Two teenagers have appeared in court charged with child pornography offences over the alleged cyber-bullying of a Canadian girl who took her own life.

Article: The decision leaves short-term interest rates at record lows of 0% to 0.25%, the same level they have been at since December 2008.
The decision came as little surprise to the markets, although the Fed has previously signalled that rates are likely to rise within months.
The Fed said the US economy was still expanding at a moderate pace.
Share of gold mining firms were up earlier in the day on the expectation that the central bank would hold off on a rate rise this time.
In a statement, the Fed said it was continuing to watch the global economy and domestic labour market for signs of strength.
"The Committee continues to see the risks to the outlook for economic activity and the labour market as nearly balanced, but is monitoring global economic and financial developments," the statement added.
In a repeat of September's vote, nine members of the board - including chairwoman Janet Yellen - voted to keep rates the same. One, Jeffrey Lacker from the Federal Reserve Bank at Richmond, voted for an increase.
The Fed gave few hints about when it will raise rates, but if it sticks to previous expectations that a rate increase will happen this year, it has only one more chance to do so, at its next meeting in December.

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

Summary: More than half of the under 40s will be renting homes from private landlords in the UK in 10 years' time, accountancy firm PwC has predicted.
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Article: The video was filmed in a barn near to the Middleton Hunt Kennels in Malton, North Yorkshire, by the League Against Cruel Sports, which alleges that the cubs were being raised to be hunted.
Fox hunting with dogs was made illegal in 2004.
The Middleton Hunt said it was confident that no-one connected with the hunt had committed any offence.
The footage, given to the BBC, showed the dark interior of a barn, located some 200m (660ft) from the hunt kennels.
A number of fox cubs, aged six to eight weeks, were shying away from the light of the camera.
Several were hiding in a milk churn and others were crouching in a drainpipe.
The images were filmed over two consecutive nights.
Campaigners alerted North Yorkshire Police, who raided the barn on 31 May and took away the cubs.
The police said there were 16 cubs from at least four different vixens.
There is also daytime footage.
The League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) claims it shows a man with connections to the local hunt at the barn where the cubs were kept.
Dr Toni Shephard, from the LACS, said: "This footage shows 16 fox cubs being kept in a barn without any sign of a vixen or parents.
"We believe that they're being kept to ensure that there are plenty of foxes to hunt this coming season when they go out.
"We think that this practice is widespread and this demonstrates that hunting is nothing to do with fox control or wildlife management, but that it's just a cruel sport that people take part in purely for pleasure."
The young cubs appeared to have access to food and water.
It is not against the law simply to hold some wild animals (if they are not a protected species), but the reason for keeping the cubs in the barn is unclear.
Hunting wild mammals - including foxes - with dogs was banned by the Hunting Act in 2004.
When hunts meet, riders follow fake scent trails, known as 'drag hunting.'
However, opponents claim that the law is regularly broken and foxes are still killed.
The masters from the Middleton Hunt referred the BBC to the Countryside Alliance, which...

Summary: Police are investigating after footage of 16 fox cubs held in a barn near to hunt kennels emerged.
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Article: Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said some of these were already under investigation for tax evasion.
It said it has obtained large quantities of documents which reveal those, along with professional advisers, who may be involved.
Evasion is illegal, tax avoidance is not.
The hunt was sparked by a joint investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme, the Guardian newspaper and the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
HMRC is working on the material, which it describes as 400 gigabytes of data, with the tax authorities in the United States and Australia.
So far HMRC has pinpointed more than 100 people from the information, who it says benefited from using offshore havens such as Singapore, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, and the Cook Islands to hide their assets.
More than 200 UK accountants, lawyers and other professional advisers will also be scrutinised.
HMRC refused to disclose where the documents came from, but an official suggested they constituted the largest haul of offshore tax evasion data obtained so far.
Tax evaders risk being charged fines equivalent to 200% of the amount of tax they should have paid.
The Chancellor, George Osborne, said: "The message is simple: if you evade tax, we're coming after you.
"This data is another weapon in HMRC's arsenal."
Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the ACCA accountancy body, said that it was still a small number of people who were evading tax in these markets.
"The majority of accountants, lawyers and other professional advisers, as well as their clients, are not breaking any laws in these locations. There is a large gulf between what amounts to tax avoidance, which is within the law, and tax evasion, which is illegal," he said.
"While this joint initiative with the US and Australian authorities is a positive step from HMRC, the Cayman Islands, Cook Islands and other offshore jurisdictions targeted are not going to suddenly lose their tax friendly status by this move. This is a crackdown on evasion...

Summary: A joint investigation by the UK, the US and Australia to identify those using offshore tax havens to hide wealth has uncovered more than 100 people.
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Article: The 18-year-olds, who will not be named as both were youths at the time of the alleged offences, appeared briefly at the hearing in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Rehtaeh Parsons, 17, was severely bullied over a photo of her alleged rape by four boys, her mother has said.
She was taken off life support after a suicide attempt in April.
One of the accused was charged with two counts of distribution of child pornography, the other with one count each of making child pornography and distribution of child pornography.
Outside court on Thursday, supporters of the family held "Justice for Rehtaeh Parsons" signs.
After the boys' appearance, defence lawyer Josh Arnold said they had already been tried and convicted by the media.
"It appears that individuals on the internet and certain members of the media conducted their own one-sided trial in relation to this matter," he was quoted as saying by the Globe and Mail newspaper.
Rehtaeh's parents were not present in court, but her uncle, Michael Parsons, did attend.
"I have absolutely no faith in the RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] or the Halifax city police or the crown prosecutors because they totally dropped this case, they totally dropped the ball," he was quoted as saying afterwards by CBC News.
The next hearing in the case is set for 19 September.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said he hoped the arrests would provide some comfort to Rehtaeh's relatives.
The provincial government has ordered an independent review of the case's handling by the police and prosecutors.
The RCMP has warned those in Halifax who believe they know the identities of the two 18-year-olds not to share the information or take any vigilante action.
According to Rehtaeh's mother, Leah Parsons, the Nova Scotia teenager went to a party in 2011, when she was 15, and became drunk on vodka.
The girl told her parents that while she was heavily intoxicated, she was raped by four boys, and someone took a photograph of the assault.
The image was circulated online, and soon her schoolmates were...

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The findings of a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the Glasgow bin lorry crash will be issued on Monday.

Article: She will play campaigning defence solicitor Emma Blunt in the six-part series, which is described as an "exciting, visceral political thriller".
Harbinson said it was a legal thriller "but one that's written in the crash zone where law and politics collide."
The Peaky Blinders actress said she was "thrilled" to be leading the new drama.
"When l was at drama school l was inspired by Prime Suspect, watching as Britain led the way in creating strong female characters to lead their dramas," she said.
"It's a thriller that starts deceptively small, then begins crossing borders to different cultures and continents."
She said she knew and admired Harbinson's writing for Homeland, which starred her husband Damian Lewis in its early series, and can't wait to start filming.
The drama will follow Blunt as she investigates the killing of a schoolgirl in East Anglia and tries to free the man she thinks was wrongly convicted of the girl's murder.
As part of her investigation she starts to sense that forces in the police and the intelligence services want to stop her uncovering the truth.
Harbinson, who was also an executive producer on 24 and Person of Interest, said he was "delighted" that McCrory had agreed to play the lead role.
"She is a complex and contradictory character, and I am incredibly lucky to have someone of Helen's wit, warmth and intelligence bringing her to life," he said.
Harbinson said he immediately said yes when he was asked if he was interested in writing a legal series inspired by the work of campaigning lawyers like Gareth Peirce, who helped gain the release of Guildford Four member Gerry Conlon, and Helena Kennedy.
"Much of the work I've done in America in the last 10 years (24, Person of Interest, Homeland) has been about life in the post 9/11 (and post 7/7) world," he said. "The so-called war on terror has put serious stress on the ordinary workings of the law.
"National security justifies all sorts of police and state over-reach - and the great majority of us are prepared to accept this.
"So I...

Summary: Helen McCrory is to star in an ITV legal thriller from Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson.
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Article: Titled Endless, the record features contributions by James Blake and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood.
It is accompanied by a 45-minute, black and white video of the artist at a working on a construction project.
The record appeared early on Friday, almost three years after it was first announced.
In a statement, Apple Music said fans should "keep an eye out this weekend for more from Frank".
The release is also expected to include a printed publication called Boys Don't Cry, distributed in Apple's retail stores.
Endless is the first album from the R&B star since the award-winning Channel Orange in 2012.
The accompanying video in which (spoiler alert) the musician builds a spiral staircase resembles a live stream that first appeared on the artist's website two weeks ago, sparking a flurry of reports the album was due for release on 5 August.
When it failed to appear, Apple representatives told disappointed fans they were "waiting for the artist".
There is no apparent reason for the repeated delays to Ocean's album. He claimed to have completed it last year and at least one of the tracks dates back 20 months.
(At Your Best) You Are Love, a cover of the Isley Brothers' classic, recorded at Abbey Road, was initially posted on Ocean's Tumblr blog in January 2015, marking the anniversary of Aaliyah's birth. She had also covered the song on her debut album in 1994.
But according to Rolling Stone magazine, Endless itself is only a placeholder, with the star's "proper" new album due this weekend.
That record was previously called Boys Don't Cry, but Rolling Stone says the singer has scrapped that title in favour of an alternate title.
It's been called "BeyoncÃ©-ing" - suddenly dropping an album on a digital service, with little or no fanfare.
This year alone, Rihanna, Kanye West and Radiohead have all done it. Beyonce, of course, had to go one better - bundling her album with an Emmy-nominated HBO special.
Why do artists prefer to do it this way? Two reasons: First, it reduces the risk of an album leaking, as it cuts out...

Summary: R&B singer Frank Ocean has ended months of speculation by releasing an 18-track visual album streaming exclusively on Apple Music.
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Article: Net income for the three months to the end of September fell to $468m (£291m) from $3.8bn in the same period of 2011.
Citigroup took a $4.7bn hit from reducing the value of its stake in the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) joint venture, which it is selling.
But the results were still ahead of analysts' expectations and the bank's shares rose 5.5% in New York.
Citigroup reported improved revenues from mortgages in North America.
Excluding one-off items, Citigroup's net income came in at $3.3bn.
The profitability of the bank's loans, excluding credit losses, rose as Citi cut its funding costs by taking in more low-cost deposits.
Deposits rose 11% to $945bn at the end of September from a year earlier.
Analyst Todd Hagerman from brokerage Sterne Agee said Citi now had enough capital to make a case to regulators that it should be allowed to pay 15 cents a share in its quarterly dividend next year, up from its current, nominal one cent.
In September, Citigroup announced that it had agreed a price to sell its 49% stake in MSSB to Morgan Stanley.
As a result, it said that it would reduce the value it attributed to the holding by about 40%.
The joint venture was established in 2009 as a way for Citi to shrink its balance sheet during the financial crisis by transferring its Smith Barney brokerage to Morgan Stanley.
Announcing its results, Citi said it had increased its "buffer" against risk so that it now held 8.6% of assets in almost risk-free form.
Citigroup's chief executive, Vikram Pandit, said that the uncertain economy meant the bank was taking a cautious approach to business: "We are managing risk very carefully, given global economic conditions, so we can continue to grow our businesses safely and soundly."
In August, Citigroup paid $590m to shareholders who had accused the bank of hiding the scale of its exposure to sub-prime mortgages.
Citi denied the allegation but said it wanted to avoid further legal costs.
The payout is one of the biggest settlements connected to the global financial crisis which...

Summary: Citigroup's three-month profits have dropped after the bank wrote down the value of its stake in a brokerage.
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Article: The vote is seen as especially important for President Park Geun-hye, whose time in office has been hampered by legislative gridlock.
Saenuri hopes to win the three-fifths of seats needed before bills can be introduced and passed by parliament.
The party currently holds only a slim majority in the chamber.
Voters are casting ballots at nearly 14,000 polling stations to elect 253 of 300 lawmakers. The remaining 47 proportional representation seats are allocated to parties according to the numbers of votes they receive overall.
President Park's administration will gain significant momentum if the governing party gains a majority of seats, The Korea Times reported, enabling it to push through labour and economic reforms before her term in office expires in about 20 months' time.
With a divided opposition in South Korea, the ruling centre-right grouping is expected to continue in power. But the election will indicate the general feeling about the government as a whole.
The economy has dominated pre-election arguments, particularly plans to make it easier for employers to sack employees.
Surprisingly perhaps, to outsiders, North Korea has not been a particularly prominent issue.
The opposition has also accused the government of being heavy-handed by clamping down on dissent and protest.
Youth unemployment rose to 12.5% in February, much higher than the South Korean average rate of nearly 5%. At the same time all the main parties have promised measures to reduce poverty among the elderly.
There is speculation in the South Korean media that the polls could end the country's two-party system, as new parties challenge Saenuri and the main opposition Minju party, which in February set what appeared to be a new world record for a combined filibuster after speaking for 192 hours.
Voter turnout is estimated to be higher than in previous general elections, local pollsters told The Korea Times.

Summary: Voters in South Korea are electing a new National Assembly with the governing Saenuri party eager to strengthen its position in parliament.
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Article: Six people died and 15 others were injured when the lorry went out of control on 22 December 2014 after the driver, Harry Clarke, 58, blacked out.
The inquiry, before Sheriff John Beckett, examined the circumstances of the tragedy over five weeks of evidence at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
Sheriff Beckett's determination will be issued at 12:00 on Monday.
The announcement, by the Judiciary of Scotland on Twitter, stated: "Glasgow Bin Lorry FAI: Determination to be issued at 12 noon on Monday 7 December 2015. A summary will be available from 11.30 on Monday."
The inquiry was convened after the Crown Office said it would not prosecute anyone over the crash - a highly controversial decision that was defended by Scotland's top law officer, the Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland.
The FAI examined Mr Clarke's health, the bin lorry vehicle and the route it took on the day of the crash.
During evidence, it emerged that Mr Clarke was unconscious at the wheel of the Glasgow City Council bin lorry when it veered out of control on Queen Street.
Just 19 seconds later, the vehicle came to rest against the Millennium Hotel in George Square, with six people dead and 15 injured.
The FAI heard that Mr Clarke suffered an earlier blackout at the wheel of a stationary bus in 2010 and that this episode, and his history of dizziness and other ailments, were not disclosed to Glasgow City Council and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).
In his evidence, Mr Clarke refused to apologise and answer all questions put to him as it emerged he may face a private prosecution from some of the bereaved families.
He was later suspended from his council job and resigned before he was due to face a disciplinary hearing.
Mr Clarke later issued a statement to the BBC stating that he apologised "unreservedly" for his role in the tragedy.
Those killed in the crash were Erin McQuade, 18, her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and his 69-year-old wife Lorraine, from Dumbarton, Stephenie Tait, 29, and Jacqueline Morton, 51, both from Glasgow, and Gillian...

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Gale force winds of up to 70mph and heavy rain will arrive in Wales on Monday evening, said the Met Office.

Article: Tories Michael Gove and Boris Johnson and Labour's Gisela Stuart wrote in the Sun that the tax on energy bills cannot be scrapped because of EU rules.
But Chancellor George Osborne accused them of "fantasy land" economics.
Remain campaigners said Vote Leave were promising a "make-believe land of milk and honey" if the UK left the EU.
There is one week left to register to vote in the EU referendum on 23 June.
In their article, the Vote Leave politicians said they would seek to spend some of the cash saved by quitting the EU on cutting VAT from household gas and electricity bills, a tax imposed by the then Conservative government in 1993.
This issue covers energy availability and environmental protections.
"The least wealthy are hit particularly hard," they wrote.
"The poorest households spend three times more of their income on household energy bills than the richest households spend. As long as we are in the EU, we are not allowed to cut this tax.
"When we Vote Leave, we will be able to scrap this unfair and damaging tax.
"It isn't right that unelected bureaucrats in Brussels impose taxes on the poorest and elected British politicians can do nothing."
VAT on domestic fuel bills was cut to 5% under the Labour government - the lowest rate allowed under EU rules.
In 2014, the average bill for a customer of a big six energy firm was £1,190.
Mr Gove told the BBC it had been a "mistake" of the previous Major government to introduce the tax, adding: "The Conservative government at the time did so because of the economic damage that the exchange rate mechanism of the European Union had caused.
"I think it is now time to acknowledge that that was an error."
The justice secretary said it would be up to the prime minister and the chancellor to axe VAT, but said he backed such a move because it was "an unfair tax that hits the poorest people hardest".
Mr Osborne tweeted his attack on Vote Leave's claim, saying leaving the EU would lead to a smaller economy, "a hole in public finances" and higher taxes including...

Summary: Leading figures in the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union say they want to be able to scrap VAT on fuel to help the poorest households.
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Article: It was a devastating blow to a country still struggling to recover from another attack on tourists in the heart of its capital just three months earlier.
And it was claimed by Islamic State (IS), whose actions have spread fear throughout the region and beyond.
"We note that Tunisia faces an international movement," Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said shortly after Friday's attack. "It cannot respond alone to this."
While much remains unclear about the extent and nature of the threat within Tunisia that the events in Sousse may expose, observers have pointed once more to two specific risks.
First, the threat posed by neighbouring Libya, a fractured country with porous borders that has been awash with weapons since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, and where Islamic State now has an established presence.
And second, the apparently large number of Tunisians who have left to fight in Syria and Iraq, hundreds of whom are estimated to have returned home.
Other countries in the region also face cross-border threats, and it is hard to get a truly accurate idea of how many Tunisians have been radicalised fighting abroad.
But Tunisia appears to be more exposed than its neighbours to high-impact attacks against foreign civilians.
Neither Libya nor Algeria have mass tourism, and though Morocco does, it also has a pervasive security network and has been politically stable.
Tunisia, by contrast, has a "big, soft underbelly", said Geoff Porter, the head of North Africa Risk Consulting.
"I don't think Tunisia does have a disproportionately greater jihadi problem than Algeria or Morocco," he said. "What Tunisia has is a security problem.
"It's simply that there are a greater number of targets in Tunisia and the security forces are less effective."
Full coverage of the Sousse attack
Before the uprising of 2011, the focus for those security forces was enforcing control under former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali - a job at which they were long efficient, developing a vast web of informers.
But security reform has been slow,...

Summary: The attack that killed 38 people in the resort city of Sousse has left Tunisia looking particularly vulnerable.
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Article: The 65-member congressional committee voted 38 to 27 to recommend impeachment over claims she manipulated government accounts ahead of her 2014 re-election.
All eyes will now be on a full vote in the lower house starting on 17 April.
The issue has divided Brazil, with police preparing for mass protests in the capital, Brasilia.
The vote took place amid chaotic scenes with supporters and opponents of President Rousseff shouting slogans and waving placards.
The committee's vote is largely symbolic, but has been watched as a measure of how much support there is for the impeachment process ahead of the crucial vote in the full lower house of Congress, correspondents say.
There, a two-thirds majority is needed to send the matter on to the Senate. The latest opinion poll by the Estadao daily suggests 292 of the 513 members are in favour, with 115 against and 106 undecided.
The Senate would then have the power to suspend Ms Rousseff, put her on trial and ultimately drive her from office.
During a bad-tempered debate leading up to the vote, Attorney General Jose Eduardo Cardozo, speaking for the president, said the impeachment process was "flawed".
"It is absurd to dismiss a president who has not committed crimes, nor stolen a penny. And such a process without crime or fraud, would be a coup," he said.
Ms Rousseff is accused of breaking fiscal laws by allegedly manipulating government accounts to make the deficit seems smaller than it was ahead of presidential polls.
Opposition lawmaker Vanderlei Macris said an impeachment would be important to Brazilian society and would bring change.
513 members of the lower house of Congress
342 votes needed to move process to the Senate
41 senators out of 81 must vote in favour to begin impeachment trial
180 days she could be suspended for during the hearings
On Monday night, thousands of supporters of President Rousseff attended anti-impeachment rallies in Rio de Janeiro.
Speaking at one event, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva dismissed the vote by the congressional...

Summary: Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has suffered a blow to her hopes of staving off impeachment proceedings, after a committee voted they should go ahead.
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Article: The savings would come in part from allowing biomass to be eligible for future subsidies.
The company has converted around half its huge North Yorkshire coal power plant to run on biomass and is concerned about future subsidies.
The government says it is already supporting the biomass industry.
To encourage low carbon power generation, technologies like wind, solar power or biomass are subsidised.
We pay for these green subsidies through our energy bills.
But a new analysis for Drax, by NERA Economic Consulting and Imperial College, found that solar and wind power have other hidden costs, including requiring back-up power generation
It argues that when these hidden costs, or whole system costs, are taken into account, converting coal plants to run on biomass is the most cost-effective renewable generation available at scale.
"Intermittent renewables like wind and solar are vital... but they need to be backed up by a constant supply of electricity that can be flexed up and down," said Dorothy Thompson, chief executive of Drax.
"Opening up energy auctions to include other renewables could save consumers £2bn and with more biomass in the mix energy security is also boosted" she added.
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is currently examining the issue of "whole system costs" of different energy technologies.
Responding to a parliamentary question, the Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom said that DECC hoped to complete the work in the first half of 2016.
"Once this project is completed DECC will be able to better quantify system costs to inform policy decisions," she said.
"Any future policy development, such as future renewable support, will be informed by the improved evidence base developed through this project".
But the renewables industry insists that wind and solar power help keep prices low for consumers. And it's sceptical of claims that hidden costs add significant sums to our bills.
"The additional costs of having variable generation on the system are low and for the most part renewable...

Summary: Consumers could save £2bn if the government rethinks plans for green subsidies, according to the power firm Drax.
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Article: A yellow severe weather warning has been issued as the remains of Hurricane Gonzalo reach Britain.
Coastal areas and north-western parts of Wales are expected to see the worst of the weather.
The Met Office said while all of Wales will be affected, areas including Aberporth, Aberystwyth and Anglesey will likely see the strongest winds.
"Hurricane Gonzalo will run eastwards across the Atlantic, reaching the UK on Monday night, bringing strong winds and heavy rain," said a spokesperson.
"The strongest winds are expected on Tuesday as the low pressure clears eastwards."
Gusts exceeding 55mph are likely inland, with 60 to 70mph gusts in some exposed coastal areas in the west.
The forecaster warned that fallen leaves and blocked drains could increase the risk of surface water affecting roads, and advised that travel could be disrupted.
Hurricane Gonzalo caused widespread damage and a power blackout when it hit Bermuda last week, with damage caused to houses and power lines downed.
Irish Ferries has cancelled some sailings between Holyhead and Dublin due to the adverse weather forecasts for Tuesday.

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MPs have voted to say that they don't believe the biggest organisation in English football, the FA, can make the changes needed to keep it modern and relevant.

Article: The entire North Downs Way, a 153-mile trek from Farnham to Canterbury and the White Cliffs of Dover, can now be viewed online.
The trails cover some 2,500 miles in England and Wales.
Rangers and volunteers will eventually film every mile using Google Trekker equipment - a backpack fitted with a cluster of 15 lenses.
Other National Trails currently being mapped include the Yorkshire Wolds Way, which is the first of the trails to have all its stiles removed to make it more accessible.
A spokeswoman for Google said the Trekker technology enabled images to be gathered while manoeuvring through tight, narrow spaces or locations only accessible by foot.
She said the idea was to make the trails accessible to everyone.
Previous locations captured by the Trekker technology include parts of the Peak District, Loch Ness and Machu Picchu.
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Volunteer Dennis Atherton, who is mapping the Yorkshire Wolds Way, said carrying the 23kg (50lb) camera equipment is not easy, especially when passing under trees.
Anne Clarke, of Walk Unlimited, which is co-ordinating the filming, said people considering a visit will be able to see exactly what the routes are like.
She said: "These routes are really special and when people see them online they can't help but be inspired.
"I think sometimes people think places like the Yorkshire Wolds Way are long-distance trails and are too hard.
"If they can see it, it will make them think 'actually, it's beautiful, I'll give it a go'."
It is hoped the National Trails project will eventually extend to include the England Coast Path, which is due for completion by 2020.

Summary: The first of 15 National Trails being made available on Google Street View has gone live.
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Article: Keepers at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC only discovered Mei Xiang was pregnant during an ultrasound scan last week.
Giant pandas are one of the most endangered species in the world and are notoriously hard to breed in captivity.
The National Zoo is one of only four zoos in the US to have pandas, which are on loan from China.
Mei Xiang, who has two other offspring, is one of the zoo's star attractions and a Panda Cam on her enclosure crashed within seconds of the birth being announced because of the volume of interest.
Female pandas are able to conceive for only two or three days a year, leading to a very low reproduction rate.
Mei Xiang was artificially inseminated with sperm from the zoo's resident male Tian Tian and a panda named Hui Hui from Wolong, China.
It will not be known for a while which is the father, or whether the cub is male or female.
It has previously taken months before Mei Xiang's cubs have been introduced to the public.
The panda population is threatened by habitat loss as land is increasingly inhabited by humans, with about 1,800 pandas left in the wild in China.
However, the number living in the wild in China has gone up over the last 10 years.

Summary: A giant panda at a zoo in the United States has given birth to a cub.
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Article: Research among 30,000 eight- to 16-year-old pupils finds a third of boys never or rarely write for fun outside class, compared with 18% of girls.
A third of girls write daily, it says, compared with 21% of boys.
The Department for Education says the gap in boys' and girls' writing ability at age 11 has been narrowing.
But the Trust warns that some boys' reluctance to pick up a pencil could be hampering their chances of reaching their potential.
It cites evidence that those who write for fun outside school are four times more likely to be writing above the expected level at the end of primary school than those who do not.
At the other end, nine times as many children and young people who do not enjoy writing at all, write below the expected level compared with those who enjoy writing very much.
And this is reflected in the achievement gap between boys and girls.
Last year, the gap was widest between boys and girls in writing assessment where 81% of boys achieved Level 4 (the expected standard at age 11) or above compared with 90% of girls.
However, as the DfE points out, the gap has narrowed since 2012 on this achievement, from 76% of boys reaching the expected standard and 87% of girls.
Perhaps most worryingly, a significant number of boys appear to think writing is not "cool".
A fifth of boys said they would be embarrassed if their friends saw them write. This compares with 12% of girls, the research said.
But the study also suggests boys' attitudes to writing becomes more negative as they enter secondary school.
Jonathan Douglas, director of the National Literacy Trust, says we must focus on increasing boys' frequency and enjoyment of writing if we are to support them to succeed at school and throughout their lives.
"There are lots of ways in which teachers and parents can make writing fun for children. Setting challenges or giving children a purpose for writing such as writing a shopping list or Christmas card can hook them into doing it more regularly.
"Whether it's writing about a football match or their...

Summary: Boys' reluctance to write outside school could be hampering their chances of fulfilling their potential, a National Literacy Trust study says.
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Article: The animal welfare charity rescued 728 rabbits in 2014 and has already taken 550 into care this year.
The Scottish SPCA, which is holding its annual rabbit awareness week, said it was concerned hundreds more were living lonely lives in small hutches.
It said they are intelligent, social animals, requiring lots of care and interaction from their owners.
Scottish SPCA chief superintendent Mike Flynn said: "One of the most common excuses we hear is that the children in the family, who asked for the rabbit in the first place, have become fed up now that the novelty of the new pet has worn off.
"Another reason is that the owner simply doesn't have the time to look after their rabbit.
"One of the biggest issues is rabbits being left in a hutch with no interaction other than a brief visit from their owner to bring food and water."
He added: "These poor rabbits are literally suffering in silence, living a miserable and lonely life."
The Scottish SPCA hopes to rehome many of the rabbits it has taken in.
Last year, an animal welfare scientist said the pets needed better legal protection against neglect.
James Oxley said that unlike some EU countries, the UK does not have legal requirements on the size of hutches, or that rabbits be kept in pairs.
Writing in the World Rabbit Science Association's journal, he suggested a review of how existing laws impact on rabbits.
Scottish organisation Rabbits Require Rights has also been calling for greater legal protection for the pets.
It said rabbits were the UK's third most popular pet, but were the most neglected.

Summary: Hundreds of rabbits have been abandoned by owners bored with looking after them, according to the Scottish SPCA .
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Article: The Football Association, known simply as the FA, is the organisation that looks after all football in England. Similar organisations play the same role for football in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
It was formed in 1863 and is the oldest football association in the world. As the first ever football association, it does not need to call itself the "English" FA. The FA is based at Wembley Stadium in London.
It controls many different competitions, the most famous of which is the FA Cup. It is also responsible for appointing the manager of the men's, women's, and youth England football teams.
Although it does not run the day-to-day operations of the Premier League, it does have some say in English football's biggest league.
The FA has been accused of being old fashioned and out of date in the way it is run, and the people it has in power.
The government has repeatedly called for the FA to be more of a reflection of modern society, and those who play the game. It also wants the organisation to change the way it makes decisions.
The FA is run by a group of people called the FA Council, which has 122 members. Just eight of these members are women and only four are from ethnic minorities. More than 90 of the 122 members are aged over 60.
This is a big area where some people believe the FA needs to change. The government wants more women and people from ethnic minorities to have a say in how the FA is run.
Other areas that the government wants to change are for fans to have more input, and changes to limit the power and influence of the Premier League.
On 9 February, MPs in the House of Commons, had a debate about whether they believed the FA can change itself, or whether the government needs to step in to force changes.
They voted that they had "no confidence" in the Football Association to make the changes.
The vote itself does not have any powers or immediate effect on the FA, but it will be seen as a warning to the organisation that the government could force them to change if they don't act soon.
The FA...

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The government has been urged to make available part of a special £150m fund which has been set aside for new legacy bodies to the PSNI and Police Ombudsman to investigate the past.

Article: They say the wombs of some women are too good at letting embryos implant, even those of poor quality which should be rejected.
The UK-Dutch study published in the journal PLoS ONE said the resulting pregnancies would then fail.
One expert welcomed the findings and hoped a test could be developed for identifying the condition in women.
Recurrent miscarriages - losing three or more pregnancies in a row - affect one in 100 women in the UK.
Doctors at Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton and the University Medical Center Utrecht, took samples from the wombs of six women who had normal fertility and six who had had recurrent miscarriages.
High or low-quality embryos were placed in a channel created between two strips of the womb cells.
Cells from women with normal fertility started to grow and reach out towards the high-quality embryos. Poor-quality embryos were ignored.
However, the cells of women who had recurrent miscarriages started to grow towards both kinds of embryo.
Prof Nick Macklon, a consultant at the Princess Anne Hospital, said: "Many affected women feel guilty that they are simply rejecting their pregnancy.
"But we have discovered it may not be because they cannot carry, [but] it is because they may simply be super-fertile, as they allow embryos which would normally not survive to implant."
He added: "When poorer embryos are allowed to implant, they may last long enough in cases of recurrent miscarriage to give a positive pregnancy test."
This theory still needs further testing and will not explain all miscarriages.
Dr Siobhan Quenby, from the Royal College Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, told the BBC: "This theory is really quite attractive. It is lovely. It's a really important paper that will change the way we think about implantation."
"It had been thought that rejecting normal embryos resulted in miscarriage, but what explains the clinical syndrome is that everything is being let in."
She said research would now need to discover whether this could be tested for in women and whether their...

Summary: "Super-fertility" may explain why some women have multiple miscarriages, according to a team of doctors.
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Article: An inquiry was ordered after two blocks remained partially standing following the blowdown operation in October.
It said the contractor had identified discrepancies between the construction records and the size of steel used.
It concluded that Safedem had followed good practice and was "reasonable" to "err on the safe side".
The Red Road towers were the tallest residential buildings in Europe when they were built as social housing in the 1960s.
Their phased demolition was commissioned by social landlord Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) as part of its plans to regenerate the Balornock and Barmulloch areas of the city.
Previous demolitions took place in 2012 and 2013 and a plan to hold another, as part of the opening ceremony for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, was abandoned due to public opposition.
About 2,500 residents from nearby properties were moved to outside an exclusion zone before Safedem carried out the controlled blowdown on 11 October 2015.
The operation, however, was only a partial success as two of the towers were left partially standing.
A report into the failure concluded: "Safedem appear to have underestimated the robustness of the buildings.
"Whether this was from the explosives view point, the structural appraisal view point or a combination of both, is unclear."
The report said that the Red Road flats, unlike most other UK tower blocks built at the time, had been constructed using steel.
The report stated: "It should be noted that steel-framed residential structures are relatively uncommon in the UK.
"Unlike concrete structures, steel frames do not crush under impact from the debris above and tend to be more robust."
The report said that Safedem had examined "record drawings" from the city archives but found discrepancies between the 50-year-old records and the actual size of the steel columns in the buildings.
The report added: "The partial collapse of both 123 Petershill Drive and 10 Red Road Court were due to the variances in their construction and the exceptional difficulties in...

Summary: Some of Glasgow's iconic Red Road flats withstood a demolition blast last year because they were built with steel and were too tough, a report has found.
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Article: Scientists tested it against anti-depressant pills for people at risk of relapse and found it worked just as well.
The therapy trains people to focus their minds and understand that negative thoughts may come and go.
In England and Wales doctors are already encouraged to offer it.
Patients who have had recurrent clinical depression are often prescribed long-term anti-depressant drugs to help prevent further episodes.
And experts stress that drug therapy is still essential for many.
In this study, UK scientists enrolled 212 people who were at risk of further depression on a course of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) while carefully reducing their medication.
Patients took part in group sessions where they learned guided meditation and mindfulness skills.
The therapy aimed to help people focus on the present, recognise any early warning signs of depression and respond to them in ways that did not trigger further reoccurrences.
Researchers compared these results to 212 people who continued to take a full course of medication over two years.
By the end of the study, a similar proportion of people had relapsed in both groups. And many in the MBCT group had been tapered off their medication.
Scientists say these findings suggest MBCT could provide a much-needed alternative for people who cannot or do not wish to take long-term drugs.
In their report, they conclude it "may be a new choice for millions of people with recurrent depression on repeat prescriptions."
Nigel Reed, who took part in the study, added: "Mindfulness gives me a set of skills which I use to keep well in the long term.
"Rather than relying on the continuing use of anti-depressants, mindfulness puts me in charge, allowing me to take control of my own future, to spot when I am at risk and to make the changes I need to stay well."
Providing an independent comment on the study, Dr Gwen Adshead, of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said: "These findings are important from the point of view of people living with depression who are trying to...

Summary: A mindfulness-based therapy could offer a "new choice for millions of people" with recurrent depression, a Lancet report suggests.
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Article: Letter volumes fell 4% in the six months to the end of September but the fall was offset by a 4% rise in parcel volumes.
Royal Mail reported adjusted pre-tax profit of £240m against £287m a year earlier.
It said performance for the full financial year would depend on Christmas - its busiest time of year.
Royal Mail said its "transformation costs" increased by £47m in the period with some 3,000 staff opting to take voluntary redundancy.
It said the total cost of restructuring the business this year was likely to be at least £180m.
The rise in the number of parcels came as a result of gaining new customers, Royal Mail said.
But despite the increase in parcel volumes, revenues from Royal Mail's UK parcels business - which includes its letters division - dipped 1% in the period.
The fall in UK parcel revenues however was offset by an 8% rise in revenues across the rest of Europe.
Although letter volumes continued to fall, the 4% drop in volumes in the six months to the end of September was at the lower end of the range forecast by Royal Mail.
Shares in Royal Mail rose 5.8% to 480.5p in early trade. Its shares were boosted because the 2% fall in underlying operating profits to £342m - Royal Mail's preferred profit measure - was less than expected, and the firm also said UK operating costs would be "at least" 1% lower this year.
Moya Greene, chief executive of Royal Mail said the company had delivered a "resilient performance" in what she described as a "competitive trading environment".
The half-year results are the first to be published by Royal Mail as a completely privatised company after the government sold its remaining shares in the business last month.
Royal Mail increased its half-year dividend payment to shareholders to 7p per share from 6.7p per share a year ago.
Royal Mail said little about the review of the way in which it was regulated, announced by communications regulator Ofcom in June, other than to say it had submitted its response to the review in September and agreed there was a need to consider...

Summary: Royal Mail has reported a near 15% fall in half-year profits with revenues little-changed across its business.
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Article: The Treasury has agreed to make the money available over a five-year period for a proposed new Historical Investigations Unit and other bodies.
But the failure of Stormont politicians to reach agreement on how best to deal with the past means those institutions, and the money, are now on hold.
Justice Minister David Ford told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Tuesday that until agreement is reached, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and Police Ombudsman will remain responsible for legacy investigations.
However, they have not been given any additional funding for the task.
The minister said he has been assured that the government intends honouring its financial promise, but only when the new bodies are established.
Mr Ford said he has met the Secretary of State Theresa Villiers and "made the point strenuously" that the government has a responsibility to help deal with the past.
"There needs to be an arrangement to provide additional money for institutions required to deal with the past," he said.
The minister also said the failure of Stormont's recent Fresh Start agreement to decide how best to deal with legacy issues was "potentially throwing away the best opportunity for a generation to deal with our troubled past".
He added that the failure had also made progress on legacy inquests "much more difficult".
He revealed that he has authorised the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service to recruit "investigative support" for coroners to deal with those inquests, which include some of the most controversial killings of the troubles.
The appointments of additional staff are expected to be made by the spring of next year.

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Villagers who set up their own speed monitor say they have recorded more than half a million drivers breaking the 30mph limit since November 2015.

Article: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) ruled that everolimus, which can prolong life in some cases, was too expensive.
The charity Kidney Cancer UK, which appealed against earlier draft guidelines, said it was disappointed.
Each year, 4,000 patients are diagnosed with advanced renal cell carcinoma.
Two drugs, sunitinib and pazopanib, have been approved for use by the NHS.
Everolimus, also known as Afinitor, has been shown to increase overall survival in cases where the other two have failed.
It costs more than Â£200,000 per patient for a full course of treatment.
Sir Andrew Dillon, NICE chief executive, said: "We regret not to be able to recommend this drug, but we have to ensure that the money available to the NHS, for treating cancer and other conditions is used to best effect, particularly when the NHS, like the rest of the public sector, is under considerable financial pressure."
Dr Pat Hanlon, from Kidney Cancer UK, said his reaction was: "one of deep disappointment".
He added: "We know the NHS cannot afford all drugs, but they are effectively robbing people of a few months of life."
He recommended that doctors and patients apply for help from the government's cancer drug fund, which can be used for medication not approved by NICE.

Summary: A drug to treat an advanced form of kidney cancer will not be made available on the NHS in England and Wales.
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Article: It said "weaker-than-expected activity" in the first three months of the year meant the UK would grow by 1.7%, compared with an earlier 2% forecast.
And the IMF revised down its US outlook from 2.3% to 2.1%.
However, its overall global economic predictions - of 3.5% growth in 2017 and 3.6% in 2018 - remain unchanged.
Meanwhile the outlook for several eurozone economies is brighter than initially thought, with countries including France, Germany, Italy and Spain seeing growth forecasts revised up.
In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF said the "pick-up in global growth" that it had anticipated in its previous survey in April remained "on track".
But it added that while the global growth projection was unchanged that masked "somewhat different contributions at the country level".
The UK growth forecast for 2018 remains unchanged at 1.5%, but US growth for next year is now predicted to come in at 2.1%, instead of the 2.5% previously forecast.
"While the markdown in the [US] 2017 forecast reflects in part the weak growth outturn in the first quarter of the year, the major factor behind the growth revision, especially for 2018, is the assumption that fiscal policy will be less expansionary than previously assumed, given the uncertainty about the timing and nature of US fiscal policy changes," the IMF said.
"Market expectations of fiscal stimulus have also receded."
A UK Treasury spokesperson said the IMF forecast underlined why the government's plans to increase productivity and get "the very best deal with the EU" after Brexit were "vitally important".
"Employment is at a record high and the deficit is down by three quarters, showing that the fundamentals of our economy are strong," they added.
Economists warn that IMF forecasts are not always right.
"The IMF, a multi-lateral institution, takes a step back and looks at a broad range of activities across the world, but they do sometimes get things wrong and we wouldn't want to put too much emphasis on what's been released today," said Lucy O'Carroll, chief...

Summary: The UK and US economies will expand more slowly in 2017 than previously predicted, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Article: Researchers at University College London and Newcastle University found listening to two notes played simultaneously makes the brain adapt.
Brain scans revealed highly specific changes in the hippocampus, which governs memory and navigation.
These correlated with the number of years tuners had been doing this job.
The Wellcome Trust researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to compare the brains of 19 professional piano tuners - who play two notes simultaneously to make them pitch-perfect - and 19 other people.
What they saw was highly specific changes in both the grey matter - the nerve cells where information processing takes place - and the white matter - the nerve connections - within the brains of the piano tuners.
Investigator Sundeep Teki said: "We already know that musical training can correlate with structural changes, but our group of professionals offered a rare opportunity to examine the ability of the brain to adapt over time to a very specialised form of listening."
Other researchers have noted similar hippocampal changes in taxi drivers as they build up detailed information needed to find their way around London's labyrinth of streets.
Prof Tim Griffiths, who led the latest study, published in Neuroscience, said: "There has been little work on the role of the hippocampus in auditory analysis.
"Our study is consistent with a form of navigation in pitch space as opposed to the more accepted role in spatial navigation."

Summary: Tuning a piano also tunes the brain, say researchers who have seen structural changes within the brains of professional piano tuners.
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Article: The rise contrasted with a fall of 79,000 in UK unemployment, to 1.7 million, over the same period.
The Scottish jobless rate stands at 6.1%, compared with 5.4% for the whole of the UK.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) data also showed employment in Scotland falling by 6,000 to 2,610,000.
The number of people claiming Job Seeker's Allowance increased by 500 between August and September, to stand at 71,000.
Analysis by Douglas Fraser, Scotland business and economy editor
The divergent paths of the Scottish and UK jobs market are mirrored by other indicators we've had in recent days, such as the latest manufacturing export figures and the findings of a respected survey of Scottish purchasing managers.
More from Douglas Fraser's blog
The UK government's Scottish Secretary David Mundell said: "The figures released today show the challenges which remain to ensure households in every part of our country benefit from a growing economy.
"There can be no doubt there is still hard work to undertake to build on the UK government's long-term economic plan which has tackled a record deficit and laid the foundations for a stronger and more stable economy."
The Scottish government said Scotland outperformed the UK as a whole on employment, youth employment and female employment.
Scottish Deputy First Minister John Swinney said that with the increase in the unemployment rate, it was important to sustain public sector investment to strengthen business confidence and deliver economic recovery.
He added: "While Scotland has now seen three years of continuous economic growth, and continues to exceed the UK in the total employment rate and in youth and female employment rates, today's figures show that there remain serious challenges to economic recovery."
Labour public services spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: "These figures make grim reading for Scotland, and speak to an SNP government with the wrong priorities.
"The increase in unemployment in the north east confirms that the SNP government sat on their hands whilst we saw...

Summary: Scotland's jobless total increased by 18,000 between June and August to stand at 170,000, according to official figures.
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Article: Sharnford Traffic Action Group (STAG) said some motorists were clocked at "eye watering" speeds topping 100mph.
It has campaigned against dangerous driving on Aston Lane and the B4114 in Leicestershire for more than 10 years.
The county council has offered to install speed bumps on Aston Lane at a cost of Â£12,000 to the parish council.
More on this story and other news in Leicestershire
Motorists have been recorded by the village's speed monitor, which is moved around Sharnford - located near Hinckley and about 11 miles (17.7 km) from Leicester.
STAG, which owns the monitor, sends the speeds of the vehicles to Leicestershire Police and the county council every month.
It said according to its data, more than 13,000 motorists drove above 50mph in a 30mph zone in the past year and about 562,000 since November 2015.
In the space of about 15 months, a total of 2.75m vehicles travelled through the village and about one in five - around 21% - were speeding, the data suggested.
The group claims that if they had the powers to fine drivers the charges would total Â£5.6m.
Sharnford parish councillor Mike Shirley, secretary of STAG, said: "The eye-watering figures demonstrate the inarguable need for proper, enforceable speed monitoring 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in the interests of safety."
He added that homes have been damaged, lampposts and signs felled and pedestrians knocked over by lorries trying to navigate the narrow streets.
Leicestershire County Council said their own speed survey showed the village would "not qualify" for speed cameras and it cannot afford to build a bypass without government funding.

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The Australian government has been in the process of collecting data on the outbreak of measles in the UK.
The report was written by the government firm Pinsent Masons, using data from HMRC.
The report was written by the government firm Pinsent Masons, using data from HMRC.
The

Parents are being urged to get their children vaccinated following an outbreak of measles at a nursery school in Port Talbot.

Article: Kenneth Meech, 51, of Alexandra Road, Cleethorpes, watched his club win 3-1 at Barnet in a Conference game on 21 February.
Willesden Magistrates' Court heard he assaulted Barnet steward Cgagi Gladyng as he celebrated the victory.
Meech, who was among nearly 1,000 fans who travelled to The Hive stadium, denied a charge of common assault.
Mr Gladyng, 59, told the court he was hurt by the inflatable which was being waved "like an axe" and described the three blows to his head "as like being hit by a roll of paper".
He said he became frightened as the Grimsby Town fans surged towards the pitch.
Meech was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay Â£700 in costs, compensation of Â£100 and a victim surcharge.
He was not made the subject of a football banning order.
Speaking after the sentencing, he claimed the prosecution was a "waste of the taxpayer's money".
"I'm a bit deflated, to be honest," he said.
"Very surprised and shocked by the verdict, but got to respect what the court has said.
"I think if this didn't happen at football I wouldn't be here today, I'm sure of that."

Summary: A Grimsby Town fan has been found guilty of assaulting a football steward with an inflatable shark.
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Article: The Scottish SPCA said it was caring for more than 100 of the auks at its National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross.
Centre manager Colin Seddon said: "Little auks breed in the high arctic areas such as Greenland and Iceland, so it is unusual to see them up close."
Any other auk sightings can be reported on 03000 999 999.
Mr Seddon explained: "We have just over 100 little auks in our care at the moment which have been caught out by the recent storms.
"It is not uncommon for little auks to be found in the North Sea over winter but they have been blown off course and are landing in areas up and down the county, predominately along the east coast.
"The little auks we have rescued were found weak and thin and would have had great difficulty taking off once grounded."

Summary: The recent storms have blown dozens of auk birds onto the east coast of Scotland.
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Article: Buyers have also snapped up smalls once sported by Queen Victoria and Madonna - and even Hitler's companion Eva Braun.
So just what is the appeal of the undergarments of the rich and famous?
City University of London's Prof Chris Rojek, a sociologist who is an expert in the study of celebrity, says it comes down to people wanting find a way to get closer to someone they will never meet.
"The audience, or some sections of them, want a relationship of perceived intimacy with the celebrity," he said.
"They are never going to meet them or see their underwear, but if they own them (their undergarments), they feel closer than they would otherwise."
Celebrities haven't been shy in donating their underwear for a good cause.
As well as Sheeran and Brook, Fearne Cotton and England goalkeeper Joe Hart were among those to donate underwear in aid of a breast cancer charity.
While Mirren, Emma Thompson, Jarvis Cocker and Katie Price have also donated pants in a bid to help destitute asylum seekers.
And Rojek believes it is understandable there's a market for these garments.
He says those who buy them want to "acquire some of the glamour of the celebrity, but also to feel that they are, in some sense, in touch with the people who they will never meet".
"I think it is normal for people to want to own something where they feel particularly close to someone," Prof Rojek said.
"When your parents die you want to keep things to feel close to them.
"Celebrities are virtual family to some people."
Specialist fashion auctioneer Kerry Taylor has sold a number of high-profile undergarments, including a corset and knickers worn by Madonna.
"I don't think the fact that it is underwear is a major feature," she said.
"The collectors just want a 'relic' of the celebrity."
The history of the garment can be very important to buyers, Ms Taylor added.
"Of course, underwear is quite amusing and someone like Queen Victoria had hundreds of pairs of stockings and lingerie that seem to have come into the public domain over the years.
"[But]...

Summary: Celebrity underwear has long attracted interest - and big bucks - with garments once owned or worn by the likes of Ed Sheeran, Kelly Brook and Dame Helen Mirren a big attraction at auctions.
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Article: HMRC's Affluent Unit covering UK residents on annual incomes over £150,000 - or wealth over £1m - raised £137.2m in tax, up from £85.7m in 2013.
The report was written by law firm Pinsent Masons, using data from HMRC.
Critics said the unit, which works with HMRC's High Net Worth team covering the super-rich, could collect much more.
The Affluent Unit, set up in 2011, doubled in size in 2013 with the recruitment of an additional 100 tax inspectors. About 500,000 UK residents fall into its remit.
"This surge in extra revenue from Affluent Unit tax investigations serves as a reminder that HMRC is widening its lines of inquiry," said Pinsent Mason's head of litigation and compliance James Bullock.
"People who would just consider themselves moderately successful professionals and business people are now also coming under the scrutiny of HMRC's specialist units," he said.
He added that the tax office had been given new powers to pursue tax avoidance in what looked like "a much more aggressive approach to prosecutions targeted at professionals and entrepreneurs".
HMRC's ability to investigate people has been made easier by a computer system called Connect. Costing £45m, Connect was launched in the summer of 2010 and designed by the defence contractor BAE Systems.
The computer system collects data on people from multiple sources, including banks, local councils, and even social media.
Treasury minister David Gauke said that the jump in extra tax being collected shows that the Affluent Unit was "a success... We are determined to give HMRC the powers and support that they need".
He said there was a change in the public mood towards tax avoidance and evasion. "The public expect people to pay the right amount of tax under the law to help fund our services."
He added: "HMRC are winning a lot of their court cases, and we are seeing that a lot of people are preparing to pay up rather than litigate for years."
However, tax expert Richard Murphy, from Tax Research, said: "HMRC is supposed to collect £167bn of income tax this...

Summary: A crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion by people who HM Revenue & Customs call "mass affluent" netted 60% more money in 2014, a report says.
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Article: Two children who go to the Miles of Smiles nursery in Baglan have been confirmed as having the virus, while five others are being tested.
A vaccination session is planned at the nursery on Friday for children who have not had the MMR.
Parents who cannot attend should make an appointment with their GP.
Public Health Wales (PHW) said vaccination uptake at the nursery was good but some children were at risk because they were too young to have received one or both doses of the vaccine.
Last July saw the end of Wales' biggest outbreak of the infection in Swansea, which resulted in 1,200 reported cases and one death.
Dr JÃ¶rg Hoffmann, of PHW, said: "While two cases of measles may not sound a lot, we have five other children with symptoms, all attending a nursery school where there are children who are too young to be fully-vaccinated and could easily catch and spread measles."
He said parents in the wider Neath area should also get their children vaccinated.
Symptoms of measles include a fever, tiredness, runny nose, conjunctivitis and a distinctive red rash.
It is very contagious, can cause serious complications and in rare cases can be fatal.

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The Uefa general secretary has included the plan in his manifesto for the FIFA election on 26 February.
He is up against Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, the Bahraini head of the Asian football confederation (AFC), Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, South Africa's Tokyo Sexwale

Fifa presidential candidate Gianni Infantino says he would press for the World Cup to be held in a whole region rather than one or two countries.

Article: At the NASUWT annual conference in Cardiff this weekend, the union said the use of unqualified staff was on the rise.
Rex Phillips, however, said that was not true in Wales and it was only in England that such staff were recruited.
He said the Welsh government had stuck to "the principle that pupils should be taught by qualified teachers".
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales, Mr Phillips accepted there were instances of unqualified support staff working in Welsh schools, but not teachers.
He said: "That's a matter of the management within a school, and where we know about that, and where we are told about that, we will go in and we will challenge that."

Summary: The use of unqualified teachers in schools is not a problem in Wales, a teaching union representative has said.
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Article: Walmart said Sean Clarke's experience would allow him to "reposition the business" in a competitive market.
Sean Clarke started his retail career at Asda in 2001 and has also worked for Walmart in Japan and Canada.
Asda has now reported seven straight quarters of declining sales.
The appointment comes as a surprise after Andy Clarke said last week in an interview that he would be succeeded by Roger Burnley, who is joining Asda from Sainsbury's.
Mr Burnley has been named as Asda's deputy chief executive and chief operating officer.
David Cheesewright, president and chief executive of Walmart International, said Mr Burnley was "a top talent and a future CEO".
Andy Clarke has served as Asda's chief executive for six years in an increasingly tough market.
Last month, the retailer said like-for-like sales in the first quarter of the year fell 5.7% in the face of  "fierce competition".
It seems that Andy Clarke is going earlier than he anticipated. Although he moved faster than his main rivals to try to counter the threat of the discounters, Asda has been haemorrhaging sales for the last seven quarters. Mr Clarke promised to narrow the price gap but the discounters are still the cheapest grocers on the high street meanwhile Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons have all upped their game, leaving Asda trailing behind. Sean Clarke is described as a rising star within Walmart, someone who is experienced in dealing with major structural change. Clearly Walmart thinks a fresh pair of eyes is now needed to revive Asda's performance and he's been parachuted in.
Parent company Walmart will hope his successor can grab back some of their market share.
Mr Cheesewright said: "Sean is one of our most experienced global executives, and through his leadership we will build upon the momentum of Project Renewal to reposition Asda in a very competitive market place."
Project Renewal is a programme designed to overhaul Asda's product range, modernise its 95 largest stores and reduce costs.
Asda is attempting to recoup sales by narrowing...

Summary: Asda owner Walmart has said the UK supermarket's chief executive, Andy Clarke, is stepping down to be replaced by the head of Walmart's Chinese business, Sean Clarke.
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Article: GAA players have been undergoing urine tests for several years but this is to be extended to also include blood testing next year.
Ger Ryan, chairman of the GAA's medical, scientific and welfare committee, said blood testing had become "a fact of life" in Irish sport.
Ryan added that it was "inevitable" that blood testing would eventually be introduced to gaelic games.
The committee chairman added that he "fully appreciated the additional inconvenience" this will cause players but that the GAA could "not afford to be complacent in terms of the integrity of its games".
In 2015, 95 GAA players were tested as part of the anti-doping programme.
One of those tested, Monaghan McKenna Cup panellist, Thomas Connolly was handed a two-year suspension after being found to have taken the banned steroid stanozolol.
Connolly avoided a four-year ban after a GAA anti-doping hearing ruled that the violation was unintentional.
Following a motion from this year's annual congress, the medical, scientific and welfare committee did consider whether to introduce a concussion substitute to gaelic games but they have decided not to recommend it at this stage.
Dr Kevin Moran said it was the view of the committee that the current concussion guidelines was the best approach for the association and that the focus should be on the continued education of its players and members.
"Our management guidelines are clear in the view that if there is any doubt at all as to whether a concussion has been sustained, a player should be removed from play," said Dr Moran.
"We are not convinced that allowing time for side-line assessment will necessarily help in this regard as there is no test currently available that ensures accuracy for pitch side concussion assessment.
"Proposals to introduce a concussion sub presume that concussion can be diagnosed within a short time frame but that this was not in keeping with best practice and that symptoms of concussion can take several hours to present."

Summary: Blood testing will be introduced to the GAA's anti-doping programme in 2016.
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Article: More than 300 people aged under 25 are diagnosed with the disease in Scotland every year.
Dr Catherine Calderwood said she wanted to ensure that children were seen by "the right experts in the right place".
She added that they should be able to access to "after care" services close to their family home.
Speaking to BBC Radio Scotland, Dr Calderwood said: "We want children to be seen by the right experts in the right place and we want them then to have opportunities as far as possible to participate in cancer clinical trials.
"Those are often the way that we can develop our medicines for cancer but also it often gives an opportunity for trial of new treatments for children.
"So we want as many children to be seen where the expertise lies but also to be treated by an expert team."
She said that approximately 150 children a year were diagnosed with cancer in Scotland.
About 180 young people aged 16-25 receive similar diagnoses.
She added: "The plan will also have children being able to be cared for, for their after care, closer to their own homes.
"So it doesn't mean children moving and having to stay away from family and friends and their usual activities."
The move has been supported by Cancer Research UK.
Spokesman Gregor McNie said: "We all know that the support networks and the holistic needs of someone who's ill with any disease are always best served close to home.
"So what this strategy tries to do is strike the balance of getting the specialist care from the very best at what they do but the wider care being as close to home as possible."

Summary: New plans to improve treatment for children and young people with cancer have been outlined by Scotland's chief medical officer.
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Article: The Uefa general secretary has included the plan in his manifesto for the Fifa election on 26 February.
His idea follows European football's governing body Uefa's decision to play Euro 2020 in 13 different countries.
"Each confederation shall have to wait at least two editions before being able to host the World Cup again," he said.
"This will ensure a more equitable rotation, while giving every confederation the opportunity to organise this unique event.
"Furthermore, Fifa should investigate the possibility of organising the World Cup not only in one or two countries but in a whole region, so enabling several countries to enjoy the honour and benefits of hosting the World Cup."
Infantino is one of five candidates standing for the presidency of world football's governing body, which is in crisis following a series of corruption claims.
He is up against Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, the Bahraini head of the Asian football confederation (AFC), Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, South Africa's Tokyo Sexwale and Jerome Champagne, a former Fifa deputy secretary general from France.
Current Fifa president Sepp Blatter has been banned for eight years from all football-related activities for breaching ethics rules.

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Chinese shares have risen and European markets have opened higher at the end of what has been a torrid first week of the year.

Article: David Cameron was giving evidence to the liaison committee, which is made up of the chairs of select committees at Westminster. Neil Parish, who chairs the environment, food and rural affairs committee, put Mr Cameron on the spot.
Neil Parish: "Are you very keen on tidal power? We have the Bristol channel, which has the second highest rise and fall in the world. We could increase our amount of renewable energy without taking good quality land to put solar panels on it."
David Cameron: "Instinctively, I can see the strength of the argument for tidal power, because one of the problems with renewables is whether they can provide base-load power.
"Nuclear can. Wind cannot, because it is intermittent. But tidal, because the tide is always going in or out, can provide base-load power. The problem with tidal power, simply put, is that at the moment we have not seen any ideas come forward that can hit a strike price in terms of pounds per megawatt-hour that is very attractive. That is the challenge for tidal.
"Maybe they can come up with something. They are very long-term schemes with big investments up front, and they can last for many, many years, but right now my enthusiasm is reduced slightly by the fact that the cost would be quite high."
Neil Parish: "The tidal scheme in Swansea definitely has a very high capital cost, but if you put that over a great number of years you will find that the power is naturally limitless and the cost is inexpensive."
Mr Cameron: "Obviously we have to look at the figures as they come out. As I have said, tidal power has got the permanence to it. There are important economic benefits in terms of urban renewal and all the rest of it. I totally see all those arguments and have seen some exciting prospects, but as I said, you have to come back to the question of what the action I take will do to the security of supply and the cost of supply. In all the arguments about renewables, you always have to ask yourself what that will put on a household bill."
During the later days of the...

Summary: I missed this on Tuesday due to a deadline clash with a Westminster Hall debate so I tip my hat to Construction News for spotting the prime minister's "reduced" enthusiasm for the Swansea tidal lagoon project.
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Article: There were 54,600 cases lodged in 2014-15, up 8% on the previous year, Department for Education data shows.
Parents were successful in 23% of those cases that went to a hearing.
The DfE said the proportion of appeals being heard was stable amid a rising demand for places and that the admissions system was working well.
Many areas of England, especially major towns and cities, are facing an intense squeeze on places - particularly at primary school level - mainly due to a rising birth rate.
A breakdown of the latest government statistics shows there were more appeals concerned with places at state primaries than state secondaries.
There were 32,160 appeals over infant and primary schools; about 22,440 related to secondaries.
Not all appeals end up being heard. The number taken to an appeals panel was 40,014, up from 36,967 in 2013-14.
More than 9,000 were decided in favour of parents, with the percentage of successes staying almost the same as the previous year.
The data covers both local council-run schools and academies, which are not under local authority oversight.
A DfE spokesman said: "The fact that the proportion of appeals heard and upheld remains stable in the face of rising demand for school places shows the admissions system is working well."
All parents have the right to appeal if a school they applied to refuses their child a place.
The current system allows parents to argue that schools broke official admissions rules or that there are "compelling" extra reasons why their son or daughter deserves a place.
Figures published earlier this year showed that fewer youngsters got their first choice of secondary school this year, with around one in six missing out.
Overall, 84.2% of 11-year-olds got their top preference, according to DfE figures, meaning that around 15.8% did not. Last year, 85.2% got their first pick.
The figures also showed that 87.8% of children were offered their first choice of primary school, compared to 87.7% in 2014.

Summary: Rising numbers of parents in England are lodging appeals over children not being offered a place at a chosen school, figures show.
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Article: A naturally occurring protein, known as BsIA, can be used to create ice cream which stays frozen for longer in hot weather.
The ingredient could also help to reduce the amount of fat and sugar in ice cream.
The scientists say the ice cream could be ready to eat in three to five years.
Teams at the Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee developed a method of producing the ingredient, which occurs naturally in some foods as a friendly bacteria.
Professor Cait MacPhee, who led the project, said it works by keeping oil and water mixed together, stops air from escaping and coats the ice crystals in ice cream which stops them from melting so quickly.

Summary: A new ingredient developed by scientists in Scotland could mean that ice cream lovers can enjoy their treats longer before they melt.
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Article: People in Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City asked the Marquess of Salisbury to forego his rights after he sent letters saying he had access to land they own.
Campaigners now want a government inquiry into the ancient laws.
The Ministry of Justice said it had "no current plans to change the law".
A MoJ spokesman said they would "continue to monitor" the law regarding manorial rights.
Manorial rights are those retained by the lord of the manor when its land became freehold.
Source: Land Registry
These can include rights relating to mining, hunting and holding fairs or markets.
The system dates back to William the Conqueror's coronation as England's king in 1066 when feudal rights were introduced, but recently the Land Registration Act 2002 stated that people with manorial rights must lodge them with the Land Registry before October 2013 - or face losing them.
Hatfield House is the home of the seventh Marquess and Marchioness of Salisbury and has been in the Cecil family for 400 years.
Residents said they only realised Lord Salisbury had the rights when he sent out letters last year saying he had access to land they own.
Estate solicitors Bond Dickinson said the marquess was recording "pre-existing ownership" following a law change and residents "should not be alarmed".
Residents set up the Welwyn Hatfield Residents Against the Marquess of Salisbury Manorial Rights group to ask Lord Salisbury to give up these rights but have now begun a national campaign to get the law abolished in England and Wales.
On Wednesday, about 50 campaigners joined a march outside Hatfield House where a "people's proclamation" was read out.
It said lords claimed manorial rights "by virtue of inherited titles, yet you retain none of the responsibilities that once went hand in hand with them" and it would be asking MPs to have the rights abolished.
Campaign spokeswoman Amanda White said the "outdated laws" gave lords of the manor claim to more than 100,000 properties in England and Wales.
"They are relics of the past and have no place in a...

Summary: Residents trying to stop a lord claiming manorial rights over Hertfordshire land, have held a protest at Hatfield House calling for the feudal law to be abolished.
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Article: It was a week in which trading in China's markets was twice halted by a circuit breaker, before the authorities decided to suspend the measure.
The Shanghai Composite closed 2% higher on Friday, but still ended the week down by about 10%.
In London, the FTSE 100 was up 55.4 points, or 0.93%, at 6,009.4.
In Frankfurt, the Dax was up 1.0%, while the Cac 40 in Paris was up 0.7%.
On Thursday, markets in Europe and the US recorded steep losses after trading in China's stock markets closed within the first 30 minutes.
The direct financial impact of lower share prices in China is moderate. There is not enough foreign investment in the Chinese market for it to be a major problem. The London consultancy Capital Economics has said foreigners own just 2% of shares.
The issue is about whether the financial turbulence shines a light on wider issues about the economic slowdown in China: is the economy heading for what's called a "hard landing", too sharp a slowdown?
China is now such a big force in the global economy that it would inevitably affect the rest of the world. It is the second largest economy and the second largest importer of both goods and commercial services.
Read more from Andrew.
Trading in China was volatile again on Friday, the first day since the suspension of the circuit breaker.
The Chinese central bank also took steps to strengthen the yuan after the currency's weakness was taken as a sign of problems for the economy.
Connor Campbell, an analyst at Spreadex, said the FTSE's rise on Friday was "nothing to write home about, especially in the context of the near 6% plunge the UK index has witnessed since Monday".
However, he added, it did mark an important moment of calm that has been largely absent since 2016 got underway, something that could help matters heading into next week.
Market attention now turns to the US unemployment figures, which are due out later on Friday.
"It takes quite something to relegate the US employment report to a footnote in this week's trading activity, but the China induced...

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An early-medieval gold pendant created from an imitation of a Byzantine coin that was found in a Norfolk field is a "rare find", a museum expert has said.

Article: Two trenches were dug on Monday to investigate Ipswich's Cornhill area.
However, by Tuesday contractors were told the bricks would all need to be put back when the council realised the ditches might get in the way of a festival and parade next month.
They said work could begin again after the event.
An Ipswich Borough Council spokesman said: "We are taking this dig extremely seriously, and if we had discovered something of note we could not guarantee to have everything back in place safely for this community event in early September."
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The investigative work was scheduled to take place ahead of a £3m redevelopment of the Cornhill, which will start in January and see the creation of a water feature and sculpture.
Archaeologists were expected to be working in a fenced-off area for two weeks but the dig was halted after just one day.
"[The] work on Ipswich's Cornhill has been postponed to allow a town centre procession and festival to take place early next month," the council spokesman added.
"As a result, we will start the dig after that as there is no impact on the timing of the Cornhill project."

Summary: Archaeologists digging trenches ahead of a town centre revamp have been forced to fill them in after just 24 hours.
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Article: Carwyn Jones said he supported the UK keeping its access to the market, but said individual deals for any of the home nations were unworkable.
He is due to host a British-Irish Council summit in Cardiff.
Nicola Sturgeon, who is calling for Scotland to retain single market access, will be among those attending.
Also in attendance will be figures from the UK government and the devolved nations as well as Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny, with whom Ms Sturgeon will hold a bilateral meeting.
Carwyn Jones told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that he wanted the UK government to push for full and unfettered access to the European single market.
However, the Labour politician said he could not foresee any separate arrangements being made to ensure any of the home nations had individual access.
The Welsh first minister told the programme: "Well, I don't think a separate arrangement works if I'm honest with you. I don't see how there can be separate market access arrangements for the different nations within the UK that share the same land mass."
His comments come after it emerged earlier this week that Alex Salmond had held informal talks at the European Free Trade Association.
His successor Nicola Sturgeon has said she is exploring ways of keeping Scotland within the European single market even if the UK government withdraws.
But Mr Jones said: "It's a matter for the Scottish government who they talk to, of course, but I can't see how it would work.
"For example, if Scotland had separate market access arrangements, that would mean possibly different customs arrangements, that would mean there would be customs posts on the border. There's no other way to deal with that.
"If you're Greenland and you're a long way away from the European land mass, it's easier. But otherwise, how do you control the flow of goods that are traded at different terms on the same island?"
Scotland's External Affairs Secretary Fiona Hyslop, who will also attend the summit, insisted there was agreement with Carwyn Jones over the...

Summary: The Welsh first minister has said he does not support the idea of Scotland retaining separate access to the European single market after Brexit.
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Article: The debate follows the appearance of plus-size models in a Sports Illustrated swimsuit catwalk show.
An opinion article in Sydney's Daily Telegraph criticised the use of larger models as "irresponsible", while a health expert said they promoted a "dangerous" message about health.
However, other experts say the catwalk should represent all body shapes.
The debate was ignited after columnist Soraiya Fuda wrote: "If the fashion industry decides to stop using models who appear to have starved themselves to skin and bones - as they should - they shouldn't then choose to promote an equally unhealthy body shape."
However, speaking on local television, Sports Illustrated editor MJ Day said: "We have made a very positive statement that beauty is not 'one size fits all'."
Health experts have also pitched in on the debate.
Dr Brad Frankum, president of the Australian Medical Association in New South Wales, has questioned why obese models do not cause a similar backlash to severely underweight models.
"If someone was walking down the catwalk smoking a cigarette there would be an outcry because that would be a very unhealthy message," Dr Frankum told the BBC.
"Similarly if we send very overweight or obese people down the catwalk modelling clothes, what it is saying, in a way, is that we are celebrating obesity. I think that is dangerous because we know it is a dangerous health condition."
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Dr Frankum said it was clear that some models in the Sports Illustrated show were obese.
However Prof John Dixon, head of clinical obesity research at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, says models should represent everyone in the community.
"With it being normal to be overweight in our community and so many - 28% of Australians being obese - it is quite offensive to say that obese people should not be on a catwalk," he said.
A Body Mass Index (BMI) between 25 and 30 falls within the overweight range, according to Prof...

Summary: A debate has emerged in Australia about whether overweight models who appear on the catwalk are glorifying obesity.
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Article: Polling a sample of the population has often been likened to tasting soup: if it is well stirred then you need to have only one spoonful to tell what the whole bowl is like.
In the same way, a well conducted poll of 1,000 people can, in principle, give us an idea of what the country as a whole is thinking.
However, there are several problems that pollsters need to overcome to have a chance of accurately reflecting the whole electorate.
Firstly, no poll can be 100% correct 100% of the time.
Polling companies generally claim that 95% of the time, a poll of 1,000 people will be accurate within a margin of error of +/-3%.
This means that a figure in the poll could be up to three percentage points higher or lower than that shown.
So if "Leave" is on 32% and "Remain" 38%, there is a chance they could both be on 35%.
It is, however, more likely that the figures will be 1% out rather than 3%.
Pollsters use weighting to try to ensure their samples represent the general population of the UK.
At its most basic level, this means that if a poll of 1,000 people is made up of 550 men and 450 women, it is unrepresentative because it does not reflect that the UK population is 51% female.
So the answers of female respondents will be given slightly more weight (in this case they will each count as 1.133 people) to give them a representative impact on the final findings.
Conversely, the men will be weighted to each count as 0.891 people.
The same procedure is routinely carried out for age group, social class and region.
Some pollsters also weight data by previous voting records, by asking respondents how they voted in the May 2015 General Election.
This is done to try and make the sample more closely match the political make-up of the whole population.
This is not without problems though. Some people may not remember who the voted for and a few will even lie about it.
Most companies also weight or filter by likelihood to vote so that the answers of people who are most likely to vote are given the most prominence in the...

Summary: How are opinion polls carried out and how can they tell us what the country will decide in the 23 June referendum?
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Article: Discovered on land at North Elmham, near Dereham, the circa 600 AD coin was created by French rulers of the time to increase their available currency.
Adrian Marsden, finds officer based at Norwich Castle Museum, said the object was probably buried with its owner.
The pendant was declared treasure by the Norfolk coroner on Wednesday.
Mr Marsden added: "This is an early copy of a Byzantine gold coin made in France.
"The Merovingians [French rulers] created copies of Byzantine coins from their bullion as there wasn't enough coinage coming in from the eastern Roman empire. How many of these copies were 'official' currency is hard to say."
The 23.5mm diameter pendant, created from an imitation of a gold solidus of emperor Maurice Tiberius (582-602 AD), features a suspension loop with three longitudinal ribs having been soldered to the edge of the coin immediately above the emperor's head.
"What's interesting is you have somebody in France copying a Byzantine coin which then also followed the trend of turning it into jewellery."
Mr Marsden said the coin was likely to have come to England as a result of export trade at the time.
"We see very few of these so it's an interesting find and one that we will hope to acquire for the Norwich Castle Museum collection."
Other items declared treasure at the coroner's inquest include an early-medieval Carolingian-style silver mount found in Barnham Broom, a hoard of 150 Roman coins discovered in Quidenham and an early-medieval biconical gold bead which would have been worn on high-status necklaces.

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