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The 23-year-old, from Kilbarchan, finished Sunday's race in 12th place in two hours 12 minutes 17 seconds.
Ethiopia's Sisay Lemma won in 2:06.26, with compatriot Gulume Tollesa first home in the women's event.
Scott Overall, 32, is the only other British athlete to have finished under the Rio qualifying mark of two hours 14 minutes this year.
"I knew it would hurt at one stage but it hurt pretty much all the way through," said Hawkins.
"Obviously it is the first time I have run that distance at that kind of pace.
"The pace-maker was due to go through halfway at 66.20 and went through it in 66.22 so you can't ask for much more than that. He got me to 30k on the right pace and that kind of thing helps.
"I am really chuffed with the time and delighted to get inside the GB qualifying standard.
"I hope it will be enough at some stage to get me picked for Rio but you never know with marathon selection and a few months to go.
"So we can't say at the moment when or if I will do another one."
Hawkins, second at this month's Great Scottish Run, ran in the 10,000m in last year's Commonwealth Games.
Older sibling Derek competed in the marathon, making them the first brothers to represent Scotland since Ian and Peter Stewart competed at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.
Derek Hawkins is currently sidelined by a foot injury but has aspirations to run in Brazil in 2016.
"I'd love to see Derek get the time as well - just so long as he's not quicker than me," said Callum Hawkins.
"We'd love to both be at the Olympics for GB in the marathon and it would be pretty special as brothers. We'll have to wait and see a bit longer before we know if that can happen." | Scotland's Callum Hawkins achieved an Olympic qualifying time on his marathon debut in Frankfurt. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34631732"} | 428 | 21 | 0.449919 | 1.10555 | 0.607254 | 0.75 | 23.9375 | 0.625 |
Natalia Wilkanowska, 50, disappeared in 2003 after travelling to visit her ex-husband Gerald Doherty in Luton.
Her body was found in the garden of the house in Icknield Way in December 2015.
Mr Doherty died in 2003. His brothers Joseph and Daniel Doherty are on trial at Luton Crown Court accused of helping conceal her remains and lying to police, charges they deny.
Pathologist Dr Nat Cary told the jury Ms Wilkanowska had suffered a fractured skull consistent with blunt force trauma.
He said the injury "was consistent with falling down stairs, being hit with a weapon or being kicked or stamped on".
Prosecutor Neil King said Ms Wilkanowska's ex-husband was responsible for her death. The couple had separated in 2001 after 23 years of marriage.
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The court heard Gerald Doherty took his own life at a flat in Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, on the date of their wedding anniversary in July 2003. He had been receiving psychiatric care.
Mr King said the couple's children believed their mother was missing.
The jury also heard that Joseph Doherty told his niece Allison Diamond-Roberts Ms Wilkanowska had been the victim of a crime of passion.
Mrs Diamond-Roberts said: "He said my uncle (Gerald) had strangled her.
"He said there was no point looking for her as we wouldn't find her. He said she had been cut up and her body put in black bin bags and distributed all over Luton and that's why we would never find her."
Gerald Doherty's brothers face a total of seven charges relating to the disposal of Natalia's remains.
Daniel Doherty, 67, of Icknield Way, Luton, denies two charges of perverting the course of justice and two charges of obstructing the coroner by aiding and abetting the concealment of the body and by lying to the police.
Joseph Doherty, 73, of Old Greenock Road, Port Glasgow, Scotland, denies perverting the course of justice and obstructing the coroner by giving a false account of her death.
Both men deny preventing lawful burial.
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In a game with a series of missed penalties, the 21-year-old made the difference at Meggetland.
"It's fantastic," Solomons told BBC Scotland.
"That's the big thing I've said in my vision for this club is becoming a bolder, sustainable club through our young Scottish talent."
He continued: "To see Damien play, and this is the ground he grew up on, to see him score two great tries is fantastic."
Solomons knows the performance was far from perfect, and had Isa Nacewa been more prolific with his penalties, Leinster could have edged it.
He said: "I want to thank all the fans, really, really appreciate it. Their support means a great deal to us and is a big encouragement to the team and there was a nice atmosphere here tonight.
"I think we have got to back this up with another win. Obviously we've got to go to Triviso which is never easy. There are a lot of areas in our game which we need to improve.
"We gave away far too many penalties, I think we had four penalties at the breakdown in the opening 17 minutes. Too many little errors, which denied us territory and possession. So there's a lot to work on, and our feet will certainly be on the ground.
"I'm very, very pleased with the result. Leinster are a good side and I thought they did well tonight. It's important for us to come away with a win, particularly when we play at home so little bit disappointed we didn't make that last conversion to deny them the bonus point but very pleased with a win.
"We've said that this is the year that we've got to evolve our attack and in the friendlies, particularly against Ulster, and again passages tonight especially in that first half were really, really positive so I think we are making progress with that."
The driving wind and rain made conditions difficult for both sides, but Hoyland praised his team-mates for the way they dealt with it.
He said: "We had to change a few things up a bit. It worked to our benefit in the end as we managed to keep the ball in their half. I think we adapted to the weather quite well.
"Leinster are obviously a very high calibre team. Going into this game people expected Edinburgh to be the underdogs but I think we showed people we're going to be strong contenders this season." | Edinburgh coach Alan Solomons was delighted to see Damien Hoyland score two tries as Edinburgh beat Leinster 16-9 in their opening Pro12 game. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34159941"} | 543 | 33 | 0.417724 | 0.980944 | 0.075977 | 1.115385 | 19.153846 | 0.730769 |
Stonewall, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights group, said it would benefit people who face difficulties at passport control.
The government said it was reviewing the way gender was marked in official documents, including passports.
Since 2011, Australian passport-holders have been able to choose X if their gender is indeterminate.
Stonewall's proposal comes days after HSBC let its customers choose non-gender specific titles such as Mx, M and Misc for their bank accounts.
It is estimated that about 650,000 people identify as trans in the UK. Stonewall said many were "afraid to travel abroad" because they feared intrusive questions at passport control.
Tara Stone, a member of the Stonewall Trans Advisory Group, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme X would give some trans people, those who identify as non-binary - neither male nor female - "an option that wasn't prescriptive".
"Some trans people find it very validating of their identity to have that gender designator," she said. "And additionally, in terms of getting access to other things in daily life, having a piece of identification that marks out your gender is actually really useful."
Ms Stone said the X option would also be of great benefit to intersex people who are born with a mixture of male and female sex characteristics.
Stonewall set out several other recommendations to help trans people be "accepted without exception", including:
Stonewall said existing legislation urgently needed reform, describing the Gender Recognition Act as "outdated".
It said people were forced to choose a gender for pension calculations and insurance policies but that current rules "fall short of best practice".
The Gender Recognition Act, which allows trans people to change their legal gender, is also under review by the government.
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A government spokesman said: "We have committed to reviewing the [act] to look at ways of streamlining and de-medicalising the process for changing a person's legal gender.
"Alongside this we are investing £3m to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying."
He added: "We are committed to delivering further positive changes for transgender people."
Stonewall said some trans people had told them members of the public were "hostile" towards them.
Alex Drummond, a trans woman from Cardiff, said: "If we don't see trans people, then it's easy to hold hostility. Familiarity will breed acceptance."
She said it was important for people to see that those who do not identify with a gender also "have friends, and jobs and lives, and be happy".
She added: "If you have to live in stealth to be successful, then you're not living." | UK passports should allow people to define themselves as "X" instead of male or female, campaigners say. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39489678"} | 618 | 24 | 0.513202 | 1.373052 | 0.17355 | 0.904762 | 26.238095 | 0.619048 |
The all-party parliamentary group on refugees says people brought to the UK via resettlement schemes receive more support than those given refugee status after arriving as asylum seekers.
It says the next government should create a minister for refugees to help level the playing field.
Government officials point to a special migration fund set up last year.
More than 50,000 refugees are said to have arrived in the UK through the asylum route since 2012, while government-led resettlement programmes, including from Syria, accounted for fewer than 10,000 people in the same period.
After an asylum claim is granted, individuals have just 28 days before government support is withdrawn.
This, the report says, is leading to "stress and despair" among newly-recognised refugees as they struggle to access housing and benefits.
Those problems are made worse by:
It says: "Those refugees who have come through the asylum route will have faced the same persecution and violence as those who are resettled.
"That two refugees who could have fled from the same country, the same town, even the same neighbourhood could have such different experiences of what it means to be a refugee in the UK is unacceptable."
In contrast, people who come to the UK under a resettlement package can expect:
Local councils will also be paid £8,500 by the government for each refugee in their first year to go towards housing, healthcare and other costs. That figure tapers to £1,000 by the fifth year.
The report said those levels of support - and an integration scheme run by the Scottish government - were examples of good practice that could be replicated for refugees more widely.
A dedicated minister for refugees would be able to oversee the improvements needed, it added.
The chairwoman of the all-party group, Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire, said: "Creating a two-tier system for refugees, loading the dice against people who come here to build a new life, is not just the wrong thing to do, but a costly missed opportunity for Britain."
She said most refugees wanted to return home when conflict was over but wanted to contribute to this country in the meantime.
"These are often skilled professionals and, by definition, they all have strength and determination to offer," she added.
Conservative MP David Burrowes, the group's vice-chairman, said: "For too many refugees, being granted their status is the beginning of a period characterised by homelessness and destitution.
"Protection must mean more than just a piece of paper."
Stephen Hale, chief executive of the charity Refugee Action, called for all parties to commit to increased funding for English language courses for refugees.
"This report is a timely wake-up call - the new government must seize the opportunity to enable all refugees in Britain, regardless of how they arrive, to successfully rebuild their lives." | Thousands of refugees face homelessness and destitution because of a "two-tier" UK system, MPs and peers have warned. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39700596"} | 604 | 30 | 0.513682 | 1.334875 | 0.378489 | 1.333333 | 23.5 | 0.75 |
John Worboys, 54, was convicted in 2009 of drugging and sexually assaulting women while working as a licensed London taxi driver.
Ten victims had asked the High Court to rule on whether insurers were liable for damages because Worboys' crimes were committed in his insured taxi.
But Mr Justice Silber has ruled against the women.
He dismissed applications brought against Inceptum Insurance Company Limited on a preliminary issue of whether it was liable for compensation.
The judge expressed the "greatest sympathy" for the women "in the light of the horrifying experiences that they suffered at the hands of Worboys".
But he said his duty was to "follow the appropriate legal principles".
Edwin Glasgow QC, counsel for the women, had told the judge at a hearing in April: "The fundamental issue is whether personal injuries caused by a taxi driver's assaults on a passenger were 'caused by or arose out of the use of a vehicle on a road' for the purposes of compulsory insurance as required by the Road Traffic Act 1988.
"It is our submission that the use of the taxi and the part that it played in the attacks that occurred during the course of the journeys was essential and material.
"The taxi did not just happen to be at the place where the assaults occurred - it was the symbol of security which seduced these young women to believe they were safe."
In his ruling, Mr Justice Silber found that the bodily injuries suffered by the women did not arise out of the use of Worboys' vehicle on a road or other public place within the meaning of the 1988 Act.
He found that Worboys' use of the vehicle at the material times was not a use insured by the policy issued by the insurers.
Worboys was jailed indefinitely after he was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women.
The number of victims could be as high as 102, police have said. | Victims of black cab rapist John Worboys should not receive damages from his insurer, a judge has ruled. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "18578632"} | 420 | 30 | 0.606147 | 1.608292 | -0.025289 | 0.85 | 18.75 | 0.65 |
Over a 12-year period from 1979, 228 properties were damaged across Wales.
Dubbed the Meibion Glyndwr campaign, it was thought to have been a protest against rural homes in Welsh language heartlands being sold to people from England as holiday cottages.
North Wales Police said unsolved investigations were never closed.
Only one person was ever convicted of being connected to the fires, which often saw empty properties completely destroyed.
Sion Aubrey Roberts was jailed for 12 years in 1993 for posting firebombs.
Now retired journalist Alwyn Gruffydd, who has written extensively on the arson attacks, said it was time for the inquiry to end.
Mr Gruffydd, who reported on the Meibion Glyndwr attacks for the BBC, said that 25 years since the last attack it was "about time the case was closed".
"The only way to do that is for the police or authorities to state that they will not accuse anyone else of being involved in the campaign," he told the BBC's Post Cyntaf programme.
The attacks began with the arson of four properties in the Gwynedd village of Nefyn and Pembrokeshire.
Targets were not just properties used as holiday homes but also estate agents offices, boat yards and caravans.
Mr Gruffydd also called on the authorities to release any files related to the campaign to the public.
Interviewed as part of a celebration of 40 years of Radio Cymru, Mr Gruffydd said police should "draw a line underneath the whole campaign and publish a final version of what happened".
Mr Gruffydd wrote a book - Mae Rhywun yn Gwybod, or Somebody Knows - about Meibion Glyndwr, which translates as Sons of Glyndwr.
In 2004, North Wales Police reopened an investigation into the arson campaign.
A spokesman for the force asked for anyone with information relating to the attacks "to come forward and tell us what they know".
"Unsolved investigations are never closed and are reviewed periodically," the spokesman added.
"A review presents an opportunity to revisit the investigation and to identify if there is any new forensic evidence that can add anything to the investigation." | The cases of unsolved arson attacks on holiday homes in Wales during the 80s and 90s should be closed by police, an author has said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38489159"} | 502 | 34 | 0.5457 | 1.437317 | 0.369366 | 0.888889 | 15.148148 | 0.740741 |
The liquid-repelling coating will be used at two popular drinking locations in Shoreditch and Dalston, east London.
Hackney Council spends £100,000 a year cleaning urine off walls and pavements.
Feryal Dermici, cabinet member for neighbourhoods, said: "If the prospect of a fine doesn't put them off from weeing in the street, maybe the risk of getting covered in urine will."
The treatment creates a barrier that repels liquid, meaning that urine will bounce off the wall and back towards the offender.
It is also intended to stop urine soaking into the wall, reducing stains and smells.
Ms Dermici urged people to enjoy themselves responsibly and "think about the people living nearby".
Monika, a duty manager at Nuffield Health, has to clean up the urine left in Bateman's Row, close to Old Street.
She said: "It's not very nice. When I open it's the first thing I go check. People pee in the fire exit.
"Sometimes there's sick too. I have to hose it down.
"It smells particularly bad after the weekends."
On hearing about the new paint, Monika laughed and said: "It's an interesting idea."
But she said better lighting would also help.
The anti-pee substance is made by US company UltraTech, and creates a near-invisible barrier of air over surfaces.
The council, which believes it is the first local authority in the UK to use the repellent, has paid £1,000 to treat the two locations.
It does not want to reveal where the paint will be used. | A special wall coating designed to soak anyone who tries to urinate against it is being trialled by a London council. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35120259"} | 365 | 28 | 0.522913 | 1.383298 | -0.064865 | 0.636364 | 14.454545 | 0.545455 |
The firm said the money will keep its balance sheet steady as it ramps up manufacturing of its newest car.
Tesla aims to make 5,000 of its mass market Model 3 a week by the end of this year.
It has estimated it is already spending about $100m a week to hit that target.
On 4 August Tesla said was looking to raise $1.5bn by selling bonds, but said on Friday it now expected to raise $1.77bn from the sale.
The fundraising is limited to major institutions and not private investors.
Junk bonds are ones that pay a higher yield than normal bonds (5.3% in Tesla's case), but also carry a higher risk of not being paid back. The bonds are set to be repaid in 2025.
Analysts said Tesla's ability to raise more than $1.5bn indicated an appetite for risk among investors, as low interest rates have limited returns in many other types of investments. High stock market valuations have also made it harder to make a profit.
"Without the proceeds from the note offering, Tesla's liquidity position would be stressed," analysts at Moody's said, warning of risks to potential investors.
Tesla had about $3bn in cash at the end of June, but it spent more than $2bn in the most recent quarter.
The company founded by Elon Musk has frequently turned to investors to overcome persistent operating losses.
Tesla plans to eventually make more than 500,000 of the new Model 3 cars a year at its Fremont factory - or about 10,000 per week.
Moody's said the target was ambitious given the relatively small size of the US electric car market. | Tesla expects to raise nearly $1.8bn (£1.4bn) by selling "junk" bonds to private investors - even more than the electric car-maker aimed for when it announced the offering this month. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40906793"} | 346 | 49 | 0.623814 | 1.47202 | 0.713329 | 1 | 8.526316 | 0.736842 |
Devon and Cornwall armed response officer Sgt Harry Tangye has now taken down the tweet, saying: "It's too big a subject for 140 characters."
Police in Truro said they "strongly disagree" with the tweet.
Sgt Tangye apologised earlier this month for another tweet of film of a 140mph police chase.
Off-duty Sgt Tangye, winner of the Police Twitter Awards in 2016, wrote: "Addicted to drugs? I'm fed up with being your keeper. You knew the risks. Find help, use help, sort it, or get lost. #TooMuchEmpathy."
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Sgt Tangye told BBC News the tweets were his views, not the force's, and he was referring to drug addicts who refused to get help.
"Some are quite criminal and create merry hell and they are destroying a lot of towns and cities," he said.
"They should accept help but some are feeding on other victims and creating other victims around them.
"I am a very 'people person' but I see the same names time and time again destroying areas."
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Devon and Cornwall Police said in a statement that "social media interaction" by officers with the public "is vital" and "there has been, and no doubt in the future will be examples of posts and subjects discussed, some of which can be controversial".
It added: "The issue of addiction is hugely complex; understanding and tackling this is something that takes the resources and efforts of a number of public bodies and not just the police."
And it said despite "personal frustrations" from officers seeing the negative effects of addiction, "we as a force will always expect our officers to work with and support those who need our help, and to signpost those in need of specialist care towards the appropriate body".
The BBC approached a number of drugs charities but none wanted to comment.
However, a former addict who is now a volunteer at the Narcotics Anonymous helpline said his family's "tough love" helped him recover.
"I was one of those troublemakers," he said.
"Most drug addicts are in denial and for years I did not think I had a problem.
"It was only when my family stopped enabling me, stopped putting a roof over my head, that I accepted responsibility that it was my problem and I did something about it.
"So I agree with everything he says." | A police officer has sparked a row in the force after a tweet about drug addicts in which he says he is "fed up" and ends: "#TooMuchEmpathy". | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "41060461"} | 585 | 47 | 0.463375 | 1.334844 | 0.077038 | 1.352941 | 15.176471 | 0.882353 |
Former University of Chester lecturer Doreen Collyer, 60, was scuba diving in Perth when she was attacked on Sunday.
It is thought she was killed by a 16ft (5m) great white shark, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) has reported.
Her husband David Collyer said she was a "beautiful person" and "loving wife".
The couple moved to Australia from Neston, Cheshire about five years ago.
Mrs Collyer held an advanced open water qualification.
ABC reported her diving partner managed to pull her from the water but she died from her injuries at the scene.
Prof Annette McIntosh-Scott, from the University of Chester, said Mrs Collyer was a "hugely valued and loved member of staff" and had worked at the Faculty of Health and Social Care for 15 years.
"She will be remembered as someone with a real commitment and passion for teaching and child healthcare - her students were at the heart of all she did," she said.
Arshad Omari, the acting vice chancellor of Perth's Edith Cowan University (ECU), where Ms Collyer worked as a nursing lecturer described her as "a much-loved and respected colleague, mentor and teacher".
Dozens of Ms Collyer's colleagues, students and friends paid tribute to her on social media.
Kelly Mills wrote on Facebook "RIP Doreen, you were an amazing lecturer, thank you for sharing your vast knowledge", while Nikki Vickers said: "Condolences and deepest sympathy to all family, friends and colleagues from ECU Nursing and Midwifery."
The beaches and water in the Mindarie area, where the attack took place, have been closed to the public and an order has been issued by the Department of Fisheries to deploy capture gear to catch the shark. | A grandmother who died in a shark attack off the Australian coast had emigrated from the UK five years ago, it has emerged. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36460830"} | 399 | 29 | 0.433274 | 1.147811 | -0.462955 | 1.04 | 13.88 | 0.72 |
The blaze started at about 10:35 BST at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute on Wilmslow Road and involves the first floor plant room and roof space.
The centre does not house patients but is attached to the main hospital.
A small number of treatments have been postponed and some patients have been moved due to the smoke.
Five patients who were prepped and ready for medical procedures were taken to other parts of the site so their treatment could continue.
Twelve fire engines are at the scene and two aerial platforms are being used to help tackle the blaze.
Sections of Wilmslow Road and Cotton Lane have been closed and the research building, which houses a number of laboratories, has been cleared.
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The Christie is the cancer hospital for most of the North and part of the Midlands and treats about 40,000 patients a year.
Incident commander Jim Hutton, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, said it was a "complex and widespread incident".
"Our main focus is to try and bring the incident under control using our partners' technical knowledge to resolve the incident as soon as we possibly can," he added.
The fire service also asked members of the public to avoid the area and for those living nearby to keep their windows closed.
Nerette Navarro, a student carrying out cancer research at The Christie, was working in the building when the fire broke out.
"Either everything is burnt, smoke damaged or water damaged, so everything is lost," she said.
"I was doing some lab work in a small room and I could smell something bad, but I thought it was just the chemicals we use in that room.
"I left because I couldn't bear the smell and it was making me really dizzy, but then I was told there was a fire and we had to leave."
The centre is funded by Cancer Research UK, which spends about £22m a year on research in Manchester.
A spokesperson for Cancer Research UK said they were "awaiting further information from the emergency services about the extent of the damage caused by the fire."
There's black smoke pouring out of the Paterson Building, which is used by Cancer Research UK.
I'm about 200 yards away, close to the fire hydrant crews are using to access water to tackle the blaze.
The building has been evacuated and people have been moved to safety. In the hospital next door, they are making sure everyone is accounted for.
Wilmslow Road has been closed off by police, there are fire tenders across it and an aerial platform has gone up.
It remains to be seen whether The Christie has to put its full evacuation plan into operation.
In a statement, the hospital confirmed the fire was on the roof, adding: "All the associated areas have been evacuated including any patient areas."
"All patients and staff are safe."
It advised any patients attending the hospital for treatment to "attend as normal" and to access the site via the Palatine Road entrance. | A fire has broken out in a research building attached to the world-renowned Christie cancer hospital. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39719574"} | 639 | 21 | 0.480331 | 1.365981 | 0.118647 | 1.526316 | 32.157895 | 0.789474 |
Connor Sparrowhawk, 18, drowned after an epileptic seizure at Slade House, in Headington, Oxfordshire, in July 2013.
The learning disability unit, run by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, has since been closed.
The jury also concluded there were "serious failings" by the trust, including his bathing arrangements.
The court heard that Connor enjoyed taking baths, and would often stay in the bath for three hours.
On 4 July 2013, he was discovered submerged and unresponsive in a bath at the unit.
Jurors at Oxford Coroners' Court heard staff had been told he should be checked every 15 minutes while in the bath, but there was no formal place to log this observation.
A post-mortem examination concluded he drowned after an epileptic seizure.
The trust attributed his death to natural causes, but an independent report later found that the "level of observations in place at bath time was unsafe and failed to safeguard".
The jury ruled his death had been "contributed to by neglect" and said there had been inadequate communication with Connor's family, as well as inadequate training and supervision.
Katrina Percy, the trust's chief executive, said: "It is absolutely clear that Connor should not have been in a bath without observation."
She described it as "an absolutely tragic failure".
She said the unit had shown a "real lack of team-working", "poor assessment" around Connor's epilepsy care, and a "lack of clarity about who was in charge".
As well as members of the frontline team, Ms Percy said senior managers and clinicians had been disciplined.
"I am deeply, deeply sorry to Connor's family - his parents, his siblings, his wider family - we failed Connor in the most tragic way," she said.
Ms Percy said the trust had since made "many changes" to the way it provided services for people with learning disabilities, including implementing mandatory comprehensive epilepsy training for all staff caring for people with learning disabilities.
It had "brought into sharp focus the need to engage more effectively with patients, their families and carers", she said.
On behalf of the family, lawyer Charlotte Haworth Hird said: "Connor's death was fully preventable.
"Over the past two weeks, we've heard some harrowing accounts of the care provided to Connor.
"We have also heard some heartfelt apologies and some staff taking responsibility for their actions, for which we are grateful."
She added: "Since Connor's death, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust have consistently tried to duck responsibility - focusing more on their reputation than the intense pain and distress they caused, and continue to cause to us."
She described it as a "long and tortuous battle", adding: "Families should not have to fight for justice and accountability from the NHS."
Alistair Burt, minister of state for community and social care, called it a "deeply distressing case".
He added: "As a government, we are fully committed to ensuring the best quality care for everyone, and expect all providers to prioritise the safety and dignity of all patients."
Connor, who had learning disabilities as well as epilepsy, was admitted to Slade House in March 2013 after his behaviour became aggressive.
Six weeks before his death, Connor's mother Dr Sara Ryan emailed staff to say she thought he had experienced a seizure and bitten his tongue, the inquest heard.
However, a decision was made to reduce observations from every 10 minutes to once an hour, which the report called a "missed opportunity". | Neglect contributed to the death of an Oxford teenager who drowned in a bath at an NHS care unit, a jury inquest has ruled. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34548638"} | 808 | 34 | 0.486809 | 1.26673 | 0.208435 | 1.576923 | 27.5 | 0.961538 |
The HSC and the Public Health Agency (PHA) have warned some patients are having to wait longer to be treated.
In a joint statement, they say they are working closely with all Health and Social Care Trusts.
They have urged the public to consider other options if their symptoms are not urgent or life-threatening.
"By choosing the most appropriate service, patients will receive the right treatment in the right place and will help alleviate pressures on other urgent care services at this very busy time, " a HSC spokeswoman said.
The board and the PHA have urged the public to consider other care options available to them such as their GP, nearest minor injury unit or local pharmacy.
"The public are reminded that emergency departments provide the highest level of emergency care for patients, especially those with sudden and acute illness or severe trauma," the spokeswoman added.
"Patients who present at emergency departments will always be dealt with in order of clinical priority, so more acutely ill patients will be seen first." | Emergency departments across Northern Ireland are currently experiencing a high level of pressure, according to the Health and Social Care Board (HSC). | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35217424"} | 218 | 28 | 0.557565 | 1.235052 | 0.301363 | 1.307692 | 7.730769 | 0.692308 |
Opinion is divided as to whether the best policy is to stand firm against North Korean threats or to seek to engage with the government.
Some writers hold the United States partly responsible for the tension, saying its joint military exercises with South Korea had provoked the harsh Northern response.
We welcome President Park Geun-hye's decision to call her first national security meeting, albeit a little belatedly... Despite the gravity of the situation, President Park has calmly yet resolutely responded to Pyongyang's provocations, which deserves our appreciation... President Park stressed the importance of not allowing the enemy to engage in provocations by emphasising that they will be met by relentless retaliation. Actions speak louder than words. The government must fully prepare for any emergencies.
The US has put on a massive show of force in recent joint exercises with South Korea, but Seoul and Washington are more than willing to talk to North Korea and provide economic aid if it abandons its nuclear ambitions. If the North really wants to develop its economy, the path it must take is clear.
The chances are slim that Pyongyang will launch an attack against the US... North Korea's threats are intended as bargaining chips with the US, and have had little effect. The North has to realize that what it has done cannot be the solution.
Mutual distrust is the fundamental reason for the deteriorating situation on the Korean peninsula. Every time the US and South Korea adjust policies toward the North, it results in nuclear threats from that country. Neither military confrontation nor sabre-rattling will lead to breakthroughs in resolving the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula. All parties should stick to diplomacy and dialogue.
The US has practically given up on persuading Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear programme. China should not allow itself to become the first or greatest victim of a war on the peninsula. As long as China does this, it can still handle the peninsular crisis through a policy of non-intervention. China should strengthen its endurance in tackling the crisis and make a plan to deal with any emergencies, which is where China's initiative comes from.
Only North Korea/US dialogue can calm the situation and avert a war in northeast Asia. Both North Korea and the US are to blame, especially the joint US military drills with South Korea.
North Korea's disdain for China is growing by the day. Sober-minded Chinese scholars all know that China is being taken advantage of by North Korea and is the biggest loser in the North Korean nuclear issue.
Kommersant's informed sources in Moscow admit that, even though Russia is a participant in the six-party talks, it has long since lost any effective levers for influencing Pyongyang. Moscow is concerned that the West may try to use the crisis to boost its military presence in the region, and hopes that Beijing will make North Korea "come to its senses". Kommersant's sources say that the situation on the peninsula is "extremely tense, but there is no reason for extreme alarm at this point".
US experts attribute North Korea's threats to Pyongyang's aspiration to create a decisive public image for the 30-year-old leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. But recall that these threats were a response to the Foal Eagle US/South Korean drill... It is as though Washington is playing into the hands of the ambitious North Korean leader... It is time to stop the dangerous actions by both sides.
Washington understands that with these statements North Korea is mostly trying to deter, rather than frighten... The regime has one goal of truly vital importance: to get everyone to leave it alone... Russia's position remains the same as it has been for a long time: exerting pressure on Pyongyang is pointless. It is possible to find a way out of the dead-end only through the socialisation of North Korea, through its gentle involvement in international integration... Russia has an advantage in that it is not feared by North Korea and is neutral compared to other countries in the region.
The Korean peninsula has become a battlefield. But only of words. A real war is unlikely... Look at the USA. Whenever they plan something, they bring in a strike force into the region... Their presence is not enough for serious business... North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the North Korean army under no circumstances to open fire first, so as not to give their opponents a reason for revenge. The North Korean army, although large, is equipped with outdated equipment and will clearly not be able to withstand such a blow.
No actual conflict will break out and, in reality, the North Korean authorities are just pursuing their old tactic: they want to secure new international aid in exchange for stopping their belligerent rhetoric.
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BBC Sport has compiled the key numbers for the 2015 season, with a strong focus on Hamilton and Rosberg as well as some interesting statistics about the other drivers.
Find out who was the best starter, which driver accumulated the most penalties and plenty more besides.
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Media playback is not supported on this device | It has been another eventful Formula 1 season, with Lewis Hamilton once again emerging as world champion after an, at times, fraught battle with Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34947749"} | 119 | 38 | 0.435 | 0.89026 | -0.207401 | 0.5 | 3.352941 | 0.323529 |
Slack defending allowed Christian Atsu to give Newcastle an early lead, and Yoan Gouffran struck a second shortly before half-time.
Cardiff sparked hopes of a comeback when substitute Peter Whittingham scored with 13 minutes left.
But the hosts held on, meaning Cardiff remain 21st.
Second-placed Brighton cut Newcastle's lead at the summit from six points back down to three with a 2-0 win at Bristol City.
Whatever the outcome at Ashton Gate, Newcastle kept the pressure on their rivals with a rampant start against Cardiff.
They were ahead after less than three minutes as Aleksandar Mitrovic found space in the Cardiff penalty area before teeing up Atsu.
Rafael Benitez's men had chances to extend their advantage but Jonjo Shelvey's shot was blocked by Sol Bamba, while Cardiff goalkeeper Ben Amos denied Paul Dummett.
However, that was simply delaying the inevitable as, moments before half-time, Gouffran's low drive gave Newcastle the two-goal advantage their domination warranted.
Cardiff had chances to cut their deficit, with Craig Noone, Rickie Lambert and Bamba all failing to hit the target from promising positions.
Neil Warnock's side eventually struck courtesy of Whittingham's shot from the edge of the area, but their late efforts to rescue a point were in vain.
Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez: "We started well, had chances and scored two, and started the second half well, but we didn't do it.
"I would rather play passing football, getting goals. In football if you play well you will have chances to win games. Sometimes you can't because the opposition is aggressive and the ref allows this contact.
"If you can it means you are strong as well. Sometimes you play passing football, sometimes you have to be strong and defend and stand up."
Cardiff manager Neil Warnock: "I am so gutted at the penalty. Mitrovic mauls him down; at this level the officials should be educated better and know about the pull.
"To add salt the linesman gives the free-kick to them. They will go home and see it with their coaches next week and say 'oh yeah, I made a mistake'.
"We have not got enough goals in the squad at the moment - we have to work on that.
"There were some pluses though: the lads at the back especially. At half time they might have got five or six. The second goal killed us."
Match ends, Newcastle United 2, Cardiff City 1.
Second Half ends, Newcastle United 2, Cardiff City 1.
Ciaran Clark (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marouane Chamakh (Cardiff City).
Attempt missed. Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Sean Morrison with a headed pass.
Foul by Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United).
Kadeem Harris (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Mohamed Diamé replaces Christian Atsu.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Junior Hoilett.
Attempt saved. Sean Morrison (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ben Amos.
Foul by DeAndre Yedlin (Newcastle United).
Joe Bennett (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City) is shown the yellow card.
Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City).
Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sean Morrison (Cardiff City).
Foul by Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United).
Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Newcastle United 2, Cardiff City 1. Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marouane Chamakh.
Foul by Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United).
Sol Bamba (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Kadeem Harris replaces Craig Noone.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Peter Whittingham replaces Kieran Richardson.
Attempt missed. Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City) header from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Aron Gunnarsson with a cross.
Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City).
Substitution, Cardiff City. Marouane Chamakh replaces Rickie Lambert.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Vurnon Anita replaces Yoan Gouffran.
Attempt missed. Yoan Gouffran (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Paul Dummett.
Attempt blocked. Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Atsu.
Attempt missed. Sol Bamba (Cardiff City) header from the right side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Junior Hoilett with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Karl Darlow.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Ciaran Clark.
Foul by Yoan Gouffran (Newcastle United).
Lee Peltier (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Craig Noone (Cardiff City) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the right side of the box. Assisted by Aron Gunnarsson.
Ciaran Clark (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Noone (Cardiff City).
Attempt missed. Rickie Lambert (Cardiff City) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Lee Peltier. | Newcastle earned a seventh consecutive league win as they beat Cardiff to strengthen their position at the top of the Championship. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37808924"} | 1,437 | 24 | 0.348893 | 0.862191 | -0.18069 | 0.772727 | 52.545455 | 0.590909 |
President Assad made the comments in an address at Damascus University,
His forces have been steadily recapturing rebel-held towns near the Lebanese border for several months.
More than 150,000 people have been killed in the conflict, with millions forced to flee their homes.
"This is a turning point in the crisis," President Assad said.
He added that his army was winning what he called "the war against terror".
Government forces have secured the main north-south highway in Syria in recent months, and have cut off vital supply routes for rebel forces.
President Assad is expected to announce that he will stand for a third term as leader.
The BBC's Lyse Doucet says the comments make clear that he is not willing to stand down despite repeated calls for him to go by armed opposition groups and their Western and Arab backers.
Meanwhile, the Syrian air force carried out bombing raids on areas near Damascus on Sunday, rights groups said.
Activists said 20 people were killed in government air attacks in the Douma suburb.
Syria's official news agency reported that a man was killed and twenty injured in a mortar attack in central Damascus.
On Friday, the government and opposition forces accused each other of using poison gas in the village of Kafr Zita.
The attack killed two people and left dozens injured.
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Nell the collie was spotted stuck down Monessie Gorge, at Roybridge near Fort William, by a person on a train that was passing on the nearby West Highland Line.
Members of Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team used ropes to get down into the gorge on Thursday evening and rescued the cold and hungry dog.
Team leader John Stevenson said: "The dog belongs to a local crofter."
He added: "It is an older dog and retired from working and it had been missing for 12 days.
"The gorge cannot be seen from the side of the road, but the driver or a passenger on a train passing on the nearby line saw the dog.
"We were having a committee meeting at the time. We left that and headed for the gorge.
"It is not deep, but you can only get down into it using ropes.
"But it was a nice quick job. It was over in an hour, and provided a little bit of training for the team."
He added: "The collie was a bit timid and took a bit of coaxing to come out from where it was.
"I think it was glad to see us and the crofter was glad to have his dog back." | A sheepdog that went missing 12 days ago has been rescued from a gorge. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39378768"} | 271 | 20 | 0.558922 | 1.363533 | -0.807071 | 1 | 16.4 | 0.733333 |
Olwyn Fulton was pronounced dead in the Parkway Shopping Centre car park in Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough, on 7 Decemeber.
A 65-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of a collision.
She remains in police custody for questioning. | A woman has been arrested after an 84-year-old grandmother of 10 died in a hit-and-run crash. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38263671"} | 76 | 28 | 0.552086 | 1.024633 | -1.063018 | 1.6 | 2.44 | 0.64 |
16 August 2017 Last updated at 06:53 BST
From making new friends, to getting lost, we asked kids what worried them about starting at a new school.
Check out the video and click here to watch our special Newsround programme about starting secondary school. | If you are getting ready to start high school, you might be wondering what it will be like. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40934766"} | 54 | 21 | 0.468249 | 0.917139 | -1.36015 | 0.3 | 2.5 | 0.3 |
Liverpool City Council is urging people to avoid Edge Lane after a carriageway collapse closed it in both directions causing concern about a gas main.
United Utilities has identified that a brick sewer is blocked under the road.
"It's hard to say how long repairs will take until we can actually dig down," said United Utilities wastewater strategy manager Tony Griffiths.
He added: "At this stage we don't know what has caused the sewer to block up, it could be ground movement or subsidence.
"Our first priority is to make the area safe and set up a bypass pumping system so that wastewater flows can get past the blocked section.
"It may then be possible to open the opposite carriageway and set up a contraflow system for traffic while repairs take place. "
But he warned: "It's hard to say how long repairs will take until we can actually dig down and fully assess the situation, but it's likely to be weeks rather than days."
Edge Lane is a main route into the city centre from the east. | One of the main roads into Liverpool has been closed after a 7m (23ft) deep hole opened up. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40446687"} | 230 | 26 | 0.548888 | 1.192024 | -0.446841 | 0.521739 | 9.086957 | 0.434783 |
The bridesmaid was a known transgendered activist in a Chinese-style gown of red and gold - "for good luck" - and the mayor of West Hollywood performed the ceremony.
But even by the "anything goes" West Hollywood standard, the wedding was unusual.
The seven couples married in the mass wedding were all from China - the winners of a contest meant to promote the rights of gay people to marry in China and around the world.
More than 2,000 couples applied to the "We Do" contest hosted by Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Gay marriage is not legal in China, but there is a growing gay rights movement.
"The progress that's been made in terms of gay rights, for want of a better word, in China has been astronomical," said Geng Le, the CEO of Chinese gay dating app Blued, which has 15 million members.
"In fact, when Ireland recently voted on the same sex referendum, it was reported on the national media in China. So the progress has been pretty quick."
Charlie Gu, of China Luxury Advisors, organised the wedding in West Hollywood. Mr Gu's job is to help luxury brands market to the growing number of Chinese travellers and consumers.
"For a company like Alibaba there is also a strong business interest in this," Mr Gu said of the mass wedding.
"When you look at companies like Google and Apple all stepping up their game to embrace marriage equality and support this cause, Alibaba as a publicly traded company in the United States certainly wanted to elevate their status and their participating in the global business community and be part of it - do the right thing."
The wedding was held Tuesday morning at the West Hollywood public library. It was a solemn and emotional event, with the couples walking the short aisle through the library auditorium to sit in seats until it was their turn on stage.
They walked the aisle to the tune of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and each wedding took just a few moments.
The sponsors sprung for platinum Tiffany rings for the couples. But Rongfeng Duan, 38, of Shanghai had other plans. Coco Lachine - the bridesmaid - brought the Tiffany ring to him and West Hollywood Mayor Lindsey Horvath asked him to place the ring on Tao Li's finger.
But Mr Duan solicited gasps and then applause from the small crowd when he said: "No thanks, I have another."
He had another Tiffany ring. A gold one with diamonds. Mr Li broke down in tears and afterward couldn't stop admiring his sparkly new ring as the other couples were getting married.
"It cannot be complete without a diamond," Mr Duan said after the wedding. "We already got the support from family and friends including the red envelopes [full of money] which is a tradition in China."
Mr Duan and Mr Li, the couple who wore the lime green and moustache ties, say they have matching red suits to wear for a reception their mothers are hosting for them in Shanghai to celebrate the marriage once they get home. Gay marriage may not be legal in China, but it's becoming easier to be gay, they said.
"Unfortunately, it is still the case today that for the LGBT community in China, they are unable to walk down the aisle with the person they love," Mr Le of Blued said to the wedding party.
"These seven couples are also represented of the entire Chinese LGBT community. Another reason we brought them to LA - we want to showcase to the community back in China what it can really be like."
To win the contest, couples had to submit a video sharing their love stories to Taobao, an online marketplace owned by Alibaba, which is similar to Amazon or eBay (and sells more than them both combined).
The public then voted on winners and 10 couples were selected. Only seven made the trip to California because the other three couples had visa problems.
Aside from the wedding, the couples were treated to tours of Los Angeles, shopping trips and various dinners out on the town.
After the ceremony, the couples wiped away their tears as they posed for group photos with the mayor and the bridesmaid. Mayor Horvath, who is just 32 and has been mayor for just two months, said she considers it her job to fight for gay marriage around the world.
"I do believe that today's occasion not only helps to demonstrates the love and commitment all couples share but to let those people who want to shut us down and take away the rights and privileges of these couples that we will not stop," she said, "until all love can be celebrated equally under the law". | The two brides wore white and the 12 grooms wore suits, two in lime green with matching moustache-adorned bow ties. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33074682"} | 1,019 | 32 | 0.312158 | 0.860604 | -0.426021 | 0.916667 | 39.083333 | 0.75 |
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Ferguson, 75, stepped down in 2013 but retains close ties to Old Trafford and attends most games.
"I think he has done a great job," said the Scot in an exclusive interview with BBC Sport.
Ferguson also explained why he thinks Wayne Rooney's United goalscoring record will never be broken.
Jose Mourinho became Manchester United's third manager since Ferguson retired when he replaced Louis van Gaal in May.
Although he won his opening three games in charge, Mourinho's team collected just six points from their next seven Premier League matches.
There was a period earlier in the season when he wasn't getting the decisions and his emotions boiled over. You see him now - he is calm and in control
They have been sixth after every round of matches since the end of October and stayed in that position after the 1-1 draw at Stoke on 21 January, when Rooney scored an injury-time equaliser to become United's record goalscorer, with 250.
Nevertheless, Ferguson can see signs of progress under the Portuguese. And though Chelsea are eight points clear at the top of the Premier League - and 14 points ahead of the Old Trafford club - he believes his former side are "unlucky" not to be up there with them.
"You can see he has got to grips with the club," he said.
"The team is playing really well and he has been very unlucky. He has had six 1-1 draws and in every game he has battered the opposition.
"If they hadn't had all these draws, they would be there challenging Chelsea. That is the unfortunate part but he is going to have to live with that."
Mourinho has been sent to the stands twice this season, against Burnley and West Ham, as his side struggled to overcome supposedly inferior opposition at Old Trafford.
The former Chelsea and Real Madrid manager seems far more relaxed now though.
United go to Hull on Thursday for the second leg of their EFL Cup semi-final unbeaten in 17 games. That run encompassed nine successive wins, including a 2-0 triumph in the first leg at Old Trafford, their longest-winning sequence since Ferguson called time on his illustrious career.
Ferguson said: "I was a little bit different from Jose in the respect that I wanted to build the football club and wanted young players to be part of that.
"Nonetheless, the first team weren't doing great and you have to find solutions to correct that. I think Jose is finding solutions now. There was a period earlier in the season when he wasn't getting the decisions and his emotions boiled over. You see him now - he is calm and in control.
"That is the obvious observation I am making of the team now. The team is mirroring its manager.
"On Saturday at Stoke, they played to the last kick of the ball. They never gave in and got their rewards to take something from the game with that great Rooney goal.
"And did you see what he did? Ran to the halfway line. No celebration. Pointed to the ball as if to say 'get it, we are going to win this'. That is exactly the spirit Jose has created."
Sir Bobby Charlton's club record of 249 Manchester United goals had stood for 44 years until Rooney went past it at the Britannia Stadium.
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Charlton amassed his tally in 758 appearances for the club. Rooney, 31, has gone one better in 546 games since moving from Everton for £27m as an 18-year-old in 2004.
With the chance to score even more this season and a contract that runs to 2018 if the Liverpool-born player remains at Old Trafford until its conclusion, Rooney has set a record that is unlikely ever to be beaten, according to Ferguson.
"In the present-day game, it is difficult to see any club having players who can stay with them for 10 years.
"Jose has mentioned Marcus Rashford and there is an opportunity for that young lad, if he stays at United, and develops his potential the way that Wayne has. But it is a very big target to hit.
"Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence."
BBC Sport's Simon Stone
It is nearly four years now since Sir Alex Ferguson stepped down as manager of Manchester United, yet the ease with which he skipped from room to room to conduct interviews at a Cheshire hotel on Tuesday suggests that, at 75, he remains as enthusiastic for life as ever.
There is no longer the same hint of menace about him if the questions are not to his satisfaction, although I suspect if I had strayed off topic, I might have got a mild blast of the famous hair dryer.
But Ferguson remains engaging company. Far different to the combustible figure who dominated the touchline and harangued anyone who got in his - and United's - way.
These days a funny story usually close at hand. Today, it concerned the mother of Everton chairman Bill Kenwright, who, Ferguson recalled, pleaded with him over the phone not to take away "my boy" as negotiations over Rooney's £27m move from Everton drew to a close in 2004.
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New concrete block facing and rock armour will be installed on the existing sea wall between the Heugh Gun Battery and Marine Drive.
The work can only be done between March and September so as to not disrupt winter birds.
Hartlepool Council said the additions would last 100 years and protect more than 500 homes.
There will also be extra protection to the sea wall from the Pilot Pier to the Heugh Breakwater.
Concrete blocks will be placed at the base of the wall in a stepped formation, to absorb the impact of the waves.
The coastal defences have been designed by Hartlepool Council's engineers and funded by the authority and Environment Agency.
The work will continue in phases until 2020.
Marjorie James, chair of the council's neighbourhood services committee, said: "Rising sea levels and coastal erosion are a serious threat along Britain's coastline and ensuring Hartlepool is properly protected, is a key priority for the council.
"These sea defences have been designed to withstand the most severe storms and to last for over 100 years.
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Fundraiser Fiona Barnes 54, stole "tens of thousands" of pounds from Preston's Space Centre in 2012.
She tried to cover her tracks by faking documents indicating the centre had won non-existent grants of up to £800,000.
Serial fraudster Barnes also admitted perverting the course of justice after she faked cancer in a bid to avoid justice, Preston Crown Court heard.
She also pleaded guilty to theft.
Sentencing, Judge David Potter described Barnes, of Brigend, Dunblane, as a "convincing con artist" who had committed identical crimes in Scotland.
"Those who trusted you feel utterly devastated by your rank dishonesty, compounded by your deliberate attempt to pervert the course of justice," he added.
Speaking after the case, the centre's deputy manager Jane Robinson said Barnes' "unbelievable" actions had left the it £800,000 in debt.
Staff had commissioned contractors to perform building work in the mistaken belief the costs would be covered, Ms Robinson said.
"She knew the nature of the people we were working with and she still did it.
"She'd allowed us to build and extend and have all the work done knowing this money wasn't coming in."
"With grants you have to do the work and then claim the money to pay the people who have done the work".
Ms Robinson added: "It was all the builders and the lighting [engineers] we owed the money to who bore the brunt of it. Any one of them could have put us into bankruptcy at any time."
However, the centre was bought out by charitable company Creative Support, based in Manchester, which has secured its future.
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The decision to join Town Hall and Westgate markets in Mansfield was taken by the district council on 13 November.
The move also includes the number of market days reduced, stalls moved and £100,000 in improvements to the existing Town Hall marketplace.
A group of councillors have formally challenged the move. The plans will be re-examined on 9 December.
Independent councillor Stewart Rickersey, of Mansfield District Council, had approved the plans, which include a reduction of trading days from six to five days a week to allow special events and concerts - prompting protests from traders.
Six opposition Labour councillors have now "called in" that decision.
Steve Buxton, who runs a stall on Westgate, said it was "marvellous the council is now listening to us... we have not been listened to all the way through this campaign".
However, Mr Buxton believes the redevelopment would be "great for Mansfield, but not at the expense of the livelihoods of 75 different traders and businesses".
Some traders believe if the change still goes ahead it will mean a drop in footfall.
Market trader Steve Louth had said: "We can't afford to drop any takings - it has happened before and that is why the market is half empty."
Westgate stallholder Sue McFarland added: "This will put us - me and plenty of others - out of business. We will not survive down there."
Executive Mayor Kate Allsop said she wanted the town to have "a bustling marketplace" with many new traders. | Approved plans to merge two markets in a Nottinghamshire town, opposed by many stallholders, will be reviewed. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34954001"} | 347 | 29 | 0.561363 | 1.433149 | 0.185334 | 0.9 | 14.85 | 0.7 |
Welsh men are expected to live an average of 78.3 years and women 82.3 years.
The figure has risen by just over a month since last year and by one year since 2007/8.
Wales' average life expectancy is still around a year less than in England. | The average life expectancy in Wales has increased slightly since last year according to latest figures from the Office of National Statistics. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "30118592"} | 60 | 25 | 0.865006 | 1.409167 | 0.450647 | 1.130435 | 2.26087 | 0.608696 |
The complaint against Nestle is that it caused damage to consumers through misleading advertisements related to its Maggi noodles product.
Maggi was banned in India after the food safety regulator accused Nestle of not complying with food safety laws.
Nestle has challenged this at the Bombay high court, saying its products are safe.
But the company, which has 80% of India's instant noodles market, has already destroyed 400m packets of Maggi products.
The claim, made on behalf of Indian consumers, was not filed through the courts but with the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), which has semi-judicial powers.
A Nestle spokesman in Delhi told the Reuters news agency that the company would only be able to "provide substantive response" after it received an official notice about the complaint filed to the NCDRC.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had earlier said that tests deemed the instant noodles to contain "unsafe and hazardous" amounts of lead.
Nestle says that its noodles are safe as seen in the results of tests conducted in other countries, including the US, Britain and Singapore.
Two Indian laboratories in the western state of Goa and the southern city of Mysore also recently cleared the noodles, but the findings were dismissed by India's food safety authority, saying there were lapses in the tests.
The Bombay high court verdict on the case is expected soon. It has reserved its order, but has suggested that samples of Maggi noodles be re-tested. Nestle has agreed, but the safety regulator has responded negatively.
"There is no provision for such a testing according to the law, we will not follow a different procedure because of Nestle," the lawyer for the regulator told the Indian Express newspaper.
The news of legal action has caused a stir on Indian social media. The tag "Rs 634" - a reference to the amount of the damages the government is seeking (634 crore rupees which is 6.34bn rupees) - has begun trending on Twitter.
Most have asked whether the large amount of compensation that has been sought on behalf of the consumers would be redistributed to everyone who ever ate Maggi.
Others reacted with derision, and even pleaded with the prime minister to intervene.
A few, however, are of the opinion that the action is deserved. | India is suing Nestle for $100m (£64m) over "unfair trade practices", an official has confirmed to the BBC. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33877136"} | 511 | 30 | 0.505871 | 1.203536 | -0.330532 | 0.75 | 16.214286 | 0.607143 |
Police were called to the Drumlanrig Drive area of the city on Sunday morning.
A 32-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman were found dead.
A Police Scotland spokesman said the 42-year-old had been charged in connection with the incident and the man was expected to appear at Dundee Sheriff Court on Monday.
Detective Inspector Brian Geddes said: "Thank you to the members of the public who have assisted us with the investigation, your support is appreciated." | A 42-year-old man has been charged by police following the deaths of another man and a woman in Dundee. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39097163"} | 105 | 28 | 0.721345 | 1.391074 | -0.536675 | 1.958333 | 4.125 | 0.791667 |
He quit as deputy prime minister amid denials from the Kremlin that the step was connected to a row over the alleged embezzlement of state funds.
Mr Surkov had criticised an inquiry into a project he had been supervising.
He was once thought to be one of Russia's most powerful men, creating its system of "managed democracy".
But in December 2011, he was removed from his job as deputy head of the presidential administration.
That was soon after elections overshadowed by allegations of ballot-rigging and the biggest street protests in Moscow since Soviet times.
Mr Surkov was appointed deputy prime minister instead, first under President Dmitry Medvedev, then under Mr Putin when he returned to the Kremlin last year.
Put in charge of modernising the Russian economy, he publicly clashed with investigators last week over allegations of fraud against an official at the Skolkovo innovation hub, outside Moscow. He warned them against prejudicing the inquiry.
However, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov suggested Mr Surkov had resigned after Mr Putin criticised ministers for failing to carry out his orders.
In a Kremlin career spanning 12 years, Mr Surkov saw through controversial political reforms which cemented the grip of Mr Putin and his allies on power.
When Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov pulled out of the 2011 parliamentary election campaign, he famously blamed him, saying: "There is a puppet master in this country who long ago privatised the political system... His name is Vladislav Yurevich Surkov."
Mr Surkov, 48, told Russia's Kommersant newspaper on Wednesday he would explain his reason for resigning at the "appropriate" time. | Vladislav Surkov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's former political strategist, has resigned from the government without explanation. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "22448123"} | 389 | 27 | 0.534268 | 1.363114 | 0.126192 | 0.85 | 15.4 | 0.65 |
The claim: Many young male migrants arrived in Sweden over the past few years, when the country accepted unprecedented numbers of refugees, and there has been a huge rise in sexual crime in Sweden especially in the southern port city of Malmo.
Reality Check verdict: Malmo, along with other urban centres in Sweden, has one of the highest levels of reported rapes in proportion to population in the EU, mainly due to the strictness of Swedish laws and how rape is recorded in the country.
The rate of reported rapes in Malmo has not dramatically risen in recent years and has in fact declined from its peak in 2010, before the recent large increases in refugees.
It is not possible to connect crimes to the ethnicity of the perpetrators as such data is not published.
Mr Farage said there had been no specific terrorist attacks in Sweden since large numbers of refugees arrived there, but, instead, he claimed Sweden had seen a dramatic rise in sexual crime and its southern port city of Malmo - the third largest city in the country - had become Europe's and possibly the world's "rape capital".
So, has there been a big rise in sexual crime in Sweden and have the numbers of rapes increased in Malmo since Sweden took in an unprecedented numbers of refugees?
The first thing to say is that the part of the claim referring to the number of refugees is certainly true.
Sweden has been one of the biggest recipients of refugees in the EU in recent years.
According to Eurostat, the agency that collects statistical data from all EU countries, in 2015 Sweden had over 162,000 asylum applications or 1,667 asylum seekers for every 100,000 citizens.
A large majority of the 2015 asylum seekers - 114,470 - were male, 45,790 of them between 18 and 34 years of age.
"Sexual offences" is a very broad term, which refers to a range of all sex-related crimes in Sweden.
Rape is one of the sexual offences, but other crimes such as paying for sex, sexual harassment, indecent exposure, sexual exploitation, molestation and trafficking are included in the numbers as well.
During 2015, the year in which Sweden took the largest number of asylum seekers, the number of reported sex crimes and rapes actually decreased by 11% and 12% respectively compared with 2014 - 18,100 sex offences were reported to the police, of which 5,920 were classified as rape.
This was preceded by a rise of both sex offences and rapes reported to the police in 2014.
The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Bra) says this rise is due to the changes to the legislation in 2013, which made it tougher.
Similar increases in the number of reported cases were seen in 2006, after new sex offence legislation came into force in April 2005.
Since then, Sweden has recorded every reported case of sexual violence separately.
That means, as Susanne Lekengard from Bra explains, that if a person comes to the police and reports being raped by a partner or husband every day for the past year, the police will record each of these events.
In many other countries these incidents would be recorded just once: one victim, one type of crime and one record.
Also, paying for sex became one of the crimes counted in the statistics.
Sweden does not publish the ethnicity or national background of perpetrators of any crime, including sexual offences.
According to Bra, the number of reported rape cases in proportion to the population in the municipality of Malmo has not seen a sharp increase since the biggest group of refugees arrived.
Reported rapes per 100,000 inhabitants peaked in 2008, 2010 and 2011, and the figures were higher for those pre-refugee influx years than in 2015 and 2016.
In addition, the reported rape figures were not higher in the Malmo municipality, compared with two other major urban municipalities in Sweden: the capital Stockholm and Gothenburg in the west.
It is very hard to compare sex-related offences and rape across the world.
Police procedures and legal definitions vary widely around the world, making an international comparison meaningless.
The 2012 UN international rape rate comparison showed Sweden to have the highest rate of rape in Europe and the second highest in the world, but the report did not contain data for a total of 63 countries that did not submit any statistics, including, for example, South Africa, where other earlier surveys indicated a very high rape rate.
The most recent Eurostat data for the 28 EU countries also puts Sweden in the top spot.
But the agency warns that comparisons between different countries should be avoided because of differences between their legal and criminal justice systems, recording practices, reporting rates, efficiencies of criminal justice organisations and types of offences included in the categories.
There has also been a public debate in Sweden over the past two decades to raise awareness and encourage women to go to the police if they have been attacked.
This has resulted in a higher report rate than in other countries in Europe.
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A silver Renault Clio and a silver Honda Civic crashed on the town's West Road at about 14:30.
The woman, who is believed to have been driving one of the cars, has been airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
A man, thought to be the other driver, was described as "walking wounded". | A woman has been seriously injured after two cars collided in Peterhead. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37668318"} | 73 | 17 | 0.622846 | 1.176696 | -0.478835 | 0.615385 | 4.846154 | 0.461538 |
John Gerrard Wynne, 61, of Exmouth, Devon, was walking with his 26-year-old daughter on 3,000ft (100m) Tryfan when he fell on Sunday.
They were descending down the South Gully when they decided to turn around but Mr Wynne slipped. He is believed to have fallen more than 200ft (60m).
He was airlifted to hospital in Bangor where he died.
Chris Lloyd, of Ogwen Valley mountain rescue team, said the pair had been walking in the area over the weekend when they took a wrong path down the mountain.
An inquest is expected to be held into Mr Wynne's death. | A man who died after falling a "considerable" distance while walking in Snowdonia has been named. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39932922"} | 156 | 24 | 0.485338 | 1.056672 | -0.855546 | 0.473684 | 6.736842 | 0.368421 |
The waves are the result of swells produced by Hurricane Marie in the Pacific, 800 miles (1,300km) west of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
Dangerous wave conditions are expected to continue through Thursday despite a weakened storm.
One person has died while surfing on a beach in Malibu.
But it is unclear if the death was caused by the surf or a medical condition.
Despite the danger, thousands of spectators lined the Wedge, a popular surf spot in Newport Beach, to watch surfboarders take on the waves, town officials said.
The swells are the largest seen in southern California since a pair of hurricanes hit the Pacific within weeks of each other in 1997, National Weather Service weather specialist Stuart Ceto said. | Waves as high as 20ft (6m) in southern California have damaged waterfront homes, knocked out pier pilings and attracted scores of surfers. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "28961231"} | 166 | 37 | 0.672816 | 1.183511 | 0.192743 | 0.535714 | 5.071429 | 0.321429 |
The refresh also introduces topic-specific alternatives to its news feed.
One consequence of the change is that adverts can take up more screen space, making them harder to ignore.
However, the project's lead engineer denied ads were the redesign's focus. He also played down suggestions that the move was intended to make people spend more time on the site.
Chris Struhar instead suggested his focus had been on stripping back the amount of information being shown on the news feed to make each post more "engaging".
By Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent
Rory's verdict on Facebook's 'tabloid' look
"One of the consistent themes we heard in feedback from people was that it felt cluttered and that there was lot happening on the page," he told the BBC ahead of the official announcement.
"We wanted to clean up the page, declutter it, make it simpler, more modern and easier for people to use.
"I often compare this to a 1960s television with wood panelling, knobs around it and a tiny postage stamp-sized screen - and what we're trying to do is take that same TV and translate it into a 40in HD experience."
The firm has begun rolling out the new format but it will be months before all users are affected. However, those wanting to be among the first to be switched over can sign up to offering a waiting list feature.
Facebook reported in January that 1.06 billion people were using its service at least once a month.
It also revealed that its profit for the last three months of 2012 was 79% down on the same period the previous year despite a rise in sales because of increased spending on research and development.
There are three key changes being made to the social network:
It is also noteworthy that the firm has now dropped its "facebook" logo which spelt out its full name, and replaced it with an "f" icon. This change had already been experienced by the selected group of users given early access to its Graph Search facility.
Another tweak involves auto-generating maps to accompany posts about specific locations. This may encourage more members to use the mobile app's GPS-powered check-in function which competes with Foursquare.
Investors and marketers will be keen to find out whether the alterations make users more likely to read and interact with paid content.
The social network already knows that engagement with ads in its main news feed is greater than with those that appear on the right-hand side of its web browser. This column of adverts is absent from its mobile apps altogether.
Enlarging the news feed now allows a sponsored post to become by far the biggest element on the screen, taking up roughly a third of the page when viewed on a 13in (33cm) laptop display.
Another business-friendly change is that if a user "likes" an organisation a horizontal banner photo is added to posts reporting the news in addition to the brand's logo, making the update more eye-catching.
Mr Struhar acknowledged that sponsored posts from "liked" brands had become bigger, but added that it was not his intention to make users more likely to click them.
"This redesign doesn't change anything about how people interact with ads on Facebook," he said.
"We aren't changing where adverts show up or what ads you see. We're just trying to take all the content that you do see and make that bigger and more immersive and more engaging."
He added that further amendments might be made once users had had a chance to provide feedback.
Hin-Yan Wong, head of strategy at Connect Advertising & Marketing, said he expected users would eventually learn to get used the new look - and come to accept the bigger presence of advertisers.
"I think the design, which is a lot less cluttered, actually cleans up the whole thing quite a lot," he told the BBC.
"It's really a case of making sure you have high quality [advertising] content.
"Facebook will have to make that work because they have to make money. I suspect in the weeks to come they will unveil additional flexibility for advertisers.
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While skin bleaching is a long-standing cosmetic staple across Sudan, a newer craze is sweeping the nation.
Many young women are turning to prescription pills in order to gain weight, and hopefully gain the curvaceous figures they see as the standard of beauty.
Away from the regulation of trained pharmacists, fattening pills are illegally dispensed by the same small shops which sell topical bleaching creams and other popular beauty fixes.
Sold individually, in small bags and emptied sweet containers, they are completely devoid of any information about medical risks.
It is difficult to estimate how many women in Sudan use these products to gain weight, because many are reluctant to admit to it.
"Pills are handed out in the village like penny sweets," says Imitithal Ahmed, a student at the University of Khartoum.
"I've always been scared [to use them] because I've seen family members fall ill and close friends become dependent on appetite stimulants.
"My aunt is on the brink of kidney failure and has blocked arteries from taking too many fattening pills, trying to get a bigger bum.
"Everyone in the family knows why she's sick, but she won't own up to it. She's had to stop taking the pills on doctor's orders."
Yousra Elbagir:
"Fattening pills are a popular niche within a much bigger trend"
Pills are often rebranded and given catchy street names which allude to their effects.
From The Neighbours' Shock to Chicken Thighs and My Mama Suspects, the clinical name of pills are forgotten and replaced by promises of a bigger bottom, shapely thighs and a belly that will have your mother concerned that you might be pregnant.
Tablets range from standard appetite stimulants to allergy medicines containing the steroid hormone, cortisone.
The side-effects of taking cortisone are now a cash cow for pill peddlers. It is known to slow the metabolism, increase appetite, trigger water retention and create extra deposits of fat around the abdomen and face.
Using unregulated steroids without supervision can damage the heart, liver, kidneys and thyroid, says Dr Salah Ibrahim, Head of the Pharmacists' Union in Sudan.
He explains that cortisone is a naturally occurring hormone in the body, helping to regulate vital bodily functions. But when a man-made, concentrated version enters the body in the form of pills or topical bleaching creams, the brain gives the body a signal to stop production.
If a user suddenly stops taking the substance, their major organs can spiral into dysfunction.
Young women in Sudan are dying from kidney and heart failure caused by sudden steroid withdrawal, medical professionals say.
Fatalities are especially common among new brides, who traditionally undergo a month of intense beautification before their wedding day and then abruptly stop using fattening pills and steroidal bleaching creams. Their deaths are put down to sudden organ failure.
Yet these horrifying beauty trends continue to gain traction.
Prescription pill abuse is taking off in Sudan's conservative society, partly because it lacks the social stigma and pungent, giveaway odour of alcohol and cannabis.
University students flock to buy the potent painkiller Tramadol, which is sold for 20 Sudanese pounds ($1; 80 pence) per pill.
Some of Khartoum's roadside tea-sellers are even known to drop the painkiller in a cup of tea, upon a coded request.
Awareness campaigns have so far had very little impact.
Dr Ibrahim, Head of the Pharmacists Union, has made numerous appearances on national television to warn of the dangers of prescription pill abuse.
At university level, pharmacists are taught vigilance and trained to act in keeping with ethics and pharmaceutical law.
But in a country where pharmacists and doctors are paid very little, the temptation to sell pills to illegal vendors is overwhelming for some.
"Last time I went to the beauty shop I go to for my creams, the shop owner brought out a chocolate box full of different fattening pills," says Ms Ahmed, the Khartoum student.
"Girls are too scared to ask pharmacists and doctors about the pills they buy from beauty shops, for fear of being publicly shamed."
Police may arrest traders and block smuggling routes, but the profits for rogue pharmacists keep growing regardless. Fattening pills are poured into the black market, deemed to be the lesser evil.
Sudan isn't the only African society where being overweight is a symbol of prosperity and power, boosting the "marriageability" of young women.
But in this country, it embodies an ideal.
It defines the ultimate Sudanese woman - full-bodied and light-skinned - epitomising beauty and coveted as a wife.
The iconic status of Nada Algalaa, a Sudanese singer whose looks are widely praised and emulated, is testament in itself.
For some women, it is an ideal to be acquired by any means necessary.
Sudan's rulers 'shirking action on cholera'
Sudanese fight for their African identity
How poets are fighting censorship in Sudan
Why Sudanese people still feel like pariahs
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The Crown, writes Daniel Fienberg in The Hollywood Reporter, "should be a real awards player for performances and also in myriad technical categories".
Vanity Fair's critic dubs it "a stately success, alluring and easily digested."
Claire Foy plays the young Elizabeth in the 10-part series, while Doctor Who's Matt Smith portrays Prince Philip.
Other cast members include John Lithgow, whose performance as Winston Churchill is described as "towering" and "great throughout" by Fienberg.
Peter Morgan's drama - available on Netflix from Friday - follows 2006 film The Queen, which he wrote, and his 2013 stage play The Audience.
Both pieces explored the monarch's relationships with the various prime ministers she has dealt with over the course of her 64-year reign.
The first series of The Crown begins before Elizabeth's ascension to the throne in 1952 and runs until 1955.
The result, writes Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson, is a "dynastic family drama, told on an extravagant scale".
According to The List's Henry Northmore, the show's "extensive" budget ensures it is "beautifully made" and boasts "lavish" sets and costumes.
The show, he suggests, "can be a bit stuffy" but remains "a fascinating portrayal of post-war Britain and the birth of the modern monarchy".
Foy and Smith were in attendance on Tuesday at a red carpet launch for the drama, held in London's Leicester Square.
At the event, director Stephen Daldry said the show had been made for the Netflix subscription service because it offered the "freedom to tell the story we wanted to tell".
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The winger, 28, endured frustration with Manchester City then Aston Villa, but has hit 25 goals for the champions in his first season in Scotland.
Sinclair has thrived as Celtic clinched the Scottish Premiership title.
"Loads of players in the Premier League who are in and out of teams will definitely look at Celtic and think, 'I want to be part of that'," he said.
"That's down to how well we've done as a team.
"I don't think there'd be much more to encourage other players - they just need to look at the team and look at what we've done.
"When you look at how big Celtic is, and hopefully we keep going unbeaten and get the treble, all you have to do as a player is look at that success and think, it's a great club."
Brendan Rodgers' side need to win the Scottish Cup final to seal a first treble since 2001, having lifted the League Cup in November, and are striving to complete the domestic campaign unbeaten.
They take on Aberdeen, second in the Premiership, in the Hampden showpiece on 27 May.
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Sinclair, one of three Celtic nominees for PFA Scotland's Premiership Player of the Year award, may attract suitors from elsewhere, but insists he will remain a Celtic player next season.
"Being back playing football week in, week out, scoring goals, and the main thing is to be under a manager who believes in you," he said of his time in Glasgow.
"I'm sure the manager will add to the squad and if we can keep most of the team we can keep improving. We're getting better with each game, and that's down to the manager, his tactics and what he brings.
"Up until now we've been taking every game as it comes and with the last four [games] in the league, that's what we should keep doing: stay professional, stay mentally strong, keep battling through and getting results." | Scott Sinclair insists many Premier League players would relish the chance to follow him to Celtic. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39781119"} | 458 | 20 | 0.453026 | 1.06638 | 0.021561 | 0.705882 | 24.117647 | 0.588235 |
Kiran Giri reached at least 50mph (80km/h) in a 30mph (48km/h) zone before hitting 47-year-old Jayne Parker, Swansea Crown Court heard.
Ms Parker was hit as she crossed Sketty Lane in Swansea on 10 December 2013.
Giri, 33, of Sketty, Swansea, admitted causing death by careless driving and received an eight-month sentence, suspended for two years.
The court heard Ms Parker, who had a 10-year-old son, died from "catastrophic" injuries just hours after the crash.
She was on her way to work as a chef at the city's Singleton Hospital when she was hit.
Giri had driven less than a mile from his home when he became impatient with a slower driver and then a bus indicating to pull in.
He overtook them both in one go and struck Ms Parker.
Builder Giri denied he was in a hurry on his way to work on a train station redevelopment 40 miles away in Cardiff.
He said: "I was not in a hurry. I was at the speed others do."
The court heard Giri had been caught speeding shortly before the accident and had undergone a speed awareness course as part of his punishment.
Judge Huw Davies said Ms Parker "had lived a good life and had the right to look forward to more".
Giri was also banned from driving for two years. | A mother was killed by a speeding driver just weeks after he completed a speed awareness course. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35604650"} | 324 | 23 | 0.464727 | 1.182872 | -0.472825 | 1.444444 | 15.555556 | 0.777778 |
The pool at Fivemiletown College was the vision of the headmaster at the time, Dr John Burrell, who wanted to ensure there was somewhere people could learn to swim after a young boy drowned in a local lake.
"I said nobody else should drown and it was also part of my plan to make it into a community school as well," he added.
"The vision was to have a facility, the start of a community school if you like, where the school buildings are used, not just left at half three or four o'clock."
On Wednesday, Dame Mary Peters, who opened the facility four years after claiming an Olympic gold medal in Munich, returned to unveil it again following recent refurbishments to upgrade the facilities.
She described the pool as a "very valuable asset for Fivemiletown" and hoped that more people would come and learn to swim there.
The refurbishment inside and outside includes new anti slip tiles and additional sports facilities for the school and local community.
It was originally built as an outdoor pool by sixth form pupils in a pre-apprenticeship class, with the help of staff and even the school bus drivers.
Dr Burrell said: "We had a professional digger to dig out the ground and they (the pupils) built it over two or three years."
The pool was constructed using hollow core concrete blocks and reinforced steel rods, and was officially opened by Dame Mary in 1976.
She returned when a roof was built over the pool to enclose it in 1995 so that it could be used all year round.
The pool has stood the test of time and Dr Burrell's vision for a community facility has been realised.
The youth annexe and sports facilities are used after school until 22:00 GMT, at weekends and during school holidays.
There are big plans for the future to develop a sensory pool, disabled facilities and an indoor arena. | A swimming pool originally built by pupils at a County Tyrone school 40 years ago has been given the official seal of approval by an Olympian. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34992638"} | 404 | 31 | 0.455784 | 1.265886 | -0.004445 | 0.777778 | 13.814815 | 0.62963 |
London Fire Brigade said up to 21 firefighters were called after an area of shrubbery caught fire at the All England Tennis Club at 12:33 BST.
It comes just weeks before the grand slam tournament is due to take place at the venue in SW19.
The fire, which broke out at the practice courts, close to Gate 1, has since been extinguished. The cause of it is currently unknown.
About a tonne of mixed building materials, up to 20m (65ft) of hedgerow and a small section of a temporary marquee were damaged in the blaze in Church Road, Wimbledon, the fire brigade said.
This year's championship takes place for two weeks from 3 July.
Britain's Andy Murray became Wimbledon champion for the second time when he beat Canadian Milos Raonic in last year's final.
Murray is the first British man to win multiple Wimbledon singles titles since Fred Perry in 1935.
Johanna Konta will also be seeded - the British women's number one is currently sitting at number eight in the world rankings. | A fire has erupted at Wimbledon's famous tennis courts in London. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40062458"} | 233 | 18 | 0.656544 | 1.391278 | -1.219064 | 0.846154 | 15.615385 | 0.846154 |
Micheál Martin called Brexit "one of the biggest mistakes of modern European democracy".
Ireland now faces "a profound threat" and needs EU solidarity, he said.
And he called on London to acknowledge that Northern Ireland is "a special case", and must be treated accordingly.
Addressing a meeting at Queen's University, Belfast, Fianna Fáil leader Mr Martin claimed the continued failure to have a proper civic dialogue on Brexit was a clear breach of commitments under the Good Friday Agreement.
He told Thursday's audience that there was "no evidence whatsoever" of a credible plan from the UK government for what happens next.
The period from now to March 2019 would define the future direction for decades to come, he added.
Everyone would lose if, post-Brexit, the UK "drifts off into the night", he said.
"The EU also needs to show more urgency and ambition in reforming its own workings."
On the Republic of Ireland's position, Mr Martin said: "We are faced with a profound threat because of the actions of another state on which we had no influence.
"We are showing solidarity with the European Union and it must show us the same."
Businesses in the republic were already suffering because of the dramatic fall in sterling, he pointed out.
Mr Martin said imposing the full impact of a hard Brexit on Northern Ireland was "unacceptable".
"Dublin must promote and support special status for Northern Ireland in whatever way possible," he said.
He pointed out that Northern Ireland would contain the largest concentration of EU citizens living anywhere outside the boundaries of the EU.
A clear majority of Northern Ireland voters opting to Remain could not be lightly dismissed, he argued.
He said he would oppose any proposal to force people in Northern Ireland to choose between EU and UK citizenship.
Mr Martin was highly critical of the exclusion of the Northern Ireland secretary from permanent membership of the UK's Brexit key negotiations committee.
Speaking about the current situation between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, he said: "The continued failure to have a proper civic dialogue is a clear breach of commitments under the Good Friday Agreement and it is at moments such as this that its absence is most felt.
"Northern Ireland is a divided and increasingly diverse society," he said. "A complex challenge such as this needs the legitimacy of ongoing civic engagement - something even the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister would admit has been lacking."
The Irish opposition leader said: "The scale of the direct economic, social and political threats posed by Brexit far outweighs its opportunities."
This is "one of the most important challenges ever faced by governments on these islands," he added. | The UK must seek and the EU must support a "generous special status" for Northern Ireland post Brexit, says the Republic of Ireland's opposition leader. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38104541"} | 577 | 35 | 0.537331 | 1.28991 | 0.689806 | 2.1 | 18.266667 | 0.9 |
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Carrickfergus man Seeley recovered from a bad start to take a stunning win in Thursday's opening Supersport race.
Seeley, 34, later triumphed in a thrilling Superstock race as he held off Michael Rutter and Michael Dunlop.
A Northern Ireland treble was completed by Lee Johnston's Supertwins victory.
Seeley was 15th on lap one of the opening Supersport race after getting caught up in Johnston's early exit but the Mar-Train Racing rider produced a remarkable recovery to take victory ahead of Guy Martin and Australian Josh Brookes.
Fermanagh man Johnston regrouped from his Supersport mishap to overhaul Ivan Lintin in the Supertwins race, with James Cowton third.
In the final riveting Superstock race, Seeley led by 1.5 seconds after two laps before being overhauled by Rutter on the penultimate fifth lap.
As backmarkers became a factor, Dunlop stormed into contention and the Ballymoney man moved into the lead midway through the final lap.
However, Seeley regained the advantage at the Black Hill section of the course and held on to the lead over the closing corners as Dunlop was also passed by 13-times North West 200 winner Rutter.
Australian Brookes, 31, took an early lead in Thursday's Supersport opener as Seeley dropped five seconds off the pace after Johnston's early exit at York Corner.
Gary Johnson took the lead on lap two as he battled with Brookes and Rutter and the Englishman maintained his advantage to half way.
However, Seeley, 34, moved his way through the field to take the lead on the penultimate lap and he held off a strong challenge from Guy Martin on the final lap, as the Lincolnshire man was hindered by backmarkers.
Seeley had 1.134 seconds to spare from Martin at the finish with Brookes a further .06 back in third.
The top six was completed by William Dunlop, Keith Amor and Rutter.
"Lee Johnston made that hard work for me and I was forced to go straight on at York," said Seeley, as he won a Supersport race at the meeting for the third successive year.
"I had to do a U-turn and come back. But I caught the leading bunch.
"Coming back from so far back, it is testament to the team and the bike they have given me."
In the Supertwins event, Lincolnshire man Lintin appeared to have victory secured as he led by more than four seconds after two laps.
However, the gap was reduced to less than a second by the start of the final lap and Johnston moved ahead in the closing stages to take his maiden North West win.
"It is about time. The first few laps I was on edge after my slip off in the first race," said Johnston, 25.
"Ivan somehow got away but I worked hard for it and it feels great."
Seeley's two victories mean he moves ahead of Philip McCallen's haul of 11 career wins on the all-time North West list as he becomes the fourth most successful rider in the meeting's history.
THURSDAY'S NORTH WEST 200 RESULTS
Supersport 600
1. Alastair Seeley
2. Guy Martin [1.134 secs behind]
3. Josh Brookes [1.194]
4, William Dunlop [2.332]
5. Keith Amor [16.499]
6. Michael Rutter [16.680]
7. Gary Johnson [17.495]
8. Bruce Anstey [18.2180
9. Daniel Cooper [25.680]
10. James Hillier [30.3250]
Supertwins
1. Lee Johnston
2. Ivan Lintin [0.525]
3. James Cowton [10.479]
4. James Hillier [11.109]
5. Jamie Hamilton [14.785]
6. Ryan Farquhar [14.855]
7. Martin Jessopp [15.910]
8. Jeremy McWilliams [36.472]
9. Paul Shoesmith [1:02.131]
10. Timothee Monot [1:02.203]
Superstock
1. Alastair Seeley
2. Michael Rutter [0.570]
3. Michael Dunlop [0.786]
4. Martin Jessopp [3.089]
5. Horst Saiger [3.455]
6. Simon Andrews [15.632]
7. Conor Cummins [29.360]
8. Guy Martin [36.128]
9. Peter Hickman [36,.466]
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Defender Evans, 27, had denied the charge which related to an incident with striker Cisse in the Red Devils' 1-0 win over the Magpies on Wednesday.
Cisse, 29, is suspended for an extra game as he was banned in December for elbowing Everton's Seamus Coleman.
There is no right of appeal and the bans will take immediate effect.
As a result, Northern Ireland international Evans will miss Monday's FA Cup quarter-final against Arsenal.
"Mr Evans denied the charge but it was found proven," said an FA statement.
The flashpoint between the two was not seen by referee Anthony Taylor or his assistants, but was caught on video.
A three-man panel of former referees reviewed the footage on Thursday and agreed the players should have been sent off, prompting the FA to bring a charge.
Evans' statement on Thursday said: "I would like to make it clear that I did not spit at Papiss Cisse. Having woken up this morning, I am shocked to have seen the media coverage from last night's match."
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal said: "I don't think Jonny Evans is a spitter. He was not aware he was spitting. He has said that also. I believe him. For me, the matter is done."
After accepting the charge for his role in the altercation, Senegalese Cisse issued an apology, adding: "I reacted to something I found very unpleasant."
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The 40-year-old man, from Dewsbury, was arrested at about 07:30 GMT after police received reports of a man in a white van taking items from a property in Mytholmroyd.
West Yorkshire Police said the man is being held in police custody.
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The 18-year-old died when he was knocked down on the Malone Road, Belfast, in 2014.
David Lee Stewart, 31, of Gray's Park Avenue, Belfast was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and three and a half years on licence.
But the director of public prosecutions said he would refer the sentence.
Barra McGrory said this was on the grounds that it was unduly lenient.
At his trial, the court heard Stewart had taken 13 drinks before he drove that night. He had taken six pints of beer and four Jagerbombs, a mix of a spirit and an energy drink.
Traces of drugs, including cocaine, were also found in his system.
After he hit Enda Dolan, he carried on driving with the teenager on the roof of his van for about 800 yards before he stopped. | The sentence imposed on a drunk driver who killed Tyrone teenager Enda Dolan is to be referred to the Appeal Court on the grounds that it is too lenient. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36362283"} | 193 | 39 | 0.542894 | 1.253458 | 0.333174 | 1.466667 | 5.566667 | 0.6 |
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The 27-year-old was suspended and faced missing the Olympics before the first test was declared void.
Speaking before Sunday's road race, a tearful Armitstead told BBC Sport she would "never cheat in life".
"In this situation I'm never going to win. If I win, people will say it's because of something else," she added.
The Yorkshire rider, who won a silver medal at London 2012, is among the favourites to triumph in Rio after winning a Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) appeal.
She had her first missed test rescinded after Cas ruled the doping official "didn't do what was reasonable and necessary" to find her.
Armitstead says she was "in the place where I should have been" and points out she gave a negative test the following day at the UCI Women Road World Cup.
The second strike, relating to an inconsistency on a form over her whereabouts, was a "stupid mistake" which came shortly after she became world champion last year.
She would not discuss the "traumatic" family circumstances which led to missing the third test earlier this year.
Had her appeal not been successful, Armitstead would have faced a ban of up to two years.
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"I'm not at the point of accepting it yet - but I will have to come to the point of accepting that people will doubt me forever," she said.
"I'm absolutely devastated because people are going to judge me and my family. I will never cheat in any walk of life.
"It's a very difficult time but I've kept it together and put it into perspective. I've trained very hard and not let it slip.
"It has been very emotional - it has been been a rollercoaster that I'm glad to get off. I'm very grateful to be here to race."
Armitstead's former team-mate Nicole Cooke, Olympic road race champion in 2008, had suggested she had little sympathy for anyone who missed three tests - and the pair had a public spat in the lead-up to London 2012 Games.
However, Armitstead believes she will not receive a negative reaction from her current team-mates or Olympic rivals in Rio.
"I think they understand the scrutiny I'm under," she said. "I feel extremely guilty that I've had to put team-mates through extra media questions." | British world road cycling champion Lizzie Armitstead believes people will "forever" doubt if she is a clean athlete after missing three drug tests. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36980029"} | 549 | 33 | 0.487285 | 1.289693 | 0.087262 | 0.923077 | 19.115385 | 0.769231 |
The ruling conservative Popular Party (PP) led by acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is expected to take the largest share of the vote.
A leftist coalition, Unidos Podemos, would come second, followed by the Socialists and Ciudadanos.
But no party is seen as coming close to an overall majority of seats.
The vote was called after the parties failed to form a new government following December's inconclusive election.
Since then, the country has been ruled by the PP in a caretaker capacity.
The campaign has been marked by a lack of enthusiasm among voters, with abstention predicted to be higher than at the last vote.
With an unemployment rate at 21%, the economy remains the main concern for Spaniards.
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Mancini, who played five times for the Foxes in 2001, led Manchester City to a first league title in 44 years in 2012.
Leicester are five points clear with eight games remaining, while Manchester City have reached the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time.
"If I could only choose one it would be Leicester," he told BBC Sport.
Mancini and Carlo Ancelotti are the only Italian managers to win the Premier League, and the Inter Milan boss hopes Claudio Ranieri can join the club.
"Ranieri is a good man," said Mancini. "He knows football very well. I hope he will be the third Italian to do it. For a team like Leicester to win the Premier League against the biggest teams like Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal, it would be incredible."
In their fifth season in the Champions League, Manchester City have reached the quarter-finals for the first time and have been drawn against Paris St-Germain.
Mancini failed to get out of the group stage in his two attempts as City manager and is not surprised it has taken so long for them to reach the last eight.
"Manchester City have been the best team in the Premier League in the last four or five years but it takes time to be a top club in the Champions League," he said.
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The 25-year-old Northern Ireland international played 12 games and scored two goals during a loan spell at League One Coventry City last season.
McQuoid enjoyed two spells with the Cherries but failed to feature in their Championship title-winning campaign.
He joined Millwall for £500,000 in January 2011 and also spent time on loan at Burnley and Peterborough.
McQuoid is the sixth permanent addition to the Luton squad secured by manager John Still for the coming season.
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The Sons were hoping to continue where they left off at the weekend, when they defeated second-top Hibernian 3-2.
That kept them five points clear of second-bottom Livingston with a game in hand.
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The Bears were runners-up in both the Championship and One-Day Cup in 2014 and went one better in the T20 Blast, winning the trophy for the first time.
But, in 2015, they lost in the semis, came fifth in the Championship and did not get out of their One-Day Cup group.
"I'm not sure we need to bring players in," Brown told BBC WM 95.6.
"People would need to be better than what we've got and we have a great youth structure with some really good players coming through.
"It was an indifferent season and a few senior players have been down on where they need to be, but we need to address that and march on. All we know is we cannot start next season like we finished this.
"In August, we were second in the Championship, well placed in the One-Day Cup and through to Finals Day in the T20. What followed was a hell of a disappointment. For whatever reason, we've fallen away and then ended up losing three of the last four Championship matches.
He added: "The guys feel a bit wounded but they can go and recharge their batteries and collect their thoughts. The inconsistencies we showed in all forms of the game have been disappointing.
"All we can do is address what isn't right and we already know we can do that. There needs to be a line drawn in the sand and it's now case of how we move on from here. Things aren't desperate but we need to be absolutely clear where we're going."
Warwickshire came fifth in the County Championship - their worst finish in five years. They finished exactly 100 points behind champions Yorkshire, but only 25 points clear of relegated Sussex.
No Bears batsman topped 1,000 Championship runs (opener Ian Westwood with 858 runs from 14 matches at 36.67 was the best), while four bowlers earned 40 wickets - Jeetan Patel (58), Rikki Clarke (47), Boyd Rankin (46) and Keith Barker (43).
In the weather-hit One-Day Cup, the Bears won only three of their eight Group B games (two of which were rained off), yet only missed out on a place in the quarter-finals on run rate.
In the T20 Blast, the holders topped their group to again reach Finals Day at Edgbaston, but slumped to a shock defeat against a David Willey-inspired Northants. | Warwickshire director of cricket Dougie Brown says the Bears can improve next summer with the players he already has at his disposal at Edgbaston. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34381600"} | 546 | 36 | 0.44271 | 1.208219 | -0.080188 | 0.8 | 19.48 | 0.64 |
The final results - seen as a step towards restoring peace - are not expected for several weeks.
The seizure of power by a mainly Muslim rebel group in 2013 led to prolonged bloodshed.
Candidates Faustin Touadera and Anicet Dologuele have pledged to restore security and boost the economy.
Both Mr Touadera, portrayed by supporters as a peacemaker who can bridge the Christian-Muslim divide, and Mr Dologuele, who has promised a break from the country's violent past, expressed hope for a high turnout.
Mr Dologuele even referenced St Valentine's Day as he exhorted citizens to vote "as an act of love for their country", Radio Centrafrique reported.
But a BBC correspondent in the region said there was less enthusiasm among voters than during the first round in December, although election officials said the voting had gone smoothly.
Prime Minister Mahamat Kamoun echoed this, telling Radio Centrafrique that he was "not entirely satisfied" with voter turnout.
Voters were also choosing a new parliament following the annulment of a poll in December due to irregularities.
Nearly 80% of the electorate voted in December's first round, which observers saw as a rejection of violence.
Communal reconciliation and reigniting the country's sluggish economy featured prominently as campaign themes.
CAR is one of the world's most unstable countries and was thrown into political chaos three years ago when mostly Muslim Seleka fighters toppled President Bozize.
Christian militias responded to Seleka abuses, with attacks carried out against the Muslim minority community.
After regional pressure, an interim administration took charge in January 2014 and later that year a 10,000-strong UN force took over the peacekeeping mission.
The north-east of the country is now mostly under the control of Muslim rebels while Christian militias hold sway the south-west.
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The Celtic striker was twice a runner-up with Hibernian in 2012 and 2013.
A win against Aberdeen at Hampden on 27 May would complete a domestic treble for the runaway Premiership champions.
"I've been to two cup finals before and got humiliated twice, so hopefully it's third time lucky for me," said Griffiths.
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"It wasn't a nice feeling. But we've got a great chance this year to go one step further and get that treble.
"Lots of great players in the past have not quite managed to get there. We're only one game away and we've got a great chance, but we can't take anything for granted."
Aberdeen are a distant second in the league, while Griffiths was a late substitute when the Dons were brushed aside 3-0 in November's League Cup final.
Victory at Hampden would also bring an end to teasing from team-mates, with Griffiths on the receiving end of taunts from captain Scott Brown, goalkeeper Craig Gordon and Liam Henderson, who picked up the trophy while on loan at Hibs last season.
"I'm sick of getting tortured by Scott, Craigy and Hendo," he said. "They're always winding me up on the bus, saying 'put your hand up if you've won the Scottish Cup'."
Griffiths, 26, scored his 15th goal of the campaign in last weekend's 5-1 win over Rangers at Ibrox, starting for the first time this year in the absence of injured top scorer Moussa Dembele.
Now Griffiths, who found the net 40 times last season, is eager to make the most of the opportunity.
"It's unfortunate that Moussa got injured and that's how I got my chance," he said. "It happened earlier in the season when I was injured and Moussa came in and stepped up to the plate.
"Hopefully I can repay the manager with a few goals.
"The Scottish Cup final is a massive incentive and there's a Scotland game against England coming up [June 10] so I want to do the best I can.
"I can only concentrate on what I do. If I play well and score goals then I'll give the manager a big, big problem.
"The manager calls the shots. I can only focus on myself and not worry about whether Moussa is going to be fit."
Griffiths was speaking at the club's new kit launch, which incorporates a tribute to the European Cup-winning side of 1967.
"We always have to remember what these guys did," said the striker. "They will always be legends.
"There's talk about us being invincible [unbeaten domestically this season] but I don't think anything we do will come close to winning the European Cup.
"It's virtually impossible for a team like Celtic to go and win it now, so it makes their achievement that more important.
"The manager wants us to compete in the Champions League. He did it at the first time of asking this season and hopefully we get there next season as well and maybe even progress to the next round." | Leigh Griffiths is determined to end the season with a first Scottish Cup winners' medal to make up for previous disappointments in the final. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39807541"} | 720 | 31 | 0.384672 | 1.080524 | -0.061689 | 1.230769 | 24.461538 | 0.769231 |
25 June 2016 Last updated at 11:09 BST
More than 33 million people voted. Around 52% chose leave, while 48% chose remain in the EU.
This decision will have a big impact on the future of the UK and the way it trades with other countries.
We spoke to some kids after the result, to find out how they felt about the result...
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Twenty-seven European Union countries, not including the UK, signed a new declaration to honour the 1957 treaty, which led to the bloc's foundation.
With Brexit looming, UK PM Theresa May is not attending the celebrations.
European Commission head, Jean-Claude Juncker, spoke of a new mood of optimism about the way forward.
"The atmosphere is now such that we can approach this with confidence," he said, referring to the future of the bloc as Britain leaves.
Mrs May plans to launch the Brexit process on Wednesday by formally triggering article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.
Pro-EU march in London goes silent for attack victims
On the Capitoline Hill, where the six original states signed the Treaty of Rome on 25 March 1957, the 27 leaders put their names to a declaration of unity.
"Prove today that you are the leaders of Europe, that you can care for this great legacy we inherited from the heroes of European integration 60 years ago," European Council President Donald Tusk said. "Europe as a political entity will either be united, or will not be at all."
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany described the signing of the declaration as moving. She also repeated the German position that different members of the EU could move at different speeds - a notion opposed by Poland.
"A Europe of different speeds does not mean that there is not a unified Europe.
"We clearly say that we want to go in the same direction, and there are some things non-negotiable like the single market, the four basic freedoms, that are our values of liberty, of freedom of opinion, of freedom of speech, of freedom of press, of freedom of religion, and that makes us strong, and we shall not compromise on that."
EU abuzz ahead of two key dates
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The celebratory summit comes as the EU faces a range of challenges, including Brexit and the rise of populist parties.
Pro- and anti-EU protests took place in several member states. Thousands gathered for a march in London against Brexit; and in the Polish capital, Warsaw, thousands took to the streets to show solidarity with the EU.
In pictures: Marches in major cities mark EU anniversary
In Rome itself, there were a range of protests, both opposed to and in favour of the EU. The Eurosceptic Fratelli d'Italia met in a central university hall to declare that the bloc needed to be "shut down".
Security has been tightened across the Italian capital following Wednesday's terrorist attack in London.
Pope Francis welcomed the leaders to the Vatican on the eve of the summit.
In a speech, he said that all bodies risk dying if they do not look ahead, and thus urged the EU to approach the future with renewed vigour.
He also warned against "false forms of security" promised by populists who want to wall themselves off, and instead urged greater solidarity.
The original Treaty of Rome launched the European Economic Community, the EU's forerunner.
It was signed by six countries: Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany.
The US was among those countries that sent congratulatory messages to EU leaders.
"Together we look forward to another 60 years and more of shared security and shared prosperity," read the White House statement.
President Donald Trump has more often been critical of the union, calling Brexit a "good thing", and predicting more countries will follow suit.
In a new Declaration of Rome, the 27 countries are reaffirming their shared desire to continue with what is a greatly expanded and deepened union.
But there are huge challenges.
The UK's looming exit is the Union's biggest setback ever.
And after a decade of crises and sense of growing threats at home and abroad, European leaders are looking for ways to reinvigorate their project, but struggling to find a united way forward. | European Union leaders have stressed the need for unity at a celebration in the Italian capital marking 60 years since the Treaty of Rome was signed. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39388818"} | 856 | 30 | 0.449322 | 1.111706 | -0.035799 | 1.592593 | 29.037037 | 0.777778 |
The prince flew in from Australia after a month training with the country's armed forces, meeting injured soldiers and Aboriginal communities.
New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, greeted him as he landed in Wellington.
Harry then went on to a ceremony at the National War Memorial in the capital where he laid a wreath.
PM John Key tweeted: "Great to welcome Prince Harry to New Zealand on a brilliant Wellington day."
He also tweeted pictures of the "fantastic crowd" waiting for the prince as well as a puppy that the prime minister brought along to welcome him.
Kensington Palace tweeted a picture of the prince watching a powhiri - a Maori welcoming ritual - followed by a haka.
He was treated to the ceremonial welcome on the lawn in front of Government House. the home of the Governor General Sir Jerry Mateparae and his wife Lady Janine.
Performed by members of the New Zealand armed forces, the powhiri started with a wero, an ancient tradition to determine whether visitors come in peace.
At the house he was invited to hongi, where he clasped hands and pressed his nose up against the people he met.
He also saw a mass haka by students from a local college and was given a 21-gun salute.
The prince then met school children, one of whom presented him with a card for his new-born niece.
Rakaia Burwell-Garratt, nine, from Kilbirnie School, said: "I gave him a card for Princess Charlotte. I wrote in it, I hope you like being a princess and happy birthday for your first week'."
Harry tucked the envelope into his suit pocket and told her: "I won't open it, I'll keep it safe and I'll make sure she gets it."
He also visited the National War Memorial Park and paid his respects at its Tomb of the Unknown Warrior.
He left a note on a wreath laid during his visit to the memorial park, which read: "In memory of all those who have paid the ultimate price and in grateful recognition of those who have served NZ."
The prince also inspected a guard of honour made up of members of the Royal New Zealand Navy, Army Logistic Regiment, and the Air Force before watching a rugby game between Wellington's Hurricanes and South Africa's Durban-based Sharks.
The week-long visit is the first Harry has made to New Zealand and throughout the trip he is expected to be given a broad introduction to Kiwi culture and society, including visiting the country's most southern and very remote community on Stewart Island.
The visit comes at the end of his month-long attachment in Australia.
Footage released by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) showed the Prince, known as Captain Wales in the armed forces, as an all-action hero.
He was filmed abseiling from a helicopter with 2nd Commando Regiment soldiers in an urban warfare drill in Sydney.
Harry also took part in counter-terror training in the city's famous harbour with Royal Australian Navy divers.
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The former Open champion will be part of Darren Clarke's backroom team at Hazeltine, Minnesota, alongside Thomas Bjorn and Padraig Harrington.
Lawrie, who will make his debut in the backroom staff, tweeted his reaction.
"Delighted and honoured to be announced as vice captain @RyderCupEurope," he said.
Bjorn performed the same role in 2010 and 2012, while Harrington was one of Paul McGinley's vice-captains in 2014.
Lawrie played in Europe's defeat at Brookline in 1999 and the win at Medinah in 2012.
Europe are seeking an unprecedented fourth straight victory and their ninth in the last 11 biennial contests.
"The three bring a wealth of experience and knowledge and their input will be invaluable to Europe's cause," said Clarke.
"I could not have asked for anybody better to be standing shoulder to shoulder with me in the bid to bring the Ryder Cup home." | Scotland's Paul Lawrie says he is "honoured" to be named one of European vice-captains for the Ryder Cup against the United States in September. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36399815"} | 206 | 37 | 0.635118 | 1.350334 | -0.19212 | 1.233333 | 5.9 | 0.7 |
Among the items is an original signed edition of Swann's Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past.
After Proust's death in 1922 the collection passed to his brother Robert. A great-great-niece is selling the items at Sotheby's auction house.
There are boyhood photos of Proust and Man Ray's image of him on his deathbed.
One of the photos, dated 1896, shows Proust with his secret lover Lucien Daudet. Proust's mother had ordered him to destroy all copies of it.
There is also a letter from Proust to another lover, the pianist Reynaldo Hahn, whom he describes as "really the person who, besides mummy, I love most of all in the world".
The collection, put up for auction by Patricia Mante-Proust, is valued at between €520,000 (£396,000; $580,000) and €740,000.
The seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past is considered a literary masterpiece, rich in personal memories, the most famous being the evocative taste of a madeleine bun dipped in tea. | Intimate letters and family photographs that belonged to the celebrated French writer Marcel Proust are being sold at auction in Paris. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36418657"} | 272 | 28 | 0.540044 | 1.400399 | -0.299339 | 0.454545 | 9.318182 | 0.454545 |
He is acknowledged as the author of baseball's first rule book and remains to this day the only journalist to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
But not many people know Henry Chadwick, the man who helped oversee baseball's meteoric rise to national prominence, hailed from a county town in the south west of England.
A historian for Major League Baseball, John Thorn, explained: "No man was more important to the rise of baseball from boys' game to national pastime than Henry Chadwick, the game's great promoter."
Chadwick was born in Exeter in 1824 and grew up with a passion for cricket. When he was 12 years old, his family emigrated to the US where he continued his love affair with the sport.
Following in his father's footsteps, Mr Chadwick became a journalist, and by the mid-1850s, he was writing for the New York Times as a cricket reporter.
He soon turned his attention to baseball after watching a game between New York's Gotham and Eagle clubs in 1856.
He was immediately taken by the pace of the game.
"Americans do not care to dawdle over a sleep-inspiring game, all through the heat of a June or July day," he said.
"What they do they want to do in a hurry. In baseball, all is lightning; every action is as swift as a seabird's flight."
Through his cricketing background, Chadwick had developed a love of statistics and he refined the 'box score', which helped supporters follow the sport from home and allowed them to compare players' records.
He quickly found a place on the Rules Committee in 1858, but his main ambition was to take baseball to the masses. He was a prolific writer who penned the first baseball guide in 1860 and took on the role of editor for Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide.
At this time, baseball and cricket were both vying for the nation's attention, yet by 1866 the former had pre-eminence.
Thorn explains: "There were many factors here, not least the Civil War and American jingoism about Britain's role in it by continuing to buy cotton from the South, for example."
Interest in baseball was carried to other parts of the country by Union soldiers, and when the war ended there were more people playing baseball than ever before.
This helped to contribute to the creation of the first National League in 1876. As is the way with baseball, a counter-claim states the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which operated between 1871 and 1875 was the original Major League.
Not everyone believes Chadwick's role contributed as much to the sport as he liked to claim. The suggestion he wrote the first rule book is one of many claims from the game's fledgling years that is disputed.
"Baseball is our national religion, and thus people and ideas will contend for primacy," Mr Thorn said.
"The notion that Chadwick wrote the first rule book was advanced by Chadwick himself, a relentless self-aggrandizer.
"In his later years, he was ridiculed by players and sportswriters for his overblown claims of influence. In truth, he did a great deal, and did not need to resort to hyperbole."
'A family of reformers'
One thing that is unquestioned is Mr Chadwick's desire to institute moral reform, using his newspaper columns to chastise players and managers who drank and gambled.
His great-great-granddaughter, Frances Henry, who lives in Massachusetts, is proud of his lasting legacy.
"Henry Chadwick lived a life of integrity and intelligence," she said.
"He embodied those qualities as he helped to develop the rules of the game. As one of his descendants, I rightly admire his lifelong enthusiasm for baseball."
Such was Chadwick's standing in American society, recognition for his work stretched as far as the White House, with President Roosevelt, who formally referred to him as the "father of baseball", sending birthday wishes in 1904.
"My Dear Chadwick," he wrote, "I congratulate you on your eightieth year and your fiftieth year in journalism . . . and you are entitled to the good wishes of all for that part you have taken in behalf of decent sport." | President Theodore Roosevelt dubbed him "the father of baseball", but the man widely credited with popularising the US national sport was actually from Devon. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33239318"} | 975 | 34 | 0.444299 | 1.347622 | 0.177479 | 1.678571 | 30.321429 | 0.75 |
The attack took place at about 05:30 (02:30 GMT) in the remote Rukban area, a few hundred metres from the camp.
A number of other vehicles involved in the attack were destroyed.
It is not yet clear who carried out the attack, but the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has threatened in the past to "break down" Jordan's borders.
The kingdom is part of the US-led coalition against IS and has carried out air strikes on militants in Syria.
Tuesday's attack, the first of its kind since the conflict in Syria began in 2011, saw an explosives-laden vehicle blown up beside a military post.
The blast left four border guards and two personnel from the Civil Defence and Public Security Department dead, a military statement said.
"Such criminal act will only add to our unshaken determination to fight terrorism and terrorists' ideologies regardless of their motives," it added.
Earlier this month, Jordanian intelligence service officers and two other employees were killed in a Palestinian refugee camp near the capital, Amman, in what the government said was a terrorist attack.
The Rukban camp is located beside an earthen berm in the desert, about 8km (5 miles) west of the point at which the Iraq, Syria, and Jordan borders meet.
The rocky area is devoid of shade, water or vegetation and is far from any towns.
Aid workers say more than 50,000 refugees are stranded at the camp, living in deplorable conditions while awaiting entry to Jordan.
UN satellite analysts mapped more than 6,400 probable shelters in the area in late April.
The Jordanian authorities currently only allow in about 50 to 100 refugees each day, citing security concerns.
Many of the refugees are believed to have fled areas controlled by IS in eastern Homs province and neighbouring Raqqa, where forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have made gains in the past year with the support of Russian air strikes.
Thousands of other refugees are stranded at another tented camp on the border at Hadalat, about 90km west of Rukban, where the UN mapped 1,900 shelters.
The UN acknowledged in December that Jordan had legitimate security concerns, but called on the country to allow all the refugees at the two camps to enter.
Jordan is hosting 655,000 of the 4.84 million Syrians registered as refugees with the UN.
The government says more than one million other Syrians are living there, including those who arrived before the uprising against Mr Assad began. | Six Jordanian security personnel have been killed and 14 hurt in a car bomb attack near a makeshift refugee camp on the Syria-Jordan border, officials say. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36584885"} | 545 | 39 | 0.504277 | 1.215604 | -0.146758 | 0.933333 | 16.166667 | 0.733333 |
Mariusz Winiarski, 35, attacked Brian Stirling in King Street, Bathgate, on 17 December last year.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Mr Stirling (54) had been holding the woman's handbag before Winiarski attacked him.
Lord Burns, deferred sentence until May and remanded Winiarski in custody.
Defence counsel John Scullion said Winiarski, who had been drinking, saw the victim looking into the handbag.
He said: "His initial reaction was the deceased was stealing from her. He accepts the conclusion he reached was entirely wrong and he accepts his reason in punching Mr Stirling cannot be justified."
He added: "He accepts full responsibility for the tragic consequences of his actions."
Winiarski was originally charged with murdering Mr Stirling, but pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide.
He admitted assaulting and killing Mr Stirling, formerly from Bathgate, by punching him on the head, causing him to fall to the ground where the victim struck his head. Mr Stirling later died of his injuries.
The Polish national, who worked as a driver, also admitted assaulting Mr Stirling's friend Robert Parker by punching him on the head outside Dreadnought nightclub in Bathgate.
Advocate depute Lynsey MacDonald said Winiarski did not know either of the men that he attacked.
The defence counsel said that although it was a case in which a prison term was "almost inevitable" a background report would be required on the first offender before sentencing. | A man has admitted killing a stranger with a single punch after he mistakenly thought he was stealing from a woman's handbag in West Lothian. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39357459"} | 360 | 39 | 0.501533 | 1.29797 | -0.458281 | 1.074074 | 10.555556 | 0.62963 |
The Labour activist was among Remain supporters who spent less than £250,000 during the campaign, according to the Electoral Commission.
Unite union spent £140,173 while the National Farmers Union spent £73,565.
Leave backers included Sun publisher News Group Newspapers with £96,898 and pub chain JD Wetherspoon £94,586.
Tim Martin, the boss of Wetherspoon, was one of the most outspoken supporters of Brexit in the business community. His pubs launched an advertising campaign attacking the European Commission and other organisations such as the IMF on their beer mats.
Figures published on Tuesday largely cover registered individuals and campaign groups who spent between £10,000 and £250,000 during the referendum campaign.
Details of expenditure by the official two lead campaigns - Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe - and the majority of campaigners which reported spending of more than £250,000 will be released next year.
Mr Izzard, a longstanding Labour supporter who has said he would like to run for London Mayor one day, was a prominent figure during the campaign and its aftermath - addressing a number of pro-Remain rallies.
It is not clear whether he funded his campaign himself or whether he relied on donations from others. In total, Remain supporters reporting expenditure under the £250,000 threshold spent £2.9m, compared with the £1.9m spent by those supporting Leave.
Leading Remain supporters included telecoms firm Lebara, which spent £220,573, business lobby group London First which spent £101,655 and the City of London Corporation, £48,612. Others to support a Remain vote included the CWU trade union with £86,543, German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans spent £33,758 and Universities UK, which lobbies on behalf of leading universities, £69,365.
On the Leave side, prominent backers included the Grassroots Out movement, spending £219,215, the Freedom Association, £90,341 and Veterans for Britain spending £146,945.
The largest single reported spend on either side in this category was the £676,016 attributed to Darren Grimes, who submitted his invoices early - the larger spending amounts do not have to be registered until just before Christmas.
In August, it was reported that Vote Leave gave £625,000 to the fashion design student in the days before the EU referendum to persuade young voters to opt for Brexit. Mr Grimes is now head of digital for the Brexit Central website.
The Conservative Party remained neutral in the referendum but the figures show the Conservative Group for Europe spent less than £10,000. The Labour Movement for Europe spent £11,309 while the Green Party spent £48,815 on a remain vote.
The Electoral Commission said the figures were a vital part of ensuring "transparency and accountability both in how campaigners obtained funds as well as how they spent them". | Comedian Eddie Izzard spent £36,229 on his campaign to keep the UK in the EU, official details of spending in this summer's referendum show. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38143120"} | 634 | 35 | 0.458869 | 1.269166 | 0.286957 | 1.142857 | 18.714286 | 0.785714 |
Malala, 15, had surgery on Saturday at a Birmingham hospital to fit a titanium plate over her damaged skull.
In a video recorded on Sunday, she is seen telling a consultant that her mission now is to "help people".
It was earlier revealed a fund would be set up in her name to help all children get an education.
The teenager was shot on a school bus in October in Pakistan by the Taliban after campaigning for girls' rights to education.
Following the shooting, the bullet was removed from her head by surgeons in Pakistan and she was flown to the UK for further treatment.
Malala was discharged as an inpatient from Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital last month.
Surgeons at the hospital said Saturday's operation, which also involved fitting a cochlear implant to help her get over deafness on her left-hand side, had gone well. They said they did not expect she would need any further surgery.
Speaking in the video in English, Malala said she was feeling "all right".
She said: "I can walk a little bit, I can talk - I am feeling better. It seems like I have not had a very big operation - it just feels like I had an anaesthetic injection for five hours and then I woke up."
She added: "My mission is to help people and I will do that."
In an earlier video, filmed before her operation, Malala had said she wanted to "serve the people" and said she was "getting better day by day".
Earlier it had been announced that the first grant from the Malala fund would go towards an organisation in the teenager's home region of the Swat Valley in Pakistan to encourage girls to go to school instead of going straight into work.
The Taliban had previously said it attacked the campaigner for girls' education for "promoting secularism".
The Birmingham hospital's medical director Dr Dave Rosser said: "To be sitting up 24 hours after an operation, talking about helping other people instead of thinking about herself sums up what we have seen from Malala over the past few months."
He said the teenager had coped "remarkably well" with what she had gone through and that doctors hope she will have completely recovered from her injuries over the next year. | Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai who was shot by the Taliban has told how she is recovering well hours after undergoing a five-hour operation. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "21327920"} | 488 | 38 | 0.514281 | 1.325544 | 0.153043 | 1.076923 | 17.423077 | 0.615385 |
It could mean the number of staff may have to be reduced by about 200, although the local authority is hoping to avoid compulsory redundancies.
The authority could generate money by raising Council Tax.
However no final decision has been taken on that option. | Aberdeen City Council has warned it faces making cuts of more than £21.5m. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38884611"} | 51 | 17 | 0.579367 | 0.983075 | -0.83059 | 0.266667 | 3.333333 | 0.266667 |
The design contract is worth up to £50m.
The work forms part of a wider Scottish government project to upgrade the A96 to dual carriageway between Inverness and Aberdeen.
AECOM Limited, Amey Arup Joint Venture, Atkins WSP Joint Venture and Jacobs UK Ltd have been invited to bid.
Economy Secretary Keith Brown said: "When this contract is awarded later this year, design work for the eastern section will step up a gear with route option assessment work getting underway.
"This contract will also provide the successful bidders with steady work for years to come, and many more opportunities for small and medium enterprises through subcontracted work."
Mr Brown said other parts of the road project were also being progressed, including work on the planned Nairn bypass and the design of a section between Hardmuir and Fochabers. | Four business have been invited to bid for a contract to design new dual carriageway on a 26-mile stretch of the A96 road between Huntly and Aberdeen. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39490800"} | 183 | 36 | 0.604715 | 1.468216 | -0.203922 | 1.733333 | 5.233333 | 0.733333 |
Details emerged as the prosecution opened its case against Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, 30, who denies a charge of supplying the weapon.
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard Mr Duggan, 29, had travelled by cab to Leyton to collect the gun.
His death sparked riots in London which spread across England in summer 2011.
Edward Brown QC told the court that a handgun found on 4 August on a grass bank in Ferry Lane, Tottenham Hale, north London, had been in Mr Duggan's possession.
Mr Brown said Mr Duggan travelled by minicab to the area where a girlfriend of the defendant lived to collect the gun, which was hidden in a shoebox.
After the handover, Mr Duggan carried on towards Tottenham Hale with the gun, taking it out at some point during the journey, the court was told.
"It was not long into this second part of his journey that the minicab with Mark Duggan inside was stopped by police.
"There in Ferry Lane Mark Duggan was shot and fatally injured by the police as a result of his possession of that gun and what he was thought to be about to do with it," Mr Brown said.
He told the jury that armed police surrounded the cab but as Mr Duggan got out he was seen to have a gun in his hand.
"The police marksmen were in no doubt that this was as dangerous a position as possible - gun in hand - and he was seen to start to bring it round as if to shoot.
"The gun was found to be loaded with a bullet, as you know and as you will see in photographs. He was shot."
The court heard the gun, a BBM Bruni Model 92 handgun with one bullet in it, was found near the scene of the shooting.
Mr Brown said it was in a black sock which was ripped at the toe to expose the barrel of the gun and at the heel so the cocking lever was showing. It had been modified to take live 9mm bullets.
Mr Duggan's fingerprints were found on the shoebox which was recovered from the boot of the minicab, jurors heard.
Mr Brown told the court telephone data showed Mr Duggan and the defendant had been in contact.
He said the defendant lied to police about his possession of the gun and about his links to Mr Duggan.
"He provided a dishonest explanation as he hoped it would avoid his true responsibilities, say the Crown, in respect of the gun and its supply by him to Mark Duggan," Mr Brown said.
Mr Brown told the court there was a "breadth of evidence" supporting the case that Mr Hutchinson-Foster supplied the gun to Mr Duggan and that it was the same weapon used by Mr Hutchinson-Foster during a fight with a man a week earlier.
Blood from both Mr Hutchinson-Foster and the person involved in the fight was found on the gun and sock, he said.
Mr Brown told jurors it was not their task to decide "one way or the other the rights and wrongs of the shooting of Mark Duggan" and that those "tragic events" were for the inquest next year to determine.
Mr Hutchinson-Foster, of no fixed abode, denies selling or transferring a prohibited firearm to Mr Duggan between 28 July and 5 August last year.
The trial continues. | A loaded handgun was given to Mark Duggan 15 minutes before he was shot dead by police in Tottenham, north London, last year, a court has heard. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "19635639"} | 773 | 37 | 0.519148 | 1.443472 | -0.311123 | 1.83871 | 21.16129 | 0.806452 |
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) found some "outstanding practice" at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Hospital Trust, in Surrey.
Inspectors praised older people's assessments and the intensive care electronic patient record system.
In January, the trust cancelled most outpatient appointments, due to a high number of emergency patients.
Professor Mike Richards, the CQC's chief inspector of hospitals, said: "When we inspected the hospitals run by Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, much of what we saw was good.
"It was clear staff took great pride in their work. We saw some good examples of collaborative working to improve the treatment and care people received."
The inspectors said the trust needed to make improvements in the storage of medicines and had some concerns about staffing levels.
The report said: "All departments must have sufficient numbers of suitably qualified, skilled and experienced nursing staff on the units and the outreach team to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of patients at all times."
Suzanne Rankin, Ashford and St. Peter's chief executive said: "Our primary concern is always to provide the best possible services for patients that we can and this report bears out some of the excellent work we are doing to improve patient care and experience.
"We also recognise that there are some areas for improvement and we are already well under way in putting in place robust action plans to address these." | A hospital trust which said it was under "severe pressure" has been praised by the health watchdog. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31805067"} | 301 | 25 | 0.451717 | 1.043833 | -1.022125 | 1 | 14.15 | 0.7 |
At times the crowds of people thronging the sidewalks have turned the streets into a blaze of colour - the women, vivid explosions of rainbow hues in their traditional Korean dresses, and the men, although black or grey suited, carrying large artificial pink and red flowers.
These plastic, pom-pom like azaleas are used for waving in the ritualised adulation of their leader for which they are now so busy rehearsing.
Some sit in large groups waiting for instructions, others walk purposefully to or from the parade ground, chatting or laughing together along the streets of a capital city that is still largely devoid of traffic.
Antiquated army trucks with open tops trundle into town, in convoys dozens long, each packed with soldiers in uniform.
There's a relaxed, holiday feel: the female conscripts, separated in their own trucks, smiling and waving at passers-by, the male troops singing merrily in unison.
It gives this city the air of a giant film set for a war-time period costume drama.
But in the world's last truly totalitarian state, this is the reality.
Mass mobilisation is the defining essence of social and political life and there is no more important occasion for the expression of absolute fealty to the leader than The Day of the Sun.
Saturday marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of North Korea's long-dead founding president Kim Il-sung, although according to the country's constitution he remains formally in office.
The celebrations this year have taken on an added sense of symbolic meaning as they take place amid one of the periodic peaks in the tension that has so often defined the country's relationship with the outside world.
This isolated regime has shown a skilful knack of posting itself into the priority inbox of every US president who has come to office in recent years.
This time is no different, with an underground nuclear test shortly before the election, followed by a flurry of ballistic missile tests during the first few weeks of Mr Trump's presidency.
And like other presidents before him, Mr Trump appears to be exploring whether - instead of the failed diplomacy, debate and delay - a more direct, dramatic option might be available.
Whether he will, like others, finish his term having eventually decided that there is no realistic alternative remains to be seen.
But the fact that no US administration has yet been able to find a way to rein in North Korea's nuclear ambitions is a measure of the remarkable success of its game of brinkmanship with the outside world.
It is a classic study in military deterrence.
The regime's most powerful weapon has long been its conventional artillery.
Placed close to the border, it could cause significant damage and large loss of life in the South Korean capital within a matter of minutes.
For the government in Seoul it makes not just any offensive military option unthinkable, but complicates even defensive calculation.
In 2010, following an audacious and unprovoked torpedo attack on the South Korean warship the Cheonan - claiming the lives of 46 sailors and widely believed by the international community to have been carried out by the North - the South sat on its hands.
A few months later there was also no retaliation when North Korea shelled a South Korean island, hitting both military and civilian targets.
It is proof that the North has calculated all too well the costs of military engagement for its democratic, populous and economically vibrant neighbour.
Employing exactly the same logic, Pyongyang has been edging ever closer to possessing a deliverable nuclear arsenal with the aim of forcing its foes further afield into the same strategic bind.
The one thing that keeps the North Korean leadership awake at night is the thought of the B52 bombers stationed on the Pacific island of Guam.
And they have learned a very particular lesson from the US-led efforts to bring about regime change elsewhere in the world.
Iraq didn't have nuclear weapons and Libya had given its up.
Unless North Korea can be given the kind of guarantees that would make it feel secure enough - which seems unlikely in the short term - then any effort to negotiate away its nuclear programme is bound to fail.
So for now, the world is left with two stark choices.
Accept North Korea as a member of the nuclear-armed club, or try to force it to disarm, either through ever tougher sanctions or the incalculably risky option of military action.
As President Trump weighs these options, North Koreans are preparing to march, dance and sing to the glory of the country's ruling family this weekend.
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28 March 2016 Last updated at 08:20 BST
But have you noticed how most of those animals are cute ones? What about the not-so-cute animals?
Well a study has found that ugly animals are struggling to get the same attention.
Here's Hayley with the story. | We often hear about animals that are endangered or facing extinction. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35910223"} | 62 | 14 | 0.449505 | 0.895922 | -1.110393 | 0.416667 | 4.75 | 0.416667 |
Silva is the ninth Watford boss in five years and the eighth since the Italian Pozzo family took over in 2012.
The 39-year-old Portuguese replaced Mike Phelan at Hull in January but was unable to prevent relegation to the Championship and resigned on Thursday.
Chairman Scott Duxbury said Silva is "one of the most sought after head coaches in the Premier League".
He added: "His pedigree and promise speaks for itself with his achievements in top divisions elsewhere across Europe, as well as his work at Hull City last season."
Silva succeeds Walter Mazzarri at Vicarage Road, with the Italian dismissed before the final league match of a season in which the Hornets finished 17th.
Silva previously managed at Estoril, Sporting Lisbon and Olympiakos and during his Hull reign he extended a combined unbeaten home record with all four clubs to 41 matches, which was ended by a 2-0 defeat against relegated Sunderland.
Hull were relegated in the penultimate week of the season and Silva said at the time: "It's my goal as a manager to work in the Premier League."
The Tigers won only once away from home and lost their final three matches, suffering a 7-1 thrashing by second-placed Tottenham on the final day. | Watford have appointed former Hull boss Marco Silva as their new manager on a two-year contract. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40066015"} | 292 | 24 | 0.576447 | 1.274572 | -0.358189 | 0.736842 | 12.894737 | 0.631579 |
He has taken control following Jon Brady's resignation on Sunday after six and a half years with the club.
Sinclair, 43, has been playing for the sixth-tier side since resigning as manager of Colwyn Bay in January.
A statement on the club website read: "Frank Sinclair has been appointed to take charge of the first team until a replacement can be found."
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Kevin Whyman, 39, was flying a Folland Gnat aircraft that came down near the event at Oulton Park at about 14:00 BST.
BBC presenter Chris Evans, CarFest's founder, confirmed his death and said the pilot's family had been informed.
A visibly upset Mr Evans delivered a statement saying the display pilot had been killed in a "tragic accident".
The Heritage Aircraft Trust, operator of the Gnat Display Team, said in a statement: "Kevin was a Royal Air Force-trained fast jet pilot whose enthusiasm for flying the Folland Gnat was infectious.
"He will be greatly missed by his family, the team and many friends.
"Kevin leaves a wife and young daughter."
Mr Whyman, who was born in Chester, is a Cambridge University economics graduate.
He trained with the university's boat club and coxed Cambridge to victory in the 1996 and 1997 boat races against Oxford.
He had a career with the RAF from 1998 to 2001, when he left for a trading job with a US investment bank in the City of London.
He completed his civilian flying licences so that he could continue with his passion for flying.
BBC producer Justin Bones, on the scene at Oulton Park, said two planes performed a low-level, close-proximity pass just before the crash.
One of the aircraft failed to pull up and crashed north of the circuit, he said.
Mr Evans said: "The event will continue on the advice of the three aviation authorities we are currently involved with, as part of the ongoing investigation to what happened.
"And the police have also advised us that the best thing, and the safest thing to do, is to carry on with the event, bearing in mind there are 10,000 children here, and that's what we are going to do."
Cheshire Police say they are working to establish how the accident happened.
Eyewitnesses described horrified spectators screaming as the plane nosedived suddenly.
Witness Steve Gluning, who works with aircraft, said: "It's an airshow and it's dangerous. You know these things can happen but when they happen in front of you it's shocking.
"We were at the CarFest, my partner and I. Two Gnats came in. Five or six minutes doing individual and pair displays. They did a crossover. One went north and the other, I saw it jink. It went past the trees. Two or three seconds later there was a fireball.
"Instantly, you know that could be fatal."
Tessa Angel was watching the display with her husband.
"We saw two planes flying, weaving side by side. One was at a strange angle. My husband said: 'That's low. I hope he comes back up.' Then it went down," she said.
"People were staring, asking what happened. I didn't see any parachute. There were sirens within seconds, then a helicopter hovering."
Aviation expert Julian Bray said the type of Gnat plane involved in the crash had been around since 1955.
Peter Collins, a test pilot and former RAF pilot based in Cheshire, is familiar with the aircraft.
He told the BBC: "I flew it during training. I rate it as one of the best aeroplanes I've ever flown.
"It was designed as a fighter that was later turned into a trainer."
CarFest's organisers said in a statement: "Our thoughts are with the family of the pilot and all those affected at this time.
"We have helpfully received images and footage captured by those close to the site, which will aid with the police investigation.
"Should anyone else have similar photo or video footage, they are asked to keep hold of it in case the authorities request further information."
An Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) spokesman said: "AAIB will be investigating and is sending a team to the site."
Mr Evans, a car enthusiast who has just become the new presenter of BBC Top Gear, created the motoring and music festival, which raises money for BBC Children in Need.
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Caerphilly Castle Ladies' results in the Women's Welsh Premier League will be wiped out.
This season the side, whose first team walked out last summer, also found themselves on the wrong end of 36-0, 28-0 and 26-0 scorelines.
The Football Association of Wales (FAW) said the club had taken the move "with regret".
SOURCE: Welsh Premier League
The team, known as the Castle, found themselves in the headlines following the latest defeat, which meant the side had let in 219 goals and scored just one in 10 games.
Club officials had said earlier this week they were putting a "brave face" on the results and had no intention of giving up, but the statement issued through the FAW indicated the club will focus on bringing on youth players.
It said: "With regret, the club has decided to withdraw its membership from the Welsh Premier Women's League with immediate effect.
"Caerphilly Castle is very proud of its tradition of nurturing young footballing talent over the years but the club has found it difficult to compete at the highest level of Welsh Women's Football this season.
"The committed officials of the club fully intend to continue their passion of developing players throughout the different age groups and hope to return to the Welsh Premier Women's League as soon as possible."
The senior team's results will be wiped from the records, but the club wished the 11 sides remaining in the league luck for the rest of the season.
In terms of numbers participating at all levels, Caerphilly Castle rival Cardiff City for the title of biggest women's club in Wales.
They finished mid-table in the last two Welsh Premier League seasons, and in 2010 lifted the Welsh League Cup. | A football team who suffered a 43-0 defeat at the weekend have withdrawn from the league they were playing in. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "21779050"} | 366 | 25 | 0.369632 | 0.962075 | -0.619522 | 1.043478 | 15.086957 | 0.695652 |
About 70 farmers took two of their cattle into Asda, in Queensway, Stafford at about 12:30 BST to clear milk from the shelves, police said.
Shopper Adam Williams said "staff looked on in amazement", as the cows moved to the back of the store, "creating mess as they walked".
Farmers want the price of milk paid to them by supermarkets to be increased.
Supermarkets say there is no link between the price of milk on the shelves and what farmers are paid.
Stafford farmer Matthew Weaver, 38, said: "We needed something that would catch people's attention and be a bit of fun."
Mr Weaver said farmers had come from Derbyshire, Shropshire and Warwickshire to take part in the protest. They were also planning to visit a Lidl store in Stafford and an Asda in Wolstanton.
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Pte John Fielding, of Cwmbran, received the Victoria Cross for his part in the 1879 defence of Rorke's Drift.
A band and parade of veterans marched from Abbyfields to St Michael and All Angels church, Llantarnam, where a service marked the battle's 138th anniversary.
Pte Fielding joined the 24th Regiment of Foot at the age of 20 in 1877.
Two years later, he was one of about 140 British troops who fought hand to hand with 4,000 Zulus.
He lived to the age of 75, dying of heart failure in 1932.
Newport Road was closed for a short time for the event which was organised by Cwmbran and District Ex-Service Association. | A parade and service to remember a war hero from Torfaen was held on Saturday. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38685269"} | 166 | 22 | 0.40503 | 1.032273 | -1.283427 | 0.5625 | 8.25 | 0.5625 |
Nicky Schellander, 44, from Barnstaple, Devon, had her ovaries removed when the cancer was found in August 2015.
After pioneering surgery in London, she is fundraising £66,500 for the drug Olaparib to stop the cancer growing.
If the fundraising is successful, she hopes to be back to jousting by October, when she also plans to marry.
Ms Schellander, who has worked on films such as Snow White and the Huntsman and TV series Merlin, went to her GP in August 2015 with stomach pain and was sent home with painkillers.
More on Nicky's story, and other news
But five days later the pain was so bad she could barely walk, and after an ultrasound a "large mass" was found on her ovary.
She had surgery and chemotherapy and went into remission, but the cancer returned aggressively in February.
Ms Schellander, who lives with fiancé Cy Margieson, said: "It was devastating for me.
"The dreams that my fiancé and I held, are getting harder - we lost our baby and chance of starting a family, so now, the priority is to concentrate on staying alive."
Ms Schellander was told about the drug Olaparib, which will stop the cancer's DNA from replicating, but won't be able to access it on the NHS until she has had three rounds of chemotherapy.
"Rather than waiting for it to come back a third time I'd rather have it now," she said.
"This is the first ovarian cancer treatment to get approval from the NHS in over a decade.
"If it wasn't the only thing that might help me, I would not even consider it.
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Police said Ananta Bijoy Das was attacked by a masked gang wielding machetes in the north-eastern city of Sylhet.
Mr Das wrote blogs for Mukto-Mona, a website once moderated by Avijit Roy, himself hacked to death in February.
Mr Roy, a Bangladeshi-born US writer, had criticised religious intolerance.
He was killed in a machete attack while he was visiting the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, as he returned with his wife from a book fair in the city. His widow suffered head injuries and lost a thumb.
In March, another blogger, Washiqur Rahman, was hacked to death in Dhaka.
Police say there are similarities in the way all three bloggers were killed - hacked to death with sharp weapons. In each case, attackers carried out their plan on a busy street.
Death threats to secular bloggers are on the rise in Bangladesh. A few years back, hardline Islamists demanded a blasphemy law to stop bloggers they perceive to be anti-Islamic from writing about Islam.
Secular forces in Bangladesh say that their views are under threat. Intolerance is growing as the country's politics increasingly diverge into secular and non-secular poles.
Bangladesh is officially secular. But critics say the government is indifferent to the problem of blogger killing - pointing out that no-one has yet been punished for any of the attacks.
Sara Hossain, a lawyer and human rights activist in Dhaka, told the BBC that Mr Das and Mr Roy were on a list of targets.
"They've always believed and written very vocally in support of free expression and they've very explicitly written about not following any religion themselves," she told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme.
"These last two have been part of a blog called Mukto-Mona [Free Mind], which is about free thinking and is about explicitly taking on religious fundamentalism and particularly Islamic religious fundamentalism. Their names have been on lists of identified targets."
The attack on Mr Roy prompted massive protests from students and social activists, who accused the authorities of failing to protect critics of religious bigotry.
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The American married Kevin Anderson, now the world number 14, in 2011 after meeting the South African at the University of Illinois, and has been travelling full-time on the tennis tour for three years.
It meant giving up an accountancy career in Chicago, a matter of days after being promoted.
"I think that option is always out there but for now I'm just a tour wife, which is a little bit demeaning in a way, but I think I play a pretty big role on Kevin's team.
"I don't let it bother me too much if people call me a WAG [Wives and Girlfriends]. I just kind of embrace it. If you can't beat them, join them."
On Monday in New York, Anderson will take her seat at Flushing Meadows to watch her husband play Andy Murray, with the Scot's wife Kim in the opposite corner.
"I know exactly how she feels sitting there," says Anderson.
"It's tense and it's stressful and it's impossible to ignore those feelings. As much as sometimes we try, it boils over."
Kelsey Anderson began charting life on the tour in a blog last month and it has already proved quite a hit, with Murray describing one effort as "absolutely fantastic" and husband Kevin saying other players have "really enjoyed it".
Whether it is dealing with the regular defeats that tennis players suffer, coping with long-distance relationships, or describing the best and worst laundry, food and transport on offer, the blog details the hours spent away from the world's centre courts.
"I feel like the wives and girlfriends don't get a whole lot of exposure beyond what we look like from the players' box," she says.
"I'm really proud and excited to be giving a voice to some of the other women who commit their lives to travelling with their partners."
Anderson estimates that she is one of three wives or girlfriends on the men's ATP Tour who travel to every tournament with their partner.
Earlier in his career, her husband would often share a room with his coach to keep costs down, and her decision to join the travelling team was not without consequence.
"Fortunately, when I started travelling with him he was ranked about 30, 35, so he's gone up and we can justify the cost of me being around," she says.
"It was a big decision, though. Not only was I giving up my career and earning potential, we had to start getting an extra hotel room every week, we had to start paying for extra flights, extra food.
"It's not insignificant and I think it it really is part of the reason why certain people don't come to every tournament - they just can't justify the cost."
Those costs can begin to mount up pretty quickly - Anderson estimates that they spent between $40,000 (£26,000) and $50,000 (£33,000) on air fares last year, and approximately $1,000 (£700) to $2,000 (£1,400) a week on hotel rooms.
"If you've got a team with you, you've really got to be earning money to cover your expenses," says Anderson.
She deals with the business side of Kevin's career and so is responsible for booking those plane tickets, with the air miles and deals proving invaluable to make sure his 6ft 8in frame arrives ready for competition.
That can often mean Kevin heading to business class while his wife sits at the less glamorous end of the plane - at least on the way to tournaments.
"It's just not worth the risk of him showing up having pinched his neck because he's sleeping funny on the airplane," she says.
"My job, and the job of the rest of the support staff, is to take as much pressure off Kevin as we can, so that all he has to do theoretically is show up and play."
Her husband won £898,765 in prize money last year, but only reached his career-high ranking this summer at the age of 29, having turned professional in 2007.
"Of course the guys at the top have great endorsements but Kevin's from South Africa; he doesn't have a federation funding him," she adds.
"He's paid his own way every dime of his career, he's built it on his own merits, and it makes me really proud of him. He's managed it all really smartly. He's treated it as a business from day one as a pro."
Despite the hours spent in airports, restaurants, gyms and hotel rooms, the focus remains on what happens out on court.
That is when Kelsey Anderson and the rest of the team have to play their part from the sidelines.
"Sometimes we'll say something like, 'stay committed'. That's a trigger word for him and he knows in his mind, when we say 'committed' he has a thought process and a target associated with that, so just the one word is significant.
"He does give me feedback and we appreciate it because we want to do the best we can, within the rules obviously, because we're not allowed to coach, or say anything specific from the sidelines."
Kim Murray, a veteran of 10 years in the world's player boxes, will be going through a similar routine on Monday.
The then-future Mrs Murray became caught in a media storm at this year's Australian Open after images of her swearing went viral, prompting her to respond by wearing a 'parental advisory explicit content' t-shirt at the next match.
"It's so tense and so emotional, I completely understand how that type of stuff happens," says Anderson.
"I think it was unlucky for her. I think she's a lovely girl and I don't think that's reflective of her character or her values.
"[The t-shirt] was the perfect response, I loved it. It showed her sense of humour and it was great."
Anderson admits she gets very nervous when watching - "truly, on the inside I'm dying" - but hopes to stay on the road for as long as her husband is competing.
"It's been an absolute pleasure to watch and to experience all of it and it's been so fun," she says.
"I can't even explain how proud it makes me to have seen the development and really know how hard he works, and how much he earned where he is right now." | Kelsey Anderson might describe herself as a "WAG", but there is more to being a tennis player's partner than maintaining your game face when the camera pans your way. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34166359"} | 1,428 | 42 | 0.398588 | 1.205135 | -0.589801 | 0.882353 | 38.735294 | 0.705882 |
Bill May, 36, and Christina Jones, 27, scored 88.5108 to beat favourites Russia in the 'duet technical' final, with Italy third.
It was the first time male synchro swimmers had been allowed to compete at World level.
"I can't believe that this moment has finally happened," May told BBC Sport.
"This is the future of synchronised swimming because we've seen such strong calibre male athletes here and I really think it's going to help the sport grow."
The pair are full-time Cirque du Soleil performers in the USA with May having retired over a decade ago after becoming frustrated by the lack of international competitions available for male synchronised swimmers.
He and Jones only returned to the sport late last year following the decision by Fina - swimming's governing body - to allow men into the competition for the first time. Jones told the BBC earlier this month that reaching the final would be the best day of his life.
"It's an event people can relate to like ballroom dancing," said Jones.
"I think that the strength and power of a man is the perfect balance to a woman's qualities."
The event is not yet part of the Olympic programme, but the International Olympic Committee are keen on more competitions featuring men and women meaning there is potential for inclusions come the 2020 Tokyo Games.
"We want to be there, it's our dream and we want in," added May.
Elsewhere, on the second day of the World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, China claimed gold in the men's synchronised 10m platform final.
Mexico secured silver ahead of Russia, whilst Britain's young pair James Denny and Matty Lee were ninth in their first-ever World final together. | Synchronised swimming events featuring men and women are the "future" of the sport say the winners of the first-ever World Championship gold in the event. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33670478"} | 381 | 36 | 0.567116 | 1.433281 | 0.318563 | 2.066667 | 11.566667 | 0.866667 |
John Edwards told the inquest of Gavin Williams, 22, from Hengoed, Caerphilly county, he was unaware disciplinary rules had changed when he carried out part of the young soldier's beasting.
Pte Williams died from heart failure at Lucknow Barracks in Tidworth, Wiltshire, on 3 July 2006.
Cpl Edwards said he questioned the extent of Pte Williams's punishment.
He told the inquest in Salisbury, Wiltshire, he had followed orders to march Pte Williams until he was "panting like a dog" as punishment for disobedience and a series of drunken incidents.
The inquest was told that in January 2005, new disciplinary rules, known as AGAI 67, were brought in by the Army.
Coroner Alan Large said using physical drills as a punishment was not within the AGAI rules, but Cpl Edwards said he was not aware of that at the time.
He asked Cpl Edwards what he thought about claims from higher ranking Army personnel that physical drills were not being used as punishment at the time.
"I would say certain people within that area are lying," he replied.
Mr Large said: "Are you able to recall either of those regimental sergeant majors giving you direct orders after January 2005 to carry out these quick sharp unofficial punishments?"
"Yes sir," he said, but could not provide an example when asked.
Cpl Edwards said he followed orders to march Pte Williams until he was "panting like a dog" but planned not to be out long because it was a very hot day and it "would not be fair".
After writing letter of apology for his drunken behaviour, Pte Williams was told to do further physical training (PT) sessions by Sgt Russell Price.
Cpl Edwards said he queried Sgt Price's order, asking: "are you sure", but Pte Williams was still taken to the gym.
He said it was not his decision to order Pte Williams to carry out a second round of exercise.
"I'm not a monster," he said.
Cpl Edwards, Sgt Price and Sgt Paul Blake were cleared of manslaughter at Winchester Crown Court in 2008.
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Like-for like fourth quarter revenue in the US, McDonald's biggest market, fell by 1.3% compared with late 2015 when it launched its all day breakfast.
While total global sales grew in the fourth quarter and full year, menu changes have eaten into growth.
Analyst Neil Saunders said instead of it pulling new customers into McDonalds, people had been switching to cheaper meals, including the breakfast.
Under president and chief executive Steve Easterbrook, McDonald's has been working on revitalising the business, which had been suffering under falling sales.
Mr Easterbrook said on Monday: "Throughout 2016, we worked diligently to lay the groundwork for our long-term future. We focused on driving changes in our menu, restaurants and technology to deliver an enhanced McDonald's experience for our customers around the world."
Mr Saunders, chief executive of retail research business, Conlumino, said: "In our view, as much as menu change was right, one of the impacts of the all day breakfast options has been to provide diners with cheaper options. Many have exploited this and average transaction values for lunch and dinner have fallen as a consequence, something that has put a dampener on overall growth.
"In this regard, putting to one side the initial uplift in interest when all day breakfast was launched, the initiative seems to have ultimately created quite a lot of menu choice switching rather than driving new customers to stores."
Operating profit in North America for the three months to December also fell, down 11%, although the previous year's profit was flattered by a gain on the sale of a restaurant property.
In other regions, growth was stronger. International comparable sales for the final quarter rose 2.8% led by the UK, while in McDonald's high growth markets revenue jumped by 4.7% helped in particular by China.
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They say the bird's body was found near a car park and was identified by the number 53 on its wing.
Some German media reports say the penguin was decapitated.
The penguin's body is now being examined by veterinary surgeons, reports say, with police ruling out suggestions it was killed by a wild animal such as a fox or a bird of prey.
A full scale hunt for the perpetrator has begun.
Staff at the sanctuary from where the bird disappeared are devastated by news of its death, Spiegel online (in German) reported.
They had been searching for the bird ever since it disappeared, even draining the pond of the enclosure to check that it had not died on site.
Humboldt penguins are thought to be declining in number. One of the reasons is thought to be due to the El Nino weather pattern, which is increasing water temperatures and reducing their food supply.
They breed on the Pacific coast of South America and the offshore islands of Chile and Peru.
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The incident involved a blue Lupo and lorry at Llanelwedd, near Llandrindod Wells, at 19:50 BST on Wednesday.
While the driver of the lorry was uninjured, a woman who was driving the car died.
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Industrial action on Thursday and Friday has been called off for negotiations to resume.
RMT members began a five-day walk out on Monday but Southern said it was encouraged its offer of talks had been accepted.
Union chief Mick Cash said he had contacted Southern with a way forward.
A spokesman for Southern said: "For our passengers' sake, we truly hope these talks will be productive and bring this long-running dispute to an end."
The RMT is fighting plans by Southern owner Govia Thameslink (GTR) to turn conductors into "on-board supervisors" from 21 August, with drivers taking over responsibility for opening and closing carriage doors.
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The rail operator said the strike timetable - which is running 60% of normal services - would run on Thursday.
"Regrettably, this means tomorrow's service will be based upon the present strike timetable but we will do our very best to add services in and extend the hours of operation wherever possible," a spokesman said.
The company said it planned to revert to the revised timetable that had been operating before the strike on Friday.
The revised timetable was brought in last month to cope with ongoing disruption. It saw 341 trains axed per day from the 2,242 weekday services Southern had provided.
Mr Cash said in a message to members he had heard from Acas that Southern would enter into negotiations "without any preconditions".
He said: "The National Executive Committee (NEC) has had time to consider this matter and have acknowledged that some progress is being made.
"As the company have now agreed to meet with our union officials without the caveat of any preconditions, the NEC has therefore instructed me to inform you and your colleagues that the strike action has now been suspended with immediate effect until further notice."
Mr Cash told members they were instructed to return to work for all shifts starting from 22:00 BST on Wednesday.
34.8%
Southern Mainline and Coast trains at terminus at least 5 minutes late
12.6%
Total trains late for England and Wales
12% Govia Thameslink Railway services cancelled or significantly late
4.4% Total England and Wales trains cancelled or significantly late
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said it was "good news for passengers".
He said: "It's important now to leave the union and the train operator to undertake these necessary talks. I hope they reach a positive conclusion as quickly as possible."
Passengers have joined a protest march from London's Victoria station to the Department for Transport (DfT) in central London.
Summer Dean, from Brighton, spokeswoman for the Association of British Commuters said: "We are directing our attentions towards the DfT.
"Obviously we know they are playing a large role in the relationship and situation that is going on here.
"We've now recognised that the DfT needs to play a bigger role. So we're here to ask for fare freezes, we're here to ask for them to meet with us and other passengers and the companies, and for meaningful compensation."
The Campaign for Better Transport and the Association of British Commuters were presenting a 6ft-high letter to rail minister Paul Maynard calling on him to attend a "passenger assembly" to answer questions and arrange better compensation for customers affected by the dispute. | A strike on the Southern rail network has been suspended to allow fresh talks in the row over the role of conductors, Acas said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37036579"} | 713 | 30 | 0.524807 | 1.291657 | -0.003173 | 1.153846 | 25 | 0.846154 |
Easyjet said it had cancelled 56 flights at Gatwick airport, which has drafted in extra staff and ground handlers to keep people moving.
Heathrow said more than 100 flights had been cancelled.
A spokesman for Gatwick said dense fog had caused delays and cancellations and apologised for the "unavoidable and unfortunate disruption".
He said air traffic control restrictions had been imposed because of the heavy fog over south-east England and parts of Europe, where many aircraft were headed.
"Passengers are strongly advised to check with their airline as to the status of their flight before travelling if possible," he added.
Heathrow told the BBC 119 flights had been cancelled and more may be cancelled later.
London City airport said about 26 flights had been diverted, and more than 60 arriving and 70 departing flights had been cancelled.
Easyjet said all airlines had been advised by Gatwick to cancel some flights.
An airline spokesman said: "While these circumstances are outside of the airline's control, Easyjet apologises for any inconvenience caused and would like to reassure passengers that we are doing everything possible to minimise the disruption."
The National Air Traffic Control Service (Nats) said the fog had caused disruption because greater spacing was required between aircraft to ensure safety when visibility was poor.
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Hallam Amos crossed less than a minute into his comeback, while tries from Nic Cudd and Lewis Evans gave the Dragons a 24-10 half-time lead.
The home side found it hard going despite a 58th minute red card for Alexandre Bias, before Ashton Hewitt scored the vital fourth try.
Dragons stay two points clear of Sale Sharks, who won 27-3 at Pau.
The top two face each other in the final round of matches on 21 January at Sale's AJ Bell Stadium, with the five pool winners and three best-placed runners-up qualifying for the quarter-finals.
The Dragons showed their intent from the start as a Castres knock-on allowed Sarel Pretorius to start a counter-attack and Jason Tovey to work Amos clear.
Cudd then smuggled his way over from a driving line-out maul and Evans crossed from close range. Tovey converted all three touchdowns.
David Smith shot over in the final minute of the first half for a converted score that seemed to turn the tide in favour of the French.
Lock Christophe Samson charged in after 50 minutes after some snappy handling and a Geoffrey Palis penalty on 56 had the home side rocking at 24-18.
Two minutes later, Castres were let down by their discipline as replacement lock Bias put in a reckless head and shoulder charge on Phil Price, and referee Peter Fitzgibbon brought out a red card.
French woes deepened as replacement prop Eric Sione saw yellow for a clumsy challenge, but the Dragons laboured to press home their advantage.
Eight minutes from time they finally cracked the Castres defence, with a Taulupe Faletau charge producing the chance for Hewitt to grab the loose ball for the crucial fourth.
Tovey converted for an 11-point haul to go with his man-of-the-match award.
Newport Gwent Dragons head coach Kingsley Jones told BBC Radio Wales:
"We wanted to play with ambition and not kick the ball too much.
"We had them under pressure and played good rugby. Our errors in the second half were 60% and we can't make that many errors, it was poor.
"We're still top of the group and hopefully we'll go to Sale on a positive note and have a go there."
Dragons: Meyer; Hewitt, Hughes, Warren, Amos; Tovey, Pretorius; Price, Dee, Harris, Hill, Landman (capt), Evans, Cudd, Faletau.
Replacements: T Rhys Thomas, Stankovich, Knight, Screech, Jackson, Davies, O'Brien, Scott.
Castres: Palis; Sivivatu, Combezou, Cabannes (capt), Smith; Fontaine, Seron; Diarra, Babillot, Caballero, Desroche, Samson, Martinez, Rallier, Taumoepeau.
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The American Health Care Act (AHCA) passed with a vote to spare, after weeks of cajoling within the Republican party to muster enough support.
Democrats were unanimously opposed and their House leader Nancy Pelosi called it a "cowardly choice".
President Trump predicted this "great plan" would now get Senate backing.
"Make no mistake, this is a repeal and a replace of Obamacare," he said from the Rose Garden at the White House, soon after the vote.
Its safe passage through the US lower chamber provides the new president with his first legislative victory, three months into his term.
And it marks a remarkable turnaround after the bill was left for dead in March when Republicans were unable to agree on its provisions.
But it was a close-run thing - Republicans needed 216 votes in the House and it passed with 217. No Democrats voted in favour.
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Round one of the battle over Obamacare repeal is in the books. Round two is set to begin, with the opponents more powerful and the obstacles more imposing.
It's worth remembering that passage of the Republican healthcare plan in the House of Representatives was supposed to be the easy part. House Speaker Paul Ryan had a sizeable majority at his disposal and the political tools to reward support and punish transgressions.
Instead the American Health Care Act's long, laborious journey exposed divisions within the Republican Party and the limits in Donald Trump's powers of persuasion. These challenges won't disappear. The fault lines will be put under greater pressure and Mr Trump's skills will be further tested when action heads to the Senate.
Unlike the House, the Republican majority there is narrow, and already some in the party are showing misgivings about the current legislation. Democrats, who have more parliamentary tricks up their sleeves, will attempt to disrupt the process at every turn.
Still, a win is a win. It wasn't pretty. It may not last. But Mr Trump and the Republican House leadership will take it.
But the speed at which it has been resuscitated since then, with several amendments aimed at winning over Republican rebels, has provoked criticism.
It is not known how much the revised bill will cost, nor how many people will lose coverage, because the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has not had time to assess it.
Before the latest revisions, the CBO estimated 14 million more Americans would lose insurance in 2018 alone.
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About 20 million Americans gained healthcare coverage under President Barack Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act, nicknamed Obamacare.
But Republicans viewed it as an overreach of the federal government and said patients had less choice and higher premiums.
There were shouts of "Shame on you!" from protesters directed at congressmen and women as they left Capitol Hill.
Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said: "Very sad. One of the biggest transfers of wealth in the history of our country. Their desire to give a tax break for the rich just trumped everything."
But Republicans were jubilant.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the bill would give Americans greater choice and stop the current Obamacare "death spiral" of higher costs and fewer healthcare options.
The White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said it was a "big win for Americans" and would deliver expanded access and lower costs.
Before the vote, the Republican leadership in the House played "Eye of the Tiger", the pre-fight song in Rocky, at a closed-door meeting.
The bill goes to the Senate, probably next month, where it faces a precarious passage.
Although the chamber is Republican controlled, their majority is a thin one and several of their senators said after the House victory they will write their own bill rather than amend that one.
The influential Senator Bob Corker said the present bill had "zero" chance of clearing the upper chamber.
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The government said the independent report clearly blamed union action and sick leave for disruption.
The DFT had said the paper could not be published before the election but has now made it public.
It was written by Chris Gibb, a non-executive director at Network Rail.
Last week the RMT union demanded it should be released immediately.
Both unions have been in dispute with Southern's parent company, Govia Thameslink (GTR), for more than a year in a row over guards' roles on trains.
RMT general secretary, Mick Cash, said: "No wonder the government have sat on the Gibb report for seven months. It's taken them that long to slice and fillet it into a document that they can spin up as an attack on the unions and the staff."
Aslef general secretary, Mick Whelan, noted Mr Gibb said no single party was responsible and added: "He's right. It's a combination of the Department for Transport (DFT) and GTR/Southern deliberately provoking an industrial dispute."
A DFT spokesman said: "The report makes absolutely clear that passengers would have had reliable services had staff come to work as normal - despite the other challenges faced by the network."
He said recommendations included spending £300m to improve infrastructure resilience and establishing a new board to tackle problems ahead of "huge" Thameslink upgrades in 2018.
So how does Chris Gibb propose fixing matters?
Some of his recommendations have already been carried out - remember, the government has had a copy of this since late 2016.
So, it chose to spend £300m on Thameslink upgrades before 2018 to avoid scrapping the programme. It chose to reduce overnight services on the Brighton mainline to make room for engineering work. But other recommendations remain.
They include closing the line between Horsham and Three Bridges for a fortnight to upgrade the track, phasing out older trains, spinning off parts of the network to Transport for London, using simpler and more sensible ways of rostering staff, and fewer trains through underused stations like Newhaven Harbour.
But what about stripping Govia Thameslink of the franchise? Gibb says this may be counterproductive and would probably lead to work on the Thameslink programme pausing.
The report described Southern as "running at absolute capacity at peak times and undergoing a period of dramatic and traumatic change" from 2015 to 2018, including revised working practices, new trains and major infrastructure enhancements.
In addressing how the system got to this point, Mr Gibb wrote: "I do not believe any single party to have been the cause."
He also said some elements of the system had been considered "as an afterthought", including train maintenance depots and stations such as London Victoria.
He added: "At the time of writing this, the RMT and Aslef leadership, supported currently by their members, are the primary cause for the system integrity to fail.
"Whatever their motives, which are debatable, I do not support their action."
Mr Gibb made more than 30 recommendations, concluding Southern's performance "can and will improve", as these were implemented.
GTR chief executive, Charles Horton, said it was a thorough review of the UK's most congested railway and the only way to address capacity problems was to modernise infrastructure, trains, systems and working practices.
He said: "We urge our trade unions to play their part by working with us on the modernisation of working practices and have assured them that there will be no job losses."
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In his first public comments on the Ukrainian crisis, Mr Putin said on Tuesday that Moscow reserved the right to act to protect Russian citizens and speakers anywhere in Ukraine, but added that military action was "a last resort".
Ukrainian newspapers say that the threat of war has been averted, but warn that Russia may now attempt a plan of "creeping federalisation" to split the country.
Most of the major Russian dailies adopt a staunch pro-government stance, praising President Putin as a "man in control" who has clearly outlined his "negotiating positions" to the West and Ukraine.
Russian pundits dwell not so much on the messages relayed by Mr Putin but rather on the political and personal qualities that they feel he displayed during the news conference.
Izvestiya daily notes that the president was "calm and confident" and "clearly answered all questions" asked by journalists.
"By not going to war, Putin proved himself as a statesman, not just as a tactician," says an editorial in Vedomosti, adding that a crisis in relations with a neighbour "is a maturity test for every head of state".
Writing in Moskovskiy Komsomolets, Mikhail Rostovsky says that "having faced such a heavy flow of threats from almost all Western leaders" Mr Putin did not look like a "frightened politician" but behaved like it was "water off a duck's back".
"Vladimir Putin communicated indirectly with his G8 colleagues… and defined his negotiating positions," says the article.
"The president feels the master of the situation," exclaims Nikolai Petrov in Nezavisimaya Gazeta. He argues that Mr Putin's position is "strengthened by the fact that the new Ukrainian authorities are not in control of Eastern Ukraine… and also by the fact that the West cannot quickly provide the money that Kiev desperately needs". That is why "with each passing day Kiev is pushed towards making concessions to Putin," concludes the pundit.
"Putin made his move. It's the turn of Ukraine and the West to respond," another political analyst, Igor Bunin, tells Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
"Confessions of a mad aggressor" is how the main headline in Ukrainian daily Ukrayina Moloda describes the news conference by President Putin.
A cartoon on its front page shows the Russian president sporting an "I love Ukraine" badge. He is wearing a nappy, with an olive branch in one hand and a toy tank in the other. "While listening to the leader of one of the biggest and most powerful countries of the world, one starts worrying not only about Ukraine, but also about the entire world," the paper comments.
Ukrainian commentators are sceptical about Mr Putin's claims that he will not yet resort to the use of force.
"There will be no military aggression, but he will not give up on Crimea," Vadym Karasyov tells Kommersant Ukraina. He predicts that Crimea "will remain part of Ukraine but will be turned into Ukraine's Dniester region". The mainly Russian-speaking Trans-Dniester region proclaimed independence from Moldova in 1990 and Russian troops now have a heavy presence there.
The front page of the daily Den carries a picture of soldiers putting up a Ukrainian flag in defiance at Belbek airport in Crimea, apparently surrounded by Russian troops with machine guns. "We are proud of you" is the main headline. "Restraint and patriotism displayed by the Ukrainian military marked a turning point in the Crimean situation," says the paper, while warning that "it is too early to relax".
Den also quotes pundit Olena Hetmanchuk as saying that Vladimir Putin's seemingly peaceful tone "is a tactical defeat".
"We should brace ourselves for a long exhausting war which will not be waged with the help of tanks. This news conference marked the start of a new phase of Putin's diplomatic and PR war," she argues.
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The Giants had lost 4-1 to Braehead Clan at home on Tuesday night but this victory sees them remain six points adrift of leaders Cardiff Devils.
Mike Radja (2), James Desmarais, Michael Forney and player-coach Derrick Walser found the net for Belfast, who have three games in hand over Cardiff.
Lou Dickenson and Mikael Lidhammar were the scorers for Dundee.
Goals from Dickenson and Radja saw the sides tied at 1-1 after the first period, with Desmarais and Forney on target to move the hosts two ahead by the end of the second period.
Walser scored for Belfast, Lidhammar pulled one back, but Radja completed the scoring soon after to make it a convincing triumph for the Giants.
The Giants had been on a four-game winning run, before they went down to Clan on Tuesday.
That reverse was their sixth in 12 games in Belfast, but the success against the Stars will boost confidence in the Belfast camp.
Cardiff saw off Manchester Storm 3-2 on Wednesday to maintain their advantage at the top of the standings.
The Giants will host Coventry in their next fixture in Belfast on Saturday night. | The Belfast Giants returned to winning ways on Wednesday as they defeated Dundee Stars 5-2 at the SSE Arena. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35201176"} | 268 | 27 | 0.636441 | 1.510222 | 0.045951 | 1.045455 | 10.318182 | 0.681818 |
Fire crews from Northamptonshire Fire Service were called to the blaze at Multy UK on the Earlstrees Industrial Estate in Corby at 11:45 GMT.
Eight fire engines are at the scene off Brunel Road as well as two aerial platforms.
A fire service spokesman warned residents who are living nearby to keep doors and windows closed.
Multy UK makes a range of cleaning products. | A massive fire has broken out at a cleaning products firm on an industrial estate in Northamptonshire. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38394556"} | 90 | 23 | 0.684531 | 1.29958 | -0.333146 | 1.111111 | 3.944444 | 0.666667 |
Emily Price, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, studied maths and physics and was due to do a Masters degree in Aberystwyth.
She was taken ill after being elected to the town's central ward.
Her family said they plan to establish a memorial at Aberystwyth University.
"She fell in love with Aberystwyth and planned to make her life there," her mother Natasha Price said.
"Emily was special to us as a family and it is comforting to know that she was also loved by so many others.
"Emily was a gentle girl who always had a smile on her face and never said no to helping others. We will miss her terribly, a light has gone out of our lives.
"There are no words that seem to describe Emily, she was quite simply just Em."
Ms Price's family said she enjoyed being president of the physics society at Aberystwyth University and went into local schools to educate children about science.
She loved politics, Sherlock, the Big Bang Theory and Harry Potter.
Ms Price's funeral will take place at Cambridge crematorium on 2 June.
Her family said anyone who loved her was welcome to attend.
The council held a minute's silence at its meeting on Monday, where Ms Price was due to make her declaration to become a councillor. | A 22-year-old who died shortly after being elected to Aberystwyth town council has been described as a "gentle girl who always had a smile on her face". | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39967374"} | 304 | 43 | 0.631189 | 1.532048 | -0.361934 | 3.794118 | 7.588235 | 0.735294 |
Arthur Rennie, 20, from Port Glasgow, targeted Cowden's News and Fast Food Shop in Greenock, on 16 March 2015.
He waved the sword and pushed 23-year-old Julie Crighton and demanded cash. She refused, pushed him back and chased him while clutching the plastic fork.
Rennie was caught when a bag containing the sword and clothing, which had his DNA on them, was found near the shop.
Jailing Rennie at the High Court in Glasgow, judge Lady Rae told him: "I appreciate you don't accept the jury's verdict, but the evidence showed that you went into the shop - along with another - with your face covered and with a large sword.
"That young woman was extremely brave to tackle you and you then ran away."
The court heard that Rennie went into the shop, pushed Ms Crighton and repeatedly asked for money while waving the sword about.
When she pushed him back, Rennie then fled with Ms Crighton giving chase while clutching a plastic fork.
Lady Rae added: "This was a large sword and the incident must have been very frightening. She is an extremely brave young woman that tackled Mr Rennie despite the fact he had that sword."
In evidence Ms Crighton said:: "He was brandishing what I thought was a machete and made his way to the side of the counter.
"He came towards me and pushed me and I pushed him back. I think he realised I wasn't going to give him anything. He went out and I went out the shop after him.
"I wasn't thinking of catching him. Just seeing where he was going."
In court Ms Crighton was shown a sword and identified it as the weapon she saw in the shop.
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Nearly 100 other spectators were injured as Ouakam fans clashed with those of rivals Stade de Mbour during Saturday's League Cup final.
"US Ouakam are temporarily suspended," the FSF said in a statement.
The FSF's disciplinary committee will decide on sanctions against Ouakam shortly, it added.
The AFP news agency said multiple witnesses reported seeing Ouakam fans throw stones and other objects at the Mbour supporters.
This came moments after the visiting side had taken a 2-1 lead in extra-time of the final.
A wall at the Demba Diop stadium in the capital Dakar collapsed following the fighting between fans.
Police responded with tear gas, sparking the stampede.
"My thoughts with those who lost loved ones or were injured during (the) tragic stampede at Demba Diop Stadium. Heartfelt condolences," tweeted Fifa Secretary General Fatma Samoura, who is Senegalese.
While US Ouakam - the 2011 Senegalese champions - hail from Dakar, Stade de Mbour are based 80km (50 miles) further south.
On Sunday, Senegal's government announced an inquiry into the disaster while suspending all sports and cultural events until political elections take place at the end of the month. | US Ouakam have been suspended by Senegal's Football Federation (FSF) following a stampede which resulted in the deaths of eight fans. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40634432"} | 299 | 36 | 0.617258 | 1.44696 | -0.290401 | 0.96 | 9.6 | 0.64 |
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Captain Rooney, 31, has missed four games with an ankle injury but could be fit enough for the bench as United look to build on a 1-1 draw in Belgium.
United boss Jose Mourinho has confirmed that Argentina keeper Sergio Romero will start ahead of David de Gea.
Phil Jones (foot), Chris Smalling (knee) and Juan Mata (groin) are out.
Rooney trained on Wednesday and Mourinho said the England forward would be named as a substitute if he came through the session "positively".
"He is a player that can be useful and if we need a goal he can help us," added the Portuguese boss.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic may start after spending the first 83 minutes of Sunday's 2-0 home win against Chelsea on the bench.
The Sweden striker, 35, was rested after admitting to feeling tired, while teenage replacement Marcus Rashford scored in an impressive display.
United are hoping to reach the Europa League final on 24 May at Stockholm's Friends Arena - where Ibrahimovic is having a statue erected in his honour.
Ibrahimovic is yet to reveal if his initial one-year United contract will be extended in the summer.
"I don't think about whether it would be a perfect ending for him, I just think about Manchester United," said Mourinho.
"Winning the Europa League would be the perfect finale for us. It would be a perfect end to a difficult season, trying to build a team to recover a certain mentality, by playing in a European final."
Winning the Europa League would guarantee a Champions League place, even if United finish outside the Premier League's top four. | Wayne Rooney could return to the Manchester United squad for Thursday's Europa League quarter-final second leg against Anderlecht at Old Trafford. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39611675"} | 379 | 33 | 0.515274 | 1.088638 | -0.284422 | 0.76 | 13.48 | 0.6 |
Mr Webb has said on Tuesday that he is considering how he might "remain as a voice" in the campaign, possibly as an independent candidate.
Mr Webb has struggled to gain traction in the Democratic primary, often polling at or below 1%.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is leading the race, followed by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
"I am withdrawing from any consideration of being the Democratic Party's nominee for the presidency," Mr Webb said. "This does not reduce in any way my concerns for the challenges facing the country … or my intentions to remain fully engaged in the debates that are facing us."
During the first Democratic debate, he struggled to explain why he was at odds with his party on key issues like gun control and affirmative action.
He also often complained about his lack of speaking time.
Mr Webb, who was a Navy secretary under Republican President Ronald Reagan, became a Democrat after opposing the Iraq War.
He had been promoting criminal justice reform and an overhaul of campaign finance laws while criticising President Barack Obama's foreign policy. | Former Virginia Senator Jim Webb will no longer seek the Democratic presidential nomination. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34587280"} | 236 | 16 | 0.522098 | 1.169479 | -0.047588 | 0.571429 | 15.428571 | 0.428571 |
Officials have confirmed they spotted debris near the town of Oksibil.
The Trigana Air flight was heading to the town from the provincial capital, Jayapura, when it lost contact at 14:55 local time (05:55 GMT) on Sunday.
The plane was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children and infants, and five crew members.
It is not yet known if anyone survived.
Indonesian post office officials told the BBC the plane was also carrying four bags containing about 6.5 billion rupiah ($486,000; £300,000) in cash, which was being taken to villages in remote areas.
"Our colleagues carry those bags to be handed out directly to poor people over there," said the head of Jayapura's post office, Haryono, who goes by only his first name.
The head of Indonesia's national search and rescue agency, Bambang Soelistyo, said a search plane had spotted suspected debris and billowing smoke at 8,500 feet above sea level, about 50km (31 miles) from Oksibil Airport.
About 50 search and rescue workers, soldiers, and policemen are making their way from Oksibil to the site.
The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane took off from Sentani airport in Jayapura at 14:21, but lost contact with air traffic controllers half an hour later.
Bad weather is believed to have been a possible reason for the crash. A search plane was forced to turn back on Sunday because of dangerous flying conditions.
Villagers had earlier told officials that a plane had crashed into a mountain.
Bad weather and rugged terrain are said to be hampering efforts to reach the site.
Oksibil, which is about 280km south of Jayapura, is a remote, mountainous region, which is extremely difficult to navigate.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has expressed his condolences on Twitter and called for the country to "pray together" for the victims.
Trigana Air has had 14 serious incidents since it began operations in 1991, losing 10 aircraft in the process, according to the Aviation Safety Network.
It has been on a European Union blacklist of banned carriers since 2007. All but four of Indonesia's certified airlines are on the list.
Indonesia has suffered two major air disasters in the past year.
Last December an AirAsia plane crashed in the Java Sea, killing all 192 people on board - and in July a military transport plane crashed in a residential area of Medan, Sumatra claiming 140 lives. | Indonesian search and rescue teams are heading to a remote part of the western Papua region where a plane is believed to have crashed on Sunday. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33955931"} | 555 | 34 | 0.521974 | 1.300042 | -0.181298 | 1.925926 | 17.37037 | 0.814815 |
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