A British ukulele group has lost its trademark infringement battle against a rival band over its name.

Article: But not earlier this month, when train drivers walked out for the longest strike in the history of Deutsche Bahn; the company that owns the German railway.
It is not the first time they have done so; for months they have been in an increasingly aggressive dispute with their employer.
The union which represents them, GDL, is demanding a 5% pay rise on their behalf and the two sides are deadlocked - despite intervention from German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The six-day industrial action is estimated to have cost German business â‚¬500m (Â£360m; $570m).
As that strike ended, another began. Kindergarten staff walked out in a dispute over pay.
Postal workers are threatening industrial action too.
And it is just a few weeks since pilots at the national carrier, Lufthansa, staged the latest in a series of strikes.
So what's going on?
"The tradition in Germany has been for unified trade unions, which try to organise all employees in one branch," says Jens Schubert, a lawyer for Verdi, one of the country's largest trade unions.
"The new tendency is we find more and more so-called craft unions - unions which represent only one part of a company or branch, like doctors or pilots."
In the case of the railway workers for example, the strikes have been called by the GDL union, which represents around 19,000 train drivers at Deutsche Bahn.
But far more of its employees are represented by another, more general transport union - EVG.
Nevertheless, GDL - like many other craft unions - has become a powerful voice, able to cripple Germany's rail network, despite not representing the vast majority.
It is tempting to wonder whether this spate of strikes represents a change in attitude among German workers.
But the number of days lost to strike action is actually decreasing. And workers here are far less militant than those in the UK and France.
Some six million people belong to trade unions in Germany in 2014, similar to the 6.5 million trade union members in the UK.
But they go on strike far less frequently than their European...

Summary: Germany is the kind of country where the trains run regularly, and on time.
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Article: Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer put forward a motion for debate on Wednesday calling for details of the strategy, with support from some on the Conservative back benches.
Now the government has tabled an amendment to win them back.
But sources are not committing Theresa May to publish any specific plans.
The motion will still be debated on Wednesday as part of the Opposition Day debate offered to rival parties to choose their subject for discussion in the House of Commons.
Mr Starmer tabled the motion, which said Mrs May should commit to publishing the plan for leaving the EU before Article 50 is invoked because it was "Parliament's responsibility to properly scrutinise the government while respecting the decision of the British people to leave the European Union".
The motion received the backing of some Tory MPs, with pro-European figures like Anna Soubry pledging their support.
But now, government sources have told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg that an amendment has been put forward by Downing Street, agreeing to publishing a plan, in exchange for a commitment to invoking Article 50 before the end of March 2017.
Steve Baker, Conservative MP for Wycombe, tweeted pictures of the amendments, claiming they also have the backing of the DUP and Douglas Carswell, UKIP's only MP.
However, government sources would not confirm any specific form of document on any specific timetable to fit with the commitment to publish a Brexit plan, apart from saying that it will be before Article 50.
Sources also said by accepting Labour's amendment, the government was not agreeing to give MPs a vote before the process of leaving the EU begins.
Mr Starmer, who will lead the debate for Labour, called the amendment "a welcome and hugely significant climbdown from the government" and said his party would push for the Brexit plan to be published by January.
"For the last two months Labour have been pushing the government to put their plan for Brexit before Parliament and the public," he said. "Without that plan, we have...

Summary: Number 10 has accepted Labour's attempt to force the prime minister to publish a plan for Brexit before Article 50 is triggered, the BBC has learned.
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Article: The galaxy NGC 1277, just a quarter the size of our own Milky Way, hosts a black hole 4,000 times larger than the one at the Milky Way's centre.
A report in Nature shows it has a mass some 17 billion times that of our Sun.
The surprise finding is hard to reconcile with existing models of black hole growth, which hold that they evolve in tandem with host galaxies.
Getting to grips with just how large black holes are is a tricky business - after all, since they swallow light in their vicinities, they cannot be seen.
Instead, astronomers measure the black holes' "sphere of influence" - the gravitational effects they have on surrounding gas and stars.
In the Milky Way, it is possible to observe individual stars as they orbit Sagittarius A*, our own local black hole, to guess its mass.
But for the 100 or so far more distant black holes whose masses have been estimated, astronomers have made average measurements of associated stars' speeds - their "velocity dispersion".
On a hunt for the Universe's largest black holes, astronomers using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in the US state of Texas undertook a survey that brought in a haul of nearly 900 host galaxies.
But Remco van den Bosch, then at the University of Texas at Austin, and his colleagues were surprised to find that some of the largest black holes were to be found in small galaxies.
Among them was NGC 1277, 220 million light years away in the constellation Perseus, which happens to appear also in a high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope image, helping the researchers to refine their computer models.
"We make a model of the galaxy and compute all the possible stellar orbits," Dr Van den Bosch, who is now at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, explained to BBC News.
Could you survive falling into one?
"Like a big jigsaw, we try to put those orbits together to reproduce that galaxy so it has the same stellar velocities we measure. "
What the team found was that the NGC 1277 black hole was enormous - as large as our Solar System, and comprising some...

Summary: Astronomers have spotted an enormous black hole - the second most massive ever - but it resides in a tiny galaxy.
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Article: Candidates for bishop of Southwell and Nottingham are being interviewed on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Applications from women have been considered for the vacancy. After the interviews, a preferred candidate and a second preference will be put forward.
No announcements will be made until 2015 as the appointment needs to be approved by the Queen on the recommendation of the prime minister.
In November, the Church of England formally adopted legislation allowing women to become bishops.
The first women priests were ordained in 1994, but they had not been able to take on the Church's most senior roles.
It has been a divisive issue for the Church - some Anglicans feel the move is consistent with their faith but the traditionalists disagree.
In November the general synod, the Church's law-making body, gave the final seal of approval to the legislation, which had passed through Parliament in October.
The vacancy in Southwell and Nottingham arose after Bishop Paul Butler left to become the Bishop of Durham in January.
Gloucester, Oxford and Newcastle are among the other dioceses where new bishops will soon be appointed.

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

Summary: A man who slit his pet dog's throat has been jailed for 18 weeks.
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Article: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (UOGB) said their reputation could be tarnished by the German-based United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra (UKUO).
The UOGB had sought a High Court injunction against the rival group of British players ahead of the UKUO's upcoming UK tour.
But the judge ruled in favour of the UKUO, saying it was not in competition.
Judge Richard Hacon agreed that, as the group had been performing in Germany for some years, the UOGB should have acted sooner.
Both orchestras perform their take on contemporary pop songs.
The UOGB, whose members dress like a traditional orchestra and sing and tell jokes on stage, have been performing for more than 25 years, released records and have appeared on television.
The British group took action ahead of the UKUO's first UK tour, which begins on 15 October in Lincoln.
"We have issued proceedings against a German-based musical group for registered trademark infringement. However the court didn't grant the injunction," UOGB founder George Hinchliffe told the BBC at the London court.
He added: "It's really not a policy of ours to comment upon litigation while it's still going through the courts. And we're a bit busy at the moment as we're just about to start a tour of China."
The court heard the UKUO performed in English and had a "certain English humour" which was aimed at the continental market and Germany in particular.
"We are very pleased with the outcome," said Peter Moss, UKUO musical director.
"Our view has always been that we never, ever wanted to have competition with the other side. We wish them well. We hope people will now come to see us play."
The UOGB said they was considering further legal action to protect their "name and reputation".

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Scientists are exploring the deepest place on Earth - and streaming live video from there.

Article: The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) spoke to 7,300 businesses in the manufacturing and services sectors, and found the percentage seeking to hire had grown by up to 9% in the last quarter.
But most also experienced "high levels of recruitment difficulties" which the BCC said was a risk to growth.
The government said it was working to deliver a highly-skilled workforce.
According to the trade group's quarterly economic survey, both manufacturing and services firms reported "solid growth" in their businesses in first three months of the year, with domestic and export sales up since the previous quarter.
It also found "confidence in turnover and profitability is improving", and that some 86% of manufacturing firms, up from 77% in the last quarter, and 59% of services companies, up from 53%, wanted to find new recruits.
But despite this, around 74% of manufacturing firms and 58% of services firms said they were struggling to find staff.
Suren Thiru, head of economics at the BCC, told the BBC: "The main issue is finding enough people with the right skills, and of course the workforce is aging.
"A lot firms are also finding their costs rising and this is deterring business investment, including investing in training their staff."
He said new upfront taxes were partly to blame, such as the recently introduced immigration skills charge and new National Living Wage.
But he also said that the rising cost of imported raw materials, resulting from the weakness of the pound since the Brexit vote, had squeezed business spending.
"Another emerging issue is whether firms can continue to get workers from overseas both in the run-up to, and after, Brexit," he added. "Industries like hospitality and construction are heavily dependent on EU workers."
A government spokesman told the BBC: "The UK economy has shown sustained momentum since the EU referendum and it's encouraging to see continued investment and growth in important sectors like manufacturing and services.
"We know that businesses need a highly-skilled workforce to...

Summary: UK firms want to recruit more workers but cannot find or afford the right staff, a survey has found.
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Article: Ayrshire Astronomical Society is among UK groups competing in the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) NameExoWorlds contest.
Names it has entered for a star and three planets include Schiehallion, a Munro in Perthshire.
The IAU said voting will begin in August.
It also confirmed that a problem with a website for the competition meant some submissions had to be resent.
The IAU and citizen science organisation Zooniverse expect to deal with millions of votes.
Results of the contest will be announced during a ceremony later this year in Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii.
Exo-planets orbit distant stars and the IAU wants to find names for 305 which currently carry scientific designations such as GJ 832 b and CoRoT-1b.
Ayrshire Astronomical Society (AAS) is believed to be the only group from Scotland to have entered.
It has submitted names for upsilon Andromedae, a system who's star is visible with the naked eye from Scotland.
Moore has been suggested as the name for the star in honour of the late English astronomer and broadcaster Sir Patrick Moore.
Sagan - after American astronomer Carl Sagan - has been suggested for the planet upsilon Andromedae b.
The third planet, upsilon Andromedae c, should be named Clarke after legendary science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke, according to the AAS members.
Schiehallion has been suggested for upsilon Andromedae d.
The 3,547ft (1,083m) high mountain's name means "fairy hill of the Scots".

Summary: A public vote in an international competition to name distant planets will start next month, its organisers have said.
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Article: The Sutton Trust says the cost of working for nothing rules out all but the wealthy and wants most interns to be paid at least minimum wage.
A third (31%) of graduate interns are unpaid, according to the charity's analysis of official data.
The CBI warned that banning unpaid internships could reduce opportunities.
The report uses government figures to suggest that some 22,000 interns may be working for nothing.
It analyses the costs of living in London and Manchester for interns on sixth-month work placements.
Taking into account rental for a room in a shared property, household bills, council tax, food and miscellaneous spending on items such as broadband, cleaning products and clothing, a Londoner would pay, £5,556 for the period and a Mancunian £4,827, amounting to £926 and £804 each month.
The researchers excluded transport costs as these are often paid by interns' employers.
"Internships commonly represent a first step in the ladder towards a professional career in the most competitive sectors, including fashion, journalism, politics, law, finance and the charity sector.
"Because these areas are so competitive, employers are often able to offer internships as completely unpaid positions," says the report.
"These issues make unpaid internships a serious and pressing problem for social mobility."
The trust says all interns on placements of over a month should be paid at least the national minimum wage of £6.50 an hour, and preferably the national living wage of £7.85 - or £9.15 in London.
It wants internships to be advertised publicly, rather than being filled informally and recruitment processes to be fair, transparent and based on merit.
Dr Lee Elliot Major, the trust's director of development and policy, said taking an unpaid internship was "beyond the means of the vast majority of individuals".
"Paying all interns who work for over a month the minimum wage would significantly improve access to these placements for those from more modest backgrounds, offering them a stepping stone into many coveted...

Summary: Taking an unpaid internship can cost an individual £926 a month in London or £804 in Manchester, suggests research for an education charity.
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Article: Two pairs of the birds have nested on city centre buildings for the past few years, and experts say the new box could attract another pair to breed.
The Avon Wildlife Trust said it hopes the new box will offer "a safe and long-term nesting site" and if successful, eggs could be laid in it as early in the middle of March.
The trust has teamed up with the cathedral for the project.
Joe McSorley, from the trust, said: "Bristol is home to two very successful breeding pairs (of an estimated 50 using city centres across the UK) and they've become an integral part of the Bristol sky.
"Peregrines are drawn to urban settings, due to the abundance of food and the absence of other predators. The patches of green space in the city provide hunting ground, whilst the high rise buildings mimic cliff habitat."

Summary: A peregrine nesting box has been put up on the roof of Bristol Cathedral.
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Article: According to shopping folklore, for the middle classes it is Marks and Spencer, for the upper-middle class Waitrose, and Morrisons is the redoubt of lower-middle class Britain.
But the big four retailers - Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons - have been facing a game-changing threat as German competitors Aldi and Lidl cut into their market share with no-frills shopping that is marking a generational shift in retail patterns.
The latest statistics for the 12 weeks to 13 September from Kantar World Panel UK show just how bruising the business landscape has become for the UK's grocery retailers.
The big four still occupy the commanding heights in terms of market share in grocery retail: Tesco 28.2%, Asda 16.7%, Sainsbury's 16.2%, Morrisons 10.7%.
By comparison, Aldi still only has 5.6%, and Lidl 4.2%, of the entire UK grocery market.
But it is in the growth figures that the pain is visible.
Sainsbury's managed a mere 0.9% growth over the same period, Tesco and Morrisons both dropped 1.4%, while Asda fell 2.9% in terms of sales growth.
Yet Aldi and Lidl have achieved spectacular growth of 17.3% and 16%, respectively.
What went wrong at Morrisons, in particular, has become a signal lesson in what to avoid in grocery retailing.
Analysts say its thrust for online sales, where the slice of the profits pie is smaller, undermined the profitability at its stores. Also, that its foray into convenience stores did not fit its more traditional format and that austerity and deflation provided the profit-losing backdrop to all of this.
In the meantime, they say, their German competitors have simply built a better mousetrap.
Rather than offering a wide range of choice to trolley-stacking weekly shoppers, the discounting German chains are aimed at the little-but-often shoppers.
Their range might be limited but the quality is often comparable.
By ruthlessly culling brands that don't sell, producing copycat versions of high street lines, and even offering expensive fare in the form of lobster tail and Belgian chocolates, they...

Summary: Where you shop in Britain has always been one of the great social signifiers.
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Article: Parts of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean are up to 11 kilometres deep, so we know little about what sea life there is.
So a team has been sending down a robotic submarine called Deep Discoverer with a camera on it.
Science fans or anyone who is just curious can check out what the camera is showing online.
The three-month expedition is looking for things like fish, mud volcanoes and deep sea coral.
So far they've spotted shrimp, jellyfish and black pillow lava from an underwater eruption.

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Thieves broke into vans and stole tools being used by a team working on a life-changing project for TV show DIY SOS.

Article: BBC+ is available on iOS and Android. It brings together news, iPlayer content, weather forecasts, recipes and more.
Users must have signed up for an account, which lets the BBC track their use of the software.
One expert questioned how much appetite there would be for the service.
It is the 15th app to be offered by the BBC, excluding those launched by its commercial arm BBC Worldwide.
"This follows a growing trend to have a super app which is a one-stop destination for a broad range of content and services," said Paolo Pescatore, from the CCS Insight consultancy.
"But the BBC, like others, needs to be very careful it does not overwhelm its customers with too many apps.
"Research has shown that there is growing 'app-athy' amongst consumers who can't cope with the sheer number of apps they end up with on their phones.
"The danger is that they use an app once and never return to it as it gets buried amongst other apps already installed - that is terrible for long-term consumer engagement."
The BBC recently announced one of its other apps - BBC Newsbeat - would soon close, and its youth-focused content would be rolled into the main BBC News app.
That decision was made, in part, because it had not attracted as many users as hoped.
"Audiences... are telling us that, online, BBC News is the brand," said BBC head of news James Harding at the time.
When people first use BBC+, it asks them to choose at least three topics from a list of more than 50 options.
Examples include:
The app then creates a scrollable "at a glance" feed and the option to click through to specific themed pages.
Once the user has flicked through all the options, they are presented with a page saying: "You're up to date!".
At present, the app appears low down in Apple's App Store and Google Play when searched for, but over time this should improve.
Many users had already signed up to have a myBBC account ahead of the new app's launch.
The feature allows the broadcaster to target its content and make it a smoother experience for users to move from...

Summary: The BBC has launched a new app that presents a selection of the broadcaster's online content chosen to appeal to each user's interests.
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Article: The new Civil Sheriff Appeal Court will hear appeals on civil cases from local courts which are typically less serious than those escalated to the Court of Session.
The move is part of a series of Scottish government reforms to ensure cases are heard in the right courts.
A similar appeal court for criminal cases was opened in September 2015.
The Criminal Sheriff Appeal Court ran into trouble after some solicitors vowed to boycott it over levels of legal aid fees.
A Sheriff Personal Injury Court and a Scottish Sentencing Council have also been set up in a bid to speed up the Scottish justice system.
Community safety and legal affairs minister Paul Wheelhouse said the changes would help "reduce unnecessary delays".
He said: "We want to create a modern justice system that is fair, accessible and efficient and meets the needs of the people of Scotland. These reforms are a key part of our aims.
"The new Civil Sheriff Appeal Court will ensure that civil appeals are heard swiftly and efficiently at the appropriate level, reducing the number of such cases that require to be dealt with in the Court of Session."
Routine appeals from small claims and summary cases will be heard by a single sheriff at local courts, while more serious appeals requiring a bench of three appeal sheriffs will sit in Edinburgh.
The announcement was made on the same day Lord Carloway was officially installed as Lord President of the Court of Session, Scotland's most senior judge.

Summary: A new appeal court to examine disputed civil cases from Scotland's sheriff courts has been set up.
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Article: Markus Eichhorn, from the University of Nottingham, said Britain's large deer population was damaging natural habitats and hurting bird numbers.
He argued hunting deer for venison would help to reverse a decline in the number of ground-nesting birds including the nightingale.
Animal rights group, Animal Aid, said the move would be "highly unethical".
Dr Eichorn led a team of academics commissioned by the government to study the causes behind the decline of woodland birds such as the nightingale, marsh tit, willow tit and lesser-spotted woodpecker.
All four birds are on the RSPB's red list and have suffered a "severe" decline in their breeding populations in the past 25 years.
In that time it is believed the population of the UK's deer has risen from about one million to about two million.
Comparing 40 woodland areas in England, the team found in areas of dense deer populations there was 68% less foliage near the ground compared with areas with fewer deer.
Dr Eichhorn said deer populations were at "extraordinarily high levels" due to the absence of large predators, among other reasons.
"We should not think of it in terms of a cull. We already eat venison in Britain but a large proportion of that is farmed meat.
"We [should] start eating wild-caught, free range British venison given that it's abundant and wildly available."
A spokeswoman for Animal Aid, an animal rights groups, said deer should be treated with respect.
She said: "It is humans that have caused deer populations to increase and these majestic animals should not be forced to pay for our mistakes with their lives."
Animals rights group PETA said: "Ecological harmony will never be achieved through the barrel of a gun."
Sources: RSPCA, The Deer Initiative

Summary: Wild deer should be hunted for meat to increase the UK's woodland bird population, an ecology expert suggests.
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Article: The Dumfries and Galloway authority switched from a single bin to a multi-bin system in Wigtownshire last year.
In April it was flagged up that the costs had proved much higher than initially anticipated.
However, an exact figure will not be put on that increase until later this year.
A council statement said: "The household waste and recycling collection service in the Wigtown area is a new service and both the operations and financial costs are under review.
"The outcome of this review will be first presented to members in autumn.
"The review process will help inform the future schemes to be rolled out over the rest of Dumfries and Galloway."
Dumfries and Galloway Council used to run a single wheelie-bin system thanks to an Eco Deco plant which separated waste so householders did not have to.
New regulations prompted the council to move to the multi-bin system with five new recycling containers issued.

Summary: A council has said the scale of a "significant increase" in the cost of a new multi-bin waste collection system will not be revealed until the autumn.
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Article: Local authorities are obliged to ensure parents are providing schooling "suitable to age, ability and aptitude".
However, parents are not legally required to tell the council they home educate their children.
Councillors in the Scottish Borders have agreed to write to the government to ask that it amends the law.
The move has been criticised by supporters of home education, who oppose any move towards so-called "parent licensing".
According to Scottish government guidance, parents must get consent to remove their children from school.
They do not need permission for home education itself.
That means there are some home educated children who are unknown to the local council. They include:
Scottish Borders Council claims the loophole makes it difficult to ensure all children receive an adequate education.
A report to its executive committee said: "For parents who have never sent their children to a Scottish Borders school, officers are unable to acquire any information as to whether the children who are being home schooled receive a satisfactory education appropriate to their age and aptitude."
Up to 6,000 children in Scotland are home educated, according to Schoolhouse Home Education Association.
A spokeswoman for the group cast doubt on whether any unregistered home educated children even exist "given the raft of mandatory reporting regulations".
She added: "It is parents who have the duty to provide education during the compulsory years, whether or not they opt to delegate to council schools.
"Any shift towards parent licensing, which is what is being proposed, would have a range of unintended negative consequences, not least of all the loss of goodwill of home educating families who have, by and large, reported positive engagements with Scottish Borders Council to date."
A Scottish government spokeswoman said their guidance recommends that councils make annual contact with families they know to be educating their children at home.
She added: "We are happy to consider any suggestions that might improve our...

Summary: The Scottish government will be asked to tighten legislation allowing parents to educate their children at home.
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Article: Builders working on the BBC programme were targeted while helping with the project in West Bromwich. Show bosses said three vans have been hit in the past week.
Volunteers are transforming the family home of a mother who died from cancer.
Presenter Nick Knowles tweeted on Wednesday to say he was "really disappointed" by the thefts.
The programme is extending the home of Sandra Chambers, who has looked after her two grandchildren since the death of their mother Crystal in October 2015.
See more stories from across Birmingham and the Black Country here
Show bosses said two vans - a Peugeot and a Ford -  were broken into on Wednesday morning and tools taken.
On Thursday a Mercedes Sprinter was also broken into, but nothing was stolen. The thefts have been reported to West Midlands Police.
End of Twitter post  by @MrNickKnowles
Mr Knowles' tweet prompted a local Peugeot dealership to get in touch and he later thanked them for their help, as well as another person who gave Â£30 to cover repairs.
The project to extend the house is being completed by the DIY SOS team and an army of volunteers, including local tradespeople and neighbours, in a nine-day build.

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A Conservative MP who faced deselection by his own party has blamed a "vicious smear campaign" against him following revelations about his private life.

Article: The spacecraft - model numbers five and six - went up on a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana.
Galileo is now finally moving towards full deployment after years of delay.
The European Space Agency, which is building the system on behalf of the EU, expects to have a 26-satellite constellation in orbit by 2017.
To that end, it has just ordered three big Ariane-5 rockets at a cost of half a billion euros.
Europe's premier launch vehicle can loft four spacecraft at a time, and this should allow for six to eight satellites to be put in space every 12 months from now on.
"Every spacecraft is, after in-orbit commissioning, put into operation, and is broadcasting a navigation signal that is a valid signal for users with a combined Galileo/GPS receiver; and there are already receivers on the market that have this capability. So, you have to see the service as being increased one by one," explained Esa Galileo project manager, Javier Benedicto.
Friday's Soyuz lift-off occurred on schedule at precisely at 09:27:11 local time (13:27 BST; 14:27 CEST).
The "instant launch window" was required to get the satellites into just the right part of the sky demanded by the network's multi-plane configuration.
The latest platforms, dubbed "Doresa" and "Milena" in a public competition, are somewhat different to their four predecessors, which were used to validate the Galileo technology in orbit.
Formally described as the first Full Operational Capability (FOC) satellites, they have been produced by a new manufacturing consortium, comprising the German outfit OHB System and the UK firm SSTL.
This pair have been contracted to supply the next 20 spacecraft as well.
SSTL's role is to integrate all the Galileo system components inside a satellite.
"It's been a high-volume operation," said SSTL director John Paffett, "and we're now turning out a payload every six weeks.  By the middle of next year, all our payloads will have shipped to OHB, and it won't be long after that that all the finished satellites will have been handed over to...

Summary: Europe has launched the next two satellites in the Galileo network - its version of the American Global Positioning System (GPS).
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Article: Jane Christie's daughter Sarah Ewart had to decide whether to travel to Great Britain for a legal termination.
Justice Minister David Ford has recommended a change in the law.
However, First Minister Peter Robinson said draft guidelines to be published soon provided a better way forward.
At present abortion is only permitted under law in Northern Ireland to save a woman's life, or if there is a risk of permanent and serious damage to her mental or physical health.
The issue of fatal foetal abnormality came to public attention when Sarah Ewart contacted the Nolan Show to highlight the choice she faced - of either carrying her baby until it died in her womb or travelling to Great Britain where she could access a legal termination.
Mrs Christie told the Nolan Show on Friday that she and her daughter had met Mr Robinson and other DUP members on a number of occasions.
She said she had believed that they were in favour of changing the law in these "exceptional circumstances".
"He said he had a difficult job with some of his party members, but that he understood and he was prepared to help," she said.
"We were being led to believe we were going to get the help, by a number [of people] in the party."
Amnesty International described Mr Robinson's latest comments as "disingenuous".
"Peter Robinson knows full well that any new guidance from the Department of Health on the existing law cannot address a glaring gap in that law," said spokeswoman Grainne Teggart.
The issue of fatal foetal abnormality has been examined by health and justice officials over the past 18 months, following the publicity surrounding Sarah Ewart's case.
Mr Ford had put forward his plan for legislation in such cases following consultation on reforming Northern Ireland's abortion law.
Draft guidelines on abortion law, released by the Department of Health in 2013, stated: "Foetal abnormality is not recognised as grounds for termination of pregnancy in Northern Ireland."
Mrs Christie said she also attended a meeting with Mr Robinson that was attended...

Summary: The mother of a woman who faced carrying her baby until it died in her womb has said she is devastated by the DUP leader's comments that attempts to change the abortion law are doomed.
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Article: The mountains are similar in size to the Rockies in Canada and America.
The probe has also captured its moon Charon and small moon Hydra.
On Wednesday, scientists unveiled the first pictures taken by the probe during its historic flyby of the dwarf planet.
The spacecraft sped past Pluto on Tuesday, getting as close as 12,500km and grabbing lots of data.
The Pluto fly-by - as it happened
Mission scientist John Spencer says that the first close-up image of Pluto's surface showed an environment that had been resurfaced by some geological process - such as volcanism - within the last 100 million years.
"We have not found a single impact crater on this image. This means it must be a very young surface," he said.
This same image shows mountains at the edge of the heart-like region that are up to 11,000ft (3,300m) high.
Scientists have named the heart-shaped region Clyde Tombaugh, after the astronomer who discovered it in 1930.
New, close-up images of Charon have also been captured.
They've revealed a crevasse, 4-6 miles deep.
"Originally I thought Charon might have an ancient terrain covered in craters... it just blew our socks off when we had the new image," said Dr Cathy Olkin.
"Going from the north-east to the south-west is a series of troughs and cliffs...they extend about 600 miles across the [moon]."
The first well resolved picture of Pluto's small moon Hydra reveals a body with a surface mostly made of water-ice.
Scientists have also come up with a good estimate for its size: 43km by 33km.
The snap contains only a few pixels because the moon is so small and distant.
New Horizons took the shot from a distance of 400,000 miles (650,000km).
The amazing pictures were sent back to Earth on Wednesday.
They are a much higher resolution than anything we have seen so far.
The mission team has told New Horizons this week to send down only some of the data it carries.
Part of the reason is so that the probe can continue observing Pluto from its night side.
Scientists want to keep looking at it for about two more full...

Summary: Images captured by the New Horizons space probe have revealed huge mountains made of ice on Pluto.
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Article: One force, West Mercia, saw the equivalent of more than five call-outs a day to homes in 2014-15, the Howard League for Penal Reform found.
It said children were being wrongly "criminalised" because staff often called the police over minor incidents.
But the Independent Children's Homes Association said homes were "rigorously inspected" and staff well-trained.
The majority of children legally defined as "looked after" in England and Wales are placed in foster care, but in 2014, some 5,220 were living in residential care homes.
The Howard League's findings included:
The report also highlighted Department for Education figures which show a 13 to 15-year-old in a home is almost 20 times more likely to have contact with police than a child living with their family.
Taken together, the Howard League said it was clear children living in children's homes were "being criminalised at excessively high rates".
Staff are calling police too frequently, often over minor incidents that would never come to officers' attention if they happened in family homes, the charity said.
"There appears to be a 'tipping point' around the age of 13, at which time these children lose society's sympathy and, rather than being helped, they are pushed into the criminal justice system," the report added.
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League, said: "They are wonderful young people who have had a really bad start in life.
"Private companies, charities and local authorities that are paid a fortune by the taxpayer should give these children what they need and deserve."
The report also said:
Figures from different forces are not directly comparable because some include call-outs for missing or absent children, while others only relate to reports of criminal behaviour.
Children's homes are also not evenly distributed across the country, and West Mercia Police pointed out that its area contained more than any other force in England.
It said in a statement: "We work closely with partner agencies and each reported incident is carefully...

Summary: Police in England and Wales are being called to children's homes thousands of times a year, according to figures.
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Article: Dutch scientists developed rewritable memory that stores information in the positions of individual chlorine atoms on a copper surface.
The information storage density is two to three orders of magnitude beyond current hard disk or flash technology.
Details of the advance appear in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
The 1 kilobyte memory is the work of a team led by Sander Otte at the Technical University of Delft (TU Delft). With each bit of data represented by the position of a single chlorine atom, the team was able to reach a density of 500 Terabits per square inch.
"In theory, this storage density would allow all books ever created by humans to be written on a single post stamp," said Dr Otte.
Or, by another measure, the entire contents of the US Library of Congress could be stored in a 0.1mm-wide cube.
The researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), in which a sharp needle probes the atoms on the surface one by one.
This allowed the researchers to push the atoms around in a manner which Sander Otte compares to a sliding puzzle.
"Every bit consists of two positions on a surface of copper atoms, and one chlorine atom that we can slide back and forth between these two positions," he said.
"If the chlorine atom is in the top position, there is a hole beneath it - we call this a 1. If the hole is in the top position and the chlorine atom is therefore on the bottom, then the bit is a 0."
Because the chlorine atoms are surrounded by other chlorine atoms (except near the holes), they keep each other in place.
For this reason, the team at TU Delft believe their method is much more stable than methods using loose atoms - and more suitable for practical data storage applications.
As a proof of principle, the team encoded a section of a famous lecture called "There's plenty of room at the bottom" by the physicist Richard Feynman on an area 100 nanometres wide.
However, despite its future promise, the approach is not ready for the real world just yet. Stable information storage could only be demonstrated...

Summary: The quest for storage devices that pack more information into a smaller space has reached a new limit, with memory that writes information atom-by-atom.
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Article: Jack Lopresti said a letter sent to party members calling for a new candidate was part of an "attempt to destroy my character and reputation".
The Filton and Bradley Stoke MP left his wife for fellow MP Andrea Jenkyns, who gave birth to their son in March.
Mr Lopresti was reselected at a meeting on Friday evening.
An anonymous letter sent to Conservative Party members in the constituency earlier this month said there were "many of us who feel very strongly that Mr Lopresti is not representing our constituency in a very good way".
It added there were "several excellent people" who should be given the chance to become the prospective parliamentary candidate.
The local party has reacted to the letter by writing to party members assuring that "appropriate legal action" would be taken if the writer was identified.
He was first elected in 2010 and re-elected with a near-10,000 majority five years later.
In November last year, it was reported he had become engaged to Ms Jenkyns â€” who ousted former Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls to become MP for Morley and Outwood in 2015. Their son, Clifford George, was born in March.
"For the last month my family and I have been subject to a vicious smear campaign with racist overtones," he said.
"Since the day after my son Clifford was born, my office has been bombarded with bogus calls from people purporting to be national journalists and with dark threats of illegally taped conversations. This has deeply upset my staff.
"I have had many messages of support from party members and lots of constituents, and I am sure that this recent attempt to destroy my character and reputation has been orchestrated by a small handful of people.
"I can only think that this is as a result of personal choices I have made in my private life, which some may not have approved.
"I love my fiancee Andrea and am extremely proud of my young son Clifford and nobody will ever be able to change that."

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A driver stopped for using his mobile phone told police he was trying to find the new Sam Smith song on YouTube.

Article: A study of cheetahs has shown that instead, the animal uses incredible acceleration and rapid changes in speed when hunting.
The animals get this acceleration by exerting nearly five times more power than that of famed sprinter Usain Bolt during his record-breaking 100m run.
The results are published in the journal Nature.
The findings amazed the scientist who led the research, Prof Alan Wilson of the Royal Veterinary College in Hatfield, UK.
"They are remarkable athletes - not just in terms of their speed, but also with their ability to accelerate and manoeuvre in capturing the prey," he told BBC News.
The top speed for a cheetah is often quoted is 65mph (105km/h) - a result measured in 1965 and published in the Journal of Zoology three decades later by a scientist in Kenya. He was timing the run of a semi-domesticated cheetah running in a straight line on a firm dirt track.
But a well-fed zoo cheetah is not accustomed to running very fast - it does not need to. As a result, few measurements of zoo cheetahs found speeds greater than that of a greyhound, about 40mph (64km/h).
So for years, researchers wondered whether cheetahs might run much faster than 65mph in the wild in order to capture prey.
Prof Wilson and his team at the college's Structure and Motion Laboratory decided to find out by following five animals in the wild for a year using tracking collars fitted with movement detectors and GPS systems.
They found that the cheetahs did indeed run very fast at times - close to 60mph - but only occasionally. On most hunts they attained about 30 to 35 mph but they were accelerating and changing direction much more rapidly than has been seen in any other land animal.
They found that cheetahs could increase their speed by nearly 7mph (10km/h) in a single stride.
"They've arranged to have a low gear so they can accelerate very rapidly up to their top speed," said Prof Wilson.
Short bursts of speed can be quantified in power per kilogramme of the animal's weight. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt exerted 25 W/kg...

Summary: The fastest animal on land rarely uses its top speed to capture prey, according to a new analysis.
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Article: They are angry about moves by the British government to ban the use of the leafy substance from this July.
Last year, the UK government decided - against some expert advice - to treat khat as a class C drug to "protect vulnerable members of our communities".
It is traditionally used by Ethiopian, Kenyan, Somali and Yemeni communities.
The mildly narcotic leaf - a herbal stimulant - is already banned in most of Europe and in a number of other countries, including the US and Canada.
The MPs say that the British move will force almost two million people out of jobs in Meru, which is one of Kenya's 47 counties and lies to the north-east of Mt Kenya.
It is not clear how many British nationals own farms in Meru.
But the MPs say they have about a quarter of the farmland in Meru, including wheat and barley farms.
Florence Kajuju, one of the MPs behind the motion, said the government had the right to compulsorily buy property for later public use.
The arable land in Meru owned by UK farmers should be made available to locals as areas used to grow khat could not be used for other crops, she said.
"If they cannot allow us to access their market then they should also then be willing to let go of tracts of land that could be occupied by the Meru people," Ms Kajuju told the BBC.
She said Kenyans were used to fighting for their rights as they had had to do so to gain independence from Britain.
Correspondents say even if the motion was passed by MPs it is unlikely the government would implement it given its policy of accommodating foreign investors.
Source: www.talktofrank.com
Ms Kajuju travelled to the UK last year to appeal for the ban not to be enforced, saying it was important that the British government was not duped by a misinformation campaign.
Khat was not only of economic importance but of cultural significance to many Africans, she said.
Last year, the UK's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) said there was "insufficient evidence" that khat caused health problems although regular users suffered...

Summary: A group of Kenyan MPs have said they will table a motion in parliament for British farmers to be ejected from the khat-growing Meru region.
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Article: Inverness Caledonian Thistle face Falkirk in their historic game at Hampden in Glasgow on Saturday.
Caley Jags supporters have been uploading pictures to Twitter of a dog called Harris and a puppet in their team's colours.
Another fan, clad all in blue, tweeted his support from a city roundabout.
The countdown to the Hampden final has already seen statues in the city draped with Caley Thistle scarves.
Supporters' colourful efforts come amid hopes within the team that reaching the final will attract new followers.
The average attendance at Caledonian Stadium has been 3,700 during a season when the team finished a best-ever third in the Scottish Premiership.
Manager John Hughes told BBC Sport Scotland: "We had an open day the other day for the schoolkids and it was great to see them all in Inverness strips. I never saw any Celtic or Rangers strips.
"If we can give them pride in Inverness and get all these schoolkids to go and support their local team then we are certainly playing our part."
Caley Thistle was formed as the result of a 1994 amalgamation of Caledonian and Inverness Thistle that is still opposed by some elements of their former supporters.

Summary: Football fans have been finding increasingly unusual ways of marking the build-up to their club's first ever appearance in a Scottish Cup Final.
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Article: The impoverished west African country of 1.6 million is plagued by corruption and cocaine trafficking.
It is the first election since a coup in 2012, after which the EU and others suspended aid donations.
With a history of coups, no elected leader has served a full term since independence from Portugal in 1974.
A BBC reporter in the capital Bissau said turnout appeared to be high as he saw large queues at polling stations.
There were 13 candidates for president and 15 parties fielding candidates for parliament.
Among the presidential hopefuls are political heavyweights such as former Finance Minister Jose Mario Vaz, and Abel Incada, a member of the Party for Social Renewal (PRS) of former President Kumba Yala, who died last week.
The dark horse, however, could be 50-year-old independent candidate Paulo Gomes, an unusual proposition in a political landscape hitherto dominated by political grandees who made their names during the war of independence.
A gifted economist who has spent most of his life working abroad, including as the leader of the World Bank's sub-Saharan Africa division, he believes he has the know-how to begin to turn around the country's fortunes.
The west African nation has stagnated since 2012, under the rule of a transitional government backed by its all-powerful military.
With few resources other than cashew nuts and fish, South American drug cartels have turned the country into a cocaine trafficking hub.
The money that generates has corrupted many of the country's public institutions, particularly its armed forces.
A year ago, the US charged 2012 coup leader Antonio Indjai with drug trafficking and seeking to sell surface-to-air missiles to Colombia's FARC rebels, to shoot down US patrol helicopters. He has not been extradited.
Polling was monitored by 550 international observers and a presidential runoff is scheduled for 18 May if no candidate emerges as the clear winner.
The country is ranked 177th out of 187 in the UN's human development index, with two-thirds of the population living...

Summary: Voting has ended in presidential and parliamentary elections in Guinea-Bissau with no reported problems or incidents.
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Article: Climate change is widely projected to have a significant adverse impact on food security if no adaptation measures are taken, they explain.
In their study, the team provides timings of the "transformations" needed to help minimise these impacts.
The findings have been published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Agricultural activities are considered to be one of the main drivers to reduce poverty and improve food security among the planet's undernourished population, which is estimated to be 800-850 million people.
Climate change is widely expected to have a destabilising effect on food production systems, the authors observe, and previous studies have concluded that adaptation "will be required if food production is to be increased in both quantity and stability to meet food security needs during the 21st Century".
Co-author Julian Ramirez-Villegas from the University of Leeds, UK, said the study carried out by the CGIAR research programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCFAS) set out to quantify for the first time when changes to food production were likely to happen.
"Rather than focusing on what we need to do by a certain time, we know that there is a range of options and then we put deadlines on these options," he told BBC News.
The team assessed when areas growing nine of Sub-Saharan Africa's staple crops - which account for half of the region's food production - would have to undergo "transformational adaptation", which refers to a fundamental shift in an area's food production system. For example, stop growing crops and switch to livestock farming instead.
Dr Ramirez-Villegas said the study found that six of the nine crops assessed were "stable in respect to transformation and adaptation".
"It does not mean there will not be impacts, for example the yields might decrease," he added.
"But there are three - beans, maize and bananas - that are more unstable and are therefore projected to have large amounts of area under transformational change.
"In the case of beans, in particular,...

Summary: Researchers have produced a timescale of how projected climate change is set to alter the face of agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Article: The motorist received a Â£100 fine and three points on their licence.
Dorset Police said when the driver was stopped he said: "I was trying to find that new Sam Smith song on You tube because I didn't have it on my phone."
The singer has released the song Writing's On The Wall as the theme to the new James Bond film Spectre.
Officers were carrying out checks on traffic offences on Thursday and stopped vehicles which had no insurance as well as others breaking the speed limit.
Spectre sees Daniel Craig return as British spy James Bond, aka 007, in a globe-trotting blockbuster named after a sinister criminal syndicate.
Two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, French actress Lea Seydoux and Italy's Monica Bellucci also appear in the 24th official entry in the long-running series.

Summary:


Hospitals with A&E departments around Bristol are back on black alert for the second time in a month amid "severe pressure" on services.

Article: Europe's top four domestic leagues are to be guaranteed four places each in the group stage from 2018-19.
The European Professional Football Leagues body is accusing Uefa of breaching the terms of the deal that governs European club competitions.
And Doncaster warned of a "harmful fragmentation of the game".
The current top four leagues in Uefa's rankings are Spain, Germany, England and Italy.
Uefa, which controls the Champions League, says the Europa League winners will also qualify for the Champions League group stage under the new system.
The champions route, which Celtic used to qualify for this season's group stage, will be reduced from five to four teams.
The EPFL say the reforms were "without the support and consensus" from domestic leagues.
Doncaster, who attended the EPFL meeting in Amsterdam said: "Notwithstanding the welcome retention of a route to the Champions League for the SPFL Premiership winners, we absolutely share the EPFL's disappointment about the regressive and protectionist direction of travel for the world's most prestigious club competition.
"There needs to be a far stronger balance between sporting merit and commercial pressures, otherwise we risk an inexorable slide towards an NFL-style closed-shop system.
"We know that many of our counterparts in other countries share our concerns about the nature of the decision-making process and the lack of consultation with European leagues.
"Uefa has a duty to act on behalf of the entire game, not just a few, select clubs and leagues and it must take that duty far more seriously if it is not to risk presiding over a harmful fragmentation of the game.
"We will continue to be robust and forthright when required in fighting to protect the best interests of Scottish football on this issue, with today a strong demonstration that the majority of other European leagues share our view."
The EPFL board earlier stated: "This decision will have a detrimental impact on domestic competitions and will lead to an exponential growth in the financial and...

Summary: Champions League changes are "regressive and protectionist", says Scottish Professional Football League chief executive Neil Doncaster.
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Article: The change was agreed by swimming's world body Fina last week, prompting Vitaly Mutko, Russia's former sports minister, to ask: "What is the point?"
He also suggested that the Russian Swimming Federation will still refer to the sport by the previous name.
An online petition also had nearly 9,000 signatures on Thursday morning.
Mutko added: "To keep the name synchronised swimming is our right, and if the [Russian Swimming] Federation itself, the coaches will want it, we will do it."
But Fina's executive chairman Cornel Marculescu said the decision will stand.
"Nothing changes, only the name, I don't see any great difficulty with that," he said. "I understand the commentary of Mr Mutko but it's no problem, we talk about the same sport anyhow."
Fina's congress voted to change the name to attract a wider audience to a sport that has recently expanded to include male competitors, and Marculescu says it will give the sport "another dimension".
However, an online petition on Change.org states that "the name change will be more of a deterrent to males than a calling card".

Summary: Synchronised swimming will now be known as artistic swimming, despite an online campaign and protests from Russia's deputy prime minister.
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Article: The focus is on the great crested newt, a species classified as endangered under European law.
Natural England, a government body in charge of protecting wildlife, is in the process of putting forward new proposals.
These would make the current licensing system "more flexible and strategic".
It would mean that councils and developers no longer have to move individual great crested newts as long as they protect the biggest colonies and most important habitats.
The consultation will end on 7 April.
If there are ponds on a building site it is illegal to send the bulldozers in until experts have confirmed that there are no great crested newts.
This can be expensive and lead to lengthy delays for major building projects. Great crested newts are protected under the European Habitats Directive so a formal survey by licensed ecologists needs to be carried out.
This can only be done between mid-March and mid-June when great crested newts are in the water breeding.
Torches are shone in to the ponds at night to try to spot them and water plants have to be examined by hand for eggs.
If even a small number are found, then Natural England (NE) the government body that looks after wildlife in England must grant a licence to move the animals.
They can only be fenced, trapped and relocated in spring and summer as they hibernate during winter.
This can cost from £5,000 to £10,000 for even a small project. The fencing alone costs £5-£6 per meter and there is labour on top. This costs business tens of millions of pounds a year.
Now Natural England is proposing a new strategy. Its consultation document says, "our proposals shift the focus away from protecting animals on development sites and towards improving populations in the wider local area".
The benchmark will not be individual newts, it will be whatever is necessary to "maintain the conservation status" of the animals.
Great crested newts may not have to be moved if it would not "contribute to the long term prospects of the local population."
If a significant colony is...

Summary: A government consultation on whether to change the rules governing how contractors deal with protected species when developing sites ends this week.
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Article: Almost 64,000 fines have been issued since the law changed in September 2013, a rise of about 70%, according to local authority data.
More than three-quarters of councils, 118, responded to a BBC survey.
Schools minister Nick Gibb said fewer pupils were now missing lessons.
The ban has drawn opposition from parents, with hundreds of thousands signing petitions against the new rules and calling for the government to take action against holiday companies who raise their prices at peak times.
Parents are fined Â£60 per parent per child per period of absence, which rises to Â£120 if not paid within 21 days.
Campaigner Stewart Sutherland was himself fined for taking his three children out of school for five days.
Mr Sutherland told BBC News that he and his wife work shifts and find it difficult to get time off.
"Once the regulations came into force it became just a block ban, rather than schools and local councils considering each case individually.
"It's now becoming the case that family holidays are just for the rich because so many working people either can't afford it or can't get the time off outside school terms.
"Family holidays are just as important to children as school. A happy child will get their work done better.
"This shouldn't be treated the same as persistent truancy."
BBC researchers contacted all 152 councils in England and received full responses from 118 - 78% of the total.
Overall the figures suggest that in England parents received at least 63,837 fines in the academic year to July 2014, compared with 37,650 fines in the previous 12 months.
The number of fines appears to have been highest in Lancashire, with 3,106 over the year - up from 1,125 the year before.
In Kent, there were 2,973 fines in the year to July, but the rise was less steep, up from 2,868 in 2012-13.
Some fines will have been for truancy or repeated poor attendance, but most were for parents who took children on holiday during term time.
From last September new regulations have meant that school heads can no longer grant 10...

Summary: The number of parental fines in England for children's poor school attendance has risen sharply since the government ban on term-time holidays was introduced, BBC research suggests.
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Article: Saeed Ghani, 30, also stole a couple's details in a bid to defraud them of their £90,000 pension.
Co-defendant Atif Mahmood, 42, stole identity documents from a post box in the Stockport area in June 2012.
The pair used the details to try and sell a couple's home, Preston Crown Court heard.
Ghani, of Prestwich, Greater Manchester, was jailed for seven years and six months. Mahmood was sentenced to 26 months.
Their plot to sell a couple's £500,000 property was only foiled when the victims' daughter noticed the family home was for sale on an internet site.
Ghani also stole the identities of two homeowners in Bolton by using fraudulent passports in a bid to transfer the Land Registry deeds of their £300,000 home.
The court heard he and another man, Toma Ramanauskaite, intercepted another couple's post in Boothstown, Salford, in August 2014.
Driving licences were taken out in their names and used as identification to open new bank accounts.
The pair then successfully transferred nearly £90,000 after contacting the victims' pension company.
Ghani admitted three counts of conspiracy to defraud, while Mahmood, of Gorton, Manchester pleaded guilty to one count of the same offence.
Ramanauskaite, 30 from Bury, will be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to the same charge.

Summary: A fraudster who tried to sell his victims' £500,000 home after transferring the property deeds into his name has been jailed.
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Article: Some operations have been cancelled and extra staff drafted in to deal with a surge of patients over the weekend.
The Bristol Royal Infirmary, Southmead Hospital and Weston General hospitals are affected.
More beds are being opened but people are urged not to go to A&E unless they have a "life-threatening" condition.
Instead they are urged to go to minor injury units, chemists and GP surgeries, or to call the NHS on 111.
A black alert, the highest level, means hospital services are unable to cope with demand. The three hospitals were last on black alert earlier this month.
The number of people in hospital for more than two weeks is much higher than usual, said an NHS spokesman.
A surge of patients during last week's cold snap has added to pressure.
The black alert is likely to stay in place for days. Extra ambulance staff are being used to transfer patients into hospital, to prevent ambulances queuing and district nurses are being deployed to hospitals, to help find community beds for patients well enough to leave.
Bristol GP Peter Goyder said an increase in hospital admissions together with "a higher number of very ill patients who need to stay in hospital for longer" had contributed to the situation.
Analysis of the most recent figures suggests hospitals in England are struggling to meet the four-hour target for treating or admitting 95% of patients.
Three hospitals in Cornwall also went on black alert this month, as did two in Somerset.

Summary:


Lord Heseltine says the UK's skills shortage is a serious problem - and if it was up to him he would start industrial strategy in primary schools.

Article: The University of Texas (UT) System is joining the edX online platform project set up by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The University of Texas says it could offer degree credits through the online platform, with a tuition fee attached.
Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa said he wanted Texas to "lead this revolution".
"The UT System does plan to eventually offer courses for credit. There will be a tuition charge for credit-earning courses, but the amount hasn't been determined," said Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, spokeswoman for the UT System.
This would be a major step for this new wave of online universities set up this year by top universities in the US.
The edX alliance, launched this year, already includes MIT, Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley. But so far these have offered free courses which do not carry credit towards degrees.
The latest recruit to edX - with more expected this autumn - is one the biggest public university systems in the US.
The network of universities in the University of Texas System has more than 200,000 students, 19,000 academic staff and an annual operating budget of $13bn (Â£8bn).
There has been something of an academic format war emerging with a rival Coursera platform, started by academics from Stanford in California.
Coursera now has 1.6 million students around the world studying courses from more than 30 leading universities, including Edinburgh and the University of London.
The University of London reported that 9,000 students had signed up within the first 24 hours.
There have been online courses in the US and UK for a number of years - but there has been a recent surge of interest as self-study courses have been put online by some of the world's most famous institutions.
These can be studied anywhere in the world and the assessment is also carried out online.
Helping to drive the expansion of online courses in the US has been a concern about the high costs of university and the rising level of student loan debts.
Gene Powell, chairman of...

Summary: The latest expansion in prestigious online universities in the US includes plans to charge for courses which will count towards degrees.
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Article: John Davies says more needs to be spent on marketing the project, which is heavily backed with public money.
Take up in areas that have had it for a year is 19% with just over £300,000 spent on marketing, which is around 1% of the overall cost so far.
But ministers said take up was where they expected it to be at this stage.
The Welsh government signed the deal - the largest of its kind in the UK - with BT in 2012 to roll out super fast broadband across Wales.
Download speeds of up to 80 megabits per second (Mbps) are being offered to domestic customers, compared to the average download speed currently available in Wales of around five to six Mbps. Even faster speeds are available to businesses.
The project, called Superfast Cymru, aims to ensure that 96% of homes in Wales are covered by 2016 and is seen as vital for Welsh businesses in an increasingly competitive global market.
Welsh ministers are spending £58m on the scheme, with a similar amount coming from the UK government and £90m from European funding.
In two years, the aim is for around 700,000 premises to have access but so far it has gone past the 150,000 mark.
Mr Davies, who chairs the Welsh advisory committee for the communications watchdog Ofcom, said the project was transformative but more needed to be done to make people aware of when it is rolled out in their communities to encourage demand for the high-speed broadband.
He said: "For small and medium sized businesses, it gives them an opportunity to compete on equal terms with businesses elsewhere in the UK and elsewhere in the world, and on the back of that they should be able to cut their costs and increase their revenues."
He added: "There is undoubtedly take up, there are undoubtedly benefits accruing now.
"The question is, if more is done on the stimulation side, can those benefits come through faster?"
In a statement the Welsh government said: "We are at an early stage in the programme and the marketing activity.
"Current take up figures for cabinets that have been in place for over one...

Summary: Wales is not making the most of a £425m contract to roll out superfast broadband in rural areas, according to the former head of BT in Wales.
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Article: Its deficit rose to 11.5 trillion yen ($112bn; Â£68bn) in 2013 - a 65% jump from a year ago.
Japan has seen its energy imports rise in recent years after it shut all of its nuclear reactors in the aftermath of the tsunami and earthquake in 2011.
But it is having to pay more for those imports after a series of aggressive policy moves weakened the yen sharply.
The Japanese currency fell more than 20% against the US dollar between January and December last year.
The latest trade data showed that while Japan's imports of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) rose 0.2% by volume in 2013 from the previous year -  the value of those imports surged nearly 18%.
This is the third year in a row that Japan - traditionally known for the strength of its exports - has reported an annual trade deficit.
Japan, the world's third-largest economy, has seen its growth stagnate over the past two decades.
In an attempt to change that, policymakers have unveiled a series of aggressive moves over the past few months, including doubling the country's money supply.
The measures, led by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, have come to be known as 'Abenomics'.
The steps have had a big impact on Japan's currency - which has fallen sharply against the US dollar.
A weak currency bodes well for Japan's exports - a key driver of its growth - making them cheaper for foreign buyers.  A weak yen also boosts profits of exporters when they repatriate their overseas earnings back home.
The hope has been that a rise in exports, coupled with a jump in earnings of exporters, will aid Japan's economic recovery.
However, the weak currency has also made imports more expensive and affected the country's trade balance.
"This is the costly flip side of Abenomics," Martin Schulz of Fujitsu Research Institute in Tokyo told the BBC.
"The overall cost of imports is going up, but the exports are not rising enough to offset that."
Mr Schulz said a key reason behind that was the fact that "the yen's weakness has yet to have a strong and positive impact on small and...

Summary: Japan has reported a record annual trade deficit after the weak yen pushed up the cost of energy imports.
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Article: They made the discovery by looking at a rare group of patients given a transplant while their own damaged liver is left in the body.
Sometimes the original liver recovers.
A study, in the American Journal of Transplantation, suggests doctors can predict which patients do not need a transplant as their liver is healing.
King's College Hospital has a leading liver transplant centre and is one of few places to perform "auxiliary transplants".
They are performed in sudden cases of liver failure caused by overdoses or viral infections, rather than the long-term damage caused by alcohol abuse.
Normally in organ transplants one organ comes out and a new one goes in. However, in this complex operation the transplant is put in beside the old liver.
After any transplant a patient needs to take a lifetime of drugs to suppress the immune system in order to avoid rejection. The drugs leave the body vulnerable to infection.
However, if the patient's liver does eventually recover then they can come off the immunosuppressant drugs and their body will get rid of the transplant.
The transplant is used to get the patient past the critical stage of the illness.
But the recovery happens only in some patients. In the study, the transplant was no longer needed in seven out of 11 patients.
So doctors analysed the detailed chemistry inside the liver cells of patients and looked for differences between those who recovered and those who did not.
Dr Varuna Aluvihare told the BBC: "There was a big difference right from the point of transplantation in the expression of some very small molecules between the group that would, three years down the line, regrow their liver versus the group that never did."
Those molecules regulated the way cells in the liver grow.
"Some of them were already starting to regrow. So what we may be able to do is come up with a better set of tests to allow us to identify those patients who are already regrowing and may not need transplantation.
"So we may be able to remove a group from the transplant list."
The...

Summary: Some patients with severely damaged livers may not need a transplant as their own organ is actually regrowing, say doctors at a hospital in London.
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Article: The trading update comes ahead of the final sale of the government's 15% stake in the 500-year old company.
Royal Mail said UK letter volumes declined by 5% in the quarter with revenue down 4%. But that was in line with forecasts.
UK parcel volumes were 3% higher and rose by 9% in Europe, with revenue up 2% and 8% respectively.
The company said its outlook for letter and parcel volumes remained unchanged from guidance issued with its annual results in May.
Royal Mail said it remained focused on cutting costs at its UK business this year.
It added that, as in all previous years, its performance would be weighted to the second half of the year given the dependence on its traditionally busy Christmas parcels delivery period.
Royal Mail's European parcel deliveries service, GLS, performed better than expected, the group said, largely driven by strong growth in Italy and Germany.
But the company added it was monitoring how the market reacted to changes to German minimum wage legislation.
Royal Mail chief executive Moya Greene warned that the trading environment remained "challenging".
The company was "stepping up the pace of change to drive growth, efficiency and innovation while maintaining a tight focus on costs".
Last month, regulator Ofcom said the regulation of Royal Mail would be reviewed after the withdrawal of rival Whistl from the direct delivery letters market. That removed any national competition for the direct delivery of letters.
Ofcom said the "fundamental" review would "ensure regulation remains appropriate and sufficient to secure the universal postal service".
The government sold half of its remaining 30% stake in Royal Mail in June, raising £750m for the Treasury.
In May, Royal Mail reported an increase in full-year profits to £740m, up 6% from a year earlier.
The Department for Business Industry and Skills also outlined its plan to hand 10 million shares - worth about 1% of the company - to employees this financial year.
GLS employees will be excluded from the scheme, as will employees at joint...

Summary: Royal Mail has reported flat revenues in the three months to 28 June as UK letter volumes continued to decline.
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Article: He told MPs the UK would never be a world-beating economy unless young people were better educated.
And he called for "much bigger devolution to the people who know where the [failing] schools are".
On improving literacy and numeracy, he added: "We need it across the country and we need it yesterday."
The Conservative grandee, who was deputy prime minister in the 1990s and subsequently advised David Cameron on regional strategy, made the comments as he gave evidence to the Commons Business Innovation and Skills Committee alongside former chancellor George Osborne.
Claiming that the UK is "29th as a country in the world league of education" - it was 23rd in reading in 2015, according to the OECD's Pisa rankings and 26th in maths - he stressed: "If we accept that - we'll never be a world beating economy in the future because it's all about people - it's about education and then about skills.
"And if you want to have skilled people, you'd better educate them properly before you start making them skilled."
Lord Heseltine, whose leadership challenge helped trigger Margaret Thatcher's departure from Downing Street in 1990, said standards need to be set by a strategic commission, chaired by the prime minister "that are relevant to the best in the world and not the 29th".
"If I could design an industrial strategy it would start in the primary schools," he said, adding that about a quarter of children leaving primary schools are "illiterate and innumerate" by modern employment standards.
"My own view is clear - there needs to be a much bigger devolution to the people who know where those schools are and they know the people that run them and they know where the inadequate results are coming from - in my personal experience of life: show me the problem, show me the person in charge."
Lord Heseltine cited one success story - Northamptonshire's "Race to the top" initiative - which aims to make Northamptonshire one of the highest performing counties for education by 2020.
"We spend a lot of time discussing the theories of...

Summary:


On 23 August 1994, The KLF - one of Britain's most incendiary bands, in more ways than one - burned £1m on a remote Scottish island.

Article: Update 10 June 2016: Following an investigation by the party, Mark Gettleson and the other volunteer were cleared.
One volunteer has resigned and another is understood to have left over the claims, in the Independent on Sunday.
The paper says some party members claim they were polled by phone by someone they believed to be from Lib Dem HQ rather than Mr Lamb's personal team.
The party is considering referring the matter to the Information Commissioner.
Mr Lamb, the MP for North Norfolk and former care minister, is running against Tim Farron, former party president, for the Lib Dem leadership following the resignation of Nick Clegg.
Mark Gettleson, a strategic communications and research professional, confirmed he had resigned, saying he regretted "any harm done to Norman Lamb and his campaign".
The Independent on Sunday reported accusations that the line of questioning in the apparent "opinion poll" may have gone into territory which could have cast doubt on Mr Farron's suitability.
A Liberal Democrat spokesperson said: "We have been made aware of an alleged breach of party rules and are looking into the issue as a matter of urgency.
"The Liberal Democrats take any alleged breaches of party rules extremely seriously. The party has contacted both teams to reiterate rules on the leadership process."
Mr Lamb told the newspaper: "Volunteer members of my team acted without my authority. As soon as it was clear what had happened, I had to be decisive and removed them from my campaign.
"As soon as I saw Tim I talked to him about it and said I won't tolerate it from my campaign.
"In a situation we [the Lib Dems] are in at the moment we cannot allow ourselves to fall out or behave irresponsibly."
It is understood there will be a formal discussion with the party's data controller on Monday regarding a potential referral to the Information Commissioner.
Mr Gettleson said the poll in question - which was conducted on Thursday and Friday last week - had been carried out to gauge the state of the race between the two...

Summary: The Liberal Democrats have launched an investigation into allegations Norman Lamb's leadership campaign team may have breached data protection rules.
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Article: The Samsung Galaxy S7 Active stopped working after being put in a tank that simulated the effect of being about 5ft (1.5m) underwater.
Consumer Reports repeated its test on a second model, which was also damaged.
Samsung said it was possible defective devices were "not as watertight" as they should have been.
When removed after half an hour, the first phone's display was non-responsive and marred by green lines. Bubbles had also formed in its two camera lenses.
The second handset subjected to the same test suffered similar faults.
Samsung's website stated the Galaxy S7 Active, which is sold in the US but is not available in the UK, is IP68-certified.
The international protection rating signifies the phone can withstand "continuous immersion in water".
Consumer Reports made headlines six years ago when it flagged a problem with the iPhone 4's antenna before Apple had acknowledged the issue.
The non-profit organisation said neither handset was usable following its experiments.
It noted the standard Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge models, which are also IP68-certified, had not sustained water damage during the same test conditions.
"While Consumer Reports generally doesn't evaluate phones for this feature, we do perform an immersion test when a manufacturer claims that its product is water-resistant," it said.
"When we recently evaluated the Galaxy S7 Active, it failed this test."
Samsung said it had received "very few complaints" about the issue, and that handsets should be covered under warranty. The Active model first went on sale in June.
"There may be an off-chance that a defective device is not as watertight as it should be," it said, adding that it would investigate the issue.
Last year Sony warned owners of its waterproof Xperia smartphone range against using the devices underwater.
"The IP rating of your device was achieved in laboratory conditions in standby mode, so you should not use the device underwater, such as taking pictures," advice on its water and dust protection page states.
Samsung is expected...

Summary: A Samsung smartphone advertised as being water-resistant has failed a water immersion test by a leading product review site.
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Article: It follows the publication of A-level results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Using Facebook Messenger's chatbot technology, students would be able to "assess their suitability" for different courses, the university said.
But if they would prefer to speak to a human, "phone lines will continue to be open throughout the clearing process".
The university's head of digital experience and engagement, Dougal Scaife, said: "We know that our prospective students already use lots of messaging software for communicating with their friends, such as Snapchat, WhatsApp, as well as texting, so developing a chatbot was a natural evolution in order to engage with our prospective students in a medium that is ubiquitous, familiar, and comfortable for them."
Pamela Clark-Dickson, an analyst at research firm Ovum, thinks it is a good use of the technology.
"More and more organisations are using chatbots and for quite simple tasks they can be useful and effective."
"It frees up human agents to deal with more complex enquiries."
Leeds Beckett is not the first university to employ chatbot technologies.
Georgia Tech University used a chatbot to answer questions from students enrolled in an artificial intelligence course last year.
It is dubbed Jill Watson because it is based on IBM's Watson technology.
The chatbot was one of nine teaching assistants answering thousands of questions on the course's online forum.
And Prof Ashok Goel, who hired Jill Watson, did not reveal that she was not human until after the students had completed their final exams.

Summary: Leeds Beckett University has launched a chatbot to help prospective students find the right course.
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Article: Dolphins are one of Aberdeen's biggest tourist attractions, with the city regarded as being among the best places in Europe to spot them.
Volunteers from RSPB Scotland's Dolphinwatch expect thousands of visitors to try to catch a glimpse of the spectacular sea antics over the summer.
The Dolphinwatch project was pioneered in 2013.
The team will be at Torry Battery from 11:00 to 18:00 every Thursday to Sunday until 16 August.
Dolphinwatch team member Helen Hiley said: "Aberdeen is such a fantastic place to see dolphins and it's amazing to have a wildlife spectacle like this so close to a city centre.
"You often get great views of them feeding and playing at the harbour entrance."
Amateur photographer David McCulloch, who took a recent dramatic shot which has proved popular on social media, described the experience of capturing the image as "out of this world".

Summary: Aberdeen's annual Dolphinwatch project is getting under way.
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Article: In a report on literacy standards of 11 to 14-year-olds, education watchdog Estyn blamed a lack of time and support for schools.
The provision to develop pupils' literacy skills in a majority of schools was only "adequate".
Education Minister Huw Lewis said the policy was having an impact.
The Literacy and Numeracy Framework (LNF) was introduced in 2013 for pupils aged five to 14 following concerns they were falling behind.
It aimed to improve how pupils read, write and express themselves in all subjects.
The LNF includes annual tests to see how they are progressing.
But two years after its introduction, the report said the LNF was not producing results.
Standards in general were judged excellent in about one in nine secondary schools, inspectors found.
They were good in close to two in five, which is similar to the previous two years.
"The LNF was introduced quickly, but progress in implementing the framework has been slower than expected," Estyn said.
The watchdog noted:
Inspectors have said the Welsh government should "provide guidance and support" for teachers to help them implement the LNF and "develop literacy skills across the curriculum".
Last week, a study conducted by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers Cymru found almost two-thirds of teachers in Wales think the national reading and numeracy tests are "not fit for purpose".
Fewer than half (49.2%) of those questioned said all their pupils were able to access the tests and only 37% said they were fit for purpose.
Amid concerns blanket test papers are not suitable for younger children, the union said "disadvantaged learners" were among those finding them most difficult to use.
The Welsh government said developing the literacy skills of young people remained "a critical issue for Welsh education and a key government priority" and there was "still much to do".
Mr Lewis told BBC Wales it was a "profound shift" and he said he would not apologise for reform taking place with a sense of urgency.
"Estyn is talking about events 12 months ago and a very...

Summary: A key policy to drive up standards in numeracy and literacy in Wales has made "modest" progress, partly due to a lack of support from the Welsh government.
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Article: They then vowed to put their careers on hold for 23 years.
That time is now up.
So at 23 seconds past midnight on Wednesday they made their comeback at a book launch in Liverpool.
The duo were greeted by 500 fans as they arrived at the News From Nowhere book shop in an ice cream van that played their hit What Time Is Love? and O Sole Mio.
That marked the start of a three-day festival of talks, performance and live art, which will continue on Wednesday with a debate on the topic "Why Did the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid?"
However, fans have been told that The KLF's Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond will not be performing any music.
Their new novel 2023, described as "a utopian costume drama set in the near future written in the recent past", is due to be performed in full in the city on Thursday.
The event will finish on Friday with a "Graduation Ball" headlined by a hitherto unknown artist named Badger Kull, who is billed as having just one three-minute song, titled Toxteth Day of the Dead.
The KLF - who also went by names including The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The K Foundation and The Timelords - had hits like 3AM Eternal, Last Train to Trancentral and What Time Is Love? in the late 1980s and early '90s.
As well as their electrifying pop-trance hits, Cauty and Drummond became known for sabotaging their own success and subverting the music business in a serious of infamous stunts.
Here are four of them:
The duo were ordered to destroy all copies of their 1987 debut album after a complaint from Abba, who objected to the unauthorised sampling of Dancing Queen.
Cauty and Drummond travelled to Sweden to try to track Abba down in person. But they failed, so they presented the gold disc they had brought with them to a Swedish prostitute instead.
As you do.
They burned some of the LPs in a field before throwing the rest overboard from the ferry on the way home.
The album was eventually released with large stretches of silence where the samples had been.
After getting to number one as The Timelords with Doctor...

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