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A statement from Championship rugby side Pirates says they hope the ground will open in September 2019.
In December, club director Colin Groves estimated construction would begin "in the middle" of this year.
National League South side Truro only agreed to share the proposed 6,000-capacity ground with Pirates in April.
The statement said building will "hopefully" start next spring, with work on the stadium on the outskirts of Truro taking 14 months.
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Work on the Stadium for Cornwall, to be shared by Cornish Pirates and Truro City, will not start any earlier than spring 2018.
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Moscow turned down a new bid of $26.5m (£18.7) which was an improvement on the original offer of $21.6m (£15.1m).
The 23-year-old is believed to be open to a move to Leicester.
The Nigeria captain has also attracted the attention of other top Premier League teams and has a $32.5m (£22.8m) buyout clause in his contract.
His current deal with CSKA Moscow runs until 2019.
Leicester are expected to return with an improved bid for the player before the transfer window closes on 1 February.
A former VVV Venlo player, Musa has scored 10 goals in 29 games this season and 11 times in 56 appearances for Nigeria.
Musa, who made his international debut against Madagascar in September 2010, scored twice in Nigeria's 3-2 loss to Argentina at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
He scored the county's fastest-ever goal at a World Cup - netting after four minutes - before becoming their first player to score twice in one game at the tournament.
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Russian club CSKA Moscow have rejected an improved offer from Premier League leaders Leicester City for Nigeria's Ahmed Musa, BBC Sport understands.
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Mark Sampson's squad are only the third England team to reach a World Cup semi-final, after the 1990 men's side and the 1966 World Cup winners.
The winner of the match will face USA in Sunday's final
Sue Smith, a former England player who is commentating on tonight's semi-final, told Newsround that the World Cup had been a 'game changer' for women's football.
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England women's football team will take on Japan on Thursday in the semi-finals of the World Cup in Canada.
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Biggin Hill Airport wants to increase bank holiday and weekend opening times to increase the number of flights.
Director William Curtis said he feared the airport could be asked to help the UK meet increased demand for air travel if the extension was not granted.
Bromley Council has approved new hours "in principle".
The airport, which caters to the business and general aviation sectors, is pushing for an hours' extension on weekdays, five-and-a-half hours' extra flying time on Saturday, and a further four-hour increase on Sundays.
Mr Curtis was asked whether he was "scaremongering" about taking holiday airlines during a BBC London interview.
He said: "What we will do is to ensure that we have set our stall out in the business and general aviation sector and we won't therefore be potentially looked at later by government as a solution to the capacity crisis."
Councillor Stephen Carr, leader of Bromley Council, said the move had the needs of residents versus those of a successful airport "at the heart of" it.
Bromley Council said the length and timings of the extension were yet to be decided, and would be subject to noise controls and monitoring.
The agreement follows an eight-week consultation period which saw 76% of respondents support the plan, it said.
In total, the consultation received more than 41,000 responses, with 31,500 coming out in support of the proposals and about 10,000 against.
However, some have expressed concern at the council's decision.
Hugh Bance, of Bromley Residents Against Airport Development, said there were 200,000 people living under the flight path who would be affected.
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A small London airport needs to extend its hours to avoid being forced to take on holidaymakers and more commercial airlines, its boss has claimed.
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Zia Haider Rahman's critically acclaimed debut, In the Light of What We Know, picked up the James Tait Black fiction prize on Monday evening.
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Yorkshire Family by Richard Benson won the biography prize.
The two prizes are awarded annually by the University of Edinburgh.
Chairman of the James Tait Black Prize for fiction, Professor Randall Stevenson, said of the winning fiction entry: "Zia Haider Rahman addresses a whole range of issues - the war in Afghanistan, the rise of Muslim fundamentalism and the banking crisis.
"Moreover, he also explores problematic areas of politics and finance, which are often exiled from the pages of fiction, immersing his readers, dauntingly but comprehensibly.
"The novel's impressive scope is complemented by Rahman's ability to locate the personal in the political."
Benson's The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Yorkshire Family, sees the author draw on his own family history set in a mining community.
Biography judge Dr Jonathan Wild said: "Richard Benson's book represents a remarkable reclamation of a once prevalent social group now almost entirely gone."
Each winner receives £10,000 each in prize money.
The James Tait Black Awards were founded in 1919 by Janet Coats, the widow of publisher James Tait Black, to commemorate her husband's love for books.
Previous winners include DH Lawrence, Graham Greene, Angela Carter and Ian McEwan.
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A novel about a disillusioned banker who is reunited with an old friend before embarking on an epic journey has won the UK's oldest literary award.
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It was the 23-year-old's third WTA title of her career and is a welcome boost after a poor start to the year.
Australian Open semi-finalist and fellow Briton Johanna Konta, 24, rose one place to 26 after making the last eight in Monterrey.
Britain's Naomi Broady, 26, is up 20 places to 76 after reaching the semi-finals of the Malaysian Open.
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British number two Heather Watson is up 31 places in the world rankings to 53 after winning the Monterrey Open.
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The Germanwings plane carrying 150 people crashed on its way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.
Mr Hammond said "based on the information available to us" it was likely British nationals were involved.
But he said he would not speculate on numbers of Britons involved until checks were completed.
"We are working closely with the French, German and Spanish authorities, and the airline, to establish the facts," he said.
He also said the UK Air Accident Investigation Branch, and UK disaster victim identification experts, were standing by to offer assistance to the French authorities, if required.
One passenger on the plane was named as Marina Bandres Lopez-Belio - a UK resident originally from Jaca in Spain - by the mayor of her Spanish home town.
The mayor of Jaca, Victor Barrio, said Ms Bandres was on the flight with her baby son Julian and had been in the Spanish Pyrenees town to attend a relative's funeral.
But he said he did not know if her husband was also on the flight with her.
Ms Bandres's former school, Colegio Escuelas PÃas in Jaca, issued a message of "sincere condolences" to her family.
The Manchester Evening News reported that she had lived in the Fallowfield area of Manchester and Rochdale since arriving in the UK.
The Airbus A320 - flight 4U 9525 - went down between Digne and Barcelonnette.
There are no survivors, officials say.
France's interior minister said the "black box" flight recorder has been found but the cause of the crash is not yet known and the plane sent no distress signal during an eight-minute descent.
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Some British nationals were "sadly likely" to have been on board the plane that crashed in the French Alps, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says.
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The latest figures, for 2011, show just 62% of newly qualified teachers were still in teaching a year later, the ATL annual conference has heard.
This is a steep drop from 2005 when there were 80% still in teaching after a year, says the union.
This is a "crisis of teacher supply" said general secretary Mary Bousted.
"Teachers are leaving in their first year, or not starting teaching when they have completed their training," said Dr Bousted in her speech to the union's annual conference in Liverpool.
"That's almost 11,000 qualified teachers never entering the profession - taking work elsewhere. Work with better pay and reasonable workload."
The union's analysis draws on official Department for Education figures for 2011.
The researchers added the figures for teachers who left the profession within their first year in service to figures for newly qualified teachers who never actually practised as teachers.
The results suggest that in 2011 some 10,800 newly qualified teachers never entered service after completing their training, just over a third (38%) of the total.
"Why are we losing the next generation of teachers, that new blood for the profession which should be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, full of promise and ambition?" asked Dr Bousted.
"Is it, I wonder, because trainee and newly qualified teachers see very early on just what teaching has become and decide that they do not want to be a part of it?
"Is it that they learn as they work with exhausted and stressed colleagues that teaching has become a profession which is incompatible with a normal life?
"Trainee and newly qualified teachers cannot fail to understand that, despite Michael Gove's intentions, teaching has become a profession monitored to within an inch of its life."
Dr Bousted said fear of the demands of Ofsted had led many head teachers to impose an excessive bureaucratic load on staff, "filling forms, inputting data, using three different coloured pens for 'deep marking' and so on".
The increased workload adds "not one jot to the quality of teaching", she said.
This exodus from teaching "could not happen at a worse time", said Dr Bousted.
"We need our teachers and lecturers now, more than ever, if we are to face the challenge of change.
"A tsunami of curriculum and qualification changes threaten to engulf schools and colleges as Ofqual, the qualification agency, marches on - leaving dismay and devastation in its wake," she told the conference.
Dr Bousted concluded with a reminder that it is education professionals and not politicians who raise standards.
She warned that failing to improve the lives of education professionals risked politicians reaping "the bitter reward of parental fury when there is no teacher for their child".
In challenge to politicians to act she warned that this was no threat, but "a crisis of your own making".
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Record numbers of new teachers are leaving the profession within a year of qualifying, according to a teachers' union's analysis of official figures.
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The SSE Swalec Stadium was the venue for an Ashes Test and a double-header of men's and women's T20 games.
The club turned in an operating profit of £593,000 after losing £87,000 in 2014.
But the accounts also show a fall in income from domestic cricket.
Chief executive Hugh Morris highlighted the success of staging international cricket in his report to members for the annual general meeting taking place on 31 March.
"Our priority was to deliver sell-out crowds and we were delighted to fill the ground not only for four consecutive days of Ashes cricket, but also for the T20 international," he wrote.
"We were particularly proud to receive our highest ever customer experience rating for the Ashes Test."
The match was the third Test in Cardiff, which will host England one-day matches against Sri Lanka and Pakistan in 2016, with international games scheduled until 2019.
2015 saw Glamorgan finish fourth in division two of the Championship and narrowly miss out on a place in the T20 Blast quarter-finals.
Morris warns the club must improve its income from county cricket and from the use of the stadium, admitting that membership numbers and money taken on the gate from spectators are on the decline.
"The current squad size and the development of our own cricketers are only going to be improved by increases in our own income," he wrote.
"It is vital we improve our core product, increase gate numbers, revitalise memberships, attract sponsors, consolidate our conferencing business, and development other sources of income."
Pop group Simply Red will headline the first major music concert at the stadium in July with another concert to be announced shortly.
But the financial year was also notable for the club having to ask for major debts to be written off.
Cardiff Council agreed for £4.4m of debt to be cancelled, while Allied Irish Bank also agreed a 70% write-off of its debt and former chairman Paul Russell accepted a 75% loss.
Morris's report thanked departing coach Toby Radford and groundsman Keith Exton for their work, while urging members to get behind new head coach Robert Croft and captain Jacques Rudolph.
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Hosting England versus Australia matches helped Glamorgan to record a profit for 2015, thanks to a surplus of £1.36 million, according to the club's annual financial report.
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Mr Primakov died in Moscow after a prolonged illness, Russian news agency Interfax reported.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin had been informed of the former prime minister's death and was "deeply saddened".
Mr Primakov was head of the Russian government for just eight months between September 1998 and May 1999.
Born in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev in 1929, he was brought up in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.
He studied Arabic at the Moscow Institute for Oriental Studies and went on to be a correspondent for state radio and television.
After moving into politics and a stint as the chairman of the Soviet parliament between 1989 and 1990, Mr Primakov played a prominent role in negotiations with Saddam Hussein ahead of the first Gulf War.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, he was appointed head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and later foreign minister in January 1996.
Then in 1998 he was appointed prime minister by then-president Boris Yeltsin, and was credited with introducing difficult reforms and a degree of stability to a country still reeling from financial crisis.
In March 1999, Mr Primakov attempted to prevent Nato strikes against Yugoslavia.
He famously ordered his pilot to turn around midway across the Atlantic while en route to the United States on an official visit, after learning that Washington had decided to launch the air raids. The incident became known as "Primakov's loop".
But Mr Primakov's stint as prime minister was short lived. He was sacked in 1999 by President Boris Yeltsin, who reportedly became fearful of his rising popularity.
Mr Primakov signalled his intention to run in the 2000 presidential election, but dropped out when Kremlin powerbrokers united around Vladimir Putin.
In 2003, he once again travelled to Iraq and met Saddam Hussein in an attempt to prevent war, this time at Mr Putin's request. But three days later a US-led offensive began.
In later life, Mr Primakov headed a business lobby group and was respected as one of Russia's leading elder statesmen.
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Yevgeny Primakov, a former Russian prime minister, foreign minister and spy chief, has died at the age of 85.
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Senator Ben Cardin called the move "an important step".
If carried out, the move could pave the way for the two countries to reopen embassies.
US President Barack Obama is also expected to meet Cuban leader Raul Castro formally for the first time.
Both leaders will be attending the 35-nation Summit of the Americas in Panama on Friday and Saturday.
It will be the first time a Cuban leader attends the Organization of American States (OAS) summit, which is usually dominated by the United States.
Cuba is one of four countries still on the US list of countries accused of repeatedly supporting global terrorism; Iran, Sudan and Syria are others.
Cuba was first put on the list in 1982 for offering sanctuary to militant ETA Basque separatists and Colombian Farc rebels.
"The State Department's recommendation to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the result of a months-long technical review, is an important step forward in our efforts to forge a more fruitful relationship with Cuba," Senator Cardin said.
If Mr Obama opts to accept the state department's recommendations, Congress would have 45 days to decide whether to override him.
There are vocal critics in Congress of Mr Obama's efforts to reach a diplomatic detente with Cuba.
US Senator Ted Cruz, a Cuban-American Republican, has been among President Obama's biggest critics on the issue.
Correspondents say removing Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism will throw a stark light at the OAS summit in Panama on the US's relations with Venezuela.
The Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hopes to bring a petition signed by 10 million of his citizens urging Mr Obama to remove an order imposing sanctions against seven Venezuelan officials accused of human rights abuses in an opposition crackdown.
Oil-rich Venezuela has many friends at the summit and other Latin American nations have criticised the order, which calls Caracas a US national security threat.
President Obama has tried to reduce tensions with Venezuela ahead of the summit, saying the US did not perceive the country as a threat.
"But we do remain very troubled by the Venezuelan government's efforts to escalate intimidation of its political opponents." he told the Spanish news agency EFE.
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The US State Department has recommended that Cuba be removed from its list of states said to sponsor terrorism, a member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee says.
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The move follows a North East Linconlshire Council decision to demolish six nearby high rise blocks, moving hundreds of people out.
One of the buildings, Nelson House, was only allocated to older people who now need new accommodation.
Under the plans, Shoreline Housing Partnership would develop 46 one and two bedroom homes.
A group of residents in Nelson House have requested they be rehoused in the same area and together.
The proposal would allow for that and will go before councillors on Wednesday. It has been recommended for approval by council officers.
The development would start on site in early summer and be completed in spring 2016, ahead of the demolition of the East Marsh blocks and Comber Place maisonettes.
A small section of the 115-bay car park would remain. North East Lincolnshire Council said it was currently "greatly underutilised".
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A council-owned car park in Grimsby is set to be sold and turned into an older people's housing scheme.
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Father-of-six Peter O'Brien, 51, and 41-year-old Mark Sim died after a blast in the basement of the Celsa Steel UK plant in Splott on November 18, 2015.
Five men were also injured in the incident.
"What happened a year ago was the most tragic event in our history," said Celsa managing director Luis Sanz
"And our thoughts remain with their loved ones.
"We will be holding two minutes' silence to pay tribute to Mark Sim and Peter O'Brien," .
The then Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted his support to "those affected" by the explosion at Celsa's rod and bar mill, while Wales' First Minister Carwyn Jones said he was "deeply saddened" by the deaths.
More than 10 fire engines and ambulances attended the incident around 10:30 on November 18, 2015, while the air ambulance was also deployed.
Mr O'Brien, who lived in the Llanishen area of Cardiff with his wife Marie, played rugby and baseball for St Peter's RFC and more than 1,000 people attended his funeral.
Mr Sim, who lived in Caldicot in Monmouthshire with his wife Sam and their two children, was a fan of his home-town football club Newcastle United and played for his local darts team.
"We have been very moved by the levels of support we have received throughout Cardiff, Wales and the UK," added Mr Sanz.
"On behalf of everyone at the company, I want to say thank you for the kindness we have received.
"We continue to work closely with the authorities to establish the causes and learn lessons.
"The safety of employees is our absolute number one priority and we are deeply committed to the community here in Splott."
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Steelworkers will observe two minutes silence on Friday to remember two colleagues killed in an explosion at a Cardiff plant a year ago.
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Mr Obama issued the executive order weeks after meeting Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
Myanmar's access to trade benefits for poorer nations was suspended in 1989 over human rights abuses.
But the White House said substantial advances to promote democracy meant that it was no longer a threat to America's national security.
Correspondents say the move is designed to coax the rapidly transforming South East Asian country from decades of economic isolation as Ms Suu Kyi's government manages the difficult transition to democracy in Myanmar, also known as Burma.
"While Burma faces significant challenges, including the consolidation of its democracy, the United States can, and intends to, use other means to support the government and people of Burma in their efforts to address these challenges," Mr Obama wrote in a letter to the US House and Senate speakers.
However, while many companies will now enjoy lower tariffs, there are some sanctions which remain in place.
A "blacklist" of at least 100 companies and individuals with links to the former military junta has been scrapped, although a few individuals will remain sanctioned.
Myanmar was run by an oppressive military junta from 1962 to 2011.
Ms Suu Kyi, who as opposition leader was kept under house arrest for 15 years, led her National League for Democracy party to victory in Myanmar's first openly contested election for decades in November 2015.
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President Barack Obama has formally eased long-standing sanctions on Myanmar.
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Calvin Trevena and Ann Varran, both 51, were found between Chiverton Cross and St Agnes in Cornwall on the 2 August.
Police found a damaged white S4 Audi estate on the B3277 and the bodies of the two walkers nearby.
Ryan Morrish, 27, from Redruth, has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and one of perverting the course of justice.
He is due to appear at Truro Magistrates' Court on 28 March.
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A man has been charged with causing the deaths of two walkers by dangerous driving.
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Mr Adams was told there was a security issue when he attempted to attend the event in Washington DC on Tuesday night.
He waited for about 80 minutes before deciding to leave.
The US Secret Service said administrative errors were to blame.
In a statement, it expressed its regret that the issue had not been resolved in a more "timely manner".
"Unfortunately, an administrative input error received by the Secret Service was not able to be rectified promptly," the statement added.
Mr Adams had been invited to the annual shamrock ceremony which was hosted by President Obama.
He said he was subjected to "unacceptable and unprofessional" treatment.
As he tried to check in to the event, he was told a security issue had arisen.
His party colleagues, Martin McGuinness and Mary-Lou McDonald had already entered the celebrations.
"He (Mr Adams) stood to one side and he waited around, he waited around and he waited for something like between 80 and 90 minutes," said BBC News NI economics editor, John Campbell, who is covering events in Washington.
"By that stage I think people inside the room texted him to say President Obama had started speaking and at that point Gerry Adams decided that, well, he was going to leave.
"He wasn't technically refused entry but he was left hanging around for the best part of an hour and a half and then decided it wasn't worth his while staying any more, so he left."
Mr Adams said that he had been invited to the event and was "pleased to accept".
"When I arrived the staff at the White House informed me there was an issue of 'security'," he said.
"After two decades of travelling back and forth to the USA and countless meetings in the White House with successive US Presidents, this is an unacceptable development.
"It is obvious that there remain some within the US administration who seek to treat Sinn Féin differently."
Mr Adams added that Sinn Féin representatives had been denied entry or had to go through extra searches when travelling to the USA, while the State Department had also initially refused to meet him last year until "protest from US political leaders".
"Sinn Féin will not sit at the back of the bus for anyone," he said.
"I am hopeful that the controversy around my White House invitation will help lead to a resolution to all these matters."
Mr Adams told the BBC that Sinn Féin representatives often face enhanced security checks but they normally do not "broadcast" it.
He said what had happened was "bad manners and not a good way to treat guests".
He said he had not been embarrassed by the incident, adding: "I just deal with this in a non-personal way."
Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald said it was "ludicrous" for Mr Adams to be stopped at the White House for unspecified security reasons.
The White House has not commented.
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The American Secret Service has said it regrets delays which meant Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams did not attend a St Patrick's Day reception at the White House.
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The Department For Transport (DFT) said it will invest more than £16m in four stations in England and one in Wales.
The stations will be at Horden in County Durham, Warrington West in Cheshire, Reading Green Park, Portway Parkway in Bristol and Bow Street in Ceredigion.
Durham County Council said the Horden stop would be a big employment boost.
Leader Simon Henig said: "The station will greatly enhance commuters' ability to reach employment sites across the region and will be served by more than 20 trains a day heading north and south.
"It will also act as a park and ride, with spaces for more than 100 commuters."
The DFT is providing £4.4m towards the £10.55m station with the rest coming from the county council and North East Combined Authority.
The £17.2m Warrington West station, which is getting £4.23 from the DFT, should reduce congestion on the M62 and support new houses in the area, the department said.
Reading Green Park will receive £2.3m towards a total project cost of £16.5m with the DFT saying it "has the potential to unlock 7,500 new jobs and 1,500 homes".
The £2.23m Portway Parkway, which is getting £1.672m from the DFT, will serve an existing park and ride site and aims to reduce congestion on inner Bristol roads.
Rail minister Paul Maynard said: "The stations will improve access to the rail network and create new leisure, training, employment and business opportunities, as well as supporting new housing developments.
"All of the stations will be completed by March 2020."
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Five new rail stations should be completed by March 2020 after funding was confirmed, officials have said.
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"I'm sorry for the scandal," chief executive Kwon Oh-hyun said at the company's annual meeting in Seoul.
Samsung Group boss Jay Y. Lee is accused of bribing a friend of the former president in return for government support in a deal.
Mr Lee is currently in jail awaiting trial.
Samsung has said it did not pay bribes in the form of donations, but has pledged to improve its corporate governance.
The world's largest smartphone-maker also addressed the fallout from last year's failure of the Galaxy Note 7.
Samsung had to abandon production of the smartphone after a number of them caught fire.
"I apologise once again for the mistake with the Note 7 last year. It was a failure that arose from trying new technology," Mr Kwon said.
The debacle is estimated to have cost Samsung about $6bn.
Samsung Electronics also announced at Friday's meeting that it would not be changing its corporate structure to use a holding company.
The company has been under pressure from investors to simplify its ownership structure.
"There are negative effects that would arise from transitioning to a holding company so it does not appear it will be easy to do so at present," Mr Kwon said.
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Samsung Electronics has apologised to shareholders for its role in a corruption case that led to South Korea's president being impeached.
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Flanker Davies, 25, was a key player as Team GB claimed a silver medal in the rugby sevens in Rio.
New Zealander Pivac credited Davies with a key moment in helping GB beat Argentina in a tense quarter-final, and expects him to be pressing for a first Wales 15-a-side cap.
"He's always been knocking on the door, he's there or thereabouts," said Pivac.
"There are three or four good sevens (openside flankers) in Wales - it would depend on the style of game that you play.
"James suits an open style of game with a lot of running and a lot of ball movement.
"So if that's the way Wales are going, he's suited. But he's not the only one in that position that can do that."
Davies was selected for the Olympics after being omitted from Wales' squad for the summer tour of New Zealand.
After receiving his medal in Rio, the player jokingly thanked Wales coach Warren Gatland for not selecting him.
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Pivac has coached at World-level sevens but says he has not dealt with an Olympic medallist in the past.
He said Davies would be given a break before returning to training, but was looking forward to seeing him "because he's a character at the best of times."
Team-mate Scott Williams expects the flanker - younger brother of Scarlets and Wales centre Jonathan Davies - to turn up for his first training session wearing the medal.
Asked the region were proud of Davies' achievement, Pivac replied: "Immensely so."
"It's the first rugby sevens at the Olympics, the biggest stage.
"When you listen to all the successful GB athletes each night, talking about how proud they are and how their families are so proud of them - they want to make their country proud and James is no exception.
"He played a big part in that."
Pivac added Davies' strengths as a 15-a-side player had made him a key player for GB sevens team particularly in their nail-biting 5-0 sudden death win against Argentina.
"I think it's his 15-a-side skills, the ones that he's very good at, transferred well into sevens," Pivac said.
"His work at the breakdown is what he's known for in 15s and he was exceptional in gaining turnovers for his team in Rio - either straight turnovers or holding-on penalties against the opposition.
"His defence under the goal-posts against Argentina in the quarter-final allowed the side to get into the medals."
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Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac says the region are "immensely proud" of Olympic silver medallist James Davies.
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The Manchester United forward, 30, scored seven goals in their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign, but has not played since a knee injury in February.
The top two scorers in this season's Premier League are both England strikers, Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy.
"Over the past two years my form for England has been really good. I've scored a lot of goals," Rooney said.
"I'll keep trying to, first and foremost, help the team be successful and if I can score the goals to help achieve that then that'll be great.
"I've still got a few years left, I feel," he told the PFA's 4 The Player magazine. "I'm always just thinking about what comes next and making sure I'm at my best for the summer.
"I feel I'm a lot more patient now in my play. When I was younger I could be impatient and I'd end up in positions I didn't really need to be in."
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England captain and record goalscorer Wayne Rooney is confident he has "a few years left" at international level.
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Last week the IOC said individual sports' governing bodies must decide if Russian competitors are clean amid claims of state-sponsored doping.
But it now says the newly convened panel "will decide whether to accept or reject that final proposal".
More than 250 Russian athletes have so far been cleared to compete.
The three-person panel comprises Ugur Erdener, president of World Archery and head of the IOC medical and scientific commission, Claudia Bokel of the IOC athletes commission, and Spanish IOC member Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr, son of the ex-IOC president of the same name.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) had recommended all Russian athletes be banned after its independently commissioned report found evidence of a four-year "doping programme" across the "vast majority" of Olympic sports.
The IOC stopped short of applying a blanket ban in a move criticised by Wada and others, while swimmers Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev have become the first Russian athletes to appeal against their ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The Olympics start in Rio on Friday.
Meanwhile, Russian whistleblower Yulia Stepanova has asked again for the IOC to reassess her exclusion from Rio.
The 800m runner's testimony helped shed light on the scale of doping in Russian sport, and she was to compete under a neutral flag in Rio.
But the IOC ruled that she should not be allowed to take part as she had previously failed a doping test.
In a letter to the IOC on Saturday, Stepanova and her husband Vitaly asked the body to "reassess the decision on Yulia".
The IOC responded by saying it had rejected any review of her case and had not discussed the matter at its executive board meeting.
"The final decision has been taken already," IOC spokesman Mark Adams said.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says a three-person panel will have the final say on which Russian athletes can compete at the Rio Games.
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Rob Stewart was speaking after plans were unveiled for 3,500-seat arena, an aquarium and a city beach area with bars, restaurants, hotels and homes.
It will be the biggest landscape change since the city was blitzed during World War Two and is expected to lead to about 1,700 permanent jobs.
Swansea council unveiled the plans on Friday with work due to start in 2017.
It comes 10 years after a flagship scheme to redevelop Swansea city centre collapsed.
Mr Stewart said: "We've been very careful to make sure what we've proposed is deliverable. We're very confident we have the right developers and right funders."
Two developers - Rivington Land and Acme and Trebor Developments - have been appointed and construction work will bring about 500 jobs.
The main areas to be worked on are the former St David's shopping centre, land next to the leisure centre and the civic centre site.
Mr Stewart added: "People quite rightly would want to see us get on with this as soon as possible.
"We are already in discussions with Welsh government, with the UK department of trade and industry in London, to make sure we can take these plans forward as quickly as possible."
It will run from Whitewalls, include a cafe quarter and be built on an incline so that at the other end, people can walk straight over Oystermouth Road to where the arena will be, hosting concerts, shows, conferences and ice skating.
There will also be a high-rise building next to it comprising of a hotel and flats and could become the tallest in Wales.
An access route will run from there to the aquarium and city beach.
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Germany-born Faas won four major photo prizes, including two Pulitzers, during his career, and served as AP's Saigon photo chief at the height of the war.
In Saigon he trained and mentored young Vietnamese photographers who captured many of the war's defining images.
Faas was injured in 1967 and later used a wheelchair for many years.
He died after suffering years of health problems, including paralysis from the waist down.
"Horst Faas was a giant in the world of photojournalism whose extraordinary commitment to telling difficult stories was unique and remarkable," said Santiago Lyon, AP's global head of photography.
"He was an exceptional talent both behind the camera and editing the work of others and even in the grimmest circumstances he always made sure to live life to the fullest," Lyon said.
"He will be sorely missed by scores of colleagues, especially that reduced group with whom he covered conflict, particularly the Vietnam generation."
Speaking to the BBC in 2007, Faas described his job in simple terms.
"I tried to be in the newspapers every day, to beat the opposition with better photos. I didn't try to do anything grandiose. The photos were used and published and asked for, becuase Vietnam was on the front pages year after year after.
"I lived from day to day, from event to event. It was a perfect story for an agency photographer."
He began his career covering conflicts in 1960, four years after joining the Associated Press (AP).
He worked in what was then Zaire, and in Algeria, before relocating to Vietnam, where he won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1965.
Accepting the award, he said he aimed to "record the suffering, the emotions and the sacrifices of both Americans and Vietnamese in... this little bloodstained country so far away," AP said.
He had a front row view of much of that suffering.
When not in the midst of the conflict, Faas worked at AP's Saigon base, viewing and selecting images from his photographers to transmit on the wire to the rest of the world.
Under his direction, AP photographers captured images that quickly became synonymous with the long war: among the most notable were Eddie Adams' image of the execution of a Viet Cong suspect and Nick Ut's picture of a naked Vietnamese girl fleeing a napalm attack.
Despite being injured in 1967, he stayed in the country until 1970.
"I don't think anyone stayed longer, took more risks or showed greater devotion to his work and his colleagues," said New York Times journalist David Halberstam, who once lived with Haas.
"I think of him as nothing less than a genius."
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Pvt George Fly lent the instrument to five-year-old Edna a year after surviving the Battle of Jutland.
After keeping it in the family, Edna's daughter Marian Le May has now handed it back to the Royal Marines School of Music in Portsmouth.
The school said it would be "proudly displayed" in its percussion suites
Mr Fly joined the Royal Marines Light Infantry Divisional Band in Portsmouth in 1894. In 1915 he was drafted to the light cruiser HMS Castor which took part in the Battle of Jutland.
He died in 1934 aged 58.
His family believe he gave Edna the tambourine to use while dancing round the maypole at St Vincent's Royal Marines School at Gosport where she was a pupil.
Mrs Le May, 74, said it had become "part of our family history".
"It was never hidden away or forgotten about. But my grandchildren don't want it - they have plenty of other things to play with - so we spoke to the Royal Marines Band Service and they were pleased to have it," she said.
James Pinney, marketing manager at the school, said: "It will be proudly displayed in a prominent position where trainee musicians can see it and read about one of their brave predecessors."
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Anyone caught smoking in a vehicle in front of a child or youth under the age of 18 will be fined 100 euros (£73).
Failure to pay the fine, or to stop a vehicle and give personal details to the police could lead to a prosecution and 1,000 euros (£727) penalty.
A similar ban is being considered by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Earlier this month, Stormont Health Minister Simon Hamilton announced an amendment to a bill currently going through the assembly, which if passed, would now mean smoking in cars with children would be illegal anywhere on the island of Ireland.
The Irish government signed its ban into law this week, under the Protection of Children's Health (Tobacco Smoke in Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) Act.
The details were announced by Minister for Children Dr James Reilly and Minister for Health Leo Varadkar.
Mr Reilly said it was a central part of his government's "Tobacco Free Ireland" policy.
"The Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study 2014 found that nearly one in every five children between the ages of 10 and 17 years are exposed to toxic, carcinogenic smoke in cars," he said.
"Even if windows of the car are open the young person is not protected from the harmful effect of second-hand smoke."
Mr Varadkar said: "Children are more susceptible to the effects of second-hand smoke and may not be able to avoid exposure.
"Second hand smoke is particularly harmful to children in enclosed spaces, such as cars."
Under the new law, drivers and passengers will be banned from smoking cigarettes, cigars or pipes when they are inside a vehicle with someone under the age of 18.
Drivers will also be held responsible if they allow their passengers to smoke in front of children.
The legislation does not apply to electronic cigarettes, which are exempt from the ban.
In Great Britain, a law banning smoking in vehicles carrying children came into force in England and Wales in October.
The Scotland government is planning to legislate on the issue next year.
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However, not all attendees at the "Oscars of the East Coast" party are strictly adhering to the chosen theme.
The annual gala brings in millions for the museum's Costume Institute.
Last year, A-listers from film, music, sports and fashion were asked to dress to the theme of Chinese influences on western fashion - with varying success.
This year, the exhibit is "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology."
The chairwoman of the invitation-only extravaganza is American Vogue editor Anna Wintour, who has been organising the gala for nearly 20 years.
This year, tickets cost $30,000 (£20,456) per person - but despite the prices it is one of the hardest parties to get in to.
Privacy of the guests is intensely guarded, and posting on social media after they have walked the red carpet and entered the event has been banned since last year.
Last year, more than $12m was raised for the museum's Costume Institute.
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Celebrities at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art have gone metallic as this year's Met Ball celebrates the convergence of man and machine.
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The 23-year-old Wales forward has scored 11 goals during his season-long loan at Portman Road from Premier League side Leicester City.
"I think Tom will have his heart set on the Premier League and I think he'll get that," said McCarthy.
"If Leicester are going to sell him, there'd be a lot of takers."
He continued to BBC Radio Suffolk: "Tom has been brilliant and we've all loved him, everybody's really appreciated what he's done, but I think he has his heart set on Premier League football and why wouldn't he?"
The Tractor Boys were assured of Championship safety thanks to Easter Monday's 3-1 defeat of promotion hopefuls Newcastle United.
And McCarthy hinted that there could be a large turnover of players this summer as the club go into their 16th consecutive season in England's second tier.
McCarthy said: "It's been tentative before being completely safe. I'll sit down and talk to (owner) Marcus (Evans) now about what we want to do and hopefully we can come up with something.
"But there's a real opportunity to freshen it up because there are a lot of players out of contract and we've quite a few players on loan.
"Do they want to stay? Do we want them? Can we have them? Can we sign them? There's all those things. We'll be losing a few players."
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Championship side Ipswich Town have "no chance" of signing on-loan top scorer Tom Lawrence on a more permanent deal, according to manager Mick McCarthy.
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The route between Harwich, Essex and Esbjerg in Denmark, run by DFDS Seaways, has been in operation for nearly 140 years.
The company said the route "has been struggling for a long time" and would not be able to take on costs associated with a new environmental law.
The final ferry is to sail on Sunday.
Chief executive of DFDS Seaways, Niel Smedegaard, said: "The route is of particular historical significance to DFDS so it's a very sad day for us all.
"Our regrets go to our many passengers who must now see the last passenger ferry route between the UK and Scandinavia close."
How popular are ferries?
•Last year, 20.5 million people used ferries to travel abroad from the UK - the first year on year increase since 2010
•One of the most popular routes, between Dover and Calais, has had car ferries running since the 1930s
•The number of passengers travelling from ports on the East Coast fell last year for the third consecutive year, to 2.2 million
•A number of passenger routes linking Norway and Newcastle ceased running in 2008
•Ferries between Harwich and Hamburg in Germany were stopped in 2002
•Stena Line runs a ferry from Harwich to the Hook of Holland. The line has seen an increase in passenger numbers in recent years
From 1 January 2015, a European Union directive aimed at reducing sulphur dioxide emissions from ships will come into force.
DFDS said this would have resulted in a £2m a year increase in the cost of the Harwich to Esbjerg ferry route.
Mr Smedegaard said the company had not been able to reduce costs enough to enable the route to bear the extra charges.
In June last year, the Sirena Seaways vessel running the Harwich-Esbjerg route hit the quay while docking and started to let in water.
There were 489 passengers on board, but no-one was trapped or injured.
The crash caused severe damage to the quay and holed the ferry in several places, some below the waterline.
An investigation found one of the ship's back-up systems was keeping an engine running at 63% power when it was approaching the dock.
This prevented tugs from moving the vessel so passengers could disembark safely.
At the time, DFDS said changes were made to stop such an accident happening again.
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The UK's only ferry link to Scandinavia is to close for good, marking the "the end of an era", its operator says.
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Bana Alabed shared a short video of herself and the Mean Girls star.
They were in Ankara, Turkey, where they met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Ms Lohan, who has been in the country for the past few days, says in the video that the pair are "sending lots of love and life and blessings" to refugees and people in Syria.
The short clip shows Bana hugging the actress, who tells the camera: "We want to send to all of the people in Syria and Aleppo suffering and to all the refugees we are here supporting you and you can hang on and be strong just like Bana has."
She adds "inshallah", which means "if God wills" in Arabic.
Bana rose to fame after documenting on Twitter her daily life in rebel-held East Aleppo, with the help of her mother.
The seven-year-old recently penned an open letter to new US President Donald Trump, asking him to open the country to refugees.
Ms Lohan became a film star aged 11 when she starred in Disney's The Parent Trap, but her career has been marred in recent years by a series of scandals.
Rumours began circulating this week the actress may have converted to Islam, after she was spotted in Turkey wearing a hijab.
The actress also appears to have deleted all of her posts on Twitter and Instagram, changing her bio on the latter to read "alaikum salam", which means "peace be upon you" in Arabic.
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The little girl who captured the world's heart tweeting about her life in East Aleppo has made a new friend - US actress Lindsay Lohan.
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Nsiala, 24, was dismissed for his foul on Swindon's Luke Norris in Saturday's 1-1 draw - just six days after joining the League One club from Hartlepool.
But Town are confident of winning the appeal, boss Paul Hurst claiming: "It's never a two-footed challenge.
"He clearly wins the ball. We've looked at the footage," he told BBC Sport.
Nsiala had already been sent off twice for Pools this season, which automatically increases the punishment, potentially sidelining him until 11 February.
Unless Shrewsbury win their appeal to the Football Association, Nsiala will miss the visits of Bradford City, Oldham Athletic and Bury, as well as the trip to Gillingham.
His home debut may not now come until 18 February against AFC Wimbledon.
The red card was the eighth Shrewsbury have received this season - the highest number in English football's top four divisions.
Meanwhile, Shrewsbury have allowed former Wolves striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake to return to Chesterfield at the end of his loan spell, during which he failed to score in seven appearances.
They have also allowed on-loan winger George Waring to return to Premier League side Stoke City, having opted not to extend his deal.
Hurst has also dismissed speculation linking the Shropshire club with striker James Alabi, National League side Chester's 10-goal top scorer, saying: "There's no truth in it."
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Shrewsbury defender Aristote Nsiala will be banned for four games after being sent off on his debut - unless the Town are successful with an appeal.
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The discovery could help babies with genetic diseases, elderly people and even astronauts, they say.
The findings in mice, published in Scientific Reports, showed cells in the fluid strengthened bone and cut fractures by 80%.
Human clinical trials are planned within the next two years.
The amniotic fluid protects the baby and helps it develop inside the mother's womb.
It also contains stem cells that are the building blocks of other tissues.
The researchers collected the amniotic stem cells from material left over from screening tests during pregnancy or collected immediately before birth.
The team at the Institute of Child Health - a collaboration of Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London - injected the cells into diseased mice.
The animals had brittle bone disease or osteogenesis imperfecta.
In people, the condition affects around one in every 25,000 births and can be fatal, with babies born with multiple fractures.
Even those who survive face up to 15 bone fractures a year, brittle teeth, impaired hearing and growth problems.
Tests on mice showed injecting the cells increased the strength, plasticity and structure of the animal's bones.
The number of fractures was cut to a fifth of their original level.
Dr Pascale Guillot, who conducted the research, said the findings could help people from crib to grave - from babies with brittle bone disease to pensioners with osteoporosis.
She told the BBC News website: "I am extremely excited because this is a major breakthrough that will potentially affect everyone.
"We are already used to putting cream on our face to slow down ageing of the skin, this will be the same for the skeleton.
"I think in the next few years we will have ways to slow down the ageing of our skeleton to reduce fractures and pain.
"This will also be very important for space travel as when you don't have G-force the bones become fragile."
Bone is constantly being remade with cells called osteoclasts breaking down old bone and osteoblasts making new bones.
Dr Guillot said brittle bone disease, osteoporosis and space travel were all characterised by osteoblasts "becoming lazy".
The study showed the stem cells were increasing the natural activity of the osteoblasts - rather than directly making new bone themselves.
"Stem cell transplants boost these lazy cells so they become very eager to make more bone and mature bone," added Dr Guillot.
Clinical trials are already planned, but ultimately the researchers' aim is to discover which chemicals the stem cells are releasing that kick the osteoblasts into gear.
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The Ministry of Justice and the Wales Office said a total of £30m will also be spent on local businesses as the new £250m prison is built.
They said £1.1m had already been committed to companies in north Wales.
Work started on the prison at Wrexham industrial estate in September and is due to be completed in 2017. With 2,000 inmates it will be the UK's largest.
It is being built on the site of the former Firestone tyre factory.
The construction company Lend Lease, which has been selected to build the prison, is holding a meeting to determine how best to deliver its promises to the community during the construction.
The commitments include 100 new apprenticeships and 500 work placement days per year.
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The "super-prison" being built in Wrexham will bring £23m a year to the local economy and 1,000 jobs.
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The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association will walk out with Aslef, RMT and Unite on 5 August in a row over servicing the new Night Tube service.
London Underground said it had made a "fair" offer and would continue to be available for talks.
The four unions previously walked out on 9 July causing the entire Tube network to shut down.
Talks had been held at conciliatory service Acas on Tuesday.
But TSSA's general secretary Manuel Cortes said: "We were expecting to agree a framework to discuss all our concerns over staffing levels and safety at the Night Tube as well as the pay issues.
"But all we got was a repeat of the 'take or leave' final pay offer which has already been rejected and no detailed talks on the Night Tube. We are willing to negotiate, they clearly are not."
Steve Griffiths, London Underground's Chief Operating Officer, said: "We have made a very fair and reasonable offer on pay and the introduction of the Night Tube and we continue to urge the trade unions to put it to their members.
"We will be at ACAS this week for further discussions to resolve this issue and trust the trade unions will be too."
The row is over a 2% average pay rise offer for LU members and workers' terms and conditions linked to plans to introduce an all-night Tube service on the Jubilee and Victoria lines and and most of the Central, Northern and Piccadilly lines.
Last week's strike saw long delays and rush hour began earlier than normal as commuters tried to find alternative ways to get to and from work.
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A fourth union has announced it will be take part in a 24-hour Tube strike next month in a row over pay and conditions.
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Samantha Jenkins, 19, from Llanelli, fell into a coma and died in 2011.
Her inquest heard she had low mineral levels, which may have been the result of malabsorption caused by chewing gum.
Maria Morgan told BBC's Jason Mohammad programme: "It's something that happens over a period of time - eight or 10 months."
After her death, Mrs Morgan said she found receipts showing Miss Jenkins had been buying chewing gum almost every day.
"The pathologist said it was going down a road he doesn't know enough about, but he said there was enough evidence there to say it was a huge thing that it could be."
Her husband, Wayne Morgan, said they believed Miss Jenkins's death could be linked to sweeteners used in chewing gum.
Colin Phillips, acting senior coroner for Swansea, said the cause of death was a shortage of oxygen to her brain, resulting from a convulsion caused by an imbalance of minerals in her body.
"The chewing gum inside her system did not end her life, but it's a possibility the over consumption of sorbitol and aspartame was the result of all her salts going low and that's what ended her life," said Mrs Morgan.
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The mother of a Carmarthenshire teenager whose death may have been caused by chewing gum wants families to be aware of the potential dangers.
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Turner Prize nominee Ciara Phillips is the fourth artist to be commissioned to make a dazzle ship design.
The work celebrates the untold histories of women during the war.
It was inspired by the team of women who worked under British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, who invented the dazzle technique.
Mr Wilkinson designed the abstract dazzle ship patterns and disorientating shapes to prevent the enemy from determining a vessel's range, speed and direction of travel.
Ms Phillips's work is entitled "Every Woman" and was co-commissioned by centenary art commissions body 14-18 NOW and Edinburgh Art Festival.
A spokeswoman for the festival said it took the artist's medium of screen-printing to a "new scale", covering the entire surface of the ship with a "bold gestural design".
It was painted on the MV Fingal, a former lighthouse ship at Leith docks.
The design, to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Jutland, also celebrates the women who worked as telegraphists and signallers during World War One.
It includes a message in Morse code embedded within the pattern in retro reflective paint reading "Every Woman a Signal Tower".
The message will shine out in the darkness, celebrating the ship's former role as a supplier to remote lighthouses.
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A Glasgow-based artist has painted a massive design for a 72m (239ft) long ship as part of World War One centenary commemorations.
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South Wales Fire and Rescue Service was called to St David's Junior and Infants School, Cwmbran, at about 20:10 BST on Saturday.
The fire started in an outdoor storage container and spread to a ground-floor classroom, causing minor damage.
Additional security has been put in place until the school reopens on Tuesday.
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A suspicious fire which has damaged a classroom at a school in Torfaen is under investigation.
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Bow Street station closed as a result of the Beeching cuts in 1965 and since then a number of people have campaigned for the stop to be reinstated.
The proposed new station would be built a short distance south of the original location, which is now the site of a builders' merchants.
The scheme includes a park and ride facility for 100 cars.
Councillor Alun Williams, cabinet member for transport, waste and carbon management, said it was a "very exciting idea" with "strong support" from the public.
"Not only will this scheme provide Bow Street and surrounding communities with a railway station but it can also help alleviate congestion and parking problems in Aberystwyth," he said.
Outline drawings of the new station will be on show at a public event, organised by Ceredigion council, at Neuadd Rhydypennau on 11 July between 14:00 and 17:00 BST.
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A railway station could be returned to a Ceredigion village for the first time in more than 50 years.
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Snowdonia Pumped Hydro (SPH) is awaiting a planning decision for the scheme at Glyn Rhonwy in Llanberis.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has given permission to empty standing rainwater from two disused quarries at the site into Nant y Betws and Llyn Padarn.
It said the permits have been issued with "strict conditions".
Plans for the 99.9MWe hydro plant are being considered by the UK Planning Inspectorate, with a decision expected by early March.
NRW said it was satisfied that the company will "operate safely without harming the environment or local communities."
SPH said the drainage of rainwater was necessary before work can begin to sculpt the quarries that will form the upper and lower reservoirs.
Their application to fill the reservoirs once they are completed by gradually abstracting water from Llyn Padarn lake has already been approved.
Opponents of the scheme claim standing water in the lower quarry where ordnance was dismantled by the RAF in the 1970s may be contaminated.
But SPH said independent sampling and testing of both surface and ground water at the site "show no evidence of contamination."
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Developers hoping to build a £100m hydro power plant in a disused Gwynedd quarry have been granted environmental permits.
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Norfolk-based Gardline, founded by the Darling family in 1969, employs 750 people and has been bought by Dutch firm, Royal Boskalis Westminster.
Gardline's activities include marine geophysical surveys, offshore geotechnical services and environmental surveys.
Boskalis has taken on the firm's assumed debt as part of the deal.
In a joint statement, the firms said there were "significant synergies" between them.
Gardline operates 40 vessels, including crew transfer ships and survey catamarans.
Its head offices are in Great Yarmouth, with further activities in the USA, Brazil and Singapore.
Boskalis has a fleet of more than 900 vessels and floating equipment and 11,700 employees, operating in more than 90 countries across six continents.
"With the acquisition, Boskalis strengthens its position as marine services provider in north-west Europe," it said.
Gardline's profits have fallen in recent years, and Boskalis said the company had suffered from the downturn in oil and gas.
It said it was not forecasting Gardline's finances would be turned around in the short-term but that the acquisition "positions Boskalis well for when end-markets recover".
Earlier this month, Gardline secured contracts worth £6m with Scottish Power Renewables to carry out a range of pre-construction surveys across East Anglia offshore wind farm sites.
Boskalis has yet to respond to questions on whether jobs will be affected by the takeover.
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A British family-owned marine services company has been sold outright in a deal worth £40m.
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Scot Muir, 23, has already broken the European 3,000m and British 5,000m indoor records this year, and also took Holmes' British 1,000m indoor record.
Holmes, who won Olympic gold in both the 800m and 1500m at Athens in 2004, has been impressed by her displays.
"Laura has already taken the world by storm," she told Scottish Athletics.
"She truly can go all the way in the sport - and by that I mean start to medal at major championships."
Muir will attempt to win her first major medals at this week's European Indoor Championships in Belgrade, where she will run in both the 1500m and 3,000m.
She will then switch her attention to her main target this year - the World Championships, which take place in London from 4-13 August.
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Speaking to BBC Scotland last month, Muir said she viewed a "home World Championships" as "big", especially having seen the impact of the 2012 Olympics in London.
Holmes said: "Laura first came to my attention when she was fifth at the World Championships in Beijing in 2015.
"She is an unassuming girl in some respects, but you can see she is a very strong runner."
Holmes added Muir had shown she can run fast but must now "translate that by racing well on the world stage".
She added: "Championships are all about placings and, at only 23, Laura has already taken the world by storm.
"I believe that, in 2017 at the World Championships, she can cement her place in history."
Holmes believes young Scots - particularly girls - can look to the likes of Muir, Eilidh Doyle, Lynsey Sharp and Eilish McColgan for inspiration.
"Role models are important in society generally, but role models from the world of sport I believe have the most credibility - especially if you are trying to inspire girls and women," she added.
"Scotland have had some amazing talent in the past and it looks like it is continuing."
Muir, the 2016 Scottish Athlete of the Year, will begin the final year of her five-year veterinary studies a week after the World Championships, continuing to combine them with her running career.
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The 23-year-old Spaniard played 34 times for the Blues after joining the club from Barcelona in 2011.
Romeu has spent the past two seasons on loan, at German club Stuttgart and at Valencia in his homeland.
He was on the bench for Chelsea's 2012 Champions League final win over Bayern Munich but missed out on the 2012 FA Cup and 2013 Europa League victories.
Saints executive director of football Les Reed said Romeu had been "on the radar for some time" and "matches the Southampton profile" of being "young, hungry and developed at a top academy".
"Like Ryan Bertrand, we believe we have recruited another Chelsea player with an excellent pedigree but also with lots of potential to develop," said Reed.
Romeu said: "After spending two years on loan, I needed something permanent and a club with a future - and I think I chose the right one."
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Southampton have signed Chelsea midfielder Oriol Romeu for £5m on a three-year contract.
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The review, led by new chairman Nick Basing, was set up after Goals reported its first annual loss in 12 years.
The company said it expected to complete the review within the week.
The news came as Paisley-based rival Powerleague announced it had opened the first of its "next generation" centres in London under a £40m expansion plan.
East Kilbride-based Goals currently operates 46 centres in the UK and one in California.
In a statement at the company's annual general meeting on Thursday, Mr Basing said: "The review of the company has included a wide-ranging view of the market, the performance of the company in recent years and an assessment of all assets that the company operates, along with consumer insights.
"We are drawing it to completion by next week and we will announce the results of this review together with the strategic plan shortly afterwards."
The review is one of six "short-term priorities" identified by Mr Basing when he took over the role of chairman in March.
Goals appears close to completing another of those priorities - finding a new chief executive.
Mr Basing said: "We have concluded the search for a high-quality CEO. Our expectation is that we will be able to announce details imminently."
Mr Basing also reported that a near-term operational improvement plan was being implemented, adding that the company had been "encouraged by the early signs".
However, he added: "On current trading, I can report that like-for-like sales are marginally negative for the first 18 weeks of the year.
"However, the significant decline in last year's second half has been eroded.
"This first quarter of trading in 2016 compares against positive sales growth in the same period last year."
In a separate development, Powerleague announced it had officially opened the first of its "next generation" five-a-side centres in west London.
The move marks the start of a £40m expansion plan by owners Patron Capital to open 13 new UK centres over the next three years.
The new facility takes Powerleague's overall number of centres to 49 and strengthens the brand's presence in the south-east of England - a key growth area for the operator.
The Next Generation programme marks a departure for Powerleague from its traditional focus on large three-acre sites.
Under the new approach, the company is looking to build pitches on as little as 0.5 acres - including at the top of multi-storey car parks, in underground spaces and on the roofs of buildings.
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Five-a-side football company Goals Soccer Centres is set to reveal a new strategic plan, after completing a full review of its operations.
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Russell Sherwood, 69, of Cilfrew, Neath, was heading for Ewenny in Vale of Glamorgan as Storm Angus hit in the morning but never arrived.
He disappeared at Stormy Down and registration plates from his car were found on Monday.
South Wales Police said it would try to recover the car on Wednesday morning.
Officers will remain at the scene overnight and the force said Mr Sherwood's family were being kept informed of any developments.
Mr Sherwood left his home in a silver Ford Focus at about 06:15 GMT as flooding caused by Storm Angus hit roads in the area around Stormy Down.
Tuesday's search focused around the dipping bridge on the river, and firefighters and coastguard teams were involved.
The search was stood down for the evening at about 16:30 and will resume at first light on Wednesday.
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But in recent years it, like many other seaside towns, has struggled.
The advent of cheap flights abroad and a recession meant the County Antrim town was forced to reinvent itself from its 1950s heyday.
And while the weather this year has been as unstable as the political landscape, neither seem to be putting tourists off spending money, with more visitors from the Republic of Ireland providing a welcome revenue stream.
Visitors to the north coast traditionally come from other parts of Northern Ireland, said Naldo Morelli, managing director of Morelli's Ice Cream.
"But this year, I suppose with Brexit and the pound weakening a little bit we've noticed more customers from the Republic of Ireland, so that helps too," he said.
"The Northern Ireland public are very used to having four seasons in one day, so thankfully for us they eat ice cream no matter the weather."
Portrush's reinvention seems to be doing the trick for traders.
"Business is up 5% to 10% across the board, certainly the restaurants have been busy," said Ian Donaghey, the president of the Causeway Chamber of Commerce.
While the weather is not always kind, this is sometimes actually good for local businesses, added Mr Donaghey.
"If the weather is too good it keeps people on the beaches and they don't spend money in the town," he said.
"What some of the traders would tell you is that they like a sunny morning and a drizzly afternoon because it drives them into Barry's [amusement arcade] and the restaurants and bars."
Portrush's much loved amusements and bucket-and-spade shops are still there, but now their neighbours are trendy coffee shops, restaurants and bars.
The town may not have completely shaken off its traditional image, but those who visit do not seem to mind.
Business owners hope a mixture of nostalgia and new attractions will keep people visiting the north coast for the rest of this summer season, and for many years to come.
It seems that come rain or shine, holidaymakers will always have a soft spot for Portrush.
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The figure is contained in a National Audit Office report about the government's reforms to the probation system, introduced in 2014.
It says high workloads have "reduced" the supervision and training that staff receive and the service they provide.
The Ministry of Justice said the new probation system was "continually improving".
Government changes have seen the probation service split in two, with Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) supervising low and medium-risk offenders and a new National Probation Service (NPS) taking over the supervision of high-risk offenders.
The report said the NPS was "not yet operating as a truly national, sustainable" service and was under-performing in 11 of 18 target levels..
It also found CRCs were not achieving their targets in 12 of 19 measures where "robust" data were available.
Two of the 21 CRCs, which are run by private and voluntary sector organisations, had £78,000 deducted from them in total by the Ministry of Justice for failing to meet their targets on the completion of community sentence orders.
The report, which also found "severe" problems with IT systems, said "fundamental issues" needed to be resolved before the new arrangements were capable of achieving value for money.
"The NPS has higher than predicted caseloads and faces a difficult further period of change if it is to play a fully effective role in the transformed and national probation service," the National Audit Office says.
"Its front-line managers face increasing pressure, including dealing with higher than expected workloads, now of high-risk offenders, while assimilating a heavy influx of trainees, who will take time to become fully effective professionals."
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "Major transitions in public services are always challenging but figures show the performance of the new probation system, introduced only a year ago, is continually improving.
"As the report notes, the majority of offenders found that services had remained stable or improved since our reforms. Thanks to these reforms, offenders in prison for less than 12 months are now receiving support from the probation service for the very first time.
"However, we are not complacent and are addressing the problems which have been identified. Public protection is our top priority and we will continue to support staff to deliver these important changes."
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Some probation staff monitoring offenders in England and Wales are handling more than 70 cases at a time.
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The duo impressed against New Zealand last weekend as Boyce scored his first international goal and O'Neill has hinted that they will start again.
"When we've asked Josh to come and play through the middle he's never let us down," said O'Neill.
"Liam has had a great season. He's looking very, very sharp in training."
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In contrast, Kyle Lafferty's limited outings at club level this season leave him "not in the best condition we'd like him to be", O'Neill admitted on Thursday.
"But for whatever part of the game he (Lafferty) plays, I'm sure he'll make sure he does a good job for us."
The Northern Irish are without Conor Washington, who is getting married this weekend, while Jamie Ward, who also scored in the qualifier win over Norway in March, is ruled out by injury.
Centre-back Gareth McAuley, 37, looks set to play after missing the New Zealand game because of a thigh injury but Watford defender Craig Cathcart will be missing because of a knee problem.
Veteran Aaron Hughes could replace Cathcart if O'Neill's selects a back three but the manager could instead opt to switch to a back four.
Northern Ireland hammered Azerbaijan 4-0 in Belfast seven months ago when the home side's set-piece prowess caused the lightweight opposition countless problems.
O'Neill's squad have doubtless been practising their free-kicks and corner-kicks at length this week, which included five days in southern Turkey to acclimatise for the expected high temperatures in Baku.
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Northern Ireland lost 2-0 in the previous visit to Baku in 2013 but O'Neill's team are a much improved outfit four years on having achieved qualification for Euro 2016.
Robert Prosinecki's home side will be able to call on experienced skipper Rashad Sadygov, who missed the Windsor Park contest because of injury.
Brazilian-born striker Richard Almeida is also now part of the Azerbaijan squad while another newcomer Renat Dadashov previously played for Germany's Under-17 team.
O'Neill's side are second in Group C, five points behind leaders Germany, but two ahead of the third-placed Czech Republic.
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The teenager was a passenger in a Fiat Punto which crashed with a Mini Cooper near Cockermouth.
The 18-year-old driver of the Punto and the 23-year-old Mini driver are both in a serious condition in hospital, Cumbria Police said.
The road between Tallentire and Gilcrux was closed from 17:15 GMT until midnight.
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The six-week mission comes in the face of competing claims from other countries, including Russia.
Two ice-breakers are setting out from Newfoundland to collect data from an undersea ridge that starts near Ellesmere Island and runs to the Pole.
The region is believed to include large oil and gas reserves.
Last December Canada filed an application with the UN seeking to vastly expand its Atlantic sea boundary.
Russia and Denmark have also made competing claims on a vast area of Arctic seabed around the Lomonosov Ridge.
All three countries are seeking scientific proof that the ridge is an underwater extension of their continental shelf.
The area is estimated to hold 13% of the world's undiscovered oil and up to 30% of its hidden natural gas reserves.
A Canadian government statement said the first icebreaker had left St John's, Newfoundland, on Friday and the second would depart on Saturday.
"Our government is securing our sovereignty while expanding our economic and scientific opportunities by defining Canada's last frontier," said Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq.
"This is important to Canadians, especially those in the north, as this is their future and prosperity at stake."
Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a coastal nation can claim exclusive economic rights to natural resources on or beneath the sea floor up to 200 nautical miles (370km) beyond their land territory.
But if the continental shelf extends beyond that distance, the country must provide evidence to a UN commission which will then make recommendations about establishing an outer limit.
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Holden, 36, will work alongside fellow coaches Neil Cutler and John Ward.
He was first given a coaching role at Walsall by then boss Dean Smith before leaving in November 2014 to become first-team coach at Oldham.
After a spell as caretaker manager last season, Holden left the club in January when manager David Dunn was sacked.
"It's been an interesting time since I was last here," said Holden. "I went to Oldham as first-team coach and quickly became interim manager and then I was assistant manager up to when I left.
"It was a fantastic experience for a young coach like myself and I'm coming back much more experienced. But to say I'm happy to be back here would be an understatement. It's simply about coming in and trying to add whatever I can to help us get over the line."
Whitney said: "As soon as this position became available, I earmarked Dean as someone who could possibly help me out. The most important thing for me, whether they're a player or a staff member, is that they fit in with the group - and this is a great appointment for us."
After three straight wins since Whitney took over in the wake of Sean O'Driscoll's sacking, Walsall currently lie third in League One, level on points with second-placed Wigan Athletic, going into the Easter weekend, when the Saddlers are inactive because of international calls.
Saturday's scheduled trip to fourth-placed Gillingham was postponed (until Tuesday, 12 April) as a result of Romaine Sawyers (St Kitts & Nevis), Neil Etheridge (Philippines) and Jason Demetriou (Cyprus) all being called up.
Demetriou was due to be back to allow the home game with Shrewsbury Town to go ahead on Easter Monday. But the subsequent call-up for striker Tom Bradshaw by Wales meant that the Shrewsbury game was called off too.
It is the second time this season that Bradshaw's meeting with his old club has been postponed as a result of him receiving an international call. The derby game with Shrewsbury is now set for Tuesday, 26 April.
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League One promotion hopefuls Walsall have brought back their former defender Dean Holden to join the club's coaching team under interim boss Jon Whitney.
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They had to come from behind after Shay McCartan pounced on a defensive error and rounded Bobby Olejnik to score.
Matt Oakley created Exeter's quickfire equaliser with a through ball that Tom Nicholls dispatched.
McCartan then struck a post, but the Grecians won it when substitute Christian Ribeiro bundled in a corner.
Promotion-chasing Stanley stayed sixth, while Exeter moved within five points of the play-off places in 13th.
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Exeter City shrugged off their midweek FA Cup defeat by Liverpool to beat Accrington Stanley and record back-to-back League Two victories.
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Members of the RMT and TSSA unions backed industrial action following a similar vote by drivers.
Workers in these unions will now join a planned 24-hour walkout by members of the drivers' union Aslef, which begins at 21:30 BST on 8 July.
Talks aimed at averting a strike are being held at the conciliation service Acas.
The RMT union and TSSA said its workers planned to begin striking at 18:30 BST.
The unions are in dispute with London Underground over pay and conditions for the new all-night Tube, which is due to start at weekends from mid-September, on sections of the Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines.
The RMT said its members voted by 91% in favour of strikes and 96% for other forms of industrial action.
The union is also in dispute over a series of other issues including jobs and safety.
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said: "The industrial relations situation on the Tube has sunk to an almost unprecedented low with all four unions united and balloting for action over pay and working arrangements due to be ushered in under the guise of the mayor's 'night Tube' vanity project in just 10 weeks' time."
TSSA General Secretary Manuel Cortes said: "We hope that this result will show Boris Johnson just how angry our members are at his plans to try and rush the start of the night Tube without any detailed agreement on manning levels."
Among TSSA members, the vote in support of strikes was 76%, with 88% backing other forms of action in a turnout of 44%.
London Underground's chief operating officer Steve Griffiths said: "Londoners and businesses overwhelmingly back the Night Tube.
"It will make life easier for everyone, cut journey times, create jobs and boost the economy.
"No-one is being asked to work more hours," he added. "In return, we are offering a realistic pay increase this year and next, as well as an additional payment for Night Tube working. "
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It's tough. It doesn't tear. You can spill beer on it, put it through the washing machine and it will survive to buy another round.
But one thing it turns out it's not, is fat-free.
Because it turns out the plastic polymer it's made from also contains small amounts of tallow, derived from animal waste products - and some vegetarians are not happy.
Familiar to previous generations as the base for every day staples such as soap and candles, tallow is traditionally derived from beef or mutton (but sometimes pork) at the slaughterhouse or later in the food production process.
Vegans and vegetarians faced with this revelation have taken to social media to voice their concern and over 40,000 people have signed a petition calling for the contents of the notes to be changed.
"We demand that you cease to use animal products in the production of currency that we have to use," the petition reads.
On Twitter annoyed vegetarians and vegans have said it's "not cool" and "disgusting" and asking whether their rights have been considered.
However others have responded with rather more tongue-in-cheek approach, suggesting an "essence of bacon" is desirable in the UK's currency, speculating how many calories a fiver now contains and offering to relieve any affronted vegetarians of their unwanted notes.
Some British Hindu leaders said they would discuss a possible ban on new five pound notes from temples.
Cows are considered sacred by Hindus, many of whom don't wear shoes or carry bags made from the skin of cattle that has been slaughtered.
Jewish leaders, whose religion also embraces several restrictions on the use of animal products, are less concerned about the new banknotes.
A spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Simon Round, told the BBC: "The five pound notes wouldn't cause any problem to Jews unless they try to eat them.
"Jews are not allowed to consume tallow but are permitted to handle it."
The Bank of England so far has adopted a sanguine approach to the furore: "We can confirm that the polymer pellet from which the base substrate is made contains a trace of a substance known as tallow," it said in a statement.
But, so far, it has no plans to draw up a new recipe.
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The men spent over an hour dragging the 368lb (167kg) beast on board the boat off the coast of Cornwall on Sunday.
One of the men, Nick Lane, said they had submitted a record application after the Shark Trust calculated the weight based on the shark's dimensions.
"I was jumping up and down like a little school girl", Mr Lane said. "All hell broke loose."
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"Suddenly the rods took off, they were absolutely screaming," he said.
Mr Lane, a garage owner from Washford in Somerset, said when they got the shark on board they measured it and took photographs before letting it back into the water.
John Richardson, Shark Trust conservation officer, praised the anglers for putting the shark back into the sea.
He said: "Here in the Northeast Atlantic Threshers are listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
"The Shark Trust applauds the anglers for returning the shark alive to the water, especially as it may well have been a potential record."
Mr Richardson said normally anglers would need to bring a shark to shore to be formally verified for a record, although sometimes informal records can be recognised.
To be the largest shark caught in British waters it will need to break the previous record set in 1982 by a 323lb (147kg) thresher shark.
Nick Simmonds, secretary of the British Record Fish Committee (BRFC), said he had been unable to verify if a claim had been formally made yet.
Mr Richardson said he did have a record of their catch but the Shark Trust did not confirm or verify catch records.
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The 20-year-old has managed the injury for about 18 months, but has now been forced to arrange an operation.
"I'm not looking forward to this, but it has to be done if I want to continue my career in the best possible way," Clayton told BBC Radio Jersey.
"I probably missed five events with it, so it will help in the long run."
Clayton - who, along with James Connelly, - first suffered the injury at the Under-18 British Championships in 2012, an event he went on to win.
He had painkilling injections in his shoulder, but the problem flared up again during pre-season and after his first tournament of the year, he has decided to follow medical advice and have the operation.
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"My specialist said the rehab programme was really good and I've been doing the right things. I built up the muscles well and it's down to that that I kept playing for so long.
"But my serve was really affected by it in the tournament I just played and I was struggling to generate pace. The serve is one of, if not the, biggest part of the game so I really need to sort it out," he said.
"I'm still young and I don't have points to defend until the end of the year really, so it's the best time to do it, even though there's never a good time to have it happen.
"I'm in a better place than I was this time last year mentally, physically and in terms of my playing ability, so I'm going into it with the right frame of mind and I just need to get it sorted." ."
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Jersey tennis player Scott Clayton faces up to six months out of the sport as he prepares to undergo surgery on a longstanding shoulder injury.
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The 1912 painting was purchased by the London gallery in early February.
The museum paid £15.6m ($25.5m) for the artwork. The money will go towards operating costs at Randolph College in Virginia, which owns the Maier Museum.
AAMD, which represents 236 directors of leading US art museums, called upon the college "to stop this practice".
The Association was it was "deeply disturbed to learn of Randolph College's continuing sale of works of art from the collection of its Maier Museum of Art to provide general operating funds for the College".
"The prohibition against the sale of works of art from museum collections for such purposes is a violation of one of the most fundamental professional principles of the art museum field," a statement said.
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The AAMD said it initially contacted Randolph College in 2007 when its intention to sell off works from the college-owned Maier Museum was first made public.
The Association said it offered help by investigating other means by which the college could tackle its financial shortfall.
But in 2008 the college sold a Rufino Tamayo painting, Trovador, prompting the AAMD to censure the Maier Museum "to signal its objection to this action" and "discourage" further sales from the collection.
Following last month's Bellows sale, it once again sought "to encourage the College to find other solutions" to support their operating costs.
The college's unwillingness to alter their course led to the announcement of sanctions, which calls on all AAMD member museums to suspend loans to the Maier Museum and refuse collaboration on joint exhibitions.
"We appreciate both the College's decision to sell Men of the Docks to a public institution, thus ensuring that this work will remain in the public domain, and the educational exchange that the College and the purchaser of the painting, the National Gallery of Art in London, are launching," the statement continued.
"Nevertheless, these steps - however laudable they may be - do not mitigate the fact that the funds realised from this sale will be utilised for a purpose that we believe will, ultimately, be damaging to our field," it added.
The Bellows purchase marked the National Gallery's first major acquisition of a painting by an American artist.
"We feel proud that an international audience will now become more aware of Randolph and our long stewardship of Men of the Docks," college president Bradley W Bateman said at the time of the sale.
The painting, the final in a series depicting workers gathered on an icy day on the New York waterfront, will hang alongside Impressionists like Monet and Pissarro in the London gallery.
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After a fourth day of searches, 384 people have been rescued from the Annapurna trail, 216 of them foreigners, in the country's worst-ever trekking disaster.
Helicopters have been searching parts of the trail high as 5,790m (19,000ft) for survivors.
The government said the priority was to rescue 22 stranded hikers.
The trekkers are stranded at Thorung La pass, and face a shortage of food and water. Army helicopters tried to rescue them but failed after being unable to land.
The BBC's Andrew North in Nepal says that it is still unclear which climbers have been accounted for and which are still missing.
The task of the authorities is made more complicated because there are thousands of climbers in Nepal at this time of the year.
Army helicopters tried unsuccessfully to rescue them on Saturday between the Mustang and Dolpa districts, government rescue coordinator Suresh Acharya said.
Twenty bodies have been recovered but 19 bodies are still in the snow and a rescue team will be deployed on Sunday to dig them out and retrieve them by air, he said.
One of the main trekking routes - the Thorung La pass, the high point of the Annapurna Circuit - is now "relatively safe" after the army cleared snow, he said earlier.
Rescuers have only limited resources and most of the missing and dead are believed to be at the maximum heights that helicopters can reach.
Nepalese, Japanese, Israeli, Canadian, Indian, Slovak, Vietnamese and Polish trekkers are said to be among the dead.
Many survivors have been left with severe frostbite and will have to have limbs amputated.
Nepal earns huge revenues from the tens of thousands of trekkers and climbers who flock to the Himalayas every year.
However, it remains a very poor country and the authorities here have struggled to cope with the scale of this disaster, our correspondent says.
This has been a particularly deadly year for Nepal's trekking and mountaineering industry.
An avalanche on Mount Everest in April killed 16 Sherpa guides and resulted in a significant drop in the number of expeditions to the world's highest peak.
The latest disaster comes at the height of the trekking period.
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The 19-year-old, who joined from Monaco on transfer deadline day, scored twice in Sunday's 3-2 win over Southampton as United moved to second in the table.
The Frenchman now has three goals from his first two Premier League games.
"He's been absolutely magnificent. They could not have hoped for any more," former Arsenal and England defender Keown told Match of the Day 3.
"There was a huge transfer fee on his head, but it doesn't seem to bother him. Every time he is in front of goal he seems to be at his happiest."
Martial became the most expensive teenager ever when he moved to Old Trafford, and the signing was met with surprise by some commentators in the media.
Already an established France Under-21 international, he had just been called up to the senior national team when he joined Louis van Gaal's side at the beginning of September.
And with team-mate Wayne Rooney having yet to score in the league this season, Martial has already proved vital to United.
"I thought they would take him off at 3-1 and they do need to manage him well. He's only a young boy really," said Keown.
"But he looks very powerful and mature and he's well beyond the age he played at on Sunday."
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Heritage, tourism, climate change and innovation projects will be backed.
North and west Wales and south-east Ireland stand to benefit the most.
Finance Minister Jane Hutt said the Ireland-Wales Co-operation Programme was "a unique partnership" and the cash would build on "our shared aspirations for economic growth and job creation".
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The £21m road, which will link the west and east of the town, was supposed to be finished by March.
However, last winter's heavy rain meant contractors could not start building a bridge over the River Tone and the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal.
Richard Needs, from Somerset County Council, said it had also encountered other challenges during the project.
He said work to lift an existing bridge over Station Road had to be delayed as workers had found the ground conditions softer than expected.
"It's not a question of moving the bridge, it's working out what are the best foundations for the new bridge to be," Mr Needs said.
"As with all construction projects there are very difficult times and there are happy times... it changes from day-to-day but overall we're making good progress and we're getting there eventually."
The one-mile-long (1.6km) road is designed to divert traffic around the north of the town and will run from Priory Bridge Road, over the river and canal, alongside the railway to Staplegrove Road.
It is hoped the new road will divert traffic away from the town centre and Priorswood Road and help with the regeneration of the Firepool area.
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The Travel Photographer of the Year Awards is staging the outdoor exhibition at Princes Dock Street.
The show is part of the second season of Hull's year as UK City of Culture. Entitled Roots and Routes, it aims to celebrate Hull's role as a major port and its international connections.
The awards began in 2003 and accept entries from amateurs, semi-professionals and professionals.
Read more about this and other stories from Hull and East Yorkshire
See some of the winning entries
The photographs on display include a selection of winning entries from the 2016 competition.
Entrants from more than 120 countries entered the competition and photographers from 21 countries featured among the winners.
Martin Green, chief executive and director of Hull UK City of Culture 2017, said: "Our Roots and Routes season is all about celebrating Hull's global connections and its place in the wider world.
"This exhibition will give people in Hull the opportunity to see unique images of some of the planet's most famous and recognisable places along with exposing them to some far-flung and unfamiliar locations and sights."
The photographs will remain on show until 30 June.
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The building suffers from flooding, has outdated electrical and drainage infrastructure, is full of asbestos and has fire safety issues.
One of the options being considered will involve both the Commons and the Lords sitting in another location while the Palace is refurbished.
The work, unlikely to begin before 2018 at the earliest, may cost about £1.5bn.
A recent report concluded the cost of maintenance is such that if the Palace was a commercial building of no historical significance it would be considered cost-effective to demolish it and rebuild using modern construction techniques.
A contract to examine the feasibility, costs and benefits of three different renovation options was put out to tender on 15 May.
The successful bidder will advise the parliamentary authorities whether to carry on repairing the building piecemeal as now, attempt a full renovation while Parliament is still sitting in the Palace, or find another venue for Parliament to sit in while the empty Palace is renovated.
Once the contractor is appointed, it will be expected to report within a year.
A report commissioned by the parliamentary authorities in 2012 highlighted the poor state of repair of Britain's seat of government.
Amongst the issues raised were steam leaks which risked distributing asbestos around the Palace and leaking roofs, water pipes and toilets making flooding a "common occurrence".
The building lacks a fire sprinkler system or the sort of fire doors which keep fire contained in a single area, which are common in other commercial buildings. Parliamentary authorities have received advice that some of the cast-iron roofs are in danger of partial collapse if nothing is done.
The report also said that the basements and air-vents are full of electrical and mechanical infrastructure, which is in an uncertain condition. This is because the Palace has been added to on an ad-hoc basis throughout its existence.
The majority of the historic building was built as a replacement for a previous amalgamation of buildings which burnt down in 1834.
The Commons chamber was destroyed in the blitz in 1941 and after some debate it was decided that it should be rebuilt in exactly the same style after the war.
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Infrastructure Minister Chris Hazzard said the £45m investment project would deliver a modernised ticketing system which would "transform travel" and lead to more people using public transport.
Almost 300 new ticketing machines will be installed at bus stops and train halts.
The scheme is expected to be put in place in 2018.
Mr Hazzard said the new programme for government envisages increasing the number of people using public transport.
"A high quality public transport infrastructure is fundamental to encouraging people to use our buses and trains," said Mr Hazzard.
This innovative ticketing system will deliver long term benefits and transform how we access public transport across the region," he said.
"The current ticketing system was introduced 15 years ago and serves around 80 million passenger journeys every year.
"This programme will deliver a modern, efficient and convenient ticketing system that will benefit passengers and lead to greater efficiencies. It will improve the passenger experience."
The minister added it was expected the scheme would begin to be implemented in 2018 with the new Bus Rapid Transit System.
"In 2019 we plan to introduce contactless payments for Metro and Ulsterbus services and customers will enjoy further technology enhancements as we phase in this new era in Translink ticketing which will attract more people to use the bus and train as travel options," he said.
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Coral "bleaching" has led to widespread coral decline and habitat loss on the world's largest coral reef system.
Surveys show that 29% of corals died in 2016, greater than the figure of 22% projected in mid-2016.
The worst-hit area was near Port Douglas, where 70% of shallow water corals died, but there was a recovery of corals in the south of the reef.
The latest results come from surveys carried out by the Marine Park Authority, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Australian Institute of Marine Science and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies.
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority chairman Russell Reichelt said: "As has been the case with reefs across the world, the Great Barrier Reef has experienced significant and widespread impacts over the last two years.
"We're very concerned about what this means for the Great Barrier Reef itself and what it means for the communities and industries that depend on it."
According to newpaper reports, a meeting over the reef's future was recently told that the federal and Queensland government's long-term plan to protect the reef, announced in 2015, was no longer achievable.
Bleaching occurs when the algae living on coral is expelled due to stress caused by extreme, sustained changes in temperature. This turns the coral white.
In 2017, further coral die-offs are expected from the second year of bleaching in a row, and the impacts of tropical cyclone Debbie, the officials said.
Researchers say that climate change is a significant driver behind the coral loss and experts have said the window is closing fast to cut the greenhouse gas emissions pushing up temperatures and harming the reef.
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The instinct to swim, panic and thrash about increases the chances of water getting in the lungs and puts a strain on the heart.
The RNLI's Ross Macleod said practising floating was a "survival skill".
Latest figures from the charity show 162 people lost their lives on the UK coast in 2016.
The RNLI's advice is to float for about 60-to-90 seconds if you fall in water - the time it takes for the effects of the cold shock to pass and to regain control of breathing.
Sudden immersion in water any temperature below 15C puts people at severe risk of cold water shock.
The recommended floating position is to lean back in the water and keep your airway clear while keeping calm to maintain breathing levels.
Only 3% of respondents in the Dorset-based charity's research said they would try and float as the first action they would take if they fell in to cold water unexpectedly, while 40% said their immediate reaction would be to swim.
RNLI coastal safety manager Ross Macleod said it was important to "fight your instincts".
"We're asking the public to remember this lifesaving advice, share with others and practice the survival skill of floating - it could be the difference between life and death.'
Of the 162 people who lost their lives on UK coasts in 2016. Three quarters were men and 44% didn't intend to enter the water.
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Floating after falling into the sea rather than trying to swim, is more likely to ensure your survival, a new RNLI campaign says.
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The Battle of Stamford Bridge saw an army led by the Saxon King Harold defeat a group of Viking invaders.
Villagers are holding a re-enactment of the fighting with a descendant of King Harald of Norway who was killed by the Saxons.
Guests at the event include the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu, who was given a tour of the battlefield.
Chris Rock, chairman of the Battle of Stamford Bridge Society, said the battles in Yorkshire had been overshadowed by King Harold's death at the hands of William of Normandy a few days later at Hastings.
"What happened here decided the outcome at Hastings, which is the battle that everyone remembers," he said.
"Without him being here he would have been on the south coast waiting for William. He would have pushed him back into the sea. We'd have a Saxon line of kings now, maybe."
As well as the re-enactment, villagers are working on a Bayeux-style tapestry depicting the battle.
The weekend's events will culminate with the burning of Viking boat at sunset on Sunday.
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Kyle Bradley was pronounced dead by the side of the railway line in Wrenthorpe near Wakefield on Saturday.
Another boy aged 16 and a woman aged 18 were left with non-life threatening injuries.
Local residents said there had been problems with young people playing near to the track before.
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An inquest into the death of a 16-year-old boy who climbed on to a train and touched overhead power lines has been opened and adjourned in Wakefield.
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The England Under-19 international, who has not played a Premier League game for the Gunners, will move to the Estadio da Luz on a five-year deal.
Willock, 19, had been offered a new deal at Arsenal, but his move to Lisbon has been revealed via Benfica's Twitter feed.
Manchester City had also been linked with the attacker, whose contract expires on 1 July.
"I hope I can show what I can do on the pitch. I think we have a great team and we can achieve great things in the future," Willock said on the Benfica website.
Willock had been with Arsenal since 2003 with his younger brother, Joe, remaining in the Gunners youth set-up.
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Arsenal forward Chris Willock is to join Benfica when his contract expires.
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Five Fables won best app at the first day of prize ceremonies at the festival in Inverness.
Heaney drew on the work of 15th Century Scottish poet Robert Henryson for the five morality tales.
They were adapted for a TV animation by Northern Ireland's Flickerpix which was narrated by Connolly.
Among Five Fables is The Two Mice, a story about a town mouse and a mouse from the countryside.
Heaney, who died in 2013 at the age of 74, was acclaimed by many as the best Irish poet since WB Yeats.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".
David Cumming, of Waddell Media which runs the Flickerpix, collected the festival accolade on Wednesday on behalf of the animation studio and Touch Press.
He said: "It's very exciting to win this award.
"I think the whole Celtic media industry is really unusual, because it's very diverse and very eclectic.
"It's one of the last places in television where not everything is absolutely ratings-fixated, and that you can still get commissions to do quite strange, out-there stuff, which I think really encourages creativity."
Dolores Keane: A Storm in the Heart by RTE/Scratch Films won the arts award and The Hunchback in the Park by BBC Cymru Wales took the animation prize.
Independent production company Move on Up's Katie Morag was named best children's television series.
Adapted from Mairi Hedderwick's books of the same name, episodes of Katie Morag have been shown on CBeebies, CBBC and BBC Alba.
The books tell of the adventures of a feisty, independent, red-haired girl who lives with her family on the fictional Scottish island of Struay.
Cherry Campbell from Glasgow plays Katie Morag in the TV series.
Winner of the entertainment category was Welsh comedy series Dim Byd, which is produced by S4C and Cwmni Da.
TG4 and Touchline Media won the sports award for Arkle.
The documentary tells the story of Arkle, the Irish horse named after a mountain in Sutherland that became the greatest steeplechaser in history.
A statute in the horse's honour stands at Cheltenham race course.
On day two of the awards on Thursday, BBC Two Scotland's documentary Being Sixteen about 16 and 17-year-olds voting in the Scottish independence referendum won the young people's category in the festival's awards for excellence.
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An app based on an TV project involving Scots comic Billy Connolly and the late Irish poet Seamus Heaney has been honoured at the Celtic Media Festival.
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The 29-year-old turned down a new deal at beaten League Two play-off finalists Exeter to join the third-tier Pilgrims.
"Not everyone will understand my reasoning but those who do, hopefully they understand," he told BBC Devon.
"The club offered me a deal which we tried to negotiate and it just didn't end probably the way it could've."
Grant joined Exeter on a two-year contract in August 2015 after the club's fans raised £30,000 towards his wages.
He has not played for Jamaica since May 2016 when he scored in a friendly victory over Chile.
"I wouldn't tell any lies, I thoroughly enjoyed my time [at Exeter] and was very close to staying, but it's football," Grant added.
"I made the decision to join Plymouth and now I look forward to the challenge.
"It's [the move] definitely something I had to think about, but I'm delighted to be here now and hopefully I can have a good start."
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Jamaica international forward Joel Grant says he came "very close" to staying with Exeter City before joining their Devon rivals Plymouth Argyle.
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Chevron said the Alder project has already created hundreds of jobs across the UK, including in Aberdeen and Invergordon.
Gas produced from the field will be sent via a 17-mile (28km) pipeline to the ConocoPhillips-operated Britannia platform.
The Alder field was discovered in 1975.
Chevron said development was originally considered impossible due to the challenges of the field's reservoir, lying 14,700ft (4,480m) beneath the seabed.
The company said it was now viable due to the "right combination of technology, infrastructure for processing and export, and commercial conditions".
Chevron Upstream Europe managing director Greta Lydecker said: "First gas at Alder represents a significant milestone for Chevron and highlights our commitment to investing and developing resources in the UK.
"Alder supports our goal of helping maximize the economic recovery of the UK, adds significant production to our portfolio, and helps extend the field life of Britannia, an important asset to Chevron in the North Sea."
Deirdre Michie, chief executive of industry body Oil and Gas UK, said: "It shows the opportunities that are still out there."
She called for a "stable fiscal regime" to help boost investor confidence in North Sea exploration and production.
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Pompey are third with 10 games to play, and have a four-point lead over fourth-placed Stevenage.
"When you are where we are, you hold all the cards," Cook told BBC Radio Solent. "But, it's a very difficult league, it's unforgiving."
Portsmouth host play-off chasing Grimsby at Fratton Park on Tuesday.
Back-to-back wins over Crawley Town and Colchester United, coupled with a slump in form by Carlisle United, have put Portsmouth back in the driving seat for a top-three finish.
"The reality is I don't think third this season will be as high a points tally that's it's been in recent years," Cook said.
"Teams have come from nowhere to be in the running this season and there's plenty of them knocking on the door of the play-offs who want to get in there.
"Every fixture from now until the end of the season is littered with games from something on them. Every team will have an agenda to try and get as many points as they can."
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Portsmouth manager Paul Cook believes a lower than average number of points will seal the third automatic promotion place in League Two this season.
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The oil firm boss is a Conservative party donor and also made donations to the EU Remain campaign.
He also gave £500,000 to the Better Together campaign ahead of the Scottish independence referendum.
He featured on a list leaked to the Sunday Times newspaper.
But he has written to both Mr Cameron and his successor Theresa May asking for his name to be withdrawn from the list "if indeed I was being considered".
In a statement, Mr Taylor, the chief executive of Vitol, said: "In recent days, speculation in the media has suggested that I may be recognised in the forthcoming resignation honours list.
"This has been accompanied by seriously inaccurate comments about the company I lead.
"In these circumstances, I think it is right I request that my name does not go forward, if indeed I was being considered for an honour.
"I will, of course, be continuing to participate actively in all the causes that I and my family passionately believe in, notably broadening access to the arts for everyone."
The Sunday Times newspaper said the ex-PM had chosen to reward cabinet colleagues, donors and staff.
Mr Taylor, whose wealth was estimated at about £175m in 2015 in the Sunday Times Rich List, backed the Better Together campaign for Scotland to remain part of the UK in the 2014 referendum with £500,000.
The then first minister, Alex Salmond, called for the money to be paid back due to controversy about Vitol.
The firm was heavily fined by a New York court in 2007 after admitting making payments to the national oil company in Saddam Hussein's Iraq which were outside the remit of the UN's oil for food programme.
It was also reported to have paid $1m to a Serbian paramilitary group as part of an oil deal in the 1990s, although the company said it had not acted illegally.
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Businessman Ian Taylor, who was reportedly in line for a knighthood in David Cameron's resignation honours list, has said he does not want his name to go forward.
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The 21-year-old had already been absent earlier this season with a knee problem that had limited him to just one first-grade appearance.
The Warriors have also lost prop Tony Clubb for an indeterminate spell while he undergoes an routine operation.
Clubb, 29, has a medical condition but is expected to make a full recovery.
He has played nine games this season, including the World Club Challenge success against NRL premiers Cronulla Sharks in February.
"Unfortunately sport can be cruel and this is definitely the case for both Tony and Jake," rugby director Kris Radlinski said.
"It's a tough pill to swallow but we will give them all of our support, as I'm sure will the Wigan fans and we look forward to seeing them back out on the field playing for Wigan."
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Wigan Warriors half-back Jake Shorrocks is likely to miss the rest of the season with a knee injury sustained in non-contact training.
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The Oscar winner is in Edinburgh to speak at the Scottish Business Awards at the EICC.
DiCaprio visited Home, a restaurant in Queensferry Street which gives its profits to the homeless.
Hundreds of fans were waiting for his arrival. Many had queued in the rain for hours.
Last year George Clooney visited Social Bite in Rose Street.
Clooney's visit was arranged by entrepreneurs Tom Hunter and Josh Littlejohn, the co-founder of Home and Social Bite, ventures that help the homeless community by allowing customers to pay for food and drink for the vulnerable.
Home provides training and employment programmes for members of the Social Bite Academy, a four-year paid course for homeless people.
DiCaprio made no comment to the waiting media as he shook hands with Mr Littlejohn and went inside the building.
Elise Lovell, 45, was the winner of a competition to have lunch with Hollywood star.
She said she had bought eight tickets and felt like she had won the Lottery.
Ms Lovell said Di Caprio was "absolutely charming".
She said they talked about his films and his work with director Martin Scorsese, his environmental work and the election of Donald Trump as US president.
Ms Lovell said: "He said it was definitely a shock."
Fan Carol Honeyman left her house in Larbert at 05:00 to see DiCaprio.
She carried a large canvas of a scene from The Departed, which the movie star signed.
She said: "I don't really know why I do these things but it was so worth it.
"I got this canvas signed before by Ray Winstone, and now it's complete with Leo's.
"I've actually met him before when I went down to the Baftas in London but it's just nicer to say I've seen him closer to home. He's a star."
Sonny Murray, 37, who works at Social Bite, met DiCaprio at Home. He said: "I caught him checking himself out in the mirror."
Maria Luisa, 65, from Edinburgh, said she was probably the oldest fan there.
She said DiCaprio shook her hand, adding: "He didn't spend long enough with crowd."
Home is a not-for-profit venture opened in September, with a menu of French and Scottish cuisine.
Diners are encouraged to "pay forward" meals for the homeless, who can attend a special service for those sleeping rough every Monday between 15:00 and 17:00.
Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar earlier this year for survival epic, The Revenant.
The star of Titanic and the Wolf of Wall Street had been nominated six times.
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Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio has signed autographs outside an Edinburgh restaurant in what is thought to be his first visit to Scotland.
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The H5N8 strain of the infection was confirmed in chickens and ducks in the Pontyberem area on Tuesday, after the birds were culled.
It is the same strain of the virus found in an infected wild duck in Llanelli and turkeys in Lincolnshire.
An avian flu prevention zone has now been extended to all of Wales.
The Cabinet Secretary for the Environment and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths made the announcement on Wednesday based on "expert advice."
The prevention zone was originally introduced on 6 December 2016 and will be in place until 28 February 2017.
It aims to protect poultry flocks and other domestic birds from the disease with enhanced biosecurity measures, such as a requirement for all keepers of poultry and other captive birds to keep their birds indoors or separate from wild birds.
Ms Griffiths said: "My message to bird owners, including to back yard flock keepers, is to adhere to the requirements set out in the prevention zone, remain vigilant for signs of disease and practice good biosecurity at all times."
The outbreak has also forced the National Welsh Poultry Weekend event in Pembrokeshire to be cancelled.
Speaking on Wednesday, chief veterinary officer Prof Christianne Glossop said: "It's disappointing that the infection, which we first of all found in wild birds in Wales, has seemed to have spilt over into a domestic flock, but it's not surprising.
"What we need people to do is to be really vigilant - and we are very grateful to the owners of these birds, that they noticed signs of disease and they called a vet."
Prof Glossop said the Pontyberem birds had "quite severe" symptoms.
"We know that we are dealing with highly pathogenic flu in the birds in Lincolnshire - so yes - it is quite a virulent stain of the virus," she told BBC Radio's Good Morning Wales programme.
The chief vet said bird owners should get veterinary advice if they see symptoms such as their birds:
Members of the public have been encouraged to report dead wild waterfowl or gulls, or five or more dead wild birds of other species in the same location.
Public Health Wales has said the risk to public health was "very low" with the Food Standards Agency having also said avian flu does not pose a food safety risk for UK consumers.
Thoroughly cooked poultry and poultry products, including eggs, are safe to eat.
Dr Hazel Wright, senior policy officer at the Farmers' Union of Wales, said: "This is a worry for our poultry farmers and anyone who keeps chickens, ducks and other poultry in a small or private capacity.
"I urge those who keep birds to follow the official guidelines provided by the chief veterinary officer and practise the highest level of biosecurity."
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The chief vet for Wales has urged poultry and bird owners to remain vigilant following the outbreak of avian flu in Carmarthenshire.
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The shogi set is thought to be rare because it is believed to have been made by a porcelain factory, when most shogi games were made of wood.
London's Horniman Museum has lent it to the Novium in Chichester.
It is thought it was made in the 1800s. The game is believed to have developed in Japan in the 10th or 11th centuries.
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A 200-year-old Japanese board game that is similar to chess with its kings, generals and foot soldiers has gone on display at a Sussex museum.
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The woman, known as the Lady of Cao, belonged to the Moche culture in northern Peru and died 1,700 years ago.
Her preserved remains were found in 2006 at a mud-brick ruined pyramid known Huaca Cao Viejo, near Trujillo.
Scientists were able to replicate her face after analysing her skull structure and remains.
The Lady of Cao was buried with a crown, and gold and copper items.
The grave also contained a number of weapons, including two massive war clubs and 23 spear throwers.
A modern autopsy revealed she had been in her 20s when she died, probably of childbirth or pregnancy complications.
Her feet, legs and face were tattooed with magic symbols of serpents and spiders.
The richness of her burial site suggests she might have been a priestess or even a political ruler.
The discovery challenged the belief that only men held high positions in ancient Moche society.
Peru's minister of Culture, Salvador del Solar, said the reconstruction had revealed an oval face with high cheekbones, which many Peruvians shared and would recognise.
"We are privileged to announce this strange combination of the future and the past: technology has allowed us to see the face of a political and religious leader from a culture from the past."
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Scientists in Peru have managed to reconstruct the face of a powerful ancient female leader using 3D printing.
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Minister for Crime Prevention James Brokenshire wrote to festival organisers asking them to warn people how such substances could be dangerous.
He also said drug laws would be changed so temporary bans could be introduced on "emerging substances" while scientific advice is sought.
Letters were also sent to councils and police forces in festival areas.
Mr Brokenshire said: "During the festival season we know that people may be tempted to try potentially dangerous new drugs, particularly when they are advertised as 'legal' or 'herbal'.
"That is why we are asking festival organisers and police to work with us to send out the message that these substances may not be safe and could contain illegal drugs.
"We are going to change our drug laws so we can respond quickly to emerging substances by introducing a temporary ban while we seek full scientific advice."
Some drugs previously sold as "legal highs" have now been banned, including mephedrone, now a Class B drug.
The Home Office said that the drug naphyrone is branded as NRG1 and sold as "plant food" or "bath salts", but may contain one or more illegal drugs.
The government said it will not permanently ban a substance without receiving full advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
In the letter sent to festival organisers, Mr Brokenshire said: "As part of your preparations for this year's event I ask you to review the measures you have put in place to ensure that your festival is as safe an environment as possible, to help protect the public, especially young people from the potential harms and risks of all drugs."
The government's advice has been welcomed by Melvin Benn, managing director of Festival Republic, which stages the Latitude, Big Chill and Reading and Leeds Festivals.
He said: "I can confirm that we do not allow legal high traders to trade at any Festival Republic festival and fully support the minister's view."
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Organisers of this summer's music festivals have been asked by the government to warn about "legal highs".
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The Scottish Chambers of Commerce's (SCC) quarterly business survey found firms were still performing strongly.
But a number cited continued difficulties in the eurozone and world economies as a challenge to growth.
SCC said the "exceptional" performance of the second quarter would be hard to replicate in the final quarter of 2014.
However, it added that stability was "returning to the Scottish economy".
The business survey, carried out in conjunction with the Fraser of Allander Institute of Strathclyde University, drew responses from more than 420 firms across five major sectors - construction, financial and business services, manufacturing, retail and wholesale and tourism.
It found international events such as the Commonwealth Games and the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles boosted tourism performance, with average room rates increasing for the sixth consecutive quarter.
But in the retail and wholesale sector, more firms reported a fall in sales revenue than a rise.
SCC said that trend was expected to remain largely unchanged in the next quarter.
Orders/sales grew in the third quarter for the construction and manufacturing sectors, but at a lower rate than the previous quarter.
Sales revenue growth was broadly unchanged for financial and business services firms.
Recruitment difficulties were still a concern for businesses, particularly in the construction sector, where almost half of firms that recruited said they had experienced difficulties.
SCC chief executive Liz Cameron said: "The construction sector and manufacturing sectors are still performing well but face ongoing challenges as both sectors experienced lower sales growth compared with the previous high performing quarter.
"Businesses have indicated that employment trends remain promising and are expected to grow, as more firms report increased levels of hiring.
"In particular, the retail sector reported its highest increase in employment for 10 years.
"As business looks to hire more people, continued challenges exist, as key sectors are often unable to find the right talent to employ, potentially slowing down the pace of economic growth."
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The Scottish economy continued to grow in the last quarter but at a slower pace than the previous three months, according to a report.
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Current mayor Norma Redfearn said she wanted to give residents a "voice" on how the borough is run when she was appointed the post in 2013.
Voters will be asked whether the current system should be replaced by committees of councillors.
Ms Redfearn said she welcomed the poll after "promising" residents they would be given the opportunity to decide.
Councillors approved plans for the referendum on Thursday. It will take place on the 5 May - the same date as the Police and Crime Commissioner elections.
The council said if the results call for a change, this will take effect at the end of Ms Redfearn's current term of office in May 2017.
If the outcome is to support the current system, the next mayoral election will take place in May 2017.
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People in North Tyneside are being given the chance to vote on whether they want a directly elected mayor.
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The excess expressed milk is sold through specialist websites and social media groups.
The Queen Mary University of London team claimed the milk was unpasteurised and could carry dangerous germs.
They said claims that the milk boosted the immune system were misleading and could be dangerous to cancer patients.
It is unclear how much of the product - often called "liquid gold" - is being traded, as it is always an arrangement between two parties.
Dr Sarah Steele, from Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, told the BBC News website the market had "shown consistent growth around the world".
She is one of the authors of a report in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
It says 93% of breast milk sold online contains detectable levels of bacteria, as non-sterile equipment is used to express or store the milk.
Threats include hepatitis B and C, HIV and syphilis.
The trade started to help women who were not producing enough breast milk themselves.
However, it is also bought for its supposed health benefits such as building muscle, by fetishists and even some "foodies".
But Dr Steele said breast milk did not have the same rigorous safety standards as anything sold as food.
She was particularly worried about the milk being marketed at cancer patients.
She added: "For cancer patients and other immuno-compromised people, the immune system is not functioning the same as in a healthy adult.
"It is advertised with an immune benefit, but actually it poses real risks, and you're exposing yourself to bacteria and viruses that could complicate the medical condition in a dangerous way."
One of the websites that facilitates its sale, onlythebreast.com, told the BBC it advised all milk be pasteurised before use and that most onlythebreast.com members were honest and "simply looking to provide safe milk for babies in need".
A representative added: "Those conducting the study did not follow our posted safety guidelines, [which] potentially skewed the results of the study."
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Human breast milk being bought online by fetishists, bodybuilders and cancer patients is a danger to health, UK researchers say.
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Costa, who holds Brazilian and Spanish passports, has written to the Brazilian Football Confederation stating he wants to represent the world champions.
Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said recently he planned to select the 25-year-old for friendlies in November.
Costa played for Brazil in March - but only in friendly matches, and so could switch allegiances.
In a statement, the Spanish Football Federation said that the player has stated "his desire to be at the disposition of the Spanish national team manager Vicente del Bosque" in a signed letter addressed to Julio Cesar Avelleda, secretary general of the Brazilian Football Confederation.
This season, Costa has been in superb form for Atletico - the club he has been with since 2007 - and is the top scorer in La Liga with 11 goals after 10 matches.
"I hope people understand and respect my decision because it has been very difficult," he said.
"It was very difficult to choose between the country where you were born and the country that has given you everything.
"I looked at everything and saw that it was right and best to play for Spain because this is where I have done everything. All that I have in my life was given to me by this country."
"I hope people understand because it is not something against Brazil," he added.
"I have family in Brazil and it is the country where I was born. I hope that God allows me to live there again in the future."
Should he be selected, he could make his Spain debut on 19 November in a friendly against South Africa.
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Atletico Madrid's Brazil-born forward Diego Costa has confirmed his intention to play for Spain.
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Lewis White, Michael Jones, Rebecca Redfern, Ellie Robinson and Zara Mullooly are all in the 25-strong team.
Bethany Firth, Jonathan Fox and Steph Slater, who missed last summer's World Championships because of injury, return to the international scene.
The competition takes place from 30 April-8 May in Funchal, Madeira.
The GB team also includes Paralympic champions Ollie Hynd, Jessica-Jane Applegate and Josef Craig, as well as world champions Tully Kearney and Hannah Russell.
However, a number of GB swimmers, including Ellie Simmonds and Sascha Kindred, have not been included as the event comes straight after the Rio Paralympic trials, which take place in Glasgow from 23-27 April.
GB team: Josef Craig, James Crisp, Jonathan Fox, Thomas Hamer, Ollie Hynd, Michael Jones, Andrew Mullen, Scott Quin, Lewis White, Matthew Wylie, Jessica-Jane Applegate, Claire Cashmore, Bethany Firth, Charlotte Henshaw, Tully Kearney, Harriet Lee, Amy Marren, Stephanie Millward, Zara Mullooly, Rebecca Redfern, Eleanor Robinson, Susie Rodgers, Hannah Russell, Stephanie Slater, Alice Tai.
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Five Para-swimmers will make their senior Great Britain debuts in April's IPC Swimming Open European Championships.
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The game on 5 November is outside World Rugby's Test window and English clubs do not have to release players for it.
Gloucester flanker Ross Moriarty has said he expects to miss the match.
"As it stands, George will not be available for that game," Saints team manager Paul Shields said.
He told BBC Radio Northampton: "I know discussions are ongoing with the WRU and the [English clubs'] chairmen but I'm not privy to those conversations."
The decision to release England-based Wales internationals is now in the hands of Premier Rugby, the umbrella organisation for England's top-tier clubs.
Following the match against Australia, Wales face Argentina, Japan and South Africa later in the month - those Tests fall inside World Rugby's international window, which mean clubs must release their players.
The decision by Premiership clubs on whether to release players for the first match will also have ramifications for Harlequins centre Jamie Roberts and Bath's injured number eight Taulupe Faletau.
Earlier this week, Wales coach Rob Howley appeared to suggest North, Roberts and Faletau had special dispensation to play against the Wallabies.
However, Shields said: "George is no different than any other non-English player. There's no side letter that exists or anything in his contract that says we will release George to play.
"We're governed by Premier Rugby, who as a company will not release players outside the international window."
Meanwhile, Moriarty has said: "For the games after [Australia], I'll hope to be involved and have a good chance to play again."
Following fine performances for Wales during their summer tour in New Zealand, Moriarty has continued that form with Gloucester and received another call-up.
"Sometimes I've been left with my head in my hands worrying [about a call-up] but I had a conversation a couple of weeks ago and it was a pretty big hint," he told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
"It's been on my mind for a while now. But as long as I can keep on performing and doing the best I can to help the team then that's what I'll keep on doing."
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Wishaw General in North Lanarkshire experienced the power cut between 08:45 and 16:00.
It meant one emergency patient was redirected to Hairmyres Hospital. NHS Lanarkshire said IT systems were also affected.
The hospital was powered by back-up generators until mains power was restored.
NHS Lanarkshire chief executive Calum Campbell said: "In the interest of patient safety and as a precautionary measure, we took the decision to reschedule a small number of surgical procedures based on clinical priority.
"The power interruption impacted on our diagnostic and IT systems, which have now been fully restored.
"As a result, some outpatient clinics have been affected and one emergency patient was redirected to Hairmyres Hospital.
"This is in line with our business and emergency continuity plans which worked to good effect."
He added: "All patients affected by the interruption have been rescheduled and we would like to apologise for any inconvenience this will have caused."
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A hospital was forced to reschedule operations after losing power for more than seven hours.
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The reboot of the classic Rudyard Kipling adaptation has reaped $684.8m (£468.5m) globally since its release last month.
The Huntsman: Winter's War managed takings of only $9.4m (£6.4m) in its second week of release.
Feline action comedy Keanu took third slot with a modest $9.35m (£6.39m).
Comedy Mother's Day had a weak debut, with takings of $8.3m (£5.6m), despite featuring stars including Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Kate Hudson.
All eyes are on the release of Captain America: Civil War, which opens next week in the US and has already done good business elsewhere.
Civil War opened in 37 territories over the weekend, taking in an estimated $200.2m (£136.9m).
That included record openings in Mexico, Brazil and the Philippines for the film which many believe could be this year's biggest hit.
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Disney's The Jungle Book has topped the North American box office for the third consecutive week, taking $42.4m (£29m) according to early estimates.
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The unicorn is the official national animal of Scotland and continues to feature on Royal Coat of Arms today.
For Sunday, willow artist Woody Fox has created a 2.1m (7ft) unicorn sculpture for the Crawick Multiverse art project in Dumfries and Galloway.
VisitScotland is also encouraging people to "spot" unicorns elsewhere in Scotland.
Carvings and sculptures of unicorns can be found on historic buildings, such as the National War Museum at Edinburgh Castle.
A tapestry called, Mystic Hunt of the Unicorn, hangs in Stirling Castle and a unicorn is a feature of a fountain in the courtyard at Linlithgow Palace.
On the Black Isle in the Highlands, The Stables in Cromarty has a large unicorn sculpture.
The unicorn has been a Scottish heraldic symbol since the 12th Century when it was used on an early form of the Scottish coat of arms by William I.
Reasons for the appearance of a unicorn include a theory that narwhal, a whale with long tusks protruding from their heads, were seen in Scottish waters after straying from their usual range in the Arctic.
Unicorns were also written about by the ancient Celts, Persians, Romans and Greeks, and were often described as an elegant white horse-like creature with a single horn capable of magical properties.
Wales and England are among other nations that also celebrate fabled beasts. The Welsh flag features a red dragon connected to one of the country's legends, while England's patron saint St George is said to have killed a dragon.
Artist Fox's other artwork has also involved animals, but of varieties that can be found running around the Scottish countryside.
He said: "I was thrilled to be asked to create this unique sculpture of a unicorn to mark National Unicorn Day.
"My previous work includes deer, badgers, foxes and rabbits which bring homes, gardens, parks and public spaces to life.
"It has been very inspiring for me to work on this noble and spiritual animal for the first time and to help promote Scotland at the same time."
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It's not as easy as you think, but then try pairing them all with a character from The Simpsons.
That's just what Brian Quinn from Londonderry has done for the Irish Simpsons Fans Facebook group.
Like all great ideas, Mr Quinn said it started out small and then kind of escalated.
"I probably had one pun in my head - I think it might have been DoneGil first," he told BBC News NI.
"I started scribbling more down and I think I had about 17 and I thought: 'I might as well do all 32 now.'
"My girlfriend was watching Grey's Anatomy or something, so I just got out the laptop and started messing about."
By Thursday evening, his post was closing in on 1,000 likes.
He said he was surprised at which ones seemed to be the most popular.
"It's funny, the last couple that I thought of probably got the most likes and I thought they were kind of scraping the barrel," said Mr Quinn.
"They were the Cork one - Hank Skorkio - and the ones for Meath and Westmeath."
Ireland Simpsons Fans started on Facebook in January 2016 and was the brainchild of Jack Leahy from Dublin and Paul Loughran from Belfast.
Mr Quinn is now the page moderator for the site.
As for his own personal favourite, a bit of hometown favouritism might be at play.
"I'm from Derry and I actually think the Derry and Kerry - Sherri and Terri ones are the funniest and the cleverest," he said.
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Chamakh, 32, is a free agent, having been released by Premier League side Crystal Palace at the end of his contract in the summer.
The Morocco international had a three-year spell at Arsenal, having arrived from French club Bordeaux in 2010.
He had loan spells at West Ham United and Palace before joining the Eagles on a permanent basis in 2014.
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Warnock, appointed on Tuesday, is moving rapidly to revamp the Cardiff squad.
The Bluebirds are expected to confirm the signings of Junior Hoilett and Sol Bamba as well as Chamakh, in time for the opening game under Warnock at home to Bristol City, on Friday, 14 October.
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An Irish FA statement said the Linfield manager's ban had been "upheld" but due to "mitigating factors" had been altered to a "two-match suspension".
The sanction will now start on 11 April with the other two-match ban suspended for six months.
The ban was imposed after Healy's red carding at Portadown on 12 February.
Healy was furious after referee Arnold Hunter awarded the Ports a controversial penalty which helped clinch a 2-1 win.
Linfield go into Saturday's Seaview contest five points behind the leaders and current champions in the first round of fixtures since the Premiership split.
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David Healy will be in the Linfield dugout for Saturday's crucial Irish Premiership game against Crusaders after having his four-game ban reduced.
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Kuznetsova's 6-2 6-1 victory in Moscow ensured she took the eighth and final tournament spot.
Konta, who is in Singapore with the rest of the finalists, did not play this week due to an abdominal injury.
The Australian-born 25-year-old, ranked 10th in the world, will compete if any player withdraws.
Kuznetsova, 31, took just over an hour to defeat her 22-year-old Australian opponent on Saturday and qualify for her first WTA Finals since 2009.
"I was trying not to think about Singapore all week. I was playing match by match and I'm so happy to win," she said.
Kuznetsova will next face world number three Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in Monday's group stages, before later games against Czech Karolina Pliskova and Garbine Muguruza of Spain.
Konta will finish her season at the WTA Elite Trophy for players ranked from ninth to 20th, which gets under way in Zuhai, China, on 1 November.
It will complete a season that has seen her named the most improved player of the year after she recorded seven victories over top-10 players, and became the first British woman to break into the top 10 since Jo Durie in 1984.
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Brent and US crude futures fell below $45 and $40 a barrel respectively as global investors assessed the contagion risks of China's volatile stock market.
Recent data has suggested that China's economic growth continues to slow down.
As well as the volatility in Chinese shares, there are fears of a protracted effect on demand for commodities.
China's slowdown is expected to pull down other regional economies, affecting energy and raw material consumption.
The unstable Chinese market has also led to worries that the problems in the world's second largest economy may have far-reaching global consequences.
China's benchmark Shanghai Composite index on Monday shed as much as 8%, while markets in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney all dropped by more than 4%.
On Friday, figures showed China's factory activity in August shrank at its fastest pace in more than six years.
Official figures have indicated that China's economic growth is continuing to slow. For the three months to the end of July, the economy grew by 7% compared with a year earlier - its slowest pace since 2009.
Bernard Aw, market strategist with trading firm IG, said given the tepid demand, it was hard to fathom why oil producers were pumping out more crude.
Opec producers, notably Saudi Arabia, and Iraq were producing more oil than necessary, while US stockpiles were nearly 100 million barrels above the five-year seasonal average.
"At this rate, the fundamentals of oil are going to get worse before it gets better as the supply glut widens. This means we are likely to see more weakness in oil futures in the coming sessions," Mr Aw said.
Oil dealers are also anticipating revised US economic growth data for the second quarter, to be released on Thursday.
The figures could be key to the Federal Reserve's thoughts on when to raise interest rates.
An eventual interest rate rise is expected to strengthen the US dollar, which in turn would make dollar-priced oil more expensive for buyers using weaker currencies, once again affecting demand.
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Oil prices have slumped to six-year lows as global stock markets continue to fall on concerns over a slowing Chinese economy.
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The Lions claimed a third Premier League cup scalp this season by beating Leicester City 1-0 at The Den to reach the quarter-finals.
Millwall will play Tottenham at White Hart Lane in the next round, but Harris' focus remains on the league.
"We're at home to Chesterfield on Tuesday night - and if anything that has become more important," he said.
Millwall are on a 10-match unbeaten run in League One and are seventh in the table, outside the play-off positions on goal difference only, with a game in hand.
The south London club will move into the top six if their result against Chesterfield betters that of Southend away at Peterborough.
Harris' side finished fourth last season, before losing to Barnsley in the play-off final at Wembley, and the former Lions player is hoping to go one better this season.
The 38-year-old told BBC Radio London: "My achievement this year is promotion - that's what I want to be judged on.
"We want to get out of this division. We started the season looking to consolidate a play-off position.
"We overachieved last year with spirit and determination. We had a slow start this year, but we've got ourselves into a good position."
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The Welsh athlete won the world sprint and keirin titles in 2013 and took silver at the same events at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
"I have had time to think about my future and have decided to retire from international track sprint racing," James said in a statement.
She intends to set up a baking business "along with exciting other projects".
James has been plagued by injuries during her career, and suffered a cancer scare in 2014 when she had an operation to remove abnormal cells following a cervical screening.
She first made a mark when representing Wales at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, winning a silver medal in the sprint and a time trial bronze.
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After taking her world titles in Minsk, James faced a battle with illness and knee injuries before qualifying for Rio 2016.
She took a break after Rio, and told BBC Wales in July 2017 that she was excited about getting back into full training.
However, in a statement posted on her Twitter account on Wednesday, James said she was grateful for her success but that it was time to move on.
"After 13 years of racing my track bike, it is time to start an exciting new chapter in my life. I have given cycling 100% and know how much commitment it takes to make it to the highest level in elite sport," she said.
"The pressure of competing at the top can be mentally and physically draining, but the rewards have been incredible and I have absolutely no regrets!
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"I have achieved my dreams of becoming a world champion, a Commonwealth medallist for Wales and becoming a double Olympic silver medallist.
"I now want to enjoy my life without the strict training regime, while at the same time continuing to lead a healthy lifestyle both in body and mind.
"For a long time I've had a passion for baking and have loved making special wedding and birthday cakes for friends and family ... and it's my intention to now pursue this passion as a business, along with some exciting other projects going forward."
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The 30-year-old is the third Indian to win the Sir Garfield Sobers trophy and is also ICC Test cricketer of the year.
Alastair Cook was named captain of the ICC Test team of 2016. The voting period closed in September, before England's Test series defeat in India.
Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes also feature but India's Virat Kohli and Australia's Steve Smith missed out.
Ashwin took 48 wickets and scored 336 runs in eight Tests, as well as 27 wickets in 19 T20 internationals.
"It feels great to follow Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid in being ICC Cricketer of the Year," said Ashwin.
Ashwin dedicated the award to his family and believes India "had a great transition" and "fell on the right track" since Kohli took over as captain following MS Dhoni's retirement in 2014.
ICC chief executive David Richardson said Ashwin "is justifiably now being counted among the best spinners of his generation".
Ashwin, who made his Test debut in 2011, now has 248 wickets from 44 Tests, and also averages 34.92 with the bat.
He joins Jacques Kallis (2005), Ricky Ponting (2006), Kumar Sangakkara (2012), Michael Clarke (2013), Mitchell Johnson (2014) and Smith (2015) by winning both the ICC world player and Test cricketer awards in the same year.
The ICC's voting period covers play from 14 September 2015 to 20 September 2016.
The ICC's other 2016 award winners are:
England skipper Cook was named as captain for the ICC's Test team of the year after guiding his side to an away win over South Africa and defeating Sri Lanka and drawing with Pakistan at home during the voting period.
The 31-year-old's role for England is under scrutiny after he said he would "go home and do some thinking" after the 4-0 Test series defeat by India that followed the historic Test loss in Bangladesh in the first part of the winter programme.
Smith is named only as 12th man while Kohli does not appear at all, with New Zealand's Kane Williamson, Root and Adam Voges of Australia filling the middle-order berths.
The Australia and India captains are currently ranked first and second respectively in the ICC's own Test batting ranking.
AB De Villiers - who has stepped down as South Africa captain while he recovers from injury - has been selected in the ODI team for the sixth time since 2010.
De Villiers and ODI player of the year De Kock are joined by compatriot Kagiso Rabada in the side while Jos Buttler is the only Englishman to feature.
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Lennon wants the 29-year-old striker to return to Easter Road for a third spell, having been released by Blackburn Rovers this summer.
"The club have done everything they can," Lennon told BBC Radio Scotland.
"It's a purely personal decision for Anthony, but we have a board meeting on Monday, so hopefully we will hear [from Stokes] before then."
Stokes left Hibs to join Lennon's Celtic squad in 2010 and was loaned back to the Edinburgh side in 2016.
Capped nine times by the Republic of Ireland, the forward has netted 131 goals at club level - including two against Rangers in Hibs' 2016 Scottish Cup final win.
"I have had private chats with Anthony, I met him on Wednesday and the talks were positive," explained Lennon.
"But he has a lot of offers and has a big decision to make at this juncture in his career.
"If he decides to come to Hibs, it won't be for the money, even though it is a very good financial package.
"From a footballing point of view, I think this is his home. He has had a great time here in two previous spells.
"He hasn't played a lot of football in the last two or three years and his conditioning would need a bit of work, but I think he is at his peak.
"The [Premiership] season starts next week and we can't wait forever."
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Education Secretary Kirsty Williams wants to increase the Welsh Pupil Premium from £300 to £600 per eligible child to help raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.
Ms Williams is the sole Liberal Democrat in a coalition with Labour.
Meanwhile, Welsh party leader Mark Williams said parties should work together against the Tories.
Ahead of Sunday's speeches in Brighton, the party's sole Welsh MP and leader in the country, Ceredigion's Mark Williams, defended Ms Williams' decision to join the Welsh Labour cabinet in May.
The Ceredigion MP told Sunday Politics Wales the Brecon and Radnorshire AM was taking Liberal Democrat "themes and priorities" into government "very effectively" as education secretary.
He also urged opposition parties to work together against the Tories, saying there was a case for "progressive politicians" to talk about "issues of common interest".
He was left as the only Welsh Liberal Democrat MP after the party's disastrous 2015 general election, with Ms Williams its sole AM after a 2016 assembly poll he said was "arguably worse".
"At this point in time, with boundary changes which massively support and encourage the Conservative Party electorally in the future, I think there is a case for politicians to be talking," he said.
"What I would loosely describe as progressive politicians to be talking about issues of common interest."
Mr Williams said politicians had campaigned across party lines for a Remain vote in June's EU referendum, albeit unsuccessfully.
"There was a positive in the referendum, even for those of us that lost it, in that progressive politicians were working together on a really important issue," he said.
"And I think that dialogue should be extended on other areas of policies as well - otherwise we have the spectre of Conservatism in power in Westminster for a very long time."
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Plans to double funding for Wales' poorest pupils will be announced at the Liberal Democrat party conference.
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The Australian - one of the most highly regarded drivers in Formula 1 - is known to have been interesting Ferrari.
Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen is out of contract at the end of this season and the Italian team are weighing up whether to retain the 36-year-old Finn.
Ricciardo said at the Austrian Grand Prix that he would stay at Red Bull, which he believed was "the best place to be next year to challenge Mercedes".
Ricciardo, who is 27 on Friday, has been buoyed by progress with the Renault engine, which now has a much reduced performance gap to Mercedes than it did for the last two seasons.
Ricciardo signed his new Red Bull contract to the end of 2018 after his breakthrough season in 2014, when he was promoted to the senior team from Toro Rosso and beat four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel.
The German moved to Ferrari at the end of that season.
Ricciardo's Red Bull deal is said by insiders to have no opt-outs or break clauses, but having a contract in F1 does not necessarily mean a driver will stay with a team.
However, his remarks clearly rule him out of Ferrari's thinking for next season.
Ferrari are not expected to fully address the issue of a partner for Vettel next year until after next weekend's British Grand Prix at the earliest.
Raikkonen has a decent chance of being retained, but other drivers in the frame are Force India's Sergio Perez and Nico Hulkenberg, Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz, Williams' Valtteri Bottas and Haas' Romain Grosjean.
Ferrari had also been interested in Max Verstappen, but the 18-year-old Dutchman is under contract until the end of 2019 and Red Bull intend to have him and Ricciardo as their line-up for the foreseeable future.
On Wednesday, Red Bull said they had taken up their contractual option on Sainz and that he would be staying at their junior team Toro Rosso in 2017.
However, Red Bull motorsport adviser Helmut Marko has said he would be willing to talk to Ferrari about releasing him if they expressed an interest and offered to buy him out.
Perez's candidature is being pushed by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, who is on the board of the team's main sponsor, the tobacco giant Philip Morris.
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The wind farm, run by community company Viking Energy, would be one of the biggest in Scotland.
Sustainable Shetland, a group opposed to the development, launched a judicial review.
The challenge, at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, has been adjourned. It is expected to resume at the end of April.
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing granted consent for the scheme in April.
Protesters claim the development is too big and would blight the landscape.
Supporters argue it would raise money for the islands, create jobs and help meet renewable energy targets.
The 370MW wind farm is aimed at powering more than 175,000 homes despite Shetland having a population of about 22,000.
It is estimated the wind farm could bring about £30m annual income for the local community.
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A legal challenge to plans to build a 103-turbine wind farm in the centre of Shetland has been adjourned.
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The negotiations are being widely depicted as a largely sham process designed to help David Cameron to convince sceptical Britons that he wrung painful concessions from the EU.
"The show can begin," Arnaud Leparmentier writes in France's Le Monde of the negotiations, which he says are about "nothing of substance".
"It's a game, of course, but like a wrestling match. Everyone is pretending to be in pain, but are really accomplices," he writes. "This wrestling match is designed to flatter the pride of the British, in order to convince them not to choose to sail off into the high seas."
Andre Tauber - correspondent for Germany's Die Welt - says Mr Cameron has been permitted the "pose of the great victor in order to mollify the obstreperous British".
"Neither Britain nor Europe can afford an exit from the European Union, either economically or politically. Everyone knows this," he adds. "The EU has delivered. The question is whether Cameron can deliver too".
In Poland, which has been vocally opposed to restrictions on benefits for EU migrants, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily says keeping Britain in the EU should be seen as Poland's overriding concern, even at the expense of Poles working in the UK.
"No matter how brutal but effective this is, it is worth sacrificing part of their benefit rights in Britain in order to save the EU from Brexit."
But not everyone is happy about playing along, and several commentators grumble about Mr Cameron's methods and motives.
In Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine, Nikolas Busse says Mr Cameron "put a pistol to the other member states' chest (and his own)", Christian Zaschke - in Sueddeutsche Zeitung - accuses him of "gambling with Europe's future" for the sake of his own political ambitions.
In Italy's Corriere della Sera, Franco Venturini wonders whether too has been conceded to London, "especially in a union which - amid unfulfilled agreements on migrants and courting Turkey - is already sacrificing crucial aspects of its identity".
Ralph Sina - correspondent for Germany's ARD public broadcaster - goes further, casting the concessions to Mr Cameron as a "genuflection" that "surrender core principles of the EU and turn it into a joke".
"The European Union is fighting for the United Kingdom's affection," he says. "But anyone who has to fight for affection has usually already lost."
For Jean Quatremer - in France's Liberation - the UK has an "existential problem in its relationship to the EU that no technical arrangement or any amendments to the European treaties will ever solve".
"Today's EU is already 'Made in Britain'," he argues. "Yet this is not enough for a political class and public opinion made hysterical by an anti-European press firing on all cylinders against this continental monster."
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.
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European commentators have been expressing reluctant acceptance of the EU reform deal tentatively agreed with the UK.
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