Tributes have been paid to a woman credited with raising awareness about the dangers of polio following the death of her footballer husband.

Article: The new rules will affect anyone taking money out of a personal pension from 1 April 2017.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said providers who already charge less than 1% will not be allowed to raise their fees.
Those taking out new pension contracts will face no early exit charge at all.
Workplace pensions will be subject to the same rules, but these will not come into effect until October 2017, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced.
Christopher Woolard, executive director of strategy and competition at the FCA, said: "People eligible for the government's pension reforms should feel able to access them as they wish.
"The 1% cap on early exit charges for existing pensions, and the 0% cap for new contracts, will mean that current and future savers will not be deterred by these charges from accessing their pension pots."
Previously some pension providers were charging fees of up to 10%, after the government announced that anyone over the age of 55 could withdraw as much as they wanted from their pensions, subject to income tax.
The "pension freedoms" came into effect in April 2015.
However, some experts believe the 1% cap is still not low enough.
"The cap on early exit fees for pensions, including occupational schemes, is a start, but 1% of a Â£100,000 pension is still a Â£1,000 charge for accessing your own savings," said Tom Selby, senior analyst at investment platform AJ Bell.
"We hope the authorities continue to monitor the cap, to assess whether it should be lower or even abolished if early exit penalties continue to prevent people utilising the new flexible pension rules."

Summary: Early exit charges for people taking money out of their pension pots will be capped at 1%, the financial regulator has confirmed.
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Article: The unexpected discovery indicates there are large volumes of the gas contained in a type of sludgy ice called methane hydrate.
There are concerns that these new seeps could be making a hitherto unnoticed contribution to global warming.
The scientists say there could be about 30,000 of these hidden methane vents worldwide.
Previous surveys along the Atlantic seaboard have shown only three seep areas beyond the edge of the US continental shelf.
The team behind the new findings studied what is termed the continental margin, the region of the ocean floor that stands between the coast and the deep ocean.
In an area between North Carolina and Massachusetts, they have now found at least 570 seeps at varying depths between 50m and 1,700m.
Their findings came as a bit of a surprise.
Source: US Department of Energy
"It is the first time we have seen this level of seepage outside the Arctic that is not associated with features like oil or gas reservoirs or active tectonic margins," said Prof Adam Skarke from Mississippi State University, who led the study.
The scientists have observed streams of bubbles but they have not yet sampled the gas within them.
However, they believe there is an abundance of circumstantial evidence pointing to methane.
Most of the seeping vents were located around 500m down, which is just the right temperature and pressure to create a sludgy confection of ice and gas called methane hydrate, or clathrate.
The scientists say that the warming of ocean temperatures might be causing these hydrates to send bubbles of gas drifting through the water column.
They do not appear to be reaching the surface.
"The methane is dissolving into the ocean at depths of hundreds of metres and being oxidised to CO2," said Prof Skarke.
"But it is important to say we simply don't have any evidence in this paper to suggest that any carbon coming from these seeps is entering the atmosphere."
This research, though, does highlight the scale of methane that is under the waters.
Estimates suggest that these undersea...

Summary: Researchers say they have found more than 500 bubbling methane vents on the seafloor off the US east coast.
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Article: A delegation of European MPs observed the 9 October vote on behalf of the Council of Europe and declared it "free, fair and transparent".
But a separate report by international observers said the election was marred by abuses such as ballot-stuffing.
The Azeri president won by a landslide.
President Ilham Aliyev was re-elected for a third five-year term in the oil-rich former Soviet republic in the Caucasus.
He took over in 2003 on the death of his father Heydar, who in turn had ruled since 1993.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) sent a 45-strong observer team, who issued a joint statement with seven members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on 10 October. They said that "overall around election day we have observed a free, fair and transparent electoral process".
They called the electoral arrangements "professional and peaceful" and said they had found no evidence of intimidation of voters.
However, they also said "improvements are still desirable" and "freedom of expression remains a serious concern".
PACE is a grouping of parliamentarians from the Council of Europe's 47 member states. It says its mission is to uphold Europe's "shared values of human rights, democracy and the rule of law".
Azerbaijan will take over the rotating chairmanship of the Council of Europe in May 2014. It has been a member of the council since 2000.
Election monitors from a different international watchdog, the OSCE, reported "significant problems" in Azerbaijan's voting and counting procedures.
The OSCE said it found "clear indications of ballot box stuffing in 37 polling stations, and the counting was assessed negatively in an unprecedented 58 per cent of the stations observed".
The US government agreed with the OSCE's concerns and said the election "fell short of international standards". It noted "a repressive political environment" during the campaign, with "routine" official interference in the media and civil society.
The OSCE verdict angered Azeri officials - the country's central electoral...

Summary: Human rights groups and Green Party MEPs have sharply criticised Europe's top human rights watchdog, the Council of Europe, for its mild verdict on Azerbaijan's presidential election.
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Article: Health watchdog Monitor has appointed an "improvement director" to work with Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.
It comes after an inquiry was ordered in the wake of Connor Sparrowhawk's death while in Southern Health's care.
An emergency board meeting was held on Monday after the inquiry showed the trust failed to investigate his and other deaths.
The trust has apologised for failings and said systems have improved.
Monitor said the trust would now receive "expert support to improve the way it investigates and reports deaths" of people with learning disabilities.
Mazars, an audit firm, published a report on Southern Health in December which said the deaths of mental health and learning-disability patients were not properly examined between April 2011 and March 2015.
It blamed a "failure of leadership" at the foundation trust.
The report was ordered in 2013 after Connor, 18, drowned in a bath following an epileptic seizure while a patient in a Southern Health hospital in Oxford.
An independent inquiry said his death had been preventable, and an inquest jury found neglect by the trust had contributed to his death.
Monitor said when investigating, the trust also failed to engage properly with families.
The foundation trust covers Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and provides mental health services to about 45,000 people.
Monitor has taken regulatory action and the trust has agreed to implement changes.
Katrina Percy, chief executive of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We have agreed with Monitor that we will take a number of steps to show how we are improving.
"These are implement the recommendations of the Mazars report through a comprehensive action plan, get assurance from independent experts on this action plan and work with an improvement director appointed by Monitor."

Summary: A health trust that failed to properly investigate hundreds of deaths is to be monitored by an external expert.
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Article: Dawn Clements urged people to get vaccinated after the death of England and Birmingham City footballer Jeff Hall from the disease in 1959.
Mrs Clements, of Kidderminster, died at the end of last month, aged 79.
The British Polio Fellowship said there are many people alive and well "who owe her a huge debt of gratitude."
Ted Hill, the charity's chief executive also commended Mrs Clements for helping shine a light on post-polio syndrome (PPS), which is a neurological condition that can occur in people who have had polio.
"It can be difficult to imagine now a time in the UK when polio was killing and paralysing thousands like Jeff," he said.
"Dawn worked to see that no one else had to go through what she did and latterly helped us with our PPS work."
Mr Hall's unexpected death at the peak of his career aged 29 shocked the nation. Take-up of the polio vaccine had been slow in the 1950s but Mrs Clements' campaign is credited with inspiring people to get vaccinated.
The charity head described Mrs Clements, who was diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago, as "an example to us all" He also passed on his condolences to her surviving husband Alan Clements.
Mr Clements thanked charities as well as the people of Birmingham for "assisting Dawn in all of her remarkable work".
"What she did 50 years ago during the worst time of her life still matters to people. Dawn would want me to thank the fans of Birmingham City and all those for all of their help and support," he said.

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Nine executives at Israeli travel agencies have been arrested on suspicion of fixing the price of high school students' trips to former Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz.

Article: The move comes amid concerns about the 30-year old coin's vulnerability to counterfeiting, with an estimated 45 million forgeries in circulation.
The new coin is based on the design of the old threepenny bit, a 12-sided coin in circulation between 1937 and 1971.
A competition will be held to decide what image to put on the "tails" side of the coin.
In his Budget statement to the Commons, Chancellor George Osborne said: "The prerequisite of sound money is a sound currency."
He said the £1 coin was one of the oldest coins in circulation and had become "increasingly vulnerable to forgery".
"One in 30 pound coins is counterfeit, and that costs businesses and the taxpayer millions each year," Mr Osborne continued.
"So I can announce that we will move to a new, highly secure, £1 coin.  It will take three years.
"Our new pound coin will blend the security features of the future with inspiration from our past.
"In honour of our Queen, the coin will take the shape of one of the first coins she appeared on - the threepenny bit.
"A more resilient pound for a more resilient economy."
The government said it would hold a detailed consultation on the impact of the change on businesses, which may face costs from having to change vending machines, supermarket trolleys and lockers at gyms and leisure centres.
Some commentators have raised fears the new piece will not work smoothly in vending machines but the Royal Mint said the coin "will be expressly designed to fit existing mechanisms".
It said the move would increase public confidence in the UK's currency and reduce costs for banks and other businesses.
Earlier, the chancellor tweeted this picture of the £1 coin next to the Budget box, captioned: "Today I will deliver a Budget for a resilient economy - starting with a resilient pound coin."
The current £1 coin was introduced in 1983 as part of the phasing-out of the Bank of England £1 note, which was withdrawn five years later.
Of the 1.5 billion estimated to be in circulation, as many as two million counterfeit ones are...

Summary: A new £1 coin, billed by the Royal Mint as the "most secure coin in the world", is to be introduced in 2017.
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Article: It is a controversial theory which has been given some weight by new findings from a Yale University behavioural economist, Keith Chen.
Prof Chen says his research proves that the grammar of the language we speak affects both our finances and our health.
Bluntly, he says, if you speak English  you are likely to save less for your old age, smoke more and get less exercise than if you speak a language like Mandarin, Yoruba or Malay.
Prof Chen divides the world's languages into two groups, depending on how they treat the concept of time.
Strong future-time reference languages (strong FTR) require their speakers to use a different tense when speaking of the future. Weak future-time reference (weak FTR) languages do not.
"If I wanted to explain to an English-speaking colleague why I can't attend a meeting later today, I could not say 'I go to a seminar', English grammar would oblige me to say 'I will go, am going, or have to go to a seminar'.
"If, on the other hand, I were speaking Mandarin, it would be quite natural for me to omit any marker of future time and say 'I go listen seminar' since the context leaves little room for misunderstanding," says Prof Chen.
Even within European languages there are clear grammatical differences in the way they treat future events, he says.
"In English you have to say 'it will rain tomorrow' while in German you can say 'morgen regnet es' - it rains tomorrow."
Speakers of languages which only use the present tense when dealing with the future are likely to save more money than those who speak languages which require the use a future tense, he argues.
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So how does a mere difference in grammar cause people to save less for their retirement?
"The act of savings is fundamentally about understanding that your future self - the person you're saving for - is in some sense equivalent to your present self," Prof Chen told the BBC's Business Daily.
"If your language separates the future and the...

Summary: Could the language we speak skew our financial decision-making, and does the fact that you're reading this in English make you less likely than a Mandarin speaker to save for your old age?
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Article: In a statement on Tuesday, Josephine Deehan and Patsy Kelly said they would stand in the 5 May assembly election as independent social democrats.
They said supporters feel the party is out of touch. Both are candidates in the West Tyrone constituency.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said it was a result of a high number of people wanting to stand for the party.
The resignations are seen as the first test of Mr Eastwood's leadership.
He became leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party in November.
He defeated Dr Alasdair McDonnell in a vote at the party's annual conference in Armagh by 172 votes to 133.
Ms Deehan, who has been a member of the party for 15 years, highlighted a lack of female candidates as "an unacceptable state of affairs."
"Despite the success of four SDLP women councillors in Omagh there is not one woman candidate on the SDLP election ticket west of the Bann in these forthcoming elections," she said.
Patsy Kelly, a councillor for five years, objected to what he called "career politicians".
"With the advent of the assembly we have seen the arrival of career politicians whose priorities are self advancement and self perpetuation rather than the daily struggles of ordinary people and the hardships they face," Mr Kelly said.
Mr Eastwood rejected charges of cronyism, but admitted there are ongoing issues in the West Tyrone constituency.
"Of course, we've got some problems, but I think that comes from a place where lots of people seem to want to run for the SDLP in this election, I think that's a good thing," he said.
"I think people are convinced that we are a party of change, that's why Daniel McCrossan is our candidate in West Tyrone.
"He's a fantastic new candidate with new energy and new ideas."
Mr Eastwood also addressed the lack of female SDLP candidates in West Tyrone, compared to the number of women councillors.
"We have one candidate in the constituency, we have female candidates right across the north and they are all very, very good candidates and I look forward to them being...

Summary: Two SDLP councillors have resigned from the party citing "pressure" from supporters.
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Article: Data from the World Cancer Research Fund suggests that 20,000 cases of breast cancer and about 19,000 cases of bowel cancer could be stopped each year with small changes in lifestyle.
In 2013, there were more than 351,000 new cases of cancer in the UK.
The WCRF said 84,000 could have been prevented.
Head of research Dr Rachel Thompson said simple changes to diet and lifestyle could make "a huge difference" in the battle against cancer.
"Even minor adjustments, like 10 to 15 extra minutes of physical activity each day, cutting down on alcohol, or limiting your intake of high calorie foods and sugary drinks, will help decrease your cancer risk," she said.
She said that after cutting out smoking, being a healthy body weight was the most important thing people could do to cut their risk of getting cancer.
"There is strong evidence that being overweight or obese increases the risk of 10 cancers," she said.
The link between a healthy lifestyle and the risk of developing cancer is well known, and this new data looks at preventable cases in 13 of the UK's most common cancers.
For example, among men, 9% of cases of advanced prostate cancer could be prevented every year if men were not overweight or obese.
Lung cancer cases could be cut by 15,000 (33%) by getting people to stop smoking.
And 38% of breast cancer cases could be prevented, particularly in postmenopausal women, by increasing physical exercise and reducing body fat.
The WCRF also said that 2,200 cases of kidney cancer and 1,400 cases of pancreatic cancer could be prevented if people adopted a healthier lifestyle.
Prof Kevin Fenton, director of health and wellbeing at Public Health England, said the UK was currently behind on cancer survival rates compared with other European countries.
He said one major factor was that cancer prevention was not in the public consciousness.
"The link between tobacco and cancer is widely known and readily accepted by the public, but many are not yet fully convinced that healthy eating, regular exercise and not drinking...

Summary: About a third of cancer cases in the UK could be prevented if people ate healthily, exercised more and cut down on alcohol, figures indicate.
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Article: Police say they are investigating allegations of a secret price-fixing arrangement by companies who organise the trips for students.
Investigators have raided the homes of executives and frozen bank accounts.
At least six travel agencies are accused of violating competition rules.
They are suspected of colluding on prices before responding to an education ministry tender to take students to Holocaust memorials.
When the Israeli education ministry approached a number of different companies, it received identical quotes.
Reports say the alleged collusion was aimed at artificially inflating prices.
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Thousands of Israeli high school students travel to memorials at World War Two death camps every year. A trip can cost several thousand shekels per student (1,000 shekels is worth Â£177), according to reports in Israeli media.
The BBC's Kevin Connolly, in Jerusalem, says that for many Israeli high school students a visit to the site of the Nazi death camps in southern Poland is a rite of passage, which gives them a direct sense of connection to the Holocaust - the defining tragedy of modern Jewish history.
If the allegations are proved to be true, our correspondent adds, there will be shock in Israel that a form of tourism that is viewed with great solemnity may have been the subject of illegal business practices.
Some six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, mainly in death camps in occupied Poland. More than a million people, mostly Jews, were killed in Auschwitz alone.

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Nottingham's network of caves has been turned into a virtual reality tour, to open them up to a wider audience.

Article: ClimateWise, based at the University of Cambridge, warned that the gap of uninsured or under-insured assets had quadrupled over the past three decades.
The insurance sector's role as society's risk manager was under threat, warned one senior figure.
The network outlined its findings in two reports published on Wednesday.
"What we have seen is that over the past 30 years, as societal exposure to climate change has increased, is that the traditional response of insurance - which is to reassess, re-underwrite, and reprice - is almost becoming the sector's Achilles heel if you like because it is repricing itself out of risk but it is not addressing the root cause of the problem, which is that society is increasingly vulnerable to climate risks and it is in need of enhancing its resilience," explained ClimateWIse programme manager Tom Herbstein.
He said the protection gap was the difference between total economic loss and the value of assets that were covered by insurance policies.
"We have seen this gap open up from about US $23bn about 30 years ago to over US $100bn today," Dr Herbstein told BBC News.
He said that the burden of covering the cost of the protection gap fell on other parts of society, such as governments and asset owners. "In some cases, no-one covers it at all," he added.
The details of the widening protection gap in the global insurance market was published in ClimateWise's annual review of its 29 members' activities.
ClimateWise, a network of leading insurance companies, was established in 2008 by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability.
The network's chairman, Maurice Tulloch, who is also chairman of global general insurance at Aviva, warned: "The insurance industry's role as society's risk manager is under threat.
"Our sector will struggle to reduce this protection gap is our response is limited to avoiding, rather than managing, society's exposure to climate risk."
In another ClimateWise report, Investing in Resilience, the network highlighted ways that the industry could help support its...

Summary: Experts have warned of a $100bn (Â£79bn) "protection gap" in the global insurance sector as a result of the rising impact of climate risks.
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Article: But this is not 2012, and this is not the Brownlee brothers. A couple of miles down the road from where Alistair and Jonny now live (in separate houses), history is repeating in a friendship that has become almost familial in its closeness.
In one bedroom, 2013 world champion Non Stanford. In the other, 2014 Commonwealth medallist Vicky Holland.
And that is almost all that comes between them. This is not just a story of cooking duties shared, the same swim sessions or mutual running and biking routes. The two have reached the ultimate relationship benchmark: finishing each other's sentences.
Take, for example, the topic of working together in races, and the habit of their male counterparts of shouting and swearing at those saving energy in others' slipstreams.
Stanford: "I'll get frustrated with people who aren't working, but I'm not as vocal as the boys. I don't think the best way to encourage someone is to be nasty to them..."
Holland: "…especially in the girls' race."
Stanford: "It's more, 'That's awesome, keep coming through.'"
Holland: "It's knowing how to coax those girls into something, rather than forcing them..."
Stanford: "…whereas with men you can peer-pressure them by calling them names..."
Holland: "…whereas that doesn't work with girls."
Stanford: "You have to think of the best way to get the whole group to work together."
Olympic years bring both spectacular sporting opportunity and unparalleled pressures. In 2012 the contrasting fitness and character of the Brownlees put a recurring strain on the brothers' relationship.
Alistair, relaxed and laissez-faire, could inadvertently wind up Jonny by getting up for early-morning swim training at the last possible minute. Jonny could annoy Alistair by sitting in their shared car with the engine running while he waited.
Stanford and Holland, both automatic selections for Rio, are different in that they are more alike.
One may hail from Swansea, the other from Gloucester. Holland is three years older. As triathletes, preparing to race this weekend in...

Summary: It's a familiar tale: two of the world's best triathletes, living together in the same small house just north of Leeds, training together three times a day, going into an Olympics as both the closest of allies and the biggest of rivals.
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Article: Opponents claim this right, known as investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), poses a threat to democracy.
But what is ISDS and why does it provoke such controversy?
Investor-state dispute settlements were devised by industrialised nations in the 1960s as a way to protect their companies' overseas investments against threats such as nationalisation by the country they invested in.
Supporters of ISDS say it offers a fair and impartial forum for the settlement of disputes between investors and states and, if appropriate, for deciding the amount of compensation an investor should get.
They claim that ISDS encourages companies to invest in a country they might otherwise shun through fear that, in a dispute with that nation, they would be unable to get a fair hearing in its domestic courts.
For an investment to be covered by ISDS, both the country where it is located and the investor's home nation must have agreed to its use. This is normally done through countries signing investment treaties with ISDS provisions.
There are now about 3,200 investment treaties globally. Most of these empower investors to launch ISDS actions.
So far, approximately 600 actions have been launched - though not all are reported. The number of cases has risen significantly in recent years.
Each case is judged by a panel of three arbitrators, selected by the government and the investor involved in the case from a small pool of specialist lawyers. The tribunals can meet anywhere convenient to the parties, with decisions based on the wording of treaties rather than national laws.
Cases can last for years and are costly. In addition to paying arbitrators' fees, each side has to employ a team of lawyers to argue its case.
Even when governments win, as they have in around 40% of the known cases, they often have to pay their own costs - averaging  around $4.5m per case.
When investors win, arbitrators can award damages. There is no appeal against the level of damages, which can amount to hundreds of millions and, in some cases, billions of...

Summary: Those protesting against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the proposed new trade treaty between the European Union and the United States, are part of a growing international opposition to pacts that allow multinational companies to sue governments whose policies damage their interests.
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Article: The assessment of more that 150 key food crops shows how agriculture and diets rely on crops from other regions.
The authors say the results highlight the interdependence of food systems and the need for a united effort to ensure its resilience to future threats.
The findings appear in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The research by an international team of scientists assessed the diet and crop production of 177 counties, which accounted for 98% of the world's population.
"For probably a hundred years or so, scientists have been bringing together information to know where crops came from, where they were domesticated by diverse agricultural cultures," said co-author Colin Khoury, a crop diversity specialist from the Colombia-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture.
"It has taken a lot of information to come together, including linguistics, genetics and archaeological data, in order to reach this level of understanding."
Dr Khoury said a major figure in the understanding of where our food came from was a Russian scientist called Nikolai Vavilov, "a character that would make Indiana Jones look like a bit of a wimp". He was jailed on numerous occasions by warlords during his expeditions across five continents.
The information Vavilov gathered during his travels allowed him to record the diversity of a wide range of crops, and where the plants were growing alongside their wild relatives.
This led to him proposing "centres of origin" for food crops, which included Central America, South America, the Mediterranean and the Near East, explained Dr Khoury.
Since then, scientists have debated and built upon this body of work, with "centres of diversity" replacing Vavilov's "centres of origin" hypothesis.
"A century later, people are still arguing about where exactly the crops come from but we know pretty well the regions where the diversity is richest," he added.
"This is important now for agriculture because that diversity is still used to breed pest and disease resistance, climate change...

Summary: Italy's tomatoes and Thailand's potent chillies, although closely associated with these nations, originate from elsewhere, a study shows.
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Article: The caves have been digitally reproduced as part of the city's first Festival of Caves.
The tour will take in Mortimer's Hole under Nottingham Castle and King David's Dungeon - caves some people would not be able to access.
The city has more than 500 man-made sandstone caves which have been used for dwellings and jail cells.
Nottingham City councillor, Dave Trimble, said: "There are plenty of local people who don't know about the hidden world beneath their feet."
He said the new virtual reality tour would allow visitors who were unable to descend the steep steps into the caves to experience them.
Andrew Whitney of Hot Knife Digital Media, which developed the tour, said: "We've taken very accurate data to digitally reproduce the caves in a gaming environment.
"We're excited to bring the caves into the 21st Century using the latest gaming and virtual reality technology, increasing the accessibility of these sites to everyone."
A series of caves has been found in the past six years due to funded projects such the Nottingham Caves Survey, which mapped and laser-scanned many of them.
The festival runs until 23 October.

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Article: Shakespeare's Globe and the Royal Opera House are among the contributors to the Shakespeare Lives portal.
The channel will also host live content on Saturday, marking the actual date of William Shakespeare's 1616 demise.
Tony Hall, the BBC's director general, said the initiative was "another step towards an open BBC".
"Co-curated" by the BBC and the British Council, the Shakespeare Lives site will host content from the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), the British Film Institute (BFI) and other arts organisations.
Offerings include the RSC's production of Richard II starring David Tennant, available to view online from 22:30 BST on Saturday, and Sir Ian McKellen discussing the challenges of interpreting Shakespeare for theatre, TV and cinema.
The Shakespeare Day Live programme kicks off on Friday with a live broadcast of a commemorative concert in the Stratford-upon-Avon church where the Bard was baptised and buried.
The line-up continues on Saturday with live broadcasts from Stratford-upon-Avon and in Birmingham, as well as from Shakespeare's Globe and the Royal Opera House in London.
Other programmes, available on demand, include Simon Russell Beale and Adrian Lester talking about "Being Hamlet", and a short film about young Londoners, featuring Ralph Fiennes, that only uses Shakespeare's words.
"This weekend we're experimenting live with digital formats like never before," said Lord Hall. "For the first time, the BBC will be showcasing the great talent we have in our leading cultural institutions on BBC iPlayer."
The initiative follows a speech Lord Hall gave last year, in which he pledged the BBC would act like "a curator, bringing the best from Britain's great cultural institutions and thinkers to everyone."

Summary: The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death will be marked on the BBC iPlayer by a digital pop-up channel showcasing content from outside the corporation.
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Article: It said it had imported chicken and pork from Shanghai Husi Food, the Chinese firm that allegedly supplied out of date meat to fast food firms.
China has suspended operations of Shanghai Husi after local media reports claimed it re-processed expired meat.
McDonald's had removed nuggets from its menus at its Japanese outlets earlier this week over the same issue.
It said on Wednesday that about 20% of its chicken nuggets sold in Japan came from Shanghai Husi.
McDonald's said that nearly 500 stores in Japan had removed chicken nuggets from their menu, adding that sales were expected to resume after it switches to other suppliers in China and Thailand.
McDonald's has also stopped selling its McSpicy chicken filets, chicken and green salads, fresh corn cups and iced lemon tea at its outlets in Hong Kong.
The move came after Hong Kong's food safety regulator suspended all imports from Shanghai Husi Food.
The regulator added that any food products from Husi already imported into Hong Kong would be marked, sealed and banned from sale, pending the results of the ongoing investigation by Chinese authorities.
Meanwhile, the Reuters news agency quoted McDonald's as saying that it had imported certain products from Shanghai Husi between July last year to June this year, but no food items from the Shanghai supplier remained in stock.
"We reiterate that until today, all the food sold at McDonald's restaurants conforms to the food safety standard under Hong Kong legal regulations," the firm said.
Shanghai Husi is the Chinese unit of US-based food supplier OSI Group.
Its other customers in China include Yum Brand owned KFC, coffee chain Starbucks and Burger King.
Japanese convenience store operator, FamilyMart, has also admitted that its "Garlic Nugget" imported from the Shanghai firm was sold at nearly all of its 10,000 outlets across Japan.

Summary: Fast food chain McDonald's has suspended sale of chicken nuggets and some other products in Hong Kong.
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Article: The company tested 10 wearables for security features, such as password protection and data encryption.
It found all the watches had at least one area of concern.
One security expert said manufacturers needed to pay closer attention to customer security.
"Keeping up with other manufacturers to be a forerunner in this technology field may force products to be released without the necessary attention to how secure they actually are," said Mark James, security specialist at online security firm ESET.
HP said it had tested 10 of the "top" smartwatches for security features recommended by the Open Web Application Security Project, which aims to "help manufacturers, developers, and consumers better understand the security issues associated with the Internet of Things".
It found that:
"The results of our research were disappointing, but not surprising," HP said in its report.
Daniel Miessler, who led the research, told the BBC: "It's a chicken-and-egg situation. You need enough customer interest in security for the manufacturers to change and invest."
HP said it would not reveal which watches it had tested, but was working with manufacturers to "build security into their products before they put them out to market".
The BBC understands watches by Apple, Pebble, Samsung and Sony were included in the study.
Samsung told the BBC: "Protecting the personal information of our customers is a fundamental priority for Samsung. All of our products and services are designed with privacy in mind."
Apple and Sony have not replied to the BBC's request for comment, while Pebble declined to comment.
"It appears that manufacturers of these devices (including market leaders) have not seriously considered or addressed the privacy implications of wearing their products," said security firm Symantec in its blog.
The firm's security strategist, Sian John, said customers should take steps to protect their data.
"With more and more consumers adopting wearable tech devices, they need to be aware of the potential risks to security and...

Summary: The best-selling smartwatches on the market all have security problems, according to US tech giant Hewlett-Packard.
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Article: Researchers found that students sending and receiving messages while studying scored lower test results and were less effective at tasks such as note taking.
The study examined how a generation of "voracious texters" might be affected by so many online distractions.
It found that when students did not use mobiles, they were better at being able to recall information.
With the exam season under way, the research by academics at Ohio University, Illinois State University and Nebraska University might add to family arguments about whether teenagers really can learn at the same time as using several online devices.
The study, Mobile Phones in the Classroom: Examining the Effects of Texting, Twitter, and Message Content on Student Learning, carried out a series of tests with 145 undergraduates.
It wanted to find out how well young people could carry out a task, such as watching a lecture on a video and then taking notes and answering questions, while facing a series of interruptions on their internet-connected mobile phones.
Mobiles and portable devices are now such a pervasive part of young people's lives, the researchers wanted to see how much students could really study at the same time as interacting online.
Among US university undergraduates, the study says it is quite common for students to use mobile phones through classes and in lectures, as well as when they are studying at home.
"It is a common occurrence to observe students who are physically present, yet mentally preoccupied by non-course-related material on their mobile devices.
"As mobile devices have deeply saturated the college student population, this problem will likely continue to pose a significant obstacle," says the study, by Jeffrey Kuznekoff, Stevie Munz and Scott Titsworth.
The study showed students video lectures, while getting them to use mobile phones in different ways - such as asking them questions related to their social life or sending a link to a photo or asking a question related to the lecture.
There were also experiments with...

Summary: Students cannot successfully multi-task in using mobile phones while they are studying, US research suggests.
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Article: 1453 - Sultan Mehmed II the Magnificent captures Constantinople, ending Byzantine Empire and consolidating Ottoman Empire in Asia Minor and Balkans.
15th-16th centuries - Expansion into Asia and Africa.
1683 - Ottoman advance into Europe halted at Battle of Vienna. Long decline begins.
19th century - Efforts at political and economic modernisation of Empire largely founder.
1908 - Young Turk Revolution establishes constitutional rule, but degenerates into military dictatorship during First World War, where Ottoman Empire fights in alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1918-22 - Partition of defeated Ottoman Empire leads to eventual triumph of Turkish National Movement in war of independence against foreign occupation and rule of Sultan.
1923 - Grand National Assembly declares Turkey a republic and Kemal Ataturk president.
Europe meets Asia in Turkey's largest city
1928 - Turkey becomes secular: clause retaining Islam as state religion removed from constitution.
1938 - President Ataturk dies, succeeded by Ismet Inonu.
1945 - Neutral for most of World War II, Turkey declares war on Germany and Japan, but does not take part in combat. Joins United Nations.
1950 - First free elections won by opposition Democratic Party.
1952 - Turkey abandons Ataturk's neutralist policy and joins Nato.
1960 - Army coup against ruling Democratic Party.
1963 - Association agreement signed with European Economic Community (EEC).
Multi-ethnic state lasted more than 600 years
Empire of the Ottomans
BBC: Ottoman Empire (1301-1922)
1965 - Suleyman Demirel becomes prime minister - a position he is to hold seven times.
1971 - Army forces Demirel's resignation after spiral of political violence.
1974 - Turkish troops invade northern Cyprus.
1978 - US trade embargo resulting from invasion lifted.
1980 - Military coup follows political deadlock and civil unrest. Imposition of martial law.
1982 - New constitution creates seven-year presidency, and reduces parliament to single chamber.
1983 - General election won by Turgut Ozal's...

Summary:


A former senior trader at Rabobank has pleaded guilty to interest rate rigging in the US.

Article: He is acknowledged as the author of baseball's first rule book and remains to this day the only journalist to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
But not many people know Henry Chadwick, the man who helped oversee baseball's meteoric rise to national prominence, hailed from a county town in the south west of England.
A historian for Major League Baseball, John Thorn, explained: "No man was more important to the rise of baseball from boys' game to national pastime than Henry Chadwick, the game's great promoter."
Chadwick was born in Exeter in 1824 and grew up with a passion for cricket.  When he was 12 years old, his family emigrated to the US where he continued his love affair with the sport.
Following in his father's footsteps, Mr Chadwick became a journalist, and by the mid-1850s, he was writing for the New York Times as a cricket reporter.
He soon turned his attention to baseball after watching a game between New York's Gotham and Eagle clubs in 1856.
He was immediately taken by the pace of the game.
"Americans do not care to dawdle over a sleep-inspiring game, all through the heat of a June or July day," he said.
"What they do they want to do in a hurry.  In baseball, all is lightning; every action is as swift as a seabird's flight."
Through his cricketing background, Chadwick had developed a love of statistics and he refined the 'box score', which helped supporters follow the sport from home and allowed them to compare players' records.
He quickly found a place on the Rules Committee in 1858, but his main ambition was to take baseball to the masses.  He was a prolific writer who penned the first baseball guide in 1860 and took on the role of editor for Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide.
At this time, baseball and cricket were both vying for the nation's attention, yet by 1866 the former had pre-eminence.
Thorn explains: "There were many factors here, not least the Civil War and American jingoism about Britain's role in it by continuing to buy cotton from the South, for...

Summary: President Theodore Roosevelt dubbed him "the father of baseball", but the man widely credited with popularising the US national sport was actually from Devon.
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Article: It had been arguing with parent firm, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), over driver-only operated (DOO) trains.
Members of the drivers' union rejected the deal by 54.1% to 45.9%. The turnout was 72.7%.
Under the proposed agreement, Southern would have been able to run trains without a guard or onboard supervisor under certain circumstances.
Mick Whelan, general secretary of Aslef, said: "We understand and support the decision arrived at democratically by our members and will now work to deliver a resolution in line with their expectations."
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David Sidebottom, of independent watchdog Transport Focus, said: "The hope that services would improve on Southern has now been dashed for their passengers.
"They have had enough of the on-going industrial action. They have faced months of lost time, lost money and deep frustration at not being able to rely on the trains.
"It is vital that all parties in this dispute get back around the table to bring the services back to normal as soon as possible."
Nick Brown, GTR's chief operating officer, said: "Naturally we're saddened and hugely disappointed, as will be our passengers, with today's decision by drivers, particularly as the agreement carried the full support and recommendation of the Aslef leadership.
"We now need to understand the issues which led to this outcome and we'll be seeking to meet with the union as soon as possible to see how we can agree a way forward."
Why is there a Southern rail strike?
The dispute centres on Southern's decision to turn guards into on-board supervisors.
In this role they would no longer be responsible for opening and closing carriage doors - this duty would become the responsibility of the driver.
The dispute began in April when conductors - who are members of the RMT union - first took industrial action.
Aslef members first walked out over the plans in December, leading to the cancellation of all Southern services.
Aslef leaders announced they had reached a deal with GTR on 2 February...

Summary: Aslef members have rejected a deal with Southern rail that would have ended a long-running industrial dispute.
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Article: The report, to be carried out by Anthony Mayer, will check whether the brigade is equipped to deal with major emergencies, the London mayor said.
Ten fire stations have been shut and over 500 firefighter jobs removed as part of cuts to the service since 2009.
"I want to be reassured that our fire brigade has the resources they need to respond," Mr Khan said.
Conservative Greater London Assembly (GLA) group leader Gareth Bacon said the review was "perfectly understandable".
"Knowing the fire brigade as I do, I'm confident the review will not reveal anything amiss and will show that London's fire brigade is in robust health," the former fire authority chairman said.
London Fire Commissioner Ron Dobson, who recommended the cuts backed by Mr Johnson, said he "welcomed the review into our resources".
Funding of LFB has been reduced by more than £150m since 2009, with a further £22m due to be cut over the next three years, according to City Hall.
Figures released by the service in May showed the number of deaths caused by fires in the capital had reduced by 20% in five years.
However, City Hall said the length of time fire crews took to attend an emergency had risen in more than half of London boroughs.
Boris Johnson was mayor of London between 2008 and 2016 before Labour candidate Sadiq Khan was elected.
The report will be published by Mr Mayer, a former CEO of Greater London Authority, in the autumn.

Summary: Cuts made to London Fire Brigade (LFB) services under Boris Johnson will be reviewed, new mayor Sadiq Khan says.
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Article: A study shows that the magma chamber is about 2.5 times bigger than earlier estimates suggested.
A team found the cavern stretches for more than 90km (55 miles) and contains 200-600 cubic km of molten rock.
The findings are being presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
Prof Bob Smith, from the University of Utah, said: “We’ve been working there for a long time, and we’ve always thought it would be bigger... but this finding is astounding."
If the Yellowstone supervolcano were to blow today, the consequences would be catastrophic.
The last major eruption, which occurred 640,000 years ago, sent ash across the whole of North America, affecting the planet’s climate.
Now researchers believe they have a better idea of what lies beneath the ground.
The team used a network of seismometers that were situated around the park to map the magma chamber.
Dr Jamie Farrell, from the University of Utah, explained: “We record earthquakes in and around Yellowstone, and we measure the seismic waves as they travel through the ground.
“The waves travel slower through hot and partially molten material… with this, we can measure what’s beneath.”
The team found that the magma chamber was colossal. Reaching depths of between 2km and 15km (1 to 9 miles), the cavern was about 90km (55 miles) long and 30km (20 miles) wide.
It pushed further into the north east of the park than other studies had previously shown, holding a mixture of solid and molten rock.
“To our knowledge there has been nothing mapped of that size before,” added Dr Farrell.
The researchers are using the findings to better assess the threat that the volatile giant poses.
“Yes, it is a much larger system… but I don’t think it makes the Yellowstone hazard greater,” explained Prof Bob Smith.
“But what it does tell us is more about the area to the north east of the caldera.”
He added that researchers were unsure when the supervolcano would blow again.
Some believe a massive eruption is overdue, estimating that Yellowstone’s volcano goes off...

Summary: The supervolcano that lies beneath Yellowstone National Park in the US is far larger than was previously thought, scientists report.
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Article: Paul Robson is the second trader at the Dutch bank to plead guilty to trying to rig the Yen Libor rate and the first Briton to do so.
Last year Rabobank paid $1bn (Â£597m) to US and European regulators for its part in the global rate-rigging scandal.
Barclays Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank have all previously been fined for rate rigging.
Mr Robson conspired to manipulate Libor submissions to benefit trading positions between 2006 and 2011, the US Department of Justice said.
Libor - London interbank offered rate - is one of the interest rates use by global banks to lend money to each other. It supports hundreds of trillions of dollars of transactions, and is used to set interest rates on credit cards, student loans and mortgages.
Regulators in the US and Europe have been investigating whether banks attempted to manipulate this and other key interest rates to benefit their own trading positions.
Nine people, including Robson, have so far been charged by the Justice Department.
US prosecutors said Robson pleaded guilty to one charge out of the 15 he had faced.
Takayuki Yagami, another former senior trader at Rabobank, in June became the first to plead guilty for his role in the scheme.
Robson worked as a senior trader at Rabobank's money markets desk in London, and also served as the bank's primary submitter for the Yen Libor calculation, the Justice Department said.
He used his position to submit rates requested by Yagami and other traders, according to prosecutors.
In 2007 Yagami asked Robson by email for a high submission for one of the rates, Robson answered: "no prob mate let me know your level."
After Yagami made his request, according to the Justice Department, Robson confirmed: "sure no prob... I'll probably get a few phone calls but no worries mate... there's bigger crooks in the market than us guys!"
In a statement Leslie Caldwell, who heads the Justice Department's criminal division, said: "The scope of the fraud was massive, but the scheme was simple. By illegally influencing the Libor...

Summary:


Orkney has elected its first ever Scottish Greens councillor, while the SNP has gained its first representative in Shetland.

Article: He has also been ordered to complete a compulsory education course, following a two-day Football Association hearing.
Anelka, 34, denied his use of the sign during a draw with West Ham on 28 December and described as an "inverted Nazi salute", was anti-Semitic.
Read the full details on BBC Magazine Monitor
West Brom have suspended him until the outcome of any appeal and club inquiry.
Anelka is considering whether to appeal against the FA's ruling; if he does, his five-match ban and fine would be put on hold pending the outcome.
The Frenchman and his legal team had defended his actions to the FA's independent regulatory commission hearing, saying the controversial gesture was in support of his friend, the French comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala - the person who first brought the quenelle to prominence.
The action, which the striker made after scoring in the 3-3 draw at West Ham, was described afterwards by France's sports minister Valerie Fourneyron days as "shocking and disgusting".
It also led to Zoopla, co-owned by Jewish businessman Alex Chesterman, ending its sponsorship of West Brom.
Anelka responded at the time by saying the salute was "anti-establishment", rather than anti-Semitic. The French government is trying to ban M'bala M'bala's shows over his use of the gesture.
We did not find that Nicolas Anelka is an anti-Semite
The commission's three-member panel, headed by a QC, said in its ruling that both charges against Anelka had been proven - that the gesture was abusive and/or indecent and/or insulting and/or improper, and that it included a reference to ethnic origin and/or race and/or religion or belief.
However the panel added it did not believe Anelka had been deliberately anti-Semitic.
The commission statement said: "So far as the basis for our finding on charge 2 is concerned, we did not find that Nicolas Anelka is an anti-Semite or that he intended to express or promote anti-Semitism by his use of the quenelle."
His five-match punishment is the most lenient that could have been imposed under...

Summary: West Bromwich Albion have suspended striker Nicolas Anelka after he was banned for five matches and fined £80,000 for his "quenelle" gesture.
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Article: Up until now the head of the household was responsible for registering anyone who lived at their address.
But now individuals can register by providing their name, address, date of birth and national insurance number.
The Electoral Commission warned people to avoid a "rip off" company that is offering to help customers for Â£29.95.
The move to a system of individual electoral registration is intended to reduce the danger of electoral fraud.
'Important step'
Jenny Watson, chair of the Electoral Commission, said it was a "huge step forward" in meeting people's needs.
"Previously we either had to telephone our local authority and ask them to send a form, or we could download a copy, fill it in and send it to the electoral registration officer," she said.
"The new system will be much more straightforward."
But Katie Ghose, of the Electoral Reform Society, warned the changeover, which affects England and Wales, needed to be managed properly if people were not to "drop off" the register and lose their right to vote.
"Today marks an important step forward in bringing our voting system into the 21st century," she said.
"But this is just the first step. If the transition to the new system is not managed well, and resources are not targeted at those most likely to drop off the register, then millions of citizens will go missing from our democracy."
Warning
A spokeswoman for the Electoral Commission also urged people to use the free registration service www.aboutmyvote.co.uk rather than a company offering to complete customers electoral roll registrations for Â£29.95 a time.
The watchdog has written to the company and requested Google remove its ads from its search engine.
"This so-called service is clearly ripping people off," she said.
"It is very simple to register to vote and we want to make sure no-one mistakenly uses this other service that charges people for something that is available completely free."

Summary: People can now register to vote via smartphones and tablets with the launch of a new free online electoral registration service.
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Article: This was the year when 5,650 farmers killed themselves in the country.
So the number of suicides by housewives was about four times those by farmers. They also comprised 47% of the total female victims.
Yet the high number of homemakers killing themselves doesn't make front page news in the way farmer suicides do, year after year.
In fact, more than 20,000 housewives have been killing themselves in India every year since 1997, the earliest year for which we have information compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau based on occupation of the victim. In 2009, the grim statistic peaked at 25,092 deaths.
Forget raw numbers.
The rate of housewives taking their lives - more than 11 per 100,000 people - has been consistently higher than India's overall suicide rate since 1997. It dropped to 9.3 in 2014, yet suicide rate for housewives was more than twice those for farmers that year.
Suicide rates of housewives vary from state to state.
In 2011, for example, their rates - more than 20 per 100,000 people - were higher in states like Maharashtra, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, West Bengal and Gujarat. Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar showed lower suicide rates.
Peter Mayer, who teaches politics at the University of Adelaide and has spent much time studying the sociology of suicide in India, wonders why suicide rates of housewives in India is so high, and why it gets so little attention in the  media.
After all, as Mr Mayer says, research in western societies suggests that "marriage confers protection from suicide to married women".
Therefore, married people are less likely to kill themselves - studies have found suicide rates for married people in the US and Australia, for example, are lower than others in the same age group.
India, clearly, is an outlier.
Nearly 70% of people who took their lives in 2001, for example, were married - 70.6% of the men and 67% of the women.
A study published in the medical journal The Lancet in 2012 found that the suicide rate in...

Summary: More than 20,000 housewives took their lives in India in 2014.
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Article: He won many matches for his country before losing his spot in the national side to the next generation of spinners like Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja.
He last played for India in a Test match against Australia in March, 2013.
The maverick spinner always made headlines in his decorated career for his heroics on the field, but sometimes for his aggressive nature as well.
Harbhajan was involved in a controversy with former Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds during a Test match in 2008. He was charged with using abusive language. The case had sharply divided opinions at the time.
Reactions are not very different to his "surprise" call up to the national side on Wednesday against the upcoming series against Bangladesh.
Some cricket writers feel that the 34-year-old deserved another chance, but others feel a young spinner should have been given a chance.
Cricket writer Pramod Ananth agrees that he is "one of India's greatest bowlers" and "his records bear testimony of the excellent servant he has been for Indian cricket".
But the writer feels that "his recent performances in the 2014-15 have not been up to the mark".
"There have been other Indian spinners who have done extremely well, and deserved a chance ahead of him," he writes.
Harbhajan has been in good form in the ongoing Indian Premiere League (IPL) Twenty20 tournament.
But can good performances in the IPL be a reason for a Test recall?
An article in The Indian Express agrees that questions will be raised at his inclusion in the team.
"The selection will no doubt throw up the question why the IPL performances have translated into a spot in the Test team and what did Harbhajan do in Ranji Trophy (India's domestic Test tournament) last season?" it asks.
But there are others who feel Harbhajan needed another chance in the national team.
Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar has backed the spinner.
"Well he has more than 400 Test wickets to his name, he doesn't need to prove anything to anyone or depend on his Ranji Trophy performance. Sometimes it is...

Summary: Harbhajan Singh is arguably one of the most colourful Indian cricketers, both on and off the field.
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Article: Steve Sankey was elected in the East Mainland, South Ronaldsay and Burray ward of Orkney Islands Council.
Party co-leader Patrick Harvie tweeted that he was "delighted" with the first Green gain in the elections, and the party's first Orkney councillor.
Robbie McGregor won the uncontested Shetland South seat for the SNP.
He is the first councillor to represent the party on Shetland Islands Council.
The Greens said Mr Sankey was the first member of a mainstream national party to be elected to Orkney Islands Council, where candidates have traditionally stood as independents.
Both Orkney and Shetland councils were independent holds.

Summary:


More than half of Scots have run out of money before pay day, according to a new report.

Article: The team used an array of radio telescopes in Chile to close in on a nascent planetary system lying 176 light-years from Earth - distant to us, but nearby in astronomical terms.
The forming planet is thought to be an ice giant, similar to Uranus or Neptune in our Solar System.
The findings are to be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
In the two decades since the first exoplanets were found, astronomers have discovered that planetary systems do not necessarily follow the familiar template set by the eight planets which orbit the Sun.
There is great diversity in the configuration of planetary systems and in the characteristics of exoplanets themselves.
There is much debate over how this diversity emerges, including over the formation of Neptune-like icy giants.
Takashi Tsukagoshi at Ibaraki University, Japan, and colleagues used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (Alma) in northern Chile to take a close look at the planet formation site.
TW Hydrae is estimated to be about 10 million years old and is one of the closest young stars to Earth.
Thanks to its proximity and the fact that its axis of rotation points in Earth's direction, astronomers are able to get a face-on view of the developing planetary system.
The young star is surrounded by a disc made of tiny dust particles. Variations in the signal received by Alma allow researchers to estimate the size of these dust grains.
Smaller, micrometre-sized dust particles dominate the most prominent gap in the disc, which has a radius of 22 astronomical units (AU - equivalent to the mean distance from the centre of the Earth to the centre of the Sun).
Gravitational interactions and friction between gas and dust has probably pushed the larger dust out of the gap, say the researchers.
The team calculated the mass of the unseen planet based on the width and depth of the 22 AU gap and found that the planet is probably slightly more massive than Neptune.
"Combined with the orbit size and the brightness of TW Hydrae, the planet would be an icy giant...

Summary: Astronomers have discovered signs of a baby planet developing around another star.
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Article: The College of Occupational Therapists said such action could cut avoidable admissions and delayed discharge.
A pilot service in a Cardiff hospital saved more than 15,000 bed days in a year, saving almost Â£1m in cash terms.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said occupational therapists could help with the changes needed in healthcare.
They offer advice and provide people with help to maintain their independence.
The report said research has found by using occupational therapists more, patients could be discharged on the same day as an assessment or within three days.
Ruth Crowder, Wales policy officer for the College of Occupational Therapists (COT), said health and care services were under "considerable financial pressure".
She added: "We don't want people to be in hospital if they don't need to be there.
"Ideally, we would have occupational therapists in with A&E and out with paramedics and stop them [patients] going into hospital if they don't need to medically so they are able to be independent.
"If we don't get them at the right time, they are more ill and less able to do things.
"The added bonus is it's saving significant amounts of money and bed days and freeing up resources to deal with other people."
A frail older persons' assessment and liaison (Fopal) team at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales emergency department assessment unit was launched in 2012.
It is the only one of its kind in Wales and it prioritises those who could be discharged the same day as an assessment.
Source: Reducing Pressure on Hospitals report
The year-long Reducing Pressure on Hospitals study by the college has highlighted key points it believes health boards and local authorities should adopt regarding occupational therapists (OTs).
Dr Alan Rees, vice president of the Royal College of Physicians Wales, welcomed the report saying the Welsh NHS needed to "break down barriers and invest in more integration of health and social care".
Older People's Commissioner Sarah Rochira added: "At a time where resources across our...

Summary: Thousands of hospital bed days could be saved if occupational therapists were used more to help patients, a report has said.
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Article: Heavy fighting has been reported, and President Ashraf Ghani said his forces had regained some government buildings.
Police said more than 80 militants had been killed, although there is no independent confirmation of this.
The Taliban overran Kunduz on Monday, forcing government troops to retreat.
US military planes were supporting the Afghan operation, striking Taliban positions on the outskirts of the city, a Nato spokesman said.
A Pentagon spokesman said the US had faith the Afghan military would recapture the city.
The Afghan health ministry said Kunduz hospitals had received 16 bodies, with almost 200 people injured.
Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieresâ€Ž said its hospital in the city had been overwhelmed, with scores of patients suffering gunshot wounds.
Kunduz is the first provincial capital seized by the Taliban since they lost power in the US-led invasion 14 years ago.
An eyewitness in Kunduz told the BBC that Taliban reinforcements arrived on Tuesday, with the situation too dangerous for locals to leave.
The Taliban's new leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, said the government should admit defeat.
Kunduz residents "should not be worried about their lives and property" and should "continue as normal", he said in a statement.
But the eyewitness said that while some locals had welcomed the Taliban, "most people are out there (on the streets) out of fear, and not out of sympathy".
The surprise attack on the key northern city came as President Ghani completed his first year in office.
In a televised address on Tuesday, he said "progress" was being made recapturing Kunduz, but security forces had been hampered by the Taliban using civilians as human shields.
"The government of Afghanistan is a responsible government and it cannot bomb its people and compatriots inside the city and will not do so," he said.
The seizure of Kunduz has huge propaganda value for the insurgents. Pictures of Taliban fighters hoisting their trademark white flags in the city's squares and main buildings have been circulating on...

Summary: Afghan forces have been battling Taliban fighters to retake the city of Kunduz, a day after it fell to the insurgents in their biggest victory since their removal from power in 2001.
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Article: Well, whatever your view, you might be watching them in the 2020 Olympics.
The genteel pursuits are among 26 sports to apply for inclusion in the Tokyo Games.
Air sports, floorball, flying disc, tug of war, sumo, polo, orienteering, korfball, dance sport, racquetball, roller sports, wakeboard and wushu have also put in a formal request to be part of the programme.
Floorball is a type of floor hockey featuring six players, while wushu is derived from traditional Chinese martial arts.
More mainstream sports to apply include American football, karate, squash, netball and bowls, which proved so popular at last year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
The inclusion of bridge or chess would pave the way for people of more advanced years to compete at the Olympics.
The oldest Olympian is Swedish shooter Oscar Swahn, who was 72 when he won silver in the double shot running deer contest at the 1920 Games in Antwerp.
Tug of war was part of the Olympic programme between 1908 and 1920 with Great Britain winning five medals, including two golds.
The combined bid from baseball and softball, dropped after the 2008 Beijing Games, is considered a favourite because of the popularity of those sports in Japan.
A shortlist will be announced on 22 June with finalists making a presentation in Tokyo in August, before organisers make recommendations to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by 30 September.
The IOC will make a final decision in August 2016, when it meets ahead of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Toshiro Muto, chief executive officer of the Tokyo organising committee, said that sports "must be popular with young people, give momentum to Tokyo 2020 and meet IOC standards" to be considered for inclusion.
Under the IOC's 'Olympic Agenda 2020' reforms, host cities can propose the addition of one or more sports for their Games.
The 28-sport cap for future summer Olympics has been dropped but they will be restricted to 10,500 athletes and 310 events.
The full list of 26 sports to apply is: Air Sports, American football,...

Summary: Would you consider chess and bridge to be sports?
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Article: The Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) study found 15% of people said it happened "most of the time" or "always".
Nearly a quarter (23%) had gone without food at least once in the previous year.
CAS said its findings showed that debt was "just a fact of life" for most people.
Almost half (48%) of the 1,501 Scots who took part in the survey had been forced to borrow money or use credit to buy food.
A fifth needed help to pay their rent or mortgage - a figure which jumped to 29% when it came to utility bills.
The report also found that more than half (55%) of the people quizzed would be unable to pay a sudden bill of Â£100 without borrowing, using savings or cutting back on essentials.
For a Â£250 bill, this rose to 69%, and for Â£1,000 it was 83%.
Nearly four in 10 (38%) felt they were "living comfortably" on their income.
CAS policy manager Keith Dryburgh said the study showed that debt was not just an issue for people on low incomes.
He said: "Many working Scots on reasonable salaries occasionally need to borrow money to get them from one pay day to the next.
"While many of these people would not regard this as a crisis situation, our research also finds that many people are vulnerable to financial shocks, like being unable to pay a sudden bill without getting into debt or using savings.
"More than half of Scots are not familiar with their rights as debt consumers.
"Given that debt is so pervasive in Scotland, we are keen to make sure that people know their rights in relation to debt and also know what options they have if they want to manage their finances better."

Summary:


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The school is

A man arrested on suspicion of shooting a female student dead and wounding another at a school in India has been remanded in custody.

Article: They say the method should help with donor shortages since it does not require a perfect cell match.
Mohammed Ahmed, who is nearly five years old, was among the first three children in the world to try out the new treatment.
He has severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome and had been waiting for a suitable donor for years.
Mohammed, who lives in Milton Keynes, was referred to Great Ormond Street Hospital when he was a year old.
His condition - a weak immune system - makes him more susceptible to infections than most, and a bone marrow transplant is the only known treatment.
While Mohammed was on the transplant waiting list, he became extremely sick with swine flu.
At that time, his doctors decided Mohammed's only real hope was to have a mismatched bone-marrow transplant, with his father acting as the donor.
Mohammed's dad, Jamil, agreed to give the experimental therapy a go.
Before giving his donation, Jamil was first vaccinated against swine flu so that his own bone-marrow cells would know how to fight the infection.
Mohammed's doctors then modified these donated immune cells, called "T-cells", in the lab to engineer a safety switch - a self-destruct message that could be activated if Mohammed's body should start to reject them once transplanted.
Rejection or graft-v-host disease is a serious complication of bone-marrow transplants, particularly where tissue matching between donor and recipient is not perfect, and is one of the most difficult challenges faced by patients and their doctors.
Mismatched transplants in children - where the donor is not a close match for the child - are usually depleted of T-cells to prevent graft-v-host disease, but this causes problems in terms of virus infections and leukaemia relapse.
The safety switch gets round this - plenty of T-cells to be transfused and later killed off if problems do arise.
Thankfully, the transplant carried out in 2011 was a success - Mohammed's doctors did not need to use the safety switch.
Although Mohammed still has to take a number of medicines...

Summary: Doctors at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital have carried out a pioneering bone-marrow transplant technique.
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Article: John Hennigan, 50, of Harlow, was being sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court for his ninth breach of an anti-social behaviour order in 11 years.
He used an offensive word to describe Judge Patricia Lynch QC and she responded with the same term of abuse.
As first reported in The Guardian, the judge told investigators she "deeply regretted the incident".
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Her comment prompted a number of public complaints which were sent to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) for consideration.
Judge Lynch, who was called to the bar in 1979 and appointed a circuit judge in 2014, jailed Hennigan for 18 months for insulting and making racist slurs to a black Caribbean mother in Harlow.
The QC has since "apologised unreservedly for her remarks".
She also told investigators her "remarks were a momentary lapse of judgment which should have never happened".
An investigation report sent by the JCIO to one of the complainants states: "Although the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice considered HHJ Lynch's remarks to be inappropriate, they did not find that they amounted to misconduct or warranted disciplinary action."
It added: "With the agreement of the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice therefore advised HHJ Lynch to ensure that she responded appropriately in court at all times."

Summary: A judge who swore back at a defendant after he launched a foul-mouthed tirade at her has been cleared of misconduct.
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Article: The level has been higher in Wales in every year studied from 2001 to 2012, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
The rate of avoidable deaths is also far higher for men than women in Wales.
The figures include deaths caused by drug and alcohol abuse, accidental deaths and suicides.
They also include murders, some infectious diseases, such as HIV and TB, and preventable or treatable health conditions such as lung cancer, heart disease and asthma.
The rate of avoidable deaths has fallen steadily in Wales over the 11 years for which figures are available, but the rate has fallen faster in England.
In 2012, the ONS said there were 7,486 avoidable deaths in Wales at an estimated rate of 193.5 per 100,000 of the population. This compares to a rate of 168.1 per 100,000 of the population in England.
The figures have been adjusted for the age of the population.
In 2001 there were 9,037 avoidable deaths in Wales and the rate was 264.4 per 100,000 residents.
The data shows that the avoidable rate for men in 2012 was 240 per 100,000 residents, compared to 148.9 women.
The new ONS figures follow a review by the Royal College of Physicians which found that people suffering from asthma are dying unnecessarily because of complacency among both medical staff and patients.
The first national study of asthma deaths in the UK, which was published on Tuesday, said 67 people died from the condition in Wales in 2012-13 and 3,571 were hospitalised.

Summary: Avoidable deaths linked to drink and drugs continue to be higher in Wales than in England, according to new data.
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Article: The popular 5km (3.1-mile) running event has been held on the estate near Enniskillen for two years.
The Parkrun in Castle Coole was the only Northern Ireland run to take place on National Trust grounds.
In England and Wales 24 runs are hosted across various National Trust properties.
However, the National Trust in Northern Ireland has said the runs must stop, suggesting they were having an impact on conservation.
The petition to reconsider allowing the weekly run to continue has garnered over 300 signatures.
The relocation of the Saturday morning event was a joint decision made by the National Trust in Fermanagh and the Enniskillen Parkrun team.
On their Facebook page Enniskillen Parkrun said they are devastated to be leaving the Castle Coole estate, but that they did everything in their power to stay there. They also thanked the National Trust for providing a venue over the past two years.
Jim Chestnutt, manager of the National Trust in Fermanagh, said that the Parkrun at Castle Coole has grown a lot since it started and "the impact of it on conservation has the potential to become too great" for the welfare of the property.
Mr Chetsnutt added that: "Castle Coole runs at a deficit of Â£100,000 a year, that is a significant liability. Running the 5km meant extra staffing costs and facilities issues."
The estate, which usually charges entry to the grounds and house, waived the fee for those taking part in the weekly Saturday morning 5km.
Parkrun events worldwide are always held for free. The National Trust has denied asking runners to pay to use the estate.
Heather Harper, who started the petition to restore the run to the National Trust property, said that about 100 weekly runners "make sure only to use paths and tarmac roads on the estate".
"We're not running on lawns or anything - the impact can't be that great," she said.
"People travel to run with us in Castle Coole because it is so beautiful and many have joined the National Trust because of the run," she added.
"We are so hurt and upset that we have to...

Summary: Parkrun members in Fermanagh have launched a petition urging the National Trust to allow them to continue running on the grounds of Castle Coole.
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Article: The shooting occurred at a hostel attached to the private Pragati Residential School in Bangalore city.
Police say the alleged gunman, identified as Mahesh, was working as an office assistant in the school.
Incidents of gun crime at schools and colleges in India are very rare. It is not clear what prompted the shooting.
Police said on Thursday that Mahesh had been remanded until 12 April.
Mahesh is alleged to have barged into the room of 18-year-old Gautami and shot her in the head with a pistol on on Tuesday evening.
He then shot another student, Sirisha, who suffered severe injuries but is believed to be out of danger, say police.
He was arrested on Wednesday after a manhunt.
India has strict control laws, although a large number of feuds are settled with firearms.
In 2007, a 14-year-old schoolboy was shot dead by two fellow students at a school campus near the capital, Delhi.

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The tomb was built to bury rich Chinese people around 2,300 years ago.
The tomb was built to bury rich Chinese people around 2,300 years ago.
The tomb was built to bury rich Chinese people around 2,300 years ago.
The tomb was built to bury rich Chinese people around 2,300

An ancient board game has been found in a Chinese tomb.

Article: Heavy downpours have drenched parts of South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales this week.
The huge spring storm has caused floods and road closures, including by mudslides on the Great Ocean Road.
Emergency services have been rescuing people and animals affected by the extreme conditions.
The koala was rescued by South Australian plumber Russell Latter on Wednesday afternoon as flood waters were rising in the Adelaide Hills.
Nearby areas recorded more than 120mm of rain in the preceding 24-hour period.
"He couldn't get to the other side because it was flooded," he told the BBC. "So I coaxed him gently across the bridge."
Mr Latter took a photograph of the koala perched on a nearby fencepost after moving it to safety.
The photo was splashed on the front page of the local newspaper, featured on national TV and widely shared on social media.
Mr Latter said the koala then crossed shallow floodwaters and found his way up a gum tree to rest where it "looked quite happy".
"I've had a few animal rescue people tell me that they have very thick fur," he said.
"They survive out in the trees all winter when it pours, pours and pours. They do rather well."

Summary: A soaking wet koala perched on a fence post above floodwaters has become the face of wild weather battering southeast Australia.
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Article: In a submission to MSPs, their association claims that many thought this year's Higher exam was the worst ever.
Meanwhile, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society is warning the popularity of the subject could fall.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) said this year's exam was set at the right level.
The SQA is facing questions from MSPs on Holyrood's education committee on Wednesday. The meeting is designed to scrutinise the organisation's budget but questions can come up on any legitimate topic.
A written submission to the committee by the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers highlights concerns some members have about Higher Geography.
Of those who took part in a survey, only 10% classed this year's paper as "fair, OK, or better".
More than half said it was "poor, shocking, terrible, worst ever and nothing like the specimen or previous paper".
Another concern was that there was too much emphasis on human geography -  how man uses the environment - and not enough on physical topics such as how valleys are formed, erosion and rock formations.
BBC Scotland understands the survey was self-selecting so it is impossible to judge just how representative the teachers who took part in it were.
But the Royal Scottish Geographical Society also expressed concerns about geography qualifications and shares the worry that too little emphasis is now placed on physical geography.
Chief executive Mike Robinson said: "We have found that the implementation of national courses has proved overly rigid and where the SQA has sought advice it has not been sought as widely or as timeously as it could have been.
"Teachers have reported consistently that the guidance given is unclear and has therefore been open to a variety of interpretations, leading to inconsistent implementation across Scotland."
The society said a lack of clarity and inconsistency had led to significant pressures on teachers and students alike. It warned of this the risk this could lead to a deterioration in the integrity and popularity of the...

Summary: Geography teachers are claiming problems with courses could damage the subject.
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Article: You'll be less surprised to learn that the issue is MPs' pay, with the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority having signed off a 10% rise, taking a backbench MP's salary to £74,000 (backdated to May 8). Changes to MPs' expenses and pension arrangements mean there will be no extra cost to the taxpayer but that's unlikely to encourage MPs to venture in front of the cameras.
Conservative former Welsh Secretary David Jones said it was "incoherent" for MPs to complain about a pay rise set by an independent body they had set up.
He said: "The issue of our pay has been taken out of our hands. I actually approve of that. Our expenses have gone down considerably but there is an increase in salary at no additional cost to the public purse."
Welsh Lib Dem MP Mark Williams says that he will give any pay rise to local charities: "At a time of pay freezes and pay restraint, particularly in the public sector, a £7,000 increase for MPs is inappropriate and crass hypocrisy, and the Lib Dem submission to the IPSA consultation on this issue said as such.
"This has been reinforced by the Budget which limited public sector pay to 1% increases over the next few years."
Plaid Cymru parliamentary leader Jonathan Edwards said he supported the principle of pay being decided by an independent panel.
"I welcome the decision that in future MPs' pay will be linked to average increases in the public sector. This is a positive step forward.
"The remuneration package announced by IPSA is cost-neutral with cuts to pension entitlements and other aspects already implemented.  My position has always been to increase charitable donations if there is an increase in the total remuneration package."
Monmouth Tory MP David Davies said: "I don't mind being unpopular for things I've done. But I do mind being unpopular for things over which I've got no control and are not to my benefit."
In other Westminster news, Brecon and Radnorshire MP Chris Davies has become the last of the 11 new Welsh MPs to deliver his maiden speech, the row over English...

Summary: One of Wales's more outspoken MPs has just told me he doesn't have a view on one of today's big issues.
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Article: The British Chambers of Commerce  (BCC) and the Association of German Chambers of Commerce (DIHK) said uncertainty over "business critical" issues such as workers' rights, tax and customs arrangements needed to be tackled.
DIHK said the uncertainty was affecting German firms which traded with the UK.
Most BCC members say they want "at least" a three-year transition period.
The groups called for political leaders to "build an atmosphere of mutual trust and constructive dialogue", to deliver clarity and certainty for businesses.
With the third round of Brexit negotiations getting under way on Monday, a number of critical issues were still unresolved, while there are "hundreds" of practical and technical issues which also needed to be negotiated, they said.
"There is real business appetite from both sides for a focus on practical, day-to-day business concerns, and a desire for clarity on future trading arrangements," said BCC director general Dr Adam Marshall.
"The UK and the EU must begin work on transitional arrangements, particularly on customs, so that firms on both sides of the Channel have the confidence to make investment decisions."
The UK is the third largest market for the export of German goods, while Germany is the UK's second biggest market for exports of goods and services.
German firms employ an estimated 400,000 workers in the UK, while British firms employ around 220,000 workers in Germany.
DIHK chief executive Martin Wansleben said German companies were concerned that Brexit would have "a major negative impact", with more trade barriers such as extra bureaucracy, and stricter border controls, leading to higher costs.
"The terms of exit are still completely unclear.
"Many of our members are reporting that they are already shifting investments away from the UK in anticipation of these barriers," he added.

Summary: Shared economic interests must be a priority in the Brexit negotiations, UK and German trade bodies have urged.
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Article: Pieces from the board game, which hasn't been played for 1,500 years, have been found in Qingzhou City in China.
Archaeologists found a 14-faced dice made of animal tooth with ancient Chinese writing on it.
They also discovered 21 game pieces with numbers painted onto them, as well as a broken tile decorated with two eyes.
The game is said to be called "bo", but researchers are unsure how it was played.
The tomb was built to bury rich Chinese people around 2,300 years ago.

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The number of people looking for work in Spain fell almost 100,000 in June, a record for the month, to 4.62 million.

Article: The legislation as it stands is concerned with management of land and ending tax relief for shooting estates.
MSPs had said the bill needed "more work", while SNP conference delegates backed making it more "robust".
Land Reform Minister Aileen McLeod said the changes would make the bill "the most radical and ambitious land reform legislation possible".
The latest changes come in addition to an earlier announcement of a provision to create a register of people in control of land in Scotland.
The bill also includes:
Changes include:
The rural affairs, environment and climate change committee will consider amendments on the first five parts of the bill this week.
Ms McLeod said the government was "strengthening an already radical" bill.
She said: "This strengthened bill will change the relationship between the people of Scotland and the land that we live, work and depend on.
"As I have said before, I am open to ideas and suggestions relating to Scotland's land reform journey and will continue to listen to all the evidence and will consider any further suggestions."

Summary: The Scottish government is to move 49 amendments to the Land Reform Bill amid calls for it to be made more "radical".
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Article: There's only one reason Sir Ian McKellen signed up to star in a new adaptation of The Dresser, and that's "because Anthony Hopkins was in it."
He says he'd seen Sir Ronald Harwood's 1980 play on stage, watched the 1983 film starring Sir Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney and thought: "They'd covered it. Who needs me?
"Then they said, 'well, Anthony Hopkins is playing Sir'," he tells the BBC. "So I said, 'well, that would be a joy!' And it was."
The latest adaptation of Sir Ronald's play, filmed at Ealing Studios for BBC Two, is the first time the pair have shared a screen together.
"We should be old friends," says Sir Ian. "We were in a company together under Laurence Olivier at the Old Vic when he ran the National Theatre, but we didn't actually act together.
"And since Tony went to live in the States, there haven't been many possibilities when our paths could have crossed, we've never done a film together. So this was just bliss."
The drama in The Dresser takes place backstage at a theatre during the Blitz, where tyrannical and aging actor-manager Sir (Hopkins) - who is deteriorating in body and mind - prepares for his starring role in King Lear, with the help of his devoted dresser Norman (McKellen).
The camera ensures the audience are right up close to all the action. Did having such an esteemed sparring partner mean both actors upped their game?
"It may surprise you, [but] acting isn't a competition," smiles Sir Ian. "It's not a race, it's a communal activity we do together. It's more like a family, so no.
"[Sir Anthony] said after the first week he'd not enjoyed doing a job so much for years. At the end of six weeks he said, 'I can't bear it, it's coming to an end! Can we work together again?'"
According to Sir Ian, after years in Hollywood, Sir Anthony is now considering taking to the stage again.
"That was the effect this play had on him! It reminded him of how much he enjoyed theatre," says Sir Ian.
"He was working with people of his own age, who persisted in the business. Ronald Harwood, [director]...

Summary: Sir Ian McKellen tells the BBC why working with Sir Anthony Hopkins on The Dresser was "bliss", why plays make good TV and what it was like filming Disney remake Beauty and the Beast.
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Article: Mohamed Nasheed obtained 45% but needed more than 50% to avoid a run-off against his rival, Abdulla Yameen, who got 25% of the vote.
After decades of autocratic rule, the Maldives held its first free election in 2008, which was won by Mr Nasheed.
But he was ousted as president 18 months ago in an alleged coup.
Officials said the run-off was due to be held on 28 September.
Mr Nasheed's rival, Abdulla Yameen, is the half-brother of the Maldives' former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom who led the country for 30 years.
Mr Nasheed resigned in February 2012 when army and police personnel joined opposition-led protests over the arrest of a senior judge.
The judge, Abdulla Mohamed, was detained in January 2012 after ordering the release of an opposition politician.
Mr Nasheed said he was stepping down to prevent "bloodshed", but later said he was forced to resign at gunpoint by police and army officers.
He was replaced by President Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik, who had also been running in Saturday's election but polled only 5% of the vote.
Mr Waheed has consistently rejected claims of a coup by Nasheed supporters.
The leadership change sparked political unrest, leading to fears that the protests would have an impact on the islands' tourism industry.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said last week that he hoped the elections would be "credible and peaceful".
Key issues for voters included religion, nationalism, education and the economy.
Thoriq Hamid, a representative of poll monitoring group Transparency Maldives, said that the campaigning had been conducted "smoothly and peacefully".
However, there was still "some apprehension and confidence issues about the security forces", he said.

Summary: The presidential elections in the Maldives will go to a second round after frontrunner Mohamed Nasheed failed to win an outright majority.
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Article: It also announced that it wants assembly elections to be held every five years instead of four.
However, separate proposals to re-draw the boundaries of assembly constituencies have been dropped.
Welsh Secretary David Jones said the Westminster coalition wanted a "fairer and more transparent" political system.
Of the 60 AMs, 40 represent constituency seats and 20 are elected from five regional lists.
Since the 2007 elections, a ban on so-called dual candidacy has barred candidates from standing in both contests at the same election.
The dual candidacy ban was strongly opposed by other parties when it was introduced by the last UK Labour government.
When he introduced the ban, then Welsh Secretary Peter Hain said it was an "abuse" of the system to allow candidates to get elected on regional lists when they had lost first-past-the-post contests in constituency elections.
The ban has resulted in some assembly members losing their seats without being able to rely on the insurance policy of standing in both categories.
After consulting on changes to the assembly's voting system, the UK government said it would scrap the ban "to avoid a disproportionate impact on smaller political parties".
In other changes, politicians will be prevented from sitting simultaneously as MPs and AMs, and the period between assembly elections will be permanently extended to five years.
The next assembly election has already been postponed until 2016, extending the current term to five years, to avoid a clash with the next UK general election.
The changes follow a consultation on a green paper, launched by the UK government in May last year.
The Wales Office confirmed that a proposal in the green paper to re-draw constituency boundaries has been abandoned.
It follows a vote in the House of Commons in January to block a review of parliamentary boundaries before 2015.
Since the outset of devolution, assembly seats have shared the same boundaries as Welsh parliamentary constituencies.
Mr Jones said: "Since coming to power in 2010, the...

Summary: A ban on Welsh assembly candidates standing for election in constituencies and on their parties' regional lists will be lifted, the UK government says.
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Article: The Labour Ministry said the number of people filing for unemployment benefits fell by 98,853, or 2.1%, compared with the previous month.
June is generally a good month for employment as it marks the beginning of the tourist season.
Despite the fall, the unemployment rate in Spain is still the highest in the eurozone.
According to EU figures published on Monday, one in four of the Spanish workforce is out of a job, compared with an overall rate of unemployment for the 17-member bloc of 11.1%.
"June is traditionally good for the unemployment queue but we have never reached a decline of nearly 100,000 people," said Spain's state secretary for labour, Engracia Hidalgo.
"We will have to follow the development of the unemployment figures after this good data for June to verify whether we are turning towards a positive trend."
June is the third month in a row that the number of unemployed has fallen in Spain. In March, the number of jobseekers hit a record high of 4.75 million.
The Spanish government is implementing a number of labour market reforms to try to reduce unemployment, including cutting back on severance pay and restricting inflation-linked salary increases. These have proved very unpopular with unions and workers.
However, it has been forced to approve billions of euros of spending cuts and tax increases in an effort to reduce its debt levels, which have had a negative impact on employment within the economy.

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