The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^GOOG) is up more than 1% for the year, while the Nasdaq Composite Index (Nasdaq:^IXIC) is up more than 2%.
The S&P 500 is up 1.7% for the year, while the

(Close): Wall Street markets rose on Friday, extending the previous day's rally and bringing the S&P 500 into positive territory for the year.

Article: Uber said the launch would take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It added that it was teaming up with Volvo.
At first, the vehicles will be supervised by a driver, who can take control if necessary, and an observer, Bloomberg reported.
The firm first revealed plans to replace human drivers two years ago.
More than one million people drive vehicles linked to its app, but are not directly employed by the company.
A spokeswoman for the firm told the BBC: "Starting later this month, Uber will allow customers in downtown Pittsburgh to summon self-driving cars from their phones, crossing an important milestone that no automotive or technology company has yet achieved.
"In Pittsburgh, customers will request cars the normal way, via Uber's app, and will be paired with a driverless car at random. Trips will be free for the time being, rather than the standard local rate of $1.30 [Â£0.98] per mile."
She added that Volvo had already sent a small number of sensor-equipped XC90 sports utility vehicles (SUVs) to Uber, which would be used in the initial trials. The carmaker intends to have delivered 100 such cars to its partner by the end of the year.
Uber had previously used modified Ford Fusions to test its self-driving tech.
Volvo has confirmed it is taking part in a "joint project" between Uber and the carmaker.
"Both Uber and Volvo will use the same base vehicle for the next stage of their own autonomous car strategies," the firm said.
"This will involve Uber adding its own self-developed autonomous driving systems to the Volvo base vehicle."
Engineers from both companies would collaborate on the project, the firm added.
"This alliance places Volvo at the heart of the current technological revolution in the automotive industry," said Hakan Samuelsson, president and chief executive of Volvo.
The Bloomberg story notes that the Volvo deal will not be an exclusive one and that Uber plans to work with other carmakers.
Uber's hard-charging founder Travis Kalanick has been outlining a vision of a self-driving fleet for some...

Summary: The ride-sharing firm Uber will, for the first time, allow users to hail self-driving cars within a fortnight, the company has confirmed.
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Article: The 1920 film The Mark of Zorro and Peter Sellers' 1979 comedy Being There have also been chosen for preservation at the Library of Congress.
Documentaries, silent movies and one of the earliest film recordings made in 1894 are also on the list.
Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman said the film's inclusion was "an honour".
"Making Ghostbusters was one of the great joys of my life," he said.
"It's an honour to know that a movie that begins with a ghost in a library, now has a spot on the shelves of the Library of Congress. It's humbling to be part of a collection of extraordinary films that I have loved all my life."
The library makes the annual registry selections after conferring with members of the National Film Preservation Board, library film staff and considering thousands of public nominations.
Some 675 films are now on the list, which represent "important cultural, artistic and historic achievements in film-making".
Frank Darabont, director of The Shawshank Redemption, said he could "think of no greater honour" than for the film to be considered "part of our country's cinematic legacy".
"I express my deepest thanks to all those who chose it for inclusion in the National Film Registryâ€¦ and most of all to the audiences who embraced our movie and have kept it alive all these years."
Older films on the list include the 1959 melodrama Imitation of Life starring Lana Turner and Jimmy Stewart's psychological western Winchester '73.
The silent films selected this year include the Spanish-language version of Dracula from 1931, which was shot concurrently with the English-speaking film starring Bela Lugosi.
The oldest surviving copyrighted motion picture, which was produced by Thomas Edison's team of inventors is also on the list.
The Sneeze, which was filmed in 1894, became synonymous with the invention of movies.
Other films on the list that feature early cinematic techniques are Dream of a Rarebit Fiend made in 1906, using trick photography, and Disney's 1937 animation The Old Mill.
"Selecting a film for the...

Summary: Ghostbusters, Top Gun, The Shawshank Redemption and LA Confidential are among 25 films that have been added to the US National Film Registry.
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Article: Inflatables resembling characters from the popular game have been deployed to ward off nuisance gulls that cause mess in Rhyl during the warmer months.
Firms using the balloons say they keep gulls from street level.
But the council says they are now being removed by people "who take a fancy to them".
Angry Birds, which was created in Finland, is hugely popular with millions of people playing the game on smart phones, tablets, computers and games consoles.
Denbighshire council said a raptor-style kite it flew over Rhyl's streets to deter gulls last year had "worked well" but kept getting tangled on a post. And now its latest deterrent is also encountering problems.
"Yes, we know these weird 'Angry Bird'-type scare balloons look a bit daft but they do seem to work," says a council spokesperson.
"The only problem is that, while they may scare the seagulls away, not so for people who take a fancy to them and take them home with them."

Summary: 'Angry Birds' balloons being used to scare off a Denbighshire town's seagulls are also being taken by passersby, the county council has said.
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Article: The S&P 500 climbed 8.7 points to 2,049.29, as it ended the day above where it had closed at the end of 2015.
The Dow Jones was up 117.59 points to 17,599.08, having itself moved into positive territory for the year on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the tech-based Nasdaq rose by 20.66 points to 4,795.65.
Investors remained positive after Wednesday's Fed decision to maintain interest rates between 0.25% and 0.50%.
The Fed also signalled that there would be fewer 2016 rate rises than previously expected.
The news helped raise banking stocks. Goldman Sachs shares climbed 3.1%, while JP Morgan gained 2.9%.
Microsoft was one of the Nasdaq's main movers, losing 2.4%.

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"deeply concerned" about the incident, which was discovered in September.
The details of the breach were published by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

The Pirate Bay website has been relaunched.

Article: They believe the two suspects acted along with Abdelbaset al-Megrahi - the only person to have been convicted of the atrocity.
The BBC understands the pair are Mohammed Abouajela Masud and Abdullah al-Senussi.
A total of 270 people died when the Pan Am 103 flight was blown up on the evening of 21 December 1988.
The flight was on its way from London to New York when it exploded above Lockerbie, in southern Scotland, killing everyone on board and 11 people on the ground.
Senussi was the brother-in-law and intelligence chief of former Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi. He is currently awaiting execution in a Libyan jail.
Masud is reported to be serving a prison sentence in Libya for bomb making.
Both men were named as possible suspects in the bombing by an American TV documentary last month.
Scotland's Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC recently met the US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, in Washington to review progress made in the ongoing investigation.
They have now requested permission from the Libyan authorities for Scottish police and the FBI to interview the two new suspects in Tripoli.
A Crown Office spokesman said: "The Lord Advocate and the US Attorney General have recently agreed that there is a proper basis in law in Scotland and the United States to entitle Scottish and US investigators to treat two Libyans as suspects in the continuing investigation into the bombing of flight Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie.
"The Lord Advocate has today, therefore, issued an International Letter of Request to the Libyan attorney general in Tripoli which identifies the two Libyans as suspects in the bombing of flight Pan Am 103.
"The Lord Advocate and the US Attorney General are seeking the assistance of the Libyan judicial authorities for Scottish police officers and the FBI to interview the two named suspects in Tripoli.
"The two individuals are suspected of involvement, along with Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, in the bombing of flight Pan Am 103 in December 1988 and the murder of 270 people."
The Libyan attorney...

Summary: Scottish prosecutors want to interview two Libyans they have identified as new suspects over the Lockerbie bombing.
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Article: The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission says apprenticeship starts for under-25s rose by 4% from 2010-14 , compared with 17% for over-25s.
And most training courses taken were not a step up from the apprentice's previous level of study, it added.
No 10 said it was committed to getting more young people into apprenticeships.
The commission welcomed the government's efforts to improve the number and quality of apprenticeships and said that for too long the vocational route to qualifications had been seen as an option for "other people's children".
But the report said: "The overall growth in apprenticeship starts has been driven by large increases in participation by over-25s.
"While youth apprenticeships have roughly flatlined since the early years of the decade, starts by over 25s are over 150,000 higher in 2014/15 compared to 2009/10.
"In comparison to this increase there were over 5,000 fewer apprenticeship starts by under-19s in 2014/15 compared to 2010/11.
"And there were around 1,000 fewer 19-24 apprenticeship starts in 2014/15 compared to 2011/12."
If this was projected forward, then adult apprenticeship starts would continue to increase, while youth starts would stagnate or decline, it added.
The commission also highlighted how the vast majority of apprentices were studying at levels below their age.
For example, 68% of A-level age apprentices were studying apprenticeships at GCSE-level and 98% of degree-age apprentices were studying at A-level equivalent or lower, the report said.
It also highlighted how many youth apprenticeship starts were in sectors associated with lower pay and prospects for progress, such as hairdressing.
Commission chairman Alan Milburn said: "The government is committed to giving all young people a chance to make something of their lives, but the current drive to increase the number of apprenticeships isn't delivering for people under the age of 24.
"The number of young apprentices has flatlined since 2010 and many of these apprenticeships don't offer young people a...

Summary: The government's apprenticeships drive is failing to deliver for young people in England - with enrolments flatlining among under-25s, a commission says.
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Article: The Digital Media Initiative (DMI) was intended to move the BBC away from using and storing video tape.
But it was scrapped, with almost no results, after five years of development.
After investigating the demise of the project, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has branded the programme "a complete failure".
Chairman Margaret Hodge said the BBC needed to "overhaul" its approach to such projects, to "safeguard licence fee payers' money".
The BBC originally approved DMI in 2006. It was supposed to produce new editing tools, an online archive of the BBC's programmes and a new database.
Technology company Siemens was hired to develop the project in February 2008, and it was expected to be completed the following year.
However, after a series of delays, the project was brought in-house, There it floundered until last May, when the BBC's incoming director general, Tony Hall, admitted it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money".
The gross estimate of the amount spent on DMI was £125.9m, although the BBC claims to have recouped £27.5m of that.
The BBC's technology chief, John Linwood, was sacked in July 2013 over the project's demise.
A previous report, by the National Audit Office (NAO), blamed "confusion and a lack of planning" for the failure.
It said that senior executives failed to take control of the project when it ran into trouble and "did not appear to appreciate the extent of the problems until a late stage".
The PAC published its own findings on Thursday. It reiterated several of the points raised in earlier reports and criticised the BBC for its failure to alert MPs of the problems.
"When my committee examined the DMI's progress in February 2011, the BBC told us that the DMI was... absolutely essential... and that a lot of the BBC's future was tied up in the successful delivery of the DMI," said Ms Hodge.
"The BBC also told us that it was using the DMI to make many programmes and was on track to complete the system in 2011 with no further delays.
"This turned out not to be the case. In...

Summary: The BBC was "far too complacent" in its handling of a failed IT project that cost licence fee payers £98.4m.
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Article: A counter at thepiratebay.se showed a countdown to 1 February, but it appears to have come back online a day early.
The website, which provides links to pirated content, was taken offline following a raid in Sweden in December.
Police officers seized servers in Stockholm after a complaint was filed by a group called the Rights Alliance, which targets internet crime.
The police operation took place in an area in Nacka, south-east of Stockholm, with the area's cold weather used as a natural cooling system for computer servers.
The site was taken down in 2006 after another raid by police but reappeared online three days later.
The Pirate Bay is one of the internet's most-visited websites, and the film, music and software industries blame it for losses running into billions of pounds.
Internet service providers (ISPs) in the UK were ordered by the High Court to block access to the site in 2012.
In October Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Warg was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for hacking into computers and illegally downloading files.
Another co-founder, 35-year-old Peter Sunde, was arrested in Sweden last year after two years on the run and was sentenced to eight months in prison for violating copyright laws.
Meanwhile a third co-founder, Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij (known to hackers as TiAMO), was arrested while trying to cross into Thailand from Laos in November.
A message from "Winston" on the newly-relaunched site reads: "So, first we ditched the trackers. We even got rid of the torrents. Then we left the servers to enter the clouds.
"Now, we're about to take the biggest step in our history."
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The CQC has rated the Penberthy home in Newquay as inadequate.
The CQC has rated the Trevern home in Falmouth as inadequate.
The CQC has rated the Blackwood home as inadequate.
The CQC has rated the Headlands home as inadequate.

"Action is needed" at homes for the elderly run by Cornwall Care, after the company took its "eye off the ball", the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said.

Article: It analysed 40 years of observations of six big ice streams draining into the Amundsen Bay and concluded that nothing now can stop them melting away.
Although these are abrupt changes, the timescales involved are likely measured in centuries, the researchers add.
If the glaciers really do disappear, they would add roughly 1.2m to global sea level rise.
The new study has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, but Nasa held a teleconference on Monday to brief reporters on the findings.
Prof Eric Rignot said warm ocean water was relentlessly eating away at the glaciers' fronts and that the geometry of the sea bed in the area meant that this erosion had now entered a runaway process.
By David ShukmanScience editor, BBC News
West Antarctica is one of the least accessible parts of the planet and it takes a huge effort to research the changes under way there. Nearly a decade ago, I joined a flight on an old US Navy patrol plane that made a gruelling 11-hour round trip from the southern Chilean city of Punta Arenas to Pine Island Glacier, which lies among the glaciers featured in these latest studies.
There was no possibility of landing and, if the worst were to happen, there was no-one close enough to offer any kind of rescue.  This is research at its most daring. On board was a team from Nasa whose instruments were measuring the elevation and thickness of the ice below us. Even at this stage, it was clear that the glacier, far larger than anything you might see in Europe or North America, was speeding up.
Now the scientists have the benefit of repeated flights, copious satellite images and data from field trips. There is still a lot they do not understand about the pace of change and therefore the speed with which the melt will contribute to sea level rise. But the more detailed the research, the sharper the picture of rapid change.
"We present observational evidence that a large section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has gone into a state of...

Summary: Key glaciers in West Antarctica are in an irreversible retreat, a study team led by the US space agency (Nasa) says.
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Article: That is a notion raised by Daniel Finkelstein in The Times today. This idea - which has fans in Westminster and Whitehall - strikes me as a misreading of the situation in Europe.
This idea has arisen because Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister, is a game theorist, a type of economist who studies interactions in simplified versions of reality.
These stylised scenarios are known, in the jargon, as "games". Famous ones you might have heard of include "the Stag Hunt", "The Ultimatum Game" and - most famously - "the Prisoner's Dilemma".
One famous game is called "Chicken". Imagine two cars racing towards one another. If neither swerves, both drivers lose. If either swerves, however, that person is deemed to lose.
This is a bit like the Greek negotiation. Neither side wants to give in first, but neither side wants to end with no deal.
This is a hard game to be good at - unless you can send a worrying signal to the driver of the other car.
You could try to convince the other driver that you have no control of the car, so they will be forced to move.
Rip off the steering wheel and wave it out of the window, perhaps? Or you could behave like you enjoy crashes - or are indifferent to the pain they cause. That, Lord Finkelstein has suggested, was part of the Greek negotiating strategy.
Lord Finkelstein wrote: "Varoufakis believed that if his negotiating partners - the Germans, the IMF, the Commission - concluded he was a bit bonkers, a bit reckless, they would appreciate that he might crash the Greek economy and bring down the whole edifice of the euro on top of him. Persuading your adversary that you are mad is a classic game theory gambit."
I think you can understand the Greek position much more simply: they predicated their negotiating position on notions that turned out to be untrue.
Here is another simple idea from game theory: a classic negotiation between two parties is best understood by looking at ideas called the "outside option" and the "inside option".
The outside option is the outcome for...

Summary: Was the Greek negotiating strategy with the Eurogroup designed to convince the rest of Europe that the Syriza government was mad?
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Article: And this "always on" culture - exacerbated by the smartphone - is actually making us more stressed and less productive, according to some reports.
"Something like 40% of people wake up, and the first thing they do is check their email," says Professor Sir Cary Cooper of Manchester Business School, who has studied e-mail and workplace stress.
"For another 40%, it's the last thing they do at night."
The Quality of Working Life 2016 report from the Chartered Management Institute earlier this year found that this obsession with checking emails outside of work hours is making it difficult for many of us to switch off.
And this is increasing our stress levels.
So what can we do about it?
The more enlightened firms have been stepping in to help. In 2012, Volkswagen began shutting off employees' email when they are off shift.
Daimler has allowed its workers to have all the work emails they receive while on holiday automatically erased. And France's new labour law, enacted a few weeks ago, encourages all companies to take similar measures.
Dave Coplin, Microsoft UK's chief envisioning officer, believes artificial intelligence tools will learn when we are busy and block alerts, waiting until we're less busy before bringing us the most relevant or interesting messages.
"The idea is to develop tools that help us knife and fork our way through deluges of information," he says.
Much of Microsoft's work centres on its personal assistant, Cortana.
Other firms are experimenting with social media-style messaging in an attempt to escape the tyranny of email.
Some tech firms believe monitoring our computer behaviour is a first step in seizing back control of our work-life balance.
Robby Macdonell from Nashville Tennessee, founded tech start-up RescueTime because he was so frustrated not knowing where his days were going. He was being distracted too easily.
"These alerts are very well designed to capture your attention and stimulate the parts of your brain that say, 'I have to react to this right now'," he says.
He developed a...

Summary: We are the distracted generations, wasting hours a day checking irrelevant emails and intrusive social media accounts.
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Article: The CQC previously rated the Penberthy home in Newquay as inadequate.
New reports highlight problems at three other homes run by Cornwall Care: Headlands in Carbis Bay, Trevern in Falmouth and Blackwood in Camborne.
Cornwall Care said it was rare for an inspection not to point out areas for improvement.
The CQC said Headlands was "unsafe" and overall "was not caring".
At Trevern "one person had not been able to have a bath or shower for eleven months due to the home not obtaining the appropriate bathing equipment to meet the person's needs," the report stated.
Action was also needed to address the "care and welfare of people who use services" and the "safety and suitability of premises," it was claimed.
The report on Blackwood said "people did not always have access to meaningful activities" and action was needed regarding the "safety and suitability of premises".
Due to changes in CQC reporting procedures the reports did not give an overall rating as it has done for Penberthy.
Adrian Hughes, the commission's deputy chief inspector of adult social care, said there had been "slippage" in services provided by Cornwall Care.
He said: "They have taken their eye off the ball in some aspects of that care."
A spokesman for Cornwall Care said: "We have worked closely with CQC and commissioners for many years and it is rare that an inspection of any care service does not point out areas for improvement.
"We welcome that feedback and always act quickly to make sure we are offering the best possible service to our clients."

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The pound rose sharply on the news that the UK is to hold a snap election on 8 June.
The pound rose to its highest level against the dollar in more than a month, as investors welcomed the news that the UK is to hold a snap election on 8 June.
The pound was up 0.4%

A new organisation has been set up in Northern Ireland to support people who suffer from rare diseases.

Article: From April 2017, a new levy on company payrolls will help to double government spending on apprentices, say ministers.
Under the scheme, businesses will be able to use vouchers from the levy to pay for apprenticeships.
Labour says the revisions are a U-turn by ministers, after a "huge outcry" and a "sustained campaign".
From next April, firms will pay into the apprenticeship levy, a new tax based on the number of people on their payroll in England.
And from May they will be able to draw down vouchers from the levy to fund apprenticeships.
The government says the aim of the £2.5bn apprenticeships plan is to boost the number of people of all ages able to gain high-quality skills and experience, and to improve the overall skills of the workforce.
Skills Minister Robert Halfon said the latest changes would "boost our economic productivity, increase our skills base and give millions a leg up on the ladder of opportunity".
Business critics of the scheme had originally feared it would be inflexible, while colleges said that amendments announced during the summer recess would have seen cuts of up to 50% for apprenticeships for the poorest teenagers.
Businesses were also concerned that a demand that they spend their vouchers within 18 months did not fit with their existing recruitment and training cycles.
The latest changes include:
The detailed plans gained support from TUC General Secretary, Frances O'Grady, who said the levy would give apprenticeship funding "a welcome boost".
David Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, said it was clear the government had listened but warned that these "big shifts in the apprenticeship programme... will need sensitive and watchful handling".
Labour's shadow minister for apprenticeships said the government "have had to make a major U-turn to their original proposals".
"It is a credit to the new minister that he recognised that this needs to be done to preserve any credibility for the government's social mobility position," said Gordon Marsden.
"We need to see the...

Summary: Updated government plans for apprenticeship funding in England have been welcomed by critics who feared they would exclude the poor.
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Article: But when Brid McDaid asked her brother Johnny, of Snow Patrol fame, to perform she might have known all eyes wouldn't be on her.
The Snow Patrol guitarist brought his fiancÃ©e, Courtney Cox, and friend and fellow musician Ed Sheeran, as well as other Snow Patrol band members, to his sister's nuptials in Derry at the weekend.
When it came time for the bride and groom's first dance Sheeran and McDaid teamed-up to perform Snow Patrol's hit song 'Chasing Cars' with wedding guests singing along.
But they weren't going to be a one-hit wonder at the reception, the new duo went on to perform a 30-minute set.
Patsy O'Kane, the owner of the Beech Hill County House Hotel, where the wedding was held, said that staff didn't know that McDaid and Sheeran were planning to play.
She said the whole day was one "filled with music and song, soloists and bands".
"Clearly the family love music, they move in those circles," she added.
There was no smashing of guitars or throwing TVs out of bedroom windows though. Patsy said that everyone was very civilised and it was just a "super atmosphere".
"The wedding guests really were so excited by the performance, everyone was in such good form and it really just lifted the mood of the whole day," she added

Summary: Most brides might be put out by having the spotlight stolen from them on their wedding day.
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Article: Sterling had fallen before the statement, but it quickly recovered following Mrs May's announcement.
The pound charged 2.2% higher at $1.2846 and rose 1.4% against the euro to 1.1968 euros.
On the stock market, the benchmark FTSE 100 share index fell 180 points, or 2.5%, to 7,148.
That left the blue-chip index at its lowest level for nearly 10 weeks and meant the FTSE 100 was just 0.2% higher than at the start of the year.
The FTSE 100 had already been lower ahead of Mrs May's announcement, with shares in mining companies suffering some of the biggest falls due to lower iron ore prices.
Simon Jack: City's relaxed reaction to election surprise
But the increase in the pound hit the FTSE down further as many of the companies listed on the index make most of their revenues abroad.
A stronger pound cuts the value of these revenues when they are converted back into sterling, meaning lower profits.
Laith Khalaf of Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "Currency markets have roared their approval for a snap UK election, with the pound enjoying strong gains against the dollar and the euro.
"The fall in the stock market is not a negative response to the UK election per se, rather it is a knock-on effect of a surging pound, combined with price falls in some key commodity markets, all of which has taken its toll on the heavyweights of the FTSE 100 index."
The rise in sterling took it to its highest point for 10 weeks, although the pound still remains well below levels seen before the UK's Brexit vote last June.
One of Europe's largest investment banks, Deutsche Bank, said the news of the forthcoming UK election meant it would not be so downbeat about the outlook for the UK and its currency.
"It makes the deadline to deliver a 'clean' Brexit without a lengthy transitional arrangement after 2019 far less pressing given that no general election will be due the year after," its analysts said.
Deutsche also argued that if the election gave the Tories a bigger majority, this would strengthen Theresa May's negotiating stance, and it would...

Summary: The pound rose strongly and share prices in London fell sharply after Theresa May announced plans to call a general election on 8 June.
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Article: The Northern Ireland Rare Disease Partnership aims to give sufferers and their carers an independent voice.
The group, created with the Patient Client Council, aims to improve treatment and care for those affected by rare diseases.
Jane Stewart is one woman who hopes that the new partnership will help families like hers.
She suffers from Spondylo Ephysial Dysplasia (SED) - a genetic condition which her young son, Saul, has inherited. It is a form of restricted growth or dwarfism.
"I wouldn't change myself or my son or children like him for the world. But I would change the world for them," she said.
"I feel a partnership for rare disease is going to be extremely useful for families like ours living with a rare condition.
"In the information that I have about the rare disease partnership, the focus is on education, provision of special services and support."
Richard Dickson from the Patient Client Council said: "This partnership aims to be a voice for those people scattered across Northern Ireland affected by rare disease with no other means to speak up for themselves."
The partnership will lobby and advocate on their behalf.

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The man who was arrested in connection with the robbery of a jewellery store in Dubai has been extradited to Spain.
The man, who was not named, was arrested in Madrid on Tuesday.
He is believed to be one of the gang members who robbed a jewellery store in Dubai in 2007.
He

Police in Barcelona have arrested five suspected members of the so-called "Pink Panthers" gang as they tried to rob a jewellery shop.

Article: All 30 volunteers were told by York Minster that bell-ringing activity had "ceased with immediate effect".
A spokesperson for York Minster said their "agreements were terminated" for a fully trained professional team led by a new head bell ringer.
The Minster said: "The main bells will be silent until we have recruited a new team in the New Year."
Volunteers were immediately denied access to the Minster's bell tower, the BBC understands.
York Minster confirmed key fobs had been withdrawn from the current volunteers, for "safety reasons as the Minster has to know who can access the building at any time".
In a letter sent to all the volunteers on Tuesday, the Reverend Canon Peter Moger said the Minster's key objective was to "have a fully trained, motivated and engaged community of staff and volunteers" by 2020.
"In order to begin this process, all current bell ringing activity will cease at the Minster, from today, Tuesday 11th October. The only exception is the ringing of the carillion."
Mr Moger said applications to join the new bell-ringing team would be "invited from everyone".
He said he wanted to bring the bell ringing team "in line with other teams across the organisation" following similar changes to its flower-arranging, brodery, collections and its police teams, which were "all adopting new structures and embracing new working practices.

Summary: The bells at York Minster have been silenced because the volunteer bell-ringers have been sacked.
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Article: And, as a result of the SFA judicial panel decision, the case against Rangers has also been withdrawn.
A large-scale invasion by Hibs fans at full-time was followed by clashes between fans from both sides on 21 May.
Meanwhile, Hibs say they have now paid money to the SFA following damage to the pitch at Hampden.
Hibs won the match 3-2 to lift the Scottish Cup for the first time since 1902.
At an SFA board meeting in 2013, clubs voted against an amendment to the organisation's articles which would have led to strict liability - clubs being held responsible for the behaviour of their supporters.
And, on this basis, the judicial panel ruled that Hibs could not be punished following fans' actions in the aftermath of the match.
The SFA charged both clubs with breaches of disciplinary rule 311.
In both cases the following references were made:
The panel chair's notes of reason on the decision to dismiss the case against Hibs begins with the statement: "The Panel unanimously dismiss the complaint as irrelevant."
The notes continued: "[Compliance officer] Mr [Tony] McGlennan accepted that he is relying on Rule 28 to import strict liability to the club for the actions of the supporters. The panel has to be satisfied that the provisions are clear and unambiguous and do not conflict with requirements of procedural fairness and natural justice before taking that step."
And, in closing, the notes of reason state: "It may be thought odd that there is no apparent disciplinary sanction for this event. But that is a matter for the members to deal with, in clear terms, rather than for the Judicial Panel to innovate by a purposive interpretation of the rules. From the information which we have, there is a limited appetite for strict liability within Scottish football."
The panel also say the "decision is without prejudice to the right of the SFA to seek reparation or restitution".
Following the decision, Hibs said in a statement: "Hibernian FC welcomes the decision of the Judicial Panel which has dismissed the complaint raised...

Summary: The disciplinary case against Hibernian over the pitch invasion that followed the Scottish Cup final has been dismissed as "irrelevant".
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Article: After days of uncertainty following the inconclusive elections on 6 May, the country now faces weeks of instability as the different political parties campaign once again in what is likely to be a bitterly contested election.
The vitriolic atmosphere in which the final round of all-party talks for a technocrat government broke down on Tuesday does not bode well for the coming campaign.
Shortly after walking out of the talks, the main political leaders appeared on national television accusing each other of sabotaging the attempts to form a government.
The leader of New Democracy, Antonis Samaras, described the left-wing parties as "irresponsible and arrogant".
Then Alexis Tsipras, of the radical left-wing Syriza party, was on television accusing Mr Samaras and the leader of Pasok, Evangelos Venizelos, of trying to coerce his party into joining a coalition or holding an election "in a climate of blackmail and insecurity".
Opinion polls had suggested that a majority of the population wanted the politicians to compromise so a second election would be avoided.
Prolonged instability
And, on the streets of Athens on Tuesday, there was disappointment that the talks had collapsed.
Some believe the second election may also be inconclusive with no outright winner, leaving the country once again without a government.
Others fear the prolonged instability will further damage the markets.
But the attempt by Pasok and New Democracy to create a coalition government and so avoid another election was not motivated solely by a belief this would be better for the country and by a determination to ensure it remain in the eurozone.
Both parties have been on a downward slide and have little desire to face the electorate so soon after being humiliated in the 6 May vote.
In contrast, Syriza and other radical, anti-austerity parties have enjoyed a spectacular rise in popularity and could even take power after the second election.
Recent opinion polls have all shown Syriza ahead of both Pasok and New Democracy, but probably unable to...

Summary: Greece is now heading along a path which President Karolos Papoulias, the socialist Pasok party and the conservative New Democracy party - and a significant proportion of the population - had all hoped to avoid.
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Article: A special unit was waiting for the man inside the shop Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona's biggest shopping street.
Interpol believes the gang carried out at least 380 armed robberies jewellery shops between 1999 and 2015.
Most of those arrested are from eastern Europe.
One of the men robbing the shop was armed, police said. German and Serbian authorities were involved in the build-up to the raid.
In February 2014, Pink Panther gang member Borko Ilincic was arrested in Madrid. He was accused of being involved in the spectacular robbery of a jewellery store in Dubai's al-Wafi Mall in 2007.
He appeared in court in Dubai for the first time in June after his extradition to the United Arab Emirates.
Many of the gang's members hail from the Balkans and have also hit Tokyo and London. Interpol estimates they have stolen close to â‚¬334m ($371m; Â£283m) of jewellery.
The Pink Panthers were given their name when police in London made an arrest in 2003, and found a diamond ring hidden in a jar of face cream - a ploy used in the original Pink Panther comedies starring Peter Sellers.

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A new study has found that the world's most popular smartphone operating system, Android, is more likely to be installed on devices that are sold in developing countries.
The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, found that Android was installed on just over half of the devices it tested, compared to just over a quarter

Palm oil giant Olam has been accused of using suppliers that may use unsustainable practices in parts of Southeast Asia.

Article: Enda Dolan, 18, from County Tyrone, was in his first term at Queen's University when he was struck by a van on Belfast's Malone Road in October 2014.
David Stewart, 31, of Gray's Park Avenue, admitted a series of charges linked to the teenager's death.
He was sentenced to seven years - three-and-a-half years in prison and the same on licence - last April.
During his trial, the court heard that Stewart, who had consumed drink and drugs before driving his van, drove with the teenager on the roof of his van for about 800 yards before he stopped.
The court was told that the 13 drinks Stewart consumed included six pints of beer and  four Jagerbombs - a mix of a spirit and an energy drink.
Traces of drugs, including cocaine, were also found in his system.
On Monday, following an appeal, the Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan increased the time Stewart would spend in prison by one year.
Making the ruling, he said: "Nothing this court can do can turn the clock back.
"What happened was senseless needless and entirely avoidable."

Summary: A drunk driver who knocked down and killed a student has had his sentenced increased by one year.
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Article: Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union will decide by 30 June whether they want to take industrial action.
The union is calling for above-inflation pay rises and an assurance there will be safe staffing levels when the service starts in September.
London Underground said the news of the ballot was "bizarre and unnecessary".
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "Nobody should be under any illusions, the night running plan has been cobbled together on the hoof and will rip up the safety rule book.
"Monday mornings will be absolute chaos as the network struggles to get back into gear after running flat out, round the clock through the weekend."
The RMT union is also asking that LU staff are not forced to do night or weekend work.
The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) and the drivers' union Aslef are also holding strike ballots.
Manuel Cortes, general secretary of the TSSA, said: "Boris Johnson is not going to get a first-class night Tube up and running by September if he makes a second-class pay offer to the staff who will be expected to deliver it on time."
Transport for London has denied there will be any safety issues and said it had made a fair pay offer to staff, which includes a two-year deal and extra for the night Tube.
London Underground director Nick Brown said: "We are still in the midst of these negotiations and all parties have agreed that there is much still to discuss, which makes news of the strike ballots all the more bizarre and unnecessary.
"We encourage the trade unions to make themselves available to continue our talks at Acas.
"We want to reach a settlement that rewards our hard-working staff and is fair, affordable and sustainable."
All-night services are expected to run on Fridays and Saturdays on the Piccadilly, Victoria, Central, Jubilee and Northern lines from September.

Summary: Workers at London Underground are to vote on whether to take strike action over the planned all-night Tube.
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Article: The blueprint for all life forms on Earth is written in a code consisting of four "letters": A, T, C and G, which pair up in the DNA double helix.
But the lab organism has been modified to use an additional two, giving it a genetic code of six letters.
Researchers hope the work could lead to bugs that can help manufacture new classes of drugs to treat disease.
The team from the US, China and France have published their work in PNAS journal.
Previous research had shown that an "unnatural base pair" (UBP), consisting of two synthetic letters called X and Y, could be incorporated into the DNA of Escherichia coli bacteria.
But the resulting bugs grew slowly, and the UBP was expunged after several rounds of cell division.
Now, Prof Floyd Romesberg, from The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, and colleagues, have shown that their single-celled organism can hold on indefinitely to the synthetic base pair as it divides.
"We've made this semisynthetic organism more life-like," said Prof Romesberg, senior author of the new study.
"Your genome isn't just stable for a day," said Prof Romesberg. "Your genome has to be stable for the scale of your lifetime. If the semisynthetic organism is going to really be an organism, it has to be able to stably maintain that information."
Key to the advance was a modification to a molecular transporter, which helps the E. coli bugs import the UBP.
Next, the researchers optimised their previous version of Y so that it could be better recognised by the enzymes that synthesise DNA molecules during replication.
Finally, the researchers set up a "spell check" system for the organism using the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing tool.
They were able to take advantage of the tool to ensure that any cells that dropped X and Y would be marked for destruction by the organism.
Their semisynthetic organism was thus able to keep X and Y in its genome after dividing 60 times, leading the researchers to believe it can hold on to the base pair indefinitely.
"We can now get the light of life to...

Summary: Scientists have created bacteria that thrive using an expanded "genetic alphabet".
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Article: The claims against the agricultural commodities trader were made in a report by Mighty, a US-based environmental lobby group.
Mighty also accuses Olam and its main stakeholder, Singapore state-owned investment company Temasek, of turning a blind eye to these practices.
Both companies reject the allegations.
Singapore and Malaysia regularly suffer from haze caused by slash-and-burn practices by small-scale farmers and rogue palm oil traders in Indonesia.
Indonesia is often blamed for not doing enough to tackle the agriculture fires used to clear vegetation for palm oil, pulp and paper plantations in the Riau province in East Sumatra, South Sumatra, and parts of Kalimantan on Indonesian Borneo.
Singapore-based Olam has confirmed that it buys 99% of its palm oil from third party suppliers and while it is a relative newcomer to the industry, it says it accounts for less than 1% of the global market.
Mighty's report says Olam and Temask could be unwittingly encouraging unsustainable palm oil trading practices that may contribute to the haze that is caused by the fires.
It also says Olam created a "secretive market for rogue palm oil companies" that allowed the vast majority of its product to be bought from unknown sources.
But Olam chief executive Sunny Verghese told the BBC that the firm had a "very vigorous sourcing policy and we insist that there is zero tolerance for burning, so it's a 'no burn-no peat-no deforestation' compliance policy".
The company only agreed to release the names of its 14 suppliers on Monday, having previously resisted calls by Mighty to do so.
Mr Verghese said he believed the firm's current suppliers all met Olam's strict requirements, but added that the vetting and verification process would take several more years to complete.
He added that producers who do not comply with the company's sustainable principles would be removed from its supply chain.
Since Temasek is the majority stake holder in Olam, Mighty's allegations could link Singapore's state fund to the devastating annual haze...

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The number of measles cases in Wales has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade, according to Public Health Wales.
The number of cases in Wales has fallen by more than half since the last peak in 2010, when there were more than 1,000 cases.
The number of cases in Wales has fallen

An outbreak of 189 cases of measles has been reported in Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot, Public Health Wales says.

Article: Shreekant Kushwaha, in his late 40s, is a farmer who is a trained magician and has been using his skills to convince farmers in the state to convert to organic farming methods.
In the last few years, he has conducted more than 1,000 magic shows and converted thousands of farmers to organic farming to "increase both their yield and incomes".
"Magic and farming are both science and need use of hands for their execution. Both become obsolete if denied new tricks," he says.
Most of his magic shows begin with some popular trick like making a small ball vanish into air, or pulling a pigeon out of a hat.
"Once I've grabbed the attention of the crowd, I go for the real thing," he says.
"I show them two boxes and tell them that one box has seeds with organic fertiliser while the other has seeds with synthetic fertiliser. Then I put a lid over both the boxes and say let's see which grows faster.
"When the lid is lifted, the seeds treated with organic fertiliser seem to have grown into small plants but those treated with synthetic fertiliser have not grown at all," he says.
"And then I explain why and how it is done."
He says most among the audience return home convinced that organic is the way to go.
Mr Kushwaha himself learnt the benefits of organic farming in 2001 from a training camp held in his village by a non-governmental organisation.
He says moving to organic farming changed his fortunes: he grows rice, wheat and more recently, medicinal plants on his farm and yields are high.
Once a poor farmer who could not even afford two daily meals for his family, he now owns a double-storey house, has a beautiful kitchen garden with decorative lights and flowers, a cow, a colour television, a computer and printer and a motorbike.
"I couldn't go to school, but I sent my children to school for a proper education," he says.
"It was all made possible once I started organic farming on my two-acre plot of agricultural land," he says.
"And, now my only mission in life is to promote organic farming."
The idea to promote organic...

Summary: A farmer in the northern Indian state of Bihar is using magic shows to promote organic farming, Amarnath Tewary reports from Govindpur village in Muzaffarpur district.
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Article: Clubs in the English top flight spent a total of £870m, up from the £835m record set last year.
The transfer window opened on 1 July and closed at 18:00 UK time on Tuesday.
Manchester City was the biggest-spending club, agreeing to pay about £160m for new talent, which was a record for a single club.
"This summer has seen another record level of transfer spending, as Premier League clubs continue to use increases in their revenue to invest in playing talent," said Alex Thorpe from the Sports Business Group at Deloitte.
"Total spending in 2015, across both the January and summer windows, is also a new record, reaching the £1bn mark for the first time."
Increasing domestic and overseas broadcast revenue was the main driver behind rising spending on players, he added.
"Looking across Europe, Premier League clubs' gross and net spending this summer is more than double that of any other European league."

Summary: Premier League football clubs have broken the summer transfer window spending record, according to analysis from Deloitte.
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Article: Local politicians hope to have more say on how the region's budget of more than £22bn is spent each year.
The plans would mean one of the leaders of the 10 councils stepping up to run the Combined Authority full-time.
The ideas are set out in a memo sent to councillors and seen by BBC News.
It reads: "Greater Manchester is a single economy bigger than Wales or Northern Ireland, yet has considerably less freedom over its strategic priorities.
"The platform we have created through the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, providing clear leadership and a track record of delivery, means we are ideally placed to be a trailblazer for city devolution."
The document also sets out a list of changes council leaders would pursue under the new structure, if it is approved by Westminster.
This includes the re-regulation of Greater Manchester's bus services, potentially bringing routes and fares under council control, rather than commercial operators.
Council leaders also want control over funding for business and trade and investment, alongside "significant influence if not control" over £500m which the government currently spends on skills and training schemes.
Discussions on the devolution of spending powers have been ongoing for years with local leaders believing they are better placed than civil servants in Westminster to decide how billions of pounds of funding should be spent in Greater Manchester.
David Cameron's promise of more powers for Scotland during the recent referendum campaign led the region's leaders to push their case further and Chancellor George Osborne has indicated he's ready to make some form of an announcement on devolution in the Autumn statement.
Mr Osborne has made it clear he wants Greater Manchester to have an elected mayor but the region's council leaders don't think that would work. Instead, they're offering to appoint an "11th leader" who would oversee the Combined Authority and be a full-time figurehead for the region.
It's not yet clear how this "11th leader" would be selected. Greater...

Summary: Greater Manchester's council leaders want to appoint an "11th leader" as part of efforts to convince the government to devolve more power to the region.
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Article: It began in November but 20 cases have been notified in the last week and the total is more than for the whole of Wales in the last three years.
So far, 32 secondary schools, primary schools and nurseries are affected.
Parents are being urged to make sure their children receive the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination.
The outbreak only affects the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board area and eclipses the number of cases across the whole of Wales since 2010.
Last year's figure of confirmed cases for Wales stood at 116, while there were just 19 in 2011 and eight the year before, according to Public Health Wales.
There were 159 cases in 2009, still lower than the current outbreak in south west Wales.
Dr Marion Lyons, director of health protection for Public Health Wales (PHW), said: "We continue to be concerned at the number of cases of measles we are seeing in the Swansea and Neath Port Talbot areas.
"We cannot emphasise enough that measles is an illness that can kill, or leave patients with permanent complications including severe brain damage, and the only protection is two doses of the MMR vaccination."
She added that people most at risk of catching measles are children of school age who have not had two doses of MMR.
Children should receive the first dose of the vaccine at 12 to 13 months of age and the second at three years and four months of age
PHW estimates there are more than 8,500 school children at risk of measles in the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg area.
Many people who catch measles will have a fever, cough, red eyes, and blocked nose and feel generally unwell.
The blotchy rash appears a few days later beginning on the face and spreading downwards to the rest of the body over several days.

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A new report has found that the UK's housing market is becoming increasingly unaffordable for young people.
The report, by the Resolution Foundation, says that the average house price in the UK is now £245,000, compared with an average of £170,000 in the early 2000s.
The report also

Commuters were given a surprise upgrade when a luxury train arrived for their daily journey to work.

Article: Individuals are typically told they should invest their pension money in fine wines or overseas property.
But many of the companies involved are not regulated and are not qualified to give financial advice.
It is thought that the fraudsters may be capitalising on the new pension freedoms, introduced in April.
Those freedoms allow people over the age of 55 to access their cash, subject to income tax.
Citizens Advice - which offers official guidance through Pension Wise - said that emerging scams include:
"Opportunistic fraudsters are finding new ways to go after people's pension pots, including offering free pension reviews and promising to invest in funds that don't necessarily exist," said Gillian Guy, the chief executive of Citizens Advice.
A number of sites on the internet advise investors to transfer pension money into fine wine.
Most are not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
They typically suggest that investors can achieve long-term average returns of 12-15% a year, or that wine is a better investment than shares.
One pension advisory firm, Portal Financial, has reported 11 such websites to Google this year, to try to get their adverts removed.
"Unless you know that it is a legitimate investment, you should be very careful," said Jamie Smith-Thompson, the managing director of Portal Financial.
He said other investment scams included land banks and carbon credit schemes.
Previously, so-called pension liberation scams have targeted the cash in a pension pot, charging a fee for "liberating" it.
But victims can lose more than half their money in such scams, as anyone under the age of 55 is liable for tax at 55%, while others may have to pay 45%.
Action Fraud - part of the City of London Police - said that cases of liberation fraud tripled in May, the month after the reforms were introduced.
However, the pensions minister, Ros Altmann, said she was not convinced that fraud was increasing as a direct result of the pension freedoms.

Summary: Fraudsters trying to steal money from people's pension funds are increasingly offering to invest the cash into other scams, says Citizens Advice.
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Article: The predators' battle over carrion was shot in the snow-covered Trossachs.
Full details of the fight, and which of the animals came out on top, will be given during Thursday night's programme.
Winterwatch has been capturing footage of wildlife in Scotland, including the Cairngorms.
The fox versus eagle footage was shot in the Trossachs, an area of mountains and glens in central Scotland.
Golden eagles are the UK's second largest bird of prey after the white-tailed sea eagle.
The raptors are mainly found in Scotland's north west Highlands and Islands, but a few are found at the RSPB's Haweswater reserve in Cumbria.
In the Cairngorms, Winterwatch has been reporting on efforts to conserve rare Scottish wildcats.

Summary: Footage of a fight between a fox and a golden eagle over food has been captured by BBC Springwatch's Winterwatch programme.
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Article: It suggests house prices will rise at an average of 5% a year, pricing the typical home at Â£360,000 by 2020.
Industry figures show that first-time buyers typically need to find a deposit of 18% to secure a mortgage.
Using PwC data, that would equate to a requirement for Â£64,800 in savings to get on the property ladder in 2020.
"Driven by a decade of soaring house prices before the financial crisis and lower loan-to-value ratios post-crisis, the deposits needed by first time buyers have risen significantly. As a result, a generation of private renters have emerged and this will increasingly be the norm for the 20 to 39 age group," said Richard Snook, senior economist at PwC.
"There is also a rising dichotomy in the market between those - mostly older - households who own outright and those - mostly younger - households who still have a mortgage or rent to pay."
Ownership issues for young adults would become more acute owing to a lack of supply in affordable housing, the PwC report suggested.
The contrast between young and old would be marked by the number of people owning their homes having bought in cash or having paid off a mortgage.
The number of homes owned outright would rise from 8.4 million now to 10.6 million by 2025, accounting for 35% of the total, PwC said.
Overall, it predicted that the proportion of residents who owned the home they lived in would drop from its peak of 70% in the middle of the last decade to about 60% in 2025.
About 7.2 million households would be private tenants in 10 years' time, it suggested.
The recently-published English Housing Survey found that, in 2013-14, some 48% of households made up of 25 to 34-year-olds rented their home from a private landlord.
This had risen from 45% a year earlier, and from 21% in 2003-04.
Over the same 10 years, owner occupation in this age group dropped from 59% to 36%.
In 2013-14, of the 22.6 million households in England, 7.4 million owned their property outright, and 6.9 million had a mortgage, the survey showed. The rest rented their...

Summary: More than half of the under 40s will be renting homes from private landlords in the UK in 10 years' time, accountancy firm PwC has predicted.
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Article: The Belmond British Pullman arrived at Ashford International at 07:00 GMT as passengers waited for a London train.
The train, dating back to the 1920s, is the sister of the Venice Simplon-Orient Express.
Travel firm Belmond put on the service to treat commuters on a 90-minute journey through Charing, Maidstone, Otford and Swanley to London Victoria.
Some of the passengers had registered for the journey after seeing a social media campaign, while others had a surprise upgrade.
The train is usually reserved for leisure travellers on trips to major sporting fixtures or for special events, such as an afternoon tea hosted by Great British Bake Off's Mary Berry.
Gary Franklin, managing director at Belmond, said: "We wanted to sprinkle some magic on the rails and do something that reminded people just how wonderful train travel can be when you have the luxury of time."
Commuters on the service were treated to a three-course breakfast and musical entertainment.
Tamzin Crook, 41, said: "I turn up every day, stand in the same spot and wait for the same train.
"The standard experience is to fight for a seat and then put your head down and read.
"Here, it's like something out of an amazing film. It's opulent. It feels like we're going on holiday, not to work."
'Come on board'
Nathan Charlton, 25, and his fiancee Alicia Ray, 26, said they were running late for their train and saw the Pullman from the car park.
"We spoke to the staff and they said 'You're more than welcome to come on board'," Mr Charlton said.
"The only problem is that we'll want to do this every day."

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The government has announced a new £1.5bn fund to help small businesses.
The fund will be available to help small firms with start-up costs, and will be available to businesses with an annual turnover of less than £10m.
The fund will be available to help small firms with start-up

Small businesses have welcomed what they said were long overdue reforms to tax policy as the chancellor doubled business rate relief.

Article: The authority is being disbanded as part of government plans for elected police commissioners. It will be replaced by the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPC).
The change means the mayor will now be accountable for the police's performance, however the commissioner will still be in charge of operations.
The MOPC will take control of Scotland Yard's finances and employment.
It will be monitored by the London Assembly.
The MPA has 112 established posts. There have been no compulsory redundancies however 10 people will be leaving voluntarily.
The change is part of the police reform and social responsibility bill which aims to give people a say in how they are policed.
London is the first police body to launch as it already has a directly elected mayor. The rest of the country will follow later on in the year after local elections are held.
The leadership of the MPA has changed in recent years after the law was changed in 2008 to allow the mayor to be the head.
In 2010, current mayor Boris Johnson said he was stepping down as chair to "reorganise and refocus his team" on to other projects.
When he was elected, Mr Johnson said he would personally take charge of the police to tackle crime in the capital, but his time was marked by a series of controversies.
In October 2008, the previous Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair announced he was stepping down from his post, citing of a lack of support from the mayor as a reason.
Mr Johnson was also accused of abusing his position after admitting he contacted Tory shadow immigration minister Damian Green after his arrest on suspicion of leaking sensitive Home Office documents.

Summary: The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) has held its last meeting.
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Article: It comes after The Times said confidential police reports referred to widespread abuse of girls by Asian men.
Chief Constable David Crompton has been summoned to appear before the Commons Home Affairs select committee.
He said: "I will fully assist the Home Affairs select committee in answering any questions they may have."
Mr Crompton had already been due to face the committee to answer questions over the Hillsborough tragedy.
Keith Vaz MP, chairman of the Home Affairs select committee, told BBC News he wanted answers to the newspaper's claims on abuse.
He said: "The select committee has been conducting an inquiry into grooming for some time, since the first time these revelations were exposed in The Times.
"It would be appropriate for us to have [Mr Crompton] to deal with some of the points that have been raised.
"I had asked David Crompton to come in and talk about the aftermath of Hillsborough and what his force is doing about it.
"Therefore it is appropriate following these revelations that he should also tell us what South Yorkshire police is doing and what appears to be a decision by agencies not to work together to try and uncover this criminality."
The investigation by The Times - with access to confidential documents from the police intelligence bureau, social services and other organisations - alleged widespread abuse.
The newspaper said a confidential 2010 report by the Police Intelligence Bureau detailed "a significant problem with networks of Asian males exploiting young white females, particularly in Rotherham and Sheffield".
The paper claimed that in another confidential report in 2010 from Rotherham Safeguarding Children Board "there are sensitivities of ethnicity with potential to endanger the harmony of community relationships".
South Yorkshire Police has emphatically denied withholding information about the scale of sexual exploitation of girls by gangs of men.
In an earlier statement the force said: "South Yorkshire Police is recognised as leading the way on what is now being recognised...

Summary: The chief constable of South Yorkshire is to face MPs about the scale of alleged sexual abuse of young girls in the county.
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Article: The council's funding comes from the Department for Communities (DfC) and the bulk of the money is used to pay annual running and staffing costs for arts organisations.
The ACNI's funding from the executive has been reduced from £10.95m in 2015/16 to £10.49m in 2016/17.
The figure was confirmed by the DfC in response to a query from the BBC.
The department also confirmed that a £200,000 scheme to pay for musical instruments for bands is "additional money".
The programme provides grants of between £500 and £5,000 to marching bands to buy new instruments and replace worn-out ones, and is distributed through ACNI.
It was revived by communities minister Paul Givan on 11 July, having been suspended by former culture minister Carál Ní Chuilín in 2015.
Arts funding and policy is now the responsibility of DfC, which has taken over many of the functions of the former Department for Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL).
Will Chamberlain from Belfast Circus School, which is funded by ACNI, said the cut was short-sighted.
"Investment in arts and culture pays back many, many times over," he said.
"Whether it's in tourism benefit or education or health, that investment will come back to the Northern Ireland economy.
"Cutting by half a million is a miniscule amount in terms of the overall budget.
"But it makes a difference to us because it is a massive proportion of what we actually get allocated."
In March, the Arts Council warned that it expected its budget for 2016-17 to be reduced by up to 6%.
As a result, it was not able to provide any additional grant money this year for the majority of the 107 organisations it funds.
The cut to ACNI's budget has now been confirmed at over 4%.
However, that follows an 11% - or £1.38m - cut from DCAL in 2015-16.
A DfC spokesperson said Stormont's current budget allocations "create challenges for all departments and their public bodies".
"All the public bodies funded by the Department for Communities, including the Arts Council, will operate within the financial limits set by the executive...

Summary: The Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) has had its budget for 2016-17 reduced by almost £500,000.
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Article: From April 2017, 600,000 small firms will not have to pay business rates, while 250,000 will pay lower rates.
To fund the giveaway, the chancellor capped debt interest payments used by larger firms to cut their corporation tax bills, to 30% of earnings.
George Osborne also said corporation tax would be cut to 17% by 2020.
Mr Osborne said his business tax reforms were part of a "Budget for small business".
The chancellor announced he was permanently raising the threshold for small business rate relief from £6,000 to a maximum of £15,000 and increasing higher rate relief from £18,000 to £51,000.
He said that the 600,000 small businesses relieved of paying business rates from next April would see an annual saving of nearly £6,000.
Mike Cherry, policy director at the Federation of Small Businesses, said: "The chancellor has listened to our calls for the tax system to be made simpler for small businesses and the self-employed and taken important action on business rates."
The chancellor also announced a number of reforms designed to help small businesses cope with what he called "the great unfairness" they faced when trying to compete with some suppliers selling goods online.
Mr Osborne said the government would take measures to stop overseas retailers storing goods in the UK and then selling the goods online without paying VAT.
He also introduced two new tax-free allowances worth £1,000 a year for so-called micro-entrepreneurs:  people who make money from occasional jobs or through renting out property they own.
The Treasury estimates that the debt interest rate relief cap, alongside other measures, will help raise £8bn over the next five years.
Among those other measures was the announcement that firms making an annual profit of over £5m would face the prospect of having the amount of past losses they could carry forward to offset their corporation tax bill capped to 50% of current profits.
Carolyn Fairbairn, director general of the CBI business lobby group, said: "The reduction in the headline corporation tax...

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The BBC has announced it will be launching a new service to allow people to watch its programmes in 4K.
The BBC Four HD service will be available to all BBC iPlayer users in the UK and Ireland.
The service will be available on a pay-per-view basis, with the first episode of the

Netflix has gone live in nearly every country in the world.

Article: Network Rail is lowering the track and carrying out platform modifications, in preparation for the electrification of the Great Western Main Line.
The line will be shut from Saturday until early on 11 April. Keynsham and Oldfield Park stations will be closed.
It is part of a Â£2.8bn project to electrify the line between London and South Wales.
Andy Haynes from Network Rail said: "Once completed, the residents of Bristol and Bath will be a step closer to the benefits that electrification will bring.
"These include faster trains with more seats and more legroom, and less noise and cleaner air for those who live close to the railway line.
"In addition, faster journeys and the ability to move more people by train will also benefit businesses in the area, helping to drive economic growth across the south west."
Regular rail replacement bus services will run between Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads while the line is shut.

Summary: The main railway line between Bristol and Bath has been closed while planned engineering work takes place.
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Article: The foreign secretary's spokesman said Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable should stop "making stuff up" after he claimed  Mr Johnson might quit his role.
Sir Vince's comment came amid reports of cabinet differences over what will happen to immigration after Brexit.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the BBC he "didn't recognise the picture" of Cabinet splits being reported.
The latest prompt for reports of splits came after International Trade Secretary Liam Fox insisted the cabinet had not agreed a deal on a three-year transitional period after the UK's departure in March 2019 in which free movement would continue in all but name.
He told the Sunday Times the unregulated free movement of labour after Brexit would "not keep faith" with last year's EU referendum result.
On Friday, Chancellor Philip Hammond acknowledged that rules requiring the free movement of people within the EU - which the UK is signed up to as an EU member - would no longer apply after Brexit and all EU nationals coming to the UK after its exit would be expected to register.
However, he said it would take "some time" before a system of full migration controls was established and British firms must be able to "get on with their lives" without "massive disruption" - prompting speculation that the status quo would pretty much continue until 2022.
Sir Vince, whose party opposed Brexit and wants another referendum on the final Brexit settlement, has challenged Mr Johnson to say publicly whether he would back a settlement in which free movement continued until the date of the next election, scheduled for May 2022.
He suggested there was a state of "civil war" between "fundamentalists and pragmatists" in the cabinet and questioned which side of the table Mr Johnson - who was a prominent Leave supporter in the referendum but is regarded as being liberal on immigration - was sitting.
"There is no Cabinet consensus for moderation," he said on Sunday. "And the rumours of Boris Johnson being about to resign fuel the uncertainty."
Responding to the claims,...

Summary: Boris Johnson has said suggestions he could resign from the cabinet over Brexit tensions are "lies".
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Article: Results from 30,000 users of the English Dialects app have been analysed by developers at Cambridge University.
People from 4,000 locations answered questions about the pronunciation of words such as "scone".
Initial results showed more people now speak with accents similar to those in London and the south-east of England.
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They were compared with dialects studied more than 50 years ago by researchers at the University of Leeds in a decade-long field study of accents, called the Survey of English Dialects.
The app, developed with researchers in Zurich and Bern, asked questions about the pronunciation of 26 words and how they described certain nouns, such as a splinter.
During the 1950s there were about 10 commonly-used words to describe a tiny piece of wood that gets stuck under the skin, including "spell" and "sliver".
But according to app users, many appear to have died out, with only those in north-east England sticking to their own version - "spelk".
Other examples looked at how people pronounce the "u" in "butter" and the "r" in "arm".
Results showed there had been a "noticeable" shift since the 1950s towards pronunciations more commonly found in London and the south-east of the country.
"When it comes to language change in England, our results confirm that there is a clear pattern of levelling towards the English of the south-east," said Dr Adrian Leemann, a linguistics researcher at Cambridge University.
"More and more people are using and pronouncing words in the way that people from London and the south-east do."
Researchers concluded "regional differences" were disappearing, "some quite quickly", although people in the north-east of England seemed to be "more resistant to the patterns of overall levelling in dialect".
It put the shift in speech patterns down to "greater geographic mobility" in the decades since the 1950s survey.
Further results from the app will continue to be analysed.

Summary: Distinctive regional accents appear to have declined since the 1950s with more people now sounding like "southerners", researchers have concluded.
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Article: The firm announced it had switched on its service in 130 additional countries.
It said it was still trying to expand to China. The other exceptions are North Korea, Syria and Crimea, where it is banned from operating by US law.
The announcement was made by the firm's chief executive Reed Hastings at his keynote speech at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.
He also confirmed that Netflix would begin offering HDR (high dynamic range) content later this year.
The company's shares closed the day more than 9% higher.
"We were expecting Netflix to go everywhere, but this has happened more quickly than we thought," commented Fernando Elizalde from the tech consultancy Gartner.
"Until now, the firm had been doing it in phased stages because of the costs of marketing and dubbing or subtitling the content.
"But it's worth remembering that in some of the emerging economies it will only be people in urban areas that will be able to use it because of limited internet availability."
Mr Hastings said Netflix was in talks with the Chinese government, but acknowledged it would take time to reach an agreement.
"It's a very large country, you know a billion Chinese that we want to give access to the Netflix content," he said.
"In China you need specific permission from the government to operate, so we are continuing to work on that and we are very patient."
But one company watcher had doubts.
"China is going to be a tough nut to crack given that that three strong domestic services already exist," said Mike Goodman from Strategy Analytics.
As part of its expansion, Netflix has added support for Korean, Chinese and Arabic to its list of supported languages.
That brings the total number - in which the firm provides subtitles, captions and alternative audio - to 21 languages.
Mr Hastings added that Netflix would initially focus on expanding the reach of its existing content rather than commissioning extra locally-made shows.
For consumers who already have Netflix, the biggest change may be the addition of HDR.
High dynamic range video...

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A man has been jailed for four years and eight months for sexually abusing a boy in a Watford hotel.
Callum Ward, of The Thrums, Watford, was found guilty of the same charge at a trial at the Old Bailey.
The court heard how the boy, who cannot be named for legal

Three men have been jailed for sexually exploiting a teenage girl in Hertfordshire.

Article: Chairman of the Commons foreign affairs committee, Crispin Blunt, said ministers' response was "troubling", as he believed similar mistakes could be made in future.
In September, the committee said the UK had lacked a coherent strategy and intelligence had not been "accurate".
But the government disagreed, saying the coalition's actions saved lives.
An international coalition led by Britain and France launched a campaign of air and missile strikes against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in March 2011 after the regime threatened to attack the rebel-held city of Benghazi.
But after Gaddafi was toppled, Libya descended into violence, with rival governments and the formation of hundreds of militias.
And so-called Islamic State, also known as Isil and Daesh, gained a foothold.
In its report in September, the foreign affairs committee criticised David Cameron, prime minister at the time, saying he had been ultimately responsible for failing to develop a coherent Libya strategy.
It said UK strategy was based on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the evidence and ministers should have foreseen that militant extremist groups would attempt to benefit from the rebellion.
'Inadequate plans for stabilisation'
But Conservative MP Mr Blunt said the MPs on his committee "do not accept that it understood the implications" of intervening in Libya - including the rise of Islamist extremism.
He said its response had failed to "work through the logic" of the evidence heard by the committee and was "yet to appreciate the lessons from our experience in Libya including our lack of country knowledge amongst those drafting and deciding policy".
"This is troubling, because Libya should inform the development of future UK foreign policy," he said, adding there should have been a "robust process of self-examination in government to improve future performance".
"I believe we are about to repeat the failure to have adequate plans and resources for stabilisation in Mosul. Libya should have taught us these lessons."
He also...

Summary: The UK government appears not to have learned the lessons from its 2011 Libya intervention, say MPs.
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Article: A justice ministry statement cited by state media said the offices of the Wefaq National Islamic Society had also been closed and its assets frozen.
A lawyer for Wefaq, whose leader has been jailed for inciting unrest, said the move had came "out of the blue".
Wefaq has helped lead pro-democracy protests in the country since 2011.
That February, demonstrators took to the streets to demand greater political rights and an end to discrimination against the Shia majority.
The following month, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa brought in troops from neighbouring Sunni-led Gulf states to restore order and crush dissent. The unrest left at least 30 civilians and five policemen dead.
Opposition activists say dozens of people have been killed in ongoing clashes between protesters and security forces, while bomb attacks blamed on Iran-backed militants have left a number of police officers dead.
The justice ministry statement published by the official Bahrain News Agency said it had filed a request with a court to suspend Wefaq to "safeguard the security of the kingdom"
A lawyer for Wefaq, Abdullah al-Shamlawi, told the Associated Press news agency that he had been served court papers on Tuesday morning that alleged the grouping had damaged Bahrain's national security since its inception in 2001 and also included claims that it caused unrest during the 2011 uprising.
Within hours, the court had approved the justice ministry's request, he said.
Mr Shamlawi added the court had scheduled a hearing for 6 October to decide whether to "liquidate" Wefaq.
Wefaq is Bahrain's largest legally recognised opposition political society and says it advocates non-violent activism.
Last month, an appeal court more than doubled the prison sentence of Wefaq's secretary-general from four years to nine, overturning a trial court's decision to acquit Sheikh Salman of advocating the overthrow of the government by force.
The appeal court increased the sentence despite what Human Rights Watch said was strong evidence that his trial was unfair and...

Summary: The government in Bahrain has suspended all activities by the Sunni Muslim-ruled kingdom's leading Shia Muslim opposition grouping.
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Article: One Connect Ltd added a 20% mark-up to the tender price, a report by council (LCC) treasurer Gill Kilpatrick said.
Labour's deputy council leader David Borrow, said the firm was "not acting in LCC's interests".
But, Tory group leader Geoff Driver, leader when the contract was developed, said the report had "no evidence".
Tunstall Healthcare Ltd was selected for the contract to provide homecare alarm systems for the elderly and people with disabilities, in April.
But, it did not sign the deal and instead raised concerns with the council about the way the contract had been put together.
Following a review, councillors put the deal on hold and the authority's in-house provider continued to provide the services.
The report said there was "little evidence the deal offered best value for money".
By Chris RiderBBC Lancashire political reporter
Now the debates at County Hall  have been quite heated in recent times and this report will certainly add some fuel to the fire.
One Connect is not a name well know in the public domain -  maybe it is only known to councillors - but the firm has been at the centre of attention.  Many questions still remain and we still have the police involved.
It appears the Conservative leader Geoff Driver has been reading a different report to Labour council leader Jennifer Mein.
It was put together by the County Treasurer so is not strictly an independent report and there is certain to be some political fall out.
It concluded One Connect had marked up costs on Tunstall's tendered price by an average of 20%.
It also stated there was a lack of transparency in procurement processes operated by One Connect and a failure by the firm to secure best deal financially for LCC.
"It is of concern that, on the face of it, One Connect had used this position to secure financial benefits for itself... at the expense of LCC," the report said.
"This is evident from the mark-up of prices tendered by Tunstall and One Connect's inflexibility to address material concerns raised by Tunstall over the contracting...

Summary: A company brought in to save Lancashire County Council money actually intended to charge an extra £1.4m on a deal it negotiated, the council claims.
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Article: Alistair Spagnoletti, 21, of Luton, and Curtis Walker, 23, of Watford, pleaded guilty to controlling a child at Harrow Crown Court.
Callum Ward, 19, of Watford, was found guilty of the same charge.
Police said the men groomed a 17-year-old girl into prostitution in one of the most "damaging" cases of child sexual exploitation they had seen.
Det Sgt Iain MacPherson, of Hertfordshire police, said: "This is one of the most damaging cases of child sexual exploitation we have encountered in Hertfordshire.
"It has also been an extremely complex case. These men had groomed their 17-year-old victim into having sex with men for money which they took, she believed that by providing her with food, drink, drugs, they were looking after her and they were people she could trust.
"The power they wielded over her was so great that she felt she could not support police action against them. Sadly she may never recover from what they have done to her.
"These acts are deplorable and I am in no doubt these men pose a risk to other children. It is right they are now serving time in prison."
Spagnoletti, of Wauluds Drive, Luton, was jailed for six years and eight months. Walker, of Lord Street, Watford, was jailed for four and a half years and Ward, of The Thrums, Watford, was jailed for two years.

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A man has been arrested after a dog was found dead in a car in the UK.
The dog was found in a car in the town of Wigan, Greater Manchester, on Tuesday evening.
The dog was found in a car in the town of Wigan, Greater Manchester, on Tuesday evening.
The

A zebra that ran away from a horse riding club in Japan has died in a golf course lake after it was tranquilised.

Article: There are 21 institutions being investigated in England by the Department for Education, according to a ministerial statement.
The statement from children's minister Edward Timpson says "robust steps" are being taken to tackle unregistered schools.
But Labour's Lucy Powell said ministers had "dragged their feet".
The issue of illegal schools was raised by Ofsted last year.
Inspectors warned of pupils being taught in schools that were not registered, inspected or subject to any kind of formal accountability - and Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw called for urgent action to get them closed.
These are schools which are running as full-time places of education, rather than classes providing extra lessons.
In November, inspectors reported that they had uncovered 15 such illegal schools and then in December a further three schools were found operating outside the law.
The only one to be publicly identified was Bordesley independent school in Birmingham, which had already been closed down.
Labour has been pointing to this month's ministerial response which said there were 21 current investigations into institutions that might be "unregistered independent schools".
"However, this number often changes as new settings are established and existing ones close, or are confirmed not to be operating as schools," continued Mr Timpson's statement.
"We have taken robust steps to tackle unregistered schools and improve safeguarding which includes being clear it is a criminal offence to operate an unregistered independent school.
"All these institutions have been warned that it is a criminal offence to operate as an unregistered school. We are asking Ofsted to visit and to prepare cases for prosecution as necessary."
In November, Ofsted wrote to the education secretary saying: "The arrangements for closing down unregistered schools are inadequate.
"Too many children remain at significant risk of harm. I will continue to do all that I can to identify and inspect unregistered schools."
Lucy Powell, Labour's shadow education...

Summary: Labour has accused the government of failing to take fast enough action to close down illegal schools.
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Article: In announcing his purchase, Mr Demoulas told workers, who had gone on strike in July to protest against his firing, "You are simply the best".
The 70-plus stores belonging to the chain are mostly located in the northeastern United States.
It was estimated the company was losing $70m (Â£42m) a day during the strike.
Late on Wednesday, Mr Demoulas announced that he had reached an agreement to purchase the 50.5% of the company he did not control from a rival faction controlled by his cousin, Arthur S Demoulas, for $1.5bn.
"Words cannot express how much I appreciate each and every one of you," Mr Demoulas said while addressing workers outside the company's Massachusetts headquarters on Thursday morning.
The company employs roughly 25,000 people in the area.
The saga - which had shades of a soap opera - began in June, when Mr Demoulas was ousted as chief executive of the company by a rival faction of his family, which controlled 50.5% of the firm.
The dispute was said to have been over a series of investments Mr Demoulas had authorised, which led to large losses and smaller payouts for Market Basket's shareholders.
However, the dispute simmered for a month until the new management fired eight workers who had protested against Mr Demoulas's demise in July.
That is when a campaign led by Market Basket workers and customers to "Save Market Basket" began to gather steam.
Workers went on strike, truck drivers refused to deliver fresh produce and meat, and shoppers boycotted stores, leading to empty shelves and the near-collapse of the firm.
Efforts on social media also paid off, with an anonymously-run Facebook page to save the firm gathering over 90,000 likes and the hashtag, #MarketBasket, trending often on Twitter.
This brought national and international attention to the plight of the workers, stunning many in the industry both because the workers were not unionised and because they were campaigning for an almost-unheard of thing: the reinstatement of their boss.
Although negotiations between Mr Demoulas and his...

Summary: The US supermarket chain Market Basket has agreed to sell to a majority stake to former boss Arthur T Demoulas, ending a months-long dispute.
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Article: Before Trump came along, Alex Jones was the great white hope for an army of disillusioned Americans.
The radio presenter's rasping delivery may be hard on the ears but for his fans it's food for the soul.
On the fringes of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer Mr Jones was mobbed like a pop star after barking that he had given his enemies a "giant red, white and blue middle finger."
It was typical of the rhetoric from a man who came to prominence as a propagator of conspiracies, most controversially suggesting that the United States government was complicit in the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on 11 September 2001.
These days the star of infowars.com is a brash and boisterous defender of Mr Trump, and his advocacy has helped to deliver to the Republican candidate a group of supporters identified as the alternative right or, more commonly, the alt-right.
This relatively new political movement is popular predominantly with young people. It is amorphous and difficult to define but on the whole its adherents tend to reject both left-wing ideology and mainstream conservatism.
Liberty, free speech and the right to offend are its touchstones. Opponents call it racist, misogynist and anti-Semitic.
"You can define it very, very broadly," says one of its key figures, Milo Yiannopoulos, who argues that it includes "classical liberals, disaffected leftists" and "ordinary conservatives" along with perhaps its most important element, a "youthful contingent that has suddenly become interested in politics again."
"Donald Trump has re-energised those people," he says.
During the US primary season some of the alt-right's supporters were fans of Hillary Clinton's democratic socialist opponent Bernie Sanders but, in an election which has roiled the United States like never before, Mr Trump now appears to have a claim on their loyalty.
The movement itself is a 21st Century phenomenon, characterised by the use of humour; online chatrooms; and the production and dissemination of...

Summary: The populist rhetoric of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has energised a disparate American movement that is accused of racism, anti-Semitism and misogyny.
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Article: Police officers and veterinarians had chased the animal around the course near Toki city in the central Gifu prefecture for hours.
It ran into the lake shortly after it was shot with a tranquiliser dart.
The animal died despite being pulled out within minutes. Officers said it had likely drowned and that its heart had stopped.
The two-year-old male zebra was owned by a mobile zoo, reported the newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, but was being housed at the Mikuni West Farm, a local stable and riding club.
On Tuesday evening, farm managers were bringing in the zebra for the night when it became agitated, trampled the paddock fence, and escaped, fleeing towards a nearby mountain.
By early Wednesday morning police were receiving reports of a zebra running along a highway.
They quickly tracked it to the Toki International Golf Course, where veterinarians and police tried to catch it.
It ran into a lake shortly after being darted.
"We pulled it out, but its heart had stopped," said police spokesman Takahiro Taniguchi, saying it had likely drowned.
The unusual story quickly became a talking point among Japanese netizens who expressed shock and sadness on Wednesday, with the Japanese word for zebra "shimauma" trending on Twitter.
Many retweeted a photo by a girl who said she had spotted the animal galloping down a road on Tuesday night and expressed surprise at spotting "a zebra in the forest".

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