A million older people in England struggling with everyday tasks, such as washing and dressing, are being left to fend for themselves, campaigners say.

Article: With the help of popular local memes, the BBC explains why the PAP keeps winning - and why results may not remain predictable for much longer.
Like a blockbuster film, Singapore's elections are often a colourful spectacle with an all too predictable ending - much like the Chinese war film Red Cliff, parodied in this movie poster by designer PixelGod.
The PAP has long enjoyed widespread support and political legitimacy, especially among older Singaporeans who have seen the country swiftly develop into a first-world economy.
Pragmatic voters have been willing to trade in some freedoms in exchange for prosperity and stability. The country's massive jubilee celebration last month reminded Singaporeans how far the country has come - and may have helped to shore up voter goodwill for the PAP.
But younger Singaporeans have also been calling for greater government accountability, particularly with recent stumbles over immigration and infrastructure.
The PAP has tried to address these problems, but that has not quelled the demand for more opposition representation.
The PAP is synonymous with its charismatic and deeply respected leader Lee Kuan Yew, whose presence looms large over this election, the first to be held since his death in March.
He led the country as prime minister from independence in 1965 to 1990 and his personal popularity helped to ensure the party's non-stop electoral success.
His death in March triggered an outpouring of grief and tributes, which may contribute to greater PAP support this election.
Lee was also known for his merciless attitude towards opponents with defamation suits, which critics say created a culture of fear and stifled dissent.
This election is the first to see all constituencies contested, as more opposition candidates step forward into the political spotlight.
These include Chee Soon Juan, who was bankrupted by Lee's suits and is staging a comeback this election.
Singapore has a democratic system largely seen as clean and fraud-free. But there are aspects of the political...

Summary: Singaporeans head to the polls on Friday, and with the same party in power for 50 years, it's all but certain that the People's Action Party (PAP) will once again form the government.
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Article: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is also the ruler of Dubai, said the minister would drive policy "to create social good and satisfaction".
A new post of minister of state for tolerance was also created.
Sheikh Mohammed said several ministries would also be merged and unveiled plans to outsource most government services.
"Governments must be flexible. We don't need more ministries, but more ministers capable of dealing with change," he said at the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday.
"We want a young and flexible government that will fulfil our youth's aspirations and achieve our people's ambitions."
The minister of state for tolerance would promote the virtue "as a fundamental value in UAE society", Sheikh Mohammed tweeted.
The prime minister also announced the creation of a UAE Youth National Council.
The "elite group of young men and women" would advise the government on youth issues and be led by a female minister of state for youth no older than 22, he said, adding: "The energy of youth will fuel our government in future."

Summary: The prime minister of the United Arab Emirates has announced the creation of a minister of state for happiness, as part of a major government shake-up.
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Article: Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni blamed a decrease in vaccinations in part on a "spread of anti-scientific theories".
Italy has recorded nearly three times as many measles cases so far this year than for all of 2016.
If children are not vaccinated by the age of six, the school starting age, their parents will be fined.
Conspiracy theories about the health risks of certain vaccinations - largely based on one discredited paper - have circulated around the world, leading some parents to shun immunisation.
In Italy, the number of two-year-olds vaccinated against measles has dropped from more than 90% to below 80%. This is well short of the World Health Organization's recommended coverage of 95% or more.
Measles is highly contagious and can lead to death.
"The lack of appropriate measures over the years and the spread of anti-scientific theories, especially in recent months, has brought about a reduction in protection," Mr Gentiloni told a press conference on Friday.
The twelve conditions children must be immunised against are:
"We are sending a very strong message to the public," said Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin.
In recent years a loose group of campaigners against vaccinations, dubbed the 'anti-vax' movement, has dissuaded people from opting in to immunisations by citing supposed risks.
A long-discredited paper by Andrew Wakefield was behind much of the scare but the rumours around immunisation have continued to spread, leading to public health risks as not enough people are immune to such diseases.
Mr Wakefield was struck off the UK medical register after fraudulently claiming there was a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) and autism and bowel disease in children.
He made the claim based on the experiences of just 12 children, and no other study since has been able to replicate his results.

Summary: The government in Italy has ruled that children must be vaccinated against 12 common illnesses before they can enrol for state-run schools.
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Article: The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) and consumer group Which? have jointly launched a new tariff, spelling out mortgage fees in a standardised format.
The move comes after Which? warned last year that people could be "paying over the odds" due to complex charges.
Which? also said there were 40 different names for fees and charges in use, often for the same service.
For example an application fee - a charge for assessing and processing an application - could also be named a booking fee or a reservation fee.
The CML and Which? were asked by Chancellor George Osborne to work together on the new tariff.
It has standard terminology, so lenders will in future use the same names for fees.
It will also have a common format, so that each lender will list fees in the same order, with the same descriptions.
Lenders representing 85% of the market have agreed to introduce the tariff and place it on their website by the end of the year.
Which? executive director Richard Lloyd said: "This new approach should make it much easier for people to compare mortgage fees. We hope that all mortgage providers will make these changes as soon as possible."
CML director general Paul Smee said: "Lenders have successfully pulled together to put in place some sensible measures to help consumer understanding.
"We very much hope that the new tariff and standard terminology will make it demonstrably easier to understand and compare mortgage costs."

Summary: Banks and building societies are to simplify mortgage information, to help borrowers find the cheapest deal.
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Article: Radio X - the new name for Xfm - launched in September with DJs Chris Moyles and Johnny Vaughan.
But the registration of Radio X as a trademark with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has been opposed.
The similarly-named independent station Radio EXE owns the IP of "Radio EXE and similar sounding marks" in the categories Radio X was refused.
But the established Exeter-based operation has refused to comment on speculation it was behind the opposition.
Global, whose other stations include Smooth, Classic FM and Capital, will have to either stop using the name, appeal the decision, or strike a deal with the opposing party.
A spokesman for Global was not available for comment.
The launch of Radio X saw former BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles return to the airwaves,
His breakfast show sees him go head-to-head with his successor on BBC Radio 1's breakfast show, Nick Grimshaw.
Moyles attracted eight million listeners at the peak of his Radio 1 show. Grimshaw currently attracts an audience of about 5.8 million.
Vaughan, Vernon Kay and the Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson also have their own shows on Radio X.
When it was announced that Xfm would be revamped, Radio X promised to play the "best fresh rock and guitar-based music across the UK" and be the "first truly male-focused" station, targeted at 25-44 year olds.

Summary: Digital radio station Radio X may have to change its name after its trademark application was refused.
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Article: The Age UK review identified more than three million people aged over 65 with a care need, but found just two-thirds of them were actually getting help.
The charity warned that the lack of support for the ageing population was risking their health.
But ministers said steps were being taken to provide more help.
The review used official data and existing research to identify how many people were struggling with everyday tasks and how many were getting help.
There are 10 million people over the age of 65 in England, the review said, and more than 3 million struggle with tasks such as washing, dressing, eating and going to the toilet.
Just over one million pay for care or rely on family and friends with another 850,000 supported by their local councils.
But that leaves another one million who have to fend for themselves.
The report also warned that community NHS services and GPs were struggling to meet demand from the ageing population.
And Age UK warned there were signs this was affecting the health of older people.
It cited an 88% rise in hospital admissions for urinary tract infections among the over-75s between 2005-06 and 2013-14 to 4,173 per 100,000.
Meanwhile, admissions for pneumonia among the over-60s have more than doubled over the same period to 2,621 per 100,000.
Age UK charity director Caroline Abrahams said it was a "destructive vicious circle" where the lack of support was worsening the health of the most vulnerable older people in society.
"If an older person asked us today how confident we were that their health and care needs will be met well in the future we would be whistling in the dark if we gave a wholly reassuring answer."
But a Department of Health spokeswoman said "significant action" was being taken to improve the support given to older people.
She pointed out that all over-75s should now have a named GP to co-ordinate their care, while a Â£5.3bn pot of money - mainly from NHS funds - has been set aside this year for joint projects between councils and health services.
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(Close): Fashion house Burberry led the market higher following speculation that it could be a bid target.

Article: One work of art, from the University of Oxford, cost £7.9m.
Unison criticised the spend, saying universities were choosing "style over substance".
Universities said the works of art often went on public display and were used for teaching and research.
A Freedom of Information request by the BBC collated the information for 2010-2015.
Anna Somers Cocks, chief executive of The Art Newspaper said: "It's a question of proportion, you have to distinguish what is for decorating and what is for public consumption.
"When a work of art is for a museum, the money comes from a different funding purse as the museum has a separate budget."
For the full results of the Freedom of Information request, click here
A Unison spokeswoman said: "Unison is appalled that universities can think about investing £20m in works of art when a significant number of institutions still pay their employees significantly less than the living wage.
"Universities must be more accountable on how they spend their money. The huge amount going on works of art suggests that during these austere times, universities are choosing style over substance.
"As nice as they might be to look at, paintings, statues and sculptures don't enhance teaching, and leave the lowest paid staff on campus unable to have a decent standard of living."
The most expensive item purchased by the University of Oxford was the Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus by the French impressionist Edouard Manet, which cost £7.9m, of which £5.9m was from the Heritage Lottery Fund and £850,000 from the Art Fund.
The piece was purchased for the university's Ashmolean Museum, which is open to the public free of charge.
A spokeswoman for the University of Oxford said: "The Ashmolean's mission is to be the world's greatest university museum of art and archaeology.
"The museum seeks to acquire objects and works of art, either through bequest, gift or purchase, which relate to and enhance the permanent collections.
"Newly acquired objects are made available to the widest possible audience for...

Summary: Universities across England have spent some £20m on art to furnish their buildings or museums over the past five years, a BBC investigation has found.
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Article: The country's central bank said the problems faced by PrivatBank were mainly caused by its "imprudent lending policy" which led to capital losses.
Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko has reassured PrivatBank depositors that their money is safe.
The bank is operating normally.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) declared PrivatBank insolvent on Sunday. The government subsequently backed the nationalisation.
PrivatBank is part-owned by the powerful billionaire oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, who also has big stakes in the media and energy industries and has frequently come into conflict with President Poroshenko.
Central bank governor Valeria Gontareva said they were confident the decision to transfer PrivatBank to state ownership was "the only possible way to protect deposits placed with this bank and rescue the financial system".
The 20 million Ukrainians who use the bank include 3.2 million pensioners, more than 500,000 students and 1.6 million socially vulnerable households.
The nationalisation also enables small businesses to continue trading and means 3.2 million public and private sector employees will continue to be paid.
The NBU launched a study of the banking sector more than two years ago.
The stress test on PrivatBank revealed that the bank had capital shortages, which, the central bank said "apart form the crisis-related factors, were caused by imprudent lending policy pursued by the bank".
The NBU said at the beginning of this month that the bank had a capital shortfall of about $5.65bn (Â£4.5bn) and about 97% of its corporate loans had gone to companies linked to its shareholders.
"Being aware of all the problems faced by PrivatBank and risks posed to the health of the financial sector and the economy as a whole we could not wait any longer," said Ms Gontareva.
Commenting on the decision to nationalise PrivatBank, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said it was an "important step in [Ukraine's] efforts to safeguard financial stability".
"Ensuring that all banks operating in...

Summary: Ukraine's biggest commercial bank, PrivatBank, has been nationalised in a move aimed at protecting 20 million customers and "preserving financial stability in the country".
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Article: Tupolev-22M3 long-range bombers and Sukhoi-34 strike fighters took off from Hamedan on Tuesday, a statement said.
Targets were hit in Aleppo, Idlib and Deir al-Zour provinces, it added. Local groups said 27 civilians had died.
It is reportedly the first time Russia has struck targets inside Syria from a third country since it began a campaign to prop up Syria's president last year.
Iran is Bashar al-Assad's main regional ally and has provided significant military and financial support since an uprising against him erupted in 2011.
The US State Department said Russia's use of an Iranian base was "unfortunate but not surprising".
Asked about moves towards a possible agreement with Russia to co-operate in fighting so-called Islamic State (IS), a spokesman, Mark Toner, said closer Russian-Iranian ties would not necessarily preclude a deal. But he added: "We're not there yet."
In recent months, senior Russian and Iranian officials have discussed boosting their military co-operation, reports the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.
Last week, Russia asked Iran and Iraq to allow Russian cruise missiles to fly through their airspace for attacks on terrorist targets in Syria.
Russia has been operating jets and helicopters from bases in Syria for the past year, but this is the first time that Moscow has deployed aircraft to a third country in the region.
Reports indicate that up to six Tupolev Tu-22M3 bombers - known by the Nato codename of "Backfire" - are now operating from an air base in western Iran.
These planes - originally designed as a long-range strategic bomber - have already been engaged in the Syrian air campaign but operating from bases in southern Russia. Placing them in Iran dramatically reduces the duration of their missions. The Russian defence ministry says that an unspecified number of Sukhoi-34 strike aircraft have also been sent to Iran.
Their deployment marks an intensification of the Russian air campaign - perhaps a reflection of the scale of the fighting in and around Aleppo - and it is a...

Summary: Russia's defence ministry says it has used a base in western Iran to carry out air strikes in Syria.
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Article: The Labour leader claimed the Conservatives would "dump" equal pay, annual leave and maternity pay rights.
And he did not think "too many people" had come to the UK from inside the EU.
David Cameron said they disagreed on "lots of things" but welcomed Mr Corbyn's backing for EU membership - as Leave campaigners said the Labour leader "does not really mean it".
Making his first major speech of the referendum campaign, Mr Corbyn stood by past criticisms of the EU but said Britain had to remain in to fight for social reform.
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He set out an alternative, "socialist" vision for Britain in Europe to the one being promoted by Mr Cameron, who will need the support of Labour voters to win 23 June's referendum.
He called for an EU minimum wage to prevent "unscrupulous" employers from undercutting wages, and said: "Just imagine what the Tories would do to workers' rights here in Britain if we voted to leave the EU in June.
"They'd dump rights on equal pay, working time, annual leave, for agency workers, and on maternity pay as fast as they could get away with it. It would be a bonfire of rights that Labour governments secured within the EU.
"Not only that, it wouldn't be a Labour government negotiating a better settlement for working people with the EU. It would be a Tory government, quite possibly led by Boris Johnson and backed by Nigel Farage, that would negotiate the worst of all worlds: a free market free-for-all shorn of rights and protections."
Asked about concerns over high levels of immigration, he said: "There is nothing wrong with people migrating to work across the continent but there has to be a level playing field on pay and conditions.  What we have is unscrupulous employers doing that."
He said a Labour government would...

Summary: Jeremy Corbyn has warned there could be a "bonfire" of workers' rights if the UK votes to leave the EU in June.
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Article: Under the rules of most defined benefit schemes, workers have the right to swap their pension entitlement for money.
According to the insurer Royal London, the cash that such people can get has soared over the last 12 months.
It says some are being offered "eye-watering" sums, often tens of thousands of pounds more than a year ago.
For someone with a pension income worth £20,000, it is not uncommon to be offered 30 times that amount - in other words, £600,000 in cash.
But while selling the rights to a defined benefit (DB) pension may be useful for many people, Royal London is also warning that there can be significant disadvantages.
After working for 30 years for a credit card company, Paul Osborne, from Southend, Essex, was made redundant.
He found it hard to get another job and found himself living on benefits.
As a result, he was advised to sell his DB pension.
In 2014, he was offered a cash sum of £505,000 for it. A year later, that amount had jumped by 12%, to £567,000, an amount he accepted.
He then reinvested the sum in a drawdown pension, which currently pays him £25,000 a year.
"It has taken so much pressure off my shoulders, and I am a lot more happy," he told the BBC.
"It has given me my life back; I can't recommend it enough."
Workers with defined benefit pensions know exactly how much they will receive in retirement.
Such schemes are either based on a worker's final salary, or on their career average earnings.
Workers with defined contribution (DC) schemes save into a pension pot, which they then use to buy a retirement income. The size of the pot depends on stock market performance.
The reason for the increase in transfer values is continuing low interest rates.
Because of the methodology used by actuaries, that leads to a higher valuation of such pensions.
Royal London says selling DB pensions can offer:
But it also warns that keeping a DB pension is sensible for many people, as they offer:
However, current rules mean that those selling their DB pensions have to sell the whole lot.
Steve Webb,...

Summary: Six million people with defined benefit pensions have seen their transfer values shoot up in the last year, according to a major insurance company.
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Article: Burberry rose 2.81% on speculation that the company could be takeover target for a US private equity firm.
Mining shares were hit by a number of broker downgrades following recent falls in commodity prices.
At close of trade in London the FTSE 100  index of leading blue chip stocks was ahead by 77.95 points, or 1.12%, at 7015.36.
Anglo American shares fell 0.24% after Credit Suisse cut its rating on the company to "neutral" from "outperform".
Downgrades also hit BHP Billiton, which fell 1.09%. Credit Suisse cut its rating for BHP to "underperform" from "neutral", while Investec downgraded to "sell" from "hold".
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.83% against the dollar to $1.4743 but was up 0.17% against the euro to ???1.3813.
Sterling was weakened by the latest UK trade figures, which showed the trade deficit widening by more than expected in February.
The Bank of England kept UK interest rates on hold at 0.5% - as expected - following its latest meeting.

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The Conjuring 2 has topped the North American box office chart in its first week of release, breaking a recent slump in success for movie sequels.

Article: Bristol's mayor announced last week that he wants to set up another 20 resident parking zones in the city.
Robert Westlake, Downs Ranger, said: "My concern is that we will get the backwash of the commuter parking as these new schemes come in."
The city council said initial talks had been held about preventing the issue.
Residents' parking zones have already been set up in the Cotham, Redcliffe and Kingsdown areas of the city and a consultation is running for Easton and St Phillips.
A subgroup set up by the Downs Committee is due to report back its concerns with recommendations on 22 April.
The subgroup heard concerns from the Friends of the Downs that the roads crossing the green space will increasingly be used by commuters parking on the unrestricted and free roads.
Mr Westlake said he fears the Downs' roads would "be turned into car parks for commuters".
"We're already seeing an impact. We observe cars that are parked all day now, or people that park and then take out their bicycle and ride off across the Downs," he added.
"The biggest concern, and this was highlighted by the Friends group, is that it restricts access for other people that are coming to visit the Downs.
"We can only see this getting worse, not better."
A spokesperson for Bristol City Council said: "We will be consulting with the Downs Committee about our proposals in due course.
"Initial discussions about the scope for introducing measures to prevent commuters from parking on The Downs have already taken place."
Mayor George Ferguson previously said the subject of parking had become an urgent problem for some residents.
If approved, the additional areas will be introduced from September 2014.

Summary: The Downs in Bristol could become a "commuter car park" if plans to widen the residents' parking scheme go ahead, it has been claimed.
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Article: Researchers say fungi from the stomachs of these animals produce flexible enzymes that can break down a wide variety of plant materials.
The scientists say that in tests, the fungi performed as well as the best engineered attempts from industry.
The study has been published in the journal, Science.
Environmentalists have long criticised the current generation of biofuels that are produced from crops, such as maize, as they believe that using land for fuel instead of food drives up prices and impacts the poor.
Researchers have had some success making usable fuel from food and animal waste. But, so far, the ability to efficiently use the vast majority of cheap, waste organic material has eluded them.
The problem with turning wood chips and grasses into fuel is the matrix of complex molecules found in the cell walls of these tough materials.
Industrial attempts to break these down into the type of sugars that can be refined for fuel often require preheating or treatment with chemicals, which add to the complexity and the cost.
To solve the problem, researchers have turned to the well-known abilities of goats and sheep to digest almost anything they eat.
Researchers believe this facility is the result of the presence of anaerobic gut fungi, organisms that have existed since the time of the dinosaurs.
To test their ideas, the scientists collected fresh manure from a zoo and a stable and isolated three previously uncharacterised cultures from goats, sheep and horses.
They found that these fungi excrete enzymes that break down a wide range of plant material.
Unlike the best genetically engineered enzymes produced by the biofuel industry to date, they discovered that the sheep and goat fungi produced many hundred more of these proteins.
These were "substantially better" at breaking down a type of material found in wood - and when the researchers changed the diet of the fungi from grass to sugar, they found that the organisms changed the type of enzymes they produced in response.
"Because gut fungi have more tools to...

Summary: The legendary abilities of goats and sheep to digest a wide range of inedible materials could help scientists produce cheaper biofuels.
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Article: The work could shine a light on long-standing questions about dinosaur physiology, including whether specific species were warm- or cold-blooded.
Chemical analysis revealed similarities between blood cells from fossils and those from living emu.
The work appears in the journal Nature Communications.
Examining part of a fossilised dinosaur claw, the Imperial College London researchers identified tiny ovoid structures with an inner denser core that resembled red blood cells.
And in another fossil fragment, they found fibrous features with a banded structure similar to that seen in modern-day collagen - found in the tendons, skin and ligaments of animals.
It's not the first time such remnants have been found in dinosaur fossils, but co-author Susannah Maidment told BBC News: "All of the previous reports of original components of soft tissues in dinosaur fossils have tended to be in specimens that are really exceptionally preserved - one-offs, really, that require special pleading to explain how they got preserved."
By contrast, the fossils in this study, which have been lying in the London Natural History Museum collections for more than a century, are largely in a poor state of preservation.
"They're very scrappy, individual broken bones. I can't even tell you what dinosaur they come from," said Dr Maidment, who is from Imperial College London.
"If you're finding soft tissues in these kinds of fossils, maybe this kind of preservation might be more common than we realised, and might even be the norm."
The structures appear to be genuine remnants of soft tissue; they are not fossilised.
Using a mass spectrometer, they carried out chemical analysis of the putative collagen protein and the candidate blood cells.
They discovered fragments in the collagen of what look like amino acids - the building blocks of all proteins.
And the chemical profile of the blood cells looked very similar to that obtained from the red blood cells of an emu, which - like all birds - is a direct descendent of dinosaurs.
"There's an...

Summary: Researchers have discovered what appear to be the remnants of red blood cells and connective tissue in 75 million-year-old dinosaur fossils.
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Article: Lawrence Morgan, 19, fought with police officers, headbutting one of them, after he was apprehended outside a bookmakers in February this year.
Police searched him and found a loaded handgun inside his bag, along with cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin.
Morgan has been jailed for five years and eight months at Birmingham Crown Court after admitting possessing a firearm, ammunition and drugs.
Firearms officers examined the weapon and said it was loaded with four rounds of live ammunition.
He was stopped by police during a routine operation at Newtown Shopping Centre on 16 February, West Midlands Police said.
Morgan had initially tried to cycle away from the scene before he was challenged by plain-clothed officers approaching from the opposite direction.
Morgan, of Crompton Close, Nechells, was restrained after a struggle but tried to escape for a second time and headbutted a sergeant.
In a police interview, he denied the assault and claimed he was acting in self defence after the police used excessive force against him.
A charge of assaulting a police officer will remain on file after he admitted the other more serious offences, the court ruled.
Sgt Martin Kelly, said: "The penalties for carrying a loaded gun are severe and rightly so. Anyone who is caught walking around with such a weapon faces a lengthy spell behind bars, as Lawrence Morgan has now found out."

Summary: A teenager who was found with a loaded gun in Birmingham has been jailed.
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Article: Japanese fashion brand Uniqlo has installed a vending machine dispensing clothing at Oakland Airport in California.
Nine other machines will pop up at airports and malls at sites including Los Angeles, Houston and New York in the coming months.
They will stock men and women's shirts and lightweight jackets.
Uniqlo USA chief executive Hiroshi Taki said the technology brought "convenience to travellers looking for a warm jacket without the bulk or a versatile undershirt".
The company hopes the gimmick will help entice customers to the Asian brand, which has struggled in its attempts to penetrate the US market.
Airports and malls were selected as high-traffic locations to supplement its 45 stores in the country.
The retailer, owned by Japan's Fast Retailing, has close to 1,900 stores worldwide selling inexpensive casual wear.
The vending machines will stock tops retailing at about $15 (Â£11.30) and lightweight jackets for about $70 (Â£53).
Fast Retailing is the world's third largest retail apparel company and also owns Helmut Lang and J Brand. There are no plans to use the vending machines outside the US.

Summary: A fresh new shirt delivered at the push of a button is now on offer for travellers in the US.
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Article: The horror starring Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson as paranormal investigators made $40.4m (£28.5m).
Video game adaptation Warcraft came in second with $24.4m (£17.2m) and crime caper Now You See Me 2 was at three, taking $23m (£16.2m).
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles dropped to four with $14.8m (£10.4m).
Following a spate of poor performing sequels such as The Huntsman: Winter's War, Alice Through the Looking Glass and Ride Along 2, The Conjuring 2 opened nearly on par with its 2013 original.
"There's seemingly been a spell cast over the second instalments and The Conjuring, I think, broke that spell," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore.
"Just the overall quality won over the audience in a genre that's generally looked down upon from a critical perspective.''
Big budget CGI extravaganza Warcraft, taken from the hit video game franchise, reportedly cost $160m (£112.8m) to make, so effectively bombed in the US financially as well as critically.
However, it was a phenomenal success overseas, particularly in China where it made $156m (£110m) in its first five days, surpassing 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron to set a new record for the biggest debut for a foreign release.
The game is particularly popular there, even spawning a theme park.
The magician crime caper Now You See Me 2, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo and Woody Harrelson, followed the disappointing trajectory of most recent sequels, dropping from its 2013 original opening debut of $29.4m (£20.8) to $23m (£16.2m).
The fifth Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, Out of the Shadows, fell to number four in only its second weekend.
The last movie in the franchise grossed nearly double in its opening weekend box office.
Rounding off the top five was X-Men: Apocalypse, taking $10m (£7m) in a troubling third weekend.
Next week sees the release of Pixar's Finding Nemo sequel, Finding Dory.

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A County Londonderry woman who uses music to "transform the lives of people with disabilities" has been honoured with a BBC Unsung Hero award.

Article: Detlev Guenzel, 56, strangled and dismembered the 59-year-old at a small bed-and-breakfast run by Mr Guenzel in eastern Germany in 2013.
Guenzel was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in jail.
Prosecutors could not confirm that he had actually eaten the victim, but some body parts were never found.
Lawyers representing the family of the murdered man - 59-year-old Polish-born Wojciech Stempniewicz - sought a 15-year sentence for Guenzel, the father of three adult children described by neighbours as affable, warm hearted and courteous.
Guenzel went on trial in August for killing Stempniewicz at his home, a bed-and-breakfast inn in the town of Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau in the Erz mountains near the border with the Czech Republic.
He was accused of cutting the body into small pieces and burying them in his garden, making a macabre home video in the process.
The pair met in October 2013 on a website for slaughter and cannibalism fantasies which described itself as the "#1 site for exotic meat" with more than 3,000 registered members, correspondents say.
Guenzel, who had served in the police for 30 years, retracted a confession he initially made to detectives soon after Stempniewicz's killing in which he said that he had cut his throat.
The defence argued that Stempniewicz had a death wish and had already hanged himself in Guenzel's cellar "S&M studio" before he took a knife, then an electric saw, to the gagged-and-bound man.
Investigators have been unable to determine the cause of death definitively because of the poor condition of the corpse.
They have, however, been able to ascertain that the pair had extensive contact online and by telephone before finally arranging their date on 4 November 2013.
The video Guenzel made was played during the trial, at one point showing him covered in blood while mutilating the corpse. "I never thought I would sink so low," he can be heard murmuring.
The defendant is reported to have broken down when the footage was shown, telling presiding judge Birgit Wiegand that he had made a...

Summary: A former German policeman has been convicted of murdering a businessman he met on a website for cannibalism fetishists.
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Article: Researchers from Oxford University, working in Brazil, found ancient "nut-cracking tools" - 700-year-old stone hammers that capuchin monkeys used to open cashew nuts.
This is the earliest evidence yet of monkey tool use outside Africa.
The findings are published in the journal Current Biology.
One of the Oxford team, primatologist Dr Lydia Luncz, said the find was a "window back into the past".
"Our efforts to look back into the past have been very human-focused," she told BBC News. "So we don't know much about how tool use has evolved in these [other primate] species."
As observations first revealed about a decade ago, capuchin monkeys use stone hammers and anvils to break into the cashew nuts - placing a cashew on a large stone anvil and hitting with a hammer.
The monkeys, Dr Luncz explained, bring these stones to the cashew nut trees. And that behaviour enabled the archaeologists to work out where they should dig for ancient tools.
The liquid inside the nutshell, Dr Luncz explained, discolours the outside of the stone, allowing the researchers to identify the stone tools, and even to test them chemically to confirm what they were used for.
One question the discovery may prompt is whether early human behaviour was influenced by observations of monkeys using stones as tools.
Dr Catherine Hobaiter from the University of St Andrews, who studies primate social behaviour, said that both the tool use findings and the new field of primate archaeology were "fascinating".
"These days if we find a 'new' tool we really shouldn't assume that it was made by humans or our homo ancestors anymore," she told BBC News.
"Either you don't have to be smart to make a tool, or we've been underestimating other species by a long way."
According to this new evidence, the capuchins were using stone tools before European settlers arrived in the New World. But Dr Michael Haslam of the University of Oxford, who led the study, said there was much more to find.
"We definitely don't think we have the oldest activity," he told BBC News.
"We...

Summary: Primate archaeology is a new and unusual-sounding field, but it has revealed ancient evidence of some clever and dextrous monkey culture.
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Article: L/Cpl Craig Roberts, 24, died during a Brecon Beacons march on one of the hottest days of the year in July 2013.
L/Cpl Edward Maher and Cpl James Dunsby also died after collapsing while attempting the same exercise.
On Friday, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) also admitted its searching of bins at the inquest was "unacceptable".
Louise Hunt, senior coroner for Birmingham, has been hearing evidence relating to the deaths of the three soldiers, in Solihull, West Midlands, since 1 June.
An officer in charge of the SAS reservist selection process on 13 July said he had not spotted L/Cpl Maher was no longer moving for at least 44 minutes.
This was because he had not "hovered the mouse (cursor)" over the reservist's GPS tracker, while monitoring participants' movements on a computer.
Doing so would have presented detailed information on his route times and distance travelled, he told the inquest.
The coroner said: "It is quite difficult for me to understand how you wouldn't notice.
"When Edward was found, there were signs that he was already developing rigor mortis."
The officer replied: "At the time, I hadn't noticed that that tracker was static."
Earlier on Friday, David Turner QC - representing Cpl Dunsby's widow, Bryher Dunsby - said her confidence in the legal process had been "severely shaken" by revelations about the MoD's conduct during the hearing.
"The MoD has been going through confidential waste bins in the building," he said.
Mr Turner said Cpl Dunsby's family were "extremely upset" by the MoD's actions.
Jonathan Hall QC, for the MoD, accepted his clients had sifted through waste bins and agreed it was "unacceptable".
"It had to do with the security arrangement - we're dealing with documents at a very high classification... it was in order to secure those documents... but it was done in a way that was not correct.
"I do want to reassure you publicly that this was not a sinister development," he told the coroner.
The coroner said there may have been no sinister intent, but the practice could affect...

Summary: One of the three soldiers who died during an SAS reservist selection hike had rigor mortis by the time he was found, an inquest has heard.
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Article: Officials say in 2016 there were around 240 incidents of verbal and physical abuse, compared to 180 the year before.
One examiner was told to "start running... because I'm going to mow you down" when he failed a driver.
Two-thirds of all attacks on agency staff in Britain, including roadside enforcement, were against examiners.
A trial of body cameras for some front-line staff could be extended to include driving examiners in future.
The cameras are currently being used by officials testing commercial vehicles at roadsides or authorised centres.
The DVSA said test examiners also faced death threats while a lorry driver tried to run enforcement cars off the road.
In March, a learner from West Yorkshire was asked to stop the car after making a number of serious errors.
The candidate swore at the examiner and drove "wildly" across a dual carriageway forcing the assessor to use their dual controls to stop the car.
Another driver made a false claim against one of the DVSA's traffic officers, the agency says it was one instance of the bullying they receive.
Source: DVSA
DVSA Chief Executive, Gareth Llewellyn, said: "I am immensely proud of my colleagues at DVSA, all of whom work incredibly hard to help you stay safe on Britain's roads. We do not tolerate anyone abusing, threatening or assaulting them.
"Our message is clear - whatever has happened, don't take it out on our staff. If you do, we'll press for the strongest possible penalties."
The agency has also promised to refer all threats and assaults to the police and to make any candidate, who is being abusive, take their next test at a different location.
The DVSA said in some extremely rare cases, driving instructors have tried to change the outcome of the test by harassing or threatening examiners. They face being taken off of the approved driving instructor register.

Summary: Driving examiners are increasingly being threatened and sworn at by candidates who fail their tests, the Driving Vehicle Standards Agency says.
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Article: Mr Emanuel won 56%- 44% against county commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia.
The former White House chief of staff had campaigned heavily after failing to gain a majority in the initial election.
But he faces a tough next term, including a pensions fight, continuing gang violence and harsh criticism of his education policy.
On Tuesday, Mr Emanuel thanked supporters, saying the campaign would make him "a better mayor".
Mr Emanuel campaigned on his record as mayor, but was forced into a run-off with Mr Garcia, who was backed by teachers' unions.
The Chicago mayor raised far more money than Mr Garcia and had the support of his former boss, President Barack Obama, and argued his opponent would be too inexperienced to handle the city's financial difficulties.
Mr Garcia, who was born in Mexico and raised in Chicago, is a county commissioner who jumped into the mayor's race in October after another likely candidate, Chicago Teachers' Union President Karen Lewis, was diagnosed with brain cancer.
During the campaign, Mr Garcia and three other challengers criticised Mr Emanuel's push to close dozen of schools and his large fundraising operation.
"We didn't lose today, we tried," Mr Garcia told supporters after the loss. "We fought hard for what we believed in. You don't succeed at this or anything else unless you try."

Summary: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has won re-election after heading off a challenge in a run-off campaign.
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Article: The announcement was made on Friday by Alex Jones and Chris Evans on BBC One's The One Show.
Denise White from Eglinton village is the founder of Something Special, a musical and creative arts group that educates almost 100 students with learning disabilities.
In a tribute video, her students described her as an "inspiration".
"Denise has helped my confidence, she's got us out singing," said Sorcha Friel.
"There are some students in here that have nothing else, coming in here makes their week, without Something Special they would have nothing to do."
Ms White is one five recipients of BBC Music Day's Unsung Hero award.
"I could see that music worked some kind of magic with young people and that it could really change things for them," she said.
The Unsung Hero award was launched as part of this year's BBC Music Day on Friday 5 June.
It is a nationwide celebration of music, aiming to bring people together across generations and communities.
The day will be reflected across BBC television and radio programmes with numerous events and concerts taking place in towns and cities in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
BBC Music Day events in Northern Ireland include performances from Sir James Galway, Andrea Begley, Villagers, The Priests, The Ulster Orchestra and the Belfast Community Gospel Choir.

Summary:


Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa.

Article: Police say Darius McCollum, 50, stole the coach from the nation's busiest bus terminal, New York Port Authority, on Wednesday.
He was found with the vehicle two hours after it was scheduled to leave.
Among his previous crimes was the theft of a bus full of passengers at Penn Station, driving it to Kennedy airport.
He grew up in Queens and spent a lot of time at the terminus of the F train, where his fascination with the trains brought him to the attention of workers there who took him under their wing.
By the age of eight, he could reportedly recall the names of every station on the New York subway system.
His train and bus troubles began in 1981, when the then-teenager took control of an underground train and drove it for six stops.
Over the years, he has also been arrested for trespassing at a subway control tower, attempting to commandeer a suburban train and stealing a coach bus, according to local media.
In 2008, Mr McCollum told the Associated Press news agency he planned to get in touch with a charity to help him find a therapist.
Five years later, he said: "It was a rough process but I finally made it.
"I can't afford to get arrested again, I can't deal with the jail thing - it's too much, the gang mentality."

Summary: A man who has been arrested nearly 30 times for bus or train theft has been stopped again for allegedly trying to steal a Greyhound bus.
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Article: Shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle said the words were "not helpful", while shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn said Mr Corbyn should abide by the party's decision on renewing Trident.
Mr Corbyn said nuclear weapons "didn't do the USA much good on 9/11".
He added that he was elected leader on a platform opposing Trident renewal.
Prime Minister David Cameron said Mr Corbyn's comments showed Labour could not be trusted with Britain's national security.
Following the shadow cabinet criticism of his comments, Mr Corbyn was asked by the BBC's John Pienaar what the point of the Labour defence policy debate and review was.
He said: "The point of a policy debate is to try and bring people with me."
In his conference address on Tuesday, Mr Corbyn said his landslide leadership win gave a "mandate" for his views on disarmament of Britain's nuclear weapons.
On Wednesday's BBC Radio 4 Today programme he said: "I am opposed to the use of nuclear weapons. I am opposed to the holding of nuclear weapons. I want to see a nuclear-free world. I believe it is possible.
"I do not think we should be renewing Trident... I think we should be promoting an international nuclear weapons convention which would lead to a nuclear-free world."
It did not take a debate, within Labour or the House of Commons. A few words on the Today programme did the trick.
Should he get to Number 10, he said simply, he would not press the nuclear button.
Think of it this way: Corbyn declared to Britain's potential enemies that with him in charge they could disregard a multi-billion pound weapon system.
Or, perhaps, put it like this: a man with a lifetime commitment to scrapping Britain's deterrent promised not to kill untold thousands of innocent people if he had the opportunity.
Many politicians choose not to be so frank.
Read more from Ross
A guide to Trident and the debate about its replacement
Is there such a thing as a nuclear button?
How important is Trident to the UK's security and international standing?
Spending "Â£100bn" on replacing Trident...

Summary: Jeremy Corbyn has faced criticism from senior Labour colleagues for saying he would not fire Britain's nuclear weapons if he were prime minister.
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Article: Researchers trying to raise awareness of the issue claim that the spreadsheet software automatically converts the names of certain genes into dates.
Gene symbols like SEPT2 (Septin 2) were found to be altered to "September 2".
However, Microsoft, which released the first version of Excel in 1985, said the gene renaming errors can be overcome if users make alterations in the application settings.
"Excel is able to display data and text in many different ways. Default settings are intended to work in most day-to-day scenarios," a spokeswoman for the corporation told the BBC.
"Excel offers a wide range of options, which customers with specific needs can use to change the way their data is represented."
The study also claimed that the Excel conversion problem was present in other spreadsheet software, such as Apache OpenOffice Calc.
The systemic error was not, however, present in Google Sheets.
The researchers claimed the problem is present in "approximately one-fifth of papers" that collated data in Excel documents.
The trio, writing for the Melbourne-based academic institute Baker IDI, scanned 3,597 published scientific papers to conduct their study.
They found 704 of those papers contained gene name errors created by Excel.
Ewan Birney, director of the European Bioinformatics Institute, does not blame Excel and told the BBC: "What frustrates me is researchers are relying on Excel spreadsheets for clinical trials."
The Excel gene renaming issue has been known among the scientific community for more than a decade, Birney added.
He recommended that the program should only be considered for "lightweight scientific analysis".
One of the paper's three researchers, Assam El-Osta, said the errors were found specifically on the supplemental data sheets of academic studies.
He told the BBC that supplemental pages contained "important supporting data, rich with information," and added that resolving these errors was "time-consuming".
Excel's automatic renaming of certain genes was first cited by the scientific community...

Summary: Microsoft's Excel has been blamed for errors in academic papers on genomics.
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Article: In a speech in Germany, he said people felt they did not "have a say" over decision-making in Brussels.
Unless the system changed it would become "democratically unsustainable", he added.
The comments come as eurozone countries attempt to integrate their banking systems to prevent further crises.
These will not directly affect the UK, where the Bank of England will retain control over banks, but Prime Minister David Cameron promised on Monday to defend national interests.
He recently told MPs that a referendum would be the "simplest" solution if the UK's relationship with the EU changes substantially.
In a speech at Berlin's Korber Foundation, Mr Hague said: "This coalition government is committed to Britain playing a leading role in the EU but I must also be frank - public disillusionment with the EU in Britain is the deepest it has ever been.
"People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say."
Mr Hague criticised the previous Labour government's decision to agree to the Lisbon Treaty without holding a referendum.
He said: "The way in Britain Lisbon was ratified without any consultation of the voters has played a part in that.
"People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
"If we cannot show that decision-making can flow back to national parliaments then the system will become democratically unsustainable.
"It is obviously in Britain's interests for the EU to succeed in the tasks I have described and for Britain to play a leading role in it.
"The eurozone countries must do what they must to resolve the crisis, but the way forward for the EU as a whole is not more centralisation and uniformity but of flexibility and variable geometry, that allows differing degrees of integration in different areas, done in ways that do not disadvantage those that do not wish to participate in everything,...

Summary: The British public's disillusionment with the European Union is "the deepest it has ever been", Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned.
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Article: Gross domestic product expanded at an annualised rate of 4% in the April-to-June period, government data showed, beating expectations for a 2.5% rise.
The economy grew 1% compared to the previous quarter.
Japan is enjoying its longest economic expansion in a decade, buoyed by spending and investment.
The world's third-largest economy has been gaining strength thanks to rising exports, including smart phones and memory chips.
Investment tied to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has also given Japan's economy a boost in recent months.
Strong domestic demand helped to offset a drop in exports during the second quarter of the year.
Is this a triumph for Abenomics? Well up to a point.  Certainly, the growth in consumer spending and business investment is welcome.   Nonetheless while six consecutive quarters of growth may be Japan's best run in a decade, it is not that impressive compared with other developed economies.
Abenomics is at best unfinished business.  At 0.4% inflation is still well below the Bank of Japan's 2% target.  And there is the demographic challenge, Japan's rapidly ageing population and declining workforce.
There are reform plans in the Abenomics agenda, intended to encourage more people to get in to the labour market. Japan needs that to work.
Japan has been trying to lift consumer spending, which accounts for more than a half of the country's GDP.
The latest figures could be a help to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who pledged to reignite growth and spending through his Abenomics reforms.
Mr Abe has seen his popularity sink recently over a series of scandals including claims he exploited his political power to help a friend.
Falling prices
Japan has battled years of deflation, or falling prices, and slow growth following an equity and property market bubble in the early 1990s.
The Abenomics programme, a mix of monetary easing, government spending and structural reforms, was designed to reignite the once-booming economy and lift consumer prices.
Falling prices can discourage spending by consumers, who might...

Summary: Japan's economy grew at its fastest pace for more than two years in the second quarter as consumer spending and capital expenditure ramped up.
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Article: A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Since then it has been the subject of a long-running territorial dispute between Morocco and its indigenous Saharawi people, led by the Polisario Front.
A 16-year-long insurgency ended with a UN-brokered truce in 1991 and the promise of a referendum on independence which has yet to take place.
Although under the de facto administrative control of Morocco, the status and sovereignty of Western Sahara remain unresolved and numerous direct talks have failed to break the political deadlock.
The Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), declared by the Polisario Front in 1976, is now recognised by many governments and is a full member of the African Union.
Home to phosphate reserves and rich fishing grounds off its coast, Western Sahara is also believed to have as yet untapped offshore oil deposits.
Population 567,000
Main town  Laayoune
Area 252,120 sq km (97,344 sq miles)
Main language Arabic
Main religion Islam
Life expectancy 66 years (men), 70 years (women)
President of the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic: Brahim Ghali
The Polisario Front proclaimed the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in 1976, with a government in exile in Algeria.
Brahim Ghali was elected leader of the Polisario Front and president of the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in July 2016 following the death of long-term president Mohamed Abdelaziz Ezzedine.
A seasoned military leader, described both as a "hard-line supporter" and "historic figure", he was one of Polisario's founding members in 1973 and led the first raids against the occupying Spanish forces that sparked the armed struggle for Western Saharan independence.
In 2008 he left his post as ambassador to Spain with unresolved charges against him alleging inhumane treatment and the torture of Saharan prisoners, and became the ambassador to Algeria.
Morocco's state broadcaster RTM operates radio and TV services from Laayoune.
On the other side of the political divide, a Polisario-backed mediumwave (AM) radio...

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Two of Wales' four police forces have been told they must improve how they keep people safe and reduce crime.

Article: Mr De Klerk said South Africa's white Afrikaner population had many reasons to dislike Rhodes but "never thought of removing his name from our history".
Campaigners say the statue venerates the 19th Century colonialist and the values he stood for.
Former Australian PM Tony Abbott has also said the statue should stay.
Mr Abbott, a Rhodes Scholar, said removing the statue would "substitute moral vanity for fair-minded enquiry".
Read more: When is it right to remove a statue?
Upon his death, Cecil Rhodes, who attended Oriel College, left a legacy which has funded the university's prestigious Rhodes Scholarships - postgraduate awards for non-British students.
Mr De Klerk, in a letter to the Times newspaper, said that "for better or worse", Rhodes had made an impact on history, which included the positive contribution of his scholarship scheme.
"If the political correctness of today were applied consistently, very few of Oxford's great figures would pass scrutiny," he said.
He pointed out that Rhodes had been "the architect of the Anglo-Boer War that had a disastrous impact on our people, yet the National Party government never thought of removing his name from our history".
Mr De Klerk also criticised Oriel College's decision to consult on the future of the statue, and remove a plaque honouring Rhodes.
The college, he said, should be "a little more gracious in its treatment of its most generous benefactor" and suggested if his legacy was so "reprehensible" then it should consider returning Rhodes' bequest to the victims of British imperialism in South Africa, the Times reports.
The #RhodesMustFall movement began in South Africa, where students succeeded in having a statue of Rhodes removed from the University of Cape Town.
Students involved in the movement argue that Rhodes' involvement in land seizures in 19th Century Africa make him unworthy of commemoration.
More than 2,300 people have signed a petition calling for the removal of the statue from Oriel College.
The movement includes amongst its members several...

Summary: Former South African President FW De Klerk has criticised a campaign to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University's Oriel College.
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Article: Killers Jeremy Bamber, Peter Moore and Douglas Vinter had asked the court to rule on whole life sentences.
The murderers said condemning them to die in prison amounts to "inhuman or degrading treatment". They argued all sentences should be regularly reviewed.
The Ministry of Justice said the government welcomed this decision.
Bamber was jailed for shooting five members of his family dead in Essex in 1986.
He has always protested his innocence, claiming his schizophrenic sister shot the victims before turning the gun on herself at their farmhouse at Tolleshunt D'Arcy.
Peter Moore, from Kinmel Bay in Conwy county, was convicted of murdering four men for his sexual gratification and Douglas Vinter, of Normanby, Teesside, killed both his wife and a work colleague.
The trio's legal team had argued that any sentence under which the offender's rehabilitation cannot lead to a review of release breaches articles three, five and seven of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The men lost their appeal to the court that whole life tariffs condemning prisoners to die in jail amounted to "inhuman or degrading treatment".
The judges ruled that the whole life tariff is not "grossly disproportionate" and in each case London's High Court had "decided that an all-life tariff was required, relatively recently and following a fair and detailed consideration".
Lawyers representing Vinter plan to appeal against the ruling on his case.
In a statement released by his supporters, Bamber said: "If the state wishes to have a death penalty, then they should be honest and re-introduce hanging.
"Instead, this political decision that I must die in jail is the death penalty using old age or infirmity as the method.
"It is a method whereby I'm locked in a cell until I'm dead - no matter if it should take 70 or 80 years to happen. I shall be dead the next time I leave jail."
'Quite extraordinary'
Bamber said both the trial judge and the Lord Chief Justice set his minimum tariff as 25 years.
"Quite why the home secretary felt that I should...

Summary: Britain's most dangerous criminals can be kept behind bars for the rest of their lives, judges at the European Court of Human Rights have ruled.
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Article: But in Hong Kong, students at the Academy for Performing Arts have turned an otherwise staid event into potent political theatre.
Dressed in black caps and purple gowns, about a quarter of the graduating students - who study music, dance, drama, film and television - took the opportunity last week to send a clear message of discontent to Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong's top leader, who was on stage officiating.
One student showed him her middle finger.
Another got down on her knees asking him to resign.
Yet another graduate bent over to show Mr Leung his backside, though he did keep his trousers on.
A group of students then held up placards spelling out demands for universal suffrage, which has been promised but not granted to the seven million residents of this former British colony.
Tam Lok Hang, 22, did not join the group protest, but he gave Mr Leung a thumbs-down sign to loud applause when he walked onstage.
He told BBC News he had shouted: "689 step down! I want universal suffrage."
'689' has become a pejorative nickname for the chief executive, who is commonly known as CY.
It refers to the number of votes Mr Leung received last year from an elite committee of electors largely loyal to Beijing.
That he was elected by a small group, and not by eligible Hong Kong voters, has angered many residents, tens of thousands of whom took to the streets earlier this week on the 16th anniversary of the city's handover to China.
They marched for hours in the rain to protest against Mr Leung's government and the lack of direct voting rights here.
The most commonly heard refrain was: "CY step down!"
The size of the pro-democracy, anti-CY rally, which drew even more people than last year, was consistent with results from the most recent survey from the University of Hong Kong's Public Opinion Programme.
One year into Mr Leung's administration, the survey showed his popularity rating at an all-time low.
Anson Chan, a former head of the city's civil service, has been scathing in her criticism of the chief executive.
"He needs...

Summary: Graduation ceremonies tend to be predictable rites of passage for students the world over.
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Article: The mathematical model offered "an initial idea" of what a particular level of surveillance could achieve.
The work comes at a time when the number of invasive pathogens, including those affecting crops, is on the rise as a result of global trade and travel.
The findings appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
"Surveillance efforts have been getting increasing attention because early detection is crucial in order to control these epidemics," explained co-author Stephen Parnell from the University of Salford, UK.
"If you want to have a chance of controlling them or getting rid of them then you really have to catch them at a very early stage."
One example of an invasive pathogen threatening an important food crop is the arrival of a virulent bacterium in southern Italy.
A report by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in January observed that the pathogen, Xylella fastidiosa, was responsible for a "rapid decline" in affected olive plantations.
"Major consequences", such as reduced yields and costly control measures, would be the outcome if it spread to other olive-producing regions in the EU, it added.
In July, France reported an outbreak on the Mediterranean island of Corisca. The European Commission described the pathogen as one of the biggest threats to plants around the globe.
Detection probability
Dr Parnell told BBC News: "Surveillance is a very expensive process so if you are doing surveillance following an invasive epidemic then you want to know what the probability is of detecting the epidemic at a low prevalence.
"This was an epidemic modelling approach where we could - given the amount of surveillance that was being done, and information about how quickly an epidemic spreads once it invades - we were able to tell you at what incidence you would be likely to detect it.
"If you have that information then the idea is that you could adjust your surveillance effort if you need to detect it at an earlier stage."
He added that there was currently very little information about how well...

Summary: Researchers have developed a way to help determine the level of surveillance required to detect the arrival of costly invasive diseases.
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Article: As it started to freeze, the core began generating a bigger magnetic field, which continues to today.
The work is reported in Nature journal.
Earth's active core contrasts sharply with that of our neighbour Mars, whose strong early magnetic field died around four billion years ago.
Our planet's magnetic field is generated deep in the planet by the turbulent motion of the electrically conducting molten iron of the outer core.
It aligns compass needles north-south, but also protects Earth from the solar storms that the Sun throws out relentlessly.
At the poles, these storms produce Aurora - northern or southern lights. But they can also work destructively to strip away ozone in the upper atmosphere, an important shield against the Sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation.
It has been suggested that life on Earth has thrived because the magnetic field has allowed this protective atmosphere to persist over hundreds of millions of years.
The turbulent motion of iron in the liquid outer core is partly generated by excess heat in the centre of the Earth being transferred upwards and outwards by convection, and partly by the slow solidification of the solid inner core at the very heart of the planet.
As the iron at the centre of the Earth freezes, forming the inner core, it expels light and buoyant impurities into the liquid outer core. They rise and boost convection in the outer core, amplifying the magnetic field.
An increase in magnetic field is a signature that scientists have been searching for in the rocks of the deep geological past: a recording of the onset of core solidification.
The lead author of the paper, Dr Andy Biggin of the University of Liverpool, UK, commented: "The timing of the first appearance of solid iron or 'nucleation' of the inner core is highly controversial, but is crucial for determining the properties and history of the Earth's interior."
The question of when molten iron in the heart of the planet started to freeze and form the inner core has, recently, been the topic of vigorous scientific...

Summary: A reassessment of ancient rocks has led scientists to estimate that Earth's inner core started to form earlier than was previously thought, around 1.3 billion years ago.
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Article: Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) said the Dyfed-Powys and north Wales forces "required improvement".
South Wales and Gwent police forces were ranked "good".
The reviews are part of HMIC's annual inspection of England and Wales' 43 forces.
Police and crime commissioner Christopher Salmon said: "We have more officers investigating the most serious crimes and my Help Hub has increased support for victims.
"There is always more to do but I am confident that Dyfed-Powys is effective and keeping people safe and reducing crime."
Police and crime commissioner Winston Roddick said: "Over five years North Wales saw a 17.4% cut in crime which is better than the England and Wales average reduction of 12.6%.
"The chief constable accepts, as I do, there is always room for improvement and together we must make sure that the improvements recommended by HMIC are carried out as soon as possible."
Police and crime commissioner Ian Johnston said: "It is pleasing to hear that all of that hard work has been recognised by HMIC and that the force has been found to be effective at protecting from harm those who are most vulnerable.
"This report is very good news and the challenge now is to build further still on the findings of the inspectors."
Alun Michael, police and crime commissioner, said: "This report recognises that the priorities set by the chief constable and myself reflect a strong commitment to prevent crime, to support victims and to work in partnership.
"This is set out in our latest Police and Crime Reduction Plan, published last month, which had a strong focus on early intervention and prompt, positive action as well as effective partnership working."

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Tributes have been paid to a forensic archaeologist who led the searches for the Disappeared - people murdered and secretly buried by republicans during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Article: It was as recently as September 2007 that Rick Rubin, then co-head of Columbia Records, put forward the idea as a way of combating online music piracy and file-sharing.
"You'd pay, say, $19.95 a month, and the music will come from anywhere you'd like," he told the New York Times.
"In this new world, there will be a virtual library that will be accessible from your car, from your cell phone, from your computer, from your television."
As it turned out, he was essentially describing Spotify, which launched just over a year later.
He even got the price right. In those heady days, when the pound was a lot stronger, $19.95 was equivalent to Â£10, which, give or take a penny, is the monthly cost of Spotify Premium in the UK today.
But Spotify is yet to make a profit, while plans to float the firm on the stock market have reportedly been delayed, raising a big question mark over its business model.
Of course, Spotify isn't the only streaming platform out there. Others have joined it over the past decade, including Apple Music, Amazon Prime Music and Deezer, as well as high-resolution music services Tidal and Qobuz.
But Spotify is seen as the leader, with more than 100 million users, 40 million of them paid-up subscribers to its Premium tier.
The Swedish firm is now a major player in 60 countries, including the world's biggest music market, the US, where streaming accounted for 51% of music consumption last year.
Reflecting the huge impact that Spotify has had, its chief executive, Daniel Ek, has just topped US music industry magazine Billboard's latest Power 100 list of the biggest movers and shakers in the business.
"For the first time since [former file-sharing service] Napster decimated music sales, the recorded music industry is showing signs of growth, and that reversal of fortune is largely due to one man," Billboard said in its citation.
The magazine also hailed Spotify as "the place fans discover music as well as consume it", pointing to its promoted playlists, including its Discover Weekly service.
However,...

Summary: It's amazing to think that just 10 years ago, flat-rate digital music streaming services were a mere gleam in the eye of industry executives.
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Article: Strikes started on Wednesday evening, after last-minute talks with the Rail, Maritime and Transport union broke down, and ended at 18:30 BST on Friday.
The dispute was over plans to scrap guards and buffet car services on FGW's new Hitachi Inter City Express trains.
Reduced services were in place during the walkout.

Summary: Rail passengers in south Wales should see services return to normal after a 48-hour First Great Western (FGW) strike ended.
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Article: Pew Research Center found that 71% of Americans identified as Christian in 2014 - down from 78% in 2007.
In the same period, Americans identifying as having no religion grew from 16% to 23%.
Fifty-six million Americans do not observe any religion, the second largest community after Evangelicals.
The United States still remains home to more Christians than any other nation, with roughly seven-in-ten continuing to identify with some branch of Christianity.
In 2007 and then again in 2014, Pew conducted the "Religious Landscape Study", interviewing 35,000 people each time.
Pew researchers say the losses they discovered were driven mainly by a decrease among liberal Protestants and Catholics and occurred in all regions of the US and among all ages and demographics.
About 5 million less Americans now identify as Christian compared to when the study was conducted in 2007.
In the South, those not-affiliated with religion - or as the researchers call them, "nones" - rose to 19% of the population, while in the Northeast they climbed to 25%.
In the West "nones" are a larger group than any religion, making up 28% of the public.
Greg Smith, Pew's associate research director, said the findings "point to substantive changes" among the religiously unaffiliated, not just a shift in how people describe themselves.
Non-religious Americans have become increasingly organised since 2007, forming political groups designed to keep religion out of public life.
Kelly Damerow with the Secular Coalition for America tells BBC News that the Pew findings "lend credence to the growth we've witnessed within our community and that we have the potential to hold a lot of political clout".
Americans who identify as Christian: 70.6%
Protestant faiths: 46.5%
Evangelical: 25.4%
Catholic: 20.8%
Mainline or liberal: 14.7%
Mormon: 1.6%
Jehovah's Witness: 0.8%
Identify as Other Christians: 0.4%
Source: Pew Research Center

Summary: The number of Americans who identify as Christian has fallen nearly eight percentage points in only seven years, according to a new survey.
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Article: The Labour, Plaid Cymru, Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders say a vote the month after May's assembly election could confuse voters.
They say a later referendum would give both polls the "respect" they need.
The leaders say a June referendum would also affect election campaigning in London, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
There has been speculation David Cameron intends holding the referendum on 23 June, depending on the outcome of an EU summit in February.
On Monday, the Welsh government said the EU vote should be "sufficiently distant" from the assembly election.
In the letter, published on Wednesday, Labour's Carwyn Jones, Tory Andrew RT Davies, Plaid's Leanne Wood and Lib Dem Kirsty Williams say: "A June referendum date would mean that the campaigning period for the referendum would overlap with the campaigning for the May elections to our national assembly.
"The simultaneous existence of multiple party political campaigns and EU referendum campaigns would in itself pose practical and logistical difficulties, but the greater problem that we anticipate is the potential for confusion as a diverse range of issues is presented to the electorate.
"This is not just a matter of respecting the integrity of the Welsh electoral debate, but of affording the EU referendum campaign the respect it deserves."
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has also warned it would be "a mistake" to have the referendum so soon after the devolved elections.
Mr Cameron has pledged to hold the referendum by the end of 2017.

Summary: All four party leaders in the assembly have written to the prime minister objecting to the idea of holding the EU referendum in June.
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Article: Winnie-the-Pooh and the Royal Birthday sees the much-loved bear travel to Buckingham Palace with Christopher Robin and friends, Piglet and Eeyore.
The free story has been written by Jane Riordan and is illustrated in the classic EH Shepard style.
It is available as an audio-video download, narrated by Jim Broadbent.
The Queen officially celebrates her 90th birthday on 11 June, although her actual birthday is 21 April 1926.
The first Winnie-the-Pooh book, written by AA Milne, was published in October 1926, though the bear 'of very little brain' had previously featured in a poem and a tale in a newspaper.
Broadbent said he had "loved being part of" the new adventure.
"I have been a fan of Winnie-the-Pooh since I was a boy. In fact I named my very first and much loved teddy Pooh and that can only have been after the AA Milne character," the actor said.
"It's been an honour to narrate such an iconic story and I want to wish both Her Majesty The Queen and Winnie-the-Pooh a very happy 90th."
In the new story, Pooh and his companions travel to Buckingham Palace to deliver a special present to the Queen.
The present turns out to be one of Pooh's famous "hum" songs.
The story also features Prince George, recognisable by his clothes and blonde hair but described only as a little boy "much younger than Christopher Robin and almost as bouncy as Tigger".
He is given a red balloon by Piglet and is pictured patting him on the head and tickling Pooh's ears.
Author Riordan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that writing the tale had been "daunting but a huge honour".
"We wanted to broaden the appeal of Winnie-the-Pooh and give everyone access to him," she said.
Despite her initial trepidation over what to write, Riordan said Milne's stories were so vivid she "found I could imagine what the characters might say and sound like as they were so real in my head".
Whether a print version will be made available is yet to be decided.
All the illustrations have been created by Mark Burgess, who also drew the pictures for the first...

Summary: A new Winnie-the-Pooh adventure has been released to celebrate both the 90th birthday of the Queen and the fictional bear himself.
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Article: John McIlwaine, grew up in Portadown, County Armagh, but worked at the University of Bradford.
He died at the age of 49 on Tuesday night.
He was in charge of the team that recovered the remains of Danny McIlhone in 2008 and Charlie Armstrong in 2010.
Mr Armstrong's daughter Anna McShane recognised his dedication.
"I remember him as an awfully nice man who was so good to our family. He worked tirelessly in the most dreadful conditions to find my father," she said.
"May he rest in peace."
Mr McIlwaine had previously described it as a "privilege" to lead searches for the Disappeared and said their success had far outstripped predictions at the start of the process.
Geoff Knupfer, the chief forensic scientist and investigator with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR), said: "John began work with the ICLVR in 2006 and with his great knowledge and experience made a huge contribution to our work.
"Searching for the Disappeared in bleak and inhospitable places requires a special kind of dedication and commitment as well as great skill and that is what John had in abundance."
Seventeen people - 16 men and a woman - were abducted and murdered by republicans between 1972 and 2003.
The ICLVR was established in 1999 to obtain information in strictest confidence that may lead to the location of the remains of the Disappeared.
The bodies of 10 people have been recovered.
Sandra Peake, from the Wave Trauma Centre, which has supported the families of the Disappeared since 1995, said: "John had a way of humanising the science which helped families understand more clearly what was being done to find their loved ones.
"There was a bond between John and the families and that is reflected today in the number of them who have contacted Wave to express their shock and sorrow."
A spokesman for the University of Bradford said staff and students had been left shocked by the tragedy.
"John was an incredibly motivated, loyal and reliable individual," he said.
"He inspired and supported hundreds of...

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An established number of people are choosing to sleep rough as a "lifestyle choice", a council report has claimed.

Article: The authors warned a loss of diversity meant more people were dependent on key crops, leaving them more exposed to harvest failures.
Higher consumption of energy-dense crops could also contribute to a global rise in heart disease and diabetes, they added.
The study appears in the journal PNAS.
"Over the past 50 years, we are seeing that diets around the world are changing and they are becoming more similar - what we call the 'globalised diet'," co-author Colin Khoury, a scientist from the Colombia-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture, said.
"This diet is composed of big, major crops such as wheat, rice, potatoes and sugar.
"It also includes crops that were not important 50 years ago but have become very important now, particularly oil crops like soybean," he told BBC News.
While wheat has long been a staple crop, it is now a key food in more than 97% of countries listed in UN data, the study showed.
And from relative obscurity, soybean had become "significant" in the diets of almost three-quarters of nations.
He added that while these food crops played a major role in tackling global hunger, the decline in crop diversity in the globalised diet limited the ability to supplement the energy-dense part of the diet with nutrient-rich foods.
Amid the crops recording a decline in recent decades were millets, rye, yams, sweet potatoes and cassava.
The study by an international team of scientists also found that the homogenisation of the global diet could be helping accelerate the rise in non-communicable diseases - such as diabetes and heart disease - which are becoming an increasing problem worldwide.
Crop failure fears
Co-author Luigi Guarino, of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, added: "Another danger of a more homogeneous global food basket is that it makes agriculture more vulnerable to major threats like drought, insect pests and diseases, which are likely to become worse in many parts of the world as a result of climate change.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is designed to protect the genetic...

Summary: Fewer crop species are feeding the world than 50 years ago - raising concerns about the resilience of the global food system, a study has shown.
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Article: In 2011, 431 cases did not respond to antibiotic treatment compared to 342 in 2010, the HPA said. About 550 more cases of TB were disgnosed in 2011.
The agency said it was disappointed by the increase which "remains a concern".
TB is a bacterial infection that mainly affects the lungs but can be found elsewhere in the body.
Overall, just under 9,000 new cases of TB were recorded by the HPA in 2011, up from about 8,400 in 2010.
Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, head of TB surveillance at the HPA, said he was pleased that the number of overall cases year-on-year remains stable at between 8,500 and 9,000.
But he said: "The increase in drug-resistant cases remains a concern and a challenge to our efforts to control TB in the UK."
He added that the infection "continues to disproportionately affect those in hard to reach and vulnerable groups" such as foreign migrants.
Prof Abubakar urged health commissioners in the worst affected areas to prioritise the delivery of services and treatment.
TB can be spread when someone with the infection coughs, sneezes or talks and another person breathes in the bacteria. However, prolonged contact is usually needed for infection to occur.
Typical symptoms include a persistent cough, night sweats for weeks or months, weight loss, fatigue, high temperature and shortness of breath.

Summary: Cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in the UK have risen by over a quarter in the last year, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has revealed.
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Article: Up to 21 redundancies are expected at Edrington, the maker of The Macallan and The Famous Grouse.
A total of 90 jobs are being moved from Perth and more than 50 roles will move from the distillery and office in the west of Glasgow.
The new headquarters office has not been chosen yet, and the move is planned for early next year.
Edrington's existing site near Drumchapel is currently the base for its executive team.
When the new headquarters is set up, almost 200 people will be left working on productions and operations at the existing Glasgow site.
Eight jobs will be lost from the Drumchapel base while 13 redundancies are expected at the Perth office in West Kinfauns.
The move will bring onto one site the executive board, finance, legal, corporate affairs, human resources, management of global operations, and some information technology.
The company's other six sites across Scotland will not be affected while it continues to build a new distillery and visitor centre for The Macallan on Speyside.
Edrington's main whisky brands are Famous Grouse, Cutty Sark, The Macallan, Highland Park as well as Snow Leopard vodka and Brugal rum, made in the Dominican Republic.
The firm employs 3,000 people, 70% of them overseas, many with distribution operations and joint ventures.
The distiller was founded in Glasgow in 1861 by William Robertson and John Baxter. It is now the largest Scotland-based whisky distiller.
As a private, independent company, its profits go to the Robertson Trust, set up in 1961 by descendants of William Robertson.
The trust distributes them to Scottish charities, last year handing out more than £16m in 571 donations.
Chief executive Ian Curle said:  "This development will not only secure our position as one of Scotland's leading businesses, but also help us to continue investing in our premium brands at home and abroad, which in turn contributes to the on-going success of Scotch whisky, Scottish exports and the Scottish economy."

Summary: A major Scotch whisky distiller is to close its Perth office and move to a new Glasgow headquarters.
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Article: Sequencing fragments of DNA from water 1km (0.6 miles) below the surface can determine the type and quantity of fish present, say Danish scientists.
The DNA-based technique could be used for monitoring fish sustainably without having to catch them.
Fish populations are under pressure from over-fishing, pollution and climate change.
Dr Philip Francis Thomsen, of the University of Copenhagen, said the environmental DNA (eDNA) approach was "very universal", giving information on many fish, including flatfish, sharks and rays, and deep-sea species.
"We are basically doing equivalent to CSI [crime scene investigation] work for a biologist," he told BBC News.
"Investigating the biodiversity of the ocean by using environmental DNA as a proxy for what is actually living there."
Fish leave tiny bits of DNA in the water during their lives.
The genetic material is invisible to the naked eye, but can be extracted and sequenced, yielding a "DNA fingerprint of the ocean".
In the study, samples of seawater were taken by scientists during deepwater trawling off Greenland for research purposes.
All but two of 28 different types of fish captured had left traces of their DNA in seawater.
Another three were identified through their DNA alone. These included rare deep-sea species such as the angler fish.
The scientists then looked at two commercial fish species - the Greenland halibut and the redfish - in more detail.
They made a heat map of where most of the fish DNA was found.
And this map fitted "quite well" with the amount of fish actually caught.
"This is the first evidence that there is a quantitative relation," said Dr Thomsen.
"We could say that the biomass catch is actually reflected in the amount of DNA in the water samples.
"But if we can fine tune this method, we might be able to use this as a supplement to estimating stock sizes and potentially to more sustainable fishing."
Dr Thomsen sees two other practical applications for the approach:
The research is published in the journal, Plos One.
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Summary: Sampling DNA from seawater may be one way to check up on fish and other marine life, according to research.
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Article: Written by Pat Mills and illustrated by the late Joe Colquhoun, it follows young Londoner Charley Bourne's fight to survive in the trenches of the Western Front.
After starting his career with Dundee-based publisher DC Thomson, Mills co-created Battle with fellow comic book writer John Wagner and also launched British science-fiction/fantasy comic 2000AD.
Here Mills gives an insight into writing Charley's War and why he believes how mechanised warfare - machine guns, zeppelins and planes - made WW1 the world's first science-fiction war.
"John Wagner and I did not want Battle to glorify war, and Charley's War is an anti-war story," said Mills. "I think that in the 1970s and 80s it was legitimate, more so than it is today, to describe the Great War as a tragedy, a mistake and criticise the incompetence of generals. In 2014, revisionists have been trying to improve the image of the generals."
Mills' research drew on books, war-time poetry, soldiers' letters, archive photographs and satirical postcards, and some inspiration from 1969 film Oh! What a Lovely War. War-time letters were a major influence and correspondence between Charley and his mum, a munitions worker back home in Bethnal Green, was used as a plot device in the early strips.
"To write the story I had to understand the complexities of the trenches. It was a learning curve. I owe a lot to Charley's War because it made me a better writer," said Mills.
Artist Colquhoun had served as a sailor during World War Two. Before illustrating Charley's War, he had provided the artwork for another Battle comic story, Johnny Red. Set in WW2, its hero is a British pilot fighting for the Russians. Mills said Colquhoun was a hugely talented but modest man. "Joe had this great imagination. Other artists have told of him being able to imagine something, like a tank for example, from different angles. In Johnny Red, he created this amazing street scene of Stalingrad," said Mills.
Mills and Colquhoun were determined to root Charley's War in fact. The Battle of the Somme...

Summary: Charley's War was a comic strip set in World War One that ran for many years in Battle, a British comic published in the 1970s until the late 80s.
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Article: An investigation by Northampton Borough Council discovered 21 homeless people in the town, including "a significant proportion of European migrants".
The people were "resolutely refusing to leave the streets", the report said.
Council officials held talks with 30 organisations to develop a plan to eliminate rough sleeping by June 2017.
Lithuanian Kristians Olsteins has been rough sleeping in Northampton for about four months after losing his job and passport.
He said it was not a lifestyle choice for him and he would like nothing more than to have a home.
Mike Hallet, who has been homeless for two years, also denied it was a choice.
He said: "Of course, I would like to be off the streets - it is horrible and I would rather be anywhere else."
But Darren Jordan, who lived on the streets for two months before finding space in a homeless shelter, believes "some people get stuck in a rut and then it does become a lifestyle choice".
Northampton Hope Centre runs a day centre supporting people who are homeless or in poverty and was one of the organisations consulted by council officials.
General manager Robin Burgess said: "It's clear there are people who have become accustomed to life on the street over many years - or even decades.
"Some are European and some are addicted to drink and alcohol - but I don't believe anyone actively chooses to sleep on the streets."
He said the way to address homelessness is to supply individual support for as long as is needed.
Under a three-year plan set to be discussed on Wednesday, it is proposed that Northampton Borough Council will provide a temporary night shelter which would require some initial set-up costs "likely to be under Â£50,000".
The financial implications of setting up and running the shelter for up to 18 months will be fully-costed and any plan will require approval.
"Comprehensive support plans" for "rough sleepers with complex needs" would also be introduced.
Crisis, a charity for single homeless people, said rough sleeping was "incredibly dangerous" and a...

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