The Japanese firm expects net profit in the year to March of 1.7 trillion yen ($15.1bn; Â£12.1bn), compared with a previous forecast of 1.55 trillion yen.
The Japanese firm expects net profit in the year to March of 1.7 trillion yen ($15.

Toyota says its full-year profits will be better than expected thanks to a pick-up in sales and a boost from currency fluctuations.

Article: Tim Farron said the Labour leader was "blinkered" to the risk of an exit in the 23 June referendum.
Mr Corbyn was forced to defend himself after criticism he was not making a more "passionate" case to Remain.
Mr Farron urged unhappy Labour members to switch to his "united force".
At the Lib Dems' spring conference in York, he said: "Jeremy Corbyn, please do not let your own internal party chaos get in the way of winning this campaign.
"I know you may have wanted to leave in the past, but we treat your conversion as genuine and so I ask you to show the zeal of the convert and get on board."
He added: "If your party leadership remains blinkered to the risk, then your party is sleepwalking to the exit. So, come with us, share a platform, and let's make the positive, unified case that we all believe in."
Mr Corbyn, a longstanding critic of the EU, has defended Labour's campaigning on the referendum, saying his party is pushing for "a social Europe".
Speaking on a visit to Dagenham on Tuesday, the Labour leader said there were issues on which the EU should be challenged, but "at the moment we're campaigning because we want this sense of unity across Europe".
His spokesman added he would be making a "big" speech on the EU "in due course".
Mr Farron also attacked Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith for "appalling" claims last month that staying in the EU would leave the country vulnerable to a Paris-style terrorism attack.
"Some of the rhetoric in the campaign recently has been unpleasant, to put it mildly," Mr Farron told a rally of party activists.
"People on both sides have tried to scaremonger about borders, refugees and migrants. Using desperate people fleeing war and terror as pawns to score points is appalling and it is weak.
"This campaign needs the opposite. This campaign needs strength and compassion."

Summary: Jeremy Corbyn should not allow "internal party chaos" to jeopardise the campaign to keep Britain in the European Union, the leader of the Liberal Democrats has said.
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Article: The Japanese firm expects net profit in the year to March of 1.7 trillion yen ($15.1bn; Â£12.1bn), compared with a previous forecast of 1.55 trillion yen.
That is despite losing its top-selling carmaker status to Volkswagen in 2016,
Meanwhile, Toyota said it had begun formal talks to work with Suzuki on projects including safety technology.
Analysts said the partnership - which could also involve collaboration on vehicles that were less damaging to the environment - would give Suzuki access to Toyota's technology. Benefits for Toyota are likely to include tapping in to Suzuki's strong market position in India.
The forecast for 2016-17 profits is still below the 2.1 trillion yen profit it recorded a year earlier.
But with Japan's yen weakening against the dollar, it will benefit from sales overseas which are worth more when converted back into the local currency.
Like other Japanese carmakers, Toyota is watching closely for any trade tariffs introduced by the new US administration.
At the moment, only about half of the cars it sells in the country are manufactured locally. Last month, US President Donald Trump criticised it for making vehicles in Mexico to sell over the border.
The US is its biggest market, and it is struggling to meet demand for bigger vehicles such as sport utility vehicles. Lower petrol prices have made such models more affordable to drive.

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The US economy added 209,000 jobs last month, beating analysts' expectations, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%.
The Dow Jones closed at a record for the eighth consecutive day, rising 0.3% to 22,092.81.
The broader S&P 500 index closed up 0

Stronger than expected jobs figures helped to lift US stocks on Friday, leading the Dow to another record.

Article: Colin Evans, 39, was found dead at home in Broomfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex, in September 2014.
He had been stabbed multiple times by Jose Correia Agrela, of no fixed address, who fled wearing his victim's clothes and taking his pet dog.
Agrela, 30, was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years and three months at Chelmsford Crown Court.
On sentencing, Judge Christopher Ball QC told him he had abused the help of a man who "had befriended you, offered you food and friendship".
Agrela denied murder - trying to claim someone else killed Mr Evans while he had been out walking the dog, Sweep - but was convicted in court last month.
Det Ch Insp Martin Passmore, from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said Mr Evans had invited Agrela into his home "as an act of charity after he became homeless".
"It beggars belief that Agrela could launch such an attack on a man who had given him a roof over his head," he said.
He added the sentence length reflected the "savage nature of the attack".

Summary: A homeless man who brutally murdered a cafe worker who had "befriended" him has been jailed for more than 20 years.
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Article: Official data showed the US economy added 209,000 jobs last month, beating analysts' expectations, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%.
The Dow Jones closed at a record for the eighth consecutive day, rising 0.3% to 22,092.81.
The wider S&P 500 index closed up 0.19% at 2,476.83, while the Nasdaq rose 0.18% to 6,351.56.
Analysts said the latest jobs report meant the Federal Reserve was still on track to raise interest rates later this year, which would be the third increase in 2017.
Shares of banks, which benefit from higher rates, saw some of the most significant gains on Friday. Goldman Sachs was among the biggest winners on the Dow, rising 2.6%.
Among individual stocks, Viacom shares sank nearly 14% after it forecast a drop in sales to US pay-TV companies and streaming services in the current quarter.
Consumer review website operator Yelp saw its shares jump by more than a quarter after it announced the sale of its Eat24 business to Grubhub for $287.5m.
Yelp also reported revenues of $209m for the second quarter of the year, which beat analysts' expectations.
US stocks are in record territory this year. The Nasdaq is up almost 17% since January. The Dow has risen 11% and the S&P 500 is climbed almost 10%.

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A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a man in Chelmsford.
The man, who is in his 20s, was arrested on suspicion of murder on Tuesday.
He is currently in police custody and is due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
The victim

Two men arrested in connection with the suspected murder of a missing man have been released on bail.

Article: It is the terminus where the heroine of Leo Tolstoy's 19th Century novel Anna Karenina watches a man being cut in two by a train - a warning of the tragedy to come.
Today the station is still a busy place, with long-distance trains setting off for St Petersburg and the Arctic.
This month, on a Tuesday night, well after midnight, an elderly woman made her way through the crowds and bustle to board the "Arktika" express to Murmansk. It was the start of a long journey in a two-bed sleeper compartment.
Marina Khodorkovskaya was not heading for Murmansk. She was planning to alight a few stops earlier at Segezha - a scruffy town close to the Arctic Circle, known for its pulp and paper factory and for the gulag of the Stalin era.
These days there is still a prison in Segezha - Penal Colony No 7.
That is where Mrs Khodorkovskaya was heading to visit her son Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, and now seen by many as its longest serving political prisoner.
She makes the journey every three months, and this month she agreed that we could travel with her.
She told me she had lost count of the number of times over the last 10 years that she had made the journey either to Segezha or to Eastern Siberia where her son use to be held.
"I used to collect tickets," she recalled. "But then I threw them all away."
When she described the visiting room, it sounded more suited to violent criminals than those convicted of economic crimes.
"It is a long room divided into two with prisoners on one side and relatives on the other," she explained. "Then there are partitions - each with a little desk and a phone set on either of the thick glass. If somebody talks loudly next to you, you can hardly hear anything."
The journey to Segezha takes 20 hours in each direction. The three-monthly visits last four hours.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is also allowed a 15-minute weekly phone call from a booth outside.
"It's very cold there in winter," Mrs Khodorkovskaya said. "Once we thought he was ill, because he was speaking very strangely....

Summary: Moscow's Leningradsky Vokzal is the best known railway station in Russia.
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Article: Chris May, 28, was last seen by family at his home in Kelvedon on 25 May 2015. His abandoned Volkswagen Golf was found 10 miles (16km) away in Fairstead.
His case was formally declared a murder by Essex Police investigation exactly a year later.
A 35-year-old Braintree man and a 25-year-man from Kelvedon have been released pending further inquiries.
The two men will have to report back to police in late July.

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A man who slit his pet dog's throat has been jailed for 18 months.
A man who slit his pet dog's throat has been jailed for 18 months.
A man who slit his pet dog's throat has been jailed for 18 months.
A man who slit his pet dog's throat has been jailed for

The UN has ended its campaign with comic book heroine Wonder Woman, a spokesman says, less than two months after her appointment sparked outrage.

Article: Norman Davies, 56, took the Patterdale terrier for a walk in May to a secluded area before holding her collar and cutting her with a kitchen knife.
Misty managed to escape and was found the next day before being taken to the vets, who were able to save her.
Davies, of Grafton Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, admitted causing unnecessary suffering at an earlier hearing before magistrates in Chester.
He admitted in an interview to slitting the three-year-old dog's throat because she was "urinating inside", the RSPCA said.
Davies has also been banned from keeping animals for life.
RSPCA inspector Lisa Lupson said: "Misty would have been absolutely terrified and it would have been excruciatingly painful for her.
"Davies cut clean through her skin but missed her main arteries. If Misty had not managed to get free when she did then she may not be here today - she had an incredibly lucky escape."
Misty has since been rehomed and is "making progress", she added.

Summary: A man who slit his pet dog's throat has been jailed for 18 weeks.
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Article: The superhero had been declared an honorary ambassador to promote messages about women's empowerment and gender-based violence.
The character's "sexualised" appearance was one element critics seized on to deem the choice inappropriate.
A petition against the selection gathered nearly 45,000 signatures.
The UN did not explain why the project with Wonder Woman, announced in October, would end on Friday.
But spokesman Jeffrey Brez said campaigns using fictional characters often lasted no longer than a few months, Reuters news agency reported.
DC Entertainment, which publishes DC Comics, said it was pleased with the exposure Wonder Woman had brought to the cause.
Warner Bros and DC Entertainment are supporting a year-long campaign by the UN and its children's agency, Unicef, for gender equality and women's empowerment.
In the petition against the character's appointment, opponents said the image she projected was "not culturally encompassing or sensitive".
"It is alarming that the United Nations would consider using a character with an overtly sexualised image at a time when the headline news in United States and the world is the objectification of women and girls," it said.
Wonder Woman - an Amazonian from the all-female paradise of Themyscira - masquerades as Diana Prince, whose occupations include an army nurse, until her services are called on by a society in peril.
She first came to the public's attention in October 1941, and was most famously played by actress Lynda Carter in the hit US TV series that ran from 1975-79.
The announcement came as the UN itself was under criticism for having a lack of gender parity in senior roles.
Despite campaigns there has never been a female secretary general and one analysis found that in 2015 nine of 10 senior leadership jobs went to men.

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The Cancer Drugs Fund in England will continue to pay for a drug for a rare form of lung cancer.
The fund, which pays for drugs not routinely available on the NHS, has cut the number of treatments offered in order to balance the books.
The fund, which was set up in 2000, has paid for

Harlow is celebrating the 70th anniversary of being designated a new town.

Article: The fund, which pays for drugs not routinely available on the NHS, has cut the number of treatments offered in order to balance the books.
Four appeals were subsequently rejected, but Regorafenib will now continue to be offered on the scheme.
Charities had criticised the decision to remove the other drugs.
All the drugs on the Cancer Drugs Fund have been rejected by the NHS as a whole for not being cost-effective.
Meanwhile NHS England announced that this fund was due to go Â£100m over budget in 2014-15.
In a large review of how the fund operated, NHS England decided to continue paying for only 59 of the 84 treatments it had previously offered as recently as January.
At the same time, three new drugs were added to the scheme.
Many of the companies who had drugs removed from the list appealed against the decisions, and five drugs were reappraised.
As a result just one, Regorafenib which is developed by Bayer, will now continue to be offered.
Prof Peter Clark, the chairman of the fund, said: "We have been through a robust, evidence-based process to ensure the drugs available through the Cancer Drugs Fund continue to offer the best clinical benefit, getting the most for patients from every pound that we have.
"These are difficult decisions, but if we don't continue to prioritise the drugs that offer the best value, many people could miss out on promising, more effective treatments that are in the pipeline."
Olaparib, an ovarian cancer therapy, will not be funded on the scheme.
Katherine Taylor, from Ovarian Cancer Action, said: "Women living with ovarian cancer deserve the right to have access to effective, proven treatments.
"We strongly urge NHS England to make this ground-breaking treatment available to the patients who so desperately need it."
Paul Catchpole, from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, said: "The ABPI believes that the CDF re-evaluation process is fundamentally flawed and the CDF remains a sticking plaster covering a seeping wound.
"A sustainable solution is urgently required."

Summary: The Cancer Drugs Fund in England will continue to pay for a stomach cancer drug after an appeal by the manufacturer.
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Article: It became one of the UK's first post-war settlements in 1947 following the previous year's New Towns Act.
It is credited as having the first modern high-rise residential tower block, The Lawn, which opened in 1951.
Designed for 60,000 by English architect, Frederick Gibberd, the town also included the first all-pedestrian shopping precinct.
In April 1964, councillor Reginald Ward, chairman of the Harlow Urban District Council, showed off Harlow to visiting Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, from the roof gallery of the Town Hall.
Today, Harlow is a thriving town with a population of 85,500, which includes residents from a wide range of countries.
A mural featuring Harlow citizens, including its MP Conservative Robert Halfon, was created by Polish artist Jola Kudela for the book festival this month.
The artwork, called "We're all the same boat", was created after a Polish man was killed in the town.
The artist Ms Kudela said: "The message is just relax guys and let's live together peacefully and quietly."
A large number of events are being planned to celebrate the town's 70th birthday and more information is available on the Harlow 70 council website.

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A man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The arrest took place by appointment at a north London police station; the man is in police custody.
He has been bailed to a date in mid January 2012.
He was arrested on suspicion

A 30-year-old man has been released on bail after being arrested by police investigating phone hacking at the News of the World.

Article: Belfast City Council pulled funding of about Â£1,000, some of which was to be used for a children's fun day at Sandy Row on Tuesday.
One of the organisers said local people had been told the council had expressed concerns about the height of the nearby bonfire.
The council said discussions were ongoing in relation to the funding.
Sandy Row's children's fun day and bonfire celebrations have been taking place on the eve of the annual Twelfth of July commemorations, which mark the victory of William III at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
The bonfire, that contains hundreds of wooden pallets, is in a car park near a hotel.
One of the organisers of the street party, John Cameron, said he believed the bonfire builders had complied with the council's policies.
He added that there was a lot of disappointment in the area that the council had pulled its support for a children's party at such short notice - but that the event had gone ahead with the support of local businesses.
"Children don't understand that, so the community has got together, along with local businesses, and they have managed to pull together a fun day," he said.
"It's a real tribute to the people of Sandy Row to make sure that it goes ahead."
An MLA for the area, Christopher Stalford, was among those who criticised the council's move and is seeking an explanation.
In a letter to council officials, the DUP MP said Sandy Row residents were "absolutely aghast at the decision that has been taken and feel very saddened and offended".
Mr Stalford asked: "If the issue is related to the bonfire in Sandy Row, why is the event which is held hundreds of yards away being penalised?"
Mr Cameron said the Sandy Row bonfire had been in the news for weeks and those responsible for building it had tried to abide by the advice of the council.
The police and the council are holding separate investigations into the alleged theft of hundreds of wooden pallets that had been placed in storage on council-controlled land in advance of Eleventh Night bonfires.
Mr Cameron said...

Summary: A loyalist community in Belfast has expressed anger that council funding has been withheld for a street party.
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Article: The man was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The arrest took place by appointment at a north London police station; the man is in police custody.
He has been bailed to a date in mid January 2012.
He was arrested by officers from Scotland Yard's fresh investigation into phone hacking, Operation Weeting.
On Tuesday, a 71-year-old Stuart Kuttner, an ex-News of the World managing editor, was rearrested and bailed as part of the phone-hacking probe.
Mr Kuttner was originally arrested on 2 August on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and corruption, and bailed.
He has now been bailed to a date in September, the Metropolitan Police said.
The Met's Operation Weeting is investigating illegal hacking of the mobile phone voicemails of public figures by the now-defunct News of the World newspaper.
The latest arrest is the 15th to be made on suspicion of phone hacking since Operation Weeting was launched in January. It happened just after midday.
BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said the age of the arrested person suggested someone more junior compared to some of the more senior executives who have been arrested by the police so far.
It is a long-running investigation and there would almost certainly be further arrests, our correspondent added.
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and ex-Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson are among those who have already been arrested as part of the inquiry.
The scandal has led Met Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and Assistant Commissioner John Yates to resign, and the News of the World to close down after 168 years.

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The Scottish government has asked the Scottish Parliament to intervene in the running of the Scottish Crofting Commission.
The Scottish Crofting Commission has been under fire for its handling of the dispute between crofters and the commission.
The commission has been under fire for its handling of the dispute between crofters and the commission

The convener of Scotland's Crofting Commission has reiterated he will not stand down amid a heated public dispute over common grazings - unless he is forced to by the Scottish government.

Article: The program - Moments - was released in some countries in 2015, but withheld elsewhere because of local data privacy rules.
The company has created a different version of the software to get around these restrictions.
But it acknowledged the new edition required "a little bit of work" for users to get the most out of it.
Moment's core features are that it automatically groups together photos featuring the same friend or friends, and then makes it easy to share the pictures with them if they have installed the same app.
In the original version, the snaps are automatically tagged with people's names, because Facebook is able to match them to other photos in its wider database.
But data protection watchdogs in the EU and Canada had expressed concern their citizens would have no way to opt out of the process.
To address this, the adapted app now links together photos of similar-looking faces but requires the user to identify who they are.
Moments is not the only app to use facial recognition to sort images.
Google Photos is the most popular alternative to do so.
But the search giant has yet to extend the facility to Europe, to avoid falling foul of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.
Facebook has not disclosed how many people have signed up to Moments since its release on the US's iOS and Android stores 11 months ago.
However, the company has said more than 600 million pictures have been shared via the app so far.
"Our primary purpose is to solve a problem that we know that people have, where they never get the photos that their friends take of them," the app's product manager Will Ruben told the BBC.
"We view that as a pretty different type of sharing than might happen on Facebook, where people share photos more broadly with a large group of friends or even publicly.
"Moments is closer to the type of sharing that might happen these days on Whatsapp or other [private] messaging apps - but it places the photos together into a collection."
Users decide which photos are shared with the people labelled in them,...

Summary: Facebook has launched its facial-recognition-powered photo-sharing app in the EU and Canada.
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Article: Last month, the board of crofting's regulatory body apologised for its handling of the dispute with crofters.
It also asked convener Colin Kennedy to resign.
But Mr Kennedy told BBC Scotland's Sunday Politics Scotland he was staying in the post.
The dispute relates to the running of common grazings, including at Mangersta and Upper Coll on Lewis.
Mr Kennedy said: "I have no intention of resigning.
"As matters stand, I believe the commission have acted wholly within the law at all times and until such times as we have legal advice to the contrary, I will maintain my position."
Last week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scottish government ministers had the power to intervene in the affairs of the troubled commission.
She said ministers would not ordinarily get involved in the internal operations of the commission.
However, during First Minister's Questions in Holyrood on Thursday, she said legislation did give them the power to intervene if required.

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The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has banned the use of the sleep aid Stilnox in the country's swimming team.
The AOC said the swimmers had been found to have taken the drug, which is not banned, and that the team had been "taken out of the Games".
The

Members of Australia's Olympic swimming team said they used the sleeping medication Stilnox during a "bonding" session before the Games last year.

Article: The figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also showed the annual rate of sales growth slowed to 4.0% last month from 4.7% in May.
That was the slowest annual growth rate since September 2014, and was below analysts' forecasts.
However, the ONS said the annual growth rate was still "strong".
Sales volumes in the April-to-June quarter were up 0.7% from the previous quarter.
The value of online sales in June increased by 1.4% compared with May and accounted for 12.4% of all retail sales.
Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist for IHS Global Insight, said June's sales data was "a little disappointing" but added that the figures were "not a body blow to improved second quarter growth hopes".
He noted that retail sales volumes "still rose by a decent 0.7%" in the second quarter, suggesting consumer spending made "a healthy contribution to GDP growth".
Many analysts have been expecting retail sales to do well, with recent statistics showing wage increases are picking up while inflation remains near zero.
The ONS said average store prices were 2.9% lower in June compared with the same month a year earlier.
Ross Walker, senior UK economist at RBS, argued that sales volumes were being "flattered" by low inflation, and that sales values data painted "a much more subdued picture".
The value of sales in the second quarter rose 0.7% from the previous three months, and rose 1.3% from the second quarter of 2014.
"We are not suggesting that UK consumer demand is weak... merely that there is little evidence of demand accelerating to above-trend rates," said Mr Walker.
In the past week, the Bank of England governor Mark Carney has hinted that UK interest rates could rise "at the turn of this year", while minutes from the last meeting of Bank rate-setters suggested some members were close to voting for a rate rise.
However, Chris Williamson, chief economist at research firm Markit, said the dip in June's sales volumes and the fall in prices would strengthen the arguments for those arguing against a rate...

Summary: UK retail sales volumes fell unexpectedly by 0.2% in June, after consumers bought fewer household goods, and less food and petrol.
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Article: The six male athletes also said they engaged in disruptive behaviour.
The admission follows a report that assessed Australia's poor swimming performance at the London 2012 Games which pointed to a "toxic" team culture.
Swimming Australia said the swimmers will face an inquiry panel.
Stilnox, used to treat insomnia, is not considered a performance enhancer and is not a banned substance, but the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) put it on the prohibited list ahead of the Games.
In their statement, the six members of the men's 4x100 freestyle relay team said the prescriptions "were filled in Australia before their departure to their staging camp in Spain and prior to the AOC's announcement the drug was (prohibited)".
But they "acknowledge that at the time Stilnox was consumed it had been recently prohibited for use".
"We stand here collectively to confirm that we did take part in a bonding exercise during which members of the relay team took Stilnox," the six swimmers said.
"We acknowledge by our recent action in continuing a recent tradition in the Australia swim team, we have let ourselves down and the people who have supported us."
All but one team member took the medication, they said. Then they engaged in pranks they described as "childish" and "stupid", such as knocking on the doors of other athletes and making phone calls. They said they were asleep by 22:30.
"I think one of the reasons I agreed to go along with it was all the pressure I was under," one of the swimmers, James Magnussen, said. "Completely inappropriate in hindsight."
The relay team, nicknamed Weapons of Mass Destruction before the Olympics, came in fourth in the event, in which they had been expected to deliver a medal.
Magnussen, a favourite to win the men's 100 metres freestyle, won a silver.
Their admission follows the release of a review of the sport after the country's worst Olympic swimming performance in two decades.
It found that amid a lack of leadership a "toxic" team culture developed that led to bullying and misuse of...

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The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined a telecoms firm £400,000 for failing to protect customer data.
The ICO said TalkTalk had failed to protect customer data from unauthorised access, disclosure or destruction.
The firm was fined £400,000 for failing to protect customer data

Companies must prepare for new tougher EU rules on data protection, or face big fines, PwC has warned.

Article: About 70 people attended the meeting at Kesgrave Town Council on Monday night.
On Thursday evening residents blocked green spaces with wheelie bins and cars amid reports of more travellers descending on the town, after 13 caravans arrived last month.
The Gypsy Council called the blockades "pathetic" and "shameful".
Caravans were already in Kesgrave when rumours on social media last week suggested 100 more travellers were set to join an unauthorised camp at Grange Farm.
It led to dozens of people blockading parks, verges and gardens, with agricultural machinery also used to block off an access road.
But despite the reports, just five children and their families attended Holy Family Church for a normal daily Mass on Friday morning.
The travellers at the site are expected to leave soon, but if they do not go, the local council is due to attend another court hearing later to get them evicted.
After the meeting, one resident told the BBC: "The police have got no intention of moving them on. It's like they're scared of them, it's just a big joke really.
Suffolk Coastal District Council leader Ray Herring, who oversaw the meeting, said: "When the last caravan goes we will put in a team to clean up the site and put some temporary measures in to restrict travellers returning."
Speaking about last week's blockades, Candy Sheridan from the Gypsy Council said it was "pathetic" and "un-Christian" when people had travelled miles to celebrate a first communion for the children.
There are 185 authorised travellers pitches in Suffolk, but none in the Suffolk Coastal area.

Summary: A meeting to discuss travellers in a Suffolk town had to be held in a car park because so many residents turned up.
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Article: The financial services firm said new rules, coming into effect next May, could see fines soar to 20m euros (£17.4m) or more.
Fines for data breaches had already risen, from 18 in 2015, to 35 in 2016, amounting to £3.2m in total, said PwC.
There were also 23 enforcement notices, where organisations were required to improve compliance - a 155% increase.
According to PwC's research, the UK is one of the most active places in Europe for regulatory enforcement in this area, along with Italy.
Penalties issued by the UK Information Commissioner's Office in 2016 included a record £400,000 fine for telecoms firm TalkTalk over security failings that allowed a cyber attacker to access customer data "with ease".
In 2015 the online pharmacy Pharmacy 2U was also told to pay £130,000 after it sold details of more than 20,000 customers to marketing companies without their consent.
However, PwC said that when the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes law across the EU next May, firms would face much tougher obligations and penalties.
In particular, the Information Commissioner's Office will be able to issue fines of up to 4% of global turnover, or 20m euros - whichever is highest. The regulator can only issues fines of up to £500,000 at present.
"UK organisations must use the remaining time to prepare for GDPR compliance before May next year," said Stewart Room, an expert in global cybersecurity and data protection at PwC.
The UK is due to adopt the new rules before it leaves the EU, but PwC said it was unlikely to water down the protections after it left the union.

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The UK's first commercial tidal energy farm is due to be launched off Anglesey in summer 2016.
The Crown Estate has confirmed that the first wave and tidal energy demonstration zone has been granted planning permission.
The Crown Estate said the site off Holyhead Deep, off the coast of Anglesey, will be

Sites for testing wave and tidal energy off the west coast of Anglesey and south Pembrokeshire have been approved.

Article: Once they had done their work, you might go as far as to replace some of the furniture nibbled by the rodents but you probably wouldn't replace every single item they had touched.
Yet that was the approach taken by the New York Times when it cleaned house after its internal network was infested by a more modern nuisance - computer hackers.
Every device, be it a laptop or chunk of network hardware, known or thought to have been compromised by the Chinese hackers was thrown out and replaced with a shiny, and more importantly, clean machine.
The newspaper wanted to be sure that no trace of the hackers remained.
In addition, the NYT beefed up its defences, blocked access from other compromised machines that had been used to get into its network and found and removed every back door into the newspaper's network.
The decision to replace computers was motivated by the all-encompassing access that the attackers had to the NYT network. In an article detailing the attack, the NYT said the Chinese attackers had access for at least four months.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security company Sophos, which often helps companies cope with intrusions by hackers, said replacing all those machines was "a bit extreme".
"Normally, the most extreme measure is to reformat drives or completely wipe them but even that would be a bit of a sledgehammer," he said.
Reformatting and wiping drives was sufficient to defeat even those malicious programs that buried themselves deep in the heart of the Windows operating system, he said.
"Usually they would put a clean Windows installation on there rather than chuck out the hardware," he added.
Mr Cluley speculated that the NYT threw out the machines to reassure partners, employees and others that the intrusion had been dealt with.
The lingering problem, he said, was that the NYT was still not sure how its attackers won access to its network.
The NYT suspects a so-called "spear phishing" attack that sent targeted, booby-trapped messages to a few key individuals. After they had...

Summary: If your house was infested with mice, the chances are that you would call a pest control firm to get rid of them.
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Article: The Crown Estate said that leasing the sites for technology development was "critical" for the UK to unlock the potential of wave and tidal energy.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said the benefits could be significant in terms of the economy and renewable energy.
Wales's first commercial tidal energy farm is due to launch off Anglesey in summer 2016.
Its electricity generators will operate like wind turbines but with blades driven by tidal wave action.
Menter Mon and Wave Hub were confirmed by the Crown Estate as managers for the west Anglesey tidal and south Pembrokeshire wave demonstration zones respectively.
They will prepare and manage the sites for sub-letting to developers.
In addition, development rights for a tidal site off Holyhead Deep have been granted to Minesto.
Rob Hastings, director of energy and infrastructure at the Crown Estate said: "By providing these additional seabed rights we are pleased to be enabling further technology development and commercialisation, which will be critical if the UK is to unlock its significant natural resources for wave and tidal current energy.
"This innovative approach to leasing the seabed sees us responding to market demand and introducing managed demonstration zones to give other organisations the opportunity to lend tangible support in their local areas."
First Minster Carwyn Jones said: "The energetic waters off our coast are ideal for marine renewable energy projects.
"Our ports, supply-chain infrastructure and grid infrastructure also put us in an enviable position for developing a thriving marine energy market, both as a significant generator and as an exporter of marine energy knowledge, technologies and services."
Gareth Clubb, director of Friends of the Earth Cymru said: "To having testing sites approved for marine renewable energy is a significant step forward."

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won 19 of the 28 governor posts in results declared from Saturday's elections.
The party won the presidential poll last month for the first time.
It lost the presidential poll last month for the first time.
The APC won 19 of the 28 governor posts,

The party of Nigeria's incoming president has won a landslide in elections for powerful state governors, ending the former ruling party's dominance.

Article: Leonard Scollay, 40, died after the Diamond hit rocks and sank near Burrafirth harbour on 25 March 2014.
At Lerwick Sheriff Court, Christopher Smith, 39, also admitted neglecting to keep a proper lookout.
Sheriff Philip Mann acknowledged that Smith was "truly remorseful" over the death of a friend.
It was Mr Scollay's first voyage to sea and he had not had any sea survival training. He was not wearing a life jacket.
A previous Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) report said both the skipper and Mr Scollay had taken drugs.
It said their ability to function had been significantly impaired as a result.
The MAIB report, released last year, said: "The skipper employed Leonard without ensuring that he was appropriately trained.
"It is likely that Leonard Scollay would have survived had he been wearing a lifejacket.
"However, he had taken heroin before the accident and this would have impaired his ability to survive or to appreciate his predicament."
Defence agent Martin Morrow said it was "unquestionably difficult" for the court.
Sheriff Mann said that Smith had pleaded guilty to a "very serious charge" of failing to keep a proper lookout.
"Unfortunately Mr Scollay lost his life; you fortunately survived," the sheriff said.
He said no sentence he could impose would "bring Mr Scollay back or lessen the grief" felt by his family, but by passing sentence he was "not engaged in trying to place a value on Mr Scollay's life" as that would be impossible.
Smith's six-month jail term was reduced from nine months to reflect his guilty plea.

Summary: The master of a Shetland boat that sank has been jailed for six months after he admitted failing to preserve a crewman's life.
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Article: The All Progressives Congress (APC) won 19 of the 28 governor posts in results declared from Saturday's elections.
It is the biggest defeat for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) since military ruled ended in 1999.
It lost the presidential poll last month for the first time.
APC leader Muhammadu Buhari will be inaugurated on 29 May, after he defeated President Goodluck Jonathan.
The PDP's decline has been reinforced by results from Saturday's elections for governors and state assemblies, reports the BBC's Bashir Saad Abdullahi from the capital, Abuja.
The party lost for the first time in key northern states like Katsina and Kaduna, the home of outgoing Vice-President Namadi Sambo.
It also lost control of Adamawa, one of three states badly hit by militant Islamist group Boko Haram's insurgency.
However, the party managed to hold on to Rivers State, Nigeria's oil hub.
The PDP won eight governorships, mostly in the south-east.
Taraba is the only result still outstanding, while the election in Imo state was declared inconclusive, because the number of spoilt ballot papers was larger than the margin of victory.
Elections were not held in seven states.
Analysis: Chris Ewokor, BBC Africa, Abuja
The APC has made historic gains, relegating the once-powerful PDP to a regional party. The PDP failed to get a national spread of votes, doing well only in the south-east and the oil-rich Niger Delta. Most states in the north went to the APC, along with Nigeria's commercial hub, Lagos, in the south-west.
However, the APC failed to win in any of Nigeria's five oil-producing states. This will be of huge concern to President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, as militant groups could disrupt oil production and starve the federal government of much-needed oil revenue.  It is unlikely that the PDP governors in the five states would help Gen Buhari rein in the militants.
In parts of the country, the elections were marred by violence due to stiff rivalry, and the battle for power and money. Ethnic differences also fuelled the conflict in some...

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A new report from the UK government says the country's energy system is "not fit for purpose" and needs to be overhauled.
The report, published on Tuesday, says the UK needs to invest in new technologies to meet the country's growing energy needs.
It says the UK needs to invest in new technologies

A consumer group has revealed its latest list of shrinking supermarket items that still cost the same, or more.

Article: TLP's Â£1bn project aims to pioneer the technology with Swansea becoming the first of six lagoons around Britain.
But now Ecotricity, one of the first green energy companies in the UK, said it is working on proposals to generate electricity through tidal energy.
In a letter sent to the UK government, it claimed Swansea could be the wrong place for such a project.
Ecotricity claims it can generate tidal energy at a lower price and financed over a shorter time than TLP.
The company's founder Dale Vince said the technology used to build the "sea walls" in Swansea was hundreds of years old and offered "no technological advance".
In the letter sent in January, he said: "Our analysis suggests that Swansea Bay is simply the wrong sized project in the wrong place and it is these constraints that are at the root of its very high cost of energy."
Ecotricity, based in Stroud in Gloucestershire, told BBC Wales it wrote to the UK government before it announced a review two weeks ago into the sector.
It believes tidal power can work at a lower price than the Â£168 per megawatt hour (MWh) across 35 years that is being discussed for Swansea Bay.
Founder Dale Vince said: "We were concerned that the UK government was being pushed into paying too high a price for tidal energy through the Swansea Bay scheme.
"That would be bad for renewable energy generally because it would reinforce the myth that green energy is expensive, and bad for tidal power specifically because it may never get off the ground."
Tidal Lagoon Power is now talking with the UK government about a lower price for their electricity generation over a longer, 90 year time frame, for Swansea.
But Ecotricity said it believes that price is too still too high.
The company will not say which sites it is looking at - including whether they would include Swansea - but acknowledges that the tidal range of the Severn Estuary is very attractive.
It will make a further announcement in the summer.
The review by the UK government - which is seeking "clarity" about the...

Summary: A competitor has emerged to challenge Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) as the first to develop tidal energy in the UK.
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Article: Toilet roll, chocolate biscuits, orange juice and antibacterial wipes were all on the list of shrinking items reported by Which?.
The consumer group argued that making products smaller was a "sneaky way" of increasing prices.
It is further evidence of a trend towards shrinking products.
In January Unilever revealed that a number of ice creams it makes would be getting smaller.
The latest list from Which? includes:
Most brands, responding to the Which? research, said it was up to supermarkets to set the price. However, they would not disclose if they had charged the stores a lower wholesale price.
"Shrinking products can be a sneaky way of increasing prices. We want manufacturers and supermarkets to be upfront about shrinking products so consumers are not misled," said Which? editor Richard Headland.

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The UK's biggest bank has said it will not be selling its stake in Lloyds Banking Group to raise £1.5bn.
The bank said it would instead sell the stake to a group of investors, including the Qatar Investment Authority.
The bank said it would not be selling the stake to raise £

When Lego originally decided not to sell the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei bricks with which to make a political statement, it really thought it was doing the right thing.

Article: The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) also said in the last quarter of 2015 more first-time buyers purchased properties in the region than at any time since 2006.
The organisation publishes data on behalf of banks and building societies.
It said 3,700 mortgages worth £380m were taken out in 2015's final quarter.
That is a rise of 3% on the same quarter in 2014 and 6% on the previous quarter, with first time buyers accounting for 2,100 of the loans.
Derek Wilson, the CML's Northern Ireland chair, said: "Home lending in Northern Ireland for the quarter rose to its highest level since mid-2007.
"It is welcome to see more first-time buyers purchasing their first home in this period than any other quarter since 2006."
The CML is forecasting the "upward trend" to continue in 2016, despite issues around a supply of new properties.
Meanwhile, the latest property survey by the University of Ulster has said 2015 saw the strongest year for price growth since the 2008 crash.
Average prices are up by 9% on 2014, "indicating that strong market conditions are prevailing."
Property prices are 40% below what they were at the peak of the market in late 2007.

Summary: Mortgage lending in Northern Ireland has hit its highest level since the property market was heading for its peak in 2007, according to new data.
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Article: Its ethical policy states that any artwork using Lego products should not "contain any political, religious, racist, obscene or defaming statements".
However, the Danish company was widely attacked by commentators and accused of not wishing to annoy the Chinese government, which Ai regularly criticises.
Lego has now relented and on Wednesday announced that it had changed its policy.
It will no longer ask customers what they want to use the bricks for, but requests that they make clear that the company does not support or endorse their projects, if exhibited in public.
But should a business be picky about whom it sells to?
The problem is that selling as much as you can to anyone and everyone can have unintended consequences.
Some customers can turn into your competitors.
LVMH, which owns luxury brands from Christian Dior clothing to Dom Perignon champagne, has had its Chinese business undermined by bulk sales ferried into the country by so-called "daigou" agents.
Taxes and currency differences make luxury goods far more expensive in China. Some analysts estimated that by mid-2015, Chinese prices were 60% higher than those in Europe.
The daigou agents, many of them students making extra cash to finance their overseas studies, buy up luxury products in bulk in Europe and Hong Kong and sell them on at home. It is sometimes known as parallel trading.
So LVMH started to watch its customers more closely.
Speaking on a conference call earlier last year, Jean-Jacques Guiony, chief financial officer at LVMH, said: "We've placed strict retail restrictions for the amount of products that people can buy.
"But, when you see someone in a store, you don't know whether they are buying handbags for themselves or to sell them on to the market in China. We are trying to make sure we are not competing with our own products in the China market, but our actions are not entirely bullet-proof."
Other companies have found it easier to try to equalise prices. The fashion house Chanel raised its European prices by 20% and cut them in...

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The Exmouth Christmas swim is a popular event in the UK.
The Exmouth Christmas swim is a popular event in the UK.
The Exmouth Christmas swim is a popular event in the UK.
The Exmouth Christmas swim is a popular event in the UK.
The Exmouth Christmas swim is a popular

Christmas swims are expected to attract bumper numbers this year due to milder winter weather and growing popularity for the craze.

Article: All too often here, when the land is baked dry, the winds can strip away an inch of precious topsoil in as little as 24 hours, soil that has taken centuries to form.
In the course of the most arid years, each acre of farmland can lose up to 70 tons of soil and then, wherever the dust is dumped, it can smother the crops it lands on.
In the Oklahoma Panhandle, the most remote area of the state, recent rainfall has been so meagre that fears have been kindled of a return to the apocalyptic "Dust Bowl" scenes of the 1930s.
Back then, agriculture collapsed and thousands of people left.
A survivor of the 1930s, 101-year-old Millard Fowler, who recalls sheltering from the "rolling black clouds" of the Dust Bowl, has seen similar conditions this year.
"Somebody asked me the other day if dust storms would happen again and I said 'they already have' - we've had some pretty good dust storms this spring," he said.
One of the worst was filmed by a local woman, LeLayne Tapp, and the video showed dust engulfing the community of Boise City, turning the sunlight orange and making roads impassable.
A farmer, JB Stewart, surveying one of his ruined wheat fields, told me that he had seen many droughts in his lifetime but the current one was "insane" because it has lasted so long.
"I've seen droughts over 50 years but nothing as devastating as what we've had in the last two to three years - I've never heard of anything like what we've had," he said.
His son Jarod, the fifth generation of the family to farm this land, said: "We've lost the crop and we've now got to figure out how to stop the soil from blowing.
"I'd compare it to the death of a loved one - you nurture this crop and invest in it and then you watch that crop die, it's devastating."
Across many parts of the state, the drought is acknowledged to have started three-and-a-half years ago with between 30-50 inches less rainfall than on average over that time.
Gary McManus, the Oklahoma State Climatologist, told the BBC: "The drought right now is the worst in decades...

Summary: A menacing cloud of dust swirling above a parched field in Oklahoma is a disturbing reminder of the power of drought.
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Article: Interest and participation has increased hugely in recent years across the country, according to the Outdoor Swimming Society.
Eighty outdoor swims are being held over the 2015 season, with most taking place on Christmas or Boxing Day.
Safety advice has been issued by the society for the first time.
Spokesman Will Cairns said it was expecting more people to take part this year in the sea, rivers and lidos.
"What's interesting this year is the temperature of the water.
"It's three to four degrees higher in certain places than it was this time last year. Temperature does play a part."
He said overall membership numbers increased from 15,000 last year to 25,000 this year and that 40% of members now actively swim throughout the winter.
"The Christmas swims very much appeal to the British psyche of doing something different, something slightly weird and wonderful," he said.
- Do not take part if you are pregnant, suffer from asthma or have a heart condition.
- Get warm before the swim and remove your warm clothing at the last minute.
- Go in feet first, not head first, and control your breathing before immersing your shoulders.
- Have low expectations of how long you will be in for or how far you will go
- Dry off and put on layers within ten minutes of getting out
Charlie Hoskin, 33, from Cornwall, described herself as a "granite-fleshed cold-water bathing enthusiast" who always swims in the sea at Christmas.
"The sensation is truly electrifying. It is a great way to test your constitution and boost your immune system," she said.
Daniel Fox has been photographing the Exmouth Christmas Day swim since 2007.
"Its getting massively busy now and the atmosphere is amazing. Costumes are getting wilder and there are more and more people taking part," he said.
"There are about 1,000 swimmers, thousands of spectators and tens of thousands watch by webcam too so we have a worldwide audience".
Brian Thomas from the Serpentine Swimming Club in London said: "We have seen a huge growth in numbers over the past five years".
He...

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The body of a man who was killed in a crash at the Shoreham air show has been recovered.
The pilot of a Hawker Hunter jet that crashed at the Shoreham air show has died.
The pilot of a Hawker Hunter jet that crashed at the Shoreham air show has died.
The pilot

The families of 11 men who died in the Shoreham air crash will hear the reflections of emergency workers who dealt with the disaster at a service.

Article: Playing in only his ninth first-class match, 25-year-old Poysden took five successive wickets, backed by 4-41 from Chris Wright, as the visitors faltered from 100-2 to 242 all out.
Middlesex looked set with Dawid Malan (57) and Nick Compton (33) together.
But, after they went, Stevie Eskinazi's 49 was the only contribution of note.
Having limited Middlesex to just one batting point, Warwickshire then faced two overs before the close, making just a single.
Middlesex's ambitions of a first Championship title since 1993 were jolted by their former fast bowler Wright's two wickets in his first 13 balls, Sam Robson edging to slip before Nick Gubbins gave a low return catch.
But, after Compton edged to slip, Poysden took over the lead role in a Bears attack fired up to earn the one win needed to ensure their Division One status.
And Middlesex were eight down before this season's leading Bears wicket taker Jeetan Patel got in on the act with his only scalp of the day, Toby Roland-Jones, caught at leg-slip.
With Tim Ambrose ruled out by a buttock strain, Warwickshire brought in wicketkeeper Alex Mellor for his first Championship game for the Bears - his third in all after playing two for Derbyshire on loan.
Ambrose is expected to be fit for the One-Day Cup final against Surrey on 17 September, while Middlesex hope top have England paceman Steven Finn, who did some bowling in the middle before play began, back for the trip to face bottom club Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge next week.
Warwickshire bowler Josh Poysden told BBC WM:
"It was a great day for us as a team. We definitely would have batted if we had won the won the toss, so the way the three seamers bowled up front was outstanding, taking early wickets and keeping a team right up there at the top of the division down to two an over.
"I was pleased with the way I bowled and felt in a really good rhythm against the left-handers all day. In Championship cricket it's a question of how often can you bowl your best ball.
"During tea I spoke to our bowling coach...

Summary: Warwickshire leg-spinner Josh Poysden claimed a career-best 5-53 to help bowl out County Championship Division One leaders Middlesex at Edgbaston.
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Article: The memorial event will be attended by hundreds of firefighters, police officers, paramedics and volunteers in a chapel overlooking the crash site.
Emergency workers and community leaders have organised the 22 November service.
It will come three months after a jet crashed on to the West Sussex A27 during the Shoreham Air Show.
The Right Rev Dr Martin Warner will open the service at Lancing College with a prayer for the victims.
He said it would be an important moment for people who were caught up in the "sudden and tragic events" of that day.
The names of the victims will be read out ahead of a minute's silence at 13:22 GMT - the exact time of the crash.
Each family will then light a candle to be placed on the chapel's altar.
The relatives affected will also give the readings.
Personal reflections of the rescue effort have been written and compiled and will be read out by Sussex Police Chief Constable Giles York, West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service Chief Fire Officer Sean Ruth, and South East Coast Ambulance Service chief executive Paul Sutton.
Two days after the crash, Assistant Chief Constable Steve Barry said he had  never before in his career seen anything like the Shoreham crash, in terms of its scale, tragedy and impact on the local community.
Friends and relatives gathered for the funeral of retired engineer Graham Mallinson at St Mary's Church, Newick, on Thursday,
The keen photographer had been hoping to capture shots of the Vulcan bomber, which was making one of its last appearances at the air show, when the vintage Hawker Hunter jet crashed.
He was described as being a "very dearly loved" husband, father and brother who would be "very sorely missed".

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The UK government has announced a new £1.5bn fund to help councils improve their services.
The Local Government Finance Settlement will provide councils with £1.5bn over the next four years to help them improve their services.
The money will be provided by the government's Local Government Finance Settlement, which is

Replacing or reforming the council tax in Scotland could prove challenging, according to a study.

Article: The train hit the end of the platform at Once station in the capital Buenos Aires during the morning rush hour.
"We assume that there was some fault in the brakes," Transportation Secretary JP Schiavi said.
Dozens of people were trapped for hours in the wreckage but all have now been successfully taken to safety.
The government declared two days of mourning and called off planned carnival festivities in the country.
"The train was full and the impact was tremendous," a passenger identified as Ezequiel told local television after the crash on Wednesday.
Medics at the scene were overwhelmed by the casualties, he added.
"People started to break windows and get out however they could," another eyewitness told Reuters.
"Then I saw the engine destroyed and the train driver trapped amongst the steel. There were a lot of people hurt, a lot of kids, elderly," the eyewitness added.
Police outside Once station had to "keep back the curious and concerned as paramedics treated the injured", eyewitness Tom English told the BBC.
By Vladimir HernandezBBC News, Buenos Aires
Last year, at least 23 people died and over 300 were injured in train accidents in Argentina. The Once station crash is the worst since the 1970s and raises questions about the safety of the rail network.
"It is still quite safe," says Juan Alberto Roccatagliata, the director of the National Rail Authority until 2010. But, he says, accidents can happen.
"However, investment levels and maintenance have not been up to what is required to reduce the probability of things like this happening."
The Buenos Aires rail system transports some 400 million passengers a  year, making it the biggest in South America. In the 1990s, most of it was privatised in the hope of boosting investment in infrastructure.
"But this did not happen as the contracts given to private companies did not oblige them to invest in the network," says Pablo Martorelli, president of the Argentine Rail Institute.
"Companies are not interested in investing as they already get their income from...

Summary: At least 49 people have been killed and more than 600 injured in the worst train crash in Argentina in 40 years, officials say.
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Article: A review for the Commission on Local Tax Reform said there was no "magic bullet" to cure defects in the system.
It said the council tax had built-in problems "from day one" but a failure to modify it had stored up more difficulties for policy makers.
The commission, set up by the Scottish government and council body Cosla, will report back later this year.
Prof Kenneth Gibb, from the University of Glasgow, was asked to review different systems of local taxation across the world.
He found that a tax on property was used by almost all OECD countries and was seen by academics as a "good tax" because it was stable, difficult to avoid and could have a desirable impact on housing markets.
But it also generated confusion with taxpayers unclear whether it was a tax on wealth or a charge for services such as refuse collection.
Some felt it was unfair because it was not linked to current income.
Prof Gibb noted that a local income tax, used by many countries, was generally perceived as fairer.
But he found such a system created difficulties for local authorities because it meant their income fluctuated. There was also little opportunity to vary tax rates to reflect local priorities.
He said:  "It is clear there is no magic bullet.
"Past experience from the UK and across the world shows that reform is always going to be difficult and will inevitably be bound up with the previous experiences and traumas of past reform.
"So whilst the current council tax has many deficiencies, change and reform is a major undertaking."
The commission now intends to hold a public consultation across Scotland before publishing its report in the autumn.
A Scottish government spokesman said ministers consider the current council tax system "as a whole to be unfair".
He added: "That is why, along with our local government partners, we have established the cross-party Commission on Local Tax Reform to examine fairer alternatives.
"The Scottish government awaits the commission's report, which is due in the Autumn."

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A man has been jailed for four years and nine months for a series of burglaries in the city.
The court heard that on the night of the offences, on March 18, the defendant broke into a house in the city centre and stole a television, a DVD player and a computer.
He also stole a

A man who bit off half his friend's ear has been jailed for two years.

Article: Independent councillor David Clifft said offences committed inside Featherstone Prison were skewing the perceived level of risk in Essington.
The national crime map did not distinguish between offences committed in jail and those outside it, he said.
Staffordshire Police said crime had fallen overall in the area since 2009.
Staffordshire Police investigated 30 crimes at Featherstone Prison in 2008-2009 compared to 24 and 16 in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011.
South Staffordshire councillor Mr Clifft said: "We're calling for those crime stats to be kept separate and also for the Hilton Services crimes to be kept separate too.
"They don't give a true reflection of crime in Essington.
"Essington is quite a safe place to live."
He said the misleading information was having a negative impact on pensioners' insurance premiums.
June Smallman, from nearby Westcroft, said it was "unfair".
"I'm a pensioner. There are a lot of pensioners in Essington and the surrounding districts and when you are on a fixed income you've got to consider every aspect of money," she added.
Mr Clifft said police forces were also potentially misallocating their resources based on the area's skewed crime statistics.
"Police are obviously using their facilities on where it says the crime spots are and they are putting policing in Essington where it is not wanted and really it could better serve somewhere else."
He said with plans to expand Featherstone Prison for up to 2,000 inmates. the situation could get worse.
"Featherstone is soon to become a super prison, and obviously the crime stats are going to be a lot higher," he added.
Graeme Trudgill, from the British Insurance Brokers' Association, said a customer's claims history was still the most important factor in pricing any home or car insurance premiums.
He said there were many insurance providers and anyone who was unhappy with their current broker's service should shop around.

Summary: Crimes committed inside a south Staffordshire prison are adversely affecting home and car insurance in a nearby village, a councillor says.
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Article: Connor Smith, 19, "turned" on work colleague Anil Jnagal during a night out on Birmingham's Broad Street, the city's crown court heard.
He was drunk and had cannabis before attacking Mr Jnagal, who had been trying to calm him down.
Smith admitted wounding and his barrister said he was remorseful but added "nothing is going to bring the complainant's ear back".
More updates on this and other stories in Birmingham and the Black Country
Prosecutor Tariq Shakoor said Smith, of Summerlee Road, worked with Mr Jnagal, 25, at a branch of Harvester in Birmingham's Star City leisure complex.
He told the court the victim remembered Smith "turning on him" and the pair fell to the floor, where the defendant bit his ear.
The court heard reconstructive surgery was unlikely due to the nature of the injury.
Jonathan Barker, defending, said Smith was in an emotional state at the time of the attack due to the recent death of his aunt.
Sentencing, Judge Richard Bond, said: "All the victim did was to try and stop you being aggressive towards others.
"It ended up with you quite deliberately using your teeth as a weapon and you bit off a really large chunk. About half of his ear has completely disappeared.
"This is not something that happens in a millisecond - to bite through somebody's ear takes real determination and a real effort."

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A new report has found that the number of people dying from smoking in Australia has fallen by more than half since the introduction of plain packaging.
The report, by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, found that the number of smokers in Australia has fallen from around one in five to one in four.
The report

A 94-year-old man who survived a prisoner of war camp next door to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp believes a football league which the guards allowed them to set up may have helped save his life.

Article: If the plan goes ahead it will give Tasmania some of the toughest tobacco laws in the world.
The current legal age to purchase, possess or smoke cigarettes in all Australian states is 18.
Critics have complained the proposed restrictions would be a violation of civil liberties.
Australia already has some of the world's toughest anti-smoking policies.
It introduced so-called plain packaging in 2012, where packs are coloured an identical olive brown and are covered in graphic health warnings.
The country is also one of the most expensive places in the world to buy cigarettes - from around A$20 a pack ($15; Â£10).
Parts of the world already ban cigarette sales to those under 21, including Kuwait and, from next year, Hawaii.
Around one-in-five Tasmanians smoke, with the vast majority taking up the habit before the age of 25.
The Tasmanian government proposals are part of a five-year plan to make the state Australia's healthiest by 2025.

Summary: The Australian state of Tasmania is considering raising the legal age for buying cigarettes to at least 21 and potentially as high as 25.
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Article: As Ron Jones, from Newport, prepares to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on Friday with a service at the city's cathedral, he says that amongst all the terrible memories, there will also be a few which will make him smile.
He was captured in 1943 fighting in the Middle East, and after nine months in Italy, was transferred to forced labour camp E715, part of the Auschwitz complex.
There he spent 12 hours a day, six days a week, working with hazardous chemicals in the IG Farben works, but on Sundays they were permitted to play football.
"I think the Germans thought that letting us play football was a quick and easy way of keeping us quiet," he said.
"The Red Cross would bring us food parcels, and when they heard about our football, they managed to get us strips for four teams: England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. I was always the Wales goalkeeper.
"It kept us sane, it was a bit of normality, but it sounds wrong somehow to say I've got fond memories of playing football, considering what was going on just over the fence."
He says as well as keeping up spirits, football played a major role in his survival, and that of many of his fellow prisoners, when they were forced on one of the series of extremely long marches westwards from PoW camps during the final stages of the conflict.
Whilst many of Mr Jones's friends died on the march, he believes it is no coincidence that those who had been involved in the Auschwitz football league fared better.
"You could say the football we'd played saved our lives. The football lads were fitter, yes, but more than that, they belonged to a group which kept each other going on the march."
E715 was located close to Auschwitz III, Monowitz, which held mainly Polish resistance fighters, political dissidents, homosexuals and some captured Soviet troops.
Whilst this was not officially a death camp, Mr Jones says it did not take long for him to realise that the inmates at Monowitz were far from safe.
"In the nights you could hear shots coming from Monowitz," he said.
"Not bursts like you had...

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The UK's biggest bank is set to be rescued by Spain's second-biggest lender.
The UK's biggest bank is set to be rescued by Spain's second-biggest lender.
The UK's biggest bank is set to be rescued by Spain's second-biggest lender.
The UK's biggest

The FTSE 100 closed slightly lower on the last day of campaigning before the general election.

Article: The bones, which represent at least five individuals, have been dated to between 11,500 and 14,500 years ago.
But scientists are calling them simply the Red Deer Cave people, after one of the sites where they were unearthed.
The team has told thePLoS One journalthat far more detailed analysis of the fossils is required before they can be ascribed to a new human lineage.
"We're trying to be very careful at this stage about definitely classifying them," said study co-leader Darren Curnoe from the University of New South Wales, Australia.
"One of the reasons for that is that in the science of human evolution or palaeoanthropology, we presently don't have a generally agreed, biological definition for our own species (Homo sapiens), believe it or not. And so this is a highly contentious area," he told BBC News.
Much of the material has been in Chinese collections for some time but has only recently been subjected to intense investigation.
The remains of some of the individuals come from Maludong (or Red Deer Cave), near the city of Mengzi in Yunnan Province. A further skeleton was discovered at Longlin, in neighbouring Guangxi Province.
The skulls and teeth from the two locations are very similar to each other, suggesting they are from the same population.
But their features are quite distinct from what you might call a fully modern human, says the team. Instead, the Red Deer Cave people have a mix of archaic and modern characteristics.
In general, the individuals had rounded brain cases with prominent brow ridges. Their skull bones were quite thick. Their faces were quite short and flat and tucked under the brain, and they had broad noses.
Their jaws jutted forward but they lacked a modern-human-like chin. Computed Tomography (X-ray) scans of their brain cavities indicate they had modern-looking frontal lobes but quite archaic-looking anterior, or parietal, lobes. They also had large molar teeth.
Dr Curnoe and colleagues put forward two possible scenarios in their PLoS One paper for the origin of the Red Deer...

Summary: The remains of what may be a previously unknown human species have been identified in southern China.
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Article: At the end of Wednesday's trading, the FTSE 100 was down 0.62% or 46.33 points at 7,478.62.
Banking stocks were among the top risers, with Lloyds Banking Group up 1.65% and RBS adding 1.35%.
Analysts said that struggling Spanish bank Banco Popular's rescue by Santander had given the overall banking sector a boost.
On the downside, pharmaceutical companies tumbled. Shire was the biggest faller on the 100-share index, dropping 3.2%.
Meanwhile, AstraZeneca lost 1% after its announcement that it had sold the rights for its migraine drug Zomig for $302m.
Colin McLean, manager of the UK growth fund at SVM Asset Management, said uncertainty over the outcome of the election so far appeared to be having little impact on investors.
"The bigger picture is that international stocks have been doing less well," he said.
"Quite a lot of what drove markets last year has gone into reverse over the last six months and investors are looking again at some of the beneficiaries of lower growth and deflation.
"That probably drives investors a little bit more than the election," he said.
On the currency markets, the pound rose slightly against the dollar, adding 0.33% to $1.2953. It rose 0.61% against the euro to 1.1517 euros.

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A man has been arrested after a man was stabbed in the neck in a suspected gang attack in the city centre.
The incident happened at around 10.30pm on Friday, March 22, in the area of the junction of St Ann's Street and St Ann's Square.
Police were called to reports of a

A large billboard has been puzzling residents of a County Down town, and commuters on the main route between Bangor and Belfast.

Article: The action follows the revelation that a flaw with the software meant that an attacker could run down the battery of a target's car and see data about its recent journeys.
The firm had been informed of the problem a month ago but only acted after details of the issue were flagged online.
Nissan denies there was a safety issue.
However, it has disclosed that its eNV200 electric vans were also vulnerable.
The security researcher who had alerted the Japanese automaker to the problem a month ago believes the company should have taken the step earlier.
Troy Hunt said he only blogged about the risk after seeing that other people had discovered and discussed it in online forums. Even so, he said he welcomed the latest development.
"Disabling the service was the right thing to do given it appears it's not something they can properly secure in an expeditious fashion," he told the BBC.
"Hopefully this will give them time to build a more robust solution that ensures vehicle features and driving history are only accessible via the authorised owner of the car."
Mr Hunt discovered that anyone can control the heating and air conditioning systems of a stranger's Leaf by sending it commands via a web browser because the car's companion app was not configured to verify the owner's identity.
Instead, it only required a vehicle identification number (Vin).
Vin numbers are stencilled into the windscreens of cars and Mr Hunt noted that it would be relatively easy to script a process that would hunt the net for vulnerable vehicles.
In addition, the hack allowed an attacker to see details about journey times and distances, but not location details.
Mr Hunt suggested this would be enough to deduce when someone had driven far from their home and run their battery down to leave them stranded.
Since the hack would not work when cars were moving and did not affect their steering controls, he acknowledged that it would not threaten people's lives.
But after first telling Nissan about the problem on 23 January, he said he felt the company...

Summary: Nissan has suspended the functions of an app that could have been used to hack its Leaf electric cars.
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Article: The poster with the phrase #prayforjosh appeared in Holywood by the A2 within the last week.
It is part of a social media campaign supporting 13-year-old Joshua Martin, from Donaghadee, County Down.
Life took a dramatic turn for the teenager when he was diagnosed with cancer on Christmas Eve.
He was due to have an operation on his appendix at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
However, doctors instead discovered and removed a large primary cancer and five smaller growths.
The news shocked Josh's family, but since his diagnosis they have received lots of support from people all over the world.
It began as a hashtag on Facebook and Instagram by Bangor Elim Church, where Josh's father is on the pastoral staff, and has since gone viral.
The church's senior pastor, Gary Beattie, said he was amazed by how many people have supported Josh and his family so far.
"We were in total shock when he was diagnosed, and really the family just wanted support from people and to ask people to pray for Josh," Gary said.
"It certainly isn't a campaign as such, we just put the hashtag on our Facebook posts to get some of our congregation thinking about him. We had no idea that it would take off.
"We would use social media quite a lot because we have quite a young congregation, and we've been posting updates about Josh from his family.
"The update was shared 948 times and it's been seen by over 79,000 people. It's absolutely phenomenal.
"We thought there had been a mistake, but you can look at the views and where they've come from, and there are people all over the world supporting him, which is great."
But how did a social media hashtag lead to the appearance of the massive billboard?
Gary said that last week a mystery donor paid for the sign and it was erected at Holywood playing fields.
"We do not know where it came from, we didn't put it there, but it means a lot to have such support," Gary said.
There has also been a huge outpouring of support on Twitter for the Bangor Grammar pupil, with his classmates using the...

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Leicester City's Jamie Vardy has been named the Premier League's Player of the Month for October.
The Foxes striker has scored 15 goals in his last nine games, including a hat-trick in the 3-1 win over Manchester United.
He has also scored in the last two games against West Ham

Leicester have been fined £20,000 by the Football Association over the conduct of their players during a game against Aston Villa.

Article: An interim Ofsted inspection at Park View School found staffing issues were "adversely affecting" students.
The watchdog said staff absences and a reliance on supply teachers were hampering pupils' progress.
Park View said the majority of absences were outside its control.
It was one of five Birmingham schools placed in special measures after an investigation was launched into an anonymous letter outlining an alleged Islamist takeover plot.
Inspectors said they had witnessed "unacceptable" disruptive pupil behaviour during a November monitoring visit to the academy in Alum Rock.
Students and parents told Ofsted frequent changes of staff meant teaching was not sufficiently challenging and homework was rarely handed out, according to the report.
"The academy is unable to improve quickly enough because there are insufficient leaders and permanent teachers working there," it concluded.
They said one third of the staff who responded to a questionnaire felt the school was "not well-led and managed and staff morale is low".
However, Ofsted, which previously criticised the school for failing to alert pupils to the risks of extremism, said religious teaching had improved.
Inspectors also found "a renewed focus on developing students' understanding of British values and what it means to be British".
But the curriculum "remained narrow", it said, and there was particular concern that music lessons were only timetabled for year 7 and 8 students.
In a letter to parents, acting principal Adrian Packer said Park View faced "complex recruitment issues" but was working to overcome them.
He said the school was introducing "quality assurance checks" for all supply staff and was interviewing candidates for permanent senior leadership posts.

Summary: There are still "serious concerns" about teaching quality at a Birmingham school placed in special measures in the wake of the alleged "Trojan Horse" plot, a report has found.
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Article: Leicester's Matty James and Villa's Ciaran Clark were sent off in the game.
Both clubs admitted an FA charge of "failing to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion and/or refrained from provocative behaviour".
Villa's case will be heard by an Independent Regulatory Commission.
Players clashed on the pitch during Leicester's 1-0 win following a tackle by James on Jores Okore. There was then a confrontation between the benches as the players walked off at full time.
It is the third time Villa have been found guilty of the offence this season.
They were fined £20,000 and £30,000 for failing to control their players in games against Tottenham and Manchester United respectively.

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The Pirate Party of the United States has announced that it will be holding its first national convention in New York City on May 1-2.
The party's co-founder, Peter Sunde, said: "We are excited to be holding our first national convention in New York City.
"We are looking forward

Article: The party's success comes amid growing support for the movement in other countries, including Australia, Russia, Tunisia and Mexico.
Initially pirate parties made the news by bringing the subject of digital file-sharing to public attention, but more recently they have scored notable election successes.
This has been achieved in part through their exceptional internet and social media skills, and clever branding; one party has even set up its own Wikileaks-like whistleblowing site.
Since the first pirate party was founded in Sweden in January 2006, the number worldwide has increased to more than 60.
BBC Monitoring charts the progress of the movement through public pronouncements and media commentary:
The Swedish Pirate Party was formed as an offshoot of the hugely popular electronic file-sharing Swedish Pirate Bay website, which the Los Angeles Times has described as "the most visible member of a burgeoning international anti-copyright or pro-piracy movement".
The party was formed to fight for "digital rights" including freedom of information, the abolition of patents, copyright reform and privacy protection.
In 2009 four Pirate Bay defendants received prison sentences and heavy fines for damages relating to copyright violations.
The resultant publicity led to a huge growth in party membership, which quickly rose to around 18,000, and the party won two seats in the June 2009 European Parliament elections.
"We gained political credibility," said Ric Falkvinge, the Swedish party's founder and leader.
Following the Swedish Pirate Party's surge in membership, Pirate Parties International (PPI) was formally established in Belgium in April 2010, aiming to facilitate co-operation between pirate parties worldwide.
Currently the PPI has 26 party members and five observer members across four continents.
Pirate party members are overwhelmingly young and IT literate; in the UK three out of eight Pirate Party candidates in the 2010 general election were aged just 19 years old - the oldest was 41.
CNN's Fareed Zakaria...

Summary: The German Pirate Party saw a surge in support in Berlin's recent state elections, with all 15 of its candidates winning seats in the state parliament.
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Article: The winners of this year's aerial photography competition run by online site Dronestagram have been announced.
There were thousands of entries taken using drone cameras and the winners were selected by the judges - National Geographic deputy director Patrick Witty and Emanuela Ascoli, photo editor of National Geographic France - and Dronestagram's team.
Here we present the winning images from the four categories.
This year there was a special category to recognise the creativity of the Dronestagram community.

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The US Department of Justice has charged a man with stealing more than $1m (£700,000) from a US bank.
The US Department of Justice has charged a man with stealing more than $1m (£700,000) from a US bank.
The US Department of Justice has charged a man with

TalkTalk has confirmed that three of its India-based call centre workers have been arrested.

Article: Kodie Blak posted a picture of Mothers Pride Scottish Plain bread on Facebook and said due to falling sales only one factory now produced it.
The comment prompted concern about availability of the bread, and the post was shared more than 13,000 times.
The firm which produces the bread said it had no plans to stop producing it.
A spokeswoman for Hovis, which includes the Mothers Pride brand, said: "We know that Mothers Pride has a very loyal consumer base who are passionate about the Scottish batch loaf.
"We do love and appreciate the strong response of support we've seen from Scottish consumers."
Mothers Pride is a batch bread made in a large baking tray, which means the loafs only form a crust on the top and bottom.
It differs from a pan loaf, which is baked in an individual tray and so forms crust round the whole bread.
The two types of bread were immortalised in the Jeely piece song - a Scots folk song written in the 1960s - in the line: "If it's butter, cheese or jeely, if the bread is plain or pan".
Mothers Pride bread, which has been in production for 80 years, is made in Glasgow by the only batch plant left in the UK.
For a time in the 1970's and 80's it was one of the UK's best selling white breads.

Summary: A Glasgow DJ prompted concern that an iconic plain bread brand was under threat, after a social media post urging people to buy it.
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Article: The London-based telecoms provider said that it alerted police after carrying out a data security review.
However, a spokeswoman stressed that it had seen no evidence that the suspects had been involved with a high-profile cyber-breach last October.
Nearly 157,000 of TalkTalk customers' details, including bank account numbers, were stolen in the breach.
The unnamed suspects do not work for TalkTalk directly but are instead employed by Wipro, a local call centre provider, in Kolkata (Calcutta).
"Following the October 2015 cyber-attack, we have been conducting a forensic review to ensure that all aspects of our security are as robust as possible - including that of our suppliers," the company said.
"Acting on information supplied by TalkTalk, the local police have arrested three individuals who have breached our policies and the terms of our contract with Wipro. We are also reviewing our relationship with Wipro.
"We are determined to identify and deal effectively with these issues and we will continue to devote significant resource to keeping our customers' data safe."
News of the arrests was first reported by Channel 4 News.
The Indian company has said it has a "zero tolerance" policy on data theft.
"Wipro is working closely with the customer in the investigation and will continue to extend its full co-operation to the investigating authorities," it said.
"We are unable to comment on the matter that is currently under investigation."

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The British Polio Fellowship has said it is "deeply saddened" by the death of former England and Birmingham City footballer Jeff Hall.
The charity said there are many people alive and well "who owe her a huge debt of gratitude".
Ted Hill, the charity's chief executive, said: "Dawn worked

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

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

Summary: Early exit charges for people taking money out of their pension pots will be capped at 1%, the financial regulator has confirmed.
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Article: Dawn Clements urged people to get vaccinated after the death of England and Birmingham City footballer Jeff Hall from the disease in 1959.
Mrs Clements, of Kidderminster, died at the end of last month, aged 79.
The British Polio Fellowship said there are many people alive and well "who owe her a huge debt of gratitude."
Ted Hill, the charity's chief executive also commended Mrs Clements for helping shine a light on post-polio syndrome (PPS), which is a neurological condition that can occur in people who have had polio.
"It can be difficult to imagine now a time in the UK when polio was killing and paralysing thousands like Jeff," he said.
"Dawn worked to see that no one else had to go through what she did and latterly helped us with our PPS work."
Mr Hall's unexpected death at the peak of his career aged 29 shocked the nation. Take-up of the polio vaccine had been slow in the 1950s but Mrs Clements' campaign is credited with inspiring people to get vaccinated.
The charity head described Mrs Clements, who was diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago, as "an example to us all" He also passed on his condolences to her surviving husband Alan Clements.
Mr Clements thanked charities as well as the people of Birmingham for "assisting Dawn in all of her remarkable work".
"What she did 50 years ago during the worst time of her life still matters to people. Dawn would want me to thank the fans of Birmingham City and all those for all of their help and support," he said.

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The Israeli government has announced a new law to regulate the country's tourism industry.
The new law will require all tour operators to be licensed by the government.
The new law will also require all tour operators to be registered with the police.
The new law will also require all tour operators to be registered with the

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

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

Summary: A new £1 coin, billed by the Royal Mint as the "most secure coin in the world", is to be introduced in 2017.
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Article: Police say they are investigating allegations of a secret price-fixing arrangement by companies who organise the trips for students.
Investigators have raided the homes of executives and frozen bank accounts.
At least six travel agencies are accused of violating competition rules.
They are suspected of colluding on prices before responding to an education ministry tender to take students to Holocaust memorials.
When the Israeli education ministry approached a number of different companies, it received identical quotes.
Reports say the alleged collusion was aimed at artificially inflating prices.
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Thousands of Israeli high school students travel to memorials at World War Two death camps every year. A trip can cost several thousand shekels per student (1,000 shekels is worth Â£177), according to reports in Israeli media.
The BBC's Kevin Connolly, in Jerusalem, says that for many Israeli high school students a visit to the site of the Nazi death camps in southern Poland is a rite of passage, which gives them a direct sense of connection to the Holocaust - the defining tragedy of modern Jewish history.
If the allegations are proved to be true, our correspondent adds, there will be shock in Israel that a form of tourism that is viewed with great solemnity may have been the subject of illegal business practices.
Some six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, mainly in death camps in occupied Poland. More than a million people, mostly Jews, were killed in Auschwitz alone.

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The caves have been digitally reproduced as part of the city's first Festival of Caves.
The caves have been digitally reproduced as part of the city's first Festival of Caves.
The caves have been digitally reproduced as part of the city's first Festival of Caves.
The caves have been digitally reproduced as

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

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

Summary: Experts have warned of a $100bn (Â£79bn) "protection gap" in the global insurance sector as a result of the rising impact of climate risks.
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Article: The caves have been digitally reproduced as part of the city's first Festival of Caves.
The tour will take in Mortimer's Hole under Nottingham Castle and King David's Dungeon - caves some people would not be able to access.
The city has more than 500 man-made sandstone caves which have been used for dwellings and jail cells.
Nottingham City councillor, Dave Trimble, said: "There are plenty of local people who don't know about the hidden world beneath their feet."
He said the new virtual reality tour would allow visitors who were unable to descend the steep steps into the caves to experience them.
Andrew Whitney of Hot Knife Digital Media, which developed the tour, said: "We've taken very accurate data to digitally reproduce the caves in a gaming environment.
"We're excited to bring the caves into the 21st Century using the latest gaming and virtual reality technology, increasing the accessibility of these sites to everyone."
A series of caves has been found in the past six years due to funded projects such the Nottingham Caves Survey, which mapped and laser-scanned many of them.
The festival runs until 23 October.

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