Substitute Dobbie found the net with a neat finish from close range after the visitors failed to clear a cross. Earlier, keeper Eldin Jakupovic denied Bolton captain Darren Pratley from six yards and debutant Brian Lenihan blocked Zach Clough's follow-up effort. Hull hit the woodwork twice through Robert Snodgrass and Chuba Akpom, who also sent a first-half header wide. Snodgrass clipped the bar with a free-kick before half-time, while Akpom thundered an effort against the frame of the goal from 12 yards shortly before Dobbie's winner on 65 minutes. A Hull win would have given them a six-point advantage over fifth-placed Derby, but their defeat means even beating Rotherham on the final day of the regular season may not be enough to secure a home second leg in the play-offs. Bolton, despite achieving only their fifth league victory of a disappointing campaign, are guaranteed to finish bottom of the table but they will not end the season with the lowest-ever points tally in the second tier. That unwanted record is shared by Stockport (2001-02) and Blackpool (2014-15), who both accumulated only 26 points - four fewer than Bolton's total of 30. Bolton interim manager Jimmy Phillips: "We all know it has been a wretched season, but what was most pleasing was the unity between the players on the pitch and the people in the stands. "We were into the 92nd minute and Hull were throwing everything at us and the fans were willing us to see the game out and that bodes well for the future. "It will send everyone home with hope for the future which is key. We came up against a good team and made it as difficult as we could for them to play against us." Hull manager Steve Bruce: "Too often we throw in a performance like that. That's why we are in the position we are. "We didn't do the basics well enough to win the game. We were so slow in possession and so slow without it. "At times it was like a friendly and we played like it was a friendly. All of them played within themselves." Match ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Hull City 0. Second Half ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Hull City 0. Attempt blocked. Isaac Hayden (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire. Corner,  Hull City. Conceded by David Wheater. Corner,  Hull City. Conceded by Rob Holding. Corner,  Hull City. Conceded by Derik. Foul by Robert Snodgrass (Hull City). Lawrie Wilson (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt blocked. Mohamed Diam¨¦ (Hull City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sam Clucas. Corner,  Hull City. Conceded by Lawrie Wilson. Substitution, Hull City. Ryan Taylor replaces Tom Huddlestone. Attempt missed. Sone Aluko (Hull City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Brian Lenihan. Tom Huddlestone (Hull City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Tom Huddlestone (Hull City). Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Tom Huddlestone (Hull City). Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Stephen Dobbie. Foul by Brian Lenihan (Hull City). Stephen Dobbie (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing. Substitution, Hull City. Sone Aluko replaces Shaun Maloney. Substitution, Hull City. Mohamed Diam¨¦ replaces Chuba Akpom. Foul by Chuba Akpom (Hull City). David Wheater (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) header from the left side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Ahmed Elmohamady. Foul by Chuba Akpom (Hull City). Tyler Garrett (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Sam Clucas (Hull City) is shown the yellow card. Attempt missed. Stephen Dobbie (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Mark Davies. Foul by Harry Maguire (Hull City). George Newell (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Goal!  Bolton Wanderers 1, Hull City 0. Stephen Dobbie (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lawrie Wilson with a cross. Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. George Newell replaces Emile Heskey. Hand ball by Chuba Akpom (Hull City). Chuba Akpom (Hull City) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Isaac Hayden. Foul by Harry Maguire (Hull City). Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing. Attempt saved. Tom Huddlestone (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Corner,  Hull City. Conceded by Tyler Garrett. Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Stephen Dobbie replaces Zach Clough.

Question: Stephen Dobbie 's goal ensured @placeholder Bolton ended a 14 - match winless run with victory over play - off - bound Hull .


The man barged in after the victim, who is in her 60s, opened the door of her house in East Didsbury, on 20 May. She reported the attack on Wednesday. Greater Manchester Police said it was thought that the man regularly visits the area. He was described as black, in his 40s, and about 5ft 10ins (1.8m) tall with a broad build and short black hair. He had "dark pigmentation near his side burns and a distorted knuckle on the fourth finger of his right hand, which pushes the knuckle towards his little finger", police said. Police have appealed for anyone with any information to come contact them.

Question: A woman was raped in her own home after @placeholder the door to a stranger , police have said .


Religious groups including units run by the Catholic church and the Mormon church are exempt to the new policy. The change, which was ratified 45-12 by the executive board, takes effect immediately and end years of criticism that the Boy Scouts discriminated against gay people. In 2013, the Boy Scouts began allowing openly gay boys to become scouts. "For far too long this issue has divided and distracted us," said the BSA's president, former Defence Secretary Robert Gates. "Now it's time to unite behind our shared belief in the extraordinary power of Scouting to be a force for good." Earlier this year, Mr Gates told the group's national meeting that the ban on gay adults needed to end, saying it was no longer sustainable and would make the group susceptible to lawsuits. Major corporations had also suspended charitable donations to the Scouts because of the policy. The selection of Mr Gates as president in 2014 was seen as an opportunity to revisit the policy since he helped end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that barred openly gay people from serving in the US military.

Question: The Boy Scouts of America have voted to lift its ban on gay people serving as adult leaders in the @placeholder .


To look at, pre-exposure prophylaxis (Prep for short) is a small, blue pill - but it's caused a big controversy. The drug is not currently available on the NHS - and an NHS England decision to that effect has caused a well-documented outcry from charities and campaigners alike. However, about 500 homosexual men in England - who form part of a trial called Proud - have been taking it for years while experts monitor its effects. Harry Dodd is one of those men. He was invited to take part in the trial after doctors identified him as a "high risk" sexually active gay man. However, as he explains, the requirements for being judged as such were, in his words, "surprisingly low". "They asked me if I'd had sex without a condom within the last three months, I said 'yes' and then they asked me if I was likely to have sex in next three months and again I said 'yes' - and that's all it takes to be 'high risk'," he said. And so, in 2013, Harry started taking Prep and he has remained HIV negative ever since, despite having unprotected sex. Taking Prep protects cells in the body, which are then able to stop the HIV virus from multiplying - should they be exposed. Critics of Prep claim that allowing the drug to be freely available on the NHS would promote promiscuity and leave people more vulnerable to other sexually-transmitted infections. But Harry - who in the past has had near misses with HIV - vehemently disagrees with this view. The 25-year-old says the drug has allowed him to grow in confidence and he goes further, believing it could bring the gay community closer together and stop discrimination against those who are HIV positive. "People need to understand the visceral fear HIV invokes," he explains. "I remember when I was younger going for an HIV test and at the time I was living in a tower block. The thought fleetingly crossed my mind 'well at least I can chuck myself off the balcony if it's the wrong result'. "I've seen the panic on the face of previous boyfriends when they are awaiting their results - it's a huge fear and it affects everything you do. "To be able to have sex without having that fear hanging over you all the time is huge." Taking Prep means the chances of contracting HIV, even if you sleep with someone who is HIV positive, are greatly reduced. There are more than 100,000 people living with HIV in the UK and, statistically, gay men are the most at-risk group. The average HIV prevalence in the UK is 2.3 per 1,000 population. However for gay men the rate jumps to 48.7 per 1,000. Black African women are the second most at-risk group with a prevalence rate of 43.7 per 1,000. Latest figures show there were 6,151 new diagnoses made in 2014, up from 6,032 the previous year, according to Public Health England. And in London, one in eight gay men has HIV. Harry, who works for a town planning consultancy in London, can recall a time when he believes he came perilously close to getting HIV. "On Christmas Eve 2012, I was getting off the train in Liverpool to visit my family. "The night before I'd slept with someone I'd been seeing, he was someone I trusted. "But for the first time we didn't use a condom. As I approached the station he messaged me asking about my status. "I informed him I was negative and in response he said I should go to A&E - he was positive and recently diagnosed. "I kept it to myself, filled with overwhelming anxiety, fear and shame. How could I tell my friends and family the truth? It would disappoint them. "That situation filled me with mixed emotions... anger both at myself for not insisting on using protection and at him that he hadn't told me before the event, but also relief and thanks that he had told me at all. "I was confused over whether to blame, empathise or comfort him. Emotions that tore our friendship apart, tore me apart and continue to tear communities apart." Harry swiftly took himself to A&E, where he was given drugs to treat exposure to HIV and fortunately tested negative for the virus subsequently. But the threat for gay and bisexual men is very real and the results from the Proud trial - in which Harry is a participant - are promising. The trial took about 500 "high risk" gay men and split them into two groups. The first group took Prep straight away, while the second acted as a control group and waited for 12 months before taking the drug. In that control group, 20 people contracted HIV during those 12 months. But in the immediate Prep group only three people contracted HIV and in each case the reason for contracting the virus can be explained. One person was found to already have HIV before the trial started and the other two people both stopped taking the drug for a considerable amount of time. The early results were so significant that Prep was given to all participants before the end of the 12-month period on ethical grounds. "The results from the trial are proof that this drug is working," says Mitzy Gafos, who is a social scientist working in the clinical trials unit at University College London. However, she also said that early indications from the trial's relatively small sample size show those taking the drug were more inclined to have different sexual partners, although the incidence rate of sexual infections was not increasing. But despite these results, the route to getting Prep available on the NHS has also been fraught with controversy. In the 18 months up until March, NHS England had been following a process to decide whether the drug should be available to people at high risk of HIV, on the NHS. But in March there was uproar from charities and campaigners when NHS England said it was abandoning this process and HIV prevention was not its responsibility. After initially saying it would "consider" its position in May it confirmed it would not be commissioning Prep, arguing that it does not have the legal power to do so. The charity the National Aids Trust launched a judicial review against NHS England's decision, and the court found in the charity's favour. Harry believes everyone should have access to Prep - which costs around ?¡ê450 a month to buy privately. The Proud trial is also drawing to a close in the coming months and the men who are on it, who have been used to taking the drug for three years, now face the prospect of having to buy it privately from other sources - chiefly pharmaceutical companies in India. Harry says taking Prep has still not become socially acceptable. "Too many people seem to think it will encourage a hedonistic lifestyle, but for me this is about saving lives," he says. "People reacted with cynicism when the contraceptive pill for women was first introduced. "Taking Prep has helped me to trust again, have relationships and build bridges and that shouldn't be taken away." His view is also one shared by leading health officials. Jim McManus and Dominic Harrison, both directors of public health, recently wrote a joint piece in the British Medical Journal calling for Prep to be made available to all. They described NHS England's decision not to, as "an incoherent national approach to HIV prevention". NHS England has said it will provide ?¡ê2m over the next two years to research how Prep "could be commissioned in the most clinically and cost effective way".

Question: An HIV - preventative drug has been the subject of a legal battle over which @placeholder should pay for it . As campaigners win their High Court case against the NHS , one man tells how taking the medication has changed his life .


Gwynedd council claimed the pilot project in Bangor was the first of its kind in Wales. Lollipop man Arwel Owen said he has already ended up on the bonnet of a car outside Ysgol Garnedd primary school. "It's getting worse - there are a lot more cars and they are getting faster," he said. Gwynedd council said the move was a joint project with police and would help provide evidence if motorists near the school in the busy Penrhosgarnedd area of the city were driving poorly. "The vast majority of motorists respect the important work the school crossing patrol do helping pupils to walk to school and home at the end of the day," said cabinet member Dafydd Meurig. "But in some circumstances, there may be the occasional motorist who isn't thinking and ignoring the school crossing patrol when they stepped out into the road to assist children." The road outside the school is one of the busiest routes into the city and close to the main hospital. Head teacher Llion Williams said there had been concerns about drivers "for some time". "We welcome the new camera being able to record any case of drivers ignoring the highway code," he said. Lollipop man Mr Owen said the body camera had already helped slow vehicles down. "It's very dangerous here," he told BBC Wales' Newyddion 9. "I've been really close to cars and I've had to hold on to children to stop them going, because the car isn't stopping. "I've been on the bonnet of a car once... others have hit my coat." Insp Dave Cust from North Wales Police's road traffic unit added: "Those who are willing to risk their lives and those of others are not welcome on our roads. "If people know that there is a much higher chance of being prosecuted and risk losing their license, then they might think twice about these offences."

Question: A crossing patrol officer in Gwynedd has been @placeholder with a body camera in a bid to cut down bad driving outside a school .


The 35-year-old, who retired from international cricket last year after more than 400 appearances in all formats, featured six times for Middlesex in the competition in 2016. McCullum averaged 33 for the county last season, with a highest score of 87, and will return in July. "It was an easy decision to return to the home of cricket," he said. Before retiring in February, McCullum played 101 Tests, 260 one-day internationals and 71 T20 games for the Kiwis, scoring more than 14,000 runs in the process. He also hit 398 sixes for New Zealand in all forms of the game - 107 in Tests, 200 in ODIs and 91 in T20 - and 1,552 fours "Brendon had a hugely positive influence on the club in 2016 and I'm sure he will have a similar impact this summer," said director of cricket Angus Fraser. "With Brendon on board and the other exciting players we have, watching Middlesex play T20 cricket in 2017 should be an exciting and enjoyable experience."

Question: Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum is to rejoin Middlesex for nine 2017 T20 Blast @placeholder matches .


Apple shares climbed 6.5% after the tech giant's latest results beat expectations, despite seeing a dip in iPhone sales. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index climbed 29.76 points to 5139.81. The Dow Jones fell 1.58 points to 18472.17, while the broader S&P 500 slipped 2.6 to 2166.58. Investors were not expecting the Fed to alter interest rates, but markets were looking for clues as to the timing of any rate moves in the future. The Fed said household spending was "growing strongly" and the unemployment rate had decreased for the last two months, but inflation was still below its target rate. Coca-Cola was the big loser on the Dow, falling 3.3%. The company cut its sales forecast for the year and said it was taking steps to address declining demand for its soft drinks. Twitter shares plunged 14.5% after the company reported a $107m loss on Tuesday. Aerospace company Boeing saw its share price rise 0.8%. Despite reporting its first loss since 2009, the company beat revenue expectations.

Question: ( Close ) : US stock markets were little moved after the Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged , but strong results from Apple @placeholder lift the Nasdaq .


The election takes place at the party conference in Armagh this weekend. On Thursday night, BBC NI's The View revealed that Mrs Hume was supporting the younger candidate. However, SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell said he had led a "major turnaround" of the party over the last four years and remained very confident he would win. "I said four years ago we need change and I have been implementing that change," Dr McDonnell told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme. "You need a combination of youth and experience and I have been bringing in fresh blood." He said 40% of SDLP councillors elected in the 2014 Local Government Elections were new political candidates. "That was a major turnaround - a major achievement - nearly half of our people turned over and quite simply, the bigger achievement was 40% of our councillors are now female. That was up from 22%," Dr McDonnell added. The 66-year-old said he had been "energised" by the leadership contest and felt "very positive" about the vote, which begins at 16:00 GMT on Friday. "It has given me an extra opportunity to liaise and dialogue, something I'm very good at, networking with the grassroots members across the country," he added. However, his leadership style has been criticised in recent months by a number of high-profile SDLP figures, including former party leader Mark Durkan and ex-deputy leaders Seamus Mallon and Brid Rodgers. Mrs Hume told Friday's Irish News that she and her husband would be voting for change at the head of the party, however the paper said she "chose not to elaborate on her decision". Mr Eastwood told Good Morning Ulster that the SDLP had "a couple of very bad elections" under Dr McDonnell's leadership and that it was time for a change. "I have [the support of] people like Seamus Mallon, Mark Durkan and now Pat Hume," the Foyle MLA said. "When you have people like that, the party membership knows and trusts their judgement and I think they should trust their judgement again." At 32, Mr Eastwood would be the youngest person to lead the SDLP, if he is elected on Saturday evening. But he said he had a  "long track record" working for the party, and this weekend's annual party conference would be the 18th one that he has attended. He also dismissed criticism of the timing of his leadership challenge. "I think if I was putting personal ambition first, I would have waited until after the election but my fear was that I would be leading a smaller party after that," he said. "I think it would have been reckless not to do it, I think we need to listen to what the public are saying. I don't think SDLP canvassers want to do another election without listening to what people are telling them." Voting begins at 16:00 on Friday. The result of the contest is expected at about 17:00 GMT on Saturday.

Question: Pat Hume , the wife of former SDLP leader John Hume , has @placeholder Colum Eastwood in his challenge to Alasdair McDonnell for the party leadership .


The patients suffer from a rare illness that means their windpipes can collapse and prevent air getting in. The device was rapidly customised for each individual. And unlike most 3D implants, it was made of material that changed shape as the children grew. The research appears in Science Translational Medicine. Due to the small number of children involved in the study it does not prove it will work in every case. But it does show the splints could be a promising option for a condition that has no cure, researchers from CS Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan say. One in 2,000 children have tracheobronchomalacia - a weakening and collapse of the windpipe (trachea) that would normally allow air to travel to the lungs. Those with the most severe form have a poor chance of surviving. But if they can get to the the age of three, their windpipes have often strengthened enough to allow them to breathe well. Kaiba Gionfriddo had the procedure when he was just three months old. He was in a critical condition, needing intensive care because his body was not getting the oxygen it needed. So doctors sought emergency approval to use the device as a a last resort. Lead researcher Dr Glenn Green described it as a ground-breaking case. Kaiba is now "an active, healthy three-year old in preschool with a bright future", researchers said. Almost three years later the splint shows signs of melting away as planned. And doctors say his windpipe appears strong enough for him to breathe without its support. April Gionfriddo, Kaiba's mum, said: "The first time he was hospitalised, doctors told us he may not make it out. "It was scary knowing he was the first child to ever have this procedure, but it was our only choice and it saved his life." The team have now carried out the surgery on two other children. Both are doing well and are back at home, though one continues to need a machine to help his breathing, because of problems the splint could not address. Dr Patrick Finlay, of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, described it as an advanced piece of engineering. He said: "The problem represents some formidable difficulties. "You have to construct something that can cope with growth and coughing and sneezing. "And they seem to have done this - it is very exciting." He said the splint could be thought of as similar to a section of vacuum cleaner pipe that had been split in the middle. It is customised to match the exact anatomy of each patient and made of a bio-absorbable material. Doctors sew it in place on the outside of the windpipe as an incomplete ring. The aim is for it to provide support without constricting growth. Prof Paolo De Coppi of Great Ormond Street Hospital described this as a very attractive way of doing the procedure. He said: "Other options can include internally placed stents - but these can cause bleeding and other complications. "It is very encouraging news to see at three years that it appears safe and effective in this child." US researchers have filed a patent on the device and are now embarking on a larger trial.

Question: Three babies have been saved from a life - threatening condition by using 3 D @placeholder windpipe splints to help them breathe , a pilot study reveals .


But for women behind the camera, it takes a lot more to get noticed. Female nominations for technical work are rare - blink and you can miss them. From the outside, it looks like a man's world - but is that how it feels? Three women - two of them 2016 Oscar winners - tell us what it's really like. Oscars 2017: Full coverage "I loved film growing up - I watched a lot of horror and I loved prosthetics, so my natural thought was to get into that," says Sara Bennett, who won an Oscar for her work on 2015 sci-fi drama Ex Machina. The film brought to life the female robot Ava, played by Alicia Vikander, whose body had humanoid features but with a transparent skull, limbs and torso. As the first female VFX supervisor to win an Oscar, Sara broke new ground at 2016's ceremony. It was only the third time in 89 years that a woman had been nominated for visual effects. The last winner? Suzanne Benson for Aliens - back in 1987. Despite being such rarity, Sara says she's never felt outnumbered. "Until last year's Oscar nomination, I'd never really thought about it being male-dominated," she says. "The hard time for me was learning the craft and moving up, as opposed to dealing with men in my industry." She grins. "Being a woman probably went in my favour, to be honest." Sara, whose back catalogue includes Sherlock, The Martian and the first four Harry Potter films, says she loves the variety her work gives her. Her passion for her work is infectious, and she says it was "amazing" winning the Oscar - she couldn't quite believe it when her name was read out. But she also mixes it up by managing a team, mentoring young women and leading children's workshops. Having trained in prosthetics and make-up, she became a runner during the 1990s, working as a general assistant on film sets before switching to VFX. As a compositor, she learned how to combine several visual elements into a believable on-screen image, gaining her first credit in 1998 for Babe, Pig in the City. Although aspiring VFX specialists can now learn through YouTube tutorials, software and courses, Sara's adamant that the best experience is found in the workplace. "Until you're working flat out and your eyes are bleeding at four in the morning, that horrible feeling - that's when you really learn about the job," she laughs, talking about the pressures of working to tight deadlines. Three years ago she set up London and Cardiff-based visual effects company Milk with four male colleagues, after their section in another VFX studio, The Mill, was closed down. Sara now sees more women moving through the ranks, and says with delight: "When I was younger it was about 80/20 men to women in VFX, but now it's closer to 60/40." But even if more women want creative positions in the film industry, they're not at the top table just yet. Research from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film says women made up just 17% of "behind-the-scenes employment" on the top 100, 250 and 500 films of 2016. The study, The Celluloid Ceiling, states this is a drop of two percentage points on 2015, putting the figures on a par with 1998. These statistics, combined with this year's all-male VFX Oscar nominations, make those rare female wins look even more stark. So when's this going to change? Sara says it will take a while. "There's so many women doing VFX. Maybe they're not doing the big A-List films, but they're out there doing it all." Fie Tholander, 31, has been inspired by Sara, working for her as a VFX compositor at Milk. "I've always been drawn to magic, to fairy tale stories," she says, citing David Bowie fantasy drama Labyrinth (1986) as an inspiration. She's single-mindedly pursued her career since she was 15 and is now creating aliens for the upcoming Doctor Who series. She also worked on the brains in jars with eyeballs which featured in last year's Christmas special. As a Danish high school student, she already knew she wanted to work in VFX, studying art at Animation Workshop before heading for London, with an internship at The Mill. It was there that she met Sara, who became her mentor. "Having Sara as a role model makes women realise they can actually do it," she says. "VFX is portrayed as a technical thing, which isn't always the case. I'm not a technical person, I'm more creative." Fie thinks women need to be more assertive: "I think women in general hold back, we're afraid to ask, and men are a bit more bold with their careers." Has she ever hit a glass, even a celluloid, ceiling? Nope. "Sexism isn't something I've come across. If I want something I have to ask for it - no one will give it to me." But Fie does think the industry's progressing, with more women applying to work in her profession. She's also convinced that the film world is changing. "With all the movies coming out, we're getting female role models who aren't princesses, which is great." Recent films such as Arrival have seen Amy Adams star as an expert linguist communicating with aliens, while Star Wars movie Rogue One has Felicity Jones as its lead. But it's not just VFX and sci-fi where women are breaking through. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, 37, made history last year as Pakistan's only double Oscar winner. She won her second best documentary Oscar for A Girl in the River - The Price of Forgiveness, about honour killings in Pakistan. Her first, in 2012, was for Saving Face, about a plastic surgeon treating those scarred by acid attacks. Starting out as a print journalist in Pakistan, Sharmeen decided aged 21 to switch to documentaries, so she could tell her stories visually. She pitched her first film proposal to about 80 global organisations. "I was pretty much turned down by everyone," she says. "But I've always believed that if a door doesn't open for you, it's because you haven't knocked hard enough." Undeterred, she asked the New York Times, who'd just set up a TV unit. They agreed to fund her first film, about Afghan refugee children on the streets of Pakistan. Her career went upwards from there - she's also won two Emmys (in 2010 and 2013) and the Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Crescent of Distinction), Pakistan's second-highest civilian award. For Sharmeen, her Oscar wins made a huge difference. "It amplifies your voice and the voices of all of those people you are making a film about. "After A Girl in the River, there was legislation about honour killing installed in Parliament in Pakistan. The win at the Oscars gave it the final push it needed to get it passed." She deliberately multi-tasks by producing and directing because "it allows me the freedom to tell the type of stories I want to tell". "I've always said that making a film is like having a baby. You have a long period of time where something is inside of you, and when you send it out into the world, you want the world to appreciate it." Well aware of the high numbers of men working in the film industry, she says she's at an advantage in her field. "Whereas Hollywood will tell you fewer women are getting the opportunities to be directors or play key roles in film, in documentary work, women in greater numbers are coming up behind the camera, winning Academy Awards." And for her, being a female filmmaker is an "asset". "I've been able to get into places where a man would seldom be able to get into," she says. "If I was a man perhaps I wouldn't be standing here today. I'm looked upon as less of a threat because I'm a woman." Sharmeen is keen to see more young women working in film, and tells them: "You always need to believe in yourself. You need to go out and kick open those doors and you should never take no for an answer. Anything is possible. "Chase your dreams and you never know, you may find yourself up on stage telling the stories you want to tell - and getting an accolade for it." Sara's words of advice are all about being resilient. She adds: "If you get knocked back just get back up again - keep trying, make sure you enjoy it, put a big smile on your face - don't give up." Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

Question: Oscars season is all about the stars : who said what , which gowns @placeholder the red carpet , and of course , who won .


City fans have been involved in regular protests against club owners Sisu. They reached a big live TV audience with mass whistling in the home defeat by Sheffield United in December. But supporters spokesman Jan Mokrzycki has warned that the whistling may be doing "more harm than good". Mokrzycki, from the Sky Blue Trust, added: "Whilst to most fair-minded observers the cause of the Bolton equalising goal was simple defender error, some elements are blaming a whistle for causing momentary confusion in City's ranks. "This form of protest is now doing more harm than good to the protest movement which we are fully behind and the Trust is calling on all supporters to cease the use of whistles at games. "The Trust continues to fully support the efforts of The Jimmy Hill Way Alliance to rid our club of owners Sisu, fully backs manager Russell Slade and the team and calls for all supporters to unite together behind both the protests and the team - but without the whistles." Coventry City fans' frustration with their owners has steadily increased since the London-based hedge fund managers first took over the club in 2007. But protests have become more frequent and varied this season, all to the loud backdrop chants of "We Want Sisu Out" at every game.

Question: Coventry City fans have been asked to stop whistling protests at games in the wake of claims that a crowd whistle @placeholder Bolton 's late equaliser in Monday 's 2 - 2 draw at the Ricoh Arena .


UN agencies and their partners hope to replenish desperately needed supplies of food, water, medicine and fuel. Ships bearing aid have docked at a Red Sea port and planes are standing by. The ceasefire has broadly held since it began on Tuesday night, although intermittent clashes were reported across the country on Wednesday. The Saudi-led coalition has said the pause in its seven-week-old air campaign is conditional on the rebels reciprocating and not exploiting it for military advantage. Residents said there were clashes in the southern city of Aden, the nearby provinces of Daleh, Shabwa, Lahj and Abyan, as well as the third city of Taiz, after the ceasefire started at 23:00 (20:00 GMT) on Tuesday, but that they ended soon after midnight. "Sanaa had a quiet night as the noise of bombs and anti-aircraft fire that had terrified everyone came to a halt," a resident of the capital, Tawfiq Abdul Wahhab, told the AFP news agency. Later on Wednesday, the US state department said it had received reports of some clashes and anti-aircraft fire, but that it understood that the ceasefire had "broadly held". The UN's emergency relief co-ordinator Valerie Amos called on all parties to the conflict to respect the "vital pause in hostilities", which she said would provide "respite for civilians". 12,000,000 people are food insecure 300,000 displaced from their homes 1,500 civilians killed since Saudi-led air campaign against Houthi rebel movement began on 26 March 6,200 civilians injured, with many lacking access to basic medical care There are currently 12 million people without access to sufficient food, clean water, fuel or basic medical care. As many as 300,000 have fled their homes. Two cargo ships chartered by the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) are docked at the rebel-controlled Red Sea port of Hudaydah. Other supplies are ready to be brought in and planes are standing by to help evacuate the wounded. The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) said it was sending medical and surgical supplies for 700 patients by boat to Aden, which has seen some of the fiercest fighting. Medical supplies and water would be distributed to other provinces in the south if the situation allowed, it added. However, the charity Oxfam has warned that five days is "not enough time to move supplies into and around the country, particularly with fuel supplies dangerously low". Saudi Arabia's King Salman has meanwhile doubled the money pledged by the kingdom for the aid effort to $530m (?¡ê340m). Baroness Amos requested that aid be routed through existing UN and international humanitarian organisation channels and stressed: "It is essential that humanitarian assistance is not politicised." Her warning came as Iran's foreign ministry insisted it would not allow Saudi-led naval forces to inspect an aid ship bound for Hudaydah under military escort. The US has urged Iran to redirect the ship - said to be carrying 2,500 tonnes of food, medicine, tents and blankets - to Djibouti, where the UN has set up a hub. Saudi Arabia has accused Iran of providing military assistance to the Houthis, a charge it denies. In the days leading up to the ceasefire, the coalition stepped up its air strikes in an apparent attempt to inflict as much damage as possible on the Houthis and allied security personnel loyal to the ousted former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. The UN says at least 828 civilians have been killed and 1,511 injured since the start of the coalition air campaign on 26 March to restore exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi. The six days from 4 to 10 May were the deadliest, with at least 182 civilians reported killed.

Question: Humanitarian organisations are taking advantage of a five - day truce to get aid into Yemen after weeks of Saudi - led air strikes @placeholder Houthi rebels .


I was crest-fallen when my iPad 2 fell on to a hard floor and the screen smashed so one day I tweeted idly asking whether I could fix it myself. There it would have ended, except one of my followers tweeted me a link to a screen replacement kit for ?¡ê15 - much less than the ?¡ê200 I was quoted at the Apple Store. I clicked, bought the replacement screen then realised I had committed to a mission to fix my own iPad. So I visited iFixit.com - a crowdsourced website packed with tutorials on how to fix equipment. The guide to how to fix an iPad 2 looked well laid out, but complicated and intricate. It was rated "very difficult". But I was determined that that wouldn't deter me. I'd spent ?¡ê15 after all.  Further research revealed tales of broken glass and an almost certain guarantee of breaking something. Not exactly encouraging. My next port of call was the Restart Project - a group of volunteers who give amateurs advice on how to extend the life of their gadgets. Since last year, the movement has expanded to more than 40 countries, and they now offer "lunch hour" clinics in the workplace as well as holding evening and weekend parties. They offer advice on how to fix broken kit - and attendees accept the obvious risks involved in DIY repair. Before we continue, some warnings: if you think you're covered by a warranty you'll probably want to take your broken gadgets back to where you bought them. And the damage can be more personal - there is potential for electric shocks and bleeding fingers from broken glass. I wasn't put off - after all, my iPad is ancient, so I popped into one of their London events. I didn't fancy doing a job like this unsupervised, plus they'd agreed to lend me a heat gun, which is like an industrial-strength hairdryer. I used the heat gun to soften the adhesive that sticks the device together. Once the glue softened, I used plastic and metal implements called spudgers to prise my much-loved gadget open. The first incision was terrifying. Francis, a "restarter", kept an eye on me to make sure I didn't hurt myself. I wore safety glasses, and used sticky tape to collect tiny broken glass fragments. But important preparation such as reading guides, watching videos and memorising the steps in advance could not prepare me for the horrible reality of gouging out my kit. It was a taxing combination of brutal heavy-handedness and a delicate, dexterous light touch. Tablet repair is not a task I would encourage anyone to try without careful consideration and a healthy disrespect for the warranty. Janet Gunter, co-founder of the Restart Project, wants more companies to think about people's ability to repair their own devices. "Stuff is getting more difficult to open and we're seeing that in the events that we're hosting. We're going to reach a point where it's going to be hard to help people fix things in a three-hour period. "People always beat up on Apple but the point is everything is becoming sleeker, smaller, more sealed together and more difficult to open." I was determined - and finally removed the screen after three hours of prodding, poking, prying, scraping and applying heat. Everyone cheered. After removing the glass I undid four little screws and gently lifted the screen to reach the touchscreen connector behind it. I pulled out data cables, and prepared to do it all again - this time backwards. My tablet rebooted and connected to the web successfully. I had avoided the most common mistake - breaking the wifi/bluetooth antenna stuck to the glass next to the home button. But it was only a partial victory. During the removal of the glass, I'd severed the connection to one of the antennas at the top of the device. I couldn't consider it a complete repair, and was a little despondent. Alex Perjescu's company Lovefone repairs phones and tablets. He was at the event and was impressed that I'd even attempt a tablet screen repair, let alone try to replace the GPS antenna myself. He found me a replacement antenna and we arranged to meet at the next Restart party. The quest for a fully repaired tablet was back on! Alex told me it was normal to break something on the first fix. "The instructions you find online are great - but also [you need to know] those little tricks to get it right from the first try. And make sure you're confident with the instructions you've found." Alex's professional tools were much more precise than the ones I'd bought online. I got right down to the logic board, removing the camera assembly, unpeeling tiny bits of tape, unscrewing tiny screws. An excruciating exercise indeed - but seven hours later I had finally done it - taking five hours longer than a competent professional. I was too tired to cheer, but immeasurably happy - and I am still happy as I'm writing this article on my self-refurbished device. The Restart Project aims to empower people to fix stuff themselves - and I certainly felt exhilarated after such a difficult repair. For me, after opening an iPad, nothing feels impenetrable. But crucially I was prepared to break my kit in order to understand it - and I'd advise anyone to think this way if they are considering DIY repair. Because sometimes it's not the winning - it's the taking apart that counts. Find out more on BBC Click this weekend or on iPlayer

Question: Considering our reliance on smartphones and tablets , and their susceptibility to being @placeholder , it 's surprising there has n't been more of an outcry over why they are so difficult to fix .


Numbers have gone from around 155,000 in 1985 to 97,000 in 2015 according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The iconic animal has declined because of habitat loss, poaching and civil unrest in many parts of Africa. Some populations are growing, mainly in southern parts of the continent. Until now, the conservation status of giraffes was considered of "least concern" by the IUCN. However in their latest global Red List of threatened species, the ungainly animal is now said to be "vulnerable", meaning that over three generations, the population has declined by more that 30%. According to Dr Julian Fennessy, who co-chairs the IUCN giraffe specialist group, the creatures are undergoing a "silent extinction". "If you go on a safari, giraffes are everywhere," he told BBC News. "While there have been great concern about elephants and rhinos, giraffes have gone under the radar but, unfortunately, their numbers have been plummeting, and this is something that we were a little shocked about, that they have declined by so much in so little time." The rapid growth of human populations has seen the expansion of farming and other forms of development that has resulted in the fragmentation of the giraffe's range in many parts of Africa.  But civil unrest in parts of the continent has also taken its toll. "In these war torn areas, in northern Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia in the border area with South Sudan, essentially the giraffes are war fodder, a large animal, extremely curious that can feed a lot of people," said Dr Fennessy. A study in recent months suggested that the giraffe was actually four different species but for this update of  the Redlist, the IUCN have stuck with the traditional definition of one species with nine subspecies. Of these, five have had falling populations, one has remained stable while three have grown. Different outcomes seem to be highly dependent on location. "The species in southern Africa, those numbers are increasing by two to three times over the last three decades," said Dr Fennessy. "But when you come up through East Africa, those numbers have plummeted some by up to 95% of the population in the case of the Nubian giraffe, in the last three decades alone." While researchers believe that some local populations may not survive, there is optimism that that the long term future of these tall creatures can be secured. The success in keeping giraffe numbers high in Southern Africa has much to do with the management of game parks for tourists say experts, who believe that the extra attention that the IUCN listing will now attract will benefit the species. "South Africa is a good example of how you can manage wildlife, there is a lot of moving of animals between different conservation areas, it is a very different scenario than in most of the rest of Africa." said Chris Ransom from the Zoological Society of London. "I think giraffes can survive, with the right conservation efforts, and we can ensure that the animals do live in the wild. There  are a lot of cases of success in conservation. The giraffes could be one." The latest edition of the IUCN Red List now contains over 85,000 species in total with more than 24,000 threatened with extinction. Over 700 newly recognised bird species have been added, with 11% of them on the edge of survival. One bird, the Antioquia wren has been listed as "endangered" as more than half of its habitat in Colombia could be wiped out by proposed dam. Invasive species on islands are also seen as a threat for many birds including the Pagan reed-warbler and the Laysan honeycreeper. The publication also includes the first assessment of crops including wild oats, barley, mango and other wild relative plants. "Many species are slipping away before we can even describe them," says IUCN Director General Inger Andersen. "This IUCN Red List update shows that the scale of the global extinction crisis may be even greater than we thought." Follow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook

Question: A dramatic drop in giraffe populations over the past 30 years has seen the world 's tallest @placeholder mammal classified as vulnerable to extinction .


The band performed during Friday night's Children In Need, the first time as a seven piece since 2002. During their career, the group had 11 UK top ten hits, including three number ones. Speaking about the 2015 tour, Rachel Stevens said: "We went through so much together there will always be that bond there. Even though it had been such a long time, coming back together felt really natural." Of their comeback performance, Bradley told Newsbeat: "It was amazing. You couldn't ask for a better response from the fans." Whilst there was a lot of positive reaction, there had been some criticism directed at Jo O'Meara's singing. But Jo explained that it came down to nerves. Jo said: "A lot of people were picking out my vocals saying they weren't all that good which, I've got to say, I completely agree with!" "It's because I was so nervous. More nervous than I've ever been. It's like someone had thrown sand in my mouth. I was shaking from head to toe. Next time I'll do a better job." The full tour dates are: Thursday, May 7 - Birmingham LG Arena Friday, May 8 - Manchester Arena Saturday, May 9 - Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena Monday, May 11 - Bournemouth IC Tuesday, May 12 - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena Wednesday, May 13 - Liverpool, Echo Arena Friday, May 15 - Nottingham, Capital FM Arena Saturday, May 16 - London, The O2 Tuesday, May 19 - Leeds, First Direct Arena Wednesday, May 20 - Glasgow, The SSE Hydro Tickets go on sale on Thursday November 20 at 9am.

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The cascade - or weeping window - section will be shown at St George's Hall in Liverpool and Woodhorn Museum, Northumberland. Yorkshire Sculpture Park will host the arch segment, also known as the wave. The installation, which marked 100 years since the start of World War One, drew more than five million visitors. Culture Secretary John Whittingdale said: "This is art at its most powerful and it is only right that everyone should have the chance to see them." The installation included 888,246 ceramic poppies, with each representing each death in the British and Colonial forces between 1914 and 1918. It was created by Derbyshire artist Paul Cummins and theatre designer Tom Piper, and was named Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red after a line written by a soldier who died in Belgium. A total of ¡ê9m was raised for six military service charities after most of the poppies, which were handmade in Derby, were sold to members of the public for ¡ê25 each. Wave and the Weeping Window, which together have more than 10,000 ceramic poppies, were bought for the nation last year by the charities Backstage Trust and the Clore Duffield Foundation. Other locations can bid next year to host the ceramic poppies in 2017 and 2018, before they are permanently homed at the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester. Wave: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, September 2015 - January 2016 Weeping Window Woodhorn Museum, Northumberland, September - October 2015 St George's Hall, Liverpool, November 2015 - January 2016 Source: 14-18 Now World War One Centenary

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The Great Western Railway carriage was placed on a site near Helston in Cornwall in 1930 by Elizabeth Richards, who lived there until she died in 1966. Master carpenter Charles Allen restored the carriage, from 1882, and built a bungalow around it with help from his son-in-law Jim Higgins. The estate agent in charge of the sale said the construction was "unique". The antique carriage houses two bedrooms and a bathroom with a kitchen, lounge, sun room and reception hall reminiscent of a railway station platform in the rest of the bungalow. Mr Higgins said Waverly was a five-door third-class carriage that had kept many of its original features. He said the carriage had been "in a right state" when Mr Allen took on the project. Philip Care, the estate agent handling the sale, said the property, near Ashton, appeared to be a normal bungalow from the outside. "I've never seen anything like it," he said. "The quality of it is just phenomenal and you can spend hours looking at the details." Mr Care said the bungalow was a "railway enthusiast's dream". The bungalow will be sold at a public auction in August.

Question: A bungalow constructed around a @placeholder 19th Century railway carriage is going on the market .


Just 84 of the 277 academies rated as inadequate between 2010 and 2015, had been found new academy sponsors, the Commons Education Committee heard. Ian Mearns MP also said the oversight of failing academies was "not working". The government says failing academies face swifter action than struggling schools linked to local authorities. Regional school commissioner for East Midlands and the Humber Janet Bexon Smith told the committee: "Re-brokerage does sometimes take time, and that is about finding the right match. "We have got to persuade another trust to take on a school that has already been brokered once [converted to academy status]. "And we often find they will look at it, they have to do their due diligence, and say, 'It is too broken, we would not be able to take it on,'" she said. Another school commissioner, Rebecca Clark, who oversees the academies programme in the South West, told the committee the need to get new potential academy sponsors on board was a "very real priority" for her and her colleagues. "Five to 10 to 15 years from now, we should have a system where we can catch schools before they go into decline," she said. But Mr Mearns replied: "The children in the schools we are talking about have not got five, 10, 15 years, they need the school that they are in improved around them now, and they need someone overseeing improvement and doing it very quickly." And there was an "inherent flaw" in the system - there were not enough academy sponsors available to take over struggling academies. "We are moving towards a system where all schools are academies, and it is not working now," he added. But Ms Bexon Smith said re-brokerage was disruptive and the "last resort". Other interventions could be tried first, such as changing the existing academy leadership and intensive support, she said. The committee also heard the Department for Education was soon to pilot a scheme that would allow regional school commissioners to halt the expansion of multi-academy trusts that failed pass a set series of checks. It is due to be rolled out across England in early 2017.

Question: Failing academies are not being @placeholder to improve fast enough in England by the government officials overseeing them , a committee of MPs has heard .


The 33-year-old Portugal defender has 18 months left to run on his current deal, which he signed in October 2015. Southampton's director of football Les Reed says the player has had the chance to sign an improved deal, but Fonte has now asked to leave the club. "He's had several opportunities to improve the contract situation. He's reserved his right not to do that," Reed told BBC Radio Solent. "He's made it very clear he would like to explore the opportunities for a transfer. "That's where we are at the moment, Jose wants to leave the club. He's formally asked for a transfer." Reed went on to confirm the club have not yet received any formal bid for the player, who joined Saints from Crystal Palace in January 2010, and has made 288 appearances. Fonte was linked with a move to Manchester United in the summer after helping his country win Euro 2016, and he wrote on Instagram last month: "Just to set the record straight I did not reject a new contract. In fact, I have been informed by Southampton that they are not offering me a new contract." However, Reed insists new terms have been offered to the former Benfica player: "What was offered to Jose was, in my view, quite significant off the back of the contract he signed in October 2015. "Six months later we were prepared to improve that contract and extend it. He has turned down the opportunity to increase his salary, and he's turned down the opportunity to get another permanent year on his contract."

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Some will also be asking about the Midlands question. It was an issue that surfaced at the Labour conference in Manchester. The worry is .....are the East and West Midlands in danger of being by-passed in any post-Scottish referendum devolution settlement? The alarm bells have been ringing. One reason is George Osborne's enthusiasm to create a "northern powerhouse". Northern powerhouse? That's the increasing economic and political clout of northern cities linking up with Manchester to have their voice heard at Westminster and the treasury. In his mini-budget later this year, the chancellor is expected to announce a ?¡ê15bn investment in science and manufacturing knowhow for the North. That's big money. But council leaders from the Midlands increasingly feel too many London-based government, business and cultural organisations are being encouraged to look to our friends in the North. Is the Midlands in danger of being leapfrogged? They say the BBC's shift to Salford is an example. "London and the South East will always grow as an economy and there's this growing perception of the northern powerhouse economy," said Councillor Anne Western, leader of Derbyshire County Council. "If we are not careful, the Midlands is the bit in between that everyone forgets, and I'm not prepared to allow that." Ms Western was one of the platform speakers at a fringe meeting at the Labour conference to consider a response to the northern challenge. Sir Albert Bore, the leader of Birmingham City Council, was also a key speaker. Improved transport links between the East and West Midlands are on the shopping list of investment projects that the Midlands - East and West - are now seeking. There's a feeling among Midlands political leaders that the combined voice of the northern cities - Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds and Newcastle - has been quicker off the mark and sharper in presenting its case to government. Investing in better rail services and connections is one of the northern powerhouse ideas that has also caught the ear of ministers. "Just look at the rail service between Nottingham and Birmingham," said Sir Albert. "It's appalling. It's quicker to get from Birmingham to London by train than to Nottingham and it's half the distance." A sign of a new joint approach is Midlands Connect, a lobbying group that's bringing together council leaders from both the East and West Midlands. Sir Albert said: "It's about trying to ensure the same message is out there for the Midlands as a whole." Midlands Connect is already pitching a strong message of a dynamic region: 20 universities, an economy worth ?¡ê178bn and a population of 10m, expected to grow by 10% over the next 20 years. "The roads and railways that connect our two regions - the East and West Midlands - are simply inadequate," said Lillian Greenwood, Labour's rail minister and the MP for Nottingham South. Will HS2 and its high speed rail link to the Midlands from London boost the economic clout of the region? Lillian Greenwood said: "Both Birmingham and Nottingham already have relatively good connections down to London, but really poor transport links with each other. That needs addressing." Anne Western says HS2 may end up being part of the problem for the Midlands. "HS2 is about improving connections between London and the North, and it's a long term project," she said. "We've got to work on what can be improved to transport links locally in the short term." David Cameron may use his conference speech in Birmingham to outline some of his thinking on devolving powers beyond the slogan: "English Votes for English laws." In any debate on England's evolving and devolving north-south future, council leaders from the Midlands - East and West - are determined to be heard and are joining forces to turn up the volume.

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At least 39 people were killed inside the Weiguan Jinlong (Golden Dragon) apartment complex in Tainan. About 320 people have been rescued but more than 100 people may still be under the debris. It was one of the few buildings to suffer serious damage, sparking questions about its construction. With hopes fading of finding more survivors, rescuers are now using heavy equipment to knock down parts of the toppled structure. Hundreds of soldiers are involved in the rescue effort, helped by high-tech equipment, sniffer dogs and cranes. On Tuesday, distraught relatives frequently interrupted Mayor William Lai as he gave a briefing on the progress of the search, after the passing of the 72-hour so-called "golden window" for finding survivors. An investigation has been launched into whether the construction of the Weiguan Jinlong building contributed to its collapse. The shallow 6.4-magnitude quake was powerful but few other buildings were damaged, thanks to strict building standards on the earthquake-prone island.

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King, who won his first career ranking event at last week's Northern Ireland Open, trailed fellow Englishman Sam Craigie 3-1 at the break. But that turned to 4-1 when he returned to the arena having left his cue in the tournament office. "It's just one for the silly book," said King, 42. "I have now done two things in three days that I have never done in the rest of my career - winning a ranking tournament and forgetting my cue." Romford-born King said he was having trouble with a sponsor logo on his cue and went with referee Jan Verhaas to replace it in the tournament office. "I was in a daze, had my cup of tea, had my banana and left my cue in there," said King. "Then I came out to the arena and thought 'oh my god, where's my cue'! "If I'd said to Sam 'can I borrow your cue to break off' and then said I was going to the toilet, I wonder if I wouldn't have been punished?" King could still win the ¡ê5,000 prize money for the tournament's highest break, having scored a superb 141 in the frame immediately after he was penalised. He added: "It has been a bad day but it has been a really good week - the best week of my life when you talk about snooker. It's not all doom and gloom."

Question: Mark King suffered a shock 6 - 2 first - round defeat at the UK Championship in York after he forgot his cue after the @placeholder and was docked a frame .


The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the move "counter-productive" to peace talks while the EU said the plan should be "reversed". The announcement comes days after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called for full UN membership for a Palestinian state. The new houses are to be constructed at Gilo, in East Jerusalem. Almost 500,000 Jews live in settlements on occupied territory. The settlements are illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this. 'Provocative' US-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are deadlocked over the issue of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Mrs Clinton said Israel's move would damage attempts to resume direct negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. "We have long urged both sides to avoid any kind of action which could undermine trust, including, and perhaps most particularly, in Jerusalem, any action that could be viewed as provocative by either side," she said. The European Union's Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton told the EU parliament that she heard "with deep regret" that Israeli settlement plans were continuing. "This plan should be reversed. Settlement activity threatens the viability of an agreed two-state solution and runs contrary to the Israeli-stated commitment to resume negotiations." She said she would raise the issue with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when she next met him. "He should stop announcing them and, more importantly, stop building them," she said, adding that it was wrong to get people to live in a place from which they may have to move from after any negotiated settlement is achieved. British Foreign Secretary William Hague too urged Israel to revoke its decision. "Settlement expansion is illegal under international law, corrodes trust and undermines the basic principle of land for peace," he said in a statement. The plan for construction in Gilo includes the construction of small housing units, public buildings, a school and an industrial zone, according to the Ynet news website. "It's a nice gift for Rosh Hashanah [Jewish New Year]," Yair Gabay, a member of the Jerusalem planning committee, told Ynet. The authorities have now approved the building of almost 3,000 homes in Gilo over the past two years. The chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the decision represented a rejection of a proposal by the Quartet of Mid East negotiators - the US, the EU, Russia and the UN - for new talks between the Palestinians and Israelis, expected to be made officially on Friday. "With this, Israel is responding to the Quartet's statement with 1,100 'NOs'," he said. On Monday, a divided UN Security Council met behind closed doors for its first discussion of last week's Palestinian application for full state membership of the UN. The request needs the support of nine of the 15 members of the council, but the US has said it will veto the bid. Israel built the settlement at Gilo on land it captured in 1967. It later annexed the area to the Jerusalem municipality in a move not recognised by the international community. Israel says it does not consider areas within the Jerusalem municipality to be settlements. Gilo lies across a narrow valley from the Palestinian village of Beit Jala. It became a target for militants during the second Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation in 2000. Meanwhile, the UN rapporteurs on housing, water, sanitation and food rights said there had been a "dramatic increase" in the demolitions this year. "The impact and discriminatory nature of these demolitions and evictions is completely unacceptable," they said in a statement. "These actions by the Israeli authorities violate human rights and humanitarian law and must end immediately."

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Halsey said on Twitter that he had "seen an incident and been told to say I haven't seen it". He spoke out after Manchester City's Sergio Aguero received a retrospective three-game ban for violent conduct. However, the Professional Game Match Officials Limited said: "There is no pressure to include or omit anything." The body's statement continued: "Match officials submit their reports, including critical incidents, directly to the FA. "Match officials ensure that their reports are a full and accurate description of the incident." Halsey, who retired in 2013, also pointed out these were issues he had previously mentioned in his autobiography three years ago. He later added: "To be fair to the FA... it's not them, it comes from within the PGMOL." Formed in 2001, the PGMOL was established when referees turned professional and aims to improve standards across the Premier League, Football League and FA competitions in England as well as training and development. Had the incident that saw Aguero banned by a Football Association panel for elbowing West Ham's Winston Reid been witnessed by a match official, including referee Andre Marriner, the retrospective punishment would not have been possible. Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville said Halsey's claims were "too big" to avoid a full investigation.

Question: Former referee Mark Halsey 's claims that he was told to lie after a game have been denied by the body which @placeholder match officials .


Perhaps more than anywhere else in the UK, this area has a track record of electing representatives who don't have a big party machine behind them. Lady Sylvia Hermon was the only independent MP elected to parliament in 2010. She's defending a huge majority - more than 14,000. She says the good things about being an independent include "always being unanimous". Lady Hermon points to the Commons vote against the government's plans for military action in Syria as an important part of her last term. "I had made up my mind that I was not going to vote in favour of British involvement in Syria," she said. "When we came to the major motion that was brought forward by the coalition government, I voted against, and was absolutely thrilled to be one of the 13 MPs who made a difference that night." With the polls predicting a hung parliament, and the possibility of more knife-edge votes, she says she would not prop up a Conservative government if it is supported by UKIP. But she says that as a unionist, she also would not prop up a Labour administration if a deal is done with the SNP. So Lady Hermon says she would take each vote as it comes. In Groomsport, another successful independent politician is marking his quarter century as an elected representative. Councillor Alan Chambers owns a shop in the village. He thinks the main advantage of not being in a party is being able to make up his own mind about topics. "I can think of nothing worse than being told how to vote when you don't want to vote that way," he says. "You also don't need to worry about being tainted by a headline about what a party colleague has said or done. I only need to worry about myself." So how do politicians keep ahead when they don't have party spin doctors, policy officers or political broadcasts? The editor of the County Down Spectator, Paul Flowers, says that dealing with constituency problems is very important for representatives in the area - whether they are independent or in a party. "Our politicians are very active in dealing with what you might think is the little stuff - dogs, drains, things like that. It may not be the big reason why they all wanted to go into politics in the first place, but it gets them elected the next time round." In the Dail (Irish parliament), independents - and minor parties - have become a significant force. There are currently 28 TDs designated as such. Politicians like Mick Wallace, Claire Daly, and Luke "Ming" Flanagan (now an MEP) have high profiles and have made a major impact. Some of the left-wing TDs see their independence as enabling them to pursue a form of politics which is more ideologically pure. They have benefited from the decline in support for mainstream parties. But at Westminster, independent MPs are thin on the ground. There have been little more than a dozen elected since the Second World War. The former BBC broadcaster Martin Bell was one of the best known. The "man in the white suit" served as MP for Tatton from 1997 to 2001. He defeated the then Conservative Neil Hamilton after Mr Hamilton was involved in a cash-for questions scandal. There are five independents standing for election in Northern Ireland on 7 May. So with disillusionment in UK politics in general showing no sign of going away, will more independents be tempted to add their names to ballot papers over the next few years? Rick Wilford, emeritus professor of Politics at Queen's University, says that may be the case - but only if the first-past-the-post electoral system for Westminster elections is replaced by PR, to give independents a better chance of getting seats. He says you may get more candidates who "like Victor Meldrew, say 'I don't believe it, what these politicians are doing - I'm going to have a go myself.' But that, I think is contingent on a change in the electoral system." It's impossible to generalise about independent politicians - after all, individualism and independence go hand-in-hand. But if there's one thing independents seem to have in common, it's that they relish being their own person. The full list of candidates standing in North Down: Steven Agnew, Green Party; Mark Brotherston, Conservative; William Cudworth,  TUV (Traditional Unionist Voice); Glenn Donnelly, Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol; Alex Easton, DUP; Sylvia Hermon,  Independent; Jonny Lavery, UKIP; Therese McCartney, Sinn F??in; Andrew Muir, Alliance Party and Tom Woolley, SDLP.

Question: If you want to analyse the @placeholder of independent politicians , North Down is the place to be .


The Crues face a testing away trip to third-placed Coleraine on Saturday as they aim to protect a seven-point lead. "If you are going to try and win a title, you have to go and win games. We are only thinking of collecting the three points," said Baxter. "There is no point going there, sitting back and accepting pressure." The Crues boss believes the outstanding recent form of the Bannsiders has made them "the big surprise package" of the campaign, but concedes that their progress does not come as a total surprise to him. "I always knew Coleraine were developing something very strong - they have very good young players in their team with a lot of quality. "They have really come to the fore in the last two months and hats off to Oran (Kearney) because he has worked tirelessly behind the scenes. "He's a good manager and it will be a big test for us." Kearney's charges have hit form at just the right time and are now unbeaten in 13 matches in all competitions. "This is the business end of the season and it's full of big games. Crusaders had another emphatic win over Ballinamallard so we have a tough task ahead of us," observed the Coleraine manager. Meanwhile Ballymena United boss David Jeffrey expects Cliftonville to pose a major threat to their ambition to get back to winning ways after picking up just one point from two home fixtures in the last week. "It's going to be difficult at Solitude. They are a class act and are coming off the back of a few disappointing results. They will want to make amends on Saturday," argued the Sky Blues' boss. Linfield will be out to keep up their pursuit of Crusaders at the top when they travel to Ferney Park to take on Ballinamallard United. David Healy's outfit are on an impressive run of form, winning 11 and drawing one on of their last 12 outings. "We are going to be playing the second best team in the country and they gave us a lesson the last time we played them at Windsor Park," said Mallards manager Gavin Dykes. "Having said that, when we're at it, we can give anyone a game at Ferney Park." Dungannon boss Rodney McAree has seen his side drop to eighth spot after Glentoran's 1-0 win over Carrick Rangers on Friday night as the Swifts head to Shamrock Park to face basement club Portadown. "We don't want to finish any lower than seventh and we have to fight tooth and nail to try and achieve that," said McAree. Glenavon manager Gary Hamilton is expected to make wholesale changes to his starting line-up for the Premiership game at Ards, with the Irish Cup semi-final against Coleraine a week later in mind.

Question: Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter has urged his players to keep @placeholder wins in every game as they close in on a third consecutive Premiership title .


Saturday's 1-0 defeat by Southampton left Swansea 16th, three points above the Premier League relegation zone. They face second-placed Tottenham at White Hart Lane on 28 February and play Arsenal, currently in third, at Emirates Stadium on 5 March. "There is no reason why we can't go there and get something," said Cork. Swansea have never beaten Spurs in the Premier League, but enjoyed a home and away double against the Gunners last season. "Spurs and Arsenal are games where we are not really expected to get anything," Cork told BBC Radio Wales. "You saw at the weekend, Sunderland beat Manchester United. "I know we are down at the bottom, but we can go there and no one is expecting us to win. "We managed to do it twice against Arsenal last year and it would be good to do it against Tottenham because we haven't really managed to get a result against them." Aston Villa are seven points adrift at the bottom of the table, but only five points separates Bournemouth in 15th and Sunderland in 19th with 12 games of the season remaining. "There is no need to panic yet," said Cork. "We play teams around us and I think we will be fine. "But it could go to the wire. A few of the teams down the bottom got good results this week, but we had good form in the previous month."

Question: Midfielder Jack Cork says there will be " no pressure " on @placeholder Swansea when they make successive trips to title - chasing Tottenham and Arsenal .


Graham Booker, 68, flew at retired policeman Richard Hadley like "a mad bull" during the assault in Sidmouth, Devon, last October, magistrates heard. It happened after Booker saw Mr Hadley in an alleyway between Sidmouth Methodist Church and his home. Booker was convicted of assault after a trial at Exeter Magistrates' Court. The court heard how Mr Hadley had been using a wrench to remove some nuts from a metal gate in the alleyway, when Booker came out of the church's fire exit. Mr Hadley said Booker raced towards him, shoved him to the ground and kicked him. He said: "I went sprawling on the floor. My nose hit the ground. It was streaming blood. I lost a tooth. I must have been knocked out for a few seconds. Booker was standing over me and kicked me." The victim, who owns the Hair Studio next to the church, said he had the right to use the alleyway to access the rear of the property, which the church disputes. Mr Hadley said he had had used the alleyway for 30 years and it was the only way into his "landlocked" property. In court he branded the church an "absolute disgrace". Booker, of Windsor Mead, Sidmouth, claimed he did not kick Mr Hadley but was kicking away the wrench and said he had acted in self defence. He was released on bail and will be sentenced at a later date. A spokesman for Sidmouth Methodist Church said: "We are deeply saddened by the situation and hope that all those concerned can soon put this unfortunate matter behind them and move forward in reconciling relationships within the community."

Question: A church steward attacked an 85 - year - old @placeholder in a row over a disputed alleyway , knocking him to ground and leaving him with a missing tooth .


Media playback is not supported on this device The undefeated American arrived and was barely visible, entering amid a large entourage before being largely hidden on stage by a media scrum. Conor McGregor, his UFC champion challenger, then arrived and made a beeline for an Irish flag in the crowd before performing an impromptu lap of fans, as media and security gave chase. Once on stage, the 29-year-old Irishman said he would be "calm and cold" when he met the former five-weight boxing world champion on Saturday. "He needs to be put to sleep," said McGregor. "He will wake up a better man. I am going to do that for him." BBC 5 live sports correspondent Richard Conway This was hype and showmanship taken to a whole new level. When Conor McGregor finally walked on, he did so as the self-styled people's champion, strutting around the open plaza as if he owned it. Like a presidential candidate on the eve of polling day, he shook hands and high-fived as many supporters as he could reach. Dressed in a purple suit, he told his expectant audience he would knock Mayweather unconscious on Saturday night, which elicited a huge cheer. As he tried to depart I managed to ask him if he really is, as he claims, going to shock the world on Saturday night. Nodding, he turned to the crowd and said "for these fans, I love these fans". McGregor's legend continues to grow. It increasingly feels like he stands to win big in the long term, no matter what happens in the ring this weekend. About 1,000 media from around the world have been accredited for Saturday's bout, many of them to be housed away from the venue at a media tent a short walk from the T-Mobile Arena. Outside the arena, a large security presence tried to keep the 'Grand Arrivals' ceremony cordial on Tuesday afternoon. Undercard fighters, including Wales' Nathan Cleverly, posed for head-to-head pictures without problems, until Mayweather entered. McGregor was due on stage first but with both men late for the event, his rival stepped up, leaving the Dublin fighter to follow when he arrived. But those who had waited in temperatures of over 40C on a street adjacent to Las Vegas' famous strip showed their frustration when photographers and reporters surrounded 40-year-old Mayweather, blocking any sight of the former five-division world champion. Cries of "we want Conor" broke out from American fans, while added security was placed at the front of the stage, with media warned not to rush forward when McGregor arrived. When he did, flanked by his own entourage, they brushed shoulders with the departing Mayweather group, prompting brief panic among the security detail. McGregor exchanged heated words with one member of the Mayweather group and later rowed with ex-sparring partner Paulie Malignaggi. "Over the course of the next week, Vegas is Ireland," said McGregor, after eventually making it to the stage. "We run Las Vegas. We are here to take over this whole city." Organisers say the bout - which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 live - is the most accessible in boxing history, with fans able to watch through social platforms. They estimate around a billion people will watch worldwide. It is expected the bout could generate over $600m and go close to becoming the richest in boxing history. Victory for Mayweather, who has come out of retirement for the fight, would take his record to 50 wins from 50 bouts and surpass the late Rocky Marciano's flawless 49-fight record.

Question: The opening event of a week of build - up to potentially the most lucrative fight in boxing history @placeholder chaotic scenes in Las Vegas , with Floyd Mayweather booed by unhappy fans .


The diver, a man aged 45 believed to be on holiday with his family, died in the English Channel at East Portholland, St Austell, at about 17:00 BST on Tuesday. Police said a 12-year-old girl was taken to Derriford Hospital by ambulance. Her condition is not thought to be serious. Officers are informing the victim's next of kin. More on the scuba diving incident, and other stories from Cornwall Supt Ian Drummond Smith said: "The family involved were from outside the area and are believed to have been holidaying in Cornwall. "This appears to be a tragic scuba diving accident and our thoughts are with the man's relatives and friends at this time."

Question: A scuba diver has @placeholder and a 12 - year - old girl has been injured in the sea off Cornwall .


Media playback is not supported on this device Low also revealed he told Gotze to show the world he was better than Lionel Messi minutes before the substitute came on to score the winner. Media playback is not supported on this device Victory gave Germany a fourth World Cup title and first for 24 years. Gotze, 22, said: "It is an unbelievable feeling. You score that goal and you don't really know what's happening." Gotze, who began the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Germany's starting line-up, came on as an 88th-minute substitute for Miroslav Klose in Sunday's final. With seven minutes of extra time remaining, the Bayern Munich midfielder volleyed home with his left foot after controlling Andre Schurrle's left-wing cross on his chest. "He is the wonder who can play in numerous positions, he is the decider who can come on and make a difference," said Low. "That is what he did." Gotze, who joined Bayern in a ¡ê31.5m deal from Borussia Dortmund last summer, added: "It's indescribable. The dream has become a reality. It is absolutely sensational." Media playback is not supported on this device Despite being on the losing side in the final, Messi was named as the tournament's best player. Coach Alejandro Sabella said the award was "very deserved", adding: "He played a great World Cup to get us where he did." Germany counterpart Low, meanwhile, said victory in Brazil was the result of a 10-year project. Germany were knocked out at the group stage of Euro 2004 without winning a game but have since reached three semi-finals and two finals at five major championships. Before Sunday they had not won a tournament since tasting success in the 1996 European Championships in England. "We've made constant progress and believed in the project," said the 54-year-old Low, who became coach in 2006 after stepping up from his role as assistant to Jurgen Klinsmann. "If any group deserves it, it's this team." Manuel Neuer, who won the Golden Glove award for the best goalkeeper in the tournament, hailed an "unbelievable" moment as the national side lifted the trophy. "The team has done superbly, not only the players, but also the team behind the team," he said. Captain Philipp Lahm added: "Whether we have the best individual players or whatever does not matter, you have to have the best team. At the end, you stand there as world champions - an unbelievable feeling." Chelsea forward Schurrle added: "This is the best moment of my life. I had to cry because I was so overcome. I couldn't stop it. It was always a dream to be a world champion." Centre-back Mats Hummels admitted the players were beginning to think about a penalty shootout before Gotze's goal. "I am still completely trapped in another world, physically too exhausted to be able to rejoice euphorically, but that will come," he said. "You can only be world champions when you act as a team. We wanted to make that clear to everyone the whole time." A record 34.65m Germans watched the World Cup final, according to viewing figures released on Monday. The match, broadcast on ARD public television, beat the previous record of 32.57m who had watched the 7-1 semi-final win over Brazil. For the best of BBC Sport's in-depth content and analysis, go to our features and video page.

Question: Germany coach Joachim Low hailed Mario Gotze as the " @placeholder boy " after his extra-time strike sealed a 1 - 0 win over Argentina in Sunday 's World Cup final .


The process saw children - largely of south Asian and African or Caribbean descent - being "bussed" out of their local areas to go to school. Eleven Local Area Authorities (LEAs) decided there should be no more than 30% of immigrants at any one school. It meant once that quota was reached, children were taken elsewhere. The process, which became known as "bussing", is now at the heart of a project in Bradford where Shabina Aslam is trying to trace children who, like herself, were sent to school away from where they lived. She moved to Bradford, West Yorkshire, from Kenya when she was seven years old. She remembers how the buses were marked so the children knew which one to get on. "We were all told to look for signs, like a yellow sun, black football, or a red diamond," she said. "So you'd wait for your red diamond bus, you'd get on it, you'd get to school and suddenly it was the 'Paki bus'." She said the practice made her and the others who were bussed feel more segregated, instead of integrated. Raj Samra, who was a 1960s child bussed in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, said there was a key flaw in the plan which stopped pupils integrating properly. "We were in an annexe of the main school, so we weren't mixing," he said. "Had we been in another school mixing with all the other children, then the project would have worked." It was a plan conceived at a time when large numbers of Asian and Afro-Caribbean families were heading to the UK. Many of them could not speak English and the LEAs came up with this as a solution. The councils that adopted a bussing policy were: Blackburn, Bradford, Bristol, Ealing (Southall), Halifax, Hounslow, Huddersfield, Leicester, Luton, Walsall and West Bromwich. Speaking in 1979, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council's director of education Frederick Adams said: "The idea is to put the children from overseas in a situation where they have to mix, and if as is the case in this city, about 75% of them are non-English speaking when they arrive, this means they are going to have to communicate, they will hear English spoken, they have got to." By then, Bradford was sending out 24 buses a day, but in Ealing, west London, campaigners had challenged bussing in court claiming it fell foul of the new race relations legislation. Brenda Thomson was a teacher in Bradford when bussing was the norm. She said it was done "with the very best of intentions". "It was assumed that the children would learn English better in a naturally English-speaking environment," she said. "Which is OK if you speak to your mates in the classroom, but if you don't it doesn't help very much does it?" Mohammed Ajeeb organised a petition to get bussing stopped in the late 1970s, saying the practice was racially motivated. "In March 1979 a petition was presented to the then chair of the education committee signed by 1,600 parents that demanded the end of bussing. "It was one-way traffic. Only children from the inner-city areas, the black children, were being bussed into the middle-class areas." In 1980 Bradford became the last place in the UK to phase out bussing for good. Mrs Aslam believes that although some had positive experiences of bussing and said they enjoyed school, it made her and many others feel more isolated. "We'd walk in late in a group and we'd always have to leave early. The bus monitor used to come round and say 'can we have all the immigrants please?' and all the black children would stand up," she said. "I didn't really have any friends in the classroom, nobody ever spoke to me. "I was always looking at the others thinking: 'how do I become like them?'"

Question: In 1960s and 70s Britain , immigrant ethnic minority children were @placeholder across schools in the hope that it would help them integrate .


An independent panel of government advisers says health professionals should take every opportunity to discuss diet, exercise, smoking and drinking habits. Ministers have backed the proposal from the NHS Future Forum to "make every contact count". But the Royal College of GPs says the move could drive some patients away. The recommendation is part of a series of papers from the panel of independent experts. Their first report last year outlined changes to the Health and Social Care Bill. They are now setting out their conclusions on four other areas - public health, information, improving links between services and education and training. The paper on public health states that everyone has a responsibility for their own health, but it also contends that the NHS is responsible for helping people to improve their health and well-being. It goes on to argue that healthcare professionals should use every contact to do this, whatever their area of expertise or the initial purpose of the discussion. The report points out that each day in England GPs and practice nurses see over 800,000 people, dentists see over 250,000 NHS patients, and 1.6 million people visit a pharmacy. "There are millions of opportunities every day for the NHS to help to improve people's health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities, but to take this opportunity it needs a different view of how to use its contacts with the public." In particular, the report emphasises the importance of the four main lifestyle risk factors - diet, physical activity, alcohol and tobacco. For example, it suggests that collecting medication from a pharmacy is a chance to offer help on cutting down on alcohol, or that a routine dental check-up could be used to discuss smoking. The paper says to emphasise the importance of this responsibility, the government should seek to include it in the NHS Constitution. The coalition government has accepted the forum's recommendations. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said: "The NHS Future Forum has again provided invaluable feedback and advice on what the NHS needs to do to improve results and put the NHS truly on the side of patients." However Dr Clare Gerada, of the Royal College of GPs, says raising lifestyle risks routinely with patients, even if they are unrelated to their illness, could be counter-productive. "We already look for opportunities to offer advice, but the idea that every consultation will have to address these four concerns may deter patients from coming in the first place. The discussion must be based on the patient's agenda, and we should prise open these other issues only if it feels appropriate." Dr John Ashton, the director of public health in Cumbria, also criticised the initiative. "The general point of making every contact count is a good idea, and has been the basis of what GPs have been trained to do for thirty years.  But the problem is they're making it the centrepiece of public health, whereas it is the wider conditions that actually shape health and behaviour, including taxation, education and improving self-esteem." But Professor Lindsey Davies, the president of the Faculty of Public Health, backed the plan. "We don't want healthcare professionals to be telling off ill people. Professionals do need to think holistically about the needs of the person in front of them and taking appropriate opportunities to help them get healthier - and stay that way."

Question: NHS staff in England must @placeholder their roles to ensure they promote good health under plans being published .


Punch Taverns wanted to turn The Corn Exchange in Crickhowell, into a shop, with a retail giant interested - the town has only one national retailer. But the idea has been withdrawn following fierce opposition, though Punch Taverns said the plans could be reintroduced later. A businessman has offered to set up a "community investment club". About 12 people put their names forward to join the consortium and the Corn Exchange Action Group has appealed for more investors to come forward. More than 3,500 people signed a petition and 2,560 letters of objection were written to prevent the supermarket taking over the building. Boots chemist is the only national chain in the town. All other businesses are family run and independent. Punch Taverns said in a statement the decision to withdraw the plans followed discussions about alternative uses for the building, which it said it hoped would succeed. But it said the plans could be reintroduced if the talks failed.

Question: A Powys pub at the centre of a row over plans to turn it into a supermarket could be @placeholder by a community group .


Shortly after opening the Dow Jones was down 9.14 points at 17,669.09, while the S&P 500 edged up 0.81 to 2,056.96. The tech-focused Nasdaq rose 16.99 points to 4,880.35. Janet Yellen is due to speak later in San Francisco on monetary policy, and her comments will be scrutinised for clues as to when rates might rise. Earlier this month, the Fed modified its stance on interest rates, and analysts expect the central bank to start raising rates later this year. Among individual stocks, shares in cruise operator Carnival rose 5.5% after it reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit. The company posted a net profit of $49m for the quarter to 28 February, compared with a loss of $20m a year earlier.

Question: ( Open ) : Stocks on Wall Street opened @placeholder with investors expected to remain cautious ahead of a speech by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen .


Jo Yurky, founder of Fair Funding For All Schools, said pupils had gone without text books and teachers battled on without photocopiers. She warned of the scale of funding cuts in some of England schools. The government says school funding has been protected. The mother and former parliamentary ombudsman, speaking at the union's annual conference in Cardiff, described how schools were "asking parents for regular payments to plug the funding shortfall - schools with ¡ê100,000, ¡ê200,000, ¡ê300,000 deficits begging parents for help". "One school near me raised over ¡ê80,000 from its parent community - but it isn't enough," said Ms Yurky, who set up the parents' group to campaign over school funding. "In one secondary school near me, the children were taught for the first two weeks of January with their coats and hats on because they've had to become a bit more careful about when they'll turn the heating on - to save money. "That school can't afford to buy the text books the pupils need, but they also can't afford to photocopy them because that budget's been cut too. "A primary school nearby had to cut a teaching post, a teaching assistant post, its music club and its science club - to save money." Now a childminder in Haringey in north London, Ms Yurky said: "If you look at the Department for Education's website, they tell schools how to make efficiencies. "And so some schools, in trying to make efficiencies, they don't turn the heating on so much. "It's not on over the school holidays, over Christmas, the children come back and the school's freezing. "It's a school where they don't have funds to buy textbooks, they can't photocopy textbooks, they ask parents for money. "Who would want their child to be in that classroom? Nobody. How does it help the child to learn? It doesn't. "This is the state of things because there is a significant financial problem with our schools. "The reason we are angry about it is because the government does not accept there is a problem." Ms Yurky said another school, a grammar in north London, sent begging letters to ask for charitable donations. "It's money they use to balance the books," she said. "That school has also cut a history post, half an English post, and four subjects from its A-levels." She said: "Of course parents want to support their schools, but there aren't many of us who have much money to spend at the moment. "But we also think why is there a problem with money? The government says funding is protected. We would rather the government talked to the schools and sorted out the problem." The Department for Education says that school budgets are being protected and that funding is at a record level. "We recognise that schools are facing cost pressures, and we will continue to provide support to help them use their funding in the most cost effective ways, so that every pound of the investment we make in education has the greatest impact - and every child has the opportunity to go as far as their talents will take them," said an education department spokeswoman.

Question: Pupils had to keep their coats and hats on at a school facing a cash squeeze as the @placeholder tried to save money on heating , the National Union of Teachers ' conference was told .