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Text: Officers were called to an address in Bryn Heulog, Old Colwyn, at 20:30 GMT on Thursday. David Kingsbury, 35, was found dead nearby.
The men, two aged 30 and one aged 50, were arrested on Monday. Police have a further 36 hours to question them.
A 38-year-old woman arrested last week was released on bail.
Police renewed an appeal for witnesses to come forward.
Det Insp Arwyn Jones said: "We would like to thank those who have already come forward with information which has assisted in the investigation, but we would still like to hear from anyone who may have been in the Aldi car park on Abergele Road or the Wellington Road areas of Old Colwyn, between 8.30pm and 9pm on Thursday 5 January.
"We are also keen to speak to anyone who saw a silver three-door Vauxhall Corsa in the Old Colwyn area and we are appealing to anyone who was travelling on the No 12 bus on Abergele Road between the mentioned times."
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Police have been given more time to question three men arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed in Conwy county on Thursday.
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Text: Proposals for Royal Elm Park at the Madejski Stadium include 600 homes, a park and an ice rink.
It will also use 2,000 sq m for shops, leisure facilities and restaurants, and could create about 1,000 jobs.
The club said the land used includes parking space currently used on match days but that a new multi-storey parking lot would replace this.
The 600 homes will have a mix of one, two and three bedrooms and will "create a new community with Madejski Stadium at its heart".
A convention centre called The International with a capacity for 6,000 delegates is also planned to host live entertainment.
Reading FC chief executive Nigel Howe said the development would "benefit the football club" and was "important for Reading's future growth".
He added the complex would improve fans' "match-day experience".
Part of the land to be built on is currently an overflow car park for spectators.
This will be replaced by a similar capacity multi-storey car park with spaces for 616 cars and about 300 bicycles.
There will also be improved transport links to the stadium.
It is not yet known when the council will consider the plans.
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Reading Football Club has submitted plans to use land next to its stadium to build a homes and leisure complex.
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Text: South Wales Police have been given more time to question a 66-year-old man arrested on suspicion of her murder after a court hearing on Saturday.
Officers were alerted when relatives became concerned about the whereabouts of Ms James.
She lived alone in her fourth-floor flat in Century Wharf after moving from Cowbridge in November 2015.
Det Chief Insp Ceri Hughes said: "Mrs James' family are being supported by a family liaison officer at this extremely distressing time and a murder inquiry is under way to establish the circumstances leading to her death.
"Although one man has been arrested and remains in custody, we are still very much appealing for information and for witnesses to come forward."
Ms James was last seen returning to her housing complex at about 12:30 GMT on Friday, February 26 and friends spoke to her on the telephone at about 14:00 that day.
On the Saturday she was due to travel to Gatwick Airport to catch a flight to Florida.
Following concerns by relatives that she never arrived in London, officers conducted a welfare visit to her flat on Wednesday where her body was discovered at about 14:15.
South Wales Police has referred the matter voluntarily to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
On Saturday, detectives were granted a further 36 hours to question a man at Cardiff Bay police station, following his arrest on Wednesday.
They appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
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A woman found dead in a flat in Cardiff Bay has been named by police as Christine James, 65.
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Text: 18 April 2016 Last updated at 13:23 BST
The clip is a timelapse made up of photos taken once every second and sped up to be 25 times faster.
The astronaut posted: "Space Station view of an 'aurora rise' - spot the two satellites at the end?"
Auroras happen when particles from the Sun hit the Earth's atmosphere, making it glow in a greenish blue light.
An aurora rise is when you see an aurora rising above the horizon because of the way the International Space Station orbits Earth.
It's similar to a sunrise or moonrise - as with the Moon/Sun, the aurora is already there but just not visible yet.
Video from the European Space Agency
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Tim Peake has shared this stunning video of his view of an aurora from the International Space Station.
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Text: The boy was lured to a house in Oldham, where he was stripped and branded, before lemon juice was poured on the burns, Greater Manchester Police said.
He was also bound with tape, beaten and had his hair cut off.
The teenagers, aged between 15 and 17 and from Oldham, were sentenced at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.
The attack happened on the afternoon of 5 October 2015 at a house in the Werneth area of Oldham, police said.
Once at the house, the boy was tied up with tape around his mouth, hands and feet and punched and kicked.
A knife was also used to cut his back, before the hot iron, salt and lemon juice were used.
After several hours the victim was allowed to leave, having suffered terrible injuries.
Shohaib Khan, Adam Hussain, Sufyan Yaqub each admitted blackmail, false imprisonment and wounding with intent at an earlier hearing.
Khan, 17, of Grange Avenue, was sentenced to six years and six months in a young offenders' institution while Hussain, 16, of Olivers Court, and Yaqub, 16, of Park Road, each received four year sentences.
Ahsan Khan, 15, of Cornwall Street, was convicted of the same offences and ordered to be detained for five years.
Naseem Ali, 17, admitted false imprisonment and was sentenced to a 12-month supervision order with a night-time curfew.
After sentencing on Thursday, Det Insp Paul Walker said the attack had been "sickening and prolonged" and left the boy "terrified".
He added: "The emotional scars from this shocking attack will haunt him for the rest of his life and I could not even begin to imagine the agony and suffering that he endured."
Det Insp Walker paid tribute to the victim and his family for coming forward and giving evidence.
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Five teenagers who tortured a 16-year-old boy over an £80 debt in a "sickening" hot iron attack have been sentenced.
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Text: The report noted there are more than 2,800 "looked-after children" in Northern Ireland.
It said that in 2013-14, almost half of children who had been re-homed, had done so more than three times.
It referred to the "disruption" this caused.
The report found that in 2013-14, more than 35% of these who had moved, had changed accommodation once and 17.8% had moved twice.
Almost half of them had been moved three or more times, something which, it said, exposed children to "a level of intense disruption" and "a risk to their sense of security and stability".
These homes can include foster care with a family, a children's home or secure accommodation.
The chief commissioner, Les Allamby, said a fifth of children in care had been in the system for five to 10 years.
"Our research identifies ongoing difficulties with the current system and indicates that reforms are required in a number of areas," he said.
"Our aim is for improvements to be made without delay as it is essential that our laws and practices protect children's human rights at every step of their journey through the care system."
The NIHRC report also said there are more "looked after children" in Northern Ireland than at any time since the Children Order came into effect in 1995.
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Some children in care are being re-homed three or more times a year due to financial pressures within health trusts, a Human Rights Commission report has found.
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Text: The 28-year-old Scot broke his own British record to finish second in the 200m breaststroke in 2012 but struggled with form thereafter.
Revealing the news via the Sunday Times, Jamieson talks of a brutal training regime that led to depression.
"There were weeks I couldn't go out," he said. "I was living on a diet of anti-depressants and sleeping pills."
He added: "I just kind of sat down and started asking questions, like 'What am I doing here? All I have to show for 20 years of work is a medal. What does that mean?'.
"Over time, I guess it got a bit deeper than that. 'Whose lives am I enriching by doing what I'm doing? What am I offering here as a person? Who's benefiting from me being here?'.
"When it got to that level, I knew I needed to get help. From that point, it just unravelled a bit."
After a series of shoulder injuries, Jamieson missed out on a medal at the 2013 World Championships.
Overtraining in preparation for the 2014 Commonwealth Games led to his heart being restarted and he was beaten by compatriot Ross Murdoch in his favoured event in Glasgow.
He failed to qualify for the World Championships in 2015 and missed out on selection for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
"My body just can't take the intensity any more," Jamieson told BBC Sport in April.
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London 2012 Olympic silver medallist Michael Jamieson has announced his retirement from swimming.
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Text: Slovenian world players' union member Dejan Stefanovic told the BBC that Mourinho was "bullying" the German, who has been told to find another club.
The League Managers' Association said the comments were "totally inappropriate".
It added Stefanovic "has apologised to Mr Mourinho".
Schweinsteiger, 32, signed a three-year deal in 2015 and played 31 games last season but has trained alone or with the under-21s since Mourinho took over.
There has been interest in him from both the Premier League and overseas.
In his BBC interview, Stefanovic said: "It is clear bullying. In Slovenia, we would have indicted Mourinho and asked for the highest penalty - three years in prison."
The LMA said he had been speaking "in a personal capacity" and not on behalf of Fifpro, the world players' union.
It added: "Mr Stefanovic has stated that his comments appear to have been misinterpreted."
Fifpro secretary general Theo van Seggelen and Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor are believed to have worked hard to secure the apology from Stefanovic.
Mourinho, meanwhile, is known to have spoken to Richard Bevan, the chief executive of the LMA, about the comments.
Speaking last week, the Portuguese said: "What is happening is what is happening in every club in the world. The manager decides his squad and chooses a certain number of players to face the season."
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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has received an apology for the claim he should be jailed for his treatment of midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger.
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Text: Positive news on a technical agreement in Greece's bailout deal failed to make an impression.
The FTSE 100 index dropped 71.68 points to 6,664.54.
Four of the top five fallers on the FTSE 100 were mining companies for which China is a key market.
Glencore was the biggest casualty, falling 7.3%. BHP Billiton fell 5% .
The surprise devaluation will make imports into China more expensive, hitting retail companies such as Burberry.
Burberry, which has some 14% of its sales in China, saw its shares fall 4.4%.
On the upside, Prudential reversed an early fall to climb 4.7% after releasing a 17% rise in first-half operating profit.
And the gold price rose almost 2% as investors looked for safe haven investments away from volatile currencies and equities.
Miners of precious metals saw their shares rise. Randgold Resources and Fresnillo were both some 0.5% higher.
Base metal miners were also the biggest losers in the midcap FTSE 250. Vedanta fell 7.6%. Kaz Minerals was down 6.75%.
Shares in Serco reversed earlier gains to end down 1.2%, after the outsourcing group said revenues in the first six months of the year fell to £1.8bn from £2bn a year earlier.
Serco is attempting to revive its fortunes following problems with a number of failed contracts, including a scandal over tagging criminals.
Shares in Just Retirement Group rose in early trading but then fell back to stand 5.5% lower after the company announced it had agreed to buy rival Partnership Assurance for £669m.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.2% against the dollar to $1.5560, and was down 0.2% against the euro at €1.4130.
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(Close): The UK market fell 1.1% on Tuesday, led downwards by mining firms and fashion house Burberry following China's devaluation of the yuan.
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Text: Due to licensing agreements, Netflix content varies between countries - many users have a virtual private network (VPN) or other proxy to get round this.
The firm said it would increase efforts in the next few weeks to block the use of such proxies.
Netflix expanded streaming services to more than 130 countries last week.
But some countries have more content than others - for example, the Australian Netflix catalogue has only about 10% of the content available to its US subscribers.
David Fullagar, vice president of content delivery architecture, said in a blog post on Thursday that the US firm was in the process of licensing content around the world.
But he said it had a long way to go before it could offer viewers the same films and shows everywhere.
"If all of our content were globally available, there wouldn't be a reason for members to use proxies or 'unblockers' to fool our systems into thinking they're in a different country than they're actually in," he said.
"In the meantime, we will continue to respect and enforce content licensing by geographic location."
Subscribers that currently use proxies to view content outside their countries will only be able to access the service their countries in the coming week, the company said.
Those members that do not use VPNs will not be impacted by the crackdown, it added.
The move is a reversal of Netflix's denial last week after reports had surfaced that they would be restricting VPN access to their content.
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Video-streaming giant Netflix has said it is going to stop subscribers from using internet proxies to view content not available in their home countries.
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Text: 8 August 2012 Last updated at 20:36 BST
She injured herself early on in the race but not wanting to give up, she limped her way around the track to the finish line.
The crowds appreciated her effort and willed her on by cheering louder for her than the person winning the race.
Check out the video above to see.
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Injured Turkish runner Merve Aydin limped her way through the women's 800 metres race in tears on Wednesday.
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Text: The 74-year-old said the amount of "brilliant new stuff" today is "small" and he has seen most of it before.
Speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cleese added: "When you've been doing comedy for as long as me, you really know most of the jokes."
But he said Bill Bailey and Eddie Izzard had grabbed his attention.
"This lights you up because these guys have done something new and brilliant and that's marvellous."
Cleese told his audience that "great old comedy" from Keaton and the Marx Brothers was difficult for new comics to live up to.
"You don't expect anything great - you turn on, you watch it for a few minutes and you think, 'It's fine, I've seen something like this before and it doesn't excite me," he added.
But the comic actor, who co-created and starred in classic sitcom Fawlty Towers, said other areas of life still made him laugh - notably politicians.
"What was happening at the Scottish Referendum was absolutely hilarious," he said.
Cleese appeared on The Graham Norton Show last week and made headlines for insulting pop star Taylor Swift's cat as she sat beside him on the chat show sofa.
"That's the weirdest cat I've ever seen in my life," he said.
Cleese was in Cheltenham to promote his new memoir So, Anyway.
Earlier this year, he reunited with Monty Python for a string of live dates at London's O2 Arena, recently saying that he had failed to be excited by the performances.
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Monty Python star John Cleese has said new television comedy pales into insignificance compared with the greats, such as Buster Keaton.
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Text: Darshit Tanna, 28, from Derby, who reported having breathing difficulties, "grabbed her breast twice" while the woman was trying to help him last June, Derby Crown Court heard.
He pleaded guilty to sexual assault and assault against a male member of East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) staff, who was trying to protect her.
Tanna was jailed for 18 months.
He has also been put on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
Updates on this story and more from Derbyshire
Judge Jonathan Bennett said he found it "difficult to comprehend" that someone could assault an ambulance crew who were sent to help them.
Mark Ward, assistant local security management specialist at EMAS, said: "Actions like this make their job even harder and we will always take action where we can.
"We have a zero-tolerance approach to any level of abuse or assault against our staff."
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A patient who sexually assaulted a female paramedic while being treated in an ambulance has been jailed.
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Text: Speaking to the BBC Sunday Politics Wales, the professor of digital economy at Cardiff University said that there were good examples of community journalism in Wales.
"I think that we're in an experimental phase and we will discover what the value of this new community journalism is," said Prof Hargreaves.
"But what we can be sure about is that there is a lot of it and the technology makes it very easy for people to get started."
Prof Hargreaves, who has given this year's BBC Radio Wales Patrick Hannan Lecture, said that Wales had got more chance in the new media configuration than it had in the old one which was dominated by traditional print media.
"The attractive idea behind the new online community journalism is that it can be anywhere," said Prof Hargreaves.
"So long as you've got the communications infrastructure, good mobile networks decent broadband, people can do things that previously they haven't been able to do so."
He said that the Welsh and UK governments had set some ambitious targets on getting competitive quality infrastructure on broadband and other communication technologies by 2015/2016 and this was vital.
"It's even more important than you hear government ministers saying it is, because this is technology that can really work in Wales.
"It will work in a way that we're never going to get a railway that properly connects north and south; we're never going to get fast roads that can do that but we can make this technology work in spite of mountains and in spite of a sparsely spread population".
Cardiff University has just set up a Centre for Community Journalism "to help build capacity among these new hybrid or citizen journalists".
Prof Hargreaves is a former head of BBC News and Current Affairs and former editor of The Independent and The New Statesman.
You can listen to the BBC Radio Wales Patrick Hannan Lecture on the BBC iplayer.
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Citizen journalists have a big role to play in the future of the Welsh media, says the leading journalism academic Professor Ian Hargreaves.
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It was Wales' first match of a campaign which saw the team come to within a point of qualifying for the 1992 European Championships in Sweden.
Catch BBC Wales Sport's "Wales: The Road to the Euros" - our very special documentary on the history of Welsh football - on BBC iPlayer.
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In October 1990, goals from Ian Rush, Dean Saunders and Mark Hughes helped Terry Yorath's side complete a stunning comeback to beat Belgium 3-1 at Cardiff Arms Park.
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Text: Ted Marshall, landlord of the Cap 'n' Gown, said five political parties were to take part in debates on issues such as the NHS, education and immigration.
Conservative MP Robin Walker, three parliamentary candidates and a local councillor will discuss Europe later.
Mr Marshall believes the series of debates was very unusual for a pub.
He said hosting such political debates was not allowed in pubs before 2005 under the Licensing Act.
"I think this is quite a unique event and I don't think anybody has had 10 weeks of debate on all the big issues in the run up to the general election," he said.
The Worcester seat, won by Mr Walker with a majority of 2,982 in 2010, is expected to be closely fought.
Mr Marshall, who became landlord at the pub in Upper Tything nine months ago, said the idea came out of his plan to hold a regular discussion group.
He said the debates would give politicians a platform to reach the local electorate.
"There's a lot of talk that politicians are remote and so on, but it actually does bring politics to the people and it's about bringing democracy to people as well."
He said the parties had pledged to send their candidates or alternatives to the debate, including Joy Squires, the parliamentary candidate for Labour, Louis Stephen for the Green Party, James Goad for UKIP and local councillor Liz Smith for the Liberal Democrats, who have still to choose their election candidate.
Mr Marshall said everyone was welcome to the event from 19:00 GMT as he hoped to have a "good cross-section" of opinions.
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A publican plans to bring politicians to the people by hosting 10 weeks of political debate in his Worcester pub ahead of the general election.
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Text: Officers were called to a property in the city's Firbank Road at 22:30 on Wednesday.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "There are no apparent suspicious circumstances and inquiries are continuing.
"A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal in due course."
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Police are investigating the sudden death of a woman in her 50s at a flat in Perth.
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Text: The festival will also include a world premiere of the score from Oscar-winning film There Will Be Blood by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood.
Greenwood will play alongside the London Contemporary Orchestra.
Sinead O'Connor will also perform for the Roundhouse Summer Sessions, running from 24 July to 24 August.
Another highlight will be an excerpt from the new Balletboyz production, Young Men, which will premiere at Sadler's Wells in January 2015.
They will also present their award-winning show Serpent/Fallen for the final time in London.
Greenwood's film score will be performed on 6 and 7 August. Greenwood's work as a film composer includes We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Master.
Heap will perform Sparks at the end of the Reverb Festival, the already established Roundhouse event that this year becomes part of the new Summer Sessions. She is also Reverb's 2014 curator.
It will include live performances from artists such as Tim Exile and Leafcutter John.
Other events taking place during Summer Sessions include circus extravaganza, Boom + Bang Cabaret, the Roundhouse's annual poetry slam final and a performance from the Penguin Cafe orchestra.
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London's Roundhouse venue has announced a new summer arts festival which will include a first performance of Imogen Heap's album Sparks.
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Text: The sculpture in memory of Flt Lt Jon Egging has been cordoned off since the slip at East Cliff in April 2016.
It is to be moved to the top of the East Cliff Zig-Zag path nearby.
His widow Dr Emma Egging said the new site would "allow visitors to continue to remember Jon and honour the teamwork and dedication of the Red Arrows."
The 33-year-old pilot died when his Hawk T1 jet crashed after completing a display at the annual festival in 2011.
Read more on this and other stories from across the south of England
The 5m-high (16ft 4in) artwork, featuring three glass Red Arrows planes and stainless steel contrails, was designed by local schoolchildren and unveiled in August 2012.
Rubble fell down the 30m-high (100ft) rock face in East Cliff on 24 April. The carriages of an Edwardian funicular railway - known as East Cliff Lift - were partially engulfed by the landslip and a block of toilets crushed.
Although undamaged in the landslide, the Jon Egging memorial was close to the edge and was sealed off from public view.
Dr Egging said: "The memorial sculpture to Jon has become such a poignant symbol on the East Cliff, I have seen so many wonderful photographs taken with the glorious blue sky, clifftop and Red Arrows during the Air Festival."
It is hoped the memorial will be moved in time for this year's Bournemouth Air Festival at the end of August.
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A memorial to a Red Arrows pilot who died following a display at the Bournemouth Air Festival is to be moved following a cliff landslip last year.
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Text: It follows criticism that many houses with small annexes would be liable for a 3% surcharge on Stamp Duty.
Since 1 April, anyone buying a second home has had to pay the higher rate.
Now the Treasury has announced a new set of rules, which will mean that fewer homes with annexes will be liable for the surcharge.
Any annex that is worth less than one third of the total property value will no longer qualify for the extra charge.
The Treasury described it as a change "to iron out technical unfairness".
Previously it said that only about 1,000 sales of homes with annexes a year would be affected by higher rate Stamp Duty. Now it says the number will be even smaller than that.
To be liable for the higher rate, annexes must also:
However, where a home with an annex or cottage does qualify for the Stamp Duty surcharge, the higher rate applies to the value of the whole property, not just the annex.
So if someone buys a home worth £300,000 - with an annex worth £100,001 - they will face a Stamp Duty bill of £14,000. Before 1 April they would only have had to pay £5,000.
The government had been lobbied for a change by Sir Eric Pickles, the former Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
The Treasury said that anyone who had paid too much would now be able to apply for a refund.
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The government has announced a surprise change in the tax rules for anyone buying a house that includes a "granny flat", or annex.
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Text: The pre-dawn fight broke out in the maximum security wing of Las Cruces prison in the city of Acapulco.
The victims were stabbed and beaten to death, with some decapitated. The governor has ordered an investigation.
Acapulco is the largest city in Guerrero state, one of Mexico's most violent areas and a big centre for drug production.
Bodies were discovered throughout the unit, including inside the kitchen and in an area for conjugal visits, said Roberto Ã
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A fight between rival gangs in a prison in south-western Mexico has left at least 28 inmates dead, officials say.
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Text: Imran Khan, 34, of Pendle Street in Accrington, Lancashire, admitted taking the girl from Nairne Street in Burnley on 26 March.
He also admitted intending to commit a sexual offence and breaching a sexual offences' prevention order.
Following the hearing at Preston Crown Court, Khan was remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced on 23 October.
Police said the girl was bundled into the boot of Khan's car before being driven to Scarth Lane in Hapton where he exposed himself and tried to force her to commit a sexual act.
Khan then dumped her in a wheelie bin before she later freed herself and was found wandering alone in distress by other children, the court heard.
Det Insp Jim Elston of Lancashire Police said it was a "horrendous" and "terrifying offence".
Khan was convicted in 2008 of a sexual offence involving a 12-year-old girl, police said.
Mr Elston said: "While we have rigorous systems in place to manage sex offenders who have served a sentence and been released into the community, this cannot happen 24 hours a day and unfortunately on occasion an offender may go on to commit a further offence as happened in this case.
"There is currently a review ongoing into this particular case and we will clearly look carefully at the results of that to see if there are any lessons we can learn."
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A registered sex offender has pleaded guilty to abducting a six-year-old girl who was taken in a car from the street.
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Text: Billy Horschel and Chris Kirk moved ahead in the race for the £6m bonus as they shared the lead on four under par.
Bubba Watson was on three under with McIlroy two shots further back in the Tour finale at East Lake in Atlanta.
Victory for either McIlroy, Horschel, Kirk, Watson or Hunter Mahan would secure the season-long title and bonus.
Northern Irishman McIlroy, 25, had four birdies and three bogeys in his opening round as he went out in 34 and came back in 35.
"Regardless of whatever is at stake in terms of prize money, I would just like to win the FedEx Cup," said the world number one.
"With the year that I've had I really want to finish it off well."
The Tour Championship is the last in the four FedEx Cup play-off events with a field of just 29 having been whittled down from 125 since Mahan won the opening event.
In theory, anyone left in the field can win the season-long title with victory at the Tour Championship but those outside the top five in the standings will have to rely on other results.
US Ryder Cup players Patrick Reed and Jim Furyk were also at three under alongside Australian Jason Day, while England's Justin Rose finished two over and Germany's Martin Kaymer three over.
Fifth-ranked Mahan's bid for the crown looked to be over as he shot a four-over 74 in a tie for 27th.
Tournament officials announced that Friday's second-round tee times will be brought forward by three hours because of a bad weather forecast.
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Rory McIlroy remained in contention for the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup title after finishing three shots adrift after the first round at the Tour Championship.
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Text: Polworth, 21, came through the youth ranks at Inverness and made his Scotland Under-21 debut this year.
This season, Polworth has scored five times for John Hughes' side, including a double against Hamilton Academical in December.
He has made over 70 appearances for the Scottish Premiership club.
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Inverness Caledonian Thistle have agreed a three-year contract extension with midfielder Liam Polworth, tying him to the club until 2019.
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Text: The Bletchley Park Trust has put a "roll of honour" online, with details of over 10,000 people who worked at the Government Code and Cypher School.
Now the museum wants more veterans, whose identities were closely guarded secrets, to add pictures and stories about their work.
A trust spokeswoman has assured them, "you can tell us now".
Workers at Bletchley Park used the Bombe machine, which was developed by a team including mathematician Alan Turing, to break codes generated by the German Enigma machine.
It was used by the German navy, air force and army to send encrypted messages.
Some historians believe the work done at the Buckinghamshire site may have shortened the war by up to two years.
All the workers had to sign the Official Secrets Act when they first arrived, and their stories only started to come to light in the 1970s.
An online database now lists all those believed to have worked in signals intelligence there, and at other locations.
The trust wants those on the list to add pictures and experiences, plus anybody not already mentioned to come forward.
Katherine Lynch from the trust said: "Although the habit of secrecy has remained for some veterans after it was so ingrained into them, it would now help us bring to life this unique heritage site by telling the stories of the people who achieved incredible success and shortened the war.
"The more we know about not only what [veterans] did but who they were and how they lived, the richer this vital archive will become."
Ms Lynch says the archive allows veterans to find out how they fitted in with the rest of Bletchley's work, as they were only kept informed about their own input.
"Many are fascinated to learn what else was going on," she said.
"We have had Bombe operators who only heard about the Enigma machine when its story was revealed in the 1970s."
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The home of the World War II codebreakers is trying to name every person who worked there.
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Text: 18 October 2015 Last updated at 13:22 BST
Many people know the landmark as Big Ben - which is the nickname of the bell inside the clock tower.
The tower was named Elizabeth Tower in 2012 to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
The clock hands were frozen at 12:00 so the four cleaners could abseil in front of the clock face.
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Cleaners have been busy scrubbing the clock on the Elizabeth Tower at Westminster Palace.
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Text: The 28-year-old defender joined the League Two club in 2015 from Sligo and has made 113 appearances.
Conneely can also play in central midfield and has scored seven goals in his time with Stanley.
"I have had two good seasons and I am looking forward to an even better one this season with the goal being promotion," said Conneely.
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Accrington Stanley's club captain Seamus Conneely has signed a two-year contract extension until 2019.
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Text: The 21-year-old, who can play a variety of positions, has passed a medical and will join his new Ibrox team-mates.
"What attracted me was the history of the club, the size of the club and mainly, the supporters," Dalcio told Rangers TV.
"The gaffer [Pedro Caixinha] was a real influence on me too. I know he is really competitive and ambitious."
Caixinha has already added 35-year-old defender Bruno Alves and former Aberdeen captain Ryan Jack to his squad, while Mexican midfielder Carlos Pena arrived in Glasgow last week for talks.
Dalcio becomes Caixinha's third summer signing as the Rangers manager looks to bolster his squad ahead of their Europa League campaign on 29 June.
"The manager has said he is here to help me and to improve me. On the club, we need to put it on top where it belongs," Dalcio added.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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Rangers have completed the signing of Portuguese winger Dalcio on a season-long loan from Benfica.
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Text: The city-state has now confirmed 82 locally transmitted cases of Zika, a mosquito-borne virus linked to severe birth defects.
It has initiated a drive to wipe out mosquitoes in affected areas.
On Tuesday, the US joined Australia, Taiwan and South Korea in advising pregnant women against non-essential travel to Singapore.
The latest global Zika outbreak originated in Brazil last year, but has since spread across the Americas.
Dozens of cases have been confirmed in Singapore over the past week, some outside the original cluster amongst migrant construction workers in the Aljuneid district in the south-east.
This has sparked concern that the numbers could escalate sharply.
The health ministry has advised pregnant women with symptoms such as fever, rash, red eyes and joint pain, to get tested.
It also said women with male partners who are Zika-positive, should be tested "regardless of whether they have been to Zika-affected areas" and even if they have no symptoms themselves.
Testing for such women will be provided free, but it "is not routinely recommended for other pregnant women".
Meanwhile workers have been fumigating public areas across the country and existing home inspections for possible mosquito infestation have been stepped up. Sales of insect repellent and insecticide are reported to have increased.
While Zika mostly causes relatively mild symptoms, it is particularly dangerous for pregnant women because it is thought it can cause microcephaly, in which babies are born with abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is advising pregnant women not to travel to areas with ongoing Zika virus outbreaks.
However, many governments, including the UK's, are advising women who are pregnant or planning to be, to speak to their doctors about any plans to go to Zika-affected areas, and take precautions against being bitten by mosquitoes once there.
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Singapore is advising all pregnant women with symptoms associated with Zika, to be tested for the virus.
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Text: More than 10 disgraced figures will appear over eight episodes of Always on the Road - a reference to the government's wide-ranging crackdown on corruption in the Communist Party.
The first episode featured weeping, repentant men and the controversial burial of a tortoise.
It has picked up millions of viewers online since it aired on Monday.
"People everywhere are talking about Always on the Road," the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, which investigates corruption and made the film with China Central Television, said in a statement.
The documentary comes almost four years after President Xi Jinping promised to get tough on corruption in his party, vowing to go after powerful "tigers" as well as lowly "flies".
However, critics say a lack of transparency around the purge means it has been an opportunity for Mr Xi to eliminate political enemies.
Three of the so-called "tigers" accused of taking bribes and abusing power appear in the first episode of the documentary: Bai Enpei, a former party boss who received a life sentence, Zhou Benshun, an ex-party chief awaiting trial, and Li Chuncheng, a former deputy party boss sentenced to 13 years in jail.
The story of Zhou went beyond simple corruption, revealing the former official had buried his tortoise with religious scrolls - despite this being against the law for party officials.
All three confessed on air, but Reuters news agency was unable to reach family members or lawyers for comment on whether this was done willingly.
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A new television series showing corrupt Chinese officials making confessions has proved a hit, officials say.
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Text: Exploris in the County Down town of Portaferry was threatened with permanent closure in 2013.
But a rescue package backed by the Northern Ireland Executive and Ards and North Down Borough Council, which owns Exploris, secured its future.
A two-year-old Nile crocodile is among the new attractions at the centre.
New enclosures have been created for fish and other aquatic species at the centre.
The aquarium is also a rescue centre for sick and injured seals and staff care for rescued seal pups until they are strong enough to be released back to sea.
Ann Moreland, the general manager at Exploris, said other major changes had been made to the centre.
"The biggest change will be the inclusion of the fantastic tropical experience," she said.
"The kids will be able to come along and find Dory and Nemo along with many other species from across the world.
An outdoor otter enclosure has also been built.
"We've got two lovely little otters which the kids can get up close and personal to and watch them getting fed," said Ms Moreland.
Exploris opened on the shores of Strangford Lough in 1987 and became a significant tourist draw in the Ards peninsula.
Before its closure in November 2014, it attracted about 100,000 visitors every year.
The firm responsible for one of Belfast's top tourist attractions, the Crumlin Road Gaol, has been appointed by the council to run the aquarium on its behalf.
Environment Minister Michelle McIlveen visited Exploris last week and said she was impressed by the "high quality attraction it has now become".
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Northern Ireland's only aquarium has reopened after a £2m refurbishment, having been closed for almost two years.
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25 February 2015 Last updated at 16:51 GMT
The pair floated 260 miles above the Earth to rig up the space taxi docking ports.
It's the second spacewalk of three to prepare the station for commercial companies sending up crew in the future.
Since 2011, America has had to rely on Russian capsules for space crew transportation - costing US space agency Nasa about $70million for each crewmember's flight.
But from 2017 private companies like SpaceX and Boeing are planning to deliver astronauts to the space station.
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Two astronauts have taken a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to fit parking spots for space 'taxis'.
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Text: Members of the Radio Society of Great Britain took part at the North Ayrshire coastal town on Sunday.
They exchanged broadcasts with the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) and the Radio Club of America in Connecticut.
The groups said the first transmission helped pioneer global communications.
They used modern and historical equipment to recreate the broadcasts.
Len Paget from the Radio Society of Great Britain (call sign: GM0ONX) said: "The frequencies used for the transmission were thought at the time to be useless for long distance communications and were given to radio experimenters as they were thought to have little or no commercial value.
"The success of these experiments showed that trans-Atlantic transmissions could be achieved using short wave frequencies with a power equivalent to that used by your toaster in kitchen. "
He says the successful test back in 1921 proved that world-wide communication could be achieved using short wave.
"The BBC World Service which was to follow in 1932 would heavily rely on the radio frequencies pioneered by radio amateurs of that time," he explained.
The radio amateurs involved in recreating the pioneering broadcast believe technology we rely on today is a direct descendant of the groundbreaking work of the "garage tinkerers" of almost a century ago.
Tom Gallagher of the ARRL (call sign: NY2RF) said anyone who owns a smartphone holds "the most powerful communications device yet created".
"It has three separate transmitters and receivers - cellular, bluetooth and wifi. All of that is wireless technology.
"We are standing on the shoulders of giants who worked with their own resources and ingenuity."
Jason O'Neill (call sign: GM7VSB) points to three examples where amateur radio operators have provided essential communications:
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Radio enthusiasts have recreated the first ever trans-Atlantic shortwave broadcast - 95 years after it connected Ardrossan and the United States.
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Text: Pro-independence group Inform Scotland set up a crowd-funding initiative last year in order to pay for the campaign.
A van with a mobile advert which read: "BBC is mis-reporting Scotland" parked outside BBC Scotland's headquarters in Glasgow on Monday morning.
A spokesman for the corporation said: "We reject the suggestion that our coverage is partial."
Inform Scotland said the billboard adverts would run for two weeks. They are on display at locations in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Kilmarnock and Wishaw.
The van ads will tour the country over the next seven days.
Inform Scotland has accused the BBC of having an "anti-independence agenda".
In a statement, the group said: "We are ordinary people, tired of the distortions of 'news' reporting on BBC Scotland where 'spin' and opinion have long replaced accurate, impartial reporting.
"Unlike all other broadcasters, which are regulated by Ofcom, the BBC regulates itself for impartiality and accuracy. BBC Scotland's news output bears testimony to this.
"Our campaign at Inform Scotland is about shedding light on the importance of journalistic integrity and impartiality from one of the world's biggest broadcasters who claims to operate by these standards but whose actions show otherwise."
A spokesman for BBC Scotland added: "Reassuringly, audiences continue to tell us that the BBC is still the news provider they trust most, while we take heart from the fact that Reporting Scotland is by far the most watched news programme in Scotland with around half a million viewers tuning in every night."
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Billboards and van adverts accusing the BBC of bias have been unveiled at locations across Scotland.
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Text: A Kingdom In Crisis, by Andrew MacGregor Marshall, was released last week by British publishers Zed Books.
Thai police chief General Somyot Poompanmoung said its contents "might affect national security and order".
Anyone violating the ban faces a maximum three years in jail, a fine of 60,000 baht (£1,160), or both.
Marshall, 43, was a journalist for Reuters for 17 years, including two years as the agency's Baghdad bureau chief, from 2003 to 2005, as violent insurgency gripped Iraq.
He also spent two years, from 2006 to 2008, as managing editor of the Middle East region.
Marshall resigned in 2011 amid claims that the news agency refused to publish stories he was writing on the Thai monarchy.
His book ban comes as a crackdown against anti-royalist campaigners intensifies after a political coup earlier this year.
In 2006, Thailand banned imports of a biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej published by Yale University Press.
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Thai police have banned imports of a book by a Scottish journalist because it is "insulting to the country's monarchy".
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Text: The Sport Hive will bring together entrepreneurs, students and businesses to "develop ideas that enhance the world of sport".
Six "incubees" will receive business mentoring from industry experts to help grow their respective businesses.
The Sport Hive was set up by a project called Sporting Chance Initiative, which started in 2010.
Since then it has helped more than 700 Scottish companies realise their business potential, according to organisers.
The Sport Hive's incubees include Scotland's first "sports entrepreneur in residence", Michael Harkins.
Mr Harkins, who is a swimming instructor, is developing a children's flotation aid called Turtle Pack which won him a sports innovation challenge competition award in 2015.
He said: "The recognition and funding provided gave me the momentum and desire to kick-start the Turtle Pack journey.
"It's a great honour to be part of The Sport Hive and I'm looking forward to sharing my knowledge and experience with the other start-ups."
Among other ideas which will be developed at the hub are a patent-pending hydration product that converts water instantly into an isotonic sports drink and training apparel fitted with sensors for motion capture.
Sporting Chance Initiative programme manager Ryan Carenduff said: "We know from our national entrepreneurship programme, The Sports Innovation Challenge, that the next generation of Scottish sports entrepreneurs are brimming with innovative ideas for sports products, services and technologies.
"The Sport Hive will help us nurture and support these entrepreneurs and other start-ups through mentoring, investment and our international links to other sports incubators in France, the Netherlands, the United States of America, Canada and Australia."
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Scotland's first sports business incubator is being launched at Stirling University Innovation Park.
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Text: Chief Minister Michael Gunner said the laws bring the territory in line with the rest of Australia.
The reforms legalise the use of abortion drugs, such as RU486, up to nine weeks into a pregnancy.
They also allow medical terminations to happen in specialist clinics, instead of solely in city hospitals.
Previously, women in remote areas travelled hundreds of kilometres to Darwin or Alice Springs to access surgical abortions in hospital.
"We hear of women forced to travel interstate to terminate pregnancies," Mr Gunner said.
The reforms decriminalise termination by removing legislation making it illegal to provide an abortion or supply a woman with abortion drugs.
The new measures also mean:
"We believe all territory women are entitled to control over their lives and access to high quality services," said Health Minister Natasha Fyles.
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Australia's Northern Territory has decriminalised abortion as part of wide-ranging reforms on the medical termination of pregnancy.
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Text: Keen parted company with the U's on Tuesday after four months in charge, leaving Wright, who was appointed by the former Liverpool and West Ham coach, in caretaker charge.
Colchester were relegated from League One at the weekend after a 3-0 defeat at home by Burton Albion.
"I've been really surprised, I didn't see it coming," Wright told BBC Essex.
"We came in on Monday and Kevin went across to watch the under-21s at QPR so it was generally a normal week, and then on Tuesday the news broke."
Wright, who finished his playing career at Colchester in 2014, is in his first coaching job at a Football league club, having worked in non-league and with Ipswich's academy.
"Kevin's been at some big clubs and worked at one of the biggest clubs in Liverpool, so to tap into all his experiences and his knowledge of how to do things has been invaluable for me," the 35-year-old added.
"Early on we were really unlucky in not getting the results, and I think if we did get the results back then we would have had a real positive end to the season.
"We tried to put our finger on it but we couldn't quite nail it down.
"We had the four-game spell of three wins and a draw and we really thought 'we've cracked it', but then unfortunately we had a couple of defeats after that."
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Colchester United assistant manager David Wright says he had no idea that Kevin Keen would leave the club.
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Text: Last year, Highland Council asked people and businesses in remote and rural areas for examples of fees higher than the rest of the UK.
Since the call went out, the council said 20 internet trading companies had altered their charges.
Highland trading standards officers had been investigating the costs.
In November, officers said people in remote areas were paying "expensive" delivery costs.
Internet delivery costs have been a long-running issue.
In 2004, Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael claimed deregulation of parcel post had even seen some firms refusing to deliver to islanders.
He urged the UK government to "get to grips" with the problem of extra charges for mail order delivery to the Northern Isles.
Two years later, Mr Carmichael and other Liberal Democrats accused mail order companies of "excessive and discriminatory" delivery charges.
Their criticism was contained in a parliamentary motion tabled in the House of Commons.
Danny Alexander, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey MP, said at the time that people were being told it cost double the price of delivering to other areas.
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A campaign for fairer delivery charges for goods ordered over the internet has proved successful, the local authority running it has said.
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Text: Adelaide Kershaw, of Littleborough near Rochdale, had a lump the size of a tangerine removed from her forehead.
She is the oldest patient to have had surgery at The Christie, the specialist cancer hospital in Manchester said.
After the operation to treat her rare form of skin cancer, Ms Kershaw said she was "well", adding: "I just want to get walking again."
Her consultant at the hospital, Damir Kosutic, said the tumour was causing her great difficulties but she "came through the surgery really well and was very brave".
"Not every patient would be able to have that sort of extensive surgery while awake," he added.
One of Ms Kershaw's two daughters, Christine Garvey, said her mother - who has four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren - was "keen to get back to her crocheting".
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A great-grandmother has had life-saving cancer surgery - at the age of 102, and without a general anaesthetic.
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11 February 2015 Last updated at 13:26 GMT
Named Spot, the dog-inspired robot has been created by the tech giant's Boston Dynamics division.
It's designed to be used both inside buildings and on rough ground.
So what does Google want to do with robots like Spot?
The BBC's technology reporter Rory Cellan-Jones says Spot's development is for research and "any products for people to use are quite a long way away."
"Watch out, though - Spot is getting smarter and may one day decide he's had enough of getting kicked around," he joked.
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Google has unveiled its latest robot - a four-legged machine that stays standing even when its creators try to kick it over.
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Text: Tony Quinn, who has been a member of the SDLP for 12 years, said he had taken the decision after a "long and measured consideration".
He said the political stalemate meant it had become more and more difficult to serve as a credible councillor.
Mr Quinn was a member on Mid Ulster District Council and has said he will now stand as an independent.
He added that the current political system was viewed by the "majority of the community as self-seeking and untrustworthy".
"My priority as an elected representative has always been the needs of my local community, and the greatest need for the community at the moment, I believe, is credible and trustworthy politics that unites and not divides," he said in a letter to the party.
"Whether we accept it or not, election after election the northern political parties are being viewed as contributing causes in the division of our communities and so I feel strongly that as an independent I can offer genuine representation across the sectarian divide."
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A SDLP councillor in Cookstown has resigned from the party.
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Text: Sofia Liu, six, was struck while crossing the road in San Francisco, on New Year's Eve in 2013.
Uber had argued it could not be held responsible for Sofia's death because the driver, Syed Muzzafar, had not had a passenger in his car at the time.
Court documents say the family has asked the court to keep details of the settlement private.
Uber lets people find a car close to their location and catch a ride, like hailing a taxi using a smartphone app.
The company described its drivers as freelancers who were free to log in to the app and accept jobs whenever they pleased.
It said its function was simply to connect a buyer and seller and therefore it was not responsible for what happened between them.
But the family held Uber responsible because the man behind the wheel had been an Uber driver logged into its app at the time of the collision.
Sofia's brother and mother were also struck by the car while the family was crossing the road.
"While nothing will ever bring Sofia back, [the family] is grateful to the American judicial system for providing them a way to resolve the legal issues raised by Sofia's death," the family's lawyer, Christopher Dolan, said.
Uber said: "While we cannot ease their pain, we do hope that this settlement helps the family move forward.
"The Lius suffered a terrible tragedy and our hearts go out to them."
Uber now operates in 57 countries, but has attracted criticism over some of its practices.
In 2013, there were safety concerns after a driver and passenger got into a fight, and it emerged that the driver had had a history of clashes with the law.
More recently, taxi drivers in France have staged protests against the company, with some describing its operations as "illegal".
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Lift-sharing company Uber has reached a settlement with the family of a girl who died after she was hit by a car.
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Text: Outline planning permission for the development in Nottington, Dorset, was initially refused last July but developer CG Fry appealed against it.
The new decision means a public inquiry, due to take place next month, will no longer go ahead.
More than 70 objections had been lodged against the resubmitted plans.
The land, between Nottington village and the north western fringe of Weymouth, had been earmarked by the local authority in its local plan.
The initial application for the 16.25ha of agricultural land was refused on the grounds there was insufficient evidence about the effects of traffic and the potential for flooding.
In the resubmitted plans, the developer responded to "key issues" including the impact on wildlife, flooding traffic and landscape and the impact on existing residents.
Jean Marshall, head of planning at Weymouth & Portland Borough Council, said: "Once completed this development will deliver a large proportion of much needed open market housing in the area and will provide a large proportion of affordable housing to meet local need."
Ahead of the decision, resident Philip Wakefield said: "We are not against the idea of development per se, what we object to is the running over the people of Nottington and their opinions."
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Revised plans to build 340 homes on farmland that separates Weymouth from a nearby village have been agreed by councillors.
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Text: Business owners Ted and Lucy Hocknell died following the blaze at their home in Gannock Park West, Deganwy, Conwy, at about 07:40 BST on Tuesday.
Mr Hocknell, 93, was awarded the Ushakov medal by the Russian government in 2014 for helping to keep Arctic supply lines open during World War Two.
Friend Ian Turner said: "I am really going to miss him."
Mr Turner said his friend, a former policeman, once saved two children cut off by the tide on Llandudno's West Shore and chased and pinned down a handbag thief on his way home from the shops.
"He wouldn't have used the word hero, he just did what he did," he said.
"He was a really nice guy. It is very sad they had to go in such a way."
The couple owned Bryant and Hocknell furniture shop on Gloddaeth Street.
Mr Turner said Mrs Hocknell, 88, was a former hairdresser and a "real lady".
"She was a proper lady, she was always seen in town walking arm in arm with her sister," he said.
Aberconwy AM Janet Finch-Saunders said: "I think we're all stunned. They were such a dear, much-respected and well-liked couple, who were so well-known in the town.
"The town will miss them tremendously."
Following the blaze, thought to have been caused by an electrical fault, the couple were brought out of the house but died afterwards.
Another woman managed to escape before firefighters arrived.
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An elderly man who died with his wife after a house fire was a decorated World War Two veteran.
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Text: The pictures show his ship Endurance trapped in ice in 1915, as well as crew members and dogs on the voyage.
For the first time, digitised images of slides owned by crew member Reginald James have been put on show.
He received the images from the expedition's official photographer Frank Hurley.
They form part of a free display at Manchester Central Library until 11 June.
Known as Jimmy by his fellow crew members, James was the expedition's physicist and used the slides in talks about the expedition following their safe return.
After the expedition between 1914 and 1917, he served in Ypres, Belgium, during World War One.
He then lived in Manchester for nearly 18 years where he lectured in physics at the university.
He married teacher Annie Watson in 1936 before they sailed for South Africa, where he worked at the University of Cape Town.
Source: Royal Geographical Society
Organised by the Royal Geographical Society, the exhibition, which launched in London last year, will also go on display in the Midlands, Wales and Scotland.
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Rarely-seen images of the Antarctic expedition led by the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton have gone on display in Manchester.
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Text: Mabbutt, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a teenager, underwent a five-hour operation to replace the main artery in his left leg in 2013.
The 53-year-old's diabetes triggered peripheral arterial disease, which blocked the blood vessels in his leg.
"I can no longer do any sport or go running, and my life is now a lot more sedentary," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"It is frustrating that I cannot kick a ball ever again, but I still have my leg, which is the most important thing."
The former England international, who played for Tottenham for 16 years between 1982 and 1998, says he sought treatment after he woke in the middle of the night with leg pain.
"I was getting terrible pains in my left leg, which was freezing cold. I stayed up all night and called the specialist at 6 o'clock in the morning, and I was rushed to King's College Hospital in London," he said.
Mabbutt, who needed 112 staples in the leg to heal the 30-inch wound, says he is speaking about his situation to raise awareness for Diabetes UK's "Putting Feet First" campaign.
"In this country, there are 120 amputations on diabetics every week, of which 80% are avoidable if there is early identification and treatment is given," he said.
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Ex-Tottenham captain Gary Mabbutt has revealed he cannot kick a ball or run again after surgery to save his leg.
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Text: The 24-year-old left-armer only made one County Championship appearance for the Lord's outfit in 2015 and spent time on loan at Essex.
"Ravi had a difficult season but he remains one of the most exciting young spinners in the country," managing director of cricket Angus Fraser said.
"He continues to develop, but the route to the top is rarely straightforward."
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Middlesex spinner Ravi Patel has signed a new contract, which will keep him at the club until the end of 2018.
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Text: Sam Simon had been battling colon cancer, his agent said on Monday.
Simon won seven Emmy awards for his work as a writer, director and executive producer for the longest-running sitcom on American television.
The Simpsons, which chronicles the life of a clumsy father and his dysfunctional family, first aired in 1989.
Simon led the show's writing staff and is credited with developing the characters that feature in the show.
He left the show after four seasons, but continued to receive between $20m (£13.2m) and $30m (£19.9m) each year after striking a deal that gave him a part of the show's future earnings.
After his diagnosis, he said he wanted to donate all of his fortune to charity.
Simon gave much of his money to social causes, especially those working on animal welfare issues.
In 2002 he founded the non-profit Sam Simon Foundation, which is devoted to rescuing dogs from shelters and training them to assist the disabled.
"I have a desire to help animals," Simon said in an interview with Reuters in 2014.
"It's my money and I get to do what I want with it. It's an expensive hobby I picked up at the end of my life."
"It is with much sadness that we must let you know that Sam Simon has passed over," the organisation announced on its Facebook page.
Fellow Simpsons producer Al Jean tweeted "a great man; I owe him everything" from his verified account in response to the news.
Simon also worked as a writer for a number of hit sitcoms, including Taxi and Cheers.
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The co-creator of the hit animated show The Simpsons has died aged 59.
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Text: 28 October 2015 Last updated at 08:50 GMT
Similar to gadgets in films like Star Trek, the beam moves objects without touching them.
The tractor beam works by surrounding the object with high-intensity sound waves using 64 tiny loudspeakers.
This creates a force field that keeps the objects in place.
By carefully controlling the loudspeakers the object can be either held in place, moved or rotated.
The beam has been tested on small pea sized objects.
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A team of scientists in the UK have developed the world's first 'sonic tractor beam'
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Text: The 26-year-old, who joined Manchester City in 2015 but did not play a game, is the Magpies' second summer signing after winger Christian Atsu.
Former France youth international Lejeune has also had spells at Girona and Villarreal.
"When you have a manager like Rafa Benitez who wants you, you are very happy to come," he said.
Benitez added: "If he settles well into English football then I am sure he will be a success and will give us a lot of competition in this area."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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Newcastle United have signed defender Florian Lejeune from Eibar on a five-year deal for a reported £8.7m.
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Text: Laing, 23, spent three months at Meadow Lane on loan from Nottingham Forest in 2014 and has rejoined the League Two Magpies until 16 January.
Motherwell signed him from Forest last year after he impressed while on loan at the Scottish club.
"I'm really happy to be back here. The last time I was here I played what I felt was my best football," he told BBC Radio Nottingham.
He made 12 appearances during his previous stint at the club, during which time Notts kept six clean sheets.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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Motherwell defender Louis Laing has returned to Notts County on loan.
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Text: Their numbers have dropped dramatically in the last 30 years. but experts have just completed the first year of a big project to protect the places where they live.
Jenny spoke to Matt Gollock, from the Zoological Society of London, about why the creatures are at risk.
European eels are the great travellers that migrate thousands of miles.
It's thought the creatures start their journey as eggs in the Sargasso Sea, in the Western Atlantic near the Bahamas.
The eggs then hatch into transparent larvae called leptocephalus.
They then make the journey to Europe floating on the oceans currents.
Eel larvae from the Sargasso Sea can take up to three years to reach Europe.
By the time they reach our shores in the UK, they have developed into tiny glass eels that swim against the current into Europe's rivers.
In shallow waters they become elvers which move together upwards into estuaries and river systems.
While living in our rivers the eels are called yellow eels.
They can grow up to 1m long, with female eels being much longer than males.
Here they will spend many years before becoming silver eels and returning to the open sea for the long journey back to the Sargasso
Once back in the Sargasso Sea it's thought they spawn and lay eggs, but this has never been seen.
Experts believe the eel dies after it's reproduced.
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More needs to be done to increase the number of eels around the world, according to conservationists.
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Text: Krissoni Henderson allegedly abused the woman on New Street in Birmingham on 4 July, city magistrates were told.
Noor Alneaimi said the incident happened after she stopped to listen to a Christian preacher.
Mr Henderson denies using religiously aggravated threatening words or behaviour.
Giving evidence behind a screen, Ms Alneaimi said she was surrounded by friends of the 31-year-old Mr Henderson.
She said "all of a sudden" she heard him shout abusive language to a passer-by and then started calling females in the streets prostitutes.
"He wasn't preaching at the time - he was just a by-stander like myself," she said.
"He started saying things like 'Look at your tight jeans'. "He said 'You shall burn in hell, look at your jeans they are so tight. You will burn in hell for wearing such clothes'.
"I said 'I am going to report you to the authorities' and he said... I am going to come down your house and blow up you and your house'."
During cross-examination, she rejected claims that the only comment he made was a request to be left alone after she stared at him.
The trial was adjourned until 26 September.
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An Islamic street preacher threatened to blow up a Muslim woman's house and claimed she was Satan for wearing tight jeans, a court has heard.
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Text: The princes were in Manchester last week to help with a project to turn a derelict street into homes for ex-service personnel.
Presenter Nick Knowles revealed they asked to be called "William and Harry" rather than "Your Royal Highness".
But the show's Billy Byrne referred to them in his usual way - "sausage".
Prince Harry replied: "If you're going to call me sausage, it's going to be a very long day."
Byrne, who learnt his trade as an electrician in the 1960s, is one of the original members of the DIY SOS squad and known as the team clown.
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The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry were treated like everybody else on the BBC One show DIY SOS when the resident electrician called them "sausage".
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Text: Forecasters said the central belt was largely unaffected while most areas in the south saw only a dusting of snow.
A Met Office yellow "be aware" warning of snow and ice was in force until 11:00 on Wednesday.
The snow had been expected to cause problems during the morning commute but in the event little disruption was reported.
Traffic Scotland said 188 gritters had been out overnight.
Drivers were urged to be aware of snow on some routes including the A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful, some parts of the A9 at Drumochter and the A85 at Glen Ogle in Stirling.
The latest dip in temperatures comes at end the wettest winter recorded in Scotland since records began in 1910.
Met Office statistics show that an average of 760mm of rain fell across the country in December, January and February.
December was the wettest month recorded while January and February saw much higher rainfalls than normal. Argyll was the wettest area.
It had 1,055.7mm of rain over the three months.
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Snow showers forecast for much of Scotland overnight were much lighter than than expected.
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Text: 9 February 2017 Last updated at 20:23 GMT
The "world-class" facility will be built at the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) at Catcliffe in Rotherham.
Construction is due to start this year, with full production of advanced carbon fibre chassis by 2020.
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Luxury supercar manufacturer McLaren is to build a £50m chassis factory in South Yorkshire - creating 200 jobs.
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Text: The group of 16 women say they are encouraging people to go into the fields for defecating, away from the homes and the main road in their village in Nalanda district.
The village has nearly 275 homes, but most do not have toilets. Hence, almost all the residents of the village go outdoors and many squat along the main road.
"The road is 10ft wide, but because of excreta along the sides of the road, we find it impossible to walk on it," complained villager Sudama Prasad.
More than half a billion people in India have no access to latrines and they are forced to defecate in gutters, behind bushes or in open water bodies, according to the World Health Organisation.
Upset by the filth and frequent outbreak of diseases, villager Girija Devi began patrolling the road last October.
Soon, other women in the village also joined her campaign to discourage people from defecating near the road.
"Initially we were just four women, but gradually our ranks swelled and now we are 16 of us. We generally split into groups of four and go on patrolling," Girija Devi said.
Since most people go outdoors at the crack of dawn or after dusk, the stick-wielding women have to go out on the patrol in the dark.
Armed with their long bamboo sticks and torch lights, these women are diligent about keeping their environment clean.
Raj Munni Devi says their job is not easy. "Many people in the village are upset with us, some have even stopped talking to us."
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A group of village women in the northern Indian state of Bihar have been using sticks to chase away people trying to defecate near the main road in their village.
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Text: The blaze at the single-storey house in Cumbernauld's Craigelvan Gardens was reported in a 999 call at 11:20.
Fire crews arrived and were met with "a well-developed fire" and the house suffered "a partial collapse".
Police said the 63-year-old man was treated at the scene by paramedics. An investigation into the cause of the fire is under way.
A spokesman for Police Scotland said: "Police can confirm that an 88-year-old woman has died in a fire at Craigelvan Gardens in Cumbernauld and a 63-year-old man was also treated at the scene by paramedics.
"An investigation is under way to establish the exact cause of the fire."
A spokesman for the fire service said: "Teams in breathing apparatus entered the property to search for anyone inside and sadly they located a woman who had died.
"Firefighting operations were conducted both inside and outside the house and the fire was brought under control, however due to a partial structural collapse it is likely to be some time before crews can confirm it has been fully extinguished."
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An 88-year-old woman has died and a 63-year-old man has been injured in a fire at a house in North Lanarkshire.
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Text: Holcomb was found in his room at the US Olympic Training Centre in Lake Placid, New York on Saturday.
He competed in three Winter Olympics, making history when he piloted the US four-man bobsled team to gold at Vancouver 2010 - the country's first Olympic title in the event in 62 years.
At Sochi 2014 he won bronze in both the two-man and four-man bobsled.
"The entire Olympic family is shocked and saddened by the incredibly tragic loss today of Steven Holcomb," said US Olympic Committee chief executive Scott Blackmun.
"Steve was a tremendous athlete and even better person, and his perseverance and achievements were an inspiration to us all."
Holcomb had been competing since 1998 and won five world titles and was also a six-time World Cup champion.
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Olympic gold medallist bobsledder Steven Holcomb has been found dead aged 37.
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Text: Yorkshire lost openers Alex Lees and Adam Lyth early on and spinner James Tredwell took three wickets to reduce the champions to 88-5 in Abu Dhabi.
However, Ballance (105) and Will Rhodes (95) put on 125 for the sixth wicket before Ballance was trapped lbw.
Rhodes missed out on his century as Yorkshire posted 275 before James Harris saw out an over in reply.
Yorkshire won the toss and decided to bat but, aside from England batsman Ballance and Rhodes, Lyth (13) and Andrew Gale (23) were the only men to make it into double figures.
The MCC rallied with the new ball following Ballance's departure, as Jake Ball picked up the wicket of Andrew Hodd, while Graham Onions removed Steven Patterson and Jack Brooks in consecutive balls.
Rhodes came close to hitting his maiden first-class ton during his final-wicket partnership with Karl Carver but was caught behind off the bowling of Rikki Clarke.
Middlesex seamer Harris saw out the one over the MCC had to face in reply from Brooks before stumps.
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Gary Ballance scored a century for Yorkshire on the opening day of the Champion County game against the MCC.
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Text: Speaking to Newsbeat from the US, Ben Winston says that the reports "were really weird and came from nowhere".
"The idea that America struggles to understand English people is a slightly odd idea considering the amount of English actors," he says.
"I don't think anyone's worried about his [Corden's] voice at all."
Corden's first night on The Late Late Show on Monday, has generally been considered a success.
"They say you should never read reviews and you try not to, because you have to take them with a pinch of salt because, well, they could be terrible tomorrow," Winston says.
"But I have seen them and it's exciting. They've been so kind and lovely and really seemed to enjoy the show."
Unlike pretty much every other chat show host in the US, Corden does not sit behind a desk, despite trying one out in rehearsal.
"It was strange because he felt too far away," says Winston.
As soon as he came out from behind the desk though, "it just felt right".
The first set of guests on the show were high profile stars, Tom Hanks and Mila Kunis, and Winston says viewers can expect a lot more big names on the programme.
"I hope we get One Direction on the show. They're not in America now until the summer, so I don't think they're going to come on any time soon," says Winston, who has worked with the singers before, on their This is Us film.
"But we've got David Beckham on Monday. We've got Simon Cowell the week after, so we're definitely having our British contingent."
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The rumours that James Corden needed to change his accent for his new US TV show were "ridiculous", his producer says.
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Text: The plan, devised together with a US environmental group, will oblige fishermen to record and limit shark catches as well as creating new protected fishing areas.
It's thought nearly 20% of the world's 500 shark species swim in Cuban waters.
Shark populations have been in rapid decline due to overfishing, demand for shark fins and accidental catches.
Cuba already bans harvesting sharks just for their fins.
Cuba's plan was announced after two years of work with the US-based Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
Its Cuba programme director, Daniel Whittle, said shark populations in Cuba were sustained by relatively healthy coral reefs.
"Cuba is considered the crown jewel of the Caribbean, principally because of its incredible coral reef ecosystems, its mangroves, its seagrasses," he said.
The EDF says protecting shark populations can also be good business, as ecotourism is growing and a country's marine resources are an important asset.
Cuba is now planning a regional plan for shark conservation.
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The Cuban government has launched a long-term plan to protect shark populations around its shores.
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Text: Ms Dugdale told the Daily Record she was "utterly thrilled" after getting engaged during a trip to Mallorca.
The couple have been in a relationship since 2008 but Ms Dugdale, 34, only publicly revealed she was gay four months ago.
She said: "I'm utterly thrilled to be marrying the love of my life and we can't wait to start planning."
Ms Dugdale added: "We hope this news brings a smile to peoples' faces and we'll certainly be toasting all those campaigners and activists who made marriage equality possible."
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Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has announced she is to marry her partner Louise Riddell.
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Text: 22 October 2015 Last updated at 22:00 BST
He said it was "full circle" as it was where he started, aged 11, when he played Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi in 1983.
He spoke to BBC reporter Chloe Culpan, in Bristol, where he is starring in the Christmas Pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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Actor Warwick Davis said it was a "huge honour" to be asked back to perform in Star Wars: Episode VII.
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Text: Some 100 firefighters were called out to the building in Bellegrove Road, Welling, where the first floor collapsed.
The fire spread throughout the building and the roof caught alight, London Fire Brigade (LFB) said. Crews were called at 09:25 BST and the fire was under control four hours later.
Firefighters remain at the scene dampening down.
Bellegrove Road should be be fully reopened by 19:00, said the Met Police.
Seven people left the building before the brigade arrived and there were no reports of any injuries.
Martin Freeman, from the London Fire Brigade, said: "Staff at the pub had a lucky escape as they heard the smoke alarm sound, left the pub and alerted the brigade."
He said had the firefighters not had an early warning "there could have been a very different outcome".
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A fire has severely damaged a Wetherspoon pub in south London.
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Text: Watson beat Nastassja Burnett 6-3 2-6 6-3 and Broady saw off Saisai Zheng 6-3 6-2, but Laura Robson lost 6-4 6-2 to Christina McHale.
In the men's qualifiers, Bedene beat Omar Giacalone 4-6 6-3 6-1.
Elsewhere, Briton Kyle Edmund beat Filip Krajinovic 7-6 (7-2) 6-0 to win the second-tier Rome Challenger.
Victory gave the 21-year-old his fifth title at that level.
Countryman Dan Evans will try to win his second challenger title in a row when he takes on Russia's Konstantin Kravchuk in Busan, South Korea on Sunday (03:00 BST).
Watson, 56th in the world rankings and British number two, will face Croatia's Ana Konjuh for a place in the main draw in Rome. Broady, ranked 80th, plays McHale.
World number 59 Bedene will face Frenchman Kenny de Schepper, who is 154th in the rankings.
British number one Andy Murray, seeded second, is likely to be in action in Rome on Tuesday.
The 28-year-old Scot has been granted a bye in the first round and will meet either Borna Coric or a qualifier in round two.
The Italian Open is the final major ATP World Tour tournament on clay before the French Open, which begins in Paris on 22 May.
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Britons Heather Watson, Naomi Broady and Aljaz Bedene are one match away from the main draw of the Italian Open after wins in qualifying.
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Text: Ninety-six football fans died after a crush during the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.
The pictures were published by the team investigating the stadium disaster.
Images of more than 100 people present at the match have now been released during several previous appeals.
Forty-one people have been identified.
Photographs of a further 59 people yet to be traced can be seen on the Operation Resolve website.
New inquests into the disaster are being held in Warrington, Cheshire.
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Images of four people who helped during the 1989 Hillsborough disaster have been released as part of long-running witness appeal.
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Text: The committee said the forthcoming changes were complex and confusing and had been poorly communicated.
It concluded that HMRC's communications strategy was "inadequate".
A key change is the abolition of the tax deduction scheme whereby banks deduct tax from most interest earned.
The committee said most taxpayers were unaware of the imminent change, and whether or not they may have to file a tax return and pay tax to HMRC on interest earned in future.
The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee is also concerned that the complexity of the tax system and compliance burden placed on individual taxpayers is growing.
It says the government must demonstrate how it is delivering a simpler tax system.
It also called for an effective strategy of communicating with taxpayers and a public awareness campaign led by HMRC in partnership with banks, building societies and other financial institutions.
Lord Hollick, the chairman of the committee, said: "Changes to how we are taxed can have a huge impact on financial planning, including savings and pension arrangements.
"A great many savers will have no idea that from April they may for the first time have to check whether they need to report or pay tax on interest they have received, rather than have their bank deduct the tax they owe."
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Most taxpayers are unaware of "important and imminent" changes to the way savings and dividends are taxed, because of poor HMRC communication, a House of Lords committee says.
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Text: All are suspected of links to the so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group said the national police chief.
The 15, including one police officer, were arrested over three days in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, and six other states, said Khalid Abu Bakar.
One hundred and seventy-seven suspected militants have been detained in Malaysia in the past three years.
The authorities said the suspects were trying to obtain chemicals to make bombs and were planning to launch attacks. They were aged between 22 to 49 and included four women who were planning to travel to Syria to join IS, they said.
The police chief said the group also arranged for two foreign terror suspects to sneak out of Malaysia, and had channelled money to militants in the southern Philippines.
Malaysia is on a particularly high terror alert since the capital of neighbouring Jakarta was attacked by militants in January.
On 15 January, Malaysian police said they had arrested a man they claimed was hours from carrying out a suicide attack in Kuala Lumpur.
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Malaysian authorities say 15 people suspected of planning attacks on the country have been arrested.
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Text: Shane Bryant, 29, fell ill during an arrest outside the Co-op in Market Street, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Thursday night.
Mr Bryant was taken to hospital where he died on Saturday morning.
A 24-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of GBH has been released pending further inquires.
Leicestershire Police said further tests were being carried out after a post-mortem examination.
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Ryan Thomas posted on Facebook that father-of-two Mr Bryant "would put a smile on anybody's face".
He wrote: "God has taken you too early, absolutely ruined! Fly high Shane Bryant rest in piece (sic) bro! "Won't forget you!"
Mairead Evans, who has known Mr Bryant for more than 13 years, said: "I loved him like a brother. He always had my back."
Serina Larvin said the family was "absolutely heartbroken" after their "much loved friend... got taken away".
She has set up an online fundraising page to raise money "to give to his children and help support the family".
The page has raised more than £1,500, with one person donating £1,000.
Police said two men entered the store threatening staff with a baseball bat and golf club, and demanding cash.
Mr Bryant was stopped by members of the public while the other suspect left in a car, which was waiting outside.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has begun an investigation into the death.
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Tributes have been paid to a suspected robber who died after being stopped by members of the public following an armed raid at a shop.
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Text: The man, believed to be a 27-year-old from Kent, fractured his ankle after falling from Striding Edge on Helvellyn, stopping close to Red Tarn.
Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team said he was "extremely lucky" after he fell in "full-on winter conditions" at about 16:30 GMT on Thursday.
The walker was airlifted to hospital in Carlisle by the coastguard.
The rescue took about four hours, with support from the Penrith Mountain Rescue Team.
Mike Blakey, team leader, said: "I cannot stress enough that Helvellyn is in full winter conditions.
"If anyone is considering venturing onto Helvellyn, they must be properly equipped with an ice axe and crampons and the knowledge of to how to use them.
"We want everyone to enjoy the stunning mountains safely."
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Mountain rescuers said a walker was lucky to survive after falling almost 500ft (150m) in the Lake District.
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Text: Cranston was approached by Stefan Montana, 17, in New York outside his current Broadway show All the Way.
Referencing a famous Walter White line, the actor warned Montana's friend Maddie that she should "tread lightly" if she dared to say no.
After being sent the invitation on Instagram, she accepted that night.
Cranston's Breaking Bad character, a high school chemistry teacher turned drug dealer, first delivered the famous line during a confrontation with his brother-in-law Hank, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent.
In the video proposal, Cranston said: "If you don't go to the prom with Stefan, then maybe your best course of action would be to tread lightly."
A grinning Montana, from California, then followed it up with a request of his own: "Maddie, will you go to the prom with me?"
He told the New York Daily News that he and Maddie are both big fans of the Emmy Award-winning AMC series, broadcast by Netflix in the UK.
"He really is the nicest guy in the world. It really is true. He's not really a celebrity, he's a dude," Montana told the paper.
"He didn't have to help me out but it was pretty amazing," he added.
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Actor Bryan Cranston has helped a teenage Breaking Bad fan secure a date for his prom, by filming a special proposal in character as Walter White.
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Text: Members of the RMT union, from service company Interserve, will walk out at 05:30 BST on Wednesday for 48 hours.
The RMT said: "It involves safety-critical staff, so we expect to have an impact which will affect the running of the DLR."
Interserve said it had a contingency plan but was "disappointed".
A spokesman for the company said the strike had been called "without exhausting dispute resolution procedures".
The company said: "We will continue to work with the union to try and reach an agreement that is acceptable to everyone and have requested a meeting with the RMT and Acas to try and resolve matters.
"However, the RMT has, so far, failed to respond to our request."
The RMT (Rail, Maritime and Transport union) said it had held "numerous meetings with the company but they continue to duck the key issue" which was centred on its members not receiving pay increases which "maintain the differentials between grades".
General secretary of the union, Mick Cash, said: "It is about time that Interserve woke up and took note. The union will not sit back while core issues on pay and working conditions are left unresolved."
Transport for London is yet to respond to requests for a comment about the planned walk-out.
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"Scores" of security staff and cleaners are set to disrupt London's Docklands Light Railway (DLR) service in a 48-hour strike over pay and conditions.
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Text: Dublin-based Allergan said no agreement had been reached and there was "no certainty that these discussions will lead to a transaction".
Allergan shares were up more than 6% in afternoon trading in New York.
Analysts said Pfizer needed to boost profits and may be looking to escape relatively high US corporate tax rates by moving its headquarters to Dublin.
"Allergan today confirmed that it has been approached by Pfizer Inc. and is in preliminary friendly discussions regarding a potential business combination transaction," the company said in a statement.
"The company will not comment on speculation regarding the terms of a potential transaction."
The talks were first reported in the media late on Wednesday.
"Pfizer desperately needs a large acquisition and the resulting synergies to reinvigorate its tepid earnings growth rate," said Maxim Jacobs at Edison Investment Research.
"Also, Allergan would help Pfizer escape the uncompetitive US corporate tax rate, which has led company after company to domicile away from its shores."
Last year, Pfizer made an offer to buy UK drugs group AstraZeneca, but Astra rejected the offer, arguing it undervalued the company.
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Botox-maker Allergan has confirmed it has held preliminary talks about a takeover by drugs giant Pfizer.
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Text: Abu Zarin Hussin trains other firefighters in the state of Pahang on how to catch and handle snakes.
Earlier this month, UK tabloids reported that he had married a snake believing it to be his "reincarnated girlfriend".
Mr Hussin told the BBC he was "very disappointed" by the reports, which used pictures from his Facebook page.
"I'm always working with snakes and training other firemen in handling and rescuing snakes," he said.
He is married, and said his wife was "okay" with the stories because she knows they are "fake news".
The story was reported by the Daily Mirror on 10 November, and the Daily Mail website picked it up a day later.
Mirror Online's report said he had "spotted a snake with a 'striking resemblance'" to a girlfriend who had died.
"He now spends his life with the 10ft long cobra believing it is his dead lover - following the Buddhist idea that people can be reincarnated as animals," the paper reported.
Mr Hussin, 31, is a Muslim.
"The pictures are of me. They used my photos and started making up stories, saying that I married a snake," he told Malaysia's Star Newspaper
Nick York of the Exclusivepix agency, which sold the story to Mirror Online, said the information was provided by a "British journalist in Thailand" who works with Thai media outlets which first published the story.
"The story was checked according to the journalist and if the information is incorrect we can only report what the journalist believed the story to be after doing his own checks," he said.
Mr Hussin says he currently has four snakes in his possession and keeps them with him to understand their behaviour.
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A Malaysian fireman widely reported to have wed his pet snake says that he is saddened by the story he says is fake.
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Text: Police said the 38-year-old was walking along Arthurlie Street, Barrhead, at about 12:00 when he was approached from behind and pulled to the ground.
A local resident contacted emergency services and the injured man was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley.
His condition has been described as stable.
The suspect was described as being about 40 years old, 6ft 2in and was wearing a hooded jacket.
Det Con Jacqui Carroll: "This was a particularly vicious attack and as yet we have still to establish a motive.
"We are currently viewing CCTV in the area and I'd like to speak to anyone who was in the vicinity of Arthurlie Street at midday on 1 January who either witnessed this attack or perhaps saw the culprit running off."
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A man was repeatedly punched and kicked in the head and face in a New Year's Day attack in East Renfrewshire.
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Text: The man - a Portuguese national - was hit in the head while dismantling a crane outside the stadium in the northern city of Manaus.
He is the third worker to die in an accident at the building site.
England and Italy are due to play their opening World Cup match at the Arena da Amazonia.
The city's World Cup secretary, Miguel Capobiango, said the crane was being taken apart as work at the site was almost complete.
The construction worker was taken to hospital but died a few hours later.
He was identified by the Brazilian Sports Ministry as 55-year-old Antonio Jose Pita Martins.
Mr Capobiango said the accident was being investigated and will not cause further delays to the construction work in Manaus.
The stadium is due to be finished later this month, says the BBC's Julia Carneiro.
In December, a court suspended construction after a man working on the stadium's roof plunged more than 30m (100ft) to his death.
Another worker had died at the venue in March 2013.
The authorities said working conditions were "unacceptably dangerous".
Work eventually resumed after building company Andrade Gutierrez presented a safety report that satisfied the authorities.
Five of the 12 stadiums being used in the World Cup are still under construction, including the venue where the opening match is due to be played in Sao Paulo, on 12 June.
Six workers have died in preparations for the tournament.
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A construction worker has been killed in northern Brazil in an accident at a stadium being built for the football World Cup, which begins in June.
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Text: The Shrimps have had financial problems all season amid uncertainty over the club's ownership, and a court case is currently ongoing over a possible takeover by businessman Joseph Cala.
Owner Graham Burnard told BBC Radio Lancashire a delay in an international bank transfer caused the late payments.
Morecambe have lost six games in a row to drop to 19th in the table.
Cala's attempted purchase was delayed on 3 February after Brazilina Diego Lemos, who owns a share in the club's owners, G50 Holdings, obtained a court order preventing a sale.
Cala hopes to buy Abdulrahman Al-Hashemi's stake in G50 but 99% of that share was transferred to tax consultant Burnard on 11 January.
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Players and staff at League Two club Morecambe have had their wages paid late for the third time this season.
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Text: Chris Hazzard said the he was mindful that many badge holders have "conditions which are unlikely to change."
The consultation process will take place over the coming months.
It will consider the renewal process and fees.
The minister said he had asked officials to undertake a review through a consultative process that will begin early in 2017.
"The outcomes of that consultation will direct both the legislative and operational requirements to make the changes necessary to the renewal process.
"The review, I hope, will produce a simpler, more accessible application process for those applicants with life-long mobility issues," he said.
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The infrastructure minister has announced there is to be a review of the renewal process for blue badge holders with "life-long mobility issues".
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At the moment Prince William, Kate, Prince George and Princess Charlotte are staying at Kensington Palace in London.
Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana was born on Saturday at St Mary's Hospital in London.
On Tuesday, the Queen visited the palace to see her great-granddaughter for the first time.
Newsround reporter Martin went to Norfolk to find out how excited local children are about their new neighbours.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will soon be moving to Norfolk with their newborn baby.
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Text: The city council gave its support to the plan after squatters from the Iffley Open House campaign group repeatedly occupied disused properties.
They included a vacant car showroom, an Oxford University building and a former Italian restaurant.
Campaigner and former councillor Elise Benjamin said the squatters had raised awareness of homelessness in the city.
The council motion said the decision was taken because of the growing number of rough sleepers, and the "significant number of long and short-term vacant buildings in Oxford".
It will now commission a report by September into how empty properties could be made available for use as temporary homeless shelters.
The group, which included about 20 homeless people, had to leave the buildings they occupied after several court orders were granted against them.
Ms Benjamin said: "There was an astonishing public response, so positive, so many many people contributing their time and donations.
"We believe that can continue and with the council supporting us we have an even better chance that there will be that same response again."
On New Year's Eve, the group moved into a car showroom on Iffley Road owned by Wadham College.
They were evicted in February and they occupied Osney Mill, which is owned by Oxford University.
A court order was granted to repossess the property in March, and the group moved to a former Italian restaurant in Summertown, then empty flats above a Sainsbury's in Cowley Road.
The have since left for health and safety reasons and are believed to be staying with friends.
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A proposal to use empty buildings in Oxford as temporary homeless shelters has been backed by councillors.
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Text: Kevin McLeod's body was found in Wick harbour in February 1997. His death was treated as accidental.
His family claim officers were instructed by the procurator fiscal to treat it as potential murder.
It is understood Police Scotland has now been asked to examine whether this was the case.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) confirmed it had completed its review of the family's complaint.
A spokesperson said the commissioner had made a single recommendation. Police Scotland said it was considering the action recommended.
Northern Constabulary, which was merged with other forces to form Police Scotland, treated Mr McLeod's death as accidental.
His family, however, have consistently criticised the force over its investigation.
Their most recent complaint centres on the claim that the procurator fiscal instructed the force to carry out a murder investigation.
In 2007, the Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland (PCCS) said Northern Constabulary behaved with "institutional arrogance" in the way it handled earlier complaints from Mr McLeod's parents, Hugh and June McLeod.
It ordered the then chief constable, Ian Latimer, to apologise in person to his relatives, which the senior officer did.
Following the latest development, a spokeswoman for the PIRC said: "The commissioner's review of this case is now complete and a report has been sent to the family and Police Scotland.
"The commissioner made a single recommendation in his report, which is for Police Scotland to implement."
A police spokesperson said: "We have received the report from the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner and are currently considering the recommendation that has been made."
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A watchdog has completed its investigation into a police force's handling of a complaint from the family of a man who died 16 years ago.
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Text: The film, starring Richard E Grant and Paul McGann, depicts the lives of two unemployed actors who spend a disastrous weekend in the countryside.
The copy of Bruce Robinson's novel, written between 1969 and 1970, is estimated to reach between £4,000 and £6,000 when it goes under the hammer.
It includes extensive handwritten revisions by Robinson.
He has described Withnail and I as "70% autobiographical" - and was living in a house in Camden, north London, where much of it is set, when he was writing the novel.
The work for sale also includes a page torn from a magazine featuring the author and his flatmates outside their house in the late 1960s.
Withnail and I was adapted for the screen in 1987, produced by former Beatle George Harrison's HandMade Films and directed by Robinson.
It also starred Richard Griffiths as the flamboyant Uncle Monty, in whose rural cottage Withnail (Grant) and McGann (I) stay.
While it did not make an impression at the box office at the time, it became hugely popular in the following decade - particularly with students.
It became famous for lines including Withnail's: "We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now."
The draft is to be auctioned as part of Sotheby's sale of English literature, history, children's books and illustrations on 15 December.
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The first draft of the novel that went on to be turned into cult film Withnail and I is set for auction at Sotheby's.
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Text: Full results provided by the Associated Press news agency are available here after polls close.
Winning delegates, the people who endorse a candidate at the party conventions in July, is key to securing the nomination.
The Democratic totals include the delegates won per state, as well as so-called "unpledged" or "super delegates". Hillary Clinton has a huge lead among the party leaders and elected officials who each get a vote at the convention.
AP conducts surveys of these super delegates, and adds them to a candidate's totals if they indicate their support. But super delegates can - and do - change their minds during the course of the campaign, so the figures may shift as the race unfolds.
The delegate tracker is updated automatically. There may be a short delay between the delegates being assigned and the totals changing.
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New York holds primary elections on Tuesday where voters have their say over who wins the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations.
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Text: On Wednesday, the High Court approved the £84m takeover by utilities giant Severn Trent.
However, shareholders of the Wrexham-based company, who called it a "David versus Goliath" dispute are appealing.
Any application to appeal must now be made by Monday and the case will be heard by 22 February.
Some staff and customers had opposed the move amid fears for jobs and an increase in bills.
Customers pay an average of £145 a year for their water compared with £172 for Severn Trent.
Dee Valley Water employs about 180 people and has 230,000 customers across the Wrexham and Chester areas.
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Opponents of the takeover of Dee Valley Water have been granted leave to appeal the move.
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Text: South Wales fire service said its crews had been called to 67 grass fires since Friday - 62 of them deliberate.
They include two separate incidents at Tylorstown, Rhondda Cynon Taff, at 05:30 and 05:45 BST on Monday.
The Mid and West service tackled a 40 hectare fire at Gorseinon and another at Kilvey Hill, Swansea.
Police closed the A484 as a result of the Gorseinon fire but the road has now reopened.
The North Wales service was dealing with some small fires.
A spokesman for North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it was monitoring the mountain at Llantysilio, Denbighshire, after fire broke out.
He said crews from Llangollen, Denbigh and Wrexham had been there since 15:50 on Sunday.
They were tackling two "flame fronts".
He said one of the fronts was 700m across (2,300ft) and moving in a northerly direction, while the other was 200m (650ft) and moving towards gorse.
The Mid and West service's Deputy Chief Fire Officer Mick Crennell, who also chairs the All Wales Strategic Arson Reduction Board, said: "Arson and deliberate fires can put the lives of emergency services personnel and members of communities at risk.
"It is a crime that can carry heavy fines or even a prison sentence."
He said a new Wales Arson Reduction Strategy had been developed to help "re-focus efforts" and "broaden the responsibility of communities for arson reduction activity".
"Our aim is to encourage a cultural shift across Wales so that arson is seen as socially unacceptable by all," he added.
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Fire crews across Wales have been continuing to tackle grass fires following a busy weekend.
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Text: The artefacts came to light after Abertawe Bro Morgannwg health board embarked on a project to catalogue items held in storage.
Some have been stored away for more than a century.
Once a digital catalogue is completed, the board wants to put them on display.
It hopes to secure a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the exhibition, which will tell the story of health care in Wales.
As project lead Martin Thomas explained, the idea came about through a chance conversation.
"My day job, so to speak, is manual handling advisor for the board and I was approached about what to do with an old wicker trolley which was getting in the way," he said.
"When I started to investigate it, I realised that it had been used to transport wounded WW1 soldiers from Clydach train station up to the war memorial hospital.
"It soon became clear that we have hundreds of items like this."
He approached the chairman of the board about a heritage project and securing a grant from the Charitable Funds Committee to catalogue them "before it's too late".
The first item restored under the project was a long-lost oil painting of Roger Beck, the pioneer of Swansea General and Eye Hospital, painted in 1922 by renowned Swansea artist Gwenny Griffiths.
Other items include early electric shock therapy equipment, a 1940s X-ray chair, dental and maxillofacial prosthetics from the 1920s, a lockable leather glove used to prevent psychiatric patients from harming themselves or staff and test tubes full of seeds from Glanrhyd Hospital.
"If there's anywhere where the innovation and achievements of the NHS over the decades should be celebrated, then surely it's in Wales, the birth-place of the NHS," he added.
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Rare finds - including works of art and a trolley used to transfer wounded soldiers in World War One - have been unearthed in Swansea and Bridgend hospitals.
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Text: The discovery was made at Capanagh Forest near Larne after two members of the public found suspicious objects in the woods on Saturday evening.
Police have removed the items for forensic examination.
They are trying to establish if there is a link to a find at Carnfunnock Country Park near Larne in March.
Police were at the scene of the find until Monday.
Det Insp Adrian Brown said: "I would ask the public to remain vigilant wherever they are and whatever they are doing.
"If you see any suspicious activity, or have seen anything unusual in this area, please contact police so that we can act on the given information."
In March, police said they had uncovered a "significant terrorist hide" containing bomb-making components and explosives at Carnfunnock.
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A "terrorist hide" containing what are believed to be bomb-making components has been found in a forest in County Antrim, police have said.
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Text: Ireland captain Best, 34, is set to reach the milestone during the autumn international series in November.
He will equal Sale scrum-half Peter Stringer's 98 caps in Saturday's Test against New Zealand in Chicago, USA.
"I find him one of the toughest players who's ever been up there - he's got all the qualities you'd expect," said Kiss.
"To have passed 90 caps is special for the uncompromising way he plays the game, so to reach 100 caps would be some occasion, too.
"He's had his injuries in his time, but he's robust, resilient and just keeps coming, keeps working hard to improve each year.
"We'd love to see him hit the 100-cap milestone in the autumn, because he'd be hugely deserving of that."
Best has captained Ireland since lock Paul O'Connell's injury-enforced retirement after the World Cup in 2015.
He will lead Joe Schmidt's side in two matches in three weeks against the All Blacks, as well as Canada and Australia in the upcoming November series.
"As a leader, he just demands that you turn up and aim up - and he can back it up," added Kiss.
"You just look at what he does for any team he plays for, he's one of the most dogged, toughest guys you can play against.
"He's a leader by example. There's not always too many words - but when the words are there, they are strong, poignant and they mean something."
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Ulster hooker Rory Best is "hugely deserving" of the honour of winning 100 caps for Ireland, says the Pro12 club's director of rugby Les Kiss.
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Text: Total sales grew by 6% to £422m, with like-for-like sales up 3.8% in the first half of the year.
The company, which has 1,730 stores, did not comment on Brexit directly but said it was "alert to any change in consumer demand that may result from the current economic uncertainty".
Greggs said it had made an encouraging start to the second half of the year.
"In the first half of 2016 we delivered good like-for-like growth by reinforcing the freshness and value of our offer in line with changing trends in the food-on-the-go market," the statement said.
"We added to our 'Balanced Choice' range with sales growing strongly as more and more of our customers recognise the quality, range and value we offer in these healthier food choices."
Chief executive Roger Whiteside told the PA news agency that he was planning to introduce more new products later this year.
"There will be new soups and we're going to revamp our snack range, going own-label on crisps and introducing nuts and fruits packets. We'll also see the first gluten-free products launch in the second half of the year," he said.
The company is investing in refurbishing its stores - with 86 completed so far this year and plans for another 200 to be completed by the end of the year. It expects to open about 70 new shops this year.
Operating profit, excluding exceptional gains, rose 6.7% to £27.2m from a year earlier.
Pre-tax profits for the half-year were £25.4m, broadly unchanged from a year earlier as a result of costs related to the closure of three bakery sites.
In March, the company said it would close bakeries in Twickenham, Edinburgh and Sleaford.
Looking ahead, Greggs said it expected "increased inflationary pressure in wage costs as the 'national living wage' increases take effect".
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High Street bakery Greggs has reported a rise in sales, helped by its healthier 'Balanced Choice' menu.
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Text: Maxine Smith, leader of the SNP group on the local authority, said the charge paid by tourists worked well in other parts of Europe and the US.
She told BBC Radio Scotland it could be a few years before such taxation was introduced.
A tourist tax has previously been suggested for Edinburgh.
The SNP group, when it led Highland Council's administration, proposed that visitors staying in hotels, guest houses and bed and breakfasts could be asked for a contribution towards roads maintenance and waste services.
Ms Smith told BBC Radio Scotland the extra charge would not discourage tourists coming to Scotland.
She said: "If you look at what has happened in Europe and the States it doesn't put people off at all.
"In fact, when they know they are going to get better facilities and better attractions they are all for it."
A spokesperson for the Scottish government said: "The Scottish government has no plans for a bed tax or tourism levy."
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A senior councillor at Highland Council has suggested a tax on hotel rooms would raise millions of pounds to improve facilities and attractions.
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Text: Two Burmese men have been found guilty and sentenced to death for murdering Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao island.
Mr Miller's family said he would be remembered as a "hard-working, bright and conscientious man".
Ms Witheridge's family spoke of how their "world changed forever" after her death on 15 September 2014.
The judgement and sentencing of Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were delivered on Thursday, although their lawyers said they would appeal after they retracted their initial confessions on the grounds police had tortured them.
The flawed case of the Thailand beach murders
Ms Witheridge, 23, from Hemsby in Norfolk, had earned a first-class honours degree from the University of East Anglia and was working towards a masters degree in speech and language therapy at the University of Essex.
Her family described her as "a beautiful, intelligent, loving young woman who poured joy into the lives of all who knew her".
"Words cannot begin to explain the journey we have endured, a journey that has no end."
Her funeral, took place in Hemsby in October last year, and mourners were asked to wear bright colours.
Mr Miller, 24, was originally from Jersey and studying civil and structural engineering at Leeds University.
He had been on a six-week work placement with a mining company in Australia before taking a break with a friend in Thailand.
Live updates: Reaction after two men sentenced to death
Shortly after the murders, his father Ian Miller said he believed his son had stepped in to help Ms Witheridge when they were both killed.
Mr Miller's family said they were killed in a "senseless and brutal way" while both were "in the prime of their lives".
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The families of two British backpackers murdered in Thailand have spoken about the "senseless and brutal" killings.
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Text: Snoop told fans during a visit to Manchester, ahead a concert at the city's Apollo, that he had asked his agent to negotiate him a role.
Snoop, who has followed the soap for 11 years, believed that Granada TV producers had responded with interest.
A spokeswoman for Granada said: "He's obviously a great character but hard to see how he'd fit into Weatherfield."
She said they had yet to receive an approach from the performer, whose real name is Calvin Broadus.
He said: "I had my agent reach out to them to see if they could try to get me on and they said they were interested so hopefully it might happen.
"It would be perfect for me to be on the show.
"I love the whole dynamic, the way it is put together, it is my world, it is something I could fall into."
The 38-year-old recorded a video message to mark the show's 50th birthday earlier this year.
While in Greater Manchester, the rapper also visited Salford's Ordsall Community Centre, where he played football with young volunteers.
The teenagers had given up their time to paint the centre in exchange for tickets to his Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube concert.
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US hip hop star Snoop Dogg has revealed he is a fan of Coronation Street and wants a cameo part in the show.
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Text: Rebecca Evans, 27, died after a crash involving a BMW, a Peugeot and an Audi on the westbound carriage between junctions 38 and 39 on Tuesday.
South Wales Police said Mrs Evans died at the scene and her unborn daughter was also killed.
A 50-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been bailed.
A two-year-old boy who was treated after the collision, which happened between the Margam and Groes interchanges, remains in hospital.
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A woman who was eight months pregnant and her unborn daughter have both died after a crash on the M4 in Port Talbot.
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Text: Up to 4,000 customers of loan sites Quick Quid and Pounds to Pocket will be refunded an average of £425 each.
The parent company, CashEuroNet, will pay out a total of £1.7m, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Following an investigation, it was found that some customers were lent sums that they could not afford to repay.
Last week, Dollar Financial, the owner of The Money Shop, agreed to pay £15m to 147,000 customers, for a similar reason.
"It is important that firms carry out appropriate affordability checks, and pay particular attention to fair treatment of those who have trouble meeting their loan repayments," said Jonathan Davidson, director of supervision, retail and authorisations at the FCA.
The company has now made changes to its lending criteria.
Customers affected need to take no action, and should be contacted by the company within the next three months.
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A payday loan company has agreed to refund thousands of customers who took out loans they could not afford.
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Text: Kevin Wright died after he became trapped at Fresco Environmental Ltd in Widnes, Cheshire, on 1 March, 2016.
The jury at Warrington Coroner's Court said "systems of storage" at the depot "contributed" to the 27-year-old's death.
The company declined to comment on the inquest's findings.
Workmate Stephen Maloney had earlier told the hearing he had heard a loud bang.
He described how his colleague was "holding onto my leg saying 'help me mate, help me'."
"I just tried to keep him stable I just tried to keep him going," he added.
The jury reached an accidental conclusion on Mr Wright's death.
It added: "It is more likely than not that the systems of storage and the movement of carpet bales contributed to the death."
A Health and Safety Executive spokesman said its investigation into Mr Wright's death was ongoing.
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A man who was crushed at a recycling plant by a falling bale of carpet was killed accidentally, an inquest concluded.
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Text: The company set its flotation price at 3,300 yen ($33; £25) per share, at the top end of the expected range.
Line will list its shares in a dual offering in New York and Tokyo on 14 and 15 July.
Line is the most popular messaging app in Japan, Thailand and Taiwan, and its flotation is set to be the world's biggest tech listing so far this year.
The messenger app was started in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami to offer a communications platform when many phone services where down.
Line is owned by South Korea's Naver Corporation and hopes the share sale will not only raise funds but also boost its profile to tie in with global expansion plans.
While dominant in a number of Southeast Asian markets, the company has been struggling to expand its user base further.
Line has about 218 million monthly active users and makes its money from advertising as well as selling its virtual stickers and games.
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Japanese messaging app Line is set to raise up to $1.3bn (£1bn) when it lists its shares later this week.
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Text: Six-year-old Bradley, from Blackhall Colliery, County Durham, has neuroblastoma and is receiving palliative care at home.
It is believed trolls started an RIPBradley hashtag on social media on Sunday which was picked up elsewhere.
Ladbible said it was investigating and pledged a £20,000 donation to his fund.
Bradley, an avid Sunderland fan, became the team's mascot and also led out the England team for its World Cup qualifier against Lithuania in March.
He was recently named Child of Courage at the Pride of North East Awards.
Following the incorrect reports about his death, a post on the family's Facebook page read: "I have spoken to the lad bible who have apologised for their mistake and would like to support Bradley's foundation moving forward.
"Although seeing the status was very upsetting mistakes happen and we would like to accept the apology and move forward from this.
"We have built our campaign on positivity and we would like to continue with this."
In a statement, Ladbible said: "Earlier today we posted an incorrect story about Bradley Lowery, the inspirational young Sunderland supporter whose courageous battle against cancer has captured the hearts and minds of people around the world.
"We realise the magnitude of our error and unreservedly apologise to Bradley and his family.
"We're now investigating how and why this story was published to our website. It should not have been.
"We are in contact with Bradley's family to discuss this matter further, and have already committed to a £20,000 donation to support his neuroblastoma treatment."
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The family of terminally-ill Sunderland fan Bradley Lowery has accepted an apology from the website Ladbible which wrongly claimed he had died.
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Text: Wilson, 24, kept two clean sheets in eight appearances on loan at Rochdale in the second half of last season.
He began his career with Sunderland and played for Chesterfield, Cambridge United and Accrington Stanley before joining Cardiff in July 2014, where he has played four times.
His move until January 2018 makes him manager John Sheridan's fifth summer signing ahead of the League One season.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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Oldham have signed Cardiff goalkeeper Ben Wilson on loan for six months.
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