After she has made sure no-one can overhear us, she tells me about the realities of living in Buenaventura, Colombia's biggest Pacific port. "Nowadays you cannot move freely between neighbourhoods," she says. "If I tried to go over there," she says nodding in the direction of a nearby neighbourhood, "they would hit me, or disappear me, or kill me." She says sometimes people in the city's oldest neighbourhood of San Jose, also knows as Sanyu, just disappear. "They capture them, take them away, chop them to pieces, put them in bags and drop them in the sea," she explains. "Sometimes you come across an arm, different body parts, a head," she adds. The "they" she is referring to are members of Colombia's notorious criminal gangs. The gangs have been around for years, their numbers swelled by former right-wing paramilitaries who demobilised as part of a peace process but then returned to a life of criminality. But the torture, disappearances and dismemberments of victims which is currently plaguing Buenaventura is a recent development. The escalation of violence is blamed on a turf war between two rival gangs - the Urabenos and La Empresa - for this strategic spot for the drugs trade. According to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released on Thursday, entire neighbourhoods are dominated by powerful "paramilitary successor groups" which restrict residents' movements, recruit their children, extort their businesses, and routinely engage in horrific acts of violence against anyone who defies their will. "In several neighbourhoods, residents report the existence of casas de pique - or 'chop-up houses' - where the groups slaughter their victims," reads the document. The HRW researchers say that several residents told them they had heard people scream and plead for mercy as they were being dismembered alive. The fear is that these are not isolated cases. Between January 2010 and December 2013 more than 150 disappearances were reported in Buenaventura; twice as many as in any other Colombian municipality. But with many victims' relatives too scared to speak out, the actual figure could be much higher. The Sanyu resident says no one can be trusted. "Even eight-year-old kids are involved in the violence. You believe they cannot be evil, but they're evil. You might be talking to your enemy," she explains. Evil is a word also used by Buenaventura's bishop, the Right Reverend Hernan Epalza. "It is as if all the evil of Colombia has gathered here in Buenaventura," he says. "Disappearing and dismembering people? I cannot think anything worse," he tells the BBC. Buenaventura's police commander Col Jose Correa thinks these extreme methods are used like brutal calling cards. He says his force has managed to capture or kill a number of criminal leaders and the resulting vacuum has further fanned the violence as lower-ranking criminals use all the brutality they can to assert their authority. But he says he is confident the security forces will soon have the situation under control. Bishop Epalza, however, thinks a more integral approach is needed to combat the poverty and lack of opportunities which he believes feed the extreme violence. He says the poorest inhabitants are being further marginalised by the increasing importance of the port city. More than half of the country's cargo already goes through Buenaventura and the flow is set to increase as Colombia looks for new markets in Asia and tries to consolidate its links with Mexico, Peru and Chile. He says the violence is forcing those at the bottom of the ladder to sell up and leave, something he says may be a desirable effect for some. "We have to asked ourselves: who's behind all of this, who's fostering all this?" he asks. Back in Sanyu, the local residents say it does feel as if much of the violence is designed to push them out. Their neighbourhood is one of Buenaventura's poorest. Currently, it is nothing more than a collection of derelict wooden huts built upon wooden pillars on land reclaimed from the sea by the descendants of African slaves which first settled here almost five centuries ago. But its proximity to the water makes it of great strategic value for those intent on smuggling drugs and weapons. And its potential worth could be huge if the city decides to expand the port to this area. Already, residents have started to leave. In 2013, 19,000 people were forced to flee their homes in Buenaventura, ensuring the port city a third place in the list of Colombian cities where forced displacement is highest. But there have been signs that the tide might be turning. Last week people took to the streets to protest against the violence. President Juan Manuel Santos visited the city a few days later and set up a task force to deal with the crisis, promising more security and huge social investments. There seems to be some hope among residents who before only felt fear. But according to HRW executive for the Americas Jose Miguel Vivanco, Buenaventura is just an "extreme example of a reality that exists in different regions of Colombia". He told the BBC that the criminal gangs which sprang from the demobilised right-wing paramilitary groups should be a sobering reminder of the importance of a proper demilitarisation of former combatants. On Thursday, government negotiators will begin the 22nd round of peace talks with the country's largest rebel group, the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). So far, they have taken over a year to agree on two items of their six-point agenda. But as the negotiations continue, the hope is that the lessons learned from the flawed demobilisations of the past will mean that Colombia's dreams for the future will not turn into the stuff of nightmare as it did in Buenaventura.

Question: Standing by Colombia 's Pacific shoreline a woman who @placeholder to remain nameless tells me about the horror that her hometown is experiencing .


Visiting De Schie prison in Rotterdam, you lose count of the number of locked doors you pass. The jail, bordered on two sides by broad waterways, is a child of the 1980s; mostly salmon pink and yellow on the outside, pale blue on the inside. Official websites describe the strikingly "colourful character of the building". To increase security, the terrorism unit is at the top of the prison. As we approach through a maze of corridors and interlocked doors, Cees, who manages the wing and requested that we did not publish his surname, points out sophisticated-looking CCTV cameras, equipped with microphones. The TA, as the terrorism wing is called, houses prisoners on remand for terrorist offences or those who have been convicted of them. According to prison deputy director Rob Janssen, most current inmates have either wanted to travel to Syria or Iraq in support of jihadist groups or have returned from the conflict. In Rotterdam there are seven cells in the terrorism wing, each with one inmate. A larger facility at Vught houses another 22 people. On rare occasions De Schie has housed female and juvenile detainees. The policy, which began in 2006, separates extremists from the rest of the prison population to prevent them radicalising other prisoners. It is this system that interested the UK officials who visited the terrorism wing at Vught. It is understood the government is currently considering proposals for a unit housing a very limited number of extremist inmates considered to  present a genuine and enduring risk to national security. The TA is, in effect, a jail within a jail. There is no contact between the inmates and other offenders. It has its own gym, with speakers playing pop music, and a kitchen. Through its darkened glass, two inmates could be seen cooking, a pleasant smell of frying meat filling the corridor. The social activity of the inmates is tightly controlled. The cell windows overlook a courtyard used for exercise. The area used by the terrorist prisoners is separated by a fence and a large fretwork metal dome sits over most of it. Guards will intervene if TA inmates attempt to shout to other inmates. For terrorism unit manager Cees, there is no doubt these measures prevent the radicalisation of other inmates. He tells me one prisoner who was in the TA unit was moved into another part of the jail and began radicalising others. "So I think it is good to put the prisoners in one unit," he said. Others have raised concerns that by putting extremist offenders together, they are likely to reinforce each other's beliefs and become further radicalised. Lawyer Andre Seebregts says the "severe" regime, including frequent strip searching of inmates and intense surveillance, is counter-productive. "I have eight to 10 clients who have spent time in these wings, and I distinctly have the impression that they become more and more negative towards the Dutch authorities, and they feed off each other," he says. Daan Weggemans, a researcher at Leiden University, found a more mixed picture. For half the detainees he studied, imprisonment resulted in a "confirmation of their hostile world view". However, others saw it as a "wake-up call" and broke with their former violent extremist networks, he says. During my visit, I was not permitted to talk to the detainees, but a former inmate of a Dutch terrorism wing agreed to talk about their experiences on condition that they were not named. The ex-prisoner felt the unit was a necessity and "the least bad of all bad options" because it prevented the radicalisation of inmates in the general prison population. But they said care was needed to house only extremist "leaders" on the wings and not their "followers", who presented a much lower risk of radicalising others. Cees says the Rotterdam prison does recognise such distinctions.  Inmates are only allowed to meet in two groups, one group containing those still committed to their extremist beliefs and another smaller group of those who want to work on their "re-socialisation and reintegration". The Dutch government continues to discuss how to deal with extremist offenders in the terrorism units. In her office in The Hague, Angeline van Dijk, director of the prison system in the Netherlands, says the authorities understand that prisoners are not all the same. A newly developed "assessment tool" will, she told me, allow the authorities to separate inmates within the units, helping to keep the high-risk offenders from those who might be further radicalised. With many more terrorist offenders in jail in England and Wales than in Holland, the proposals being considered by the UK government are even more selective, the BBC understands. There are no plans for anything like a "jihadi jail". Any terrorist wing would be small and highly targeted to ensure its inmates would only be those who present the gravest risks.

Question: An independent review into radicalisation in jails in England and Wales is due to be published . The BBC has learned that UK officials have visited a Dutch prison that separates terrorist offenders from other inmates . Chris Vallance was @placeholder access to the prison .


So Deborah wrote a post on Facebook last week, appealing for friends and family to help her find the same pink flower top. "We will pay for the the shirt and the shipping if someone would be kind enough to sell it to us," she wrote. "It has to be this exact shirt! We've tried similar shirts and they just don't cut it with Cami." Deborah's post was shared more than 5,000 times and within days Cami had not one but 161 flower T-Shirts. One Facebook user, Jane Miranda, quickly responded: "We have one. Size 7/8. If they need one this size they can message me." Another, Jill Carpenter Skouson, said: "The one I found, I'll have by the end of the week. The lady says it's free for you. She has a son with sensory processing disorder, so she can relate to you." Deborah from St George, Utah in the US was so overwhelmed by the response from strangers that she posted an update saying they had made her "sweet girl's life a little happier." Target, the store where Deborah first bought Cami's favourite T-Shirt has reached out to the family, and now Cami doesn't ever have to worry about her favourite top ever again. A spokeswoman from the store told the BBC: "Target is able to recreate the shirt and will be sending multiple sizes to Deborah so that Cami can enjoy it for many years to come."

Question: This is no ordinary T - Shirt . It belongs to 10 year old Cami Skouson who has autism . Her mum Deborah says the shirt brings her comfort , but the problem is she needed a new one and it has been @placeholder .


There's something deep within our DNA that makes us want to explore. I've been lucky enough to spend years running expeditions in Antarctica as well as diving some of the world's great oceans, but nothing prepared me for the challenge that's not far from my own front door. The Pennine Way measures 268 miles, from the Peak District to the Scottish Borders, and takes in three national parks and one area of outstanding natural beauty. It's 50 years old, but its roots go back much further than that. In 1935 a letter from the United States landed on the desk of Daily Herald journalist Tom Stephenson. He was the countryside correspondent for the paper and was being asked if there was a long-distance route - similar to the 2,500-mile-long Appalachian Trail - that could be tackled by two American women on a walking holiday in England. Tom knew only too well that the answer was a big no. Much of the uplands remained in private hands, but the mood was changing. The mass trespass at Kinder Scout in 1932 had shown that some walkers weren't prepared to back down from confronting landlords and gamekeepers. Hiking was becoming more popular. With more leisure time on their hands, workers wanted to stretch their legs in the countryside. Tom - who would later become secretary of the Ramblers' Association - spotted an opportunity. With social attitudes changing after World War Two he prodded, cajoled and convinced the authorities that a "long green trail" could be established across the North's rugged uplands. But even as the last footpaths and rights of way were being joined together, some landowners remained deeply sceptical of the whole idea. Walkers couldn't be trusted to cross wild areas of land without causing damage and leaving litter. Sylvia Franks was one of Tom Stephenson's close friends and she remembers the battle to get the route recognised. "They didn't want the hoi polloi walking on their land, that was the top and bottom of it. "But we'd fought for this country, we'd fought for the rights to be free men and we wanted to walk our countryside." On 24 April 1965 - 30 years after Tom Stephenson had the idea - the Pennine Way became a reality. At an opening ceremony in the Yorkshire Dales village of Malham, hundreds of hikers gathered. Sylvia Franks was there. "You could see hundreds of ramblers congregating and because the site was in a hollow you could see them coming down the hillsides to meet. It was exciting. It really was." Tom wanted the Pennine Way to be a significant test: an escape from the buzz of modern life. Fifty years on it certainly still achieves that and will take a fit, committed walker two to three weeks to complete. Most hikers tend to do the route south to north; starting in Edale in the Peak District and ending at Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders. It takes in the Yorkshire Dales, Teesdale, the North Pennines and the Cheviot Hills in Northumberland. But the beauty of the Pennine Way is you don't have to do it all in one go. Some people do it in stages, taking a lifetime to complete the whole route. The Pennine Way comes with a fearsome reputation; after all, it's a journey along the backbone of Britain. The weather is legendary too. The Pennines get more than their fair share of rain, but the paths are now much better, and the signage has improved. For someone like me, who's been lucky to have adventures all over the planet, the Pennine Way was an eye-opener. It's beautiful and still retains an essence of the wilderness that Tom Stephenson wanted to capture. I think he would have been proud of what he achieved. The Pennine Way is broadcast weekly in four episodes from Friday 10 April on BBC One Yorkshire & Lincolnshire, North East & Cumbria, and the North West. It is also available nationwide on the iPlayer for 30 days thereafter.

Question: Britain 's first national trail , the Pennine Way , celebrates its 50th anniversary on 24 April . Presenter Paul Rose took a journey along the " Backbone of England " and considered the post-war social revolution which @placeholder open it up to the public .


Manchester City Council used a crane to remove the 44ft (13.5m) trailer, which had sunk into the road surface in South Street, Openshaw. The cost of removal and disposal was almost ?¡ê10,000. Councillor Nigel Murphy said the people who dumped it had "stolen from Manchester taxpayers". The trailer, which weighed double the legal limit, had been stripped of usable parts and scrap metal, as well as all its identifying features, such as registration plates. Mr Murphy said investigators suspected the waste had "come from a site used to sort skips". A council spokesman said it was hoped "someone working in logistics" would recognise the vehicle, which was described as "an old tri-axle steel waste hydraulic ejector trailer".

Question: A trailer filled with 90 tonnes of domestic waste was dumped on a street in an act of " fly - @placeholder on an industrial scale " , a council has said .


The poll was triggered when sitting Conservative MP Stephen Phillips quit last week over "irreconcilable policy differences" with the government. Ms Evans said she wanted to be an MP in order to put pressure on the government over Brexit. The by-election is expected to take place before the end of the year. On Thursday, three High Court judges ruled the government cannot officially notify the EU of its intention to leave, thus beginning formal talks, without Parliament's support. Lincolnshire voters were among the most Eurosceptic in the UK, with more than 75% of voters in Boston voting to leave. Parts of the county have in recent years seen an influx of EU workers drawn to the area's agricultural industry. Ms Evans said: "The people of Lincolnshire voted to leave the European Union, and it looks as though the establishment is trying to renege on that. "We've had the High Court decision which is a clear attempt to frustrate the will of the British people, and is completely unacceptable." She accused the political classes of continuing to "kowtow to the European Union", adding that if elected she would force PM Theresa May "to get us out". UKIP will announce its new leader on 28 November, with Paul Nuttall and John Rees-Evans the rival candidates to Ms Evans. In last year's election in Sleaford and North Hykeham, Mr Phillips won a majority of 24,115, with 56% of the vote. Labour finished second, closely followed by UKIP. Others to have expressed interest in standing in the constituency include Conservative councillor Richard Davies, Joseph Hyatt for the Independents, and UKIP's Victoria Ayling and Robin Hunter-Clarke.

Question: UKIP leadership @placeholder contender Suzanne Evans says she will put herself forward to represent the party in the Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election .


Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce said the 33ft (10m) stainless steel sculpture next to Hull's Beverley Gate relic was like a "granny's vase". The gate was where King Charles I was refused entry to Hull in 1642, sparking the English Civil War. Hull City Council said it has submitted plans for "an engaging piece of art". The chamber is to request the council reconsider the plan. Live updates on this story and others from Hull and East Yorkshire The statue, called Shadow Gate, is to be positioned between Whitefriargate and King Edward Street. Architects Tonkin Liu said it "invokes the imagery of the trading ships masts and sails," and that "careful consideration has been made to position the sculpture to minimise any harmful impact to surrounding historical buildings." Beverley Gate was designated a scheduled ancient monument earlier this year. The chamber has suggested, as an alternative, a statue of Sir John Hotham - the governor of Hull who refused King Charles I entry into the city and its arsenal. During the civil war he was found guilty of treachery and executed in London.

Question: Plans for a sculpture near the @placeholder of Hull 's ancient defence walls have been criticised by the chamber of commerce .


Katrice Lee, from Hartlepool, went missing from a Naafi supermarket at a military base in Paderborn, Germany where her family was stationed. The Royal Military Police (RMP) said the man in the picture was seen putting a child in a green car in the same area where Katrice was last seen in 1981. It refused to say when the e-fit was made, or if it had been newly found. In a statement the force said it had been "reassessing all evidence... in conjunction with new evidence received". "During that process, this piece of evidence was deemed useful to the investigation, so the RMP are duly appealing for fresh information from it," a spokesman said. The RMP refused to confirm or deny this meant they had found the e-fit while reassessing evidence and decided to release it. It also refused to confirm it had been created recently, using either new or old evidence. An RMP spokesperson said: "This is a newly identified line of inquiry as a result of analysing approximately 11,000 documents including eye witness statements." The image was shown on the BBC's Crimewatch on Monday night. Katrice's father Richard Lee said he did not know if the picture of the man was a new image or one that police have been "sitting on for so long". "We all live in hope, a lot of people have said to me how do I maintain hope, all I can say is hope maintains me," he said. "At the end of the day this is about a girl who has been missing and I want her back."

Question: An e-fit released in the search for a toddler who @placeholder 36 years ago may be years old , the BBC has learned .


Media playback is not supported on this device John Amaechi, BBC Sport "Basketball is accepted as having the most well-rounded athletes in the world. It's a quick game, and you can be fooled into thinking it's easy to score, but I can tell you it isn't. For Team GB, Luol Deng is the man to watch, but it is going to be a real struggle for the women. For the US men's team, Kevin Durant could emerge as someone to watch as if it is just the 'Kobe Bryant and LeBron James Show', they will fail." Star players in the American National Basketball Association (NBA) such as LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant are now some of the most recognisable and highly-paid athletes on the planet. Men's basketball was introduced to the Olympics in 1936, with women given their own competition in 1976. In 1989, basketball's governing body Fiba voted to allow NBA stars to compete in the Olympics. Great Britain will field men's and women's teams at London 2012 - the first time they have competed at the Olympics since London last hosted the Games in 1948. Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng is expected to be the star British performer. Basketball is a fast-moving game, where an hour's play can burn between 630-750 calories. The sport's mixture of running, jumping, pivoting and twisting helps improve balance and build endurance. It is also an excellent way to boost coordination and balance through dribbling, passing and shooting the basketball. As it is a team game, basketball is an excellent way to develop communication skills and learn to work effectively with other people. Clubs also offer a variety of social events beyond simply playing the sport. More than 300,000 people are estimated to play basketball each month in the United Kingdom. It is a cheap game to set-up, with only a hoop and basketball required for a rudimentary match. Thousands of outdoor courts can be found across the country in parks and recreation areas where you can play for free. For people looking to receive coaching, play as part of a team and compete in a league, there are approximately 1,000 clubs in the UK which can be found in sport centres, schools, colleges, universities and gyms. Media playback is not supported on this device Find your local club by using the England Basketball,Basketball Northern Ireland,basketballscotland and Basketball Wales club finders. The 'Try Basketball' scheme by England Basketball is giving people of all ages throughout the country the chance to play the sport, with many sessions costing nothing to take part in. England Basketball's 'Ball Again' campaign is looking to help people aged 25+ who previously played the sport and want to get back to playing again, with 'IM Basketball' designed to help universities, colleges, schools and clubs set-up inter-mural leagues. Basketball Wales run a number of leagues and coaching courses for both children and adults, while basketballscotland provide detailed training for under-14 players through their 'Future Starz' programme. Basketball Northern Ireland run a number of training camps for boys and girls aged 8-18 who are looking to improve their skills. More on the British Basketball website 'Join In Local Sport' aims to get as many people as possible to turn up and take part in activities at their local sports facilities on 18/19 August, 2012 - the first weekend between the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The aim of the initiative is for every sports club and community group in the UK to put on a special event in a bid to encourage more people to get involved as members, supporters or volunteers. More than 4,000 local sports clubs will be opening their doors to host events and show people just how they can get involved. As well as tips on playing sport there will be information on coaching, supporting and how to help out. Find an event near you. Get your performance under pressure analysed in just 20 minutes by four-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson Start the experiment More on the London 2012 website Two teams of five (with seven substitutes) compete on a court that is 15m wide and 28m long, with baskets that are 3.05m above the ground at either end. A game is 40 minutes long, consisting of four 10-minute quarters. The 1972 final saw the USSR beat the previously undefeated USA 51-50 amid huge controversy. The US had celebrated victory only for three seconds to be added to the clock, allowing Sasha Belov to score a dramatic winning basket. Coaches and officials debated the result on court afterwards (above). The team with the most points at the end wins. If the score is tied at the end of playing time for the fourth period, the game shall continue with as many extra periods of five minutes as is necessary to break the tie. There are unlimited substitutions and teams can call time-outs, where play is stopped for up to one minute. Two timeouts can be called per team in the first half of the game, three in the second half, and a further one timeout each extra time period. Points are scored by shooting the ball into the basket from either inside the three-point line (two points), outside the line (three points) or, in the case of fouls and penalties, from a specified spot straight in front of the basket (one point per shot). Once a team is in possession of the ball, they have 24 seconds to shoot or they lose possession to their opponents. Players are not allowed to hold the ball or use two hands while running, and must 'dribble' it by bouncing it from one hand to the floor and back again. If they hold the ball for more than two stops while moving, it is called 'travelling', and possession is conceded. If a player commits five fouls they must be substituted and cannot return to the game. More on the Team GB website Team GB's men have been strengthened by the addition of NBA All-Star Luol Deng, but they finished 13th at the European Championships and have little chance of winning a medal. The women made an encouraging debut at EuroBasket last year but the players themselves say they are not going to medal. The USA's men, with NBA stars like LeBron James, will be red-hot favourites to win gold but expect Spain and Argentina to push them close. USA's women's team are as dominant as their male counterparts - they top the world rankings and are reigning world champions. Australia and Russia will challenge. The popularity of basketball spread quickly following Dr Naismith's invention of the sport in 1891, with students from abroad who had studied in Springfield taking the game far and wide. The silver medals won by the USA's men at the 1972 Olympics remain in a vault at the IOC as the team refused to accept them following the highly-controversial defeat by Russia in the final (which ended their 63-match unbeaten run at the Games). US captain Ken Davis has a clause in his will stating that a member of his family will never be allowed to go and collect his medal. The first game involved a football and two baskets normally used to carry peaches as the target. Someone would retrieve the ball after every basket, with the bottom only removed in 1906 to create the hoop now used today. An Olympic demonstration sport as early as 1904, the first international games were played in the 1920s and men's basketball was introduced to the Olympics in 1936 By 1950, the first World Championship for men was held in Argentina. Three years later, the first World Championship for women took place in Chile, with the opening Olympic competition following in 1976. Over 450 million people now play basketball at a competition and grassroots level, and the sport claims to be closing on football as the world's most popular. More on the IOC website

Question: Basketball has come a long way since it was invented by a Canadian - Dr James Naismith - in Springfield , USA , in 1891 as a means to keep his gym @placeholder active on a rainy day .


By lunchtime, the benchmark FTSE 100 index was up 19.14 points, or 0.31%, at 6,220.26. Anglo American was the best performing miner, up 3.5%, while BHP Billiton was 3% higher. But the top gainers were Standard Chartered and Sports Direct, which both added more than 8%. Mining firms had been boosted on Thursday by rising commodity prices, which were helped by the weakening of the US dollar. The dollar fell on Thursday, after the US Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged, but also indicated that it expected fewer rate rises this year than previously forecast. On the currency markets on Friday, the pound was steady against the dollar at $1.4477. Against the euro, it was 0.25% higher at a??1.2828.

Question: ( Noon ) : London 's leading shares made @placeholder on Friday morning , building on the previous day 's rally , with mining stocks among the biggest risers .


Relatives of Maxine Hambleton, Trevor Thrupp and James Craig have made an application to the senior coroner for Birmingham and Solihull. Coroner Louise Hunt will hear submissions on 12 February before making a decision on 24 February. Twenty-one people died and 182 were hurt in the blast on 21 November 1974. An inquest was opened days after the attack but closed without hearing evidence in 1975 after guilty verdicts saw six men jailed. Their convictions were quashed in 1991 and the former Director of Public Prosecutions, Barbara Mills, placed a 75-year embargo on files relating to a Devon and Cornwall Police inquiry into the West Midlands Police investigation. It means those files are not due to be released until 2069. In March 2015, Justice 4 the 21 campaign group met Home Secretary Theresa May and Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers to lobby for an inquest. An application for a fresh inquest was also lodged with the Attorney General. Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine was the youngest of those who died, said they want justice for their loved ones. "All we want is one thing - justice. No more, no less," she said. "We don't want money, we don't want an apology. All we want is justice. "We are not political, but they've made it political because they have the key to the door."

Question: The families of three people killed in the 1970s IRA pub bombings in Birmingham have called for their inquests to be @placeholder .


Emmanuel and Antan Edet were both found guilty of ill-treating a young person, holding him in servitude and assisting unlawful immigration. Ofonime Sunday Inuk, now aged 40, worked up to 17 hours a day unpaid. He cared for the couple's children, and also cooked and cleaned the house. He was about 14 years old in 1989 when he left his native Nigeria with Emmanuel Edet, now 61, and his wife Antan, 58. They changed Mr Inuk's name and added him to their family passport when they first brought him to the UK. He believed he would be working as a paid 'houseboy' and receive education in the UK. But the couple, whom he referred to as 'Sir' and 'Ma' in diaries, gave him only occasional 'pocket money' and forced him to eat his meals alone and sleep on the hallway floor of the house in Perivale. Judge Arran told the Edets: "The most serious aspect of your behaviour towards him was that it went on for an exceptionally long period of time, robbing him of the opportunity of leading a normal life. "He has found it difficult to adjust." Mr Inuk told Harrow Crown Court he had not seen his passport for more than a decade and once tried to join the Army, but was rejected because he did not have the document. Edet told him it had expired and he needed to visit Nigeria to acquire a new one. He said Mr Inuk would get an emergency travel ticket from the Nigerian embassy, but this never happened. Mr Inuk eventually managed to alert a charity to his plight after the couple went to Nigeria for Christmas in 2013, and they were arrested the following March. Emmanuel Edet worked for Surrey County Council as a manager in the teenage pregnancy strategy team, and was the author of published papers on the subject. His wife was a senior nurse at Ealing Hospital. They each served 287 days on bail with curfew conditions, and half that time will be subtracted from their six-year sentences.

Question: A @placeholder doctor and his wife , a nurse at Ealing Hospital , have been given six - year sentences after they kept a man as a slave in their west London home .


Particles called D-mesons seem to decay slightly differently from their antiparticles, LHCb physicist Matthew Charles told the HCP 2011 meeting on Monday. The result may help explain why we see so much more matter than antimatter. The team stresses that further analysis will be needed to shore up the result. At the moment, they are claiming a statistical certainty of "3.5 sigma" - suggesting that there is less than a 0.05% chance that the result they see is down to chance. The team has nearly double the amount of data that they have analysed so far, so time will tell whether the result reaches the "five-sigma" level that qualifies it for a formal discovery. The LHCb detector was designed to examine particles containing so-called beauty quarks, watching them decay through time after high-energy collisions of other fundamental particles. The LHCb Collaboration was looking at decays of particles called D-mesons, which contain what are known as charmed-quarks, which can in turn decay into kaons and pions. LHCb, one of the six separate experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, is particularly suited for examining what is called "charge-parity violation" - slight differences in behaviour if a given particle is swapped for its antimatter counterpart (changing its charge) and turned around one of its axes (changing its parity). Our best understanding of physics so far, called the Standard Model, suggests that the complicated cascades of decay of D-mesons into other particles should be very nearly the same - within less than 0.1% - as a similar chain of antimatter decays. Other experiments, notably at the Fermi National Accelerator facility in the US, have not definitively found a notable difference between the two kinds of decay of D-mesons. But the LHCb team is reporting a difference of about 0.8% - a significant difference that, if true, could herald the first "new physics" to be found at the LHC. "Our result is more significant because our precision is improved - somewhat more precise than all of the previous results put together," Dr Charles told BBC News. Spotting such a difference in the behaviour of matter and antimatter particles may also finally help explain why our Universe is overwhelmingly made of matter. "Certainly this kind of effect, a new source of CP violation, could be a manifestation of the physics which drives the matter - antimatter asymmetry," Dr Charles explained. However, he stressed there are "many steps in the chain" between confirming the collaboration's experimental result, and resolving the theory to accommodate it. "This result is a hint of something interesting and if it bears out, it will mean that, at a minimum, our current theoretical understanding needs improving," Dr Charles said. "It's exactly the sort of thing for which the LHC was originally built."

Question: Large Hadron Collider researchers have @placeholder off what may be the facility 's first " new physics " outside our current understanding of the Universe .


Zachary Barker, nine, died in hospital after the collision in Spring Gardens, Leek, in Staffordshire, last Saturday. His mother Stephanie said she wanted others to "benefit from his short life". She said transplants meant "even in death" he could carry on helping. More updates on this story and others in Staffordshire In a statement released by police, she said: "Zachary was just a lovely lad, full of life and joy. The whole family are devastated by the loss and we cannot believe that we will not see him again. "He will remain in our hearts, thoughts and memories forever. "We took the decision to allow his organs to be used for transplant, so that others may benefit from his short life. "He was a tremendous son who was always willing to help everyone and even in death, he will continue to help others". Police said a friend of the family has set up a Just Giving page to assist with the cost of the funeral.

Question: The mother of a boy who died after being hit by a car says allowing her " tremendous " son 's organs to be @placeholder will let him " continue to help others " .


Manon Carpenter, 22, said the thefts from Caerphilly, reported to police on Tuesday, mean she will struggle to train for upcoming events. In total eight bikes and two motorbikes, some owned by her parents, were taken sometime since Sunday. Gwent Police is investigating. Carpenter, who won biking's World Cup Series in 2014, told BBC Wales: "You just feel that you work for something and people think they can just walk in and take stuff. "Luckily it isn't mid-season or it would have been a disaster, but I'm going away at the end of December so I'll have to sort out something for that." She said: "Someone is making quite a lot of money," adding: "I am just gutted. We thought our garage was pretty secure." Anyone with information about the thefts can call Gwent Police on 101.

Question: A former world mountain bike champion said she had been left " gutted " after her " whole @placeholder " of racing and training bikes were stolen from her parents ' home .


The 21-year-old has already thrown 18.41m in 2016, well over the 17.75m British Athletics qualifying standard. But that was at an event without the correct permit to count towards Rio 2016 qualification. In a final attempt for Rio, the Great Yarmouth athlete has created her own event at the University of East Anglia. If she throws more than 17.75m at the competition it shall only count as one qualifying standard, even if she achieves the distance twice. Two qualification standards are required for automatic selection, but the single standard would allow the performance director to consider her for a place in the Olympic squad. She told BBC Radio Norfolk: "To go to the Olympic Games is the pinnacle of any athlete's career and I've got to achieve it through adversity, which would make it even more special after the mess around I've had this season." McKinna's 18.41m throw at the event in Lincolnshire, put on by her former coach Geoff Capes, was 1.43m further than any of her other in-competition efforts this year. However, it is still some way short of Judy Oakes' British record of 19.36m which has stood for almost 28 years. McKinna has previously admitted to losing motivation following the split with twice Commonwealth Games shot put champion Capes, but said she now felt focused. "I wanted to go there [to the Lincolnshire meeting] to prove a point that I'm over that and better than that now. That was really my sole motivation," she said. "Because of the circumstances and atmosphere of it, I came out and produced that massive throw and I'm hoping that with a similar atmosphere I'll be able to do a similar thing. "I don't think it's unachievable. If I thought it was unachievable I wouldn't have gone through all the stress of putting on the competition."

Question: British shot putter Sophie McKinna has set up her own meeting on Saturday as she bids for an Olympic qualification distance before Monday 's @placeholder .


The nine-metre (30ft) bronze statue has been erected at the Union Buildings, the government headquarters. The statue, with Mr Mandela's hands reaching outward, was intended to show that he had embraced the whole nation, President Jacob Zuma said. Mr Mandela was given a state funeral at his ancestral home on Sunday. By Pumza FihlaniBBC News, Qunu Nelson Mandela - the final goodbye African National Congress (ANC) members, veterans of the fight against apartheid and foreign dignitaries - including several African presidents and the Prince of Wales - attended the funeral ceremony in the village of Qunu in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. It followed a 10-day period of mourning and celebrating Mr Mandela's life after his death at the age of 95. The national flag was raised on Monday from its half-mast position, and was flying as normal. The statue was unveiled on South Africa's Day of Reconciliation, a public holiday which marks the end of racial conflict in South Africa. 1918 Born in the Eastern Cape 1943 Joined African National Congress 1956 Charged with high treason, but charges dropped after a four-year trial 1962 Arrested, convicted of incitement and leaving country without a passport, sentenced to five years in prison 1964 Charged with sabotage, sentenced to life 1990 Freed from prison 1993 Wins Nobel Peace Prize 1994 Elected first black president 1999 Steps down as leader 2013 Dies aged 95 Six things you didn't know about Mandela Nelson Mandela: Timeline 10 moments from Mandela mourning "Former President Mandela is associated with the promotion of  reconciliation which is why the day was chosen for the unveiling," said the government. During white minority rule, 16 December was called the Day of Covenant to honour the victory of Afrikaners over a Zulu army in an 1838 clash known as the Battle of Blood River. More than a century later, on 16 December 1961, Mr Mandela launched an armed group, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), to fight South Africa's white minority rule. It led to his arrest and imprisonment for 27 years. After he became president in 1994 at the end of minority rule, he used the day to urge South Africans to set aside their differences and to unite. During his address at the funeral on Sunday, Mr Zuma pledged to build on Mr Mandela's legacy. "As your journey ends today, ours must continue in earnest... South Africa will continue to rise because we dare not fail you," he said. Mr Mandela's body lay in state at the Union Buildings for three days last week, at least 100,000 people filed past his open casket to pay their last respects.

Question: A statue of Nelson Mandela , South Africa 's first black president , has been unveiled in the capital , Pretoria , a day after he was @placeholder .


Note: Leena's autism means she sees things better in pictures - we here at BodyPositive have tried to replicate her original article as accurately as possible with images of our own. So what's Neurodiversity?  At the BBC we define it as a wide spectrum that covers a range of hidden neurological conditions like Autism/Asperger's, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Tourette's, learning disabilities - to name just a few! Being neurodiverse means that your brain is wired differently - it doesn't mean you're weird or stupid. It means you think and learn in a different way to other people and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, it can mean that you are better at some things than many other people. Growing up with a hidden or learning disability can make it difficult to relate to the world around you, especially when it comes to socialising and communicating with people. It can feel lonely, but it does get better with time. It helps to spend time with people you trust, like your friends and family. Having a group of supportive people around you is important because they can encourage you to be the best you can possibly be. You want to be around people who can tell you that you can achieve instead of telling you that you can't. The outside world can seem like a pretty scary place, especially when you get bogged down by so much information (people talking at you, crowded places, sirens), so your anxiety levels shoot up to the point where you hide. That way you don't have to worry about the rest of the world seeing you freak out. Sometimes you feel people don't understand you or you don't understand them. Don't worry about expecting acceptance from others, first learn to accept yourself. Be happy with who you are. Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love you. A lot of people experience anxiety, but if you're neurodiverse it can feel like the end of the world as you know it. It can be challenging growing up knowing that you are different and that you struggle more than other kids. It can also affect your self esteem. As if that's not tough enough, sometimes other people also have a go at you for being different.  This can be really difficult to deal with on top of everything else and it helps to find someone to talk to. You're not alone, even though it might sometimes feel like it. There are lots of people who are going through the same things you are. Don't worry about keeping up with other people. Use your own methods and strategies and go at your own pace. Whatever you want to do in life, find a place where you can achieve things based on what you're good at and what you're interested in. Like these cool talented people who were just like you when they were younger, they're successful now because they focused on what they enjoyed doing and played to their strengths. If they can do it, so can you! Remember - be unique, be you! For more information on neurodiversity at the BBC, visit our Diversity website.

Question: Hi , I 'm Leena . I work on a BBC project @placeholder Neurodiversity in employment . I also happen to be neurodiverse , because I have autism .


"Occupy it, compulsory purchase it, requisition it," the Labour leader told ITV's Peston on Sunday. At least 58 people are believed to have died and many more are homeless after fire engulfed a London tower block. The government says its staff have been drafted in to help the relief effort. The move comes after the prime minister said the initial official response had "not been good enough". Mr Corbyn has already called for the government to requisition properties. Speaking earlier in the week, he said: "It cannot be acceptable that in London you have luxury buildings and luxury flats kept as land banking for the future while the homeless and the poor look for somewhere to live." And in an interview on ITV on Sunday, Mr Corbyn said the flats could be requisitioned by the government or bought using compulsory purchase orders. "Occupy it, compulsory purchase it, requisition it - there's a lot of things you can do. "But can't we as a society just think, it's all very well putting our arms around people during the crisis but homelessness is rising, the housing crisis is getting worse and my point was quite a simple one. "In an emergency, you have to bring all assets to the table in order to deal with that crisis and that's what I think we should be doing in this case." He also defended Theresa May, who has been criticised for her own personal response to the fire. "I think everybody cares to an extent, some to a deeper extent and some show empathy in a different way to others," he said. "But the real issue is not about what we as individuals feel - Theresa May, me, anybody else - it's what those people are going through." The government says it has embedded a team of civil servants into the council office following widespread criticism of the local council's performance. Other measures outlined by the prime minister following a meeting with residents on Saturday, included more staff covering phone lines and ground staff wearing high-visibility clothing so they could be easily found. Mr Corbyn questioned why it had taken so long for the authorities to help the victims. "Every day at Heathrow, planes get delayed. Hundreds of people get stranded at airports all over the world," he said. "Hotels are found for them immediately, they are sorted out. Four-hundred-or-so people, still most of them have not got somewhere decent, safe or secure to stay in. "Somehow or other, it seems to be beyond the wit of the public services to deal with the crisis facing a relatively small number of people in a country of 65 million."

Question: Jeremy Corbyn has reiterated his suggestion that people left homeless by the Grenfell Tower fire could be housed in empty flats , saying the government has the means to @placeholder property .


The company said it has reached the halfway point in the project and hopes to finish the process in July. In total, 88 vessels and land-based locations will be switched on. CalMac said the rollout was taking longer than it had anticipated because of the "challenging geography" of Scotland's west coast. A firm that was involved in providing wi-fi services to the British armed forces in Afghanistan is working with the ferry operator. CalMac announced in 2013 that it would rollout wi-fi on its services following a campaign and petition by Barra Youth Council on the Western Isles urging the company to do so. The first boat to go live was MV Bute on the Wemyss Bay to Rothesay route in February last year. CalMac said the programme has gathered rapid pace in the last two months. Project manager Jim McKillop said: "We are now almost halfway through the rollout programme for CalMac public access wi-fi. "Already we have had some great feedback from communities involved and we are committed to rollout completion by early July." Mr McKillop added: "I'd like to thank everyone for their patience throughout this project - we're under no illusion about the frustration with some of the delays which have occurred. "But we are confident that the service which is being put in place is something which will be of significant benefit to communities and visitors alike." CalMac said that although all vessels will eventually be equipped to offer wi-fi, there will be interruptions to services on "a small number" of longer routes. These routes may require other technologies in due course to overcome the issue, the company said. CalMac said these routes involved long crossings of open water and interruptions to services would affect ferries such as MV Isle of Lewis, which would lose its connectivity to the north of Mull until it nears Castlebay on Barra.

Question: Ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne ( CalMac ) said it aims to complete its rollout of free public access wi - fi on its network and @placeholder this summer .


Who was in, who was out, who could be persuaded and who couldn't? We heard Andy Burnham had been in for a chat, Lord Falconer had emerged smiling but tight lipped, David Lammy had been spotted but later, laughing, he told me he had no idea his party's leader was hunkered down in the Commons, painstakingly putting his top team in place. Tucked inside the Opposition Whips' Office, Jeremy Corbyn and his chief whip Rosie Winterton plus Simon Fletcher, his campaign director, were locked in meeting after meeting, phone call after phone call. Outside in the members' lobby Thatcher was pointing, Churchill had his hands on his hips and I sat on the cold floor, colleagues from Sky and the New Statesman nearby, all of us at the ready. Batteries fading, our phones plugged into the few sockets we could find, we swapped intel and took it in turns to catch glimpses of not very quiet conversations. "I've got a defence problem," we heard Rosie Winterton admit to someone on the phone. They'd offered it to Chris Bryant and "Jeremy was up for it", but then Chris wanted "a half hour conversation about what would happen if we had to invade Russia". The deal fell down. But "Jack Dromey could be good at defence" and then after a moment's silence¡ it was "the defence of the realm after all". Occasionally Jeremy would make an appearance, a quick trip to the loo. "Any progress," we asked, "how's it going?" we questioned. "All wonderful, everything is just wonderful," he replied. While he kept shtum, Rosie Winterton let more developments slip out into the corridor - her voice, at times, clearly audible. "I know this might be a bit of an outside shot¡ how do you feel about being defence secretary¡ well, what are your views on Trident¡ ¡ ¡ are you willing to engage in a debate?" Defence was clearly proving to be a problem. Then a flurry of activity, a door creaking at the end of the corridor and a quick dash to see if Team Corbyn was on the move. Holding my breath, in the distance two shadowy figures glided away from Central Lobby towards the Lords. They were chatting loudly - it wasn't Labour's new leader, and we were back to our listening posts. Doors were being checked and locked, security were doing the rounds - "You still working here?" they asked. The huge Palace of Westminster was getting darker and the job of fixing his team felt a long way off for Jeremy Corbyn. But eventually names were revealed. It was getting close to 10pm, big deadlines were looming, BBC outlets wanted lives with me and the story needed to be written. "Andy is in, Hilary is in, Angela is in," we heard. But Labour MPs weren't happy, complaints were already coming in. With John McDonnell as shadow chancellor, the top posts taken by men, one backbencher tweeted "Labour needed to be better than this," while another called the appointments "a disgrace". Then, close to midnight, a new voice, we thought it could be Simon Fletcher: "We're taking a fair amount of shit out there about women¡ let's make Angela¡ shadow first minister of State, like Mandelson, she can do PMQs¡ do the Angela bit now." Then, as if on cue, a text from a Labour source: "Angela Eagle will be shadow First Secretary of State as well as Shadow Secretary for BIS. She will deputise for Jeremy Corbyn in PMQs when David Cameron is away." My colleague at Sky had been working since 5am, I don't think he'd eaten all day. We were fading and so it seemed was Jeremy, who we'd just spotted sporting a coat. They were, we thought, still in the office, but realising it was too quiet we started heading for the exit, down narrow staircases, along winding corridors. Then, voices around the corner - it was Rosie. "We're going home," she said. Off home from Westminster in her car but Jeremy was on foot, flanked by a posse of advisers. With just my phone for recording we tried to ask question after question. Nothing, no response, just a march to a waiting car - and the end of a very long night.

Question: As Jeremy Corbyn and his aides conducted delicate negotiations over the new shadow cabinet in a room at the Palace of Westminster , BBC political correspondent Eleanor Garnier waited in a corridor outside , overhearing conversations that would shape the @placeholder of both MPs and the Labour Party .


The company said revenues rose 11.3% in the 19 weeks to 11 June, with online sales rising 32.3%. The luxury clothing firm said retail sales rose 12.7%, despite what it called "challenging external trading conditions", and it was on track to meet its full-year profit targets. During the period it opened new stores in Beijing, Ottawa and Seattle. It also opened concessions in department stores in China, France, Germany, Japan and Spain. Ray Kelvin, founder and chief executive, said: "We are very pleased with the response from our customers over this period and remain well positioned to deliver our expectations for the full year." Analysts at Liberum said Ted Baker was outperforming its rivals both in stores and online, as well as through wholesale channels. Next, Britain's most successful clothing retailer over the past decade, warned in May that its sales could fall by as much as 3.5% this year, due to a cool spring and signs of a slowdown in consumer spending.

Question: Strong online sales and new stores have helped to boost revenues at UK @placeholder brand Ted Baker .


The pair had to settle for second behind American duo Anne Haeger and Briana Provancha after being penalised. "It's been a challenging week," said the 27-year old from Dinas Powys. "We had to turn on and off in concentration... and I think we've proven we're really good at that and we can take that forward to next year." Mills and Clark's won silver at London 2012, and their performances have ensured Britain will have a boat in the 470 class at the Rio Olympics. In June, they won the 470-class at the World Cup regatta in Portland. However, the final crews will not be confirmed until next year. The British pair were leading going in to Sunday's race, but made a mistake at the start and impeded another boat. They then compounded the error when completing the wrong number of penalty turns and had to serve another penalty, something Mills admitted was "a mess". She added: "We made some massive errors off the start line, infringed somebody so had to do turns and then didn't do the right amount of turns so had to do another penalty. "We were so far behind at that point and a very strong left hand track it would seem that there was no way back into the race unfortunately. "We're just very disappointed with our execution and are very frustrated. "It's particularly disappointing as we had an otherwise really great week in Rio. "It's a really tricky place to sail and we dealt with it as best we could to be ahead going into the medal race. "We've said a lot that ultimately it is going to come down to the medal race next year so that's something we need to look at. "It's kind of like a 100m final - you can win the semis and it doesn't matter much if you don't perform in the final."

Question: Hannah Mills says she and 470 - class partner Saskia Clarke are in good @placeholder for 2016 in spite of losing out in the Olympic Test event in Rio .


The biennial event is where the world's aerospace and defence (A&D) companies come to talk - and do - business. And, in an industry where cross-border co-operation is vital, much of that talk was forecast to focus on the dire consequences for British A&D in a post-referendum world. Yet, this being Britain, it's the weather that seems to be the main topic on everyone's lips. Evidence of serious concern about Brexit at this international gathering of executives and military top brass was thin on the ground (publicly, at least). Take comments from the Pentagon's chief buyer of weapons, US Defense Under Secretary Frank Kendall. "I don't see any reason why it should fundamentally affect our relationship with the UK or our business deals with the UK," he said. UK and US defence interests are inextricably linked. BAE Systems, the UK's largest arms manufacturer, has a big presence in the US and is a key contractor on the world's most expensive defence programme, the US-led F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project. BAE is also lead contractor on the Eurofighter Typhoon programme, a pan-European project involving defence giants across the continent. Does Brexit put these in doubt? "I personally don't think it does," Ian King, BAE System's chief executive, told the BBC. "We don't trade with the EU as a defence entity, it's with individual nations." He says that the quality of UK technology and capabilities will always be in demand internationally, especially given that defence and security have risen rapidly up the political agenda. BAE had backed continued EU membership. "It was right for the UK to stay part of a coherent trading bloc," he said. And he still wants to see a trade deal done that involves the free movement of capital and people. But now that the British people have spoken, the strategy is to see what can be done "to maintain that continuity in a different form". That's the view among British A&D companies generally. The overwhelming majority of firms wanted to Remain, according to a survey conducted before the referendum by ADS Group, the industry's trade body. They cited access to the European supply chain, skills, and R&D funding among the key benefits. All that is history, though. The challenge now, according to ADS chief executive Paul Everitt, is to achieve continuity - and ram home the message that the UK is open for business. "We are the largest aerospace and defence market in Europe," he said. "The government needs to send a strong signal about the attractiveness of the business environment here." Prime Minister David Cameron tried to do exactly that at the start of the show, in what looked like a carefully choreographed announcement about Boeing's commitment to the UK. The UK government is buying nine Boeing maritime patrol aircraft as part of a ?¡ê3bn, 10-year partnership that involves generating 2,000 jobs. Boeing will also deliver 50 Apache attack helicopters to the British Army. "Whatever uncertainties our country faces, I want the message to go out loud and clear: the UK will continue to lead the world in both civil and defence aerospace," Mr Cameron said. "We aren't just open for investment, we are a place the global aerospace industry wants to do business - as Boeing's long-term partnership with the UK proves." Boeing's chairman Dennis Muilenburg duly reciprocated. "Boeing is committed to the UK government's prosperity agenda and we share the goals of enhanced economic growth that the prime minister has set," he said. Boeing has doubled its presence in the UK over the past five years, and "we don't really see our plans changing," Mr Muilenburg added. There was a similar message from Raytheon International, the US missiles and electronics company which has a big UK presence. Its chief executive, John Harris, called Brexit a "long play". He told the BBC: "We do not see any immediate impact... The process will take years once Article 50 is filed." Raytheon would adapt to market changes, he said. But the critical issue "is to ensure we remain a trusted partner of the UK government". Among major European companies, too, pre-referendum worries are giving way to post-referendum pragmatism. "We are where we are," said one executive, who had previously privately warned that a Leave vote would be "economic stupidity". "Aerospace is a long-term game. If - and I stress 'if' - there are strategic changes, they will be a long way down the road," he said. Mauro Moretti, chief executive of Italy's Leonardo - formerly Finmeccanica - was especially upbeat about his company's UK operations, which include AgustaWestland helicopters. He said: "We would like to invest [in the UK]. We have in the UK very important facilities. We have a very highly-skilled workforce. "We would like to maintain our presence - to increase our presence," he added. Yet, as the marketing manager of one small UK aerospace supplier pointed out: "It's easier to maintain trade if you are a big defence contractor dealing with governments. It's going to be more difficult if you are further down the supply chain." He didn't want to be named - "it's not in my commercial interest" - but his company supplies equipment that ends up on both Airbus and Boeing aircraft. "I think the uncertainty that is created by leaving the EU is magnified if you are a smaller player in this industry," he said. The message from the Brexiteers is that business will soon be unshackled from EU regulations that hindered the pursuit of more opportunities in the wider world. At Farnborough, with its 1,500 exhibitors and 100,000 trade visitors, companies from all corners of the world are touting for business and doing deals. Among these is China, which has its biggest ever presence at the air show. With its huge aerospace and airline ambitions, China wants to do more business with Britain, says Xu Jin, a minister at the Chinese embassy in London. "The British should not worry about China not being your friend after Brexit," he told a conference on aerospace opportunities in his country. So, China won't desert Britain when it leaves the EU? "Never. This is never going to happen. China is always going to be your friend." Another international perspective came from Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of one of aviation's major players, Qatar Airways. As a big purchaser of Airbus aircraft (whose wings are made in the UK) and a 15% shareholder in IAG, owner of British Airways and Iberia (whose shares tanked after the Brexit vote), Qatar Airways is no mere outside observer. But Mr Al Baker says that the "caution" around Brexit can be overdone. "I'm sure that stable minds in the political arena will prevail. And they will realise that regardless of whether Britain stays in the EU, they will still need each other." He can't understand why such a momentous move was decided on a simple majority at the ballot box, rather than, say, 75%. But in the end, common sense will prevail, he believes. "Trade both ways is massive. They both need each other. At the end of the day, you are all Europeans."

Question: Brexit was supposed to cast storm @placeholder over this week 's Farnborough Airshow . Instead , it 's been two days of torrential rain that has cast the real shadow over proceedings .


Rejected by the country they call home and unwanted by its neighbours, the Rohingya are impoverished, virtually stateless and have been fleeing Myanmar in droves and for decades. In recent months, tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh amid a military crackdown on insurgents in Myanmar's western Rakhine state. They have told horrifying stories of rapes, killings and house burnings, which the government of Myanmar - formerly Burma - has claimed are "false" and "distorted". Activists have condemned the lack of a firm international response. Some have described the situation as South East Asia's Srebrenica, referring to the July 1995 massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims who were meant to be under UN protection - a dark stain on Europe's human rights record. Tun Khin, from the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, says Rohingyas are suffering "mass atrocities" perpetrated by security forces in the northern part of Rakhine state. A counter-insurgency campaign was launched after nine border policemen near Maungdaw were killed in a militant attack in early October, but the Rohingya say they are being targeted indiscriminately. The BBC cannot visit the locked-down area to verify the claims and the Myanmar government has vociferously denied alleged abuses. But UN officials have told the BBC that the Rohingya are being collectively punished for militant attacks, with the ultimate goal being ethnic cleansing. The Rohingya are one of Myanmar's many ethnic minorities and say they are descendants of Arab traders and other groups who have been in the region for generations. But Myanmar's government denies them citizenship and sees them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh - a common attitude among many Burmese. The predominantly Buddhist country has a long history of communal mistrust, which was allowed to simmer, and was at times exploited, under decades of military rule. About one million Muslim Rohingya are estimated to live in western Rakhine state, where they are a sizable minority. An outbreak of communal violence there in 2012 saw more than 100,000 people displaced, and tens of thousands of Rohingya remain in decrepit camps where travel is restricted. Hundreds of thousands of undocumented Rohingya already live in Bangladesh, having fled there over many decades. Since a dramatic Rohingya exodus from Myanmar in 2015, the political party of Nobel Peace Prize winner and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has taken power in a historic election, the first to be openly contested in 25 years. But little has changed for the Rohingya and Ms Suu Kyi's failure to condemn the current violence is an outrage, say some observers. "I'm not saying there are no difficulties,'' she told Singapore's Channel NewsAsia in December. "But it helps if people recognise the difficulty and are more focused on resolving these difficulties rather than exaggerating them so that everything seems worse than it really is.'' Her failure to defend the Rohingya is extremely disappointing, said Tun Khin, who for years had supported her democracy activism. The question of whether she has much leverage over the military - which still wields great power and controls the most powerful ministries - is a separate one, he said. "The point is that Aung San Suu Kyi is covering up this crime perpetrated by the military." But others say international media fail to understand the complex situation in Rakhine state, where Rohingya Muslims live alongside the mostly Buddhist Rakhine people, who are the state's dominant ethnic group. Khin Mar Mar Kyi, a Myanmar researcher at Oxford University, told the South China Morning Post that the Rakhine were the "most marginalised minority" in Myanmar but were ignored by Western media, which she said displayed a "one-sided humanitarian passion". Other researchers like Ronan Lee of Australia's Deakin University disagree with this argument, noting that while the Rakhine also face deprivation, "the solution when faced with massive rights violations is not to announce that someone else is worse off". In her recent media comments, Ms Suu Kyi said Rakhine Buddhists "are worried about the fact that they are shrinking as a Rakhine population percentage-wise" and said she wanted to improve relations between the two communities. A special Myanmar government committee appointed to investigate the ongoing violence in Rakhine state said in an interim report in early January that it had so far  found no evidence to support claims of genocide against the Rohingya, nor to back up widespread rape allegations. The report made no mention of claims that security forces had been killing civilians. Observers had, in any case, not had high hopes of a credible or independent investigation from the committee, which is headed by former general and current Vice-President Myint Swe. Read more - "The Lady": A profile of Aung San Suu Kyi South East Asian countries generally don't criticise each other about their internal affairs. It's a key principle of the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean). But the current situation has seen some strident criticism from Myanmar's Muslim-majority neighbours, along with protests.  Indonesian police even say they have foiled an IS-linked bomb plot targeting the Myanmar embassy. On 4 December, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak questioned Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Prize, given her inaction. "The world cannot sit by and watch genocide taking place. The world cannot just say 'look, it is not our problem'. It is our problem," he told thousands at a rally in Kuala Lumpur in support of the Rohingya. His comments followed a call from Malaysia's youth and sports minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, for Asean to review Myanmar's membership over the "unacceptable" violence. Some question the timing of the comments, given the unpopular Mr Razak is gearing up for re-election. "What we want is both talk and action to really help the Rohingya, not just ministers posturing to gain domestic political points," said Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch. In Bangladesh, which borders Rakhine state, Amnesty International says hundreds of fleeing Rohingya have been detained and forcibly returned to an uncertain fate since October - a practice it says should end. Bangladesh does not recognise the Rohingya as refugees. Read more: Bangladesh presses Myanmar on Rohingya Leading regional newspapers have condemned Asean's inaction, with Thailand's The Nation describing it as an "accessory to murder and mayhem". A meeting of Asean foreign ministers to discuss the crisis was held on 19 December in Myanmar's capital, Yangon, but was dismissed as "largely an act of political theatre" by the Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights grouping. Indonesia's ambassador to London, Rizal Sukma, told the BBC in December that a comprehensive approach was needed. He said an investigation with regional participation should be launched and that his country stood ready to participate if any such commission was to be formed. A UN spokeswoman in 2009 described the Rohingya as "probably the most friendless people in the world". The UN human rights office recently said for a second time this year that abuses suffered by them could amount to crimes against humanity. It also said that it regretted that the government had failed to act on a number of recommendations it had provided, including lifting restrictions of movement on the Rohingya. It has called for an investigation into the recent allegations of rights abuses, as well as for humanitarian access to be given. The UN's refugee agency says Myanmar's neighbours should keep their borders open if desperate Rohingya once again take to rickety boats to seek refuge in their countries, as happened in early 2015. Spokeswoman Vivian Tan said now would be a good time to set up a regional task force that had been proposed to co-ordinate a response to any such movements. Read more: Kofi Annan downplays Myanmar genocide claims Separately, former UN-Secretary General Kofi Annan is heading another advisory commission currently looking into the general situation in Rakhine state after being asked in August by Ms Suu Kyi. But some have questioned how useful this commission will be, given the exhaustive number of reports that already exist. Its report, in any case, will not be released until later this year. Reporting by Kevin Ponniah.

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Wall Street nearly clawed back all the way from an early slump that dragged the Dow Jones down as much as 180 points in the first half-hour of trading. The Dow ended just 36 points, or 0.2%, lower at 18,068 points. The S&P 500 lost 6.2 points, or 0.3%, to 2,099, while the Nasdaq dropped 0.4% to 4,976. The sell-off in government bonds, a trend partly blamed on rising inflation expectations, has sent yields - which move inversely to bond prices - higher. The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond rose as high as 2.36%. The selling eased by late afternoon and the yield fell to 2.25%, down from 2.28% late Monday. The yield was below 2% as recently as 28 April. The yield on the 10-year German government bond rose to 0.67% from 0.61% the day before. It traded as low as 0.08% last month. "Bonds had been at such lofty prices that a sell-off was somewhat expected," said Chris Gaffney, president of EverBank World Markets. Investors also had their eye on the latest batch of corporate results and some headline-grabbing deals. Verizon agreed to buy AOL for about $4.4bn - a 15% premium to its closing price on Monday. Shares in AOL jumped 18.6% to $50.52, while Verizon fell 0.4% to $49.62. The lack of progress in the Greek debt crisis was also unsettling. It emerged on Tuesday that Greece had used its emergency reserves at the IMF to make the latest  a??750m (?¡ê538m) payment to the Fund.

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From checking appropriate use of language in the script to working out what a bow of a ship might look like in 1790, Dr Hannah Greig tries to ensure Poldark is as accurate as it can be. But sometimes the show sacrifices historical accuracy for the sake of staying true to the novels, which were written by author Winston Graham in the late 1940s and early 1950s. "In series one, when Ross and Demelza first have sex, her dress is not of an 18th Century construction as it opens at the back, whereas all dresses then would have fastened at the front," said Dr Greig "But we stayed true to how Winston Graham described it in the novel - it's such a powerful and romantic scene - and because it's a fictional period drama we can stay true to those details in the book. The first source should be the novel." When researching for the show, the University of York lecturer says she always returns to 18th Century source material. "I'll use things like Old Bailey records to see what words should be said in a courtroom. I have advised on the content of letters, adverts on a wall and what a children's book might look like." Museum collections are also used - the Royal Cornwall Museum has a surviving 18th Century banknote. "There are a lot of banknotes put down in Poldark, on tables and in deals. You can see how these museum collections inform set and costume designers." Horse trainer Mark Atkinson, who provided 22 horses for series two, says it was like "love at first sight" for Aidan Turner and his horse Seamus. "Aidan came to try the horses and I've never known an actor and a horse get on as well as these two do," he said. People in 18th Century Cornwall would typically have got around on foot or on horseback. "Because the roads were pretty terrible in Cornwall then, carriages wouldn't have been used to a great extent," he said. George Warleggan, who is part of one of the richest families in Cornwall, has the biggest and most impressive horse. "He tends to be looking down on the other characters, which was completely deliberate to give him an air of superiority," Mr Atkinson said. The attention to detail does not stop there. Even the bridle Poldark uses reflects details about his character, and the time he spent fighting in the American War of Independence. "The bridle that Ross uses is half military, which he brought back from fighting in the Americas, and half which his father left for him. He also has a bedroll which he used to use in the Americas and he has nickel stirrups that are from the period," Mr Atkinson says. "For authenticity we use old documents, etchings, paintings - basically anything we can get our hands on. "We also teach the actors to ride, it's one of my favourite things to watch. It's like painting a picture - teaching them to ride is like drawing the outline. "You then need to work on all the detail and make sure they are comfortable on the horse and ride how the character would ride. You don't want Ross to look too correct, he needs to look relaxed and at home on the horse." Food created for the show does not need to be eaten - but it should reflect the social standing of the character, says food stylist Genevieve Taylor. She said there were tricks of the trade to make banquets look as good as possible on camera. "I ended up wrapping pastry around two Quality Street tins to make a giant pie," she said. "It's the biggest pie I have ever made. The pastry was secured with cocktail sticks and I used loads of salt to make it extra shiny. "With these creations, you don't know how long they are going to be sat about on set for - it's not the star of the show and is made with longevity in mind. "There is lots of historical information available, including cookbooks from the period. For example, the art department would get in touch and say we need food for a harvest supper for a well-to-do family. "It's my job to make the food look correct for the time and make it beautiful." Poldark returns to BBC One on Sunday 4 September at 21:00 BST. The Food Programme: Cooking for Poldark featuring food stylist Genevieve Taylor is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Sunday 11 Sept at 12.30.

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Peter Dawson, the R&A chief executive, whose organisation takes the Open Championship to Turnberry on a rota basis, immediately proclaimed calming words on the latest acquisition by the insatiable Trump, though others feared a degree of 'Trump chintz' being foisted upon the famous hotel. Such apprehension was probably unfounded and unfair. Trump is many things but when it comes to golf he appears both passionate and committed. His infamous Trump Links near Aberdeen, amid all its other controversies, is a magnificent golf course, built in true links style and by an architect, Martin Hawtree, whose appointment by Trump revealed a sense of the history and ethos of the game. Jokes about Trump tearing down the iconic Turnberry lighthouse on the Ailsa course and replacing it either with a statue of himself, or something even tackier, have been amusing to read but are surely wide of the mark. Trump knows what Turnberry means in the world of golf. In one sense - and maybe we shouldn't mind this - Trump's ego remains as rampant as ever. He has just landed yet another 'trophy hotel' and this, surely, has been the root of his purchase. Leisurecorp, the company from whom Trump bought Turnberry, presumably had to be more concerned about profit margins at the resort than Trump will ever be. He simply wants to have this bauble among the world's great resorts in his collection. On top of this, Trump's purchase may actually provide financial uplift for that part of Scotland, including nearby Prestwick airport, depending how hard Trump drives the Turnberry brand and attracts people to his golf course. It's a strange one: within Scotland, in one way, Turnberry can be quite a pain to get to, with its ever-narrowing road as you wend your way down that Ayrshire coastline. But once you are there, my goodness, you are in a piece of golfing heaven to match anywhere in the world. The challenge for Trump is to give Turnberry an ongoing cachet and visibility to the world, whilst preserving its historic values. He might just do that. Mr Dawson provided soothing words, and thank goodness. I'm not going to touch a thing unless the R&A ask for it or approve it "Turnberry is a great favourite among the players and it's on the Open rota for sure," said the R&A chief executive. "Donald Trump is investing in golf properties in Great Britain and Ireland, so he must have great faith in the future of the game, which is very heartening from a businessman of his stature. "I'm quite sure, if he does buy Turnberry, he will be putting a lot of investment in." Trump in turn has doffed his cap to the R&A, happily playing the role of supplicant to one of world sport's most enduring governing bodies. "The golf course itself is considered one of the greatest in the world - some rate it as the best in the world," said the American. "I'm not going to touch a thing unless the R&A ask for it or approve it. I have the greatest respect for the R&A and for Peter Dawson. I won't do anything to the golf course at all without their full stamp of approval." Turnberry last held the Open in 2009. It would expect to host another one at least by 2020. Trump, presumably, cannot wait for the occasion, when it is hard to believe he will make himself scarce. The worry for some is that the Turnberry owner would try to turn Open week into a Donald Trump circus. Personally, I'd doubt it. Trump is rich, brash and egotistical, but all of these attributes are forgivable. On occasion, they can even be helpful. It may be, in the face of much cynicism, that Trump is as sound a protector as Turnberry could have. The Golf Show presented by Graham Spiers, airs every Sunday morning on BBC Radio Scotland at 1030 GMT.

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The artist has offered the statue, called Verity, to Ilfracombe in north Devon on a 20-year loan. North Devon's Council's executive has decided to accept the loan. Groundwork is expected to start on the planned site at the town's harbour later this month. The sculpture itself is expected in October. Plans for the statue were submitted in June, attracting 177 letters in support and 100 letters of objection. Objectors' concerns ranged from security issues - with fears that it would attract vandalism and publicity seekers - to expressions of dislike of the artist's work. The application said the bronze-clad statue of the woman, carrying a sword, as well as scales with a base of legal books, was a "modern allegory of truth and justice". Ilfracombe Town Council had already given its approval, with councillors saying they hoped the sculpture would attract more tourism to the town. The town has embraced modern art since its Landmark Theatre was developed in 2007, employing a white, conical design which was later dubbed Madonna's Bra. After the Hirst sculpture at the beginning of October, it is expected it will be erected about October 18, before it is officially unveiled towards the end of the month. Mr Hirst, who has a restaurant in the town, has been unavailable for comment.

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It's 350m long and for almost every 3m you walk, you go up almost a metre in height - that's steep! But it's not the only strange street or random road in the worlda€| This is Lombard Street in San Francisco, USA. It's officially the world's most crooked street with a total of eight tight hairpin turns along just 400m of the street. And it's downhill, so traffic can only travel one-way at a 5mph speed limit. The narrowest street is in Reutlingen, Germany. It is called Spreuerhofstrasse and when officially measured in 2006 it was just 31cm at the narrowest point. The record for the shortest street is held by Ebenezer Place in Caithness, Scotland. It officially got measured in 2006 with a length of just 2.05 metres. It's so small there's only one doorway on the street. The Wapusk Trail road, at 467 miles in length, is constructed each year in Canada. It's thought to be the longest seasonal winter road in the world and is built on snow and ice each January giving road access for a few weeks to remote areas. The Magic Roundabout in Swindon England definitely takes some beating. It has five mini-roundabouts clustered around a central roundabout. The widest road in the world is the Monumental Axis, in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. The six-lane boulevard was opened in April 1960 and is 250m wide. The Pan-American Highway from Alaska in the USA to Brasilia in Brazil, South America is over 15,000 miles long and is the longest road - apart from a gap between the countries of Panama and Columbia - that you can drive along. The USA's freeways can have loads of lanes on each side but the record breaker is along the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge which has 23 lanes east-bound through the tolls.

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Sixteen people have been taken to hospital as a precaution, the London Fire Brigade said. Two people escaped from their balconies by ladder while others received information over the telephone on how to get out safely. Fifty firefighters attended the fire in north Kensington, the cause of which is not yet known. Nanga Pedro, who lives next-door to the flat where the fire broke out, told BBC London he had been "terrified" trying to get his wife and two young children to safety. "It was smoke, heat everywhere. We run back inside the house to the balcony, we got to our knees and started crawling," he said. The LFB said "lessons had been learned" since the Lakanal House fire in 2009, when six people were killed. Station manager Jim Smith explained residents were given "specific advice" by 999 operators "depending on how the fire was affecting their flat". The residents are not expected to be able to return home for some time while fire investigators and police examine the scene. A spokesman for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea said 12 flats would be uninhabitable for several days. Those unable to stay with friends and family would be offered bed and breakfast accommodation, he said.

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John Walker, 62, retired in 2003 before gay civil partnerships were introduced in the UK in 2005. As a result his now husband will not receive a full spousal pension if he dies - which he claimed was unlawful. The Court of Appeal rejected his appeal as his pension was accrued before civil partnerships were recognised in law. Mr Walker, 62, retired from chemical group Innospec Ltd, based in Cheshire, after working there for 23 years - with a pension worth ¡ê85,000 a year. He then entered a civil partnership in 2006 - which has since been converted into a marriage - having been in a relationship with his partner since 1983. However, because he retired before laws banning discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation came into force, the most his husband could claim in the event of Mr Walker's death is about ¡ê500 a year. Mr Walker claimed Innospec was failing to treat surviving same-sex spouses and civil partners as equal to surviving spouses in a heterosexual marriage. His lawyers argued that if Mr Walker were to dissolve his same-sex marriage and instead marry a woman, she would be entitled to about ¡ê41,000 a year, after his death. The Innospec pension scheme would only pay his husband about 1% of that amount, they said. In 2012, an employment tribunal in Manchester ruled Innospec's scheme contravened European laws. However, the company launched an appeal supported by the Department for Work and Pensions - and the decision was overturned by an Employment Appeal Tribunal last year. The tribunal ruled that an exemption contained in the Equality Act 2010 meant pension rights accrued before civil partnerships became law in December 2005 did not have to be paid out in full to a civil partner. Mr Walker then asked judges in the Court of Appeal to rule that the appeal tribunal decision was flawed and breached his human rights. He said it was contrary to EU laws setting out the framework for equal treatment in employment. But three judges in the Court of Appeal unanimously ruled the claim failed because it applied to a period before gay civil partnerships were recognised by the law. Speaking after the ruling, Mr Walker, who was represented in court by human rights group Liberty, said: "I paid exactly the same contributions as my heterosexual colleagues. "Yet my husband - with whom I have lived for over 20 years - will be entitled to nothing from the company on my death." He added: "How can this constitute anything other than the most flagrant discrimination?" Giving his ruling, Lord Justice Underhill said: "I can understand that Mr Walker and his husband will find this conclusion hard to accept. "But changes in social attitudes, and the legislation that embodies those changes, cannot fully undo the effects of the past." The UK government has estimated that "full equalisation" of pension rights would cost about ¡ê3.3bn and have complex implications for pension schemes.

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