The female horse, named Flash Dance, became trapped at Flattmoss Farm, near East Kilbride, on Tuesday afternoon. After initial efforts to free her failed, there were fears that the 440kg (69st) animal may have to be put down. She was freed after a local farmer used a JCB digger to scoop away mud which allowed fire crews to haul her clear. Eddie Kelly, manager at East Kilbride fire station, said: "This was a challenging and time-critical operation. "Flash Dance was stuck in deep mud, on a slope, and she was tired, exhausted and very cold. "We were able to use our specialist rescue skills and equipment to find a solution and, by working with the local farming community, were able to free Flash Dance and reunite her with her owner. The assistance given to us was invaluable." Firefighters were called to the farm, in South Lanarkshire, at about 16:00 on Tuesday, after Flash Dance slipped and fell into the ditch while crossing a small bridge. Despite the efforts of owner Kath Mulholland and livery owner John McIntyre and his family, the animal could not be freed and became cold and exhausted. When firefighters arrived they used ropes and an inflatable air bag to try and raise the horse to her feet but she kept sinking into the soft ground. A local farmer was then enlisted and he used his JCB digger to scoop away six feet of mud. This allowed firefighters to get underneath the animal, secure ropes around her body and hoist her clear. The animal was said to be "tired, cold and dirty but otherwise uninjured". Ms Mulholland, 58, said: "The firefighters would not give up. They were fantastic. I just want to thank them, John and his family, the farmer and everyone else who helped." Mr McIntyre was involved in the rescue operation along with wife Barbara, 63, daughter Susan, 39, her husband Scott, 42, and daughter Sarah, 29.

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Littergram invites people to share pictures of rubbish on their smartphone and report it to their council. Danny Lucas, of Wrotham, Kent, said Facebook "is allowing us to keep our name and wishing us continued success". Facebook, which owns the US photo-sharing giant, said it had nothing more to add. More news from Kent Earlier in the year, lawyers representing the internet giants had said Littergram's name was too similar to photo editing and sharing app Instagram, and that it was not "not acceptable". Facebook added that it was obliged to take reasonable measures to protect its brand. However, in a letter sent to Littergram this month, lawyers said given that the organisation was "not claiming trademarking rights", it considered "this matter closed at this time". They added that they reserved the right to take action should circumstances change, but went on to wish the "commendable anti-litter campaign much success". Mr Lucas said: "We applaud Facebook for taking this admirable approach and thank them very much for lifting a weight from our shoulders that will allow [us] to focus on the job in hand."

Question: The owner of an anti-litter app has said lawyers for Instagram and Facebook have @placeholder their case demanding he change its name .


Karen Williams and Patty King said the musician was given "foreign substances to induce his premature death" by his business manager Laverne Toney. Lawyers for King's estate said the claims are unfounded and disrespectful. Nevada's Clark County Coroner said it would investigate with the Las Vegas Police Department's homicide division. "At this point, we don't have evidence that these allegations of foul play will be substantiated," Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said. "However, we are taking them very seriously and will be conducting a thorough investigation. "We are co-ordinating our investigative efforts with the homicide division of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. I expect the investigation will take a minimum of six to eight weeks." However a statement from the Las Vegas Police Department said: "Until such time as the Clark County Coroner determines Mr King's death to be from other than natural causes, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is not moving forward with any investigation." King died in his sleep at his Las Vegas home on 14 May, aged 89. At the time, his doctor and the coroner said he had died of a series of small strokes connected to his Type 2 diabetes. But the guitarist's daughters alleged that King's personal assistant Myron Johnson and Toney gave him medication to induce diabetic shock. The women added that "King was sequestered from all family members" in the week before his death, and that Toney and Johnson were the only people with him. Toney, who is the executor of King's estate, shrugged off the daughters' claims. "They've been making allegations all along. What's new?" she told the Associated Press. A lawyer for King's estate also dismissed the accusations as "ridiculous". "I hope they have a factual basis that they can demonstrate for their defamatory and libellous allegations," Brent Bryson said in a statement. Earlier this year, Patty King, Karen Williams and a third daughter, Rita Washington, went to court accusing Toney of neglect, but the case was dismissed because of a lack of evidence. King was born on 16 September 1925 to sharecroppers and worked in the cotton fields as a child before picking up the guitar. Considered one of the world's greatest players, he was known for his sharp single notes and vibrato on the electric guitar he christened Lucille. Known for songs such as The Thrill Is Gone, Three O'Clock Blues and Darlin' You Know I Love You, he influenced generations of guitar players, and was inducted to both the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was married twice and had 15 natural and adopted children, 11 of whom are still alive. His funeral is scheduled to be held on Friday in Mississippi. The Clark County coroner said his investigation would not delay the service.

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The Thai embassy's consular section in the Burmese capital said it would be closed for the week in the wake of the "unexpected and prolonged" protests. Win Zaw Htun and Zaw Lin were sentenced to death last week for the 2014 murders of David Miller and Hannah Witheridge. Thai police have denied allegations the men were forced to confess. But many in Myanmar believe the men were made scapegoats for the crime. The convicted migrant workers denied killing the tourists, saying they were forced by Thai police into confessing under duress, which they later retracted. Hundreds of people, including Buddhist monks and ordinary citizens, were reported to have taken to the streets on Tuesday. Thai media has earlier reported that Thai authorities asked Myanmar to contain the protests. A statement made by the Thai embassy released earlier this week said the demonstrations made it hard to access their entrance. After the verdict hundreds took part in protests which erupted outside the Thai embassy in Yangon, as well as in some towns across Thailand, after Thursday's court ruling, calling for the men's release. Myanmar's army chief Gen. Min Aung Hlaing has called for the case to be reviewed, to which Thailand's Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha said that the men had the standard right to appeal, according to local media. Hannah Witheridge, 23, from Norfolk, and David Miller, 24, from Jersey, were found dead on the island of Koh Tao on 15 September last year. The family of Mr Miller say they believe justice was done by the court, in which "the judges were invariably diligent, attentive, fair and extraordinarily hardworking," said David's brother, Michael. Thai police spokesperson Gen Dejnarong Suthichanbancha  has consistently defended the investigation saying it "was done transparently and  in compliance with international standards".

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Five family members died on Sunday when their car went off Buncrana pier in County Donegal and into Lough Swilly. Davitt Walsh was on the pier and said he took off his clothes and swam to the family as fast as he could. He said he "could see the distress in the family" as they tried to escape from the car. Those who died were Ruth Daniels, 57, her daughter Jodie Lee Daniels, 14, Sean McGrotty, 49, and his sons Mark, 12, and Evan, eight. They were the mother, sister, partner and two sons of Louise James, from Londonderry. "The father had the window half ajar and started hitting it with his elbow to break it," he told Irish state broadcaster RT?¡ë. "When the window was broke, the father... handed me the baby and said: 'Take the baby.' "The water started to come into the car and he just looked at me and said: 'Save my baby.' "I took the baby, I held it above my head and I swam back to shore. "The father could have saved himself because he was out of the car, but he went back in to save his family. "I think deep down the father knew I was only going to be able to save one person." Mr Walsh, a footballer who has played in the top divisions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, said the car sank "instantly". "My girlfriend was waiting at the shore, she took the baby off me," he said. "I was exhausted on the pier, I just lay there on the algae. "I just feel really, really terrible that I couldn't do any more for the family." The baby, Rionaghac-Ann, was taken to hospital and police said she was recovering well. Mr Walsh, from Kerrykeel in County Donegal, has been praised by the family of the victims for saving her. Jim McGrotty, a brother of Sean, said Mr Walsh was a "brave man". "Words cannot express the enormity of the tragedy which has befallen our family," he added. "If there is anything good which has come out of it is the fact that baby Rionaghac-Ann has been saved."

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Calling herself Amnesia, she had gone on the social network Ask.fm seeking sympathy after breaking up with a boyfriend, Italian media report. "Kill yourself", "Nobody wants you" and "You are not normal" were some of the anonymous replies she received. She jumped to her death from a high-rise building on Sunday. It is still unclear which factors chiefly drove her to take her life. Prosecutors in Padua have opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death. For some time she had been posting messages that suggested she might be suicidal. She appeared to have stopped posting about a week before she died. The girl, whose real name was given as Nadia by Italian daily Il Mattino di Padova, left messages for her family in the town of Fontaniva, near Padua, but they were unable to reach her in time. Micaela Campana, an MP for the Democratic Party in the country's coalition government, said: "We can no longer read about young people who take their lives because of threats and psychological pressure." There have been calls in Italy to shut down Ask.fm, which was sharply criticised for its policy of allowing users to post comment anonymously after previous bullying-related deaths in the UK and US. Ask.fm spokesperson Liva Biseniece told the BBC News website: "We intend to co-operate fully with the Italian authorities regarding this tragic case. "We note that suicide cases of young people are always a very complex overlap of social, economic and emotional aspects. We urge the media to provide space and time to establish what prompted this terrible event." In recent months, Nadia replied 1,148 times to questions online, Il Mattino di Padova reports. It found a stream of insults and obscenities directed at the girl. "Where do I see myself living five years from now?" she wrote in one entry. "Me living five years from now? Wow." At one point, Nadia posted photos of cuts she said she had made to her arms. It appears she planned her death carefully, leaving five letters to family and friends. On news of Nadia's death, her mother was treated in hospital for shock, Il Mattino di Padova reports. "My daughter was only 14 years old and hadn't done anything," the girl's father was quoted as saying. The mayor of Fontaniva, Marcello Mezzasalma, said Nadia's father had confided in him that he had secretly checked his daughter's mobile phone and diary, but had not noticed anything amiss. The mayor said he had decided against declaring a day of mourning so as to avoid "creating an even bigger clamour". Blaming the social network, Mr Mezzasalma said: "Let's close this damn Ask." He added that he was in contact with Italian MEP Mara Bizzotto, a member of the opposition Northern League party, who has asked the European Commission for stronger EU legislation on internet abuse. Ask.fm pledged to take action last year after online bullying cases made headlines. "We urge our members to use the reporting, blocking and deleting options available to them," Ms Biseniece said on Wednesday. Ms Campana, who has already proposed a bill to increase the punishment for online abuse, said parliament must urgently debate a bill on bullying and cyberbullying.

Question: MPs in Italy have called for action against cyberbullying after a girl of 14 , @placeholder to online abuse , killed herself in a north -eastern town .


Samsung said it expected an operating profit of 4.2tn won ($3.5bn; ?¡ê2.3bn) a 14% dip from a year earlier, but better than market projections of 3.5tn won. Compared with the previous quarter, the projected profit is up 12%. Samsung is the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones. "Its telecommunications business is seen very positive as shipments of smartphones and other high-end handsets expanded," said Park Jong-Min of ING Investment Management. Analysts said they expected Samsung's handset business to keep growing robustly, not least due to the Apple's decision to upgrade its existing model of iPhone4 with new features and technology, rather than launch a new version. Apple had been expected to launch an iPhone5 at a media event held earlier this week. "Given Apple's relatively unchanged new iPhone, Samsung will have the opportunity to eat into Apple's market share with its hardware build-up and growing software power until next year," said Jang In-Beom of Bookook Securities. Samsung has also been growing its presence in the tablet PC market. Last month the Korean electronics manufacturer announced that sales of the Samsung GALAXY S II had crossed the 10 million mark, doubling from five million in just eight weeks. Despite the optimism about the growth potential of its handset business, analysts said that external factors remain a big threat to the company in the short to medium-term. There have been concerns that a slowdown in the US coupled with the ongoing debt crisis in Europe may hurt global growth and dent consumer demand. "The macroeconomic situation will remain a major risk for Samsung in the fourth quarter," said Ahn Seong-Ho of Hanwha Securities. At the same time, there are fears that volatility in the currency markets may also have a bearing on its earnings. The Korean won has fallen as much as 10% against the US dollar since the start of July. A weaker won makes Korean goods cheaper for foreign buyers. "The weakening won may have inflated third-quarter profits," said Kim Young-Chan of Shinhan Investment Corp. However, Mr Kim added the exchange rate remained a threat to Samsung as any recovery in the won would have a counter effect.

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22 February 2017 Last updated at 12:02 GMT He put a note on Twitter to say ' Thanks for all your phone calls and your invitations to your TV talent show. Sorry if my first answer wasn't clear enough but I don't want to be in this competition.' Contestants in talent shows can apply directly to be on them but sometimes people are approached by the TV company and encouraged to take part. Britain's Got Talent said: 'We travel the length and breadth of the country to find the best talent to make them aware of the show and auditions. We do then encourage acts to apply but any such acts will be required to audition on the same basis as any other applicant and normal programme rules apply. So why did Tom turn down the chance to go on BGT? He's been telling Jenny.

Question: Young musician Tom sent a @placeholder to Simon Cowell after he repeatedly got asked to go on Britain 's Got Talent .


With numerous parties expected to win seats it is not easy to check all the permutations for forming a coalition or how a minority government could get its legislation through. But mathematicians have a tool for working out how power is distributed under such circumstances - it's called the Banzhaf Power Index. This is based on calculating the proportion of cases in which each party could provide the swing votes that would convert the losing side into the winning side. The BBC Radio 4 programme Campaign Sidebar asked Hannah Fry, a mathematician at University College London, to calculate the Banzhaf power index (BPI) for some plausible electoral scenarios. This is what she came up with: This analysis can apply not only to coalition negotiations but also to a minority government trying to get legislation passed on a vote-by-vote basis almost daily. From the perspective of the mathematical calculations, it makes no difference whether Labour or Conservatives are the larger of the two main parties. This assumes a predicted five constituencies won by Sinn Fein, whose MPs do not take up their seats at Westminster. That means that the effective threshold for a Commons majority is 323. If the Lib Dems get 30 and the smaller parties get 20, then 273 seats could be a key target for the two big parties. That's what they would then require to achieve a majority without needing the backing of the SNP. This is illustrated by the two scenarios above. In the first one the SNP power score is already much higher than its proportion of seats, but in the second it's the same as the lower of the top two parties. Unless the Lib Dems get more than 30 or so, which is the maximum of most forecasts, they are in a much weaker position than the SNP if that gets about 40. That's because on these scenarios matters are so finely balanced that the SNP could probably just provide the swing votes for a majority, but the Lib Dems couldn't do so without the additional assistance of the smaller parties. If one of the two big parties pulls far enough away from the other but is still significantly short of a majority, then the Lib Dems would move into the same power league as the SNP. If the biggest party is very close to a majority then the other small parties could tip the balance and start to catch up too. Clearly these are only some possible, if plausible, scenarios. The Banzhaf Power Index can equally well be used to look at other outcomes at Westminster. Perhaps the political parties need to recruit some mathematicians - if they haven't already done so. Martin Rosenbaum is the editor of Campaign Sidebar

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When police arrested a 14-year-old boy in April for threatening to behead his teachers, they could not possibly have suspected they would soon be trying to foil a terrorist plot on the other side of the world. The boy, now 15, who cannot be identified because of his age, was "the director" of a deadly plan. His directions were sent from his darkened bedroom in the early hours of the morning, as his mother slept unaware in a nearby room. The teenager - now Britain's youngest convicted terrorist - comes from a "normal" family in Blackburn, Lancashire, and had a "typical relationship" with his mother who would drive him to any appointments. But the picture that emerged when police searched his bedroom was far from normal. On the windowsill they found a wooden box labelled "Islamic State" in the way a teenager might carve out the name of a pop idol. Detectives also discovered a mobile phone, hidden under his mattress. It contained "significant extremist content", including an IS fighter screensaver. The boy had searched on the internet for martyrdom operations, explosives and local landmarks including Blackburn Cathedral, the Thwaites building and BAE systems. But it was what detectives found within encrypted messages that revealed Australia was just days away from experiencing a violent terrorist attack orchestrated by the schoolboy. A conversation between the boy and an older teenager in Melbourne, Sevdet Besim, was hidden within the social media application, Telegram. Police lacked the technology to decode the messages and so an officer at the North West Counter Terror Unit developed "a bespoke software package" to decrypt the dialogue. Message by message the boy's murderous intentions were unveiled. The race to prevent the bloodshed became apparent. Police contacted the Australian authorities "immediately". "We can get in touch with international partners at the touch of a button," said Det Ch Supt Tony Mole. "Before we'd even read it all, we quickly worked out something sinister was going on and we started almost drip-feeding the Aussies by email." During the many hours he spent in his room, the boy had adopted the persona of a much older person to pull the strings of his puppet, 18-year-old Sevdet Besim. Besim was a friend of Abdul Numan Haider, 18, who was shot dead after stabbing police officers at a Melbourne police station in 2014. Between 16 and 25 March more than 3,000 messages were exchanged between the boy and Besim. The boy maintained he had planned other operations and Besim had no idea he was taking instruction from a youngster holed up in his bedroom in Blackburn. The first message came from Besim, announcing "I'm the brother from Australia." The boy, comfortable in his role as "director", haughtily responded by testing Besim. He asked him to prove his credibility and used sophisticated extremist language. Once the boy was satisfied Besim held allegiance to the head of IS, the plan to attack began to formulate. Besim suggested Anzac Day, held annually on 25 April. The boy responded: "Make sure the dogs remember this as well as fallen heroes." He warned Besim of the difficulty of beheading a person. "I suggest you break into someone's house and get your first taste of beheading," the boy urged. But Besim concluded this was "too risky". Detectives said the pair settled on a plan to "run over a cop, behead, get the gun and use the spoils of war to have a gunfight". Besim told the boy he had been out in public, concealing a 15-inch (38cm) knife and "no-one realised a thing". He sent a photo of the weapon. A congratulatory response came from the boy: "Mashallah", which means " God has willed it", and he added a chilling: "Perfect for tearing through someone's throat". Police in Melbourne responded rapidly to the UK's warnings and Besim was arrested during dawn raids on 18 April. Detectives found the knife concealed under the seat of his car. They also recovered his mobile phone, on which he had "actively" been working on his martyrdom note. Det Ch Supt Mole said: "I would suggest once you've done your martyrdom speech or whatever you're going to leave... and you've got the car, and the knife is in the car - it could have been any time. "The plan was the Anzac parade. What I can't say is whether he was going to go earlier, because it was a fairly simple plot." Besim was charged with preparation of a terrorism attack in Australia and is due in court in December. In Blackburn, the boy, who was on bail, was rearrested and charged with inciting terrorism. Home Office statistics show in 2014 there were 289 terrorism-related offences in the UK, an increase of 30% on the previous year. Of those, the number of 18-20 year olds involved tripled from 15 to 46. Ten cases involved under 18s. Prof Eric Grove, security studies expert at Liverpool Hope University, said the boy's age reflected a "disturbing" propensity for extremists to recruit children. "Younger people are very impressionable. There has been a tendency in Africa to use child soldiers, and Boko Haram use young girls as suicide bombers. Young British Muslims are a vulnerable target for IS." During the 12 months before his arrest, the boy displayed "concerning behaviour", saying at school he supported Osama Bin Laden and wanted to become a jihadist. This led to intervention from the Channel Programme, designed to protect vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism. While the boy appeared to engage initially, perhaps another example of his devious character, his behaviour deteriorated. He began threatening his teachers with violence and was overt in his fascination with beheading, selecting half a dozen potential victims and making a list ranking them in order, leading to the police becoming involved. So what was it that caused this boy to become radicalised? Jim Bonworth, counter terrorism expert at University of Central Lancashire, believes there are a number of reasons people like the teenager take this path. "He would have that sense of empowerment that he was able to make a difference in some way, even if he couldn't do it himself because he was too young and his bus pass had run out," Mr Bonworth said. "Push factors [leading to radicalisation] are things like discrimination and injustice. Pull factors are glamour, sensation seeking, this sense of danger and purpose. It's so attractive, it's a heady cocktail. "I'm surprised more young people don't come across that. I'm sure they do, but we don't hear about it."

Question: A British teenager will serve at least five years in custody after admitting a plot to massacre veterans at an Anzac Day parade in Australia in an attack @placeholder by the so - called Islamic State ( IS ) .


About 70 acres of park and gardens at Cannon Hall near Barnsley in South Yorkshire will be improved. The ¡ê2,925,200 is to restore original features including an 18th Century ice house and woodland behind the walled garden. Lakes are also to be dredged. Barnsley Council, which owns the visitor attraction, said work is due to be completed by 2020. More live updates from South Yorkshire Richard Emerson, chairman of the friends of Cannon Hall, said: "The grant is a major boost for a historic recreational site and is absolutely fantastic news. "This incredible result follows years of long hours and detailed preparation and is vitally important, enabling much needed restoration and improvement of the park and gardens." Cannon Hall was owned by the Spencer-Stanhope family for 300 years and its grounds were designed in the 18th century by Georgian landscape architect Richard Woods. The hall opened as a museum in 1957 and its parks and gardens are free to visit. The grant comes from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery Fund.

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Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said more than 500 dead fish were found in the River Afon, a tributary of the Vyrnwy near Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain. NRW officers said the likely source was drainage of a wildlife pond and wetland by a landowner. It is thought nutrients in this water reduced oxygen levels in the river. Rob Ireson, senior environment officer at NRW, said: "Draining water from a pond to a stream may seem quite harmless - but it is what probably wiped out most of the fish on this stretch of the Cain. "The water may look and smell normal - but it can be lethal for fish." NRW said it was likely the fish suffocated when the drained water - which they believe contained low levels of dissolved oxygen and carried nutrients that could reduce oxygen levels even more when they break down - mixed with the river water.

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Now The Mystery of the Sony Pictures Hack - which already had all the ingredients for a major Hollywood film - has taken a new twist as the movie at the heart of the row is pulled. That raises a whole host of questions but the key one - who was behind the attack - remains unanswered. To help get to the bottom of the mystery, the BBC turned detective and considered the evidence. What isn't in doubt, despite Sony's desire to write a script where it wakes up and it was all a bad dream, is that the film giant's internal computer system was hacked in November. The group responsible called itself The Guardians of Peace and warned that if its demands were not met, secret data would be "shown to the world". Crucially though it did not outline its demands. A number of as-yet unreleased films popped up on online download sites. The Interview, a comedy featuring a plot to assassinate North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, was not among those released. The hackers also released the salary and social security numbers of thousands of Sony employees - including celebrities. Following threats of 9/11 style incidents at any cinema that screened the film from the group behind the hack, Sony announced that it was cancelling the release of the movie altogether. The case for North Korea being behind the attack seems, at least on the face of it, to be a compelling one. It has a motive and a history of hacking. Its leadership certainly did not disguise its anger about the forthcoming Sony film The Interview. In fact, it described the film as "an act of terrorism". And rather like a robbery being pinned on a local criminal who has a history of similar offences, North Korea has form. Many are pointing the finger of suspicion firmly towards the crime Unit 121 of North Korea's General Bureau of Reconnaissance, described by some commentators as the country's most elite hacking unit. And shortly after news that the film was pulled, the New York Times ran an article quoting an unnamed government source as saying it believed that attack to be state-sponsored with the North Korean government involved. It might not be the most compelling evidence but it is worth noting that  North Korea denied that it was behind the attack, saying instead that it was the work of someone sympathetic to its cause. It hardly ever bothers to deny such claims. North Korea is not averse to a bit of hacking but many say that the history of this particular crime does not fit with its modus operandi. Its usual target is South Korea where attacks such as one launched in March 2013 have taken down internal networks. Blogger Marc Rogers drills down into the details of this particular hack. He concludes that the fact that the code was written on a PC with Korean locale and language actually makes it less likely North Korea is the source. He points out that they do not speak traditional Korean in North Korea, they speak their own dialect and traditional Korean is forbidden. "Let's not forget also that it is trivial to change the language/locale of a computer before compiling code on it," he writes. He also points out that the the hackers are very net and social-media savvy. "That and the sophistication of the operation, do not match with the profile of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)." But perhaps his most compelling piece of evidence is the fact that the attackers only latched onto The Interview connection after the media suggested that North Korea might be linked to the attack. In his blog, Mr Rogers writes "I would find the presence of Chinese far more plausible" and others also think that Chinese hackers, possibly recruited by North Korea, are a far more likely source of the malware. Other think it may be hackers out to make some money. When the hack was first reported there was little to suggest a monetary motive but actually the hackers emailed five top Sony Pictures executives on November 21, days before they began leaking the files, and demanded money. Sean Sullivan, a senior researcher at security company F-Secure, believes extortion could be the motive behind the hack. "That is a lot more credible than a nation state," he told the BBC. For him, the real test will  be what the hackers do next. If the pulling of The Interview was their primary motive, things should quieten down but if there are more data dumps, then he thinks everyone should pretty much dismiss North Korea as the source. "I would even bet they dump The Interview on to a torrent site unless Sony puts some money in a brown paper bag," he said. Like Mr Rogers, he does not rule out the involvement of Chinese hackers. "It is far more likely that North Korea would have recruited Chinese hackers who both wanted to make some money and cause Sony pain," he said. If the sorry tale were to be turned into a Hollywood movie and, given the times we live in, it almost certainly will - although probably not made by Sony - a better plotline might be anonymous hackers intent on revenge. To understand how this might be a possibility requires a bit of a trawl through the history of Sony and hacking. Its battle with hackers began in 2005 when its music division installed software which modified computer operating systems to prevent CDs being copied. It continued in 2010 when Sony took on teenaged hacker George Hotz who jailbroke his PlayStation 3 and released the code. Its most high-profile attack happened in April 2011 when hacking group Anonymous launched a campaign to bring down the PlayStation Network. The attackers gaining access to the personal information of more than 77 million users. The hack cost Sony at least $171m. As Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at Sophos, put it in an interview with Gizmodo. "Sony's been raising the ire of hackers for as long as I can remember, so you have to think that they've known they're a serious target." For Mr Roberts, the most obvious suspect, like many of the best whodunnits, may be far closer to home. "My money is on a disgruntled (possibly ex) employee of Sony," he concludes. It is debatable whether those responsible for the attack will ever be brought to justice. The US government has said that, if the hackers do turn out to be North Korean, it will be very difficult to prosecute them. And while many may speculate on other suspects, hard evidence is proving elusive. "The jury is out - North Korea is definitely a suspect. It had opportunity and the means but to convict them you need more evidence," said security expert from the University of Surrey Prof Alan Woodward. What everyone does agrees is that the ripple effects from the attack will be felt long after the commentators have stopped asking who is to blame. Sony Pictures faces a long road to redeeming its reputation and gaining back the trust of Hollywood. America faces the hardest of questions about whether, by withdrawing the film, is has given into threats in a way it usually refuses to do. And the IT bosses of corporations around the world may just as well cancel all their Christmas leave as chief executives demand immediate reviews of their security procedures in a desperate attempt to make sure they never fall foul of similar embarrassing leaks. For Mr Sullivan the hack represents a good moment for corporate America to scrutinise its security arrangements. While it might seem easy to blame a nation state it is time to sit up and acknowledge that this could have happened to any number of firms. He hopes there will be " a decent post-mortem". Until then though The Most Mysterious Case of the Sony Hack will remain like Charles Dickens' final novel - The Mystery of Edwin Drood - unfinished.

Question: It has become the whodunnit that is @placeholder Hollywood without a penny being spent on production .


Diamond Reynolds says the powers of those whose job it is to protect the people need to be curtailed. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama is visiting Dallas, where five police officers were killed by a black man. It followed protests against the police killing of Mr Castile and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge a day earlier. In an interview with the BBC, Diamond Reynolds, who is also known as Lavish, recounted the moment her partner was killed, and why she chose to film it. "I was thinking about our rights, right there at that very second. I was thinking about whether or not people were gonna believe what happened. Because I was still at disbelief myself," she told BBC 5 Live. "Right then and there I knew I wanted to make a change," she said. She says changes are needed to laws applying to police. "If we can't turn to our higher power, you know officers and things of that sort, then who are we to turn to if people that are supposed to be protecting  us, are the ones that are assassinating us?" Mr Castile had been stopped in Falcon Heights, a suburb of St Paul, because the car had a broken rear light, Ms Reynolds said. Before he was shot, he had told the officer that he was licensed to carry a concealed gun and had one in his possession. Police have started an investigation and the officer involved has been put on leave. Philando Castile's and Alton Sterling's deaths follow a long line of high-profile incidents involving African-Americans dying at the hands of the police, and have led to demonstrations across US cities. Last Thursday, during a protest organised by Black Lives Matter in Dallas, Micah Johnson, 25, launched a revenge attack, killing five police officers and wounding seven more, before being killed by a bomb detonated by a police robot. Diamond Reynolds said resorting to retribution is not a solution. "I absolutely have the deepest condolences for those families that have lost their loved ones in Dallas and all the officers that were defending us that lost their lives trying to defend us," she said. President Obama is due to speak at an interfaith memorial service in Dallas later on Tuesday. Walter Scott - unarmed and shot in the back as he ran away from an officer in North Charleston, South Carolina, in April 2015. Former officer Michael Slager facing murder charge Laquan McDonald - 17-year-old was holding a knife but appeared to be moving away from police in Chicago when shot 16 times in 2014. Officer Jason Van Dyke denies murder charge Michael Brown - 18-year-old shot at least seven times in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014, sparking nationwide protests. Officer Darren Wilson cleared of wrongdoing Eric Garner - died after being placed in a chokehold by New York police while selling cigarettes in July 2014. Grand jury decides against charges, police disciplinary action taken against supervising officer Sgt Kizzy Adonis 1,152 people killed by police in 2015 30% of victims were black 13% of US population is black 97% of deaths were not followed by any charges against police officers What goes through a policeman's head before he shoots? Ms Reynolds says she watches the news every day and prays for people who lose their lives and who don't get justice. But she never thought it could be her. "And now I'm left to sit here and think 'Why me? Why us? Why his family? Why did this police officer do this? Why can't these laws change? Why can't we get justice? Why why why why why?"

Question: The woman who live - @placeholder US police killing her black partner Philando Castile in the state of Minnesota last week says she wants changes in the law .


The agency is taking the 60,000 sq ft 'Maxim 6' building on a 20-year lease. The move will allow Sepa to run several of its operations under one roof. Maxim park was saved from financial collapse only a few months ago by the sale of Lloyds Banking Group debt to an American private equity investor. The debt restructuring involved Cerberus Capital Management, a New York-based investment house. The park, which offers 750,000 sq ft of office and retail space across 10 buildings on a prominent site by the M8 motorway, opened in 2007 but has secured few tenants until now. David Gebbie, from commercial property asset managers Arisaig Property Partners, said the recent financial restructuring of Maxim had allowed Sepa and Maxim to achieve a leasing deal that previously could not have been achieved. He added: "Both Maxim and Sepa have economically benefited from a review of the original terms without impacting the actual net present value of the lease. "The news is a great boost for Maxim and the Lanarkshire area." Sepa will relocate 350 staff to the office, including 200 from East Kilbride - where they are closing down two neighbouring offices - and others from Stirling and Perth as well as scientific staff from Edinburgh. Sepa's headquarters will remain in Stirling. Sepa chief executive Campbell Gemmell commented: "I am extremely pleased to be able to announce that Sepa has secured an excellent new facility, which will not only mean more efficient and effective environmental protection for Scotland, but which also provides better value for money for the taxpayer. "It will provide the operational base for our regulatory teams for west central Scotland, an excellent working environment for several related national functions and a brand new, first class laboratory facility."

Question: The @placeholder Maxim office park in Lanarkshire has been given a major boost with the announcement it is to let an entire block to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency ( Sepa ) .


The Dow Jones index lost 110.26 points to 16,963.69 - having added more than 3% over the previous five sessions. The S&P 500 was down 22.44 points to 1,979.32, while the tech-focused Nasdaq index fell 59.43 points to 4,648.83. Figures released by the Chinese government showed exports sinking 25.4% and imports dropping 13.8%. Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of heavy machinery, fell 4%. US oil fell 4.3% to $36.28 a barrel, while Brent crude dropped 3.4% to $39.45 a barrel. Shares of Exxon Mobil and Chevron both fell 2.1%. Shake Shack shares plunged more than 11.8% after the burger chain reported an 11% rise in fourth quarter sales - the slowest growth rate of the last three quarters. Urban Outfitters shares shot up 16.1% after it reported stronger than excepted sales of its Free People clothing line.

Question: ( Close ) : Wall Street share markets closed down , reversing @placeholder from last week , as oil prices dropped and China reported poor trading figures .


Martin Ramsay photographed the orcas on 18 January. He has previously been lucky enough to photograph the animals, which are the world's large species of dolphin, on other trips to sea. Scotland provides habitat for the UK's only known resident population of killer whales, which contains eight older animals. Earlier this month, an orca found dead on Tiree was identified as a member of this group. The carcass was found on 3 January and later identified by specialists from the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust as "Lulu", a female member of the small population.

Question: A Shetland fisherman has captured pictures of killer whales in action off the @placeholder of Lewis in the Western Isles .


In 1964, Bruno Steinhoff seized on an opportunity to import cheap furniture made in what was then East Germany and sell it in the more cash-rich West. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, he was able to buy up the factories in East Germany that were supplying the furniture. At the same time, his friend, Claas Daun, was busy making a business out of turning around companies that had serious problems. Mr Daun, a tax lawyer by training, had had some dealings in South Africa, starting in 1993, when he bought the troubled South African retailer, Victoria Lewis. Working alongside Mr Daun, as his chief executive, was a young chartered accountant named Markus Jooste. It was Mr Jooste who convinced Mr Daun to merge his South African assets with Mr Steinhoff's business interests in Europe in 1998. A few months later the new entity acquired the furniture maker, Pat Cornick. It was the first of many acquisitions which have swelled the company into the business it is today. What really cemented Steinhoff as a major player in global retail was the 2011 acquisition of the French homeware retailer, Conforama. This brought six new countries under the group's umbrella. Once thought of as the "Ikea of Africa", nowadays the group trades in homeware and general merchandise in Europe, Australia, Africa (especially South Africa) and the United Kingdom. It has been involved in two high-profile takeover battles in Europe - both of which it ultimately lost. In the UK, it tried to outbid Sainsbury's for Argos owner Home Retail Group. Shortly after that failed, Steinhoff put in a bid for the French electronics retailer Darty - losing out in the end to French books and music store Fnac. In addition to this, Steinhoff International counts the South African franchise of the car rental company Hertz in its stable, as well as a host of real estate properties across the world. Markus Joost, a keen racehorse owner, owns about 3% of the company and is said to be worth in the region of $700m (¡ê530m). One of the major shareholders in Steinhoff is Christo Weise, the South African retail billionaire ranked by Forbes as the second-richest man in Africa. The group now has 6,500 outlets in 30 countries, 22 manufacturing facilities and 40 retail brands, including Bensons for Beds and Harveys in the UK, Conforama in Europe, Pep and Ackermans in South Africa and Snooze in Australia. Steinhoff derives about 60% of its earnings in Europe and 34% in Africa. In an effort to fund its continuing expansion plans in Europe, the company moved its primary stock market listing from Johannesburg to Frankfurt in December last year. Steinhoff's relentless expansion by acquisitions has provided a solid basis for profit growth as well. In its latest set of results, operating profit had jumped 46% to €1.1bn (¡ê916m; $1.2bn) in the nine months to March, compared with the same period the year before.

Question: Although @placeholder in South Africa , the origins of Steinhoff go back to West Germany during the Cold War.


Deila said winning trophies remains in Celtic's hands and that he is unconcerned at Aberdeen moving to within a point of the league leaders. The Norwegian has been criticised for the side's recent form. "I feel pressure all the time," said Deila. "We want to win, I want to win. We have every opportunity again to win a lot of trophies this season." The Celtic manager said it was important that the supporters continue to get behind the team. "As I've said many times, I know why I'm here: it's to win trophies, to do something in Europe and to develop this team," he added. "That's what I'm going to do. "We have every opportunity again to win a lot of trophies this season - I had two last year. Nothing is lost, so I'm really looking forward to the rest of the season. "Supporters have their opinions and there are different opinions among the supporters. "It's very important that they stand behind the team and I'm sure they are. "We have everything in our hands, we don't need to think about anybody. "The situation is clear. We have played one game less and if we win that we are four points ahead and that is a better situation than we were in last year." Meanwhile, striker Leigh Griffiths, who has been sidelined with a calf injury, took part in light training and will be assessed ahead of Sunday's trip to Hearts. And Ryan Christie, who was signed by Celtic from Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the summer then loaned back to the Highlanders, will be with Deila's side for the rest of the season. The midfielder is currently recovering from a knee injury. "He has arrived at the club and that is a positive," added Deila. "He is still injured but will start training around the end of January. "He is very talented but he will have to fight with everyone else to get into the team. "It is important to get him here, to this environment to get to know all the boys and staff and get used to the way we train and play."

Question: Celtic manager Ronny Deila says he should be @placeholder on results at the end of the season .


But whereas many other whisky producers use an internal element to heat their stills, the ecologically minded artisan fires his with used cooking oil reclaimed from a local chip fryer. "With the odd chip strained away, she burns a beaut," he says amid the bald hills of the Tasmanian Midlands. "The direct-flame heating of the still [produced by burning the oil] lends a caramel to the spirit." That's the not the only piece of unusual equipment in Bignell's still. He uses a reclaimed laundromat tumble dryer for malting. A repurposed motor from a blender acts as a pump amid a marvellous collection of reused bits and pieces that make up his Belgrove Distillery, crammed into a converted, cobwebbed 18th Century stable. Tastings take place in one of the stalls before an order is siphoned from a barrel overhead into a bottle that's numbered, signed and labelled before your eyes. Bignell, an agricultural scientist cum sand-and-ice sculptor of world renown, is committed to locally sourcing his ingredients. He is even considering using sheep manure from under his shearing shed as an alternative to peat, which is burned to impart a smoky flavour to the whisky. "It's less 'miles' as the shed's next to my rye fields, but I'm worried about a possible marketing downside," he says. Not that he need worry. With a rating of 94.5 out of 100, his rye whisky rates as "liquid gold" in the world's leading whisky guide, Jim Murray's Whisky Bible. "Perhaps the most concentrated rye arrival I have tasted for a couple of years from any part of the world. Just so sharp, almost three dimensional," Murray's review gushes. No less a figure than Rene Redzepi, the chef who runs fine-dining mecca Noma in Copenhagen, is a fan of Bignell's unique whiskies. Noma's newly opened Sydney pop-up restaurant has five Belgrove whiskies on its list of 23 Australian craft spirits. Bignell says he is "pinching himself" and plans on tripling production with a larger second still to 300 litres per month. "But I've been saying that for a couple of years," he says. Tasmania looms large in Australia's history of distilling. When the state was still a colony called Van Diemen's Land, its fourth lieutenant-governor, Sir John Franklin, passed a law banning small pot stills in 1838. A trade in "rum" was undermining the fledgling colony, Sir John thought. When the Australian states federated in 1901, "Bad Frankie's" law passed through to all of the country, although stills above 40,000 litres were permitted. Enter lauded Tasmanian Bill Lark, a surveyor, who set about changing the law and pioneering Australian craft whisky. On a fly-fishing trip to the Tasmanian highlands he thought the state would be a good place to make whisky. He successfully lobbied politicians to allow the running of stills under 40,000 litres in 1992, and went on to set up his own distillery in Tasmania. Demand for Tasmanian whisky was turbo-charged in 2014 when Tasmania Distillery's brand Sullivans Cove won "World's Best Single Malt Whisky" at the World Whisky Awards. It was the first time a whisky from somewhere other than Scotland or Japan had won the prestigious award. Now the 15 or so small-scale distillers in Tasmania can't make enough to keep up with demand and their small stockpiles have been exhausted. While the number of barrels maturing in Tasmania is increasing each year, Tasmania's makers of "liquid gold" must manage waiting lists of up to two years for certain barrels. That's something Tasmania Distillery laments, as 700ml bottles of Sullivans Cove now trade privately for $6,000 Australian ($4,200;¡ê3,000). The whisky, which was aged in a French oak barrel, was selling for A$180 before the award and the subsequent stampede to secure them. The distillery didn't think, pre-award, to hold any back, leaving them with only a couple of bottles and a small reserve. "We won't do that again," says marketing manager Bert Cason. Tasmania Distillery was last year able to produce two special release magnums using just a blend of the "world's best" barrel, selling them within minutes of release for $10,000 each. A step up in production sophistication from the likes of Belgrove, Tasmania Distillery makes 8,000 bottles a year of the French oak (now $350) and 18,000 bottles in total of all types of Sullivans Cove whisky. Old Hobart Distillery manages demand by allocating "a significant number" of bottles from each barrel to specialist bars, restaurants and liquor stores, marketing manager Jane Overeem says. "The remainder is allocated to our customers who have joined our mailing list. "Just before Christmas, we released three barrels online after sending an email notification to our very loyal database," she says. "The three barrels sold out in 21 minutes." Paul Carter is a journalist and whisky columnist living in Tasmania.

Question: Just near Bagdad on the road to Jericho in Australia 's @placeholder state of Tasmania , Peter Bignell is making " liquid gold " .


Halfpenny, 27, has an option for another year in France when his deal runs out at the end of the season. Wasps director of rugby Dai Young says the Wales full-back has turned down on offer to join them, but Cardiff Blues and Scarlets remain hopeful. "It's a no brainer for him to stay in Toulon," said Byrne. "He wasn't in a team photo a few weeks ago so people thought he was going to leave Toulon but it looks like he's maybe had a change of heart. "People have linked him to the Scarlets but they've got Liam Williams there so that probably wouldn't be the right move either." Young's comments are the clearest indication yet that Halfpenny, who could miss the whole season after having knee ligament surgery in September, feels his immediate future remains in France. Returning to Wales would benefit national coach Warren Gatland given the limitations imposed on him on the number of foreign-based players he can select in the squad. But Byrne, who did not play for Wales again after moving to Clermont Auvergne in 2011, believes Halfpenny's importance to the team as one of the world's best place-kickers means his place is safe irrespective of the so-called Gatland's Law. "It would be great if Leigh came back to Wales but I think his international career is fine if he stays in Toulon," said Byrne, who helped Wales win the 2008 Grand Slam and scored 10-tries in a 46-cap career. "I'm sure he's had a conversation with the coaches - he's a massive weapon for Wales in terms of his kicking." Byrne also believes Halfpenny will improve as a player by playing alongside a host of world-class players, including New Zealand great Ma'a Nonu, who joined Toulon after winning the 2015 World Cup. "The vast majority of the players who leave New Zealand or Australia end up in the Top 14," he said. "Playing with someone like Ma'a Nonu is going to bring his game on. "So there's not a big rush for him to come back. He's winning trophies, he's playing in front of sell-out crowds week-in-week-out and he's being paid a very good salary."

Question: Leigh Halfpenny will stay in France with Toulon rather than return to join a Welsh @placeholder , according to former Wales full - back Lee Byrne .


A proposed new runway north-west of the airport would affect residents living in and around Slough and Windsor. Slough Borough Council said it was important residents were compensated for an increase in noise and the impact on property values. Three events across Slough and Windsor will be held next month. The airport has already set aside ?¡ê550m for compensation and said owners of 750 homes that would need to be demolished would be offered 25% above the market value of their properties. Slough council is also making copies of the consultation document available at a number of its public buildings, including all of the town's libraries. The Heathrow Airport consultation runs until 12 October.

Question: People in Berkshire who think they should be compensated if Heathrow Airport is expanded are being urged to attend a series of @placeholder events .


Alvarez, 25, stopped Briton Amir Khan in the sixth round of their Las Vegas bout on 7 May to retain the title. The WBC had given Alvarez a deadline of 22 May to begin negotiations with WBA and IBF champion Golovkin or face being stripped of his title. But Alvarez says he will now target a fight against the unbeaten Kazakhstani. "I'm hopeful that by putting aside this ticking clock, the two teams can now negotiate this fight," said Alvarez. Alvarez, whose only professional defeat came against Floyd Mayweather in 2013, added that he had instructed his promoter to "finalise a deal as quickly as possible". Golovkin, 34, who now holds three of the four major middleweight crowns, has won 32 of his 35 fights by knockout in an undefeated career, and was invited into the ring after Alvarez's win over Khan. "I will fight 'GGG' and I will beat 'GGG' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines," said Alvarez.

Question: WBA and IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin has been handed the WBC title after Mexican Saul ' Canelo ' Alvarez @placeholder the belt .


Saturday night at Twickenham was all that and more. Breathless chaos, impossible composure.  A moment of brilliance, a litany of stupidity. Arguably the biggest and best win Wales have ever pulled off on foreign soil, indisputably the most devastating defeat of Stuart Lancaster's England regime. How did Wales snatch it? In any normal victory over England - if there were such a thing - there would be those who couldn't care. All that matters is the win. Except this time the style and circumstance will be essential to the celebration. Ten points down at half-time, a scrum disintegrating, a line-out malfunctioning. Half a team out injured before the night had begun, their replacements succumbing the same way. England in charge, kicking their points, holding their line. Some of it sprung from a change in tactics. Keep the ball in play. Take the set-piece out of the equation. A lot of it came down to the dead-eyed kicking of Dan Biggar. Seven penalties kicked for the posts, seven successful. No Welshman has ever scored as many in a World Cup contest as his unblemished 23. With the deficit still seven points and less than 10 minutes remaining, in came the individual inspiration - Lloyd Williams, disappearing down a white-shirted cul-de-sac on the left wing, kicking cross-field with the same elan and accuracy as Didier Camberabero on this same turf 24 years ago to send Gareth Davies away for the critical try. With the score locked at 25-25, a weary yet indefatigable Biggar nailed a monstrous penalty from almost halfway to complete the comeback. All that, and then belief, and guts, and fitness, and fight. There were reasons everywhere for Wales to accept defeat. They would not take them. It still should not have been enough. This was a match won in astonishing fashion but also lost in the way that can haunt teams and finish coaches. Had you missed the entire match then the look on Lancaster's face afterwards would have told you everything you needed to know. This was the doomsday scenario for his side, a win over Australia now the only thing that stands between them and unwanted infamy as the first World Cup hosts in history to go out of their own tournament in the group stages. It was also a collective failure of strategy, a second-half brain freeze that manifested itself in repeated penalties for exactly the same breakdown offence and came to a head in the decision, three minutes from time, to kick for the corner rather than take on the three points that would have rescued at least a draw. For all the talk about the coach's controversial team selection, this was a match decided elsewhere. Owen Farrell was excellent, banging over all five of his penalties, adding a somewhat wobbly drop-goal and a simpler conversion. Sam Burgess bashed and crashed and slammed a little too. Just before half-time, England led 16-6. They were dominant in the scrum, all over every line-out, winning quick ball and creating space out wide as their ball-carriers sucked in defenders. Ben Youngs was firing, Mike Brown scorching a trail. Just after half-time they still led 19-9. With half an hour to go they had it held at 22-12. So where did it go? In the head and in the hands. At ruck after ruck an Englishman would transgress, the whistle of Jerome Garces would trill and Biggar's boot made another dent in their lead. England missed 17 tackles and conceded eight turnovers. Too often in a disintegrating second half they kicked possession aimlessly away. More critical were the 12 penalties, so many for the same offence. Why not realise? Why not adapt? So much else that England had done was based on solid pragmatism: kick for territory, pick up points when deep in opposition territory, keep the defensive line-speed high and door tightly shut. They could still have rescued it. A draw would have kept this most open of groups in the tantalising balance. Farrell had been faultless. So why gamble on something more? Captain Chris Robshaw has been here before. With time running out against South Africa in the autumn of 2012 he instructed Farrell take a penalty that took his side to within a point, rather than going to the corner. England mangled the re-start, ran out time and lost the match. Three years on he went the other way - red rather than black, twist rather than stick - and found the result the same. Lancaster offered him precious little protection afterwards. He had been screaming from the bench to take the points that would have levelled it. He may be screaming in his sleep for long dark nights to come. For all he has done with England, for all the dedication and thought he has put into his four years and the broken bridges he has mended between the country's elite players and its long-suffering support, it may all be crashing down around him. Sides have come back from calamitous defeats in the group stages before to flourish again at World Cups. Four years ago France were embarrassed by Tonga but went on to reach the final and be within a kick of winning the thing. Eight years ago England were blitzed 36-0 by South Africa yet fought back to somehow meet the same opponents again in the final. Neither had to beat a side as accomplished as the Wallabies just to make it into the knockout stages. Lancaster's team, in every Six Nations and every autumn series, has failed at least one big test. The wriggle-room has now gone. Another now-characteristic failure and they will be gone. Quite what happens to Wales next is another matter. With Scott Williams, Liam Williams and Hallam Amos added to an injury-list that already included two props, a winger, a first-choice scrum-half and a Lions full-back and centre, and a bench so bare that they finished this match with a wing at centre, a scrum-half on wing and a patched-up fly-half at full-back, this victory has come at a cruel price. That is for another night and another morning. As midnight passed to the sounds of Hymns and Arias being sung from the stadium bars and early morning arrived to men in red dancing down the dark streets of south-west London, it was all about one match: a win like no other, a night to never forget.

Question: Sometimes there are games so @placeholder that hype is left looking lightweight . Sometimes there are contests so brutal that there are more men bloodied and broken than left standing . Sometimes teams refuse to be beaten , even when the scoreboard and odds and environment are all against them .


Keane Wallis-Bennett, 12, died at Liberton High School in April 2014. The inquiry into her death has been taking place at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. Mark Hatfield, an inspector for the Health and Safety Executive, was asked about evidence which had been given by a fellow pupil at the school. The pupil had described "mucking about" with a friend in the changing room by leaning against the wall with their feet up on the opposite wall. Fiscal depute Gary Aitken said the girl could not remember whether she and her friend had been doing this at the same time or separately. "If one of the girls was acting in the manner described, is it possible that may be the reason the wall collapsed?" he asked. Mr Hatfield replied: "If the wall was only partially cracked, I do not believe it possible for a single girl to have caused it to fall. "If the wall was already fully cracked, it is possible a single girl, acting in the way described, may have made the wall fall." He added that if two girls had been acting simultaneously and the wall was fully cracked, it would "turn possibility into probability". The parties involved in the inquiry will make their submissions on Friday.

Question: A fatal accident inquiry into the death of an Edinburgh schoolgirl who was crushed by a falling wall has @placeholder hearing evidence .


The green, red and white of the Mexican flag will be everywhere as tens of thousands of Mexican-Americans and other Chicagoans gather to celebrate the Fifth of May or Cinco de Mayo. That is the day the Mexican army defeated the French invasion against all the odds in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. In Pilsen, they will mark the occasion with a parade of elaborate floats, mariachis, local beauty queens and talented horsemen. And, being a celebration of Mexico, you'll be able to find good food, music and chelas (beer). Particularly the beers. "In Chicago, the Cinco de Mayo is a marketing ploy to sell alcohol," says Vincent Rangel, the President of the Mexican Civic Association of Illinois, and long-time resident of the city. "I've been in Chicago for 63 years, and we're dumbfounded at how the date has taken on a life of its own. Especially when you consider that it's really not celebrated in Mexico, unless you're actually from Puebla." That, says Mr Rangel, is the great irony of the raucous Cinco de Mayo party in the United States: it's a far bigger affair north of the border than it is in Mexico itself. These days, it has an important political dimension too. President Barack Obama celebrated the Cinco de Mayo with a group of prominent Hispanic leaders on the Rose Lawn. They were served tuna ceviche and lamb in tamarind mole as President Obama used the occasion to garner support for the Dream Act, a bill to grant legal status to undocumented young people. Meanwhile in Mexico City, the day is likely to pass off like any other Saturday. Few bars will be doing anything out of the ordinary, and there is no sense that this is the "Day of Mexican Pride" as it has been dubbed in the United States. Apart from in one particular neighbourhood towards Mexico City's international airport, Penon de los Banos. Here, the recreation of the Battle of Puebla has been held for decades and all day the small barrio will reverberate to the sounds of muskets, canons and blood-curdling battle cries. And, of course, there will be a huge event in Puebla itself. The picturesque city is where, 150 years ago to the day, the Mexican army under the command of General Ignacio Zaragoza, supported by indigenous warriors carrying machetes, drove out the French troops of Napoleon III. "Mexico was between two fires," says Juan Pablo Salazar, the official historian of Puebla. "Either we embraced the United States or we embraced Europe." At that fork in the road, he says, the Battle of Puebla was crucial in determining the future direction of Mexico by choosing to defend its fledgling sovereignty from the invading forces. The nature of the victory was crucial too. "The French assumed they'd flatten everyone, particularly the indigenous tribes who had no military technology," the historian says. But the Indians, supporting a vastly outnumbered Mexican army, came out to fight from all over Puebla. "They were very poor, simple people and they fought with their souls. You can imagine the political importance the United States made of the victory. It was a way of telling France: 'This is ours, America is for the Americans'." The tale of the outnumbered and weaker Mexicans claiming an unlikely victory against one of the most powerful militaries in the world adds to the romance of the Cinco de Mayo, says Juan Pablo Salazar. It is a story which has been celebrated by successive Mexican governments for a century and a half. On Saturday, thousands of modern-day soldiers will take time away from military matters in Mexico to recreate the battle in front of President Felipe Calderon. Back in the US, there are still a lot of misconceptions about the Cinco de Mayo, says Mexican-born Chicago resident, Vincent Rangel. "Most people think it's Mexican Independence Day," he chuckles. (That's actually on 16 September.) "We home-grown Mexicans laugh a bit at the half-price margaritas and the buckets of Corona beer for five dollars. I know of Irish pubs that have Cinco de Mayo specials, it's bizarre." But, he adds, for fear of sounding like a killjoy, the older generation aren't trying to rain on the parade. "I think it's encouraging when people ask us 'What is this Cinco de mayo thing all about?' " "I explain to my friends who are Germans or Poles or Jewish that, for me at least, it's a moment for quiet reflection about the great sacrifice people made 150 years ago to get us to this point."

Question: If you find yourself on Cermak Road in the Pilsen district of Chicago on Saturday , you might be forgiven for thinking you had stumbled into a Mexican town in the @placeholder of its fiestas .


The day ticket costing ¡ê10 for adults, ¡ê7 for children and ¡ê25 for a family is aimed at providing affordable public transport on the TrawsCymru network. Economy Secretary Ken Skates hailed it as "an exciting opportunity" to boost use of the government-funded service. TrawsCymru buses carried more than two million passengers last year. "The new TrawsCymru Day Ticket is an exciting opportunity to encourage people across Wales to enjoy this fantastic public transport service and travel Wales," said Mr Skates. "The ticket represents a significant saving for those looking to make long distance journeys and, hopefully, facilitate more hop-on hop-off travel across Wales too - boosting tourism and local economies in the process." The scheme allows unlimited travel on T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T9 services and on the X85 service between Newtown and Machynlleth.

Question: New tickets offering unlimited long distance bus travel across Wales are being @placeholder with hopes of boosting tourism and the economy .


The 29-year-old, who is currently in Rio hosting coverage of the Olympic Games, said he was "a huge fan" of the show and "cannot wait to get started". "I'm still waiting for someone to wake me up and tell me I'm dreaming! It's going to be so much fun," he added. Oduba is the fourth star announced for the show, which begins in September. He joins former shadow chancellor Ed Balls, singer Will Young and presenter Laura Whitmore, who were confirmed earlier this week. Oduba, who also appears on BBC Breakfast, said: "I've been such a huge fan of the show for over a decade. So to actually take to the Strictly stage myself, I don't think I've been more nervously excited - aside from on my wedding day. Let's hope for fewer tears!" Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

Question: BBC Sport presenter Ore Oduba has become the latest celebrity to join the line - up for the new @placeholder of BBC One 's Strictly Come Dancing .


Traveller Sally Bowers said the site in Coverack, Cornwall, had become "our home" and she had "nowhere else to go". Leaseholders St Keverne Parish Council declined to comment but confirmed it had served an eviction notice. It said last year up to 25 parking spaces would be freed if the travellers were relocated. It also "strongly supports" a plan to build a travellers' site on Goonhilly Downs. Ms Bowers said she had applied to Cornwall Council, which owns the land, for a certificate of lawfulness to prove she does not need permission to station several caravans at the site. The authority said it had not yet reached a decision on whether to grant the certificate and confirmed it "does not currently have an alternative site" to offer the family. It added its previous position had been "to temporarily tolerate the use of the site" until an alternative could be provided. The parish council said the proposed Goonhilly Downs site would "accommodate this particular family" and solve "this ongoing blight". Ms Bowers' 18-year-old son, Elwood, said it was one of the "better" places he had lived, having previously resided at a gravel pit and a dump. "I think I am resourceful because of it, I'm happy to work and have worked in the village since I was 15," he said. Ms Bowers said she had not intended to stay at the site so long. "This has been our home for over ten years and we have tried to make the best of it we could," she added, Planning permission has not yet been granted for the new travellers' site.

Question: A woman who @placeholder three children in a public car park for more than a decade says she is being evicted by the council .


The 29-year-old, who won a silver for Great Britain at London 2012, needed a find a new partner and be selected again - and he and Chris Grube will now go to Brazil in the men's 470. Dylan Fletcher and Alain Sign - in the 49er - have also been chosen for Rio. The quartet complete the 15-person British sailing team. Patience said: "It's still a special day but mixed feelings I suppose because I am combining two campaigns to try and still achieve the same goal. "It was wonderful to do this with Chris and it was wonderful to do that day with Elliot as well." Luke Patience (Men's 470) Chris Grube (Men's 470) Dylan Fletcher (49er) Alain Sign (49er) Giles Scott (Finn) Nick Thompson (Laser) Alison Young (Laser Radial) Bryony Shaw (Women's RS:X) Nick Dempsey (Men's RS:X) Hannah Mills (Women's 470) Saskia Clark (Women's 470) Charlotte Dobson (49erFX) Sophie Ainsworth (49erFX) Ben Saxton (Nacra 17) Nicola Groves (Nacra 17)

Question: Luke Patience has been @placeholder for the Rio 2016 Olympics for the second time , after his initial partner Elliot Willis missed out because of bowel cancer .


It comes amid a Ugandan ban on the recruitment of maids to work in Saudi Arabia after accusations that workers have been mistreated. The women were staying in a government-run shelter in Riyadh because they did not have money to pay for a flight. The shelter is for people who have run away from their employers and illegal workers caught by immigration services. A statement from the Ugandan Embassy in Saudi Arabia said that they found 24 women from Uganda at the shelter in the Saudi capital. After visiting the shelter, Ugandan ambassador Rachid Yahya Ssemuddu said that "most of the cases involved human trafficking". "Many of the young girls were brought to Saudi Arabia on promises that could not be met by those recruiting them," he said. The Philippines, Indonesia and Ethiopia have also banned domestic workers from travelling to Saudi Arabia after reports of abuse. In efforts to improve working conditions, the Ugandan embassy said it had employed a private company to monitor Ugandan migrant workers. It was using an internet-based system that would ensure that only licensed Saudi employment agencies recruited Ugandan workers in future. The poor treatment and abuse of maids in the Middle East is a familiar tale. Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock tell the disturbing story of a young Ethiopian woman who took a job as a domestic help in Saudi Arabia but was treated like a slave. Read Almaz's story

Question: Seven women stranded in a Saudi hostel have been @placeholder home , Uganda 's ambassador to Saudi Arabia says .


Admiral Benedictus Kelly lived in Saltford House, near Bath, from 1856 until 1867 when he died. The citation spoke of the "significant and dangerous" part he played helping stop the slave trade during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. It was unveiled by MP Jacob Rees Mogg who said the community should celebrate his "remarkable life". Chairman of Saltford Environment Group, Phil Harding, has carried out Phil Harding, has carried out extensive research on Admiral Kelly's life. He said he was astounded to discover his contribution to help end slavery, and provide support for the education of children in the 19th Century. Early in his career Admiral Kelly fought the French and Spanish Fleets in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. At the end of his active service he freed 350 slaves. He was also part of HMS Pheasant's anti-slavery patrols off the coast of Africa from 1818 to 1822, following the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807. He intercepted and examined several Portuguese, French and Spanish vessels suspected to be capable of carrying slaves - freeing many hundreds more. Admiral Kelly was also one of the first directors of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and held directorships of a number of railway companies in the south of England. A bequest after his death led to the building of Kelly College in Tavistock, Devon, - now known as Mount Kelly.

Question: A plaque has been unveiled to @placeholder a naval admiral 's contribution towards the abolition of slavery .


However, it said the girls abducted from a school in Chibok in April 2014 were not among them. The military said the girls and women were freed during major operations ending in the seizure of four Boko Haram camps in the Sambisa Forest. A military spokesman said they were now being interviewed. Weapons were also seized at the camps taken in the latest operation, the military said. In recent months Nigerian security forces have taken back most of the territory previously under the control of Boko Haram, the BBC's Tomi Oladipo reports from Lagos. Gen Chris Olukolade said the hostages were freed as part of a major, ongoing operation. He said accurate intelligence had helped the military locate the camps, which had been attacked from all directions by ground and air forces. Last October, the government said it had secured an agreement for a ceasefire and the release of the girls taken from Chibok, but Boko Haram subsequently denied this. The abduction of the girls in Chibok sparked global outrage with many joining a campaign online to free them using the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls. Several nations including the US and China vowed to help find them and there have been reported sightings of the girls, but none has been found to date. Meanwhile, the government of neighbouring Niger gave more details about fighting between its troops and Boko Haram on an island in Lake Chad over the weekend. It says 28 civilians died when Boko Haram attacked Karamga island and that 46 of its troops died in the battle for the island, along with more than 150 militants. Reports in local media have given a much higher death toll for government forces. Boko Haram's insurgency, and the army campaign against it, have killed more than 15,500 people since 2012. The violence has recently spread to neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

Question: The Nigerian military says it has @placeholder 200 girls and 93 women from an area where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is active .


The 15cm high concrete wall is topped with razor wire, miniature US flags and includes 'Keep Out' signs written in both Spanish and English. It was created by LA-based street artist Plastic Jesus and was inspired by comments made by the Republican Presidential nominee last year when he outlined plans to build a wall along the US-Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants. Curious tourists snapped photographs of the Los Angeles structure, while a picture of the unusual artwork posted on the artist's Instagram account received more than 14,000 likes by Thursday morning. One person called the wall "the most genius vandalism of the star yet," while another said it was the "best thing I've seen all day." There were also those who were unimpressed by the Trump-attacking artwork, with one user exclaiming that "A Trump presidency is what the US needs." In an interview with the BBC, Plastic Jesus explained why he had built the 'wall': "I wanted to create a piece that drew attention to [Trump's] potential policies," he says. "I knew this week was the republican convention and I suppose I was capitalising on the momentum of the convention." And so, on Tuesday afternoon he took his tiny wall made from wood and concrete, and placed it on top of Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He says the response to his wall has been largely supportive. "I went to Hollywood Boulevard yesterday to take photographs and found myself in an absolute bottleneck of people taking photographs of the piece - it's been absolutely crazy." The artist, who emigrated to the US from the UK nine years ago, says he's not a fan of Donald Trump, "In the US you'll interact with immigrants from all over the world and it's one of the things that makes the US so great. Donald Trump's policy proposals are a threat to all of the immigrants." Donald Trump received the 2,327th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007 for his work on America's The Apprentice. By Daniel Avis, BBC's UGC and Social News team

Question: Donald Trump 's controversial call for a " great , great wall " on the US - Mexico border has yet to be @placeholder but a tiny , tiny one has been built instead - surrounding his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .


Trafford Council closed Bollin Primary School in Bowdon, Greater Manchester on Monday after concerns about a "reduced capacity of senior leadership". The council said the school had appointed an interim head teacher and it would reopen for Key Stage 2 pupils on Thursday. Other classes will return in the next few days, said the council. It follows a strike by teachers on Thursday, supported by some parents who demonstrated outside school. The school has appointed Kylie Spark as interim head teacher while Michelle Brindle was "not in school", the council said. There are no details about how long Mrs Spark, of Sale's Tyntesfield Primary School, will be in post. A number of staff have been neutrally suspended while investigations continue into a video purporting to show teaching staff at a party making comments about Ms Brindle. Trafford Council added it has applied to the Department for Education for approval for an interim executive board consisting of experienced governors. One parent of a pupil at the school, which was rated as "outstanding" in its last Ofsted inspection, said she was worried many of the teachers will not return. Julie Saunders said: "That is massively disruptive and upsetting for the children. "It is not just a building with a few supply teachers; a school is a community which knows and understands the kids." Sean Anstee, leader of Trafford Council, said he understood parents' concerns and the council had been working with the governing body to resolve issues. He added: "We are doing everything we can to reopen the school and return it to the wonderful school we know it to be." Key Stage 1 pupils will be invited back into school on Friday and early years pupils will return on Monday. A petition of no confidence in Ms Brindle has been signed by more than 900 people. The head teacher told the BBC she did not want to comment. The school teaches more than 200 pupils from the age of three to 11.

Question: A school shut by council bosses days after a staff strike over workloads is to have a " @placeholder " reopening .


The presenter was writing in his first column for the Sun since he was released from the show on 25 March after an "unprovoked physical attack" on a producer. "Heartfelt thanks to all those who have written to say how much they will miss me on Top Gear," he wrote. "It's not as much, however, as I'll miss being there." He did not add anything more about the incident. Clarkson had been suspended by the BBC on 10 March, following what was called a "fracas" with Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon. The decision caused an outpouring of support from Top Gear fans, with more than a million people signing an online petition to reinstate him. The row, which took place in a Yorkshire hotel, was said to have occurred because no hot food was provided following a day's filming. An internal investigation followed and the BBC's director general Tony Hall confirmed Clarkson's contract would not be renewed. His weekly Sun column had not appeared in the interim but the paper had assured readers that he was on holiday and "had not been sacked".

Question: Jeremy Clarkson has said he will miss @placeholder Top Gear , in his first comment since he was dropped from the BBC show .


It was only the second time builder Aaron Hughes, 26, had used the gift from his father, Brian, who was with him at Gilfach, near Rhayader, along with his girlfriend Charlotte Croudace. Police cordoned off the area and called in a bomb disposal team from Hereford. Mr Hughes joked that the bomb was "nice to find," but he would have rather have discovered a pot of gold. It is understood the device was a mortar bomb, but why it was buried on a nature reserve is a mystery. The trio were walking along a path on the reserve when they made the discovery. "It was the first time I'd properly used the metal detector," Mr Hughes said. "I had been out on New Year's Day and I'd found a few coins near a playground - a few coppers and a couple of pound coins. "The following day on the Gilfach reserve we'd only been there 10 minutes when the detector started beeping. "I thought I'd discovered a can or a metal lid. I never imagined I would find a bomb. "I scratched down into the ground and saw the tip of the what we now know is a bomb. "I wasn't sure what it was to start with, so I started digging down with a spade and flicked it out of the ground and onto the grass. It was about 2-3in (5-7cm) deep. "We were shocked because it was pretty obviously a bomb. "We weren't sure whether or not to phone the police because 999 is only for emergencies - but this was sort of an emergency. "It was a nice thing to find, but I obviously would have rather have found a big pot of gold."

Question: A man using a metal detector he was given for Christmas has @placeholder a World War II bomb on a nature reserve .


William Gowan, 38, had received details of driving test candidates weeks in advance. Gowan, from Ardminnan Road, Portaferry, County Down, pleaded guilty to six counts of misconduct. He received details of 21 candidates sitting driving tests before their test dates. The court was told texts had been received from two mobile phones. The court also heard that Gowan had run to the toilet with his phone in his hand when the police arrived to speak to him. Sentencing him, the judge said Gowan had betrayed the trust placed in him. He said the offence would fully deserve a custodial sentence, but giving him some credit for his guilty plea and taking into account his clean record and low risk of re-offending, he was prepared to mark this "quite disgraceful behaviour" with a non-custodial sentence. Gowan received the maximum community service order of 240 hours. The judge warned him he was escaping prison "by the skin of his teeth" and would not get a second chance.

Question: A driving examiner has been sentenced to 240 hours community service for misconduct in public @placeholder .


The Local Government Association (LGA) says some UK outlets already do so, but the industry must do more. A mandatory scheme in the US has given large restaurant chains until the end of 2016 to put calorie counts on menus. The LGA, which represents councils in England and Wales, has called for voluntary action. Izzi Seccombe, chairman of the LGA's community well-being board, said: "We are calling on cinema, restaurant and pub chains to step up and show leadership in tackling the obesity crisis, by providing clear and graphic signs at counters and on menus. "In many cases, people are unaware of how many calories they are consuming. "Food and drink outlets should be doing more to provide clear and prominent labelling which spells this out clearly." More than 3.5 million children in Britain are classed as overweight or obese, the LGA said. It said research showed that soft drinks were the biggest contributor to children's sugar intake. A report by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition has advised the government to halve the current recommended intake of free sugars from 10% to 5%.

Question: Every restaurant , pub and cinema chain should be @placeholder the calorie content of their food and drink , council leaders have said .


Liverpool Crown Court was told the drugs, found at a user's home, were in bags embossed with the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) logo. Philip Eckersley, 28, admitted conspiracy to supply cannabis and was jailed for four years, three months. The jury was told a "degree of sloppiness" developed at GMP's Longsight property store. Eckersley, of Henry Street, Tyldesley, worked for eight years as a property assistant, the court heard. He stole cannabis bags weighing more than half a kilo and tablets similar to Ecstasy with a street value of ?¡ê3,900. They were found at the home of Stacy Round who bought them from Eckersley's friend, Alex O'Malley, 24, of Douglas Park, Atherton. The 1,303 tablets were part of a larger exhibit of 7,000 tablets which the force computer system showed  "destroyed" on 11 September 2012. The cannabis bags should have been destroyed eight days earlier. O'Malley, along with Round, 26, of Railway Street, Atherton, and Scott Owen, 24, of New Barn Lane, Leigh, admitted conspiracy to supply cannabis between February and September 2012. Eckersley, O'Malley and Round also admitting supplying the Class C drug MeOPP between January 2010 and September 2012. Round, who also admitted supplying cocaine, was jailed for three years nine months, O'Malley received two years four months and Owen received eight months.

Question: A police worker stole seized drugs and @placeholder them to a dealer friend , a court heard .


Mr Boal was a Unionist MP for the Shankill constituency in Belfast between 1960 and 1971. He left to establish the Democratic Unionist Party with Ian Paisley and was the party's first chairman. Following a series of disagreements with Paisley over the future direction of the DUP, he resigned from the party in 1974. Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader, Jim Allister, paid tribute to Mr Boal, describing him as a "unique talent in both politics and law". "As MP for Shankill in the old Stormont parliament he fought tirelessly for his constituents and was both a vocal opponent of republicanism and an articulate champion of the Union," he said. He said that as a barrister, Mr Boal was "brilliant in cross examination and unrivalled in the skills of advocacy". Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said Mr Boal would be remembered as a "man of intellect and commitment". He added that in politics or law, he "was a hard man to miss".

Question: Desmond Boal , a well - known Northern Ireland barrister and former Unionist MP at Stormont has @placeholder .


The bodies of a man and a woman were recovered from Breydon Water, Great Yarmouth, on Thursday. The couple were in their early 60s and from the local area, officers said. The deaths were initially treated as unexplained but police said they were now satisfied there are no suspicious circumstances. More news from Norfolk Emergency services were called to the area shortly after 11:20 BST when a member of the public reported seeing the bodies on a mudbank. Norfolk Police said they were still trying to trace the couple's next of kin.

Question: The deaths of two people whose bodies were @placeholder on a tidal mudbank in Norfolk are not being treated as suspicious , police have said .


More than 360 people are known to have died, most of them in Pakistan, and at least 2,000 were injured. Rescue teams have been sent to remote mountainous areas where the impact of the quake is still unclear. The Taliban, which controls some areas affected, called on aid agencies "not to hold back" relief supplies. A spokesman said Taliban fighters had been ordered to help the victims. In another development, Pakistani officials said several glaciers in the Karakoram mountain range had cracked, in one case causing a flood, but so far without loss of life. Many people across the region, afraid of a new quake, spent the night sleeping outside in temperatures close to freezing. "We have insufficient food and other aid," said Abdul Habib Sayed Khil, police chief in Afghanistan's Kunar province. "It has been raining for four days and the weather is very cold." On Tuesday, the Afghan presidential palace tweeted that the death toll had risen to 115, with 538 people injured. It said that 7,630 homes, 12 schools and 17 mosques were among the buildings destroyed or damaged. In a televised address, President Ashraf Ghani urged those living in affected areas to help the rescue effort. The governor of Badakhshan province, Shah Waliullah Adeeb, said survey teams were heading into more remote areas on Tuesday but landslides had blocked roads and helicopters were needed. Afghan victims included 12 schoolgirls killed in a crush as they tried to leave their classes in Taluqan, Takhar province. Mohammad Jan raises his calloused hands to pray for his two grandchildren, who died under the rubble of his house. He says he was saying his afternoon prayers when the earthquake struck. "We wanted to call for a doctor," he tells me. "But there is no doctor here for miles. It was too late." His house is up a precarious and rocky path, 45 minutes from the main city. Here, an extended family all live in a group of colourful painted stone and mud houses that are now either completely or partially damaged. One of them is Amir Rehman, father of four. Although his home is still standing, it is scarred with deep gashes and cracks. "I worked for three years in Oman to build this house," he tells me. "I can't afford another house like this." While the earthquake caused less widespread damage than expected, the poorest people with the most to lose have been the most affected. In Pakistan, at least 248 people were killed and 1,665 injured, the national disaster agency said. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province alone, authorities said at least 202 people had died, and more than 1,480 were injured. At least another 30 died in the north-western tribal areas. Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has admitted that it still has not been able to reach some of the remotest areas affected. NDMA member Ahmed Kamal told the BBC some of those areas had become inaccessible because roads had been blocked in several places by landslides. Mr Kamal could not say how big the unreachable area was. The track record of the disaster management authorities in Pakistan "is not sterling", Pakistan's Daily Times says bluntly, adding that lessons from the 2005 earthquake have not been learned. The disaster authorities' "presence in most vulnerable small towns is minimal while even in major urban areas their efforts are lacking in efficacy and credibility". "Let this episode jolt us into the awareness that it is high time we woke up and took disaster preparedness and response more seriously," Pakistan's Dawn says. "The alarm bell has rung," Afghanistan's Mandegar agrees, with the Daily Afghanistan accusing the authorities of failing to confront natural disasters. Hasht-e Sobh claims that most buildings in Kabul in the past decade are structurally unsound. "Such irregularities are the result of administrative and financial corruption in government bodies," it says, claiming that most school buildings funded by international organisations in the provinces are not earthquake-proof either. Compiled by BBC Monitoring On Tuesday, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited the district of Shangla, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where at least 49 people were killed. In a statement he said Pakistan was "capable enough to rescue and rehabilitate those affected". After the quake, Facebook launched its "safety check" feature allowing people in affected areas to tell their families they were safe. Google also launched its "person finder" service. The US Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the earthquake was centred in the mountainous Hindu Kush region, 76km (45 miles) south of Faizabad, in Badakhshan province. It was deep - more than 200km below the surface - which meant the shaking at ground level was less than for a shallow earthquake. The USGS said a series of aftershocks - all measuring 4.0 or higher - had struck west of the original quake. Afghan quake: The corner of a continental collision Residents of Kabul and the Indian capital Delhi were shaken by the earthquake and buildings in the Tajik capital Dushanbe were also damaged. The region has a history of powerful earthquakes caused by the northward collision of India with Eurasia. The two plates are moving towards each other at a rate of 4-5cm per year. In 2005, a magnitude-7.6 quake in Pakistan-administered Kashmir left more than 75,000 people dead. In April this year, Nepal suffered its worst earthquake on record, with 9,000 people killed and about 900,000 homes damaged or destroyed.

Question: Rescue efforts are being @placeholder up to help those affected by the magnitude - 7.5 earthquake which hit remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday .