniture thrown at me, kicked, punched.
"It sounds horrendous when you say it all in one list but those things are happening fairly regularly," the teacher said anonymously to S4C's O'r Senedd programme.
"It's getting worse year by year, it's getting harder to manage year by year, it's getting more distressing year by year, both for the pupils and the staff."
Owen Hathway of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said about eight "verbal or physical" assaults took place against teachers every day.
While he said the union could not "completely dismiss" the use of body cams, he said they could also prove to be a hindrance.
"What we need to ensure is that whilst this sort of technology may be able to safeguard teachers and pupils, it's perhaps a bit too intrusive at the moment, and there are other avenues to explore that could help develop better relationships in the class and better levels of discipline in the class," he said.
"I think first and foremost we know that the schools with the best level of discipline are those who have good relationships between schools and the communities."
While he said the idea was "something we have to be ready to embrace", he was cautious about its implementation.
"It shouldn't be a case of being an intrusive platform for school leaders to spy potentially on teachers or pupils, but as a way of safeguarding pupils and teachers and working with the profession about how it's developed," Mr Hathaway added.
Educational well-being consultant Siriol Burford does not think they should be used in every classroom.
"I think...

Summary: The idea of teachers wearing body cameras in Welsh classrooms cannot be dismissed, the National Union of Teachers has said.
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Article: The attack was discovered on Wednesday, and made public on Saturday.
The encrypted credit card details of up to 90,000 people may have been accessed, the mobile phone firm said.
The Information Commissioner's Office, which examines data breaches, confirmed it was aware of the incident.
Carphone Warehouse says the data could include names, addresses, dates of birth and bank details and it is contacting all those affected.
Those who think they have been the victim of fraud should contact Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040.
Carphone Warehouse said the "sophisticated" cyber-attack, which happened in the past two weeks, was stopped "straight away" after it was discovered on Wednesday afternoon.
The affected division of the company operates the websites OneStopPhoneShop.com, e2save.com and Mobiles.co.uk, and provides services to iD Mobile, TalkTalk Mobile, Talk Mobile and some Carphone Warehouse customers.
The retailer's owner, Dixons Carphone, has apologised for the attack and said additional security measures have been brought in. It has also taken the affected websites down.
Carphone Warehouse customer Kerri, from Petersfield, in Hampshire, said she believed her email address had been hacked, and "things stolen", since the breach.
"I am extremely upset as well as worried and scared," she said.
"Firms like Carphone Warehouse need to be held accountable for security breaches."
Some customers complained they should have been made aware when the breach was first detected.
Technology analyst Tom Cheesewright said the company may have been trying to assess the level of damage before making the announcement.
"I don't think we'll know until the Information Commissioner's Office looks at this - whether they did the right thing, whether they were prudent in waiting a few days." he added.
He said it was likely the data would be sold on.
"There's a ready market in this sort of information. You might pay Â£5-10 for one set of credit card details, maybe twice that for a full identity," he said.
The details may then be used to shop...

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A man has been arrested in connection with a burglary at a house in Manchester.
The man, aged in his 30s, was arrested on suspicion of burglary and possession of a bladed article.
He was arrested on suspicion of attempted burglary and possession of a bladed article.
The incident happened in the Tur

A heavily pregnant woman had a gun pressed to her head when masked burglars broke into her Rochdale home.

Article: The European Commission has given Glybera marketing authorisation, meaning it can be sold throughout the EU.
It is a gene therapy for a rare disease which leaves people unable to properly digest fats.
The manufacturers say it will be available next year.
Gene therapy has a simple premise. If there is a problem with part of a patient's genetic code then change the code.
However, the field has been plagued with problems. Patients have developed leukaemia and in one trial in the US a teenager died.
In Europe and the US, the therapies are used only in research labs.
Glybera is used to treat lipoprotein lipase deficiency. One in a million people have damaged copies of a gene which is essential for breaking down fats.
It means fat builds up in the blood leading to abdominal pain and life-threatening inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis).
The only way to manage the condition is by having a very low-fat diet.
The therapy, developed by UniQure, uses a virus to infect muscle cells with a working copy of the gene.
The European Medicines Agency recommended the therapy was made available for the most severely ill patients earlier in 2012.
UniQure chief executive officer Jorn Aldag said: "The final approval of Glybera from the European Commission marks a major step forward in making gene therapies available not only for lipoprotein lipase deficiency, but also for a large number of rare diseases with a very high unmet medical need."
The company said it would apply for regulatory approval in the US and Canada.
China was the first country to officially sanction a gene therapy.

Summary: A treatment which corrects errors in a person's genetic code has been approved for commercial use in Europe for the first time.
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Article: The 28-year-old's nine-year-old daughter was also threatened by a member of the gang, who had a knife.
The burglary happened at their home in the Turf Hill area at about 05:30 BST on Wednesday, Greater Manchester Police said.
The three balaclava-wearing men stole cash, jewellery and a mobile phone before fleeing.
The offender carrying the gun, said to be a small silver metal handgun, was described as Asian, slim and aged between 20 and 30.
The man with the knife was black, between 30 and 40, of a medium build and with bloodshot eyes.
It is believed they were met by three other men outside the property.
Police are now appealing for anyone with information to contact them.
Det Con Rich Shelton said: "This gang targeted a mum and her young daughter, even stooping as low as to hold a gun to the head of a woman who was clearly heavily pregnant and absolutely terrified.
"Thankfully they were not physically injured and the unborn baby not harmed but the emotional trauma they have suffered is immeasurable."

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The Great Exhibition of the North is to be held in the North East of England, it has been announced.
The Great Exhibition of the North is to be held in the North East of England, it has been announced.
The event, which will be held in the region from September to November 2018, will be

One of the reasons the Great Exhibition of the North was awarded to Newcastle and Gateshead was because of the "ambition" of  organisers.

Article: But organisers hope the participation of Scotland's world number 24 Russell Knox, born in nearby Inverness, will compensate for the American's absence.
Tournament director Peter Adams said he regretted the absence of Fowler.
"No Rickie this year, which we're obviously disappointed about and so is Rickie," Adams told BBC Scotland.
"He has written to us and said he would have really liked to come back to defend, but it is some of the schedule congestion that has been an issue for him.
"The Olympics is here for the first time and that's meant date changes for some of the majors and, if you look at that run from the US Open right up until the Olympics, it's incredibly congested and all of the players who play in the top flight of world golf I think have had some difficulty organising their schedules."
Fowler has missed the cut three times in his past five tournaments in the build-up to this month's US Open.
The 27-year-old won his Scottish Open title at Gullane, but the tournament returns to Castle Stuart from 7-10 July after an absence of three years.
"I think it's been a good thing to travel around Scotland in the past few years," said Adams.
"In terms of what we do for the future, we have announced that it is going to be Dundonald for next year.
"We haven't really discussed and thought beyond that and I think there will be a lot of discussion at this year's tournament about where we go after that."
There has been speculation about the future scheduling of the Scottish Open, with Irish Open organisers thought to be keen to take over the slot before the Open Championship.
"It has always been the tournament the week before the Open Championship and, as we stand now, that is the position," said Adams.
"I think for as long as I've been working on the Scottish Open, there have been various tournaments that have eyed the week before the Open Championship.
"It has served the Scottish Open well, so I think for this golf tournament it would be good to have that unless there is a good reason to change.
"That is really...

Summary: World number five Rickie Fowler will not defend his Scottish Open title at Castle Stuart, citing a busy calendar with golf returning to the Olympics.
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Article: However, the 2018 event, set to showcase art, design and innovation, will not be the first in the region.
In 1929, the North East Coast Exhibition was opened by the Prince of Wales in Newcastle amid great fanfare.
So, will organisers take inspiration from the grand event, which attracted four million visitors?
Responding to the Newcastle and Gateshead announcement, the North East Chamber of Commerce said: "The Great Exhibition looks set to be the launch pad of real growth in our regional economy."
The Prince of Wales - later King Edward VIII - opened the 1929 event and said: "The industries of the North are not yet knocked out of the ring.
"They are fighting back gallantly with a good Northern punch."
And the "northern punch" included cutting-edge technology, such as a cow milking machine, a telescope brought down from Edinburgh University, and the local newspaper using a newly-designed electric sign to flash out the latest news items.
Industry and consumer items were represented, some of them household names that remain, such as Hoover vacuum cleaners, Singer sewing machines, and Pyrex glass ovenware.
Andrews Liver Salts showed off its brand with a 15ft "fountain of health".
For entertainment there was an amusement park, a Himalayan Railway, and an African village.
More than four million people passed through the turnstiles between May and October that year, including King Alfonso of Spain and the Sultan of Zanzibar. Each millionth visitor was presented with a gold watch.
When the exhibition ended, the pavilions were dismantled and the area reverted to a public park.
Unfortunately, that "northern punch" would fall victim to the economic depression a few years later, in the 1930s.

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A new study has found that women who are overweight or obese are more likely to develop breast cancer.
The study, published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, found that women who are overweight or obese are more than twice as likely to develop breast cancer than women of a healthy weight.

The first major trial to see if losing weight reduces the risk of cancers coming back is about to start in the US and Canada.

Article: A report commissioned by the Humanist Society of Scotland (HSS) said the position of religion had weakened in most areas of life in recent years.
But it said laws protecting religion in education had, if anything, been strengthened.
A Church of Scotland spokesman said religious groups from all faiths made appropriate contributions to education.
The 355-page HSS report, written by academics at Glasgow University, cited the growth of Sunday trading and the rise in popularity of non-religious marriages as evidence Scotland was becoming a more secular society.
HSS chief executive Gordon MacRae said: "The motivation for this commission came from the increased public and political awareness of the changing role of religion and belief in Scottish public life."
He added: "At a time when 47%, nearly one in two households in Scotland, say they have no religion, we think it is time to move to a secular education system.
"Every state school in Scotland is a faith school. We hope this document can be a catalyst for a new debate."
The report said the current education system was established by two Acts of Parliament in 1872 and 1918, when Catholic schools were absorbed into the state system.
All state schools are required to ensure all pupils take part in 'religious observance' - at least once a week for primary pupils and at least once a month for secondary schools.
These provisions were reinforced in 2004 by the Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition, and accepted in a government circular in 2011 under the SNP.
The report outlines other areas in which the position of religion is guaranteed by law in the education system:
One of the report's authors, Callum Brown, professor of Modern European History at Glasgow University, said: "There is no particular move at foot to change this, in comparison to changes, dramatic changes to marriage law, with the arrival of same-sex marriage in 2014.
"That was a phenomenal and ground-breaking change which doesn't seem to have an equivalent in relation to education."
The HSS said the growth...

Summary: The role of religion should be removed from the school curriculum, according to a humanist organisation.
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Article: Researchers believe achieving a healthier weight could cut the risk by a fifth in breast cancer.
Around 3,200 women will take part, with half of them shifting a tenth of their body weight.
Experts said the trials were vital as it was still unclear if weight made a difference.
Dr Jennifer Ligibel, from the women's cancer centre at the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute, said: "We have known now for many years that women who are overweight or obese and are diagnosed with breast cancer have a higher risk of their cancer recurring and ultimately dying."
She said this had been seen in more than 100 studies, though the explanation for it was unclear.
She said preliminary evidence showed that losing weight after diagnosis could be helpful.
But the idea has never been tested in a large randomised trial, considered the gold-standard of medical research.
The two-year trial will start recruiting overweight and obese patients, with a BMI of at least 27, in August.
After their cancer therapy is completed, the women will have regular advice from dieticians to help them reduce their calorie intake to 1,200-1,500 calories per day.
Eventually, they will also exercise for up to 250 minutes a week.
For every 100 women in the study who do not lose weight, they expect to see 23 have a recurrence of the tumour.
If the researchers are right, then they expect only 19 in every 100 women who did shift the pounds to have a recurrence.
Dr Ligibel added: "I think it would be premature to say we know these things make a difference and that's why studies are important.
"I am quite convinced but I think we need the data to really prove it, but also to look at who benefits."
It is far from clear what changes inside an obese body could be leading to cancer recurrence, but there are theories around levels of the hormone insulin or inflammation, both of which are altered with weight gain.
If the concept is confirmed then it could apply to a wider range of cancers.
Prostate and colorectal cancer incidence is already known to be closely connected to...

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The fashion designer has said he was "very happy" to have Hadid as a model.
Hilfiger's comments come after the model was criticised for wearing a poncho at a fashion show.
Hilfiger's comments come after the model was criticised for wearing a poncho at a

Tommy Hilfiger has said suggestions he thought Gigi Hadid was not thin enough to model are "completely false".

Article: Local authority areas in Scotland were placed in divisions that reflect the take-up of a range of renewable energy technologies.
Orkney was found to have the greatest amount of community-owned wind generation in a district with a population of less than 100,000 people.
The award was from the Scottish National Renewable Energy League.
Craig MacInnes, development manager of the Orkney Renewable Energy Forum (OREF), collected the award at the event in Glasgow.
He said: "This award for Orkney raises the profile of community wind projects and the benefits they bring.
"It shows how forward thinking many of Orkney's smaller and more remote communities have been in embracing renewable energy."

Summary: Orkney has won an award recognising the success of its community energy projects.
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Article: The fashion designer had told Yahoo that casting directors dressed Hadid in a poncho for a fashion show because she was not as thin as the other models.
But he has now clarified his comments and said the story was misleading.
Hilfiger said: "The suggestion that I thought [Hadid] wasn't thin enough upsets me to no end. Gigi is the epitome of perfection."
In the Yahoo interview, Hilfiger referred to a 2015 fashion show in which Hadid wore a poncho which covered most of her body.
Hilfiger said he wanted Hadid to be dressed in something which better showed off her figure, but members of his creative team disagreed.
"Our casting director said, 'She doesn't really fit because you know she's not quite as tall as the other girls, she's not quite as thin,'" Hilfiger originally said.
"So they put a red, white, and blue poncho on her. It covered a lot of her body unfortunately, but it received millions of hits."
Hadid's appearance in the poncho proved hugely popular, and she later went on to collaborate with Hilfiger, launching her own line of clothing for the brand earlier this year.
After Hilfiger's comments sparked criticism, the designer criticised the original story's headline as "misleading".
Speaking to Page Six, Hilfiger said: "The casting people put Gigi in the poncho, and I was not happy.
"I was saying, 'Don't hide her body.' Even though the poncho ended up being the best-selling piece, I was very unhappy."
The designer also released a statement to Entertainment Tonight, in which he said he was "extremely proud" to have Hadid representing his brand.
"Gigi is truly the definition of a 'Tommy Girl' - her magnetic personality is bright, confident and always optimistic," he said.
"I've known her for many years, and am extremely proud to have her as the ambassador of my brand and as a collaborator of our collections.
"Any statement to the contrary is completely false. The headline from the interview with Yahoo was misleading and has since been corrected."
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Blatter: "I am really sorry"
Platini: "I am really sorry"
Platini: "I am really sorry"
Platini: "I am really sorry"
Platini: "I am really sorry"
Platini: "I am really sorry"

Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Uefa boss Michel Platini have been suspended for eight years from all football-related activities following an ethics investigation.

Article: Reading Borough Council said it had written to Network Rail and Great Western Railway (GWR) demanding action following complaints from residents.
People in Cardiff Road had complained of trains parked in sidings with engines idling.
GWR has previously said the introduction of electric trains in 2019 will reduce the problem.
An online petition set up by residents living close to the GWR depot complained about "low-frequency noise" from trains idling in the early hours of the morning.
The council said it has warned GWR and Network Rail it could face an abatement notice.
Deputy council leader Tony Page said the responses form the companies had so far been "inadequate".
"The council is fully supportive of the huge benefits the realignment of rail lines in and around Reading has brought.
"By the same token, the concerns local residents have [about] noise and air pollution are very real and the council is lobbied on these issues regularly.
"We hope that escalating local concerns to senior management will prove more effective."
Earlier this year, GWR said the noise was within safe levels and it had changed the way it operated trains on the sidings.
Jonathan Dart, chairman of the Bell Tower Community Association, said he warmly welcomed the council's announcement to "put an end to the nuisance being caused to the residents of Cardiff Road".
However, he criticised the time it took the authority to investigate the issue.
"It took nine months and a press campaign for the council to release an officer's report stating that being in part of Cardiff Road at 03:29 was akin to being backstage at the Reading Festival," he said.

Summary: Noise and air pollution from a new rail depot in Reading could prompt legal action, it has been warned.
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They were found guilty of breaches surrounding a £1.3m ($2m) "disloyal payment" made to Platini in 2011.
The Fifa ethics committee found Blatter and Platini had demonstrated an "abusive execution" of their positions.
"I will fight for me and for Fifa," Blatter, 79, said at a news conference.
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Platini said the decision was a "masquerade" intended to "dirty" his name.
Both men continue to deny wrongdoing and intend to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
Swiss Blatter and 60-year-old Frenchman Platini have also been fined £33,700 ($50,000) and £54,000 ($80,000) respectively.
Despite the ban, both Blatter and Platini will be allowed to attend matches - including Euro 2016 in France - if they buy tickets in a private capacity.
Fifa boss since 1998, Blatter had already announced he was quitting with a presidential election in February.
Platini was tipped as a future leader of football's world governing body and is a three-time European Footballer of the Year.
He is also a former captain of France and has been in charge of Uefa - European football's governing body - since 2007.
Unshaven and sporting a plaster over his right cheek, Blatter was in defiant mood at a news conference he had called in advance of the punishments being made public.
"I will fight," he said. "I will fight for me and for Fifa."
He said he was "really sorry" that he is still "a punching ball" and that he has become tainted in the eyes of humanity.
He added that he thought he had convinced the Fifa ethics tribunal that the payment from Fifa to Platini was legitimate.
He plans to appeal, first to Fifa, then Cas. He may also take legal action under Swiss law if needed.
Blatter: Key quotes from hour-long news conference
"The decision is no surprise to me," he said in a statement. "The procedure initiated against me by Fifa's ethics committee is a pure masquerade.
"It has been rigged to tarnish my name by bodies I know well and who for me are...

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A new study has found that the human brain is not as good at judging the speed of a projectile as we think.
The study, published in the journal Science, found that the human brain is not as good at judging the speed of a projectile as we think.
The study, led by Dr. Madhus

Scientists have calculated the optimal strategy for throwing something accurately - whether it's a dart or a crumpled-up piece of paper.

Article: The order came after activists challenged the government decision on grounds of cruelty to animals.
Tuesday's court order means there will be no Jallikattu festival this year.
The Jallikattu festival was scheduled to begin on 15 January across the state. No events were held last year.
At the annual festival held in January, thousands of men chase the bulls to grab prizes tied to their horns.
Read more: The state that loves bullfighting but isn't Spain
The Supreme Court banned the festival in 2014 after objections from animal rights activists.
In its order at the time, the Supreme Court had said that the use of bulls in the sport "severely harmed" the animals and was an offence under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.
Unlike in Spain, however, the bulls are not killed in the contests in Tamil Nadu.
However, last Friday the government issued an order lifting the ban.
Many believe local political parties had lobbied to have the ban lifted with an eye on this year's state elections.
Also, the Thevar community of Tamil Nadu is politically and economically influential in at least five districts where the sport is popular and no political party wants to antagonise them.
Correspondents say Tuesday's order is a setback for the Narendra Modi-led BJP government in Delhi, which had lifted the top court's ban last week using an executive order.
"With this single act of thumbing its nose at the Supreme Court, the BJP - like the Congress before - has sent the unfortunate signal once again that court orders are binding only upon ordinary citizens, and governments are above the law; lifting the ban on Jallikattu by circumventing the order of the apex court has put the executive on a collision course with the judiciary," a commentator wrote in The Wire website last week.
Tuesday's order shows that India's top court has again reasserted the judiciary's position, many observers believe.
On Monday, the Animal Welfare Board of India, animal rights groups and activists had filed six petitions in the court, challenging the...

Summary: The Indian Supreme Court has put on hold a recent government order lifting a ban on Jallikattu, a form of bullfighting which has been popular for centuries in the state of Tamil Nadu.
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Article: US researchers say the slow-is-more-accurate rule generally applies.
In a series of calculations, they looked at the physics behind releasing a projectile with the human arm.
Their equations suggest a slow underarm throw is the best strategy for getting a piece of paper into a nearby bin.
Lead researcher Madhusudhan Venkadesan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Yale University, said faster throws tend to be less accurate.
This is because the ball travels in a nearly straight line, so any errors in the angle at which the object is released tend to be amplified.
In slow and curved flight paths, small errors in the angle of release have little effect, he said.
"What we find is that almost the slowest arc is often the most accurate," said Dr Venkadesan.
"We've compared these calculations to published data of people throwing into wastebaskets; we've compared it to a study in dart throwing."
In sports such as basketball or darts, the strategy depends on conditions and the trade-off needed between speed and accuracy.
For example, experienced darts players throw overarm at about 5.5 metres per second, optimally releasing the dart 17 to 37 degrees before the arm becomes vertical.
On the cricket pitch, fielders are more likely to strike the wicket with a fast underarm throw.
And in basketball, the underhand free throw, nicknamed "the granny throw", has a marginal advantage over overhand, despite almost disappearing from the game.
Accurate throwing is uniquely human - a skill relied upon by our ancient ancestors for hunting with spears or stone tools.
The researchers say monkeys also throw things, but they are really bad at it.
The study is published in the journal, Royal Society Open Science.
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A new study has found that the number of people who have a mental health problem is on the rise.
The study, by the mental health charity Mind, found that one in four people in the UK will experience a common mental health problem in any given year.
The study also found that one in ten people will

Researchers at Google say they are “years closer” to rolling out a network of huge balloons to provide connectivity to rural areas.

Article: Damien Midgley, formerly of Aberford, near Leeds, was tried for child sex offences in 2014, but did not attend the hearing.
He was convicted in his absence and sentenced to six years in jail, with a warrant for his arrest also issued.
North Yorkshire Police believe the 39-year-old visited Thailand before Cambodia. Arrangements are being made for him to be deported back to the UK.
Det Insp Jane Guymer said: "Midgley clearly thought that by fleeing the UK he would be somehow immune to the sentence that the courts handed him in his absence.
"However, this case proves that international barriers are no obstacle when it comes to ensuring vile and cowardly child sex offenders are held to account for their actions."

Summary: A convicted sex offender who fled the UK has been arrested in Cambodia.
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Article: The Project Loon team, part of the company’s X research lab, said it was now able to use machine learning to predict weather systems.
It means the firm has far greater control over where its balloons go, making it possible to focus on a specific region, rather than circumnavigating the globe.
Clustering a small number of balloons greatly reduces the cost of the idea, Google’s “captain of moonshots”, Astro Teller, told reporters.
"We can now run an experiment and try to give service in a particular place in the world with ten, twenty or thirty balloons,” he said, rather than the hundreds needed previously.
“Real users” will be able to use the system in the “coming months”, he added - but he did not specify where the initial roll out would take place.
Rural ambition
Google’s aim is to provide connectivity to the around four billion people in the world who do not have access to the internet, particularly those in difficult-to-reach rural areas.
Rather than undertake huge construction projects to replicate connectivity networks in the developed world, the firm has instead experimented with beaming down connectivity from a network of huge, tennis-court sized balloons.
The balloons float in the stratosphere around 11 miles high. By raising or lowering altitude, the balloons can be caught in different weather streams, changing direction.
By using machine-learning algorithms, Google thinks it has cracked a way to predict weather with enough accuracy to make it possible to hover balloons over a relatively small area for a long period of time.
Last last year the firm was able to keep a cluster of balloons over Peru for three months.
Spin off
Over the past year Google has come under increasing pressure from its shareholders to rein in the costs of its more outlandish ideas.
Last month, the firm has spun off its self-driving project into a new company - Waymo - and has stepped up attempts to commercialise the technology amid criticism it was taking too long to make money from its work.
Mr Teller said Project Loon was one...

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The charity is calling for more to be done to protect the UK's ancient trees.
The charity is calling for more to be done to protect the UK's ancient trees.
The charity is calling for more to be done to protect the UK's ancient trees.
The charity is calling for more to be done to

The Woodland Trust have said that some trees should have the same rights as old buildings.

Article: Security firm Eset found the gang controlled its malware, called Turla, by posting comments about images in the singer's gallery.
The comments looked like spam but once transformed by code in the virus, directed victims to other sites.
Several other compromised websites were also being used to track victims and spread the malware.
Turla has been active since 2014 and sought to catch out government workers, diplomats and other officials, said Eset researcher Jean-Ian Boutin. It is believed to be run by a hacker group working for the Russian state.
Most often, he said, Turla's handlers compromised websites that targets would be likely to visit.
One compromised server asked visitors to install a booby-trapped extension for the Firefox web browser.
Digital detective work by Mr Boutin revealed that the command and control (C&C) channel set up between the creators of the extension and victims' machines was on the singer's Instagram page.
The malicious extension searched for comments that, when digitally transformed, matched a specific value. These were then converted into a website address that the compromised machine visited to report in or to update the malicious code they harboured.
Very few comments posted to the Instagram account had the key characteristics - suggesting that Turla's creators were testing or refining the control system.
Mr Boutin said using social media in this way made "life harder for defenders".
"Firstly, it is difficult to distinguish malicious traffic to social media from legitimate traffic," he wrote. "Secondly, it gives the attackers more flexibility when it comes to changing the C&C address as well as erasing all traces of it."
Mr Boutin added that he had been in touch with Mozilla, which was working on ways to stop extensions for Firefox being compromised in this way.

Summary: The comments section of Britney Spears' Instagram account has been used by cyber-thieves to co-ordinate attacks.
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Article: The charity is campaigning to help protect ancient or old trees, that have grown in the UK for hundreds of years.
They say that having more trees is good for our health as well as the environment.
Currently around 2% of the UK is listed as ancient woodland.
The UK has seen around 45 rare species of trees disappear in the last 100 years.
Some people are calling for lots more homes to be built in the UK and the Woodland Trust say they are worried that building new houses would mean that old trees would be chopped down to clear space.
The Government have been talking about the issue in a new White Paper, which presents ideas for changes to the law.
It could mean that some trees in England would be protected like historic buildings.

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The average price of a home in the UK rose by 2.1% in the first three months of this year, according to the Halifax.
The average price of a home in the UK rose by 2.1% in the first three months of this year, according to the Halifax.
The average price of

UK house prices rose by 9.5% in 2015, according to the lender Halifax, making it the fastest annual increase in nine years.

Article: Speaking to BBC Radio 3's In Tune, he said the "radical reducing of public subsidy" was a particular threat to regional companies.
"Opera companies are [being] forced more and more to rely on any private money they can raise," he said.
"Inevitably, a theatre like the Royal Opera House is able to raise more than smaller, less attractive companies.
"That's why we're seeing the extraordinary explosion of country house opera - Grange Park, Longborough, Glyndebourne and so on - and the shrinking of regional opera.
"All our marvellous regional opera companies are in real trouble and struggling."
Grant in aid to England's Arts Council has fallen nearly 30% in the last five years, and opera houses have not been spared from the cuts.
English National Opera was hit particularly hard, with its annual grant cut from Â£17.2m in 2014/15 to Â£12.4m in the next financial year, amid concerns over its management and business model.
Vick, who is the artistic director of Birmingham Opera Company and works in many of the world's major opera houses - including La Scala and the Royal Opera House - said he "fears for the future" of the artform.
The 61-year-old was speaking to BBC Radio 3's Suzy Klein ahead of the world premiere of Morgen und Abend (Morning and Evening) at the ROH this weekend.
He described the opera, written by Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas, as "an astonishing masterpiece".
"Unusually for opera, it deals with mature emotions," said Vick, who is directing the production about the life and death of a Nordic fisherman.
"The first half hour is about the last moments in the womb and his emergence into life," explained Vick, "and the rest of the opera is about his realisation that he's dead".
Praising the composer as a "genius", he said the opera was "existential, profound, complex and simple all at the same time".
"Today a first-time opera goer came to the dress rehearsal - a woman who does my VAT receipts for me," he said. "She said to me at the end, 'it was extraordinary - I could see the music in the...

Summary: British opera is in "crisis" as a result of funding cuts to the arts, says renowned director Graham Vick.
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Article: In the last month, prices went up by 1.7%, said the Halifax, bringing the average price of a home to Â£208,286.
However, other lenders, such as the Nationwide measure, put the rate of increase much lower.
Last month, it said prices rose by 4.5% in 2015, less than half the Halifax estimate.
Halifax's housing economist, Martin Ellis, said one reason for the sharp increase was the continuing shortage of property for sale.
"This situation is unlikely to change significantly in the short term, resulting in continuing upward pressure on prices," he said.
The last time UK house prices rose so quickly was in 2006, when values soared by 9.9%.
The 9.5% increase in 2015 was way ahead of experts' predictions a year ago.
Martin Ellis himself predicted that prices would rise by between 3% and 5%, while most expected a figure around 4%.
Newham, in East London, was the town with the largest increase in 2015. Prices there rose by 22% in 2015, compared to 12% for London as a whole.
The different methodology of the most popular house price measures is explained here.

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The prime minister has been accused of "betraying" the public.
The prime minister has been accused of "betraying" the public.
The prime minister has been accused of "betraying" the public.
The prime minister has been accused of "betraying" the public.

The Liberal Democrats have reacted angrily to Theresa May's claim that a badly managed Brexit would mean fewer resources for public services.

Article: Russians now know the name of their next president - Vladimir Putin.
They know who their prime minister is going to be - Dmitry Medvedev.
They have a pretty good idea which political party will have the majority in parliament - United Russia.
They know all this, even though parliamentary elections are still two-and-a-half months away. And the next presidential election will not be until March 2012.
The results are already clear. When Dmitry Medvedev took the stage at a party conference on Saturday and backed Vladimir Putin for president, he effectively handed back the keys to the Kremlin. Job done.
The presidential election will be little more than a referendum on what has already been agreed behind closed doors - that Mr Putin will return to the presidency.
It is unthinkable that Vladimir Putin could lose that election. He remains the most popular politician in Russia.
That is partly because of his strongman image, that goes down well with the public.
And it is partly because the political system he has created prevents any potential rivals from appearing on the scene, from getting air time on national TV, and from gaining authority.
It is the same with Russia's political parties. In December's Duma election, only those parties approved or tolerated by the Kremlin will have the opportunity to contest the poll.
Experience shows that opposition parties viewed by the authorities as anti-Kremlin or anti-Putin, and which openly criticise the Russian prime minister, normally struggle to receive official registration.
So, what do Russians make of this pre-ordained transfer of power?
Judging from some of Monday's Russian papers, there is a degree of anger.
The popular tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets has a cartoon on its front page. It shows a ballot box with a heart-shaped slot for the ballot papers. It is a sign that, in Russia, elections have become little more than a plebiscite on the nation's love of one man.
The paper accuses Vladimir Putin of wanting more than just 12 more years - two terms - in power.
"You seek...

Summary: It feels like the day after a general election.
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Article: Former party leader Nick Clegg called her comments "utter cheek".
"It is Theresa May's extreme version of Brexit which will cause real damage to the NHS," he added.
The prime minister gave a speech earlier on Tuesday in which she stressed that she was the best person to lead talks on leaving the EU.
She also told the audience in Wolverhampton: "If we don't make a success of Brexit, we won't have the financial means to fund the public services on which we all rely.
"Our National Health Service - the institution which is there for us at the most difficult times - needs us to make a success of Brexit to ensure we can afford to provide it with the resources it needs for the future."
Mr Clegg responded: "By insisting on dragging the UK out of the single market, she has chosen a UKIP-style version of Brexit which is already causing a squeeze on public services."
"It's time she came clean that the risks are all of her own making. It is her choice to take this country in a dangerous and damaging direction."
The Conservatives have promised increases in NHS spending in real terms reaching Â£8bn extra per year by 2022-23, while Labour has pledged Â£30bn in extra funding over the next parliament.
The Lib Dems have committed to adding 1p in the pound on income tax to raise Â£6bn for NHS and social care services.
They are also arguing for a referendum on the eventual Brexit deal, unlike Labour or the Conservatives.

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The Church of England's General Synod will discuss the findings of the survey in November.
The Church of England's General Synod will discuss the findings of the survey in November.
The Church of England's General Synod will discuss the findings of the survey in November.
The Church of England's General Syn

Forty percent of people in England do not believe Jesus was a real person, a Church of England survey suggests.

Article: "And in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, 'You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story'."
To some, that statement was evidence of what many already believed - the president decided to fire Mr Comey to impede the FBI's investigation into the Russia scandal.
That has led to speculation that the president may have obstructed justice - a criminal offence. But experts say that suspecting obstruction of justice and proving it are two very different things.
Broadly speaking, obstruction of justice is any interference with a judicial or congressional proceeding. It might commonly be applied in cases where someone has tampered with evidence, intimidated a witness, or failed to report a crime.
The key legal statute in this case is 18 US Code Section 1512, which contains a broad definition allowing charges to be brought against someone who "obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so".
"The statutes are quite broadly written," said Alex Whiting, a former prosecutor and law professor at Harvard Law School, "but the key factor, certainly in this case, is intent."
Mr Trump was well within his legal rights in sacking Mr Comey. "The president can fire an FBI director for turning up in the wrong tie or socks, if he wants to," said Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan.
"The real question is whether in doing so he was attempting to impede the FBI's investigation."
Section 1512 requires a person not only to attempt to obstruct justice but to do it with "corrupt" intent.
"That's the key word here," said Mr Whiting. "The government would have to prove that it was done corruptly, defined as having a bad intent or wrongful purpose."
Proving corrupt intent on Mr Trump's part would be difficult, Mr Whiting said, given that the president had also accused Mr Comey of poor management of the FBI and of mishandling the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.
"He has provided all these other explanations for why he fired him,...

Summary: The Trump administration's story of why FBI director James Comey was fired, which began to twist almost as soon as it was told, took another turn on Thursday when the president said this to NBC News:
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Article: However, 43% of the people asked said they did believe in the resurrection - although many did not think it happened as described in the Bible.
The figures found while 57% classified themselves as Christian, fewer than 10% read the Bible and prayed regularly, or go to church at least once a month.
The Church of England's General Synod will discuss the survey in November.
The survey of more than 4,000 people was commissioned by the Church, Hope - which represents churches of all denominations - and the Evangelical Alliance - which represents evangelical Christians in the UK.
Many scholars agree that Jesus was a real man, who lived in Galilee more than 2,000 years ago, although many details surrounding his life are still debated.
But, the Church of England survey found that four in 10 people did not believe Jesus was a real person, with a quarter of 18 to 34 year olds believing he was a mythical or fictional character.
The poll was part of a wider research project looking at both practising Christians and the wider population.
After Christians, the second biggest group identified in the poll - 12% - were atheists, while 9% were agnostics, Muslims represented 3%, with Hindus and Jews both making up 2%.
English Christians are more likely than the average English adult to work in education, or professional jobs, but less likely to work in finance or insurance, the survey concluded.

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A man has been jailed for life for murdering a man in a pub in Skegness.
The court heard that the victim, who has not been named, was stabbed to death in the pub in the early hours of the morning of the day of the murder.
The victim, who was in his 30s

A major vendor on the illegal Silk Road website and his business partner, were sentenced to five years in prison for drugs offences.

Article: The adverts, which feature the slogan "For sights you'll want to remember - visit Skegness", describe the resort as England's cultural coast.
James Gilbert, of East Lindsey District Council, said the campaign was about publicising the town's summer events.
But Claire Smith, from Stay Blackpool, said it was a "dirty tricks" campaign.
Skegness attracts more than four million visitors each year, generating Â£450m for the local economy.
Last year the resort was described in the Lonely Planet guide as "good family fun if you immerse yourself in the whole tacky spectacle".
Mr Gilbert said that view was 30 years out of date.
He said the latest campaign was designed to publicise Skegness as an "amazing resort" and to get publicity for an "amazing summer of events", which includes So Festival and the Olympic Torch Relay on 27 June.
"We are not trying to upset anyone - it's a bit of friendly rivalry," he said.
Claire Smith, who has a five star bed and breakfast in Blackpool, is president of Stay Blackpool, a guest house and hoteliers association.
She said: "It feels like a dirty tricks campaign.
"Skegness is a lovely little place and this campaign isn't drawing me in - in fact it's making me think about Blackpool and Brighton.
"It is difficult times - Blackpool has an abundance of stuff going on all summer as well, as I am sure Brighton has, but I don't think this campaign is the way to attract visitors," she said.
Blackpool attracts about 13 million visitors each year, with plans in place for a Â£220m transformation of the resort's centre.
Both Skegness and Blackpool are featured in a TV advertising campaign to encourage Britons to take their holidays at home in 2012.

Summary: Officials in Skegness are using adverts showing unflattering images of Blackpool and Brighton in a bid to promote the resort.
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Article: Peter Ward, 54 of Barnstaple in Devon and Richard Hiley, 30 of Tividale in the West Midlands were sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday.
Ward was given five years and two months, Hiley five years.
The pair pleaded guilty to possession, supply and importation of Class A and Class B drugs.
Peter Ward was known online as PlutoPete. His business specialised in supplying military-grade foil packaging that claimed to hide illegal materials from detection.
He also provided new psychoactive substances, commonly known as legal highs.
He was arrested by National Crime Agency officers in Barnstaple in October 2013 following an international operation targeting prominent vendors on dark web marketplaces like Silk Road.
Officers searched Ward's rural home and found class A and B drugs and numerous computers.
Analysis uncovered his close working with an ex-customer, Richard Hiley, who was commissioned by Ward to convert bitcoins into cash.
In December 2013, NCA officers raided Hiley's address in the West Midlands after financial records seized from Ward identified large scale transactions between the pair.
Hiley also pleaded guilty to two counts of importing a prohibited weapon after he imported five stun guns. He said they were for personal protection.
NCA Branch Commander, Ian Glover, said: "Criminals and their customers like to think that dark web market places provide an anonymous haven.
"The reality is that law enforcement works together internationally to identify and pursue these people."
Source: US Department of Justice

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