The Islamic Center of Boca Raton has planned to host a polling site for the state's primary in August and the general election in November.
The official polling site for the state's primary in August and the general election in November.
The official polling site for the state's primary in August and the general election

A Florida mosque has been removed as a polling station for the 2016 election after local officials received complaints and threats of violence.

Article: Federica Mogherini said they had agreed to work on closer ties in a number of areas, including the economy, energy, education, migration and transport.
The visit follows last year's historic nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic.
She said the results of their talks would "make a real difference" to the lives of Iranians and Europeans.
Meanwhile, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been holding talks with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the presidential palace in Ankara.
They agreed to increase banking and economic co-operation and boost trade to $30bn (Â£21bn) within two years.
Mr Erdogan said they also agreed to "reduce our differences" over Syria and other issues, to "work together to overcome the problems of terrorism and sectarianism and the related humanitarian crises that are shaking our region".
Ms Mogherini said the issue of Syria and stability in the Middle East region had been discussed in her talks with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Also, the question of human rights in Iran, of which she said "it is not a secret we have some concerns in this respect".
Mr Zarif, for his part, welcomed the EU's support for Iran's bid to join the World Trade Organization, but called on the US to fulfil their commitments in relation to the nuclear deal and remove obstacles to the banking sector.
Major European banks and businesses continue to be wary of investing in Iran, where US sanctions are still in place linked to alleged terrorism and human rights questions.
"Iran and the EU will put pressure on the United States to facilitate the co-operation of non-American banks with Iran," Mr Zarif said. "It's essential that the other side, especially the United States, fulfil its commitments not on paper but in practice and removes the obstacles especially in banking sector."
Engaging directly with Iran - a key player in Syria - is for Europe one of the main benefits of the nuclear deal.
Iranian officials also said they wanted to strengthen this relationship - especially because the kind of dialogue is...

Summary: The European Union and Iran have "turned a new page" in their diplomatic relations, the EU's foreign policy chief said on a visit to Tehran.
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Article: The closely watched Markit/CIPS services purchasing managers' index (PMI) rose to 58.6 in November, up from 56.2 in October.
A reading on the index above 50 indicates expansion in the sector.
The services sector has now been showing growth for nearly two years.
It comes as a similar survey covering the eurozone showed service sector growth in the bloc slowed in November. Markit's eurozone services PMI fell to to 51.1 in the month from 52.3 in October.
The data, taken together with construction and manufacturing output in the currency union, points to economic growth in the eurozone of just 0.1% in the final quarter of the year, Markit added.
Data released by Markit on Monday and Tuesday painted a mixed picture of the UK economy, with manufacturing picking up in November but growth in construction slowing.
Markit said the three surveys combined pointed towards economic growth of 0.6% in the final three months of this year, up slightly from an earlier estimate of 0.5%.
"Faster growth of services activity brings welcome news that fears of a potentially sharp slowdown in the economy look overplayed," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit.
The figures will come as a fillip to Chancellor George Osborne, who gives an update on official growth and borrowing forecasts in his Autumn Statement on Wednesday.
The Bank of England forecasts the UK economy will grow by 3.5% this year, faster than any other advanced economy, before slowing to 2.9% next year.
Markit said the services PMI showed that falling oil prices, which hit a five-year low on Monday, were helping firms to offset the effect of staff costs, as hiring increased at its fastest rate since July.
"There are also signs that wage growth is picking up alongside the improving labour market, which should help boost household incomes and consumer spending," Mr Williamson added.
Last week, official data showed household spending rose at its fastest rate in over four years in the three months to September, while Bank of England data on Monday showed consumers...

Summary: Activity in the UK's dominant services sector grew at its fastest rate for a year in November, a leading survey has indicated, helping to alleviate fears that the economy may be slowing.
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Article: Grammar schools are state secondary schools that select their pupils by means of an examination taken by children at age 11, known as the "11-plus".
There are only about 163 grammar schools in England, out of some 3,000 state secondaries, and a further 69 grammar schools in Northern Ireland.
Under the grammar school system, pupils who pass the exam can go to the local grammar, while those who do not go to the local "secondary modern school".
More common across the UK is the "comprehensive" system, in which pupils of all abilities and aptitudes are taught together.
There are no state grammars in Wales or Scotland, and although some retain the name "grammar school", they are non-selective and have no special status.
Grammar schools have existed since the 16th Century, but the modern grammar school concept dates back to the Education Act 1944. This made secondary education after the age of 14 free.
At the same time secondary education was reorganised into two basic types:
There was a third type of school, the technical school - but very few were established.
So the system effectively divided pupils into two types - those destined for university and better jobs, and those deemed more suitable for less celebrated professions.
During the 1950s and 1960s, it was said, mainly by Labour politicians and egalitarian educationalists, that the selective education system reinforced class division and middle-class privilege.
In 1965, the government ordered local education authorities to start phasing out grammar schools and secondary moderns, and replace them with a comprehensive system.
The quickest changes were made in Labour-controlled areas, while strongly Conservative counties moved slowly or not at all.
A handful of counties and local authorities in England have kept largely selective schools systems, including Kent, Medway, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire, while others such as Gloucestershire, Trafford and Slough have a mix.
In other places, a few grammar schools survived in areas that were otherwise fully...

Summary: BBC News answers some of the key questions about grammar schools and poses some 11-plus questions for readers to tackle.
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Article: The Islamic Center of Boca Raton had planned to host a polling site for the state's primary in August and the general election in November.
Officials rescinded the invitation, drawing sharp criticism from Florida lawmakers who said it reinforced religious discrimination.
The site was moved to a nearby library.
County Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher said she moved the site after receiving about 50 complaints from people who said they did not want to vote in a mosque.
The Islamic Center has been used as a polling station at least since 2010, the Washington Post reported.
Democratic US Representatives Ted Deutch and Lois Frankel released statements opposing the move.
"If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate,'' Mr Deutch said.
It is unclear how many houses of worship are used as polling places across the country, but churches are often selected as host sites because of their large auditoriums and parking lots.
Mosques in California, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Ohio have served as polling places, including one that has been used since at least 2004, according to the AP news agency.

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The government is considering a "smart ticketing" system for public transport across the country.

The number of cancer cases in Wales has risen by almost 10% over a 10-year period.

Article: The study launched on Wednesday by the government-sponsored watchdog also found men were central to 72% of print news stories.
The report found "significant" stereotypes about gender in adverts.
It added most journalists in the country are men - one study showed only 7% of politics articles were by women.
One part of the Kenyan Media Council's report showed extreme gender imbalance in politics reporting.
Ahead of Kenya's election in 2012, the council analysed 276 articles about the vote in Kenyan newspapers.
Women were the central character of the news stories in only 4% of the articles and only 7% of the stories were written by women.
At the launch of the report Rhonda Breit, associate dean at the graduate school of journalism at the Aga Khan University in Kenya's capital Nairobi, pointed out that these issues are not unique to Kenya.
"The issues are very similar in other countries - inequalities within the work environment around women reaching the glass ceiling and not having the opportunities to do stories on politics and crime".
The Global Media Monitoring Project found in its 2015 report on 108 countries that women make up only 24% of the people heard, read about or seen in newspaper, television and radio news.

Summary: Men are 10 times more likely than women to be used as a source for a news story Kenyan media, according to the country's media council.
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Article: The German study, published in the journal Heart, found that women who had more than three miscarriages had a five-fold increase in risk.
The relatively young age of the women meant overall risk remained low, but miscarriages could alert doctors to future problems, the researchers said.
UK specialists said that the reason for the link was still unclear.
The study looked at more than 11,500 women aged between their mid-30s and mid-60s.
They looked at the pregnancy history of those who had suffered heart attacks, and compared this to the rate of miscarriages in the other women.
They found that one in four of the women in the study reported having a miscarriage - although this number could be higher because some women become pregnant then miscarry without realising what has happened.
When other factors linked to heart problems - such as weight, alcohol consumption and smoking - were accounted for, having three or more miscarriages increased the risk of heart attacks by more than 500%.
A smaller increase in risk was recorded in women who had miscarried fewer than three times.
The researchers, from the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg, said that the results suggested a "substantially higher" risk later in life.
They suggested that a history of miscarriage should be recorded by doctors as an "important indicator" when trying to work out whether a woman was likely to suffer heart problems in middle-age and beyond.
The age of the women involved in the study meant that the overall risk of heart attack could not be tested.
The five-fold increase refers to a much smaller risk - that a woman would have a heart attack at a younger age.
This means that even a five-fold increase does not mean that a woman who suffers multiple miscarriages is very likely to have a heart attack.
Indeed, among a sample of 2,876 women who reported miscarriages, there were 82 heart attacks over a ten-year period.
However, other specialists said that the link between miscarriage and heart attacks remained a concern.
Professor Gordon...

Summary: Having multiple miscarriages increases the risk of a heart attack later in life, according to researchers.
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Article: Campaigners believe the move would encourage more people to leave their cars at home.
This could help to tackle pollution and congestion.
Smart tickets, such as London's Oyster card, allow passengers to use one plastic card to make journeys on different types of public transport.
The card is loaded with cash in advance and can also be automatically topped up from a bank or credit card account.
About 43 million Oyster cards have been issued since they were launched in 2003 and Oyster has eight million regular users.
Figures show that about 80% of all journeys on public transport in the London area are made by passengers using Oyster cards.
Calum McCallum of Transform Scotland, which promotes public transport use, believes there is no reason why a Scottish equivalent should not prove to be a success and would make life much easier for passengers.
He said: "If you have the flexibility to jump on and off the buses and trains, or whatever mode of public transport actually suits you, then we believe you're more likely to use public transport.
"There clearly needs to be government intervention to push this thing along.
"It's not something which will happen by itself. It's just too complicated for all the organisations involved to come together but a lot of the pieces are already in place."
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport plans to have smart ticketing in operation on the Glasgow subway by summer 2013.
SPT's ambition is to see the system extended to include Scotrail and private bus companies.
SPT's assistant chief executive Eric Stewart also expects the system will lead to increased passenger numbers, benefiting commuters and operators.
He said: "If you look at the Oyster example in London, there's been a huge increase in bus usage, a huge increase in Tube and rail usage. There's absolutely no reason we can't do exactly the same in Scotland."
SPT's smart ticketing system will rely on technology provided by the East Kilbride company, Ecebs. Work there is said to be well ahead of schedule.
The firm's managing...

Summary: The Scottish government is being urged to push ahead with proposals for a "smart ticketing" system for public transport across the country.
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Article: There were about 19,000 diagnoses in 2015, compared to about 17,300 in 2006.
Public Health Wales (PHW) said the main reason for the increase was an ageing population.
The organisation's Dr Dyfed Wyn Huws said there was "good news" by way of significant reductions in smoking rates in recent decades.
There was a year-on-year decrease from about 19,800 cases in 2014, but the 2015 figure of 19,088 is likely to increase as statisticians revise the numbers.
Once age factors are taken into account, the rate decreased by more than 5% in men, but increased by more than 5% among women between 2006 and 2015.
This is partly due to the rate of lung cancer going down in men, but up among women. Historically, smoking rates peaked far earlier among men than women.
Breast, prostate, lung and bowel cancers remain the most common.
According to PHW, cases of liver, mouth, throat and melanoma skin cancer saw the biggest percentage increases.
The rates of stomach cancer and prostate cancer decreased, while mesothelioma rates increased by almost a third.
Dr Huws said: "We know that up to four in 10 of cancers in the population may be preventable.
"With an increasing number of cancer cases each year, cancer control is possible and important for future generations and for keeping rising health service demand in check.
"The good news is that we have seen significant reductions in smoking rates in recent decades.
"This is already bringing cancer rates down in men."

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Article: Fr Gary Donegan was involved in talks to help resolve a long-running parade dispute in Ardoyne, north Belfast.
He said there was a "different atmosphere" in Ardoyne as marchers passed through on Wednesday morning.
However, he said it was a "small step" and there was more work to do.
Fr Donegan, who is now working in Crossgar, County Down, returned to Ardoyne on 12 July to watch as the morning parade "passed by very peacefully and quietly" on Wednesday.
He told BBC Radio Ulster that "very few" nationalist residents congregated along the route of the march this year.
"I'd say 80 people at most was the largest crowd that had actually gathered on the nationalist side  - compared to previous years there were hundreds - and there was nothing to see."
The priest added: "Yesterday was a step - it was massive in many ways but small in other ways and we have to say 'Ok right, reflect on what actually happened - how can we actually build on this?'
"The more we inch forward to normality, and these things just pass through without reaction and pass by with dignity and respect, then the place gets a different perspective, a different name.
"Possibly then, the real issues that are there, such as unemployment, education, housing and infrastructure, could be addressed".
Fr Donegan added that finding a long-term solution to contentious parades was an "ongoing process".
The Ardoyne parade dispute - which has cost an estimated Â£20m to police - began after a Parades Commission determination not to allow the return or evening leg of the march to pass a section of the Crumlin Road in 2013.
Loyalists staged nightly protests in the area until October last year, when the Orange Order reached an agreement with the nationalist residents' association the Crumlin Ardoyne Residents Association (Cara).
However, another nationalist residents' group - the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (Garc) - rejected the deal and protested against the 1 October march.
Fr Donegan said that after marchers "completed" the disputed 2013 parade on 1...

Summary: Northern Ireland should build on the progress it has made after what was hailed as the "most peaceful" Twelfth of July commemorations in years, a north Belfast priest has said.
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Article: A study says temperatures are rising faster than the development of crop varieties that can cope with a warmer world.
In Africa, researchers found that it can take 10-30 years before farmers can grow a new breed of maize.
By the time these new crops are planted, they face a warmer environment than they were developed in.
The scientists behind the study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, looked closely at the impact of temperature rises on crop duration - that's the length of time between planting and harvesting.
They found that in a warmer world durations will be shorter meaning these varieties will have less time to accumulate biomass and yields could be affected.
In their paper, the researchers write that crop duration will become significantly shorter as early as 2018 in some regions but by 2031, the majority of maize-growing areas of Africa will be affected.
"The actual changes in yield may be different but this effect is there, the impact of this change in duration will occur unless breeding changes," said lead author Prof Andy Challinor from the University of Leeds.
"The durations will be shorter than what they were bred for - by the time they are in the field they are, in terms of temperature, out of date."
New varieties of maize need between 10-30 years of development before they are ready to be grown by farmers.
The scientists say the lag is down to a combination of factors including the limited number of crops you can grow in a season, the need for government approved testing and there are also a number of problems of access to markets that can increase the time it takes before the farmers have the new seeds to plant.
Increasing the speed of development is important but according to Prof Challinor, so is making smarter assumptions about future conditions.
"We can use the climate models to tell us what the temperatures are going to be," he told BBC News,
"We can then put those temperature elevations into the greenhouses and then we can breed the crops at those temperatures. People are...

Summary: Crops yields around the world could fall within a decade unless action is taken to speed up the introduction of new varieties.
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Article: Yes, Hillary Clinton's lead in pledged delegates and total votes, as well as her vast advantage among the "superdelegate" party officials and officeholders, means she likely will accrue the necessary support on Tuesday to be the nominee even before polls close in California.
But the Sanders campaign is asserting that a win on the west coast, where surveys show the race is close, will fuel his efforts over the coming weeks, setting the stage for a showdown with Mrs Clinton on the floor of the Democratic convention in July.
At a press conference in Los Angeles on Saturday morning Mr Sanders emphasised this point, urging the reporters in attendance to refrain from calling Mrs Clinton the presumptive nominee.
"I have heard reports that Secretary Clinton has said it's all going to be over on Tuesday night," Sanders said. "I have heard reports that the media, after the New Jersey results come in, are going to declare that it is all over. That simply is not accurate."
The Vermont senator's pitch is that, unencumbered by Mrs Clinton's low approval ratings and controversy surrounding her use of a private email server while at the State Department, he's the better candidate to run against Republican Donald Trump in the autumn general election.
His team points to numerous opinion polls showing that he performs better in hypothetical presidential matchups than Mrs Clinton. (Clinton's team counters that his numbers are inflated because he's largely stayed above the fray on the campaign trail.)
After Tuesday, when all but the District of Columbia will have held their nomination contests, Mr Sanders will no longer be able to make that case to most American voters.
His goal, then, will be to convince enough superdelegates - who are not officially committed to a candidate until they cast their ballots at the Democratic convention - to switch their support to him. A win in California, the nation's most populous state, would feature prominently in his closing arguments.
"At the end of the nominating process no candidate will...

Summary: For Bernie Sanders and his die-hard supporters, California - the Golden State - is his golden ticket.
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Article: In a 2005 letter, the prince referred to "the most pressing and urgent problem" of tuberculosis (TB) in cattle, which was "caused and spread" by badgers.
He wrote: "I do urge you to look again at introducing a proper cull of badgers where it is necessary.
The Labour government later rejected a cull in the English countryside.
The revelations come from private letters sent by the Prince of Wales to Labour ministers a decade ago, which have been published after a lengthy legal battle.
Prince Charles wrote: "I, for one, cannot understand how the 'badger lobby' seem to mind not at all about the slaughter of thousands of expensive cattle, and yet object to a managed cull of an over-population of badgers - to me, this is intellectually dishonest."
In reply, Mr Blair said he could "personally see the case for culling badgers" but did not want to prejudge a decision by environment ministers".
The coalition led by David Cameron gave the go-ahead for pilot culls in England in 2013.
These are expected to resume for a third year in the Southwest this year and may be rolled out to other areas of England.
Other letters written by the prince reveal more details of his interest in agriculture.
He appealed for support for farmers and British-grown produce, and raised his "anxiety" about the country's lack of self-sufficiency in foods such as meat and vegetables.
He also mentioned "the enormous problem of climate change", praising "the remarkable leadership role" the government was taking in this area.

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The Scottish Borders have been a major source of funding for the Scottish Borders since the early 1990s.
The Scottish Borders have been a major source of funding for the Scottish Borders since the early 1990s.
The Scottish Borders have been a major source of funding for the Scottish Borders since the early 1990s.
The

A new report has been published detailing the advantages of enhancing and extending the Borders Railway.

Article: The firm first acknowledged the issues in a tweet shortly after 09:00 BST and said they had been resolved three and a half hours later.
Its troubles also caused several banks to be unable to offer online services.
BT said that a power fault at one of its partners' sites in London was the cause, but did not name the company involved.
However, the BBC discovered that ultimate responsibility lay with the California-based data centre operator Equinix.
"We're sorry that some BT and Plusnet customers experienced problems accessing some internet services this morning," said a spokeswoman for BT.
"Around 10% of customers' internet usage was affected following power issues at one of our internet connection partners' sites in London. The issue has now been fixed and services have been restored."
BT's service status pages had indicated that subscribers in parts of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland had all been affected.
The event occurred six months after Equinix took control of the data centre involved as part of its takeover of the Telecity Group.
"Equinix can confirm that we experienced a brief outage at the former Telecity LD8 site in London earlier this morning," said Russell Poole, managing director in the UK for Equinix.
"This impacted a limited number of customers, however service was restored within minutes. Equinix engineers are on site and actively working with customers to minimise the impact."
BT's problems turn out to have been caused by a 20 minute power cut at a data centre in London's Docklands.
The London Internet Exchange (Linx) - one of the world's biggest internet nodes - tells me that the fault was at Equinix Telecity's Harbour Exchange data centre. It said it lasted from 07:55 to 08:17 BST.
A spokesman told me: "We take any outage very seriously. We will be having very serious conversations with Telecity about how this happened."
He added that other operators in the same building had also lost power to their equipment.
But he dismissed the idea that the incident had shown up the...

Summary: Many of BT's customers have experienced problems with its broadband services.
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Article: Twenty students signed up for the Higher Media studies course, run and marked by Inverness College UHI.
Most of those on the course were 17 and 18-year-olds hoping to use the mark from their studies to go to university.
The college said that following a routine review it was delivering a "redesigned" national certificate programme in media.
Last year's situation prompted an internal review and also an investigation by the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA).
The SQA said the nationally-available 2016 Higher Media assessment had "performed as intended".
Inverness College UHI is part of the University of the Highlands and Islands.
The college said it reviewed its curriculum on an annual basis and added new courses to fit "local and regional demand".
A spokesman said: "The college continues to deliver a national certificate programme in media, which has been redesigned to provide direct progression into HND Visual Communications.
"The annual review of the college curriculum takes account of a range of factors and is largely informed by demand, employment prospects and progression opportunities.
"The college does not comment on the process and outcome of any specific internal reviews."

Summary: A course has been redesigned after all the students who sat it last year were given fails.
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Article: The GM wheat converts sunlight into chemical energy (photosynthesis) more efficiently, boosting growth.
If the government grants permission, the experiment would potentially be the second ongoing field trial in the UK.
A go-ahead would indicate a softening in opposition to outdoor experiments to develop GM crops in Britain.
The researchers believe that the variety has potential to greatly increase crop yields. The purpose of the proposed trial is to evaluate the performance of the engineered plants in the field.
Approval could be granted by the end of January 2017 and the first crops could be planted next spring at Rothamsted Research in Harpenden.
GM technology has been around for  more 20 years, but some of the first open air trails of genetically modified crops in the late 1990s were disrupted by protesters who trampled on the plants.
Campaign groups were concerned that genes would flow from the GM crops and enter neighbouring plants and so create "super weeds".
As a result of public opposition to the technology at the time there were no outdoor trials of the technology between 2003 and 2010.
There were protests against two field trails approved since then, in 2009 and 2011, but they were not as fierce as the ones a decade earlier.
And there have been no protests against a field trail of GM rape seed planted in 2014 at Rothamsted Research which is still on going.
Prof Christine Raines, head of the school of biological sciences at the University of Essex, who is involved with the proposed wheat trial, believes that public fears over GM technology have reduced in recent years.
"I believe that there is less opposition to GM," she told BBC News.
"I would like to think that it is to do with the fact there has been a great effort made by plant scientists to explain more fully and clearly the potential of GM plants to improve our future".
Prof Raines says that outdoor field trials are essential if scientists are to to find new ways to boost food production.
Yields in wheat have not increased in the past 30 years...

Summary: Researchers have applied for a licence to carry out a trial of a genetically modified wheat crop in a small field in Hertfordshire.
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Article: It proposes the line between Edinburgh and Tweedbank should be improved and extended via Hawick to Carlisle.
The report, produced by the Campaign for Borders Rail (CBR), said that could provide a "new strategic link" in the national network.
Extending the line is already being examined as part of a wider study of transport issues in southern Scotland.
"We believe that the Borders needs a through route to the south to maximise the region's economic potential," the CBR report states.
"For Hawick, a rail link is vital."
The Summary Case for a New Cross-Border Rail Link adds: "CBR is committed to making the case for further rail-led economic and social regeneration of the Borders and a transformative new cross-border rail link."
Now it is time for Hawick and other communities in the southern Borders to benefit directly.
The briefing sees the vision for an extended Borders Railway as an "exciting opportunity".
"This document will help inform the debate on preparing for the proposed railway through the Scottish Borders to Carlisle and beyond," said Allan McLean, chairman of the CBR.
"The economies of Edinburgh, Midlothian and the northern Borders have all gained demonstrably from the opening of the Borders Railway.
"Now it is time for Hawick and other communities in the southern Borders to benefit directly."
The briefing document sets out the CBR's commercial, social and economic cases for a new railway linking the existing Tweedbank terminus to the West Coast Main Line at Mossband, just north of Carlisle.
"The completed railway would allow through trains between Edinburgh and Carlisle, serving intermediate settlements including Hawick," the report states.
"Communities not directly served would benefit from access by connecting bus services and park and ride stations."
The report claimed that extending the railway was the "only realistic proposal" to adequately address economic and social problems faced by the Scottish Borders and release the route's full potential.
It said detailed studies indicated benefits for...

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A man with schizophrenia who repeatedly stabbed a train passenger after yelling "I want to kill all the Muslims" has been found not guilty of attempted murder by reason of insanity.

Article: The practical and theory tests, in place since October 2014, must be passed before drivers can become qualified to pick up passengers.
Drivers sitting the theory test have to answer questions in four categories, covering issues from road responsibilities and mechanical knowledge to health and safety and customer care.
A number of questions are specific to the taxi industry, but some are the same as those in the theory test for new car drivers.
The pass mark is 80%, so ask yourself:

Summary: Taxi drivers in Northern Ireland say a test for new drivers is so difficult that it is putting people off joining the profession.
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Article: It's not that she's taken months to figure out what to do for her birthday, but it's because she has two - a real one and an official one.
Queen Elizabeth II was born on 21 April 1926 but has an official birthday usually celebrated on the second Saturday of June.
So why two birthdays for the Queen and how does she celebrate them?
Official celebrations to mark a King or Queen's birthday in the UK have often been held on a day that isn't their actual birthday.
Usually the official birthday happens in summer because there is a better chance of good weather in the UK during the summer months.
The two birthday tradition was started more than 250 years ago by King George II in 1748.
How does she mark her birthdays?
The Queen usually spends her actual birthday privately, but the day is marked publicly by gun salutes in central London.
On her official birthday, Her Majesty is joined by other members of the Royal Family at the Trooping the Colour parade.
Hundreds of officers, horses and musicians take part in the event in London.
The parade starts at the Queen's official residence, Buckingham Palace, along The Mall to Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, near to Downing Street, and back again.

Summary: The Queen is officially celebrating her 91st birthday today - even though she was actually born in April...
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Article: In July, the government announced that all sales of new petrol and diesel cars in the UK will cease by 2040. Volvo, meanwhile, has said every vehicle it launches from 2019 will have an electric motor.
The National Grid predicts that by 2050, there could be up to 26 million electric vehicles on the road in the UK.
They'll all need charging regularly if we're to stay on the move, so how might our homes, roads and forecourts adapt to this exhaust-free future?
The short answer from the National Grid is yes.
How you access that electricity is what requires some thinking.
A top-of-the-range electric car will have a battery capacity of 90kWh. Using an average sized charger (3.5kW) it would take around 19 hours to go from 25% to fully charged.
That's a long time to wait to nip to the shops, but charging time can be cut dramatically by using a larger charger - ideally, you'd plug in something hefty with up to 50kW to reduce the time to about 80 minutes.
However, chargers that big aren't suitable for an average home - a more likely option would be a charger of about 11kW.
A typical home is fitted with a main fuse of 60-80 amps, and the National Grid points out that an 11kW car charger would require 48 amps.
That means using a kettle, oven or immersion heater during charging would cause the main fuse to trip.
So no cuppa while you wait?
Well, one solution could be to increase the amperage of your main fuse.
Only the distribution network operators can do this - as opposed to an electrician or your supplier - and the cost can vary depending on the age of a property.
With a 100 amp fuse, a 22kW charger could be used which would have a faster charge time of around three hours.
This would, however, still require all other electrical appliances in the house to be turned off during charging.
The National Grid predicts that by 2050, if there are 20 million electric cars on the road, about 8.5 million of them will not have the facilities to charge at home.
And for the aforementioned reasons - primarily the need for a cuppa or a...

Summary: Electric vehicles are now a reality, but boiling a kettle at the same time as charging your car may not be, according to insights published by the National Grid.
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Article: Adrian Brown, 38, experienced a "severe psychotic episode" when he stabbed Muhammed Ali on a London Overground train on 12 December 2016.
Judge Deborah Taylor QC ordered that Brown should be detained indefinitely.
She added he would only be released on the order of a judge or the government.
Brown, of Brockley Rise, south-east London, appeared via video link from Broadmoor Hospital during the hearing.
A jury found Brown not guilty following a two-day trial at Southwark Crown Court.
He was also found not guilty, by reason of insanity, of possession of an offensive weapon and of assault by beating of Mr Ali.
The trial heard Brown had been delusional in his belief he would "save humanity" and exorcise a Muslim demon haunting him by stabbing his victim.
The court was told he was heard by other passengers to say "Where are all the Muslims? I am going to kill all the Muslims", before holding a knife to the throat of another woman, who was unhurt.
Brown accepted carrying out the attack but pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted murder on the grounds of insanity.
Mr Ali had been travelling home with his wife when the assault took place between Honor Oak Park and Forest Hill, south London.
He told court that the attack had left him too frightened to leave his house.
"I struggle to sleep at the time because every time I shut my eyes I have flashbacks to the whole thing", he said.
"I can only assume it was me because my wife was wearing a headscarf."
Detaining Brown indefinitely under section 37 of the Mental Health Act, Judge Taylor said: "You have a long history of psychotic illness and on that day you were suffering and you continue to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia.
"There's no doubt that if it had not been for the prompt intervention of an off-duty police officer and two medical practitioners that he he may well have died such were the severity of his injuries and the loss of blood."

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The US has been in talks with North Korea since the US was elected in 2008.
The US has been in talks with North Korea since the US was elected in 2008.
The US has been in talks with North Korea since the US was elected in 2008.
The US has been in talks with North Korea since

The US has warned North Korea to refrain from "irresponsible provocation" after the communist state said its main nuclear facility had resumed normal operations.

Article: Aboriginal leaders want their own people to agree first on how to move towards constitutional recognition for the country's first peoples.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said such a move would not gain broader support.
Indigenous Australians are not mentioned in the constitution and a treaty was never negotiated with them.
Mr Abbott has pledged to hold a referendum in 2017 that could see Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders recognised as the first Australians.
Indigenous leaders are angry Mr Abbott has rejected their proposals to hold Indigenous-only meetings first.
But in a letter to Indigenous leaders, published in The Australian newspaper on Tuesday, Mr Abbott said holding Indigenous-only meetings first risked creating "a log of claims".
He said his "anxiety about a separate Indigenous process is that it jars with the notion of finally substituting 'we' for 'them and us'".
"I am in favour of building consensus, but strongly believe that this should be a national consensus in favour of a particular form of recognition rather than simply an Indigenous one," Mr Abbott said.
Influential Cape York leader Noel Pearson told local media Mr Abbott's "log of claims" comments was "probably the most dismal part of this whole matter â€” it's almost offensive".
A Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples has recommended these changes to the constitution:
Repealing the two so-called "race provisions":
Indigenous lawyer Patrick Dodson said Aboriginal Australians needed to have their "own discussions" on "complicated matters".
"Until you can get something that is consensual it is very difficult to give them comfort to a proposition that may or may not have their support," Mr Dodson told National Indigenous Television (NITV).
Speaking at an Indigenous festival in the Northern Territory on the weekend, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda said it was hard not to feel despair.
"I sometimes think I meet the definition of...

Summary: Australia's Prime Minister has rejected a proposal to consult Aboriginal people first about recognising them in the nation's constitution.
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Article: A former education minister, he has promised to create jobs, boost the economy and improve education and healthcare.
His party, the Jamaican Labour Party will have a slim one-seat majority in parliament.
He beat Portia Simpson Miller, Jamaica's first female head of government in elections last week.
He was sworn in by the Governor-General of Jamaica, Sir Patrick Allen.
Among the challenges for Jamaica's new government is a youth unemployment rate of 38% and dealing with the country's heavy debt.
In his inaugural address, Mr Holness said he wanted to make Jamaica "the centre of the Caribbean" for finance, trade, commerce, arts and culture.
"My dream is to fulfil your dream. We must create a Jamaica where there is hope and opportunity, where we can encourage our children to dream big."

Summary: Jamaica has sworn in a new Prime Minister, Andrew Holness.
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Article: The promoter of the Carl Frampton fight, Barry McGuigan, paid £5,000 towards the policing bill.
The total policing bill for the event, at Titanic slipways in September, came in at £35,585. The promoter paid what was described as an "abated cost".
The amounts were revealed in a freedom of information request to the PSNI.
Frampton outpointed Spain's Kiko Martinez to secure the world IBF super-bantamweight title, in front of 16,000 boxing fans.
In its answer to the FoI request, a police spokesperson said the "abated cost" was agreed prior to the event and was "in line with PSNI and Association of Chief Police Officers charging policy".
It is understood the bill was higher than would have been expected at an event of this nature, due to additional discretionary spend by the PSNI.
Extra security measures were put in place because of the high-profile nature of the event and the risk of reputational damage to Northern Ireland, were anything to go wrong.
It is believed the cost, without the additional security, would have been closer to £10,000.
A police source said: "The PSNI billed the promoter for an amount which was deemed to be proportionate and fair."
In October, Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford said First Minister Peter Robinson should have declared an interest in the fight, which received £300,000 in public money, including £250,000 from the Northern Ireland Executive.
The Irish News newspaper reported that Mr Robinson's son Gareth helped to promote the event.
Mr Robinson had asked Mr Ford about the PSNI's charging policy around such events.
The first minister rejected any idea that there had been a conflict of interest and said the discussion at the executive related to the general policy of police charging for events.
`"There was no suggestion whatsoever at any time to influence decisions pertaining to the IBF (International Boxing Federation) event in Belfast," the DUP leader said.
"Rather this was merely the catalyst for the discussion. No conflict could therefore have arisen."
The...

Summary: More than £30,000 was paid out of the public purse towards the cost of policing a world title boxing match in Belfast earlier this year.
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Article: The reactor at Yongbyon has been the source of plutonium for North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.
The White House said North Korea should "focus instead on fulfilling its international obligations".
The reactor was shut down in 2007 as part of a disarmament-for-aid deal.
But Pyongyang vowed to restart it in 2013, following its third nuclear test and amid high regional tensions.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the international community would not accept North Korea as a nuclear state.
"We will work with our partners in the context of the six-party talks to try to return North Korea to a posture of fulfilling those commitments that they have made," he said.
"We will repeat our call that North Korea should refrain from the irresponsible provocations that aggravate regional tension and should focus instead on fulfilling its international obligations and commitments."
Six-nation talks involving South Korea, the US, China, Japan and Russia aimed at ending the North's nuclear programme have been stalled since 2009.
Experts believe that, when fully operational, the Yongbyon reactor can make one nuclear bomb's worth of plutonium per year.
A US think-tank said this year that satellite images suggested work had started at the Yongbyon complex.
But Tuesday's announcement was the first official confirmation from North Korea that it had restarted operations there.
The state-run news agency KCNA said North Korea was improving its nuclear weapons "in quality and quantity".
It said that the North was ready to face US hostility with "nuclear weapons any time".
However, experts say North Korea's nuclear capabilities are unclear.
Pyongyang claims it has made a device small enough to fit a nuclear warhead on to a missile, which it could launch at its enemies. But US officials have cast doubt on the claim.
North Korea has made bellicose threats against its neighbours and the US before, often to coincide with annual joint military exercises held by South Korea and US forces.
The two Koreas remain technically at war,...

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has said it will not allow the use of lethal force overseas for counter-terrorism, the Joint Committee on Human Rights said.
The government has said it will not allow the use of lethal force overseas for counter-terrorism, the Joint Committee on Human Rights said.
The government has said it will not allow

The chairmen of five parliamentary committees have written to David Cameron to urge him to remove overseas student numbers from migration targets.

Article: Conservative judges on the high court seemed to agree with Oklahoma's use of midazolam, with some questioning why the court was hearing the case at all.
Lawyers for three of the state's death row inmates say the drug presents an unconstitutional risk of pain and suffering.
Their executions have been put on hold amid the court review.
The Supreme Court justices previously ruled Oklahoma could not execute Richard Glossip, John Grant and Benjamin Cole by lethal injection using midazolam while the case is pending.
At issue before the Supreme Court is not the constitutionality of the death penalty, but whether the use of midazolam violates the US constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
The drug was used in three executions seen as botched in 2014.
Lawyers for the three inmates argue that midazolam cannot achieve the level of unconsciousness required and is therefore unsuitable for executions.
Oklahoma has maintained the drug is effective and that a botched execution in 2014 was the result of other factors.
The court's liberal justices questioned whether the drug was effective enough, with Justice Elena Kagan saying that if it does not work, then inmates would be "burned alive from the inside" from the other drug used in the process, potassium chloride.
Meanwhile, Justice Samuel Alito queried why the court had agreed to take the case, complaining of a "guerrilla war" by opponents of the death penalty to limit the options available for execution.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, often a deciding vote in sharply split cases, said little during the arguments.
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin recently signed a law allowing the state to use nitrogen gas as an alternative execution method.
Arizona, Florida, Ohio have also used the drug in executions.
A decision by the Supreme Court on the case is due by the end of June.

Summary: US justices appear sharply divided over whether an execution drug can be used, after arguments at the Supreme Court.
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Article: Until now, passengers could order a car only when they were ready to ride.
Passengers may still be charged a higher "surge price" at the time of their scheduled ride if there is high demand for Uber vehicles on the day.
The feature will be enabled for business users in London first, with other Londoners getting access over the next two weeks.
Surge pricing increases the cost of fares when there is high demand for Uber vehicles.
Cars booked in advance will be subject to surge pricing - but passengers will have the option to cancel a booking if it is too expensive.
Analysis by Leo Kelion, Technology desk editor
Uber's latest move should help it take a bigger bite out of the business travel market.
Companies will be able to use Uber, knowing executives won't have to wait for a post-meeting pick-up or early morning trip to the airport.
But unlike at many minicab companies, the passenger and motorist are not paired in advance.
Uber will need to work out when to send a car towards each pre-booked pick-up, taking into account not only traffic but the likelihood that the driver will actually accept the request.
London is a big city, giving Uber a big pool of drivers to call on - it has 30,000 "partners" in the city - but it must deliver a reliable service if it is to woo passengers away from the likes of Addison Lee.
A bigger issue could be that Uber's drivers won't necessarily wait if a customer is running late. Other minicab companies will - for an added fee.
Uber says if there's a last minute delay, it will be up to the passenger to try to convince the driver to stay.
But the fact surge pricing could still kick in may deter some riders, especially when it comes to scheduling a rush-hour trip.
Scheduled rides were first introduced in Seattle on 9 June and now operate in several US cities.
Uber is also testing a travelcard-style option in cities such as San Francisco and Miami, which lets riders buy access to cheaper fares.
For example, riders in San Francisco can pay $20 (Â£15) upfront in exchange for 20 Uber Pool...

Summary: Transport app Uber has allowed customers in London to book journeys up to 30 days in advance.
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Article: The government insisted it did not have a "targeted killing" policy, but was clearly willing to use lethal force overseas for counter-terrorism, the Joint Committee on Human Rights said.
Two UK citizens were killed in Syria last year by an RAF drone.
The government says it takes "lawful action" over direct threats to the UK.
Reyaad Khan, a British member of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, was targeted and killed by an RAF drone in Syria last August. Ruhul Amin, 26, from Aberdeen, also died in the strike.
When is it legal to kill your own citizens?
Drone strikes: Do they actually work?
Informing Parliament of the death, Prime Minister David Cameron said Mr Khan, 21, from Cardiff, had been plotting "barbaric" attacks on UK soil.
The British military was not authorised by Parliament to engage in military action inside Syria at that stage - but the strike was justified as an "act of self-defence", Mr Cameron said.
But that position is not justified under international law, and later statements justified the killing in the context of the armed conflict in Iraq.
The committee said it accepted that the drone strike had been part of the armed conflict against IS in Iraq and Syria, and therefore covered by the Law of War.
But there were contradictions and inconsistencies in the government's explanation of its policy on drone strikes, the committee added.
It said the government's policy on using lethal force abroad outside of armed conflict, and the legal basis for that, must be clarified.
The MPs and peers said international law permitting self-defence did not extend to using force "pre-emptively against a threat which is more remote, such as plans which have been merely discussed but which lack the necessary intent or capability to make them imminent".
Committee chairman and Labour MP Harriet Harman said the legal justification for the drone strike on Khan was "confused and confusing".
She called for the UK government to lead the way internationally by defining a clear legal basis for action, and to make sure...

Summary: The legal case for using drone strikes outside of armed conflict needs "urgent clarification" from ministers, a cross-party parliamentary committee has said.
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Article: They are asking him to "reconcile" the "tensions" between tougher restrictions and the desire for economic growth.
Net migration figures fell last year, with officials saying this was "largely due" to a drop in foreign students.
But the government says it is committed to stamping out abuses of the immigration system.
On Thursday, the House of Lords is set to debate the impact of immigration policy on UK higher education.
The coalition has pledged to restrict the level of annual net migration - the balance between the number of people who come to live in the UK for the long-term and the number who are leaving - to "tens of thousands".
Since last year, all institutions which want to sponsor non-European Union students for a visa must be accredited as "highly trusted".
Potential entrants have to speak a higher standard of English and the "post-study work route" to staying on has been closed, unless graduates have an offer of one of a list of skilled jobs.
The overall UK net migration figure fell from 242,000 to 183,000 in the year to March.
The Office for National Statistics said this was "largely due" to a decline in the number of foreign students despite an increase in the number of arrivals from China - the UK's largest overseas student market.
Opponents of the government's changes say they damage the economy by restricting the lucrative movement of students to the UK, putting universities at a disadvantage.
In their letter to Mr Cameron, the five select committee chairmen urge "further action to encourage international university students to study in the UK".
They add: "Doing so has the potential to support economic growth in the immediate and longer term, supporting jobs in university towns and increasing export earnings.
"International students who study in the UK also build relationships which last over time, laying the foundations for future business opportunities in emerging economies, and supporting our foreign policy objectives."
They also ask the prime minister to "reconcile the remaining tensions...

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A new scheme to buy a new home has been launched in the UK.
The scheme is being used to buy a new home in the UK, but it is not yet ready to be sold.
The scheme is being used to buy a new home in the UK, but it is not yet ready to be sold

Clydesdale Bank is to set aside as much as £500m in extra funding this year to compensate customers for mis-selling of financial products.

Article: A court was told that John Duncan, who had only taken six driving lessons, was spotted driving at "grossly excessive" speed on Dundee's Kingsway.
Duncan ploughed through a barrier before hitting a set of concrete steps leading to a pedestrian bridge.
The bridge has not re-opened since the incident and is waiting to be repaired.
Depute fiscal Susan Ruta told Dundee Sheriff Court that Duncan had only been released from prison a few months earlier after serving another sentence.
She said: "He drove off down the A90 Kingsway and a few minutes later approached the roundabout driving at grossly excessive speed.
"He attempted to negotiate it but took it too wide.
"He moved through the safety barrier and collided with the footbridge, causing significant damage.
"One of his passengers was taken to Ninewells Hospital with a cut to her forehead and significant swelling to her eye."
Duncan, 23, of Dundee, pleaded guilty to charges of dangerous driving, and driving without a licence or insurance on 21 January.
Solicitor advocate Kris Gilmartin, defending, said: "He had been given driving lessons for Christmas and had taken six, and in the excitement of being able to drive bought the car.
"The people he was driving that night had asked him for a favour and the temptation was too much for him."
Sheriff Alastair Brown jailed Duncan for 12 months to be served consecutively to a further five months outstanding from his licence on his previous offence.
Duncan was also banned from driving for three years and eight months.
Sheriff Brown said: "You shouldn't have been anywhere near a car that night.
"You were incompetent and over-confident."

Summary: A learner driver who caused £60,000 worth of damage after crashing a BMW into a footbridge has been jailed for 17 months.
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Article: The male birds at Kirby Hall in Corby, Northamptonshire, had fanned out their tail feathers at squirrels, park benches and bins last year, said staff.
Two peahens have since been donated and have settled among the flock.
Site manager Beryl Spearman said: "I am really pleased. It's so kind of people to think of us."
The home lost some of its peahens to a fox two years ago but now it has seven peacocks and nine peahens, which is the "right balance".
One donated peahen had been found roaming in a built-up area of the county, while the other was handed over as her mate had died and her owner, who lived near Milton Keynes, said she was lonely.
"It's good they have settled as they might have left, so they are quite happy," said Mrs Spearman.
"It's now mating season and the boys are displaying their feathers, so who knows what might happen.
"Any time now the hens might start to lay and the eggs will hatch in early June so we might have some chicks."
Peacocks have lived in the hall's grounds since it was built in the 17th Century.

Summary: A stately home that launched an appeal for peahens to mate with its "frustrated" peacocks has said it hopes to welcome some chicks this summer.
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Article: The X Dactyloglossum mixtum has only been found at 15 sites in Britain since 2000 and was discovered at Plantlife's Augill Pasture reserve near Brough.
A cross between a frog orchid and a common spotted orchid, it was found by Lois Harbron who had been counting the frog orchids at the reserve.
Ms Harbron said it was something she had "always hoped" to see, but she never expected it would be at Augill.
The newly discovered orchid is so rare it does not have a common English name, charity Plantlife said.

Summary: A rare orchid has been discovered for the first time in Cumbria.
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Article: The sum is on top of more than £1.2bn set aside in previous years' provisions.
Parent company National Australian Bank (NAB) said between £350m and £500m more would be set aside this year, but added that the final cost remained uncertain.
The move was announced in its third quarter results on Monday.
Up until the end of March, NAB had set aside £806m to compensate customers for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI). A total of £325m has already been paid out.
NAB's cumulative provisions relating to interest rate hedging products amounted to £431m, about half of which has been paid out.
This year's extra funding will come from a £1.7bn mis-selling fund, which the bank is being required by UK regulators to make available after the Clydesdale is floated.
NAB is in the process of demerging and floating Glasgow-based Clydesdale, which includes the Yorkshire Bank.
It intends to complete the break-up by the end of this year.
In a statement, NAB said "substantial progress" had been made on the demerger and stock market sale. It will provide more detail with full-year results in late October.
The Australian banking group has been working hard to offload the Clydesdale, which amassed a large portfolio of bad property loans.
It has also been facing high costs of redress for mis-selling payment protection insurance and complex systems for business customers to protect against interest rate changes.

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One of Scotland's largest animal feed producers has posted a rise in profits, despite reporting a "challenging" year for the industry.

Article: The statistics agency currently publishes data at 10:00 local time and had planned to change that to 07:00.
But traders argued it could create instability in the currency, as well as making it tricky to get their children to nursery.
The agency has now agreed to publish the data at 08:00.
Statistics Norway said it had been contacted by several people in the finance industry, pointing out that such an early release time might lead to increased volatility in the buying and selling of the Norwegian krone at a time of day when trading on the markets is thin.
"By adjusting the new release time from 7 to 8am we believe we have found a good balance between the needs of Statistics Norway and the finance industry", a statement said.
The data has been released at 10:00 for nearly 20 years. The agency said this was in part because it used to be printed on paper, but now there were no such technical limitations since they were now released digitally.
The change will be introduced on 23 September.
The Norwegian Securities Dealers Association said it was "an important improvement" since dealers could at least contact clients at that hour. A spokesperson said that while they were not totally satisfied, they would accept the decision and monitor its effect on liquidity when it was introduced.

Summary: Traders in Norway have won an hour's reprieve in the battle over the new timing of the country's economic data releases.
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Article: Police and Crime Commissioner Stephen Bett has nominated Deputy Chief Constable Simon Bailey as his preferred choice for Chief Constable.
Mr Bailey's nomination will now be referred to the police and crime panel for confirmation on 25 October.
Mr Bett said the recruitment process had been completely open.
"Mr Bailey has proved himself to be highly competent in all his Association of Chief Police Officers roles to date.
"I am confident he is the right person to take the Norfolk Constabulary forward in these challenging times.
"He is an excellent leader and I will look to him to ensure that Norfolk remains an exemplary force driving through efficiencies and economies.
"I hope that the police and crime panel will endorse my choice".
Mr Bailey has been a police officer for 27 years, serving predominantly as a detective.
In 1998, he was seconded to the National Crime Squad and as detective inspector he was responsible for managing covert operations targeting organised crime gangs.
In 2000, he worked on the investigation into the murder of human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson, who was killed by a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland in 1999.
He worked for three years on the probe before he returned to Norfolk as a detective superintendent with responsibility for intelligence.
Mr Bailey was promoted to Deputy Chief Constable with responsibility for legal services, human resources, and force performance in September 2010.
He was promoted to temporary Chief Constable when Phil Gormley left to join National Crime Agency in June this year.

Summary: A police officer who has risen through the ranks from constable is the preferred candidate to become head of the force in Norfolk.
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Article: It may ultimately impact on other institutions such as the National Library of Wales and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
But its creation is the result of a study, undertaken by PwC in March 2016 and published in the summer, to examine ways of maximising the potential commercial revenue of Cadw, the Welsh government body that looks after many of Wales' historic castles and monuments.
The report made a number of recommendations, from loose collaboration to a complete merger of national heritage bodies such as the museum and library.
A steering group, with representatives from the heritage sector as well as unions representing staff, is currently considering areas where greater collaboration could be achieved.
There is widespread agreement that collaboration can enhance the sector, but it is the prospect of formally merging some activity that has made the proposal so controversial.
Officially, the final form will be decided by the Welsh Government once the organisations and the unions have had their say.
That is likely to be early in 2017, after which a public consultation will be carried out.
The Welsh Labour government said it made a manifesto commitment to establish Historic Wales and the economy secretary said closer collaboration was vital if the bodies are to increase their commercial success.
Continued public funding for the institutions is not under threat, but the government says only a closer working relationship can generate more private income and present a united front in marketing Wales' heritage to the world.
For many of those who have objected, any new organisation that takes functions away from the national museum will be undermining its independence and stripping it of its ability to raise its own commercial income.
The Museums Association has warned that any commercial merger would have a wider negative impact on NMW's exhibition programming and on its ability to form partnerships with communities and museums across Wales.
The Welsh Government insists it...

Summary: The final form Historic Wales will take is still under discussion, but its purpose is already defined: to merge some of the commercial functions of Cadw with those of National Museum Wales (NMW).
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Article: Aberdeenshire-based Harbro Group saw pre-tax profit increase by £800,000, to £3.5m, in the year to the end of June 2016.
This was despite turnover falling by £1m to just over £100m.
Harbro said international sales grew over the year, both in Europe and in new markets further afield.
The Turriff-based company manufactures and supplies feeds for the beef, sheep, dairy, pig and poultry sectors.
It also has a network of 19 shops across Scotland, operating under the Country Store brand. The stores cater for farming and rural communities with a range of products, including fireside supplies, country clothing and footwear.
In accounts filed with Companies House, the company said: "As always, the outlook for agriculture is difficult to predict.
"We have certainly been experiencing challenging times over the last 12-18 months but the industry is a robust one.
"The impact of Brexit is still to be fully understood, although the board are confident that the group will be well positioned for whatever business challenges this may bring about."

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The L8 district of the city has been closed for the last three years.
The L8 district of the city has been closed for the last three years.
The L8 district of the city has been closed for the last three years.
The L8 district of the city has been closed for the last

Authorities in Nigeria's Lagos State have shut 70 churches and 20 mosques in an attempt to reduce high noise levels.

Article: She won a Sony Radio Award in 2012 along with co-presenter Betty Smith and the show's presenter and producer David Reeves.
Smith, who died last year aged 93, and Renwick were the oldest winners of the prestigious radio industry award.
BBC Radio Humberside's managing editor Simon Pattern described her as "a delightful and very caring Hull woman".
Her family said she had died peacefully earlier this week and had lived for her broadcasting days.
They added she was very proud of the fame she had gained for being one half of the "Dynamic Duo" with Betty Smith.
Born in 1926, Renwick worked as a conductor on Hull's trolley buses and as an assistant in a department store, before meeting Smith at a lunch club in 1999.
The friends first went on air in 2006 after meeting Reeves during a tour of the station.
The weekly, hour-long show was a mix of music and chat and ran for six years.
After picking up the best entertainment show award, they became celebrities, appearing on the BBC's One Show, and featured in newspapers and on radio stations around the world.
Co-star Reeves said she would be "sorely missed".
"Beryl was a wonderful storyteller and a great friend," he said.
"During our six years on air together she evolved into a skilled broadcaster, mastering the art to perform, entertain and shock on the radio but most importantly just to be herself.
"The Beryl and Betty Show enriched her life as much as it did the audience that tuned in every week to soak up yet more wisdom from a life well lived."

Summary: Beryl Renwick, one of the stars of an award-winning BBC Radio Humberside show, has died at the age of 89.
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Article: ECB President Mario Draghi said the bank expected the bloc's economy to shrink by about 0.5% this year, before recovering later in 2013.
He said weak consumer and investor sentiment was weighing on growth.
Earlier, the ECB held the benchmark eurozone interest rate at the record low of 0.75%, as had been expected.
Mr Draghi said rates had been left unchanged due to higher energy prices, rising taxes and the fact inflation fell from 2.5% to 2.2% last month.
Interest rates are the main tool used by central banks to influence demand and therefore prices in the economy.
Mr Draghi said the bank expected inflation to fall below 2% next year. The target rate is below but close to 2%.
Interest rates have been at 0.75% for five months, after July's cut from 1%. The Bank of England also kept its main interest rate unchanged on Thursday, leaving it at 0.5%.
The ECB revised down is forecast for the eurozone economic growth in 2013 to between minus 0.9% and plus 0.4%.
For 2014, it forecast growth of between 0.2% and 2.2%.
Mr Draghi said "persistent uncertainty" was weighing on economic activity.
He said the bank continued to see "downside risks", in particular "uncertainties about the resolution of sovereign debt issues in the euro area, geopolitical issues and fiscal policy decisions in the United States".
He was referring to the so-called fiscal cliff of automatic spending cuts and tax rises which kick in in the new year and which will push the US economy back into recession. US policymakers are trying to agree a way to avoid the cliff.
However, Mr Draghi said a "strengthening global demand and a significant improvement in financial market confidence" would help fuel a recovery later in 2013.
The eurozone is back in recession as austerity measures designed to reduce debt levels continue to undermine demand and confidence.
The economy of the 17-member bloc contracted by 0.1% between July and September, after shrinking 0.2% in the previous three months.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate is at a record high of 11.7%.
The...

Summary: The European Central Bank (ECB) has revised down its eurozone growth forecasts for this year and next as "economic weakness extends into 2013".
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Article: The evocative images are being exhibited at the Bluecoat Arts Centre as part of the Look/15 international photography festival.
Tricia Porter's photographs of life in the L8 district of the city show a time when its tight-knit communities were being fragmented.
She said the project was an attempt to make a photo documentary.
The pictures were taken a decade before the area became nationally known following the Toxteth Riots in 1981.
The project was a joint venture between Tricia Porter and her future husband David, then a student at Liverpool University.
The pair lived in the area and photographed the people they came across.
They gained the trust of residents who allowed them access to their lives, businesses and homes.
The project is divided into two series: Bedford Street, Liverpool 8 (1972) and Some Liverpool Kids (1974).
The first focuses on residents in their homes, at work, or out and about in the area.
Bedford Street, Liverpool 8 (1972) includes well-known characters including social campaigner and local councillor Margaret Simey and eminent Liverpool sculptor Herbert Tyson Smith at work in his studio at Bluecoat.
Young people predominate Some Liverpool Kids (1974) in their homes, schools, clubs, shops and streets.
Ms Porter said: "It was an attempt to make a photo-documentary which would be a positive and meaningful statement about my neighbours, who had all too often been treated as statistical fodder and sociological phenomena."
The Bluecoat's Artistic Director Bryan Biggs said: "Tricia's images have an immediacy and freshness, despite being taken over four decades ago and the places they evoke having changed, in some cases beyond all recognition.
"There is an honesty to them that makes them so compelling and resonant today."
The exhibition runs between 4 April and 5 July and is supported by L8 Legacy Projects.

Summary: Black-and-white photographs depicting life in Toxteth in the 1970s are to go on display at a Liverpool arts centre.
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Article: About 10 hotels, pubs and club houses were also closed, officials said.
Some estimates put Lagos' population at around 20 million, creating a constant background of noise - from the blaring of car horns, to the Muslim call to prayer and loud singing in churches.
The state government has vowed to make the city, the biggest in Africa, noise-free by 2020.
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In August, the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LEPA) closed 22 premises after residents complained about noise emanating from them.
Following the latest crackdown, its general manager Bola Shabi said the agency would no longer allow people to pray in makeshift buildings and tents.
Mr Shabi said noise levels had been reduced by about 35%, but this was not a "pass mark yet".
"Enforcement is a continuous exercise and we have set a target for ourselves. We want to ensure that Lagos is noise-free by the year 2020," he said.
Mr Shabi said mosques complied with their instructions more than churches because when they are ordered to shut down, they "instantly bring down their speakers or reduce the noise they make''.
Nigerians are extremely religious, with a large number of evangelical churches operating in Lagos.
Christians form the majority in the city.
In 2014, 116 people died when a building owned by popular televangelist TB Joshua collapsed in Lagos.

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Government has been criticised for its lack of transparency and the lack of transparency in the way it handles the legislation.
The Government has been criticised for its lack of transparency and the lack of transparency

Labour has been "ploughing on as if they have a divine right to rule" in Wales, the Welsh Conservative leader has said.

Article: The bank said its next notes would be printed on polymer, replacing the cotton paper used for notes currently in issue.
The notes will be slightly smaller and will reuse the existing Bank of Scotland designs.
A one-off limited edition £5 note will be issued in November and auctioned to raise money for BBC Children in Need.
The circulation will be limited to just 50. They will feature designs from the winners of a children's competition which has just been launched.
The main replacement polymer banknotes will continue to feature Sir Walter Scott and The Mound on the front and the bridges theme on the back.
The images will be "adapted and modernised" so they are suitable for polymer.
The design of the polymer £5 note will be unveiled before the end of this year, with the notes due to be issued in the second half of 2016.
It will be followed about a year later by the polymer £10 note.
The announcement follows discussions with the Bank of England, which is due to bring plastic banknotes into circulation next year.
The Bank of Scotland is one of three in Scotland authorised to issue banknotes.
Managing director Robin Bulloch said: "Bank of Scotland has been issuing banknotes for over 300 years and we take seriously our responsibility to create good quality genuine banknotes that can be used with confidence.
"Polymer notes are cleaner, more secure, and more durable than paper notes.
"They will provide enhanced counterfeit resilience, and increase the quality of Bank of Scotland notes in circulation."
In March, the Clydesdale Bank announced it was issuing two million polymer £5 notes.
The new note features an image of the Forth Bridge and has been issued to commemorate the bridge's 125th anniversary.
The note also features a portrait of Sir William Arrol, whose company constructed the bridge among many other landmarks in Scotland.

Summary: The Bank of Scotland has announced plans to introduce plastic £5 and £10 banknotes.
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Article: The top-level figure - that Scotland's population has grown to a record high of 5.37m - is no surprise. It's been growing steadily since 2000 and NRS statisticians predict it will continue to do so until at least 2039.
But beneath that top number is a huge amount of other data, contained in almost endless spreadsheets, which is published each year as part of the review.
The statistics paint a fascinating and occasionally surprising picture of Scotland - the state of the nation, as the NRS puts it.
Births, deaths and marriages are the bread and butter of the NRS's annual review.
1. The figures tell us there were 55,098 births and 57,579 deaths registered.
2. There were also 29,691 weddings and 1,671 of them were same-sex marriages.
3. Only 64 couples opted for a civil partnership last year - 33 of them male couples and 31 female couples.
4. Of the deaths, 1,150 were related to alcohol.
5. 147 men died in transport accidents, compared to 44 women.
6. There were 504 adoptions - the highest figure for 10 years
7. In 2014, there were 433,235 people in Scotland aged over 75.
8. NRS statisticians predict this figure will grow to more than 800,000 by 2039 - an increase of 85%.
9. If you were a woman aged 50 or 51 last year, there were more of you than anyone else.
10. Your life expectancy at birth in Glasgow was 73.4. In East Dunbartonshire, it was 80.7.
11. The average age at death last year was 76.9.
12. The area of Scotland with the fastest growing population over the last 10 years is East Lothian - up 11.1%.
13. Argyll & Bute and Inverclyde are the fastest shrinking - both down 3.8%.
14. 24 is the most common age for people to leave Scotland. The destination for 2,060 of you last year was elsewhere in the UK, with 1,011 going abroad.
15. If you're aged 90 or more and moved to Scotland from overseas last year, there are seven others who did just that.

Summary: The National Records of Scotland (NRS) has published its annual review of the country's population statistics in 2015.
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Article: In 2016/17 there were 10,822 cases reported - an increase of 5.2% on the previous year and a record high.
Two reports containing the latest statistics are due to be presented to the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) next week.
They also highlight the fact that much of the increase came from non-recent cases and online offences.
BBC Scotland's home affairs correspondent Reevel Alderson said the persistent rise in sexual offences, including rape, was against a general trend of reduced crime and had caused concern among police.
In the year to the end of last March, 1,755 rapes were reported - with the figure up by 2.3%.
However, 41.5% of those rapes were classed as non-recent which means they were reported more than one year after they were committed. Recently-committed rapes were slightly down (1.6%).
According to campaigners, such as Rape Crisis Scotland, this reflected an increase in historical reporting as victims gain confidence that they will be believed.
The number of indecent or sexual assaults recorded rose 9.8% to 6,996. Of these, more than 2,000 were classed as non-contact - a rise of almost 10%.
Many of these were related to indecent communications by mobile phone or online.
The reports also looked at children and sex crimes.
As of the beginning of April 2017, the National Child Abuse Investigation Unit had been notified of 32 significant child abuse investigations from local policing divisions since January 2017. All were still live and ongoing and four of them had an "online footprint".
The reports said that the majority of rapes reported, where the victim was under 13, were non-recent and most were committed by a family member.
In reported rapes where the victim was 13-15, the majority were recent, but again, the majority were committed by a family member. Most reported rapes of children took place in either their own home or that of the abuser.
The two reports due to go before the SPA are Police Scotland's Performance Summary Report Quarter 4 and The Sexual Crime Overview.
The second of these...

Summary: The number of sex crimes recorded by Police Scotland has gone up, according to the force's own figures.
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Article: Speaking to Huw Edwards on The Wales Report, Andrew RT Davies defended his party from criticism that it simply opposes Labour policies rather than putting forward its own programme for government.
"At every juncture we bring forward an alternative, we don't just criticise," he said.
"There is a clear agenda for what the Welsh Conservatives stand for, and it's action.
"It's action to improve the economy, it's action to improve public services in Wales and it's action to strengthen communities the length and breadth of Wales."
Asked about his priority if the Tories won power after the assembly election in May, Mr Davies said: "The first spending commitment is protecting the NHS budget for the lifetime of this parliament, or the assembly's term, the five years.
"I would suggest that the outcomes in Wales regrettably aren't as good as we want them to be.
"And we want to make sure those outcomes are improved.
"That's why we've called for an independent Keogh-style enquiry into the NHS here in Wales so we can make those improvements, not on political whims, but led by clinicians themselves telling us what we need to be doing to improve the health service here in Wales."
Prof Sir Bruce Keogh investigated 14 NHS trusts in England for a review into higher-than-expected hospital death rates, published in 2013.
Speaking about the Wales Bill on further devolution, the Welsh Conservative leader praised Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb's handling of the legislation, put on hold on Monday after MPs called for a re-think.
It followed claims that the draft bill was confusing, and would leave Welsh ministers with fewer powers rather than more.
Mr Davies said: "The secretary of state deserves huge credit; for instead of ploughing on with this bill, actually saying 'I've listened to what people have said to me'.
"Actually, the Welsh Labour government could learn a lot from this legislative process."
First Minister Carwyn Jones had called Monday's announcement on the Wales Bill an "avoidable delay to clear up an avoidable mess".

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The UK's economy is expected to be in a slump, with the UK's economy expected to be in a slump.
The UK's economy is expected to be in a slump, with the UK's economy expected to be in a slump.
The UK's economy is expected to be in a slump, with the

Scotland's media landscape is being bulldozed - transformed by digital technology, burgeoning choice, and quite a bit of politics - particularly as the future of the BBC is now in play.

Article: Scientists at the University of Lincoln tested 36 animals, offering them bowls containing chocolate or less appealing coffee beans in two fixed locations.
Pigs were considered optimists if they investigated a third bowl, placed in the middle of the two bowls, even though it might not contain treats.
Dr Lisa Collins said it suggested the judgment of pigs was similar to humans.
The research, which has been published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, saw some pigs treated to improved living conditions with more living space and extra-deep layers of straw.
The other animals, with less space and no straw, tended to be negative and pessimistic, the research suggested.
They were, however, found to have been cheered up by an improvement in their living conditions.
Dr Collins, from the University of Lincoln, and colleagues wrote: "Reactive pigs in the less enriched environment were more pessimistic and those in the more enriched environment more optimistic.
"These results suggest that judgment in non-human animals is similar to humans, incorporating aspects of stable personality traits and more transient mood states."

Summary: Pigs have personalities and can be pessimists or optimists, much like humans, new research has suggested.
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Article: At its policy meeting, the ECB has the option of stepping up "quantitative easing", buying financial assets with newly created money.
It could also cut the interest rate on overnight bank deposits at the ECB.
This is to encourage lending, as with a rate of -0.2%, the banks in effect pay the ECB for holding their reserves.
The policy is designed to make it more profitable for banks to offer loans to consumers and businesses, ensuring a free flow of money.
The immediate problem driving this expected action is inflation. It is too low.
The most recent figure for the eurozone is 0.1%. The ECB's target is below, but close to, 2%.
The figure has been below zero - that is, prices were falling - as recently as September.
This has been because of falls in international energy prices, particularly crude oil.
But "core inflation", which strips out volatile food and energy prices, is also low, hovering persistently around 1%.
The latest figure, for November, was down on the previous month.
So why would low inflation be seen as a problem?
ECB President Mario Draghi spelt out a number of reasons in a speech last year.
Low or even below-zero inflation - otherwise known as deflation - can aggravate debt problems. It can lead to households and firms delaying spending.
For some countries which need to improve competitiveness, low average inflation across the eurozone means they may need to have falling prices, as some do: Greece, Cyprus and Spain.
It doesn't mean their economies cannot recover, but it is a potential obstacle to stronger growth.
Mr Draghi has made a number of comments suggesting that the ECB will take further steps to get inflation up.
At the ECB's last policy meeting in October, he said the amount of stimulus provided would be re-examined in December.
As mentioned, this is likely to be a cut in the interest rate on overnight bank deposits held at the central bank and a ramping up of its quantitative easing (QE) programme, which it launched in January.
This involves buying financial assets, notably government...

Summary: The European Central Bank is expected to announce further stimulus measures to boost growth in the eurozone's economy later on Thursday.
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Article: They sniff and sip a type of Oolong tea from tiny, white china cups while making notes on its aroma, body and aftertaste, and consider what food with which to pair it.
Part of a generation that had eschewed tea leaves in favour of the lattÃ©s, espressos and frappucinos sold by international chains like Starbucks, young Chinese are rediscovering the country's tea drinking tradition.
And in doing so, they have sparked a boom that is both a cultural and business phenomenon.
"My parents drink tea like this every day but I seldom do," says Sharon Ho, a 30-year-old who works in accounting, as she sips a cup of Wuyi Dark Rock Oolong tea grown in the mountains in Fujian province in southeastern China.
"Normally I drink coffee, but as Chinese we should know about this."
Prices of rare, high-end Chinese teas - such as Pu Erh, a black, fermented tea that can be aged for up to 100 years, or First Flush Longjin, a freshly picked green tea - have rocketed over the past decade.
The industry has been shaped in ways that parallel the Western captivation with wine, with tea becoming a distinctly Chinese way to flaunt your wealth and invest your savings.
Vivian Mak, the tea master who runs the tastings, brews the tea in the traditional way using small fine china tea sets and metal implements on a wooden tray that drains off excess water. But she prides herself on taking an innovative approach to an old industry.
Her signature drink is a jasmine blossom-scented green tea she likes to serve in a martini glass. She serves the fragrant and visually arresting beverage as an alternative to wine at corporate events for clients like Goldman Sachs.
"There's not too much water inside, so you can sip while you mingle," she says.
Mak believes different Chinese teas can complement any type of cuisine, be it a nutty, malty Longjing green tea with a Chinese seafood dish, or a stronger Oolong tea to accompany a hearty French casserole. She also likes to pair teas with different types of chocolate.
"It's like wine. You serve something more...

Summary: On a humid September Saturday, a group of 20- and 30-something professionals gather at a tea house in an industrial building in a now gentrified Hong Kong neighbourhood.
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Article: The politics is also apparent in the newspaper sales figures for the first half of the year. Out this week, they show the average decline at more than 10% since the first half of last year, continuing the industry's painful downward trajectory.
Scotland on Sunday saw print sales fall more than 20%. It now has an average weekly sale of less than 25,000. It doesn't have its own staff any more, relying on a journalism pool shared with its stablemate, The Scotsman.
"SoS" is now being beaten by the only weekly "regional" paper to register a rise in print sales, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Sunday Herald looked to be on its last legs, but found a niche by backing the independence cause.
Approving "Yes" campaigners backed it, with a big lift in the back half of last year, from which it's fallen back, but still retained an average 29,000 weekly sales.
Its publisher, Newsquest, also saw a gap in the daily market for pro-independence readers. Although the figures aren't audited, we're told they're selling nearly 17,000 a day.
These are small numbers when set alongside the total sale of newspapers. The constitutional debate may have polarised opinion and changed some buying behaviour, but it can be overstated. The decline of sales in Scotland has recently been steeper than those for the rest of the UK, but the trends are similar.
Meanwhile, publishers point out there's a rise in online readership. But that's not making them enough money to sustain their cost bases. In the case of the Scotsman's figures, daily online readers are down 33% since a busy referendum period.
Those news publishers are competing with broadcasters for online readers. We've just got half year figures for STV which show  it aiming to achieve its turnaround by the end of next year.
A high priority is the desire to find a new earner from making drama series, as royalties from Taggart re-runs fade to black.
It's finding the transition and investing in new services can be expensive, with an Â£800,000 half-year loss on its two city...

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The new 'invisible' train, unveiled in Japan, will be unveiled in Japan on Monday.
The train will be unveiled in Japan on Monday.
The train will be unveiled in Japan on Monday.
The train will be unveiled in Japan on Monday.
The train will be unveiled in Japan on Monday.

A skin cancer appeal backed by a BBC presenter has reached its £45,000 target after just six weeks.

Article: Paul Mansfield, 28, of no fixed address, denied the charges but was found guilty at Preston Crown Court and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Police said he befriended the "clearly intoxicated and vulnerable" victims, promising to help them.
The two attacks took place in 2014, the second while he was on bail for rape.
Police said Mansfield befriended a 20-year-old homeless woman and promised to give her somewhere safe to stay in the early hours of 17 June.
He took her to a flat on Charnley Road in the resort but when the victim tried to go to sleep, Mansfield raped her, biting her neck and striking her face during the attack.
She managed to escape and ran to Blackpool police station to report the attack.
Mansfield struck a second time on 9 September when he befriended a woman, 21, from Glasgow on a night out in the resort, said police.
She had become separated from her boyfriend after an argument, said police, and Mansfield offered to take her back to her hotel in a taxi.
Police said they ended up on Loftus Avenue where he dragged her down an alley and attempted to rape her.
She managed to push him off and run away, said police.
Lancashire Constabulary's Det Con Lisa Wainwright said Mansfield was a "dangerous sexual predator" who targeted his victims when they were intoxicated.
She said it was disturbing that he used the guise of befriending them when he had "clear intentions of assaulting them to satisfy his own sexual urges".
Mansfield was also found guilty of two sexual assaults and supplying Class A drugs, for which he was sentenced to two years to run concurrently.

Summary: A "dangerous sexual predator" who raped a woman and attempted to rape another in  separate attacks in Blackpool has been jailed.
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Article: The index, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will initially monitor air quality in 10 cities.
Last year the Environmental Preference Index ranked India 174 out of 178 countries for air quality.
The rising and health-endangering pollution has been mainly blamed on a huge increase in vehicles, particularly diesel-driven cars, on Indian roads.
Polluting industries, open burning of refuse and leaves, massive quantities of construction waste and substantial loss of forests have also led to high pollution levels in cities.
A World Health Organization (WHO) survey last year found that 13 of the most polluted 20 cities in the world were in India. The capital, Delhi, was the most polluted city in the world, the survey said.
It is a leading cause of premature death in India, with about 620,000 people dying every year from pollution-related diseases, says the WHO.
On Monday, Mr Modi said India "has to take the lead in guiding the world on thinking of ways to combat climate change".
"The world thinks India doesn't care about the environment, we must change that... India has always respected the environment," he said. He also called on Indians to make changes to their lifestyle to help reduce pollution.
Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said the air quality index "may prove to be a major impetus to improving air quality in urban areas, as it will improve public awareness in cities to take steps for air pollution mitigation".
But he did not provide any details on what the government would do to curb air pollution except introducing new rules on disposal of waste from construction work.
The new index will initially cover 10 cities - Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Faridabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad - and will be extended to more than 60 cities, reports say.
Details of how the index's data will be gathered were not immediately clear.
But officials say it will provide "composite and comprehensive" information on the air quality, which will be displayed publicly and uploaded on the...

Summary: India has launched its first air quality index, to provide real time information about pollution levels.
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Article: The train was designed by architect Kazuyo Sejima and has semi-transparent and mirrored surfaces to help it blend into the background.
The company who make the trains said that they wanted the carriages to feel like a living room, so that passengers can feel relaxed.
It's expected to be rolled out in 2018.
Japan often uses the latest technology on its trains, which are considered some of the best and quickest in the world.

Summary: Look closely, and you might be able to see this new 'invisible' train, unveiled in Japan.
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Article: The Colin Bloomfield Melanoma Appeal was launched in February to raise awareness of skin cancer and educate children in schools about sun safety.
The target was reached on Monday after the Freemasons in Derby donated £10,000 with a new target set at £75,000.
Radio Derby presenter Colin Bloomfield - who has stage four melanoma - said the donations were "hugely generous".
BBC Radio Derby is working with the Derby Telegraph and charity Skcin, which specialises in skin cancer prevention.
The station launched the appeal after Colin's diagnosis in 2013, and his openness and optimism on the disease touched thousands of listeners.
The 33-year-old had a malignant melanoma removed from his leg 10 years ago but in 2013 he was told the cancer had returned and in November he was given months to live when it spread to his brain.
"Every single pound has made such a big difference," he said,
"As a child I never understood the seriousness of getting burnt but I'm living through it now.
"[Melanoma] is a truly horrible disease that a lot of people don't understand the seriousness of.
"We are not used to seeing the sun in this country and when we go out and enjoy it, it is about doing it safely and responsibly.
"If we can hammer home that message to kids in schools that can only be a good thing."
Earlier this month Derby County Football Club raised more than £14,000 after donating £10 for every away ticket sold at Norwich.
The appeal aims to take the sun safe scheme to 200 schools in Derbyshire and East Staffordshire.

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