A man has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years after being convicted of "a horrendous catalogue" of abuse against a woman for more than a decade.

Article: And when it is in a cutting edge sport like Formula 1, then teams such as Williams Martini have to make sure every penny they spend is put to best inventive use.
The UK-based team's IT director Graeme Hackland says they spend about Â£100m ($154m) a year in F1, compared with what he says is Mercedes' outlay of Â£300-350m, and Ferrari's of Â£250-300m.
But despite the spending disparity, the UK-based team, which has won the constructor's table nine times, hopes that technology, rather than splashing cash, can help them close the gap.
"We believe we can take them on," the 48-year-old South African, who has worked in F1 for 18 years, tells the BBC.
"We can't follow what Mercedes do. We want to beat people who are out-speeding us.  If you can innovate, and not just follow what other people out there are doing, then you give yourself a chance."
And Mr Hackland, who is in his second year at Williams, says that he has seen an improvement over the past 18 months, as the team has cut the lap time difference between itself and Mercedes from 1.6 seconds, to 0.8 seconds.
The team - preparing for this Sunday's US Grand Prix - now has hopes of halving that figure again, and believes the power of technology, including working with outside experts, can help shave off further tenths of seconds.
"The challenge is finding partners - those that have digital technologies that will help us get back to the front of the grid - to come and work with us," Mr Hackland says.
Whereas at one time an F1 team's mechanics were armed with nothing more than a bag of spanners and an oily rag, nowadays there are dozens of team technicians, all keenly looking at banks of screens churning out a stream of race and car data.
There are 200 sensors on the Williams F1 cars, pouring out information on things like fuel levels, oil, water, exhaust and tyre temperatures, as well as speed, engine revs per minute (RPM), clutch fluid pressure, and G-force.
However, F1 regulations mean that there can only be a certain number of team members at race trackside, so...

Summary: When your closest sporting rivals are running a business with an annual team budget worth more than three times your own, then you need to be innovative in sustaining a challenge.
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Article: If all goes as planned, the hope is it will usher in a second industrial revolution - and hundreds of new jobs.
In a high-ceilinged atrium, a faded banner cheerily welcomes visitors "to our grand opening" while signs in bright shades of lime green and purple proclaim "the future is now".
It's a clean, quiet, and largely vacant 94,000-sq-ft (8,700-sq-m) space - not unlike the factory of the future, according to its tenants, the University of Illinois Labs' Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII).
"It's not going to be a dark and dingy shop floor," Jason Harris, DMDII's director of communications, tells me as he gestures towards half a dozen machines that have been donated by the Institute's corporate partners, including large firms like General Electric and Lockheed Martin.
With a mix of $70m (Â£46m) in federal funds and over $200m in private investment, the goal of DMDII is to apply research from the consortium's university lab partners in real-world factory settings in order to create a series of software programs and private networks that will usher US manufacturing into the digital age.
The question is whether this initiative, and others like it, will one day lead to the creation of the 200-plus jobs that were lost after Republic Windows drew down the shutters - or whether the factory of the future will be spotless, advanced - and empty.
Unveiled last month, DMDII is just one of a planned network of 15 manufacturing hubs championed by US President Barack Obama as part of his National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI).
The idea is that by investing in research into applied technologies, the US can give American manufacturers a competitive edge, which will lead to more demand for goods - and more jobs.
"Our first priority is making America a magnet for new jobs and manufacturing," he said in his State of the Union speech in 2013.
That's crucial, as US manufacturing jobs tend to be higher paying and have a "multiplier" effect. This means that the economic impact of each...

Summary: Nestled in the cavernous former site of Republic Windows, where over 200 workers staged a sit-down strike in 2008 to protest against the window manufacturer's decision to shut the plant, around three dozen people are working on an initiative that could transform the future of US manufacturing.
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Article: PC Jamie Wallis, of Dorset Police, was charged with common assault after allegedly attacking a 30-year-old man at Bournemouth Police Station in April.
Bournemouth Magistrates' Court heard the case against the 40-year-old officer had since been discontinued.
The officer was removed from front-line duties during proceedings and this will now be reviewed, the force said.
A spokesman for Crime Prosecution Service (CPS) Wessex said it had concluded there was "insufficient evidence to have a realistic prospect of conviction".
Supt Pete Windle, head of professional standards at Dorset Police, said: "Dorset Police expects the highest standards of professionalism and integrity from its staff.
"We have a duty to thoroughly investigate criminal allegations against our staff, as we have done in this case, the details of which were then passed to the Crown Prosecution Service for their consideration and decision."
PC Wallis, who is based at Winton Police Station, had been due to appear before the court on Friday.

Summary: A case against a police officer who was charged with assaulting a man at a police station has been dropped.
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Article: Abdeslam has been charged with terrorism offences in Belgium a day after he was seized in a dramatic raid.
Abdeslam will fight extradition to France  but has been co-operating with police, his lawyer says.
The Paris attacks in November left 130 people dead and dozens injured.
The so-called Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the bombings and shootings.
Abdeslam is charged with participation in terrorist murder and the activities of a terrorist group, Belgium's federal prosecutor's office says.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins told a news conference: "Salah Abdeslam today during questioning by [Belgian] investigators affirmed that, and I quote, 'he wanted to blow himself up at the Stade de France and that he had backed down'."
Abdeslam's assertions should be treated with caution, he added.
The 26-year-old French national, born in Belgium, is in custody following his arrest in Brussels on Friday after four months on the run.
Investigators hope Abdeslam, who was shot in the leg during his arrest, will reveal more information about the IS network behind the Paris attacks, its financing and plans.
They believe he helped with logistics, including renting rooms and driving suicide bombers to the Stade de France.
Abdeslam is believed to have fled shortly after the attacks, returning to the Molenbeek district of Brussels.
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Interpol has meanwhile urged "extra vigilance" at borders following Friday's Brussels raid, saying more accomplices may try to flee Europe.
The subject of a massive manhunt, Salah Abdeslam was arrested about 500m (1,600ft) from his home in Molenbeek.  His brother, Brahim, was one of the Paris attackers, who blew himself up.
Another man arrested at the same time as Salah Abdeslam on Friday, Monir Ahmed Alaaj, has also been charged with participation in terrorist murder and the activities of a terrorist group, the Belgian prosecutors say.
Friday's raid also saw three members of a family...

Summary: Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has admitted he wanted to blow himself up but then changed his mind, a French prosecutor says.
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Article: Michael Pepper, 67, from Glasgow, raped the woman on various occasions between 1986 and 2001.
He also hit her with a baseball bat and bottle, cut off her clothes, struck her with a knife, kicked her on the body and caused her to fall downstairs.
Pepper was also placed on the sex offenders register.
Jailing him at the High Court in Glasgow, judge Johanna Johnston QC told Pepper: "Your actions blighted this woman's life. You now accept your guilty, albeit at a late stage.
"However, this woman had to come to court and give evidence of a very private nature.
"This was a horrendous catalogue of offending."

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The SNP will chair two House of Commons select committees at Westminster, it has been announced.

Article: The European Commission said Britain had agreed to "modify significantly" the financing for the project, reducing the burden on British taxpayers.
In total 16 commissioners voted in favour of the project, just ahead of the 15 votes needed for approval.
EDF Energy is due to build the plant, the first in the UK in almost 20 years.
The Commission had been examining whether the funding for the project broke state aid rules.
However, it said the changes agreed by the British authorities would cut the subsidy by more than £1bn, meaning that state aid would remain "proportionate to the objective pursued, avoiding any undue distortions of competition".
The Commission said these changes made meant gains generated by the project would be better shared with UK consumers.
It estimated the project would now cost £24.5bn to build. The updated figure, much higher than the government and EDF's original £16bn forecast, includes the impact of inflation as well as interest costs for the 10 year construction period.
This is the first time that the European Commission has approved significant state aid for a new nuclear power plant - and as such, it is a big step forward for the European nuclear industry.
The decision will serve as a precedent for other countries, such as Poland and the Czech Republic, that want to know how much public money they can offer to companies as they look to expand their nuclear industries.
But the legal fight over the funding for Hinkley Point C is almost certainly not over. The European Court of Justice will be asked for an opinion.
Austria says the Commission's decision is supported by neither economic nor ecological sense.
And other member states are concerned that it flies in the face of the EU's stated aim of promoting renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar.
The government had already agreed that French firm EDF will be paid a so-called "strike price" of £92.50 for every megawatt hour of energy Hinkley C generates. This is almost twice the current wholesale cost of electricity, but this...

Summary: A new £24.5bn nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset is to go ahead after it received final approval from European Union regulators.
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Article: When the camera is disabled via the Nest smartphone app, the device's light-emitting diode (LED) turns off but the camera continues to function.
The discovery was made following analysis of the camera's power consumption.
Nest Labs said no video data was transmitted when the camera was off.
A team at ABI Research found that even when in "off" mode, the camera on the Nest Cam continued to draw a current of 340 mA, indicating that it was, in fact, still operational.
"When a device goes to power down mode, you expect the current drain to drop quite a bit," said Jim Mielke, a senior analyst at ABI Research.
"In this case, the current drain only changed slightly when given the turn off command, reducing from 370 mA to 340 mA. Typically, a shutdown or standby mode would reduce current by as much as 10 to 100 times."
The Nest Cam is the latest product from Google-owned Nest Labs. It allows users to see a live video feed of their home remotely, via their smartphone.
The device also has automatic motion and audio sensors, which can detect unusual activity and then alert the user via a notification.
"When Nest Cam is turned off from the user interface (UI), it does not fully power down, as we expect the camera to be turned on again at any point in time," said Nest Labs in a statement.
"With that said, when Nest Cam is turned off, it completely stops transmitting video to the cloud, meaning it no longer observes its surroundings."
The statement added that the Nest Cam used 128-bit secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption, perfect forward secrecy and a 2,048-bit RSA key unique to each camera - security measures intended to ensure that video data is not accessible, even over the local wi-fi network.

Summary: Researchers have discovered the camera in the Nest Cam security device is always operating - even when turned off by the user.
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Article: The Investing in the Teaching Workforce programme aims to allow some teachers over the age of 55 to retire early.
Teachers who have qualified since 2012 will then be eligible to apply for the jobs their retirements create.
It will cost £8m, which is being made available through the public sector transformation fund.
It was originally announced last December by Mr Weir's predecessor John O'Dowd, who wanted to spend £33m to enable 500 teachers to retire and be replaced.
But the scheme was delayed due to lack of agreement over some of the criteria, including the definition of the term newly-qualified - and it has also been scaled back.
The scheme will initially run on a pilot basis for the 2016-17 academic year, but may be renewed in 2017-18 if funding is available.
A number of experienced teachers in temporary posts had expressed concern they would not be eligible to apply for the jobs.
Mr Weir said he was aware some teachers who did not meet the criteria would be disappointed.
"However I must stress that without this scheme these employment opportunities would not exist," he said.
"As well as helping to refresh the teaching workforce, it will provide up to 120 job opportunities for recently qualified teachers who have been unable to obtain permanent teaching posts."
The Department of Education (DE) said that any jobs created under the scheme are unlikely to be advertised until 2017.
The move was welcomed by Irish National Teachers' Organisation Northern Secretary Gerry Murphy.
"INTO recognises the pilot scheme falls short of what many teachers not in permanent posts would have wanted," he said.
"However, as a teacher's union, we welcome any move that secures full time, meaningful employment for teachers."

Summary: A scheme to replace 120 older teaching staff with newly-qualified teachers has been launched by Education Minister Peter Weir.
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Article: The education minister has written to councils advising them head teachers should instead exercise discretion.
Pupils are allowed to have up to 10 days away, but schools are judged on absenteeism rates.
Campaign group Parents Want a Say said the advice was a "terrific result".
Nearly 2,000 people signed a petition after hundreds of parents were fined over term-time holidays.
In his letter to councils on Wednesday, Huw Lewis said he was concerned some councils were advising "head teachers should not exercise their discretion and should instead refuse all requests for term-time absence as a matter of course", regardless of the circumstances.
"This is contrary to the regulations which allow a margin of discretion for the school in such matters so that each request can be considered fairly and on its merits," the minister wrote.
A BBC Wales Freedom of Information request in 2015 found wide variations in policy of imposing fines.
While Cardiff council issued 370 fixed penalty notices between January and May, 10 other councils did not issue any.
After receiving the petition in December, petitions committee chairman, William Powell AM, wrote to Mr Lewis saying some parents may have been dealt with unfairly and unlawfully.
He welcomed the minister's response, saying some councils had been "engaging in a cynical game of 'pass the parcel' on this issue".
"It is clear that the minister's intention, contrary to what applies in England, is for the discretion of individual head teachers to be respected," Mr Powell said.
"The Minister's response to the petitioners, in the light of compelling evidence received, is, in my view, a victory for common sense."
Craig Langman, chairman of campaign group Parents Want a Say, said it was a "terrific result" for parents in Wales.
"We hope this will encourage Westminster to reconsider its position on the policy in England," he added.

Summary: Campaigners who petitioned against parents being fined for taking term-time holidays are claiming a victory after it was agreed a blanket ban breached regulations.
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Article: Nationalist MPs will take control of the UK Parliament's energy and climate change select committee and Scottish affairs select committee.
The SNP won 56 of the 59 Westminster constituencies at the general election two weeks ago.
That resulted in the party being the third largest, behind the Conservatives and Labour.
Parliamentary convention dictates that the official third largest party at Westminster gets to chair a number of select committees.
SNP chief whip Mike Weir said both committees were especially important to Scotland in this parliament.
He said: "We will be seeing one of the major bills coming forward in the Scotland Bill on more powers for Scotland, and of course the energy and climate change committee is of particular importance with our oil and gas sector and renewables industry.
"The SNP chairing these committees will allow us to make progress on these important issues, and will help us get the best deal for Scotland."

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A Sydney police officer and huge Star Wars fan has become a local hit after creating a Darth Vader costume painted with the Australian flag.

Article: Many popular courses at universities in the Republic are inaccessible to Northern Ireland students.
This is due to a system that compares A-level results with the Republic's Leaving Certificate qualification.
Now, Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University say they want to change entry requirements for NI students.
Sixth-form pupils in Northern Ireland sit A-level exams, whereas students in the Republic sit Leaving Certificate exams.
Most pupils in Northern Ireland study for three A-levels, whereas pupils in the Republic study for least six Leaving Certificate subjects.
In 2005, a points system was devised to help universities on both sides of the border compare the results of pupils taking the different exams.
However, that has meant that many Northern Ireland pupils cannot apply for popular courses in the Republic unless they do four A-levels.
In the 2011/12 academic year - the most recent for which there are figures - only 925 out of almost 7,500 pupils in Northern Ireland took four A-level exams.
Under the current points system, the top A-star grade at A-level is worth 150 points, whereas the top A1 grade in a Leaving Certificate subject is worth 100 points.
Therefore a student getting six top grades at Leaving Certificate level will get 600 points, whereas a student getting top grades in three A-levels can only achieve 450 points.
Most popular courses at Irish universities - such as law, maths or psychology at Trinity College Dublin - require a pupil to get well over 500 points to apply for entry.
Janet Goodall, a senior teacher at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, says that this means some of their brightest pupils cannot apply to southern universities.
"I have one student who is likely to achieve an A-star in A-level maths and an A-star in further maths."
"Because he is not doing four A-levels, he will have no access to study maths at Trinity."
Prof Brian Walker of Queen's University Belfast is a Trinity graduate. He says that it is vital that the admission procedures are changed.
"Trinity...

Summary: Two of the Republic of Ireland's leading universities are considering an increase in their intake of students from Northern Ireland.
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Article: These are skills such as communication, initiative, interacting with customers and team working.
Research commissioned by the campaign suggests such skills are worth £88bn to the UK economy.
McDonald's is backing the campaign and wants to challenge the idea that a soft skill is a woolly concept with no clear economic value.
It is working alongside firms such as Barclays and organisations including the CBI.
Jez Langhorn, from McDonald's, says soft skills are vital for employers, but they have a "reputational problem" in terms of how they are valued.
The Development Economics research group says they are worth £88bn per year, particularly in businesses that rely on "face-to-face human interaction".
The economic impact is based on factors such as increased workplace productivity and looking at what would be lost with a lack of soft skills.
These negative factors include:
The study says that unless such skills are improved, over half a million UK workers will be "significantly held back" in their job opportunities by the end of the decade.
The campaign is launching a three-month consultation and will publish recommendations later in the year.
Mr Langhorn, chief people officer for McDonald's in the UK and northern Europe, said abilities such as communication, inter-personal skills and time management, were "essential skills" for employees.
"I can't think of any job where those skills wouldn't be important... but they are not recognised as much as they should be," he said.
Many employers valued such practical skills more than academic qualifications, said Mr Langhorn, but they were worried that there were not enough people with such abilities.
"Businesses think they are important, they are massively important to the UK economy, but they are not recognised to the extent that they should be.
"Maybe it's because of the terminology or maybe it's because people haven't defined what those soft skills are or people are not sure how to articulate those skills when they're talking to their boss about promotions."
Mr...

Summary: "Soft skills" need to be taken much more seriously as factors for business success, says a campaign by employers.
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Article: Conservative Mark Hawthorne said while Gloucestershire County Council knew of a number of issues, it "wasn't hearing what was happening on the frontline".
Ofsted rated children's services as "inadequate" and said standards had "deteriorated significantly".
Mr Hawthorne said it needed to make sure it "doesn't happen again".
The report, published in June, highlighted "serious and widespread failures" in the service, and said "too many children" were being left in situations of "risk of significant harm for too long", because dangers were not recognised.
It rated children's services as inadequate and said standards had "deteriorated significantly" since it was last classed inadequate in 2011.
The director of children's services and three of her deputies have since been removed from their posts and the authority has pledged an independent review.
"Part of rebuilding the confidence of frontline staff...  is by replacing the senior management team who will now be reviewing everything everything we do in children's services to make sure we have a culture that is about putting children at the very heart of the decisions that we take," Mr Hawthorne said.
"We're also setting up an independent whistle-blowing process - that didn't work in the past.
"Those who were highlighting issues and concerns on the frontline, their voices weren't being heard at the top of the organisation.
"What we weren't hearing... was the concerns on the frontline from social workers... the issue around case drift, and some of those decisions not being taken in a timely manner," he added.

Summary: "Serious and widespread" failures in children's services identified in an Ofsted report were not dealt with, a council leader has admitted.
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Article: For some, they represent the pursuit of excellence and the opportunity for bright children to be challenged to excel, and for others, the entrenching of advantage and privilege at the expense of the majority of children.
And for the first time in years they are controversially firmly back on the agenda, with a grammar school educated Prime Minister who has expressed sympathy for demands for one in her own constituency.
Lifting the ban on grammar schools would have a huge symbolic value for some within the Conservative party.
But it would be a strange signal on social mobility from a new Prime Minister who has promised to govern for those who feel shut out of opportunity.
And it is social mobility which Education Secretary Justine Greening has been told to put at the centre of education policy.
The research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Cambridge University in 2013 found some striking social differences in grammar school intakes.
If you look just at the children gaining the top level in their end of primary tests, the chances of a child receiving free school meals going to grammar school are lower than their better off classmates.
So take two children who are at the top of their class, and the poorer child is less likely to end up in the academically selective grammar school.
Some schools and counties have tried to mitigate this effect in tests, but they are up against the buying power of parents willing to invest in tuition.
But nothing softens the fact that grammar schools do nothing for the majority of children who don't go to them, apart from skim off the pupils it is easiest to help to do well.
So any decision about grammar schools will have to be weighed politically against other pressing priorities in education.
While the attempts to force the pace of the academy programme were dropped earlier this year, there is no reason to believe the incremental shift towards more academies will do anything but continue.
Both Theresa May and Justine Greening have supported both academies and free...

Summary: There are few subjects as controversial in education as grammar schools.
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Article: The 39-year-old, who goes by the name Mick Fett, was born the year the first film in the series came out.
Since the 1990s, Fett has amassed a vast collection of action figures, costumes and other merchandise.
His collection fills the five-bedroom home he shares with his girlfriend and is estimated to be worth A$500,000 (Â£300,000; $370,000).
"I mentioned that I had some Star Wars stuff when we first got together," he told the BBC. "She was a bit overwhelmed at first and then she sort of adapted."
The suburban house is filled with a life-size Han Solo carbonite statue, priceless vintage toys and a vast collection of creatures from across the galaxy.
There's an entire room dedicated to arcade games and even a pod-racer in the backyard. Only one room does not have Star Wars memorabilia in it - the main bathroom.
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"When I'm not dressing up in Star Wars costumes, I wear a uniform," he said.
"It's two different worlds. The guys at work can't believe what I do in my Star Wars time and all my Star Wars friends can't believe I'm a police officer."
The idea to redecorate the Darth Vader costume began when he attended an overseas Star Wars convention.
He originally intended to attend the event as a Stormtrooper with an Australian flag cape. But at the suggestion the idea evolved.
"One of my mates said: 'Why don't you go out and spray paint the entire costume?' I thought - instead of doing a Stormtrooper why not Vader?"
The Down Under alter ego of the Sith Lord has since become a huge hit - at home and abroad.
"I don't know whether Aussie Vader is a villain or a Rebel," he laughed. "I'm a bit of a Rogue One myself."
"One of my favourite sayings is 'May the Force be with you, mate,'" he said.
"The cape is an Australian flag. I've got beer cans on my belt and blue flames airbrushed onto my helmet and chest piece. I've even made a custom light-sabre with a didgeridoo handle."
He has already...

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Turkey processing firm bosses have been jailed after leaving large amounts of meat defrosting in dirty water before selling it, Newport council has said.

Article: The Office for National Statistics is to devise questions for a household survey, to be carried out up to four times a year.
This follows calls by David Cameron, when leader of the opposition, to look at "general wellbeing", arguing there was "more to life than money".
Downing Street promised an announcement "reasonably soon".
Happiness measuring is expected to begin as soon as next spring with the results published regularly, possibly on a quarterly basis
Such a move has been proposed by two Nobel Prize-winning economists and is being considered by the governments of France and Canada.
After becoming Conservative leader in 2005, Mr Cameron said gauging people's wellbeing was one of the "central political issues of our time".
He said: "It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP but on GWB - general wellbeing."
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In its recent Spending Review, the government said there was "widespread acknowledgement that GDP is not the ideal measure of well-being".
A Downing Street spokesman said: "There is a huge literature on this issue and it's something that the prime minister spoke about in opposition and it's something this government says it is going to look at.
"But as to precisely what we are going to do and when we are going to do it, you should wait and see."
Almost 30 MPs have signed a Commons motion, proposed by Lib Dem Jo Swinson, arguing that "promoting happiness and well-being is a legitimate and important goal of government".
Ms Swinson said: "This is a positive and forward-looking move by the government, which will give us a much better idea of the health of UK society.
"Relying solely on GDP to track the nation's progress excludes many of the things that we all know to be important, but that can't be measured by money.
"What gets measured gets done.  While it's not government's job to make people happy, regular measures of wellbeing will at least make sure it is taken into account."
Existing surveys suggest Britons' happiness has...

Summary: The government will attempt to measure the happiness of UK citizens, it is expected to announce later this month.
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Article: Up to 80 people have been sleeping rough on land by the Old Civic Theatre since 19 November in a bid to "highlight the plight of the homeless".
Doncaster Council said it had taken action as the site was "unsafe".
Campaigner Paul Hartley said the camp had been a success and "the people it was there to help have been helped".
The protesters have until 10:00 GMT on Saturday to leave.
An application for an injunction banning the protesters from setting up a similar camp in the town was, however, rejected.
Council chief executive Jo Miller said: "I think it's a good outcome.
"We've secured possession of the site and we've made sure that everybody who needs to be housed has been housed so, working together with the organisers, we've achieved the result we needed to.
"I do not think we will need the [injunction]. We are consensually taking the site down because the job has been done by the organisers and the council."
She said of the 80 people on the site "just over half" had been re-housed while "of the other half some of them were not homeless and some did not want any help".
Mr Hartley said the authority had been "amazing" at engaging with those in need of shelter since the makeshift camp was set up.
"They have worked tirelessly with us to get a positive solution to the problem," he said.
"They are tackling homelessness differently now."

Summary: Homeless protesters living in a "tent city" in Doncaster are to be evicted after the council was granted a court order.
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Article: Neil McEvoy said the party should have a vote on the "compact" between the two parties.
But Adam Price told the BBC that Wales needed a "united front" to "steer the ship" after the June EU referendum vote for Brexit.
Plaid leader Leanne Wood told her party conference on Saturday that there would be no coalition.
But she had earlier said the party was "genuinely torn" over going into coalition with Labour.
Mr McEvoy told Plaid's autumn conference the party's poll ratings improve when Plaid opposes Labour.
He also criticised Plaid's assembly election performance, saying it only had good results in a "handful of seats" in May.
Mr McEvoy said Plaid needs to take a "serious look at ourselves" and challenge Labour "at every opportunity."
The Compact To Move Wales Forward was an agreement Plaid made with Labour in May to allow Carwyn Jones to return as first minister, a week after he and Leanne Wood were deadlocked in a vote to take the top job.
It included commitments on policies the parties agree on like free childcare, a new NHS treatment fund and an infrastructure commission.
But Neil McEvoy, the party's sports spokesman, said the agreement has been broken because Labour AMs voted against creating legislation on autism and suggested voting on it.
"We should have absolutely nothing to do with that party," he said.
"The public want robust opposition and that is what we should give them.
"If we go into coalition with Labour we will lose support and will never have the power to really change Wales."
Adam Price, Plaid finance spokesman, told BBC Wales: "My opinion changed after the Brexit vote because I feel... we needed a kind of a united front in Wales, in order for us to, can steer the ship through a difficult time."
He acknowledged he was in a minority on the issue.
"I think where the majority of our members and supporters are at the moment is somewhere in the middle, which says look that we can be a responsible opposition, a constructive opposition.
"We saw that through with the compact, with the deal on the...

Summary: Plaid Cymru should have "absolutely nothing to do" with Labour, one of the party's AMs has said.
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Article: Officers said they have "drawn a blank" since finding the body in woodland off Peartree Avenue, Southampton, on Monday.
The man was wearing a sweatshirt from Zimbabwe, Hampshire Constabulary said.
He also had a tattoo on his upper right arm, drawn in "blue/black" ink, of an eagle's head with its mouth wide open.
The man was 6ft 3in (1.9m) tall, of "proportionate build", aged between 40 and 60, with a full head of greying hair.
His sweatshirt, described by police as grey, sports a badge showing a bird next to the words Mahenye Safari Lodge, Cona-re-zhou, Zimbabwe.
He was also wearing tracksuit bottoms bearing a Monster logo, and a pair of trainers.
It has not been possible to determine the man's ethnicity, and he does not match the description of anyone reported missing, the force said.
Launching an appeal for the public's help, Det Con Mark Blake said: "We are hoping that someone must know who this man is - someone must be missing him.
"He could be from anywhere, we just don't know."

Summary: An unusual sweatshirt logo and "distinctive" tattoo could hold the key to a dead man's identity - after police were unable to establish who he was.
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Article: Severnside Provisions, of Leeway Industrial Estate, was also ordered to pay £400,000 at the city's crown court on Friday.
Directors Anthony O'Sullivan, 47, and Martin Lincoln, 46, were given 24-week terms after admitting 12 offences.
An investigation was launched in December 2013.
In a statement, Newport city council said the pair were warned in 2010 that their company was not permitted to carry out turkey processing.
However, it said records showed that large quantities of meat was sold by Severnside Provisions in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
After an investigation started, environmental health officers found large quantities of turkey defrosting outside in dirty water and being processed in a garage in "unhygienic conditions".
Items seized were destroyed but the Food Standards Agency launched a national recall after finding turkeys had already been sold to butchers' shops and restaurants.
The council said O'Sullivan and Lincoln had admitted 12 food hygiene offences, including that they sold food that was unsafe and failed to keep equipment clean.
As well as being jailed, the two directors were ordered to pay a confiscation award of £271,815 under the Proceeds of Crime Act and council costs of £35,185.
The company was also fined £100,000.
Newport councillor Bob Poole said: "This company was putting people's health at serious risk for the sake of profit."

Summary:


The Official Chart Show is being moved from Sunday to Friday evenings, as part of a big shake-up of the music charts.

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Bobsleigh was first created in the late 19th Century when Swiss pioneers paired together two skeleton boards, along with a steering mechanism, to create a toboggan for use in the resort town of St Moritz.
This form of toboggan allowed for multiple passengers - and later team members as bobsleigh became a highly competitive international sport, harnessing the latest in aerodynamics technology.
Bobsleigh, like sister-sport skeleton, relies on the start for much of what follows. You need to push the sled down the track before jumping in - logic dictates that the faster you push it, the quicker you'll go once you're on-board.
That means the push-start is vital and bobsleigh athletes train hard to be exceptionally strong and quick. Current GB bobsleigh athletes have set faster 100m times than many dedicated 100m runners, for example. So if you sign up for bobsleigh, you can expect an intense workout alongside sitting in a technologically advanced barrel while plummeting down an ice slope.
British Bobsleigh is the governing body in charge of the sport and provides access to facilities and training, centred around the GB team's complex at the University Of Bath.
British Bobsleigh offers a membership package which gives members the chance to compete at the British Championships, alongside a Try it! page with more details.
Tourists in continental Europe, many of them British, first made the sport of toboggan - and later bobsleigh - both practical and popular. The first bobsleigh club was opened in the resort town of St Moritz in 1897.
According to the International Olympic Committee, the name 'bobsleigh' comes from the effect of the sleigh on competitors as they bobbed along the track.
The importance of a decent start in any bobsleigh race was soon recognised and, as competitions became more organised and professional, a weight limit was placed on a whole team in an effort to help teams get a good start without gifting any other team an unfair advantage.
In 1924,...

Summary: Although sledding has been around for many hundreds of years, the bobsleigh is a fairly new invention.
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Article: Nationwide's study of 2,000 over-18s found more than one in 10 did not think of themselves as fully fledged grown-ups until they reached the age of 27.
Lisa Daisy, 34, told the BBC: "Even after a career, two children and being together with my partner for 10 years, it still took being married to make me feel grown up."
But 42-year-old Carole Lutringer said she felt like an adult when she was very young.
"I had to cook from an early age, because my mother worked as a head teacher," she said.
"My mother came back home late, and my father was pretty useless in the kitchen.
"I had to be autonomous from really early on, and that's probably what made me feel grown up earlier than most of my peers."
Sana Khalid Khan also had adulthood thrust upon her.
She said it had been the death of her father that had made her grow up, at the age of 17.
"Being the eldest sibling and child, a lot of responsibility was poured on my shoulders," she wrote on the BBC Family and Education News Facebook page.
Join the conversation at the BBC Family and Education News Facebook page.
Some people came to the realisation of adulthood in more prosaic fashion.
Londoner Sam Nichols said a saucepan had made her realise how grown up she had become.
"I got excited about buying a new saucepan," she said.
"If that doesn't scream 'adulting', I don't know whatever will."
Nationwide study
Of those 2,000 people asked did feel they were adults, the transition happened for half in their 20s, while a fifth said it happened in their 30s.
One in 20 respondents felt they had not grown up until their 40s.
Of those questioned, 55% said being an adult was dependent on major life events, for example having children, moving out of the parental home or getting married.
For others, such as Elaine Smith, in London, adulthood is merely a state of mind.
"I still don't feel grown up," she said.
"I can't believe I have full responsibilities of looking after a four-year-old. How did that happen?
"I'm 44 this year, so it may happen soon."
Commenting on Facebook, Sophie...

Summary: Many of the current generation of recent over-18s do not feel like an adult, according to a survey by building society Nationwide, and those commenting on the BBC News Facebook page seem to agree.
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Article: The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) said Botswana now recognised the spirit as a geographical indication (GI).
The move means only whisky that has been made in Scotland can legally be sold as Scotch in the country.
SWA said the "legal breakthrough" gave consumers a high level of protection against fakes.
Whisky shipments to Botswana increased by 163% last year to reach nearly £457,000, according to SWA figures.
The trade body said it expected to see demand for Scotch increase in African countries in future years as economies on the continent grew.
Chief executive David Frost said: "Botswana recognising Scotch as a GI - a product that must be made in Scotland - is ground-breaking as it's the first product to be given this status.
"It's also the first time Scotch has been successfully registered as a GI anywhere in Africa.
"This move will protect consumers and give a boost to the growth of Scotch exports across Africa."
According to SWA, Scotch is now officially recognised in the laws of more than 70 countries, including the whole of the European Union.
To qualify as a genuine product, Scotch must be made in Scotland from water, cereals and yeast and matured for at least three years.

Summary: Scotch whisky has been given protected geographical status in Africa for the first time, according to industry representatives.
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Article: Kimberley Taylor, from Blackburn, told BBC News she had joined Kurdish forces known as the YPJ in March last year.
The 27-year-old, who is on the front line in Raqqa, said fighting IS was for "democracy and freedom from extremism".
She is the first known woman from the UK to successfully travel to Syria to join the fight against IS.
Despite fighting in a war zone, she said: "I really don't want to scare my family."
Anti-IS forces have been trying to recapture Raqqa since it became the group's de facto capital in 2014.
Ms Taylor, a former maths student at the University of Liverpool, said she had spent 11 months learning Kurdish and studying regional politics, weaponry and battlefield tactics at the Kurdish Women's Protection Units' (YPJ) dedicated military academy.
"Everyone here sees the YPJ as leaders of the revolution, they're women that we can't compare with anything in the world," she said.
By Emma Vardy, the BBC correspondent who interviewed Ms Taylor
For Kimmie Taylor, joining the Kurdish women is about much more than picking up a gun.
She sees the YPJ female fighters as a beacon of hope for the world.
Strong female comrades, battling for freedom, democracy, and equality, in the midst of a terribly troubled region where women have been raped, kidnapped and held as sex slaves.
It is easy to see how one can be inspired. This is a revolution, she tells me.
As I interviewed her, she spoke in Kurdish to her comrades. She has clearly earned their trust and respect.
She is now trying to shine a spotlight on their struggle.
Ms Taylor, who is also known as Kimmie and by the name Zilan Dilmar, said she went the front line with the YPJ in October.
Like their male counterparts in the affiliated YPG, the YPJ has women who fight on the front line.
"The [women] are young, 18, 19, 20, they're taking on this power which seems uncontrollable," she said.
Although willing to risk her life for the cause, she said: "I don't want to die. I have too much work to do."
"It's a necessary thing," she added. "This is for the...

Summary: A British woman who has travelled to Syria to fight so-called Islamic State has said she is willing to die in the battle against the militant group.
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Article: Every week BBC Radio 1 plays a countdown of the week's top songs, based on downloads and online streaming.
In May, the programme will move from Sunday to Friday evenings.
CBBC will also launch a TV version of the Official Chart Show, presented by Cel Spellman.
The new programme will be broadcast live from the Radio 1 studios and presented by Greg James and will play the top 20 songs of the week.

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The US has said it is suspending talks with Russia over Syria, accusing Moscow of having "failed to live up" to its commitments under a ceasefire deal.

Article: With more than 80% of contested seats now declared, Aung San Suu Kyi's party has more than the two-thirds it needs to choose the president, ending decades of military-backed rule.
A quarter of seats are automatically held by the military, meaning it remains hugely influential.
Under the constitution, Ms Suu Kyi cannot become president herself.
Despite this, the election was seen as the first openly contested poll in Myanmar - also known as Burma - in 25 years.
Analysis: Jonah Fisher, BBC News, Yangon
Next stop for Aung San Suu Kyi are talks with President Thein Sein and the army Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing. They are likely to happen in Nay Pyi Taw next week.
There is plenty to discuss and Ms Suu Kyi is likely to try and reassure them that her government will be inclusive, and not purely made up from her NLD party.
Then there is the thorny issue of the upcoming "lame duck" parliamentary session. Incredibly, the members of the old pre-election Burmese parliament are due to gather next week for a final session that runs until the end of January.
It has full powers to pass legislation and with the vast majority of the MPs having been booted out on Sunday this could be an opportunity for all manner of consequence-free political skulduggery.
Only once the "lame duck" session ends will the new NLD-dominated parliament gather. It will immediately choose a new speaker, quite possibly Ms Suu Kyi, before selecting two vice-presidents and a president.
By early Friday, the NLD needed two more votes to reach the threshold required for a majority.
Then at midday, the electoral commission said the party had taken 348 of the 664 seats in the two houses of parliament. This represents a two-thirds majority of the contested seats.
With votes still being counted, the NLD's tally rose to 369 seats later in the day. The final tally is not expected for several days.
Confirmation of the victory came exactly five years since Ms Suu Kyi was released from house arrest by the military.
The process of choosing a new president will...

Summary: Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy has won a landslide election victory, officials say.
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Article: The impressions were made when some of our distant relatives walked together across wet volcanic ash.
Their makers, most likely Australopithecus afarensis, appear to have had a wide range of body sizes.
Scientists say this gives clues to how this ancient species of human lived.
Australopithecus afarensis is one of the longest-lived and best-known early human species.
The fossil of "Lucy", a young adult female who lived in Ethiopia 3.2 million years ago, is perhaps the most famous individual.
The newly discovered footprints may have been made by a male walking with smaller females.
"This novel evidence, taken as a whole with the previous findings, portrays several early hominins moving as a group through the landscape following a volcanic eruption and subsequent rainfall. But there is more," said lead researcher Prof Giorgio Manzi, director of the archaeological project in Tanzania.
"The footprints of one of the new individuals are astonishingly larger than anyone else's in the group, suggesting that he was a large male member of the species.
"In fact, the 165cm stature indicated by his footprints makes him the largest Australopithecus specimen identified to date."
In 1976, preserved footprints thought to be made by Australopithecus were discovered at a site in Laetoli, Tanzania.
At 3.66 million years old, they are the oldest documented bipedal footprint trails.
Now, the discovery of a second set of footprints has been revealed in the journal, eLife.
"Now that we've found a new set of footprints it opens up a completely different window and there could be a number of new possibilities to study what is a photograph in time of the everyday life of this species," said Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi of the University of Florence.
The tracks were found during excavations for a museum only 150m south of the original discovery.
The researchers, based in Italy and Tanzania, think the two sets could belong together, giving clues to the lifestyle of Australopithecus.
"A tentative conclusion is that the group consisted of one male,...

Summary: Footprints made by early humans millions of years ago have been uncovered in Tanzania close to where similar tracks were found in the 1970s.
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Article: A specialist panel found sufficient evidence to link the chemical, already banned in the EU and the US, to a cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Lindane is still used in some developing countries.
And it is an ingredient in some head lice and scabies treatments used in some countries, including China, India, the US and Canada.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) panel also concluded that another insecticide, called DDT, was "probably carcinogenic to humans".
And it classified a third insecticide called 2,4-D as possibly carcinogenic to humans.
Most uses of DDT have been banned since the 1970s, but the IARC says exposure to DDT still occurs, mainly through diet.
This is because DDT and its breakdown products are highly persistent and can be found in the environment and in animals.
Since its introduction in 1945, 2,4-D has been widely used to control weeds in agriculture, forestry, and urban and residential settings. Occupational exposures to 2,4-D can occur during manufacturing and application, and the general population can be exposed through food, water, dust, or residential application, and during spraying, says the IARC.
The Lancet Oncology journal has a summary of the full evaluation.
Dr Kurt Straif, Head of the IARC said the evidence on lindane and cancer was largely based on studies among agricultural workers that showed a consistent, approximately 50% increase in risk, with higher risks in heavily exposed agricultural workers.
"This agricultural usage of Lindane has been severely restricted starting in the 1970s and current general population exposure is mainly through the diet or when treated for scabies or lice. There are currently no epidemiological studies to quantify the lymphoma risk from these exposures."

Summary: The insecticide lindane causes cancer in humans, says the World Health Organization after conducting a review.
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Article: The popstar's likeness was painted in a famous graffiti-covered laneway alongside the name "Taylor Smith".
It appeared earlier this week amid the Bad Blood singer's escalating feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
The mock memorial now has a cartoon face scrawled over it and the words "In loving memory of Harambe", the gorilla shot dead by zookeepers in the US.
Swift's row with Kardashian - largely over whether she gave the latter's husband permission to reference her in a song - is seen by many as having hurt her career by damaging her "nice girl" image.
The artist of the original work, Lushsux, had originally posted a photo of the mural on Instagram with a caption: "The recent passing of @taylorswift is heart wrenching. Come and leave some flowers and light some candles at her memorial in Hosier Lane in honour of her memory."
The "Smith" was an intentional typo designed to ward off "the pending defamation lawsuit".
He later said "Taylor Smith's" lawyers had contacted him threatening legal action if the mural was not removed.
Then on Wednesday, it was defaced, though it was not clear who did it.
Lushsux does not have plans to restore the artwork to its former glory.
"Hosier Lane is notorious for this kind of thing," he told the Herald Sun newspaper. "Got to just laugh about that I guess."
Earlier this year, Lushsux attracted headlines for installing an enormous nude portrait of Kim Kardashian that was then partially painted over by council workers.
"The workers who did it got a laugh out of it by painting a bra on the work or the shape of panties," he told the BBC. "I think it just added to it in a fun way. Bless them."
Taylor Swift is currently on holiday in Australia with British actor Tom Hiddleston. The couple have been branded Hiddleswift by fans.
Lushsux said that he was not trying to make a statement about Swift or her music but just having fun.
"I thought that song Born This Way was by her," he said. "Turns out I was wrong, so maybe that's an indication on how deep my knowledge of her life and music is."

Summary: A mural in Melbourne apparently proclaiming "the death" of Taylor Swift has been painted over.
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Article: Washington blamed Russia and the Syrian government for intensifying their attacks against civilians.
Last week, the US warned it would halt the talks unless Moscow stops bombing the city of Aleppo.
Russia said it regretted the US move, accusing it of shifting the blame for the collapse of last month's truce.
Aleppo, Syria's largest city in the north, has come under heavy aerial bombardment since the end of the ceasefire two weeks ago.
The main trauma hospital in the rebel-held eastern part of the city was hit in an air strike for the third time in a week, activists said on Monday.
Hundreds of people, including children, have died since government forces launched an offensive to take full control of Aleppo after the week-long truce lapsed.
Some 250,000 people are trapped in eastern Aleppo.
In a statement, state department spokesman john Kirby said: "The United States is suspending its participation in bilateral channels with Russia that were established to sustain the cessation of hostilities.
"Unfortunately, Russia failed to live up to its own commitments... and was also either unwilling or unable to ensure Syrian regime adherence to the arrangements to which Moscow agreed.
"Rather, Russia and the Syrian regime have chosen to pursue a military course," Mr Kirby said, admitting that "this is not a decision that was taken lightly".
He said Moscow and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's troops had been "targeting of critical infrastructure such as hospitals, and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in need, including through the 19 September attack on a humanitarian aid convoy".
Moscow strongly denies involvement of its own or Syrian planes in the deadly aid convoy strike, and says the incident was caused by fire on the ground and not by an air strike.
In response to the US suspension of the talks, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: "We regret this decision by Washington."
"Washington simply did not fulfil the key condition of the agreement to improve the humanitarian...

Summary:


The world's first "gay" triathlon has been held in the Russian city of Sochi.
The event was organised by the Russian LGBT Network and the Sochi LGBT Network.
The event was attended by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who was pictured with the event's organiser.
The event was attended by

The UK Wife Carrying Championships have a winner!

Article: Sterling has fallen sharply against the euro, meaning southern shoppers can get much better value in northern shops.
It shows that since the vote, south-to-north traffic flows from 10:00-11:00 on Saturday are up from 3% year-on-year before the vote to 29% year-on-year.
The border-crossing data was gathered by Ireland's National Roads Authority.
The largest increase in the opposite direction is 18:00-19:00 on a Sunday, which analysis from Goodbody Stockbrokers suggested possibly reflected a return from a weekend spent in Northern Ireland.
While the overall impact on consumer spending in the Republic would be relatively modest, "the economic impact on border counties could be significant", said Goodbody Chief Economist Dermot O'Leary.

Summary: There has been a surge in Saturday morning shoppers travelling to Northern Ireland from the Republic since the EU referendum, road traffic data suggests.
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Article: Sally Smith claimed she was dismissed by Papworth Hospital in 2014 after fracturing her foot.
Addenbrooke's Hospital, which gave her a job, later learned she was actually sacked over competency concerns.
Ms Smith, who admitted dishonesty, was banned from practising by the Nursing and Midifery Council (NMC) On Tuesday.
Live: For more on this and other Essex stories
After she was dismissed by Papworth, Ms Smith was also placed on a conditions of practice order by the NMC. One of the conditions was that she had to disclose that conditions had been imposed on the way she worked.
However the NMC conduct panel heard Ms Smith had "deliberately concealed the details" of this order because she feared she would not "secure a role if you were honest".
She was taken on as a staff nurse at Addenbrooke's in April 2016 but was suspended three months later after telling her line manager she was the subject of a conditions of practice order.
Ms Smith, who had also failed to disclose her past when seeking agency work, told the conduct panel she "accepted" she "had been dishonest in respect of all the charges".

Summary: A nurse who "deliberately concealed" the reasons for a previous dismissal when applying for a hospital job has been struck off.
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The steppe eagle flew 45 times over the Brecon Beacons wearing a miniature rucksack packed with scientific instruments.
The experiment showed that by collapsing his wings in heavy wind, Cossack can fly in conditions that would have grounded an aircraft.
Scientists say birds such as vultures and kites may use the same technique.
During each "wing tuck" Cossack's wings are, for a split-second, folded beneath his body so that he is effectively falling. This occurs up to three times a minute in some conditions.
Study leader Professor Graham Taylor, from Oxford University's Department of Zoology, said: "Soaring flight may appear effortless but it isn't a free ride...it also puts an enormous strain on its flight muscles."
He compared the technique to suspension on a car stopping a disturbing ride.
The 75g (3 oz) "black box", which does not interfere with flying, tracks his position and records acceleration, rotation rate and airspeed.
Prof Taylor believes the lessons learned from Cossack could be useful to human aviation.
"This kind of technique could potentially be used to keep micro air vehicles aloft even in very windy conditions," he said.

Summary: An eagle called Cossack has been fitted with a "black box" to reveal his secret weapon against turbulence.
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Article: Ms Sturgeon, also set to become Scotland's first female first minister, pledged to ensure more powers were delivered to the Edinburgh parliament.
She also announced plans to hold a series of rallies across Scotland.
Ms Sturgeon, currently deputy SNP leader, will take up her new job at the party's November conference.
The move came after Mr Salmond's decision to stand down as SNP leader and first minister after the vote against independence in September's referendum.
Ms Sturgeon told the BBC she would have "relished" a leadership contest, but said she was "honoured" to have been chosen by the party as its leader.
Asked what she would do if the Westminster parties failed to deliver more powers for Scotland, Ms Sturgeon responded: "If Westminster renege on those promises, then it is not a case of what I will do to them - it is a case of what the Scottish people will do.
"The Scottish people would ensure [Westminster parties] would pay a heavy, heavy electoral price."
Meanwhile, Ms Sturgeon said her tour of Scotland would begin on 29 October in Edinburgh and end on 7 December in Aberdeen.
The series of rallies - which includes a stop-off in November at Glasgow's 12,000-capacity SSE Hydro - are aimed at the 50,000 new members the SNP has signed up since last month's referendum.
"Our new members bring a new energy and dynamism - and not just to the SNP," Ms Sturgeon said," adding: "They are also a potent force who can help Scotland progress as a country.
"I am looking forward to meeting as many of our new recruits as possible and sharing with them my vision for the future."
It may have been more of a coronation than a competition but, after years of speculation, we can now say that Nicola Sturgeon will be the next leader of the Scottish National Party and, by association, Scotland's next first minister.
The "No" vote in September's independence referendum was a bitter blow for the SNP, but Ms Sturgeon is now trying to show her party's ready to move on from defeat.
How will she do that? First up, with a pledge to...

Summary: Nicola Sturgeon will succeed Alex Salmond as leader of the SNP, after becoming the only person to put her name forward for the job.
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Article: 18 March 2014 Last updated at 09:22 GMT
Richard Blake-Smith and his partner Anna beat Vytautas Kirkliauskas of Lithuania, carrying his wife, Neringa Kirliauskiene.
Rich said: "We put in a whole week's work, running around the athletics track near where we live - and it's paid off"
"We were pushed hard, especially by the Lithuanians there."
Competitors must tackle a 380-metre course, hurdling over haystacks, scrabbling up a steep slope, and dodging water pistols.
You don't need to be married to take part.
The race saw all combinations of competitors - men carrying women, men carrying men and one woman carrying a woman.
Rich and Anna will now compete at the World Championships in Finland in July.

Summary:


Hungary traces its history back to the Magyars, an alliance of semi-nomadic tribes from southern Russia and the Black Sea coast that arrived in the region in the ninth century.

Article: Transforming Your Care (TYC) was a plan to change how services are delivered.
But the programme has only realised £28m of the £130m saving anticipated.
In a report the Auditor General, Kieran Donnelly, said the pace of change is not what was envisaged.
This is the first time officials have commented on the management and delivery of the programme, which was published in 2011.
While acknowledging it was an ambitious shared vision, Mr Donnelly said the programme has so far not achieved what it set out to do.
"The impact of TYC has been much more limited than expected and the hoped-for shift of services from hospitals into people's own homes has not happened as rapidly as had been intended," he said.
The message "could do better" rings loud and clear from the report.
It is the first official confirmation of what many health professionals have been saying for some time about TYC.
According to Mr Donnelly, that is because there was no action plan, funding or leadership to help deliver it.
"A precise action plan had not been established at the outset of the programme setting out clear, measurable aims and objectives together with an appropriate set of performance indicators for assessing its performance," he said.
However, the auditor also stresses the importance of having leadership to drive the process forward. In fact, the report says "leadership of the highest order will be vital in moving the reform process forward".
The core objective of TYC was to shift the delivery of services away from hospitals and into the community to allow more people to be cared for in the community and at home.
It would also allow for funding to be transferred from hospital to community care.
But that clearly has not happened.
While the plan was to reallocate £83m of resources from secondary care to primary/community by March 2016 - instead that figure has been closer to £65m.
There are huge obstacles in the way of delivering health and social care and that is also acknowledged by the Auditor General.
Mr Donnelly said the scale and...

Summary: A lack of planning and funding has meant the biggest overhaul of the health service in Northern Ireland for decades has not had the expected impact.
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Article: Just weeks before polling day on 10 April, two leading candidates were barred from the race by Peru's national elections watchdog.
Another candidate, Gregorio Santos, is running for president from a prison cell.
He is currently awaiting trial for alleged criminal conspiracy during his tenure as governor of Peru's Cajamarca region.
But it is the identity of the front-runner that is proving most controversial.
Keiko Fujimori, 40, is the daughter of incarcerated ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
When she was still in her twenties, she acted as First Lady after her parents divorced.
Opinion polls suggest she has a strong lead and her supporters say she connects with a wide range of Peru's population.
"Over the past four years, she has travelled to 80% of Peru's districts and provinces in order to understand the reality of life in our country," says Luz Salgado, a member of Congress for Ms Fujimori's Fuerza Popular party.
But it is her father's legacy, rather than her current campaign, which makes Keiko Fujimori such a divisive figure and which prompted thousands of people to take to the streets of Lima on Tuesday in protest against her candidacy.
In 2009, her father Alberto Fujimori was convicted of human rights abuses and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
His government also brought in a controversial sterilisation programme in the 1990s, aimed at controlling Peru's birth rate.
Hundreds of thousands of women and men were sterilised under the policy, with human rights groups saying that as few as 10% might have given their consent.
But many credit Alberto Fujimori with transforming Peru's economic fortunes after his election in 1990.
When he left office in 2000, the country's gross domestic product had doubled to $50bn (Â£35.5bn), according to figures from the World Bank.
In addition to these economic reforms, Mr Fujimori's government led the fight against rebel groups such as Maoist group Shining Path, which earned him a reputation for being a tough advocate of national security.
Keiko Fujimori's campaign has...

Summary: Peruvians are accustomed to political scandal, but this year's presidential campaign has raised eyebrows even in a country where trust in politicians is increasingly low.
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Article: Kim Davis, an elected official, has said that her Christian faith should exempt her from signing the licences.
If she interferes with her deputies, federal Judge David Bunning said she could be jailed for defying the court.
The US Supreme Court declared gay marriage legal in June.
After she was released on Tuesday, Ms Davis greeted a large crowd of supporters as the song Eye of the Tiger blared on a nearby speaker system.
"I just want to give God the glory. His people have rallied, and you are a strong people," she said with her lawyer, Mat Staver, and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee by her side.
Mr Staver said on Tuesday she would return to work this week.
He would not say whether Ms Davis would interfere with her deputies but said "she would not violate her conscience".
Two federal courts and the US Supreme Court have ruled against Ms Davis after she repeatedly refused to issue marriage licences since June.
Ms Davis, a Democrat who serves Rowan County, a rural area in eastern Kentucky, was found in contempt of court on Thursday and jailed.
"God's moral law conflicts with my job duties,"  Ms Davis said on Thursday. "You can't be separated from something that's in your heart and in your soul."
The following day, several of her deputies began issuing marriage licences to couples.
It is unclear whether the Judge Bunning's latest order will resolve the dispute.
On Thursday, Judge Bunning offered a compromise where Ms Davis could avoid jail if she agreed not to interfere with her deputies, but she refused.
Because Ms Davis is an elected official, she cannot be fired. She could be impeached by the Kentucky legislature, but the body is not in session.
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Summary: A US judge has released a Kentucky official from jail so long as she does not interfere with her deputies when they issue marriage licences to gay couples.
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Article: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull unveiled 24 measures on Monday which he said would help Australia transform into a "dynamic, 21st Century economy".
Many of the measures are focused on supporting entrepreneurial businesses.
But there are also proposed changes to immigration, and investments in science and maths education.
Analysis: Jon Donnison, BBC News, Sydney
A$1.1bn is a lot of coin to shell out for a government that came to power promising it would cut the deficit. But apart from that it's hard to see too many downsides to today's announcement.
Up to now Australia has had a pretty mediocre ranking in terms of money spent on innovation. The current Global Innovation Index  rates the country only 17th in the world and only 5th in the Asia Pacific Region. A billion dollars plus over four years should do something to address that.
It's an acknowledgement, at least on paper, that Australia cannot rely on its mineral wealth forever although this money will likely not have an impact quick enough to address the current slowdown in the mining boom, which has been so damaging to Australia's economy.
Many will also see this as a rebuke to Malcolm Turnbull's predecessor Tony Abbott who in the eyes of his critics launched "a war on science" slashing funding to many of the scientific bodies towards whom Mr Turnbull is thrusting wads of cash today.
The announcement is Mr Turnbull's first major economic policy plan since becoming prime minister in September.
He said that unlike a mining boom, a creative boom "can continue forever, it is limited only by our imagination".
He said companies which embrace innovation were "more competitive, more able to grow market share and more likely to increase their employment".
Immigration rules will also be changed to encourage entrepreneurs to relocate to Australia, and bankruptcy laws will be softened to encourage enterprises to take risks.
"The more high-quality, effective, productive enterprising entrepreneurs we can attract, the better. Because they drive jobs," said the prime...

Summary: Australia's government has announced a A$1.1bn (£530m, $801m) innovation plan to replace the faltering mining boom with an "ideas boom".
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Article: After centuries as a powerful medieval kingdom, Hungary was part of the Ottoman and then Habsburg empires from the 16th century onwards, emerging as an independent country again after World War I.
The Hungarian language belongs to the Finno-Ugric family and is one of the handful of languages spoken within the European Union that are not of Indo-European origin.
A landlocked country, Hungary is home to Lake Balaton, the largest in central Europe, and to a large number of spa towns and hot springs.
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It has especially rich traditions in folk and classical music and was the birthplace of numerous outstanding performers and composers, including Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly.
Hungary became co-equal partner with Austria in a dual monarchy in the mid-19th century after an unsuccessful revolt against the Habsburgs in 1848. After a period of turmoil following World War I, an independent kingdom of Hungary was established under the authoritarian regency of Admiral Miklos Horthy.
The redrawing of European borders that took place after World War I left about five million ethnic Hungarians living in neighbouring countries. Their status remains a sensitive issue and has complicated Hungary's relations with its neighbours.
Following World War II, in which Admiral Horthy had allied himself with Germany, Hungary fell under communist rule. An uprising in 1956 was crushed by Red Army forces, but Hungary did later become the first Eastern European country to gain some economic freedom.
Hungary played an important part in accelerating the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe when it opened its border with Austria in 1989, allowing thousands of East Germans to escape to the West. Just a few months later the Berlin Wall was history.
Hungary's post-communist economic transition was achieved relatively smoothly. Within four years of the collapse of communism nearly half of the country's economic enterprises had been transferred to the private sector, and by 1998 Hungary...

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Donald Trump has called off a rally in Chicago after protests against the Republican presidential front-runner led to violent clashes.

Article: The deadline for members of the public, interest groups and institutions to send their proposals to the Smith Commission closed at 17:00 on Friday.
Provisional numbers showed it had received 14,000 emails and letters from the general public.
And it had received more than 250 submissions from institutions.
The commission, headed by Lord Smith of Kelvin, is currently considering greater autonomy for the Scottish Parliament in the wake of September's "No" vote on Scottish independence.
Lord Smith said: "When I accepted the invitation to lead the commission I was determined to make sure that the public and Scotland's civic institutions would have the chance to have their say.
"I believe we have undertaken a broad ranging programme which has been as extensive as it was possible to achieve in the time available.
"I have been delighted by the response and want to thank the many individuals and organisations who worked hard to make substantial and thoughtful submissions."
He said the political parties would have the chance to reflect on the submissions before any decisions are made.
Lord Smith added: "They will be given full access to all submissions and we will shortly hold a dedicated session of all-party talks to discuss them."
Trade unions, charities and industry bodies have made submissions and Lord Smith has held a number of meetings around the country to discuss the proposals.
The commission was set up after David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg made a vow in the run-up to the referendum that there would be further substantial devolution if Scotland rejected independence and stayed in the UK.
But Lord Smith - who recently chaired the organising committee for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games - has stressed it is not solely the three main Westminster parties who will be involved in the negotiations.
The SNP are represented on the Commission by Finance Secretary John Swinney and MSP Linda Fabiani; Labour by Holyrood finance spokesman Iain Gray and Westminster shadow pensions minister Gregg McClymont; the...

Summary: The commission set up to discuss further devolution to the Scottish Parliament has received more than 14,000 submissions.
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Article: Prime Minister David Cameron will promise to keep Britain "on the road to a brighter future", while Labour's Ed Miliband will pledge "a government that will put working people first".
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg will offer "stability and decency".
Polls suggest no party will win enough seats for an outright majority.
BBC deputy political editor James Landale said politicians, pollsters and the media were struggling to read the election, leading many to focus on what might happen if there is an uncertain result.
"As such, Thursday might not be the end of the process," he said.
"It might just be the calling of the half-time whistle."
In other general election news:
The leaders have been criss-crossing the country in their battle buses as they attempt to drum up support ahead of Thursday's poll.
Mr Cameron is heading to north west England, Scotland and the Midlands, while Mr Miliband is visiting Conservative-held marginal seats in the north of England.
Mr Clegg, who set off from Land's End on Tuesday, is heading to John O'Groats through Scottish constituencies his party is hoping to retain.
The prime minister, whose Conservative Party won 307 seats in 2010, will renew his attack on the possibility of a minority Labour government propped up by the Scottish National Party (SNP) and try to dissuade voters tempted by the Liberal Democrats or UKIP.
The British people will make "their most important decision for a generation", he will say.
"When you go into the polling booth tomorrow - know this: your vote really can make a difference.
"You can deliver a stable government and have a secure future, but only if you vote Conservative and for me as your prime minister."
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Mr Miliband is looking to improve on the 258 seats Labour won in 2010 under the leadership of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
He will say voters face a "clear choice" between "a government that puts working people first, or one that works...

Summary: Party leaders and candidates are making a last-ditch grab for votes on the final day of campaigning before the general election polls open.
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Article: Warnings have been issued in more than 40 provinces in Spain, with a red alert for the southern city of Cordoba.
Neighbouring Portugal has also placed four regions on an orange alert, the second highest level possible.
Both countries have warned that the searing heat will substantially increase the risk of forest fires.
Nearly all of Spain faced an "extreme" or high risk of forest fires on Monday.
"These are not usual meteorological phenomena," said a spokesperson of the country's national weather office, as quoted by the AFP news agency.
They warned that the exceptional temperatures posed "a very high level of risk for the population".
The Spanish cities of Cordoba, Seville and Toledo were some of the worst affected on Monday. Temperatures were expected to reach up to 44C in some areas.
In Seville, some people jumped off bridge to swim in the city's Guadalquivir river to try and escape the heat, according to AFP.
Spain's Guardia Civil urged people to drink at least three litres (five pints) of water a day and to avoid eating hot meals.
The heatwave is expected to spread, prompting concern in France and in the UK.
In 2003, a heatwave led to 70,000 more deaths than usual across Europe.
"I don't think this heatwave will have the same consequences as the one in 2003 because we weren't as prepared at that time," said French Ecology Minister Segolene Royal.
The high temperatures are expected to last at least until the end of the week.
The body's normal core temperature is 37-38C.
If it heats up to 39-40C, the brain tells the muscles to slow down and fatigue sets in. At 40-41C heat exhaustion is likely - and above 41C the body starts to shut down.
Chemical processes start to be affected, the cells inside the body deteriorate and there is a risk of multiple organ failure.
The body cannot even sweat at this point because blood flow to the skin stops, making it feel cold and clammy.
Heatstroke - which can occur at any temperature over 40C - requires professional medical help and if not treated immediately, chances of...

Summary: A heatwave in Spain and Portugal has triggered alerts across the region, with temperatures soaring above 40C and warnings of risks to residents' health.
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Article: Kathleen Privett, 93, has decided to close the hairdressers in Drayton, Portsmouth, which her father started in 1945.
Mrs Privett said she would miss the "personal contact" with customers, who often shared secrets about their lives.
She said: "It won't sink in for a while. I expect I shall have a little cry."
Widowed at the age of 28, she took over Maison Drayton in Havant Road when her father, Samuel Whitmore Smith, died in 1962.
She worked with her daughter Barbara Evans, 70, and daughter-in-law, Pat Privett, 68, who have also decided to retire.
Mrs Privett said she stopped cutting hair because of her osteoporosis 10 years ago but had not closed the salon until now because of her love for the business.
She said: "It's the customers who make it. The things that people told you, that you can't share.
"How a few of them end up with divorce, the illnesses they've got. They become more than a customer."

Summary: A hairdresser has spent her final day at the salon she has worked in for the last 72 years.
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Article: Hundreds of protesters gathered at the venue at the University of Illinois at Chicago hours before Mr Trump was due.
Inside the auditorium, fighting broke out between supporters and protesters, who waved flags and chanted.
A statement from Mr Trump's campaign said the candidate decided to postpone the event after meeting with police.
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However, a Chicago Police Department spokesman said the force had not recommended that Mr Trump postpone the rally.
The clashes began more than an hour before the event was due to start, and continued after it was cancelled, minutes after Mr Trump was to have appeared.
There were chants for Mr Trump from his supporters and for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders from some of the protesters.
There were several violent clashes sparked by Trump supporters attempting to wrestle flags from protesters.
One protester had to be physically removed from the stage by what appeared to be a Secret Service agent.
Violent clashes continued outside the venue, with helicopter footage showing chaotic scenes as police attempted to control the large crowds.
One protester, student Ali Alhechimi told the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper: "This is a victory. This is an absolute victory. I want to thank everyone who showed up."
The full statement from Mr Trump's campaign read: "Mr Trump just arrived in Chicago and after meeting with law enforcement has determined that for the safety of all of the tens of thousands of people that have gathered in and around the arena, tonight's rally will be postponed to another date.
"Thank you very much for your attendance and please go in peace."
Speaking to Fox News after the events, Mr Trump denied using hate speech or playing any part in fostering division.
"I represent a large group of people that have a lot of anger," he said. "There is tremendous anger out there on both sides."
Discussing the decision to cancel the rally, he said: "I think it was a very good thing we did, I...

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A new study has found that the pine marten is the UK's most threatened mammal.
The pine marten is the UK's most threatened mammal.
The pine marten is the UK's most threatened mammal.
It is the UK's only marten species.
It is the UK's only marten

The first pine marten born and bred in Wales as part of a recovery project has been caught on camera.

Article: Cavick House Farm in Wymondham, Norfolk, had been relying on the good will of customers to pay the correct amount for their eggs.
David and Julie Barber keep 16,000 hens and decided to sell eggs direct to the public to boost the income they get from supplying supermarkets.
But they were losing about Â£150 a week in stolen eggs.
Mrs Barber said it was "a shame" so many people were choosing not to pay.
She said: "We ran the honesty box for about seven years in our little egg shed but in the last couple of years the figures haven't been adding up.
"We were seriously thinking about stopping the sales altogether but we decided to keep selling to our loyal customers."
Previously, customers were invited to help themselves to eggs and leave the appropriate amount of money in the box, but an estimated 40% of the produce was not being paid for.
Packs of eggs are now kept in individual vending machine boxes which are only unlocked after payment.

Summary: A family-run egg farm has installed a vending machine because so many people were abusing its honesty box system.
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Article: This will be the first time that the duke has taken on the role of a university chancellor.
The university's vice-chancellor Bob Cryan said the duke had showed a "real commitment" to student projects in digital skills and entrepreneurship and had become a "regular visitor".
"This is much more than a ceremonial appointment," said Prof Cryan.
The Duke of York will be formally installed later this month, when actor Sir Patrick Stewart steps down.
The relationship between Prince Andrew and the university goes back to 2001, said a university spokesman.
It began with a charity project and then developed into support for the university's entrepreneurship schemes, with the duke formally becoming the university's patron in 2013.
The university says the duke has also met alumni in Vietnam and Indonesia.
"When he visits us and talks to students who are launching businesses, his grasp of detail and his ability to get to the heart of an issue are always highly impressive," said Prof Cryan.
"Also, he has consistently taken an interest in the University of Huddersfield and the progress that we are making."

Summary: The Duke of York is to get a new title, chancellor of the University of Huddersfield.
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Article: A House of Lords committee was told the devices were also being flown in protected airspace and that officers found it difficult to identify the people responsible.
The warning came from Ch Insp Nick Aldworth, of the Metropolitan Police, who is part of a nationwide group tasked with looking at the issue.
Civilian use of the aircraft, which can be legally flown, is increasing.
Drones, which are officially known as Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems, range in size from small craft operated by enthusiasts, TV companies, police forces and surveyors and weighing a few kilograms, to larger military versions.
Smaller ones can be flown without special permission although restrictions apply if they are used in congested areas or near people's homes.
The Lords Internal Market, Infrastructure and Employment Committee has been holding an inquiry into their use by civilians.
Ch Insp Aldworth said the devices, which he described as "things that fly and do not have pilots in them", could be used in a "reckless" or "malicious" way.
Baroness O'Cathain, the committee chairwoman, said a number of concerns about privacy had been raised, but Ch Insp Aldworth said this was not a police matter as there was no criminal privacy law.
However, he said other legislation could be used, for example laws banning voyeurism, in the event of drones with cameras "hovering outside people's bedrooms for whatever nefarious reasons".
Footage posted posted on the internet was the most common way of drone use coming to light, he said, and the peers were told of the difficulties of finding the people responsible.
If a drone "whizzes past your window and catches something that you would rather it didn't catch", he said, it was difficult to catch the person flying it unless the police arrived immediately.
Ch Insp Aldworth said his group's task was to find a "sensible application" of existing laws to control the use of the drones.
He said there was no doubt drones had been used in London and around the UK, pointing to footage posted of football stadiums...

Summary: Unmanned drones are "undoubtedly" being used to harass people, police say.
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Article: The university is blaming several factors including the uncertainty caused by Brexit for the decision. The proposed job cuts could affect both academic and support staff.
The university said it hopes to cut the posts by finding volunteers, but trade union Unite fears there could still be compulsory redundancies.
As well as its Edinburgh campus, it has two sites in Scotland and two overseas.
The university said Brexit had created uncertainty for prospective postgraduate students from EU countries.
Gillian McKay, Unite regional officer, said: "Our members at Heriot-Watt are in a state of shock.
"We know that every university in Scotland is facing a difficult time, but there was no indication that the situation at Heriot Watt was so desperate.
"We are extremely angry that the university decided not to give any advance warning to Unite or the other unions about these cuts.
"We have a recognition agreement in place with Heriot-Watt, and the management have a legal duty to properly consult with us.
"That simply hasn't happened - and we've been handed a decision that looks as if it's already made."
Professor Richard A Williams, principal and vice-chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, said: "The need to change our financial forecasts are as a result of a number of factors - both at home and abroad - coming together this year.
"We are immensely proud that for the last 15 years we have always worked within a financial surplus, but this year we need to re-adjust our financial forecasts, and that will require savings to be made.
"Heriot-Watt University is distinctive by being a global university.
"The major downturn in the oil and gas sector has had an impact on us, and on some of our activities.
"But we are focused on working across our five campuses in Edinburgh, Galashiels, Orkney, Dubai and Malaysia to maximise our opportunities in each of our distinct locations."
He added: "The strategic development of the university will continue to ensure delivery of key plans that are already in place that support our distinctly...

Summary: Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh has said it plans to cut about 100 jobs.
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Article: Its mother was among the first group of 20 relocated to mid Wales from Scotland in 2015.
Pine martens were once common in Wales but were thought to be close to extinction by the 20th Century.
"Evidence of breeding in Wales is very exciting," said Hilary Macmillan from the Vincent Wildlife Trust, a mammal conservation charity.
"This is proving that they are breeding successfully in Wales."
The mother of the baby pine marten - also known as a kit - gave birth about a month ago, must have bred while in Wales to have become pregnant last year.
Others among the relocated group gave birth last year but they would have become pregnant after mating prior to their move south.
However, not everyone is please to see the animals return, with one landowner in Ceredigion dubbing the predator a "killing machine".
So far, 39 pine martens have been relocated to mid Wales in the last two years with a further 20 expected this autumn.
The kit was filmed by trust volunteer Huw Denman as it climbed a tree at its den site.

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