MPs have voted to say that they don't believe the biggest organisation in English football, the FA, can make the changes needed to keep it modern and relevant.

Article: The entire North Downs Way, a 153-mile trek from Farnham to Canterbury and the White Cliffs of Dover, can now be viewed online.
The trails cover some 2,500 miles in England and Wales.
Rangers and volunteers will eventually film every mile using Google Trekker equipment - a backpack fitted with a cluster of 15 lenses.
Other National Trails currently being mapped include the Yorkshire Wolds Way, which is the first of the trails to have all its stiles removed to make it more accessible.
A spokeswoman for Google said the Trekker technology enabled images to be gathered while manoeuvring through tight, narrow spaces or locations only accessible by foot.
She said the idea was to make the trails accessible to everyone.
Previous locations captured by the Trekker technology include parts of the Peak District, Loch Ness and Machu Picchu.
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Volunteer Dennis Atherton, who is mapping the Yorkshire Wolds Way, said carrying the 23kg (50lb) camera equipment is not easy, especially when passing under trees.
Anne Clarke, of Walk Unlimited, which is co-ordinating the filming, said people considering a visit will be able to see exactly what the routes are like.
She said: "These routes are really special and when people see them online they can't help but be inspired.
"I think sometimes people think places like the Yorkshire Wolds Way are long-distance trails and are too hard.
"If they can see it, it will make them think 'actually, it's beautiful, I'll give it a go'."
It is hoped the National Trails project will eventually extend to include the England Coast Path, which is due for completion by 2020.

Summary: The first of 15 National Trails being made available on Google Street View has gone live.
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Article: The Football Association, known simply as the FA, is the organisation that looks after all football in England. Similar organisations play the same role for football in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
It was formed in 1863 and is the oldest football association in the world. As the first ever football association, it does not need to call itself the "English" FA. The FA is based at Wembley Stadium in London.
It controls many different competitions, the most famous of which is the FA Cup. It is also responsible for appointing the manager of the men's, women's, and youth England football teams.
Although it does not run the day-to-day operations of the Premier League, it does have some say in English football's biggest league.
The FA has been accused of being old fashioned and out of date in the way it is run, and the people it has in power.
The government has repeatedly called for the FA to be more of a reflection of modern society, and those who play the game. It also wants the organisation to change the way it makes decisions.
The FA is run by a group of people called the FA Council, which has 122 members. Just eight of these members are women and only four are from ethnic minorities. More than 90 of the 122 members are aged over 60.
This is a big area where some people believe the FA needs to change. The government wants more women and people from ethnic minorities to have a say in how the FA is run.
Other areas that the government wants to change are for fans to have more input, and changes to limit the power and influence of the Premier League.
On 9 February, MPs in the House of Commons, had a debate about whether they believed the FA can change itself, or whether the government needs to step in to force changes.
They voted that they had "no confidence" in the Football Association to make the changes.
The vote itself does not have any powers or immediate effect on the FA, but it will be seen as a warning to the organisation that the government could force them to change if they don't act soon.
The FA...

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The Northern Ireland Assembly has agreed to make the money available over a five-year period for a proposed new Historical Investigations Unit and other bodies.
But the failure of Stormont politicians to reach agreement on how best to deal with the past means those institutions, and the money, are now on hold.
Justice Minister David

The government has been urged to make available part of a special £150m fund which has been set aside for new legacy bodies to the PSNI and Police Ombudsman to investigate the past.

Article: They say the wombs of some women are too good at letting embryos implant, even those of poor quality which should be rejected.
The UK-Dutch study published in the journal PLoS ONE said the resulting pregnancies would then fail.
One expert welcomed the findings and hoped a test could be developed for identifying the condition in women.
Recurrent miscarriages - losing three or more pregnancies in a row - affect one in 100 women in the UK.
Doctors at Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton and the University Medical Center Utrecht, took samples from the wombs of six women who had normal fertility and six who had had recurrent miscarriages.
High or low-quality embryos were placed in a channel created between two strips of the womb cells.
Cells from women with normal fertility started to grow and reach out towards the high-quality embryos. Poor-quality embryos were ignored.
However, the cells of women who had recurrent miscarriages started to grow towards both kinds of embryo.
Prof Nick Macklon, a consultant at the Princess Anne Hospital, said: "Many affected women feel guilty that they are simply rejecting their pregnancy.
"But we have discovered it may not be because they cannot carry, [but] it is because they may simply be super-fertile, as they allow embryos which would normally not survive to implant."
He added: "When poorer embryos are allowed to implant, they may last long enough in cases of recurrent miscarriage to give a positive pregnancy test."
This theory still needs further testing and will not explain all miscarriages.
Dr Siobhan Quenby, from the Royal College Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, told the BBC: "This theory is really quite attractive. It is lovely. It's a really important paper that will change the way we think about implantation."
"It had been thought that rejecting normal embryos resulted in miscarriage, but what explains the clinical syndrome is that everything is being let in."
She said research would now need to discover whether this could be tested for in women and whether their...

Summary: "Super-fertility" may explain why some women have multiple miscarriages, according to a team of doctors.
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Article: The Treasury has agreed to make the money available over a five-year period for a proposed new Historical Investigations Unit and other bodies.
But the failure of Stormont politicians to reach agreement on how best to deal with the past means those institutions, and the money, are now on hold.
Justice Minister David Ford told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Tuesday that until agreement is reached, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and Police Ombudsman will remain responsible for legacy investigations.
However, they have not been given any additional funding for the task.
The minister said he has been assured that the government intends honouring its financial promise, but only when the new bodies are established.
Mr Ford said he has met the Secretary of State Theresa Villiers and "made the point strenuously" that the government has a responsibility to help deal with the past.
"There needs to be an arrangement to provide additional money for institutions required to deal with the past," he said.
The minister also said the failure of Stormont's recent Fresh Start agreement to decide how best to deal with legacy issues was "potentially throwing away the best opportunity for a generation to deal with our troubled past".
He added that the failure had also made progress on legacy inquests "much more difficult".
He revealed that he has authorised the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service to recruit "investigative support" for coroners to deal with those inquests, which include some of the most controversial killings of the troubles.
The appointments of additional staff are expected to be made by the spring of next year.

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A new speed camera in Sharnford has been installed.
The camera, which is located on the A4114, is used to record speed and the number of vehicles travelling through the village.
The camera is used to record speed and the number of vehicles travelling through the village.
The camera is used to

Villagers who set up their own speed monitor say they have recorded more than half a million drivers breaking the 30mph limit since November 2015.

Article: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) ruled that everolimus, which can prolong life in some cases, was too expensive.
The charity Kidney Cancer UK, which appealed against earlier draft guidelines, said it was disappointed.
Each year, 4,000 patients are diagnosed with advanced renal cell carcinoma.
Two drugs, sunitinib and pazopanib, have been approved for use by the NHS.
Everolimus, also known as Afinitor, has been shown to increase overall survival in cases where the other two have failed.
It costs more than Â£200,000 per patient for a full course of treatment.
Sir Andrew Dillon, NICE chief executive, said: "We regret not to be able to recommend this drug, but we have to ensure that the money available to the NHS, for treating cancer and other conditions is used to best effect, particularly when the NHS, like the rest of the public sector, is under considerable financial pressure."
Dr Pat Hanlon, from Kidney Cancer UK, said his reaction was: "one of deep disappointment".
He added: "We know the NHS cannot afford all drugs, but they are effectively robbing people of a few months of life."
He recommended that doctors and patients apply for help from the government's cancer drug fund, which can be used for medication not approved by NICE.

Summary: A drug to treat an advanced form of kidney cancer will not be made available on the NHS in England and Wales.
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Article: Sharnford Traffic Action Group (STAG) said some motorists were clocked at "eye watering" speeds topping 100mph.
It has campaigned against dangerous driving on Aston Lane and the B4114 in Leicestershire for more than 10 years.
The county council has offered to install speed bumps on Aston Lane at a cost of Â£12,000 to the parish council.
More on this story and other news in Leicestershire
Motorists have been recorded by the village's speed monitor, which is moved around Sharnford - located near Hinckley and about 11 miles (17.7 km) from Leicester.
STAG, which owns the monitor, sends the speeds of the vehicles to Leicestershire Police and the county council every month.
It said according to its data, more than 13,000 motorists drove above 50mph in a 30mph zone in the past year and about 562,000 since November 2015.
In the space of about 15 months, a total of 2.75m vehicles travelled through the village and about one in five - around 21% - were speeding, the data suggested.
The group claims that if they had the powers to fine drivers the charges would total Â£5.6m.
Sharnford parish councillor Mike Shirley, secretary of STAG, said: "The eye-watering figures demonstrate the inarguable need for proper, enforceable speed monitoring 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in the interests of safety."
He added that homes have been damaged, lampposts and signs felled and pedestrians knocked over by lorries trying to navigate the narrow streets.
Leicestershire County Council said their own speed survey showed the village would "not qualify" for speed cameras and it cannot afford to build a bypass without government funding.

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A Swansea City fan has been found guilty of assaulting a football steward with an inflatable shark.

Parents are being urged to get their children vaccinated following an outbreak of measles at a nursery school in Port Talbot.

Article: Kenneth Meech, 51, of Alexandra Road, Cleethorpes, watched his club win 3-1 at Barnet in a Conference game on 21 February.
Willesden Magistrates' Court heard he assaulted Barnet steward Cgagi Gladyng as he celebrated the victory.
Meech, who was among nearly 1,000 fans who travelled to The Hive stadium, denied a charge of common assault.
Mr Gladyng, 59, told the court he was hurt by the inflatable which was being waved "like an axe" and described the three blows to his head "as like being hit by a roll of paper".
He said he became frightened as the Grimsby Town fans surged towards the pitch.
Meech was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay Â£700 in costs, compensation of Â£100 and a victim surcharge.
He was not made the subject of a football banning order.
Speaking after the sentencing, he claimed the prosecution was a "waste of the taxpayer's money".
"I'm a bit deflated, to be honest," he said.
"Very surprised and shocked by the verdict, but got to respect what the court has said.
"I think if this didn't happen at football I wouldn't be here today, I'm sure of that."

Summary: A Grimsby Town fan has been found guilty of assaulting a football steward with an inflatable shark.
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Article: Two children who go to the Miles of Smiles nursery in Baglan have been confirmed as having the virus, while five others are being tested.
A vaccination session is planned at the nursery on Friday for children who have not had the MMR.
Parents who cannot attend should make an appointment with their GP.
Public Health Wales (PHW) said vaccination uptake at the nursery was good but some children were at risk because they were too young to have received one or both doses of the vaccine.
Last July saw the end of Wales' biggest outbreak of the infection in Swansea, which resulted in 1,200 reported cases and one death.
Dr JÃ¶rg Hoffmann, of PHW, said: "While two cases of measles may not sound a lot, we have five other children with symptoms, all attending a nursery school where there are children who are too young to be fully-vaccinated and could easily catch and spread measles."
He said parents in the wider Neath area should also get their children vaccinated.
Symptoms of measles include a fever, tiredness, runny nose, conjunctivitis and a distinctive red rash.
It is very contagious, can cause serious complications and in rare cases can be fatal.

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The plan to play Euro 2020 in 13 different countries is a "step in the right direction", a Uefa general secretary has said.

Fifa presidential candidate Gianni Infantino says he would press for the World Cup to be held in a whole region rather than one or two countries.

Article: At the NASUWT annual conference in Cardiff this weekend, the union said the use of unqualified staff was on the rise.
Rex Phillips, however, said that was not true in Wales and it was only in England that such staff were recruited.
He said the Welsh government had stuck to "the principle that pupils should be taught by qualified teachers".
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales, Mr Phillips accepted there were instances of unqualified support staff working in Welsh schools, but not teachers.
He said: "That's a matter of the management within a school, and where we know about that, and where we are told about that, we will go in and we will challenge that."

Summary: The use of unqualified teachers in schools is not a problem in Wales, a teaching union representative has said.
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Article: The Uefa general secretary has included the plan in his manifesto for the Fifa election on 26 February.
His idea follows European football's governing body Uefa's decision to play Euro 2020 in 13 different countries.
"Each confederation shall have to wait at least two editions before being able to host the World Cup again," he said.
"This will ensure a more equitable rotation, while giving every confederation the opportunity to organise this unique event.
"Furthermore, Fifa should investigate the possibility of organising the World Cup not only in one or two countries but in a whole region, so enabling several countries to enjoy the honour and benefits of hosting the World Cup."
Infantino is one of five candidates standing for the presidency of world football's governing body, which is in crisis following a series of corruption claims.
He is up against Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, the Bahraini head of the Asian football confederation (AFC), Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, South Africa's Tokyo Sexwale and Jerome Champagne, a former Fifa deputy secretary general from France.
Current Fifa president Sepp Blatter has been banned for eight years from all football-related activities for breaching ethics rules.

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The FTSE 100 fell by 0.3% on Friday, but still ended the week up by about 1.5%.

Chinese shares have risen and European markets have opened higher at the end of what has been a torrid first week of the year.

Article: David Cameron was giving evidence to the liaison committee, which is made up of the chairs of select committees at Westminster. Neil Parish, who chairs the environment, food and rural affairs committee, put Mr Cameron on the spot.
Neil Parish: "Are you very keen on tidal power? We have the Bristol channel, which has the second highest rise and fall in the world. We could increase our amount of renewable energy without taking good quality land to put solar panels on it."
David Cameron: "Instinctively, I can see the strength of the argument for tidal power, because one of the problems with renewables is whether they can provide base-load power.
"Nuclear can. Wind cannot, because it is intermittent. But tidal, because the tide is always going in or out, can provide base-load power. The problem with tidal power, simply put, is that at the moment we have not seen any ideas come forward that can hit a strike price in terms of pounds per megawatt-hour that is very attractive. That is the challenge for tidal.
"Maybe they can come up with something. They are very long-term schemes with big investments up front, and they can last for many, many years, but right now my enthusiasm is reduced slightly by the fact that the cost would be quite high."
Neil Parish: "The tidal scheme in Swansea definitely has a very high capital cost, but if you put that over a great number of years you will find that the power is naturally limitless and the cost is inexpensive."
Mr Cameron: "Obviously we have to look at the figures as they come out. As I have said, tidal power has got the permanence to it. There are important economic benefits in terms of urban renewal and all the rest of it. I totally see all those arguments and have seen some exciting prospects, but as I said, you have to come back to the question of what the action I take will do to the security of supply and the cost of supply. In all the arguments about renewables, you always have to ask yourself what that will put on a household bill."
During the later days of the...

Summary: I missed this on Tuesday due to a deadline clash with a Westminster Hall debate so I tip my hat to Construction News for spotting the prime minister's "reduced" enthusiasm for the Swansea tidal lagoon project.
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Article: It was a week in which trading in China's markets was twice halted by a circuit breaker, before the authorities decided to suspend the measure.
The Shanghai Composite closed 2% higher on Friday, but still ended the week down by about 10%.
In London, the FTSE 100 was up 55.4 points, or 0.93%, at 6,009.4.
In Frankfurt, the Dax was up 1.0%, while the Cac 40 in Paris was up 0.7%.
On Thursday, markets in Europe and the US recorded steep losses after trading in China's stock markets closed within the first 30 minutes.
The direct financial impact of lower share prices in China is moderate. There is not enough foreign investment in the Chinese market for it to be a major problem. The London consultancy Capital Economics has said foreigners own just 2% of shares.
The issue is about whether the financial turbulence shines a light on wider issues about the economic slowdown in China: is the economy heading for what's called a "hard landing", too sharp a slowdown?
China is now such a big force in the global economy that it would inevitably affect the rest of the world. It is the second largest economy and the second largest importer of both goods and commercial services.
Read more from Andrew.
Trading in China was volatile again on Friday, the first day since the suspension of the circuit breaker.
The Chinese central bank also took steps to strengthen the yuan after the currency's weakness was taken as a sign of problems for the economy.
Connor Campbell, an analyst at Spreadex, said the FTSE's rise on Friday was "nothing to write home about, especially in the context of the near 6% plunge the UK index has witnessed since Monday".
However, he added, it did mark an important moment of calm that has been largely absent since 2016 got underway, something that could help matters heading into next week.
Market attention now turns to the US unemployment figures, which are due out later on Friday.
"It takes quite something to relegate the US employment report to a footnote in this week's trading activity, but the China induced...

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A hoard of Roman coins was discovered in Barnham Broom, near Dereham, in Norfolk.
The coins, which were found in a walled garden, were made between AD 100 and AD 200.
The hoard was discovered by a member of the public who was walking through the garden.
The coins

An early-medieval gold pendant created from an imitation of a Byzantine coin that was found in a Norfolk field is a "rare find", a museum expert has said.

Article: Two trenches were dug on Monday to investigate Ipswich's Cornhill area.
However, by Tuesday contractors were told the bricks would all need to be put back when the council realised the ditches might get in the way of a festival and parade next month.
They said work could begin again after the event.
An Ipswich Borough Council spokesman said: "We are taking this dig extremely seriously, and if we had discovered something of note we could not guarantee to have everything back in place safely for this community event in early September."
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The investigative work was scheduled to take place ahead of a £3m redevelopment of the Cornhill, which will start in January and see the creation of a water feature and sculpture.
Archaeologists were expected to be working in a fenced-off area for two weeks but the dig was halted after just one day.
"[The] work on Ipswich's Cornhill has been postponed to allow a town centre procession and festival to take place early next month," the council spokesman added.
"As a result, we will start the dig after that as there is no impact on the timing of the Cornhill project."

Summary: Archaeologists digging trenches ahead of a town centre revamp have been forced to fill them in after just 24 hours.
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Article: Discovered on land at North Elmham, near Dereham, the circa 600 AD coin was created by French rulers of the time to increase their available currency.
Adrian Marsden, finds officer based at Norwich Castle Museum, said the object was probably buried with its owner.
The pendant was declared treasure by the Norfolk coroner on Wednesday.
Mr Marsden added: "This is an early copy of a Byzantine gold coin made in France.
"The Merovingians [French rulers] created copies of Byzantine coins from their bullion as there wasn't enough coinage coming in from the eastern Roman empire. How many of these copies were 'official' currency is hard to say."
The 23.5mm diameter pendant, created from an imitation of a gold solidus of emperor Maurice Tiberius (582-602 AD), features a suspension loop with three longitudinal ribs having been soldered to the edge of the coin immediately above the emperor's head.
"What's interesting is you have somebody in France copying a Byzantine coin which then also followed the trend of turning it into jewellery."
Mr Marsden said the coin was likely to have come to England as a result of export trade at the time.
"We see very few of these so it's an interesting find and one that we will hope to acquire for the Norwich Castle Museum collection."
Other items declared treasure at the coroner's inquest include an early-medieval Carolingian-style silver mount found in Barnham Broom, a hoard of 150 Roman coins discovered in Quidenham and an early-medieval biconical gold bead which would have been worn on high-status necklaces.

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More than 3,000 people have been evacuated in buses and ambulances from a besieged rebel-held enclave in the Syrian city of Aleppo, officials say.

Article: The figure is worked out by assessing the value of agricultural output and subsidies and subtracting the cost of production and finance.
The profit was less than the total value of subsidies, which were £236m.
Total turnover fell 9% to £1.74bn while input costs were down by 4% to £1.39bn.
The output value of the dairy sector was down by 27% to £480m, reflecting persistently low milk prices.
The output value of cattle was marginally higher at £394m.
While the number of animals slaughtered fell by 2%, this was more than offset by a 9kg increase in the average carcase weight.
Output values for sheep meat, pork and poultry were all down due to lower farm-gate prices.
The only bright spots were in the increased output values of eggs, mushrooms and flowers
The Department for Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) has forecast that at the individual farm level profits are likely to be down by 46% in 2015/16.
The average farm profit was £24,942 in 2014/15 and is expected to drop to an average of £13,451 in 2015/16.
A spokesperson for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said: "Without subsidies in 2015 market receipts would not have covered all costs (including consumption of fixed capital and depreciation costs).
"This also occurred in 2012 and previous years in the past."

Summary: The Northern Ireland farming industry saw its profit fall by 42% to £183m last year, driven by a big fall in prices for the dairy sector.
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Article: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says the full evacuation of civilians and rebels is likely to take several days.
Government forces, backed by Russian allies, took nearly all remaining rebel-held parts of Aleppo this week.
It represents a major victory for President Bashar al-Assad.
He hailed the "liberation" of Aleppo and said history was being made.
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The evacuation of civilians, rebels and their families had been due to take place on Wednesday but an earlier ceasefire deal collapsed.
"Some 3,000 civilians and more than 40 wounded, including children, were brought out," the head of the ICRC in Syria, Marianne Gasser, said after two convoys left.
"No-one knows how many people are left in the east, and the evacuation could take days," she added.
The evacuees are being transferred to rebel-held areas in neighbouring Idlib province.
US Secretary of State John Kerry meanwhile accused Syrian leaders of carrying out "nothing short of a massacre" in Aleppo and urged them to return to peace talks in Geneva.
"The only remaining question is whether the Syrian regime, with Russia's support, is willing to go to Geneva prepared to negotiate constructively, and whether or not they're willing to stop this slaughter of their own people," he said in Washington.
John Kerry expressed moral outrage at the fate of Aleppo and he stressed that the Syrian regime was responsible for the failure of a year's worth of US-Russian negotiations aimed at a nationwide ceasefire and peace talks.
But he didn't offer any new plan to end the conflict. Nor did he accept that the fall of Aleppo was also due to a failure of US diplomatic strategy. "You can't make someone do something through diplomacy that they're not prepared to negotiate," he told me.
Critics in Washington, though, have slammed the Obama administration for refusing to back that diplomacy with the threat of credible force, giving Mr Kerry very...

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A man has been charged with the murder of a man who was found dead in a car park in Liverpool.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's practice of requesting a "recommended" admission fee of $25 (Â£16) deceives patrons entitled to pay as little as they choose, a lawsuit charges.

Article: Paramedics were called after the baby boy reportedly stopped breathing at a house in Birchfield Road, Walton, on 2 September.
Two men, aged 34 and 29, were arrested on suspicion of wounding, and a 25-year-old woman was held on suspicion of inflicting GBH, Merseyside Police said.
The baby remains in hospital after suffering head, arm and rib injuries.
His condition is described as serious but stable, police said.
The three suspects - who were previously arrested on suspicion of assault - have been released on bail.

Summary: Three people have been arrested on suspicion of harming a four-month-old baby in Liverpool.
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Article: Under a longstanding agreement with the city of New York, the museum must accept whatever patrons offer to pay.
But signs at cashier desks appear to demand full price, the suit contends.
The museum says its "recommended" policy has been place for 40 years and it makes no effort to deceive visitors.
The lawsuit, filed in New York City on behalf of former patrons, contends that the world famous museum, which receives six million visitors a year, uses misleading marketing and cashier training to deceive unwary visitors.
Lawyers say the signs in the lobby listing the price of admission with the word "recommended" below in smaller type violate a 1893 law mandating the public be admitted free of charge at least five days and two evenings per week in exchange for monetary grants and rent-free use of city-owned land.
The suit, which lawyers hope will eventually represent a broad class of people who have visited the museum in recent years, seeks a change in the admissions policy and reimbursement for those who they say were misled.
Confusion over whether visitors were required to pay the full $25 is "an issue with tourists travelling to the US from a foreign country", Michael Hiller, a lawyer for those who brought the suit, told the BBC.
"They are violating the statute, plainly and simply," Mr Hiller said, referring to the 1893 law. "The museum was designed to make art accessible to the public."
A former employee of the Met is expected to testify, Mr Hiller said.
The witness, who trained cashiers from 2007-2011, alleges that signage was changed from "suggested" to "recommended" because administrators believed it would encourage people to pay more, Mr Hiller said.
Harold Holzer, a spokesman for the museum, said the 1893 law had been superseded.
New York City agreed to the museum's request in 1970 to charge an admission fee - so long as the amount was left up to individuals and the signage reflected that.
About 40% of visitors pay full price, Mr Holzer said. He said gate proceeds allowed the Met to offer free admission...

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Pet owners who bag up dog poo and leave it on beaches are threatening the safety of people who visit the seaside.

Article: Dave was taken in by Bath Cats and Dogs Home after his elderly owner went into a care home.
The animal had to have part of his nose removed a few years ago due to a tumour.
The centre, which campaigned to find him a new home, said his death was "unrelated to his nose".
It added: "With great sadness, it was kindest to put him to sleep".
The home said Dave struggled to find a new owner because people could not "see past" his unusual face.
It launched a campaign to find him a new home and had been "overwhelmed" by offers.
A spokesman said: "Sadly our happiness was short-lived as Dave became suddenly and seriously ill a few days ago.
"We hoped for the best but tests showed that Dave was suffering from a serious underlying illness  - unrelated to his nose."

Summary: A nose-less cat who was struggling to find a new home has had to be put down after becoming "suddenly very seriously ill".
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Article: A new survey shows an overall increase of 11% in dog mess on UK beaches - it's gone up 71% in Scotland.
Dog poo is dangerous because it contains high levels of bacteria - if it gets into water it can be very bad for bathers' health.
Almost 4,500 volunteers took part in the survey by The Marine Conservation Society - across 335 UK beaches.
The society says that pet owners have been thinking ahead by carrying plastic bags to clear up dog mess - which is a good thing.
But it now wants to encourage them to take the bags off the beach and bin it in one of the many dog bins provided.
Even though levels of dog poo were up, there was some good news: overall litter levels were down this year.

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The research was carried out by scientists from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University College Dublin, the University of Edinburgh and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
They say it shows the divergence may have begun 360 years ago.
It also suggests Travellers are closely connected to Irish settled people.
The researchers found

A study of Irish Traveller genetics has suggested that they split socially from the settled population much earlier than thought.

Article: Channels supportive of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and Mubarak supporters on social media celebrated the ruling.
Privately-owned Sada al-Balad TV carried a report on Mubarak's biography, focusing on his achievements during his military career and 30 years in office.
The channel aired live interviews with the former security officials who were on trial. One of them, Adli Fayid, praised the court for "enforcing justice" and thanked the "great Egyptian judiciary". Another, Usama al-Marasi, said he received the ruling with "great joy".
Both private al-Mihwar TV and ON TV Live showed footage of Mubarak supporters celebrating the ruling outside the court.
Mubarak's supporters on social media also congratulated him. "I am Sorry Mr President," a Facebook page, which has more than 1.6m likes, said: "He prayed to God to make him victorious after he was facing injustice."
State-run Mena news agency reported mixed scenes outside the court: While Mubarak's supporters celebrated the ruling and "raised flags joyfully", the relatives of those killed during the protests were in a "complete shock".
After the ruling, various media outlets wondered who was to blame for the protesters' deaths, if it was not Mubarak or his security chiefs. While the pro-Sisi channels tried to blame the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), channels supportive of the Islamist group still blamed Mubarak for the killings.
Interviewed in the studio of state Channel 1 TV, legal expert Ali Hasan wondered "who killed protesters in Tahrir Square" and hinted that the Muslim Brotherhood was involved.
In a live interview with Sada al-Balad TV, Umar al-Faramawi, one of the police officials who stood trial, blamed "infiltrators among the protesters" for carrying out the killings.
On the other hand, pro-Muslim Brotherhood media blamed Mubarak and his senior officials over the killing of demonstrators during the 25 January protests.
"Who killed the demonstrators of the 25 January revolution?" asked a presenter on pro-MB Mikamilin TV. Answering the question, pro-Morsi...

Summary: There were mixed reactions in the Egyptian media after a court in Cairo dropped murder charges against former President Hosni Mubarak and seven of his senior police officials.
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Article: The research was carried out by scientists from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University College Dublin, the University of Edinburgh and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
They say it shows the divergence may have began 360 years ago.
It also suggests Travellers are closely connected to Irish settled people.
The researchers found that any genetic disparities between Travellers and settled people in the Republic are largely due to them remaining genetically isolated for several centuries and their numbers decreasing.
It is thought there are about 30,000 people living in the Republic of Ireland who are members of the Travelling community, representing 0.6% of the total population.
Previously it had been thought that Travellers had become displaced between 1845 and 1852 as a result of the Great Famine.
"The findings confirm that the Irish Traveller population has an Irish ancestry and this comes at a time where the ethnicity of Travellers is being considered by the Irish state," the Royal College of Surgeons' Prof Gianpiero Cavalleri said.
"It is important to emphasise that although Irish Travellers show clear features of a genetic isolate, they are genetically very close to settled people in Ireland.
"It is also interesting to observe that the isolation of Travellers from settled people predates the Great Famine.
"However it's important to emphasise that our research estimates the beginning of the social divergence of the Travelling community, rather than their origin."
DNA samples from 42 Irish Travellers were compared with that of 143 European Roma, 2,232 settled Irish, 2,039 British, 5,964 European and 931 individuals from the rest of the world for the study.
Several genetic dating methods were also used to estimate the period when the travelling community began to split genetically from the settled population in Ireland.

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The UK government has announced a new £1.5 million fund to help communities in the UK protect their mangroves.
The fund will be used to help communities in the UK protect their mangroves.
The UK government has announced a new £1.5 million fund to help communities in the UK protect

Sri Lanka's prime minister has said mangroves' ability to swiftly absorb carbon make the forests vital in the fight against climate change.

Article: Bath and North East Somerset Council (Banes) also wants healthy eating and local food promoted.
Traders will be required to use more uniform stalls with a "pastel coloured canopy" by January 2017 to "fit in" with the city's World Heritage status.
Some have already expressed concern at the changes.
Under the proposals, buskers who play on the street and sell CDs of their own music will need street trading consent.
Ed Collacott, who has been selling fine art photographs on a stall for 25 years, said street sellers were "one of the delights" of Bath.
"There are some amazing street traders here selling very different things and each one of us is an individual," he added.
"To have everything under the same canopy might not look great and it certainly wouldn't be good for my photos."
However, Liberal Democrat deputy leader of the council, David Dixon said the changes were designed to make things look better and ensure everyone was working to the same objective.
"Our street trading scene in Bath is one of the most varied you'll find in any city," he added.
"We're not making a huge overhaul of the street trading policy whatsoever. It's time for our renewal [and] we did an excellent consultation.
"We had a trial over the past year for the new style canopies, which actually went down very well."
Mr Dixon said the council would be prepared to help stall holders with the changes but added they would be expected to stick to the rules.
The council also intends to purchase a number of units, for both existing and new traders, which could be rented if necessary.
Sark Kenny, who runs a stall selling leather goods, said the changes to his canopy would cost him about Â£400, but he thought it might cost some traders up to Â£800.

Summary: New regulations covering the size, structure and appearance of street traders' pitches in Bath have been voted through.
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Article: His comments come on a day marking the first anniversary of a project to protect all of the nation's mangroves.
As well as storing carbon, the forests provide habitat for fish and protect communities from tsunamis and cyclones.
Also on Tuesday - World Mangrove Day - Sri Lanka's president will open the world's first mangrove museum.
The museum will act as a hub for conservation training for adults, and educating children about the value of mangroves. It is estimated that 20,000 pupils will visit the museum in the first year.
Read also: The community who won back their mangroves
The Sri Lankan government has also included mangrove forest conservation into its national curriculum.
The museum is a central pillar of a five-year programme to protect all of the island nation's mangroves.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said: "Mangroves swiftly absorb carbon dioxide and inject oxygen into the atmosphere, maintaining an ecological balance vital for the environment.
"It is my belief that the mangrove restoration project will generate much needed awareness among key stakeholders such as the community, leisure sector personnel, tourists, and the general public."
He added: "It is my hope that this will be the beginning of a long-term effort to sustain the mangroves for greater conservation benefit."
In partnership with island conservation organisation Seacology and local NGO Sudeesa, the Sri Lankan government has identified all of the nation's 15,000 hectares of mangrove forests, and has surveyed almost half of them.
Ministers have also introduced legislation to protect the habitats and have assigned forest officers to help guard them.
Seacology executive director Duane Silverstein explained that although the project required US $3.4 million of funding, the sum was dwarfed when the ecosystem services provided by Sri Lanka's mangrove forests were taken into account.
"In last year, research has been published looking at the economic value of mangrove in Asia," he said.
"It has concluded that each hectare has a value of...

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The UK's biggest energy companies are facing a "tough" winter, with the cost of energy rising and the cost of gas rising.

Energy companies are "overcharging in many cases" with bills failing to fall in line with dropping wholesale costs, the industry's regulator has said.

Article: Avon and Somerset Chief Constable Nick Gargan was suspended in May 2014 amid allegations of inappropriate conduct and, later, data protection breaches.
PCC Sue Mountstevens said he had "abused his position" by forwarding emails and "storing intimate images" on his work phone.
The news was said to come as a "huge disappointment" to Mr Gargan.
Ms Mountstevens is the first PCC to start the process of using new powers to call upon a chief constable to quit.
Turbulent times for police chief
Mr Gargan, 48, was appointed by Ms Mountstevens in January 2013, after his predecessor Colin Port quit when she asked him to reapply for his job. Mr Gargan remains on full pay but is suspended from duty, she said.
Last month, an independent QC-led panel cleared Mr Gargan of gross misconduct but found him guilty of eight misconduct charges.
The findings published on the force website largely relate to "inappropriate disclosure of information" by forwarding emails and "inappropriate use" of a police-issued phone by storing "intimate" images and text messages.
It recommended a sanction of eight final written warnings - the severest possible - but Ms Mountstevens has been petitioned by retired officers and Mr Gargan's three predecessors as chief constable, who said he should go for the good of the force.
In a statement on Wednesday, she said: "Chief Constable Nick Gargan has let down the colleagues he led and the communities he was there to protect.
"He abused his position by forwarding confidential emails, interfering with a proper recruitment process and sending, receiving and storing intimate images on his police issue phone."
She said he should have "led by example" but had instead "shown flawed judgement" and been found guilty of eight counts of misconduct "including two of discreditable conduct".
"From what I have seen and heard, he has lost the confidence of local people, police officers and staff," she said.
She said she had now "initiated the process to require him to resign".
"I think his position has become untenable,"...

Summary: A police chief guilty of misconduct has been called upon to resign by the police and crime commissioner.
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Article: Dermot Nolan, chief executive of Ofgem, told the BBC that domestic gas and electricity prices should be cheaper "for the vast majority of people".
Wholesale energy costs make up nearly half of a domestic bill, and have fallen by about a third in the last 12 to 18 months, he said.
Yet, prices had not fallen, he added.
Energy UK, which represents the major energy energy companies, insisted that there was a competitive market of 34 suppliers and that people should switch for savings of hundreds of pounds.
Lawrence Slade, chief executive of the trade body, said the industry had made "mistakes in the past" in failing to assist those languishing on variable deals but that the situation had improved alongside increased competition.
The regulator has said 70% of consumers remain on standard variable tariffs which have hardly changed since early last year.
Pressure is mounting on the UK's big six energy suppliers to cut their prices in line with falling costs after the latest analysis showed wholesale gas and electricity prices in the UK hit a five-year low at the end of 2015.
Figures published on Thursday showed the cost of energy on the wholesale market tumbled to Â£36.76 per megawatt hour on the Power Index, compiled by market information provider ICIS.

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A judge has rejected claims by defence lawyers that witnesses could face intimidation or harassment outside the courthouse in Steubenville.
The case has attracted attention due to social media and the high profile of the football team in the small town.
Judge Lipps also ruled the non-jury trial would be open to the public

An Ohio judge has ruled that the rape trial of two high school football players will take place in the county where the alleged attack happened.

Article: The Right Reverend Steven Croft will leave his role as the Bishop of Sheffield to take up his new position.
Dr Croft will be the most senior clergyman in the Church of England for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
The Diocese faced "an extended vacancy" after votes in May last year failed to produce a candidate.
Updates on this story and more from Oxfordshire
Downing Street announced Dr Croft's appointment on Tuesday.
He was ordained in 1987 and became the Bishop of Sheffield in 2009.
The Diocese of Oxford has been without a permanent bishop since the Right Rev John Pritchard stepped down in October 2014.
Interviews of potential candidates were held in 2015, but the Archbishop of Canterbury said the Crown Nominations Commission - which elects bishops - had "been unable to discern the candidate whom God is calling".
The Bishop of Dorchester, the Right Rev Colin Fletcher, acted as bishop of the diocese in lieu of a full-time post holder.
Dr Croft will tour the diocese on Tuesday. He will meet the Bishop of Reading and the Bishop of Buckingham.

Summary: A new Bishop of Oxford has been announced two years after the post became vacant.
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Article: Judge Thomas Lipps rejected arguments by defence lawyers that witnesses could face intimidation or harassment outside the courthouse in Steubenville.
The case has attracted attention due to social media and the high profile of the football team in the small town.
Judge Lipps also ruled the non-jury trial would be open to the public.
He did so over the objections of the family of the 16-year-old girl who was allegedly attacked.
She wanted to protect her identity and keep evidence that might eventually be ruled inadmissible from becoming public.
Trenton Mays and Ma'lik Richmond, both 16, deny the charges they face next month at a juvenile court.
Three other students who witnessed the alleged attack but were not charged are expected to testify at next month's trial.
Those witnesses include two who took a video and photograph, then deleted the images.
The Ohio attorney general's office told lawyers for those students last autumn that if the images had been found, they would have been charged.
Prosecutors say the girl, who went to a school across the river from the city in West Virginia, was attacked after an alcohol-fuelled party last August.
The case was thrust into the national spotlight after attention by bloggers and the hacker activist group Anonymous.
Some claimed that the community had sought to cover up the alleged crime in order protect the two accused.
The trial is set for 13 March.

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The UK's new chief constable, Sir David Amess, has been named as the next head of the Metropolitan Police.

Article: The UK's new chief constable, Sir David Amess, has been named as the next head of the Metropolitan Police.

The British and German economies are the "beating heart" of Europe, George Osborne has said as he heads to Berlin for talks on reforming the EU.

Article: Two Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, and a Philippines woman, Mary Jane Veloso were notified by Indonesian officials on Saturday.
Under Indonesian law, convicts must be given 72 hours' notice of execution, but no formal date has yet been set.
The appeals process for a French national is still under way.
The group is being held on the prison island of Nusakambangan.
"Indonesian authorities today [Saturday] advised Australian consular officials that the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be scheduled imminently at Nusa Kambangan prison in central Java," Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a statement.
She said she would continue to press for clemency. However, Indonesia's government has rejected all appeals so far.
Veloso's parents, two sons and sister travelled to the island on Saturday to see her.
Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were the leaders of the "Bali Nine" group arrested in 2005 while attempting to smuggle heroin to Australia.
A court ruled that they had organised a nine-member smuggling operation and they were sentenced to death in 2006.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who took office last year, has taken a tough stance on drug crime.
In January he authorised the executions of six people, including five foreigners, convicted of drug offences.
The group of 10 awaiting execution also includes Brazilian and Nigerian nationals.
Who are the Bali Nine?

Summary: At least three of 10 people on death row in Indonesia for drug smuggling have been given formal notice of their imminent execution.
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Article: The Chancellor will meet finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble to set out more details of the UK's bid to renegotiate its EU membership.
Securing German backing is important for the success of British plans for reform.
David Cameron has already courted support from Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mr Osborne said: "The UK and German economies are the beating heart of Europe, the engine for growth and jobs.
"Together we make the world's third-largest economy, behind only America and China, and since the crisis ended, we have generated two-thirds of EU growth.
"But the future holds challenges for our economies. We must cut debt and boost productivity. To do this, we need a strong EU, fit for today's challenges and working for the benefit of all 28 member states.
"The UK's reform and renegotiation plans aim to achieve this, which is why these talks with key partners in Europe are so important."
Mr Osborne will also visit a Siemens factory in the German capital and address an audience of business leaders at the annual conference of the BDI, the Federation of German Industries.
In May Germany's Chambers of Commerce and Industry warned that a UK exit from the EU would be "disastrous" for the two countries.
Volker Treier, deputy chief executive of the organisation, told the BBC that German business was "astonished" that the UK was planning a referendum on its EU membership.
David Cameron's renegotiation plans will be formally debated for the first time by the EU's 28 leaders at a summit in Brussels in mid-December.

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The Northern Ireland Executive has agreed to fund a new training facility for the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service.

A planned state-of-the-art joint training college for Northern Ireland's police, fire and prison services has been radically redrawn.

Article: He was "ranting about Europe".
"Do you know the Vale of Glamorgan is the most Eurosceptic place in Wales?" asks the Welsh Tory leader.
If so, Mr Davies should feel at home. He's announced he'll vote to leave the EU.
He's always been a Eurosceptic, he says, so he didn't need to agonise over whether to make that announcement.
"Anyone who knows me knows I agonise over very little. That's why I look so young."
But before going on an anti-EU charm offensive, he has another objective: becoming first minister.
Campaigning for the EU referendum on June 23 is on hold until after the assembly election on May 5 - an election he hopes will usher in a Welsh Tory government.
That'll be difficult. It's likely some form of coalition would be needed to put the Tories in charge.
And while Mr Davies says he doesn't rule anything in or out, Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood, leader of the assembly's third biggest party, has no appetite to work with him.
Nevertheless, Mr Davies is convinced there are enough Tory supporters out there.
Just look at last year's general election, he says. More people voted Conservative then than voted for Carwyn Jones's Labour Party at the last assembly election in 2011.
That may be true, but turnout at assembly elections has been much lower than in general elections.
"So what we've got to do is energise people to say the assembly is important," Mr Davies says.
"The assembly election is vital to our future wellbeing - and we need change. After 17 years here of Labour running services into the ground we need to secure real change in Wales."
Being a member of the national assembly is a privilege, he tells me.
The other three party leaders in the institution were campaigning for its creation 20 years ago. What was Mr Davies attitude towards devolution back then?
"I suppose quiet indifference would have been the word I would have used. Ultimately, I was securing my family's future - my business's future - by getting my head down and working here on the family farm.
"Really, politics was most probably not that...

Summary: On his farm in the Vale of Glamorgan - one of five owned by his family - Andrew RT Davies says a neighbour paid him a visit recently.
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Article: The new plan is for training to be split across three different sites.
There would be some joint training, but the three services would each have their own facilities.
The big winner would be the fire and rescue service - it would get a £44m purpose-built complex at Desertcreat, near Cookstown in County Tyrone.
Timeline: Ten years of stop and start for NI's public services college
The BBC revealed in March that a programme board in charge of the Desertcreat project had concluded it was no longer economically viable.
It said the joint college as originally planned was no longer needed because of reduction in the number of training days required by each of the three services.
The Office of First and deputy First Minister then asked for a revised business case, setting out preferred options for future training needs.
That review has now been completed and the BBC has obtained a copy of a draft report setting out the board's recommendations.
It says the preferred option is for the fire service to have a training facility at Desertcreat at an estimated cost of £44m.
If the plan is approved by the Northern Ireland Executive, it is understood the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) would also be allocated about £20m to refurbish its existing training facilities at Garnerville police station in east Belfast.
The Northern Ireland Prison Service would be given funding for training at Maghaberry and Magilligan prisons as its training centre in Millisle, County Down, has been closed.
The proposed new complex for the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) would be built on the site bought 10 years ago for a new policing college at Desertcreat.
That plan was later changed to include the fire and prison services, but has now been revised.
It would include what is called a 'hot house'.
This is a building that can be set on fire in a controlled fashion, or heated to extremely high temperatures, to give firefighters realistic training.
Northern Ireland does not currently have such a facility.
The NIFRS would...

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The Scottish government said the figures showed that the number of homeless applications from the private rented sector had fallen by 21% in the last five years.

Almost a fifth of homeless applications now come from the private rented sector, according to Shelter Scotland.

Article: Photographer Richard Nicholson took a look inside that box, capturing those who have helped bring the silver screen to life.
"When I first stepped into a projection box, I was struck by the claustrophobic atmosphere," says Nicholson.
"It was a dark, cramped space, and, as the projector whirred into motion, it became increasingly hot and noisy.
"As I watched the projectionist wrestle with a giant spool of film, the scene reminded me of a railwayman shovelling coal into a locomotive."
Working with The Projection Project, Nicholson's pictures are accompanied by the thoughts of the projectionists, many of whom are experts on the history of cinema.
Nicholson usually works on a large-format film camera - but, paradoxically, for this project, he shot the images on a digital camera.
Following a test shoot, he realised he would require a vast amount of lighting to work on film, whereas a digital approach allowed him to use smaller flashguns to light the projection boxes.
With cinemas across the country still under threat from redevelopment and closure, it is perhaps the perfect time for this project.
"I think it's a wasted opportunity if you go to a cinema and it's just a blank screen, and no curtains, with some feeble lighting, and it just sort of starts," said projectionist Peter Howden.
"I remember going to the cinema and the lights would change colour and the organist would come up out of the floor. It's simple and it's effective and it would be a pity to lose that.
"I think it's part of the magic of going to the cinema. Putting on a show rather than just showing a film."
The projectionist is the final step between the film and the public. And, for many, that flickering light that pierces the darkness of the cinema is still magical.
"When I used to go to the cinema with my mother, I was never looking at the film, I was always looking to see where it came from," said projectionist Rachel Dukes.
"In those days everybody used to smoke. And so when the beam of light was coming down, you'd have these pretty patterns of...

Summary: At the start of the decade, many of Britain's cinemas made the switch from analogue projection to digital, changing forever the role of those inside the projection box, with many films now projected by a computer.
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Article: The charity said this was disproportionate to the sector's size, which is 13% of housing in Scotland.
Homeless applications have decreased by a third in the past five years but the Shelter said the statistics did not tell the full story.
It said it was important that vulnerable households were supported before they were pushed into crisis.
According to the latest Scottish government figures, the proportion of  homeless applications that come from the private rental tenants rose from 13% 2008-09 to 18% in 2013-14.
However overall homelessness in Scotland fell by 34% during the same period, official statistics showed.
Graeme Brown, director of Shelter Scotland, said: "Whilst the headline figures show that homelessness applications are down by one third in the last five years, which is welcome, our analysis shows it is not all good news for homeless people in Scotland.
"The 36,457 households making homeless applications, a youth homelessness rate at 13.7 per 1,000 and a rising proportion of homeless applications from the private rented sector signal that, although there are movements in the right direction, there is still a long way to go."
"With the significant weakening of the welfare state in recent years, it is more important than ever to ensure that vulnerable households are offered support before they are pushed into crisis."
The report, 'Homelessness in Scotland 2014: Getting Behind the Statistics', has been released ahead of Shelter Scotland's annual conference later this month.
Housing minister Margaret Burgess said: "Homelessness in Scotland is falling and the number of homeless applications from the private rented sector has actually fallen by 21% since 2008/09.
"The Scottish government is working closely with local authorities and their partners, and with Shelter, to prevent homelessness, increase the number of affordable homes and address the issue of empty homes. Where people do become homeless, our focus is on finding the best outcomes."

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Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a game that uses 3D environments to help people with dementia.
The game, called Sea Hero Quest, uses a 3D environment to help people with dementia.
The researchers say the game could generate an unprecedented amount of data.
Read the full story: Researchers at Cambridge

Dementia researchers have developed a video game that could lead to the development of early diagnostic tests for the disease.

Article: Alex Smith, from Oldham, said it was an "injustice" victims were receiving far less than those who contracted HIV through NHS blood products in the 1970s and 80s.
His solicitors have asked the Department of Health (DoH) for comparable help.
The DoH said it was "more than doubling" its annual spending.
Mr Smith said he may start a judicial review of the government's cash help for those affected.
He said: "Why are they not treating us the same, why is my life worth less than someone with HIV?
"It is an injustice."
In 2015, the then Prime Minster David Cameron apologised to thousands of victims of the contaminated blood scandal.
The government announced in July that those with stage 1 Hepatitis C would receive Â£3,500 a year, with the provision to appeal for a higher payment close to the Â£15,000 received by HIV patients who received toxic blood.
Mr Smith's solicitor, Leigh Day, said the government's wording was "unclear" and needed clarifying, adding: "It continues the existing unlawful discrimination against stage 1 HCV claimants."
The payments ran counter to a government decision which said people with Hepatitis C should receive financial support which is "broadly comparable" for those who contracted HIV, the letter added.
The Department of Health said it was "more than doubling its annual spend on the scheme for people affected by this tragedy over the next five years, and was therefore able to provide an annual payment to all infected individuals for the first time."
It added: "This is significantly more than any previous government has been able to provide for those affected by this tragedy."

Summary: A man who developed Hepatitis C from contaminated blood is demanding more financial support from the government.
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Article: 4 May 2016 Last updated at 17:39 BST
The way players navigate the 3D levels in Sea Hero Quest will be anonymously tracked and sent to the researchers.
Understanding how people navigate 3D environments is important because the skill is often one of the first lost by people who have dementia.
Researchers say the game could generate an unprecedented amount of data.
Read the full story: Mobile game 'helps dementia research'

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Every living veteran who served in Bomber Command during World War Two is being sought for the unveiling of a new memorial.

Article: The EA's action plan for 2017-18 sets out a strategy for changes to the number and nature of schools.
It identifies and names about 40 schools where "sustainability is an issue" across the 11 council areas.
One school has described the plan as being punished "for having the temerity to be small and successful".
However, any decision to close or merge schools would be subject to consultation.
The EA's director of education, John Collings, said Northern Ireland had too many schools, particularly primary schools.
"We must maximise the use of the schools' estate through sharing and co-operation to ensure that the educational experiences of our young people are the best they can be," he said.
"This will also help reduce duplication and ensure efficient use of resources."
However, some schools are opposed to any plans to merge or close them, such as Mercy Primary School in north Belfast, which could merge with Holy Cross Boys and Holy Cross Girls primary schools under the EA plan.
The financial position of a school and how many pupils it has can be used to decide if a school is sustainable or not.
Other factors are quality of educational experience, strong leadership, accessibility and strong links with the community.
Over a third (36%) of primary schools have fewer than 105 pupils, while almost half of post-primary schools have fewer than 500 pupils.
Those are the minimum numbers of pupils recommended in the Department of Education's sustainable schools policy.
In 2013, an independent panel recommended that some small schools were closed or merged.
In October 2016, the EA's draft area plan signalled that there would be an increasing number of closures and mergers.
However the action plan makes proposals for the future of a number of individual schools.
In a statement, the principal of St Patrick's College in Dungiven, Michael Gormley, said: "Governors, staff and indeed a lot of pupils and their parents are surprised that we have been selected to be included in this action plan.
"We are more than meeting the needs...

Summary: About 40 schools across Northern Ireland could be set to close or merge, according to Education Authority (EA) plans.
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Article: The International Bomber Command Centre is being built in Lincolnshire, which became known as Bomber County in the war because it had so many RAF bases.
The centre is due to open in 2016 but a memorial spire has already been erected at the site in Lincoln.
Organisers want to invite every veteran to the unveiling on 2 October.
They already have names of 900 veterans but believe there are more still to be identified.
Nicky Barr from the International Bomber Command Centre says they have made some new contacts.
"A lot of the veterans that we've now been able to invite weren't on any comprehensive database or squadron lists," she said.
"We've picked up thus far about 50 that come under that category. We suspect that there's probably, at an estimate, another 100 out there."
The spire stands higher than the Angel of North and will be surrounded by a "wall of names" recording the 55,573 men who lost their lives serving in Bomber Command.
Other elements of the centre will include an exhibition and education space called the Chadwick Centre, an amphitheatre and acres of landscaped gardens.
Anyone knowing of any Bomber Command veteran is urged to register their names by emailing events@internationalbcc.co.uk or writing to The IBCC, 13 Cherry Holt Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9LA.

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A man from Plymouth was arrested after he was caught on camera driving his car in a 30 mph zone.

A Halfords customer's dashboard camera caught a mechanic speeding in his car while it was booked in for an MOT.

Article: The city was reduced to rubble during what became known as the "Swansea Blitz".
About 35,000 incendiaries and 800 high explosive bombs were dropped during the raids which started on 19 February, 1941, killing 230 people.
The raging fires could be seen from the other side of the Bristol Channel in Devon.
Swansea was targeted because of its nearby docks and part of the Germans' bombing campaign was to cripple exports as well as demoralise civilians and emergency services.
It resulted in whole areas being completely cleared and rebuilding starting from scratch.
"Pre-Second World War Swansea had begun to look and feel like a city," said Bangor University's Dr Dinah Evans, whose research includes the impact of warfare on, and reconstruction of, Swansea.
"Hotels, restaurants and cafes abounded, together with theatres, art galleries, concert halls and shopping arcades.
Wednesday 19 February - Friday 21 February, 1941
"In the commercial centres of Wind Street, Castle Street and High Street the pavements were wide and the shops fronting onto them stylish, selling merchandise of all kinds.
"The department stores were imposing and many of a calibre usually found in London.
"However, when in 1941 Swansea came under enemy attack from the air, the face of the town was changed for ever.
"Although the town's Guildhall, art gallery and library were still standing when the bombing stopped, its social and entertainment heart had all but disappeared.
"The town centre was destroyed and Swansea people had to contend with a bleak landscape where once prosperous shops and stores had stood."
Dr Evans said the council was under pressure to produce a plan that would not only restore those areas damaged in the blitz but also ensure the future prosperity of Swansea.
She added: "Meanwhile rumours began to circulate in the press that Swansea town's reconstruction progress compared unfavourably with other bombed cities, especially that of Plymouth.
"However, when it came to the question of rebuilding a blitzed town or city centre, there...

Summary: Seventy-five years after German bombs rained on a thriving Swansea for three successive nights during World War Two, efforts are still being made to regenerate its centre.
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Article: Shaun Ingram from Saltash booked his Ford Focus ST in for a major service at Halfords Autocentre in Plymouth in March.
On its return he discovered the dashboard camera recorded footage of his car being driven 57 mph in a 30 mph zone.
Halfords said the mechanic was a temporary employee who had been let go.
After the complaint the company has apologised and offered to refund the Â£255 for the MOT and service.
Mr Ingram said the camera was in plain sight on the windscreen and was not left on to "catch anybody out" during the service.
The camera recorded almost seven hours of footage including the mechanic swearing and talking about test-driving the car.
Mr Ingram said: "When I saw the footage I was left open-mouthed. The mechanic was abusing my car and my trust.
"As a nationwide company I thought I had nothing to worry about. I feel very let down."
The regional manager for Halfords Autocentres, Daren Stone, told Mr Ingram that the mechanic's behaviour was unacceptable.
He said: "He drove your car in what I can only describe as an appalling manner.
"I do not and will never condone that level of pure neglect which is why the mechanic in question has been removed from working within the Halfords Autocentre Group."
Mr Ingram said: "From now on I will always wait by the car whilst it is being serviced."
A spokesperson for Halfords head office said: "We are looking into the full details of the incident and will deal with this issue internally as a matter of urgency to ensure this type of incident does not occur again in the future."

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A new study has found that the first dinosaurs were not the ones that we think they are.
The study, published in the journal Nature, found that the first dinosaurs were not the ones that we think they are.
The study, which was led by a team of scientists from the University of California, Berkeley,

This is Calvapilosa, a prehistoric relative of modern sea slugs.

Article: The cap, which applies to posts earning above £20,800, is a measure introduced under the coalition government in 2011.
The Home Office has confirmed that the monthly allocation of so-called "Tier 2" visas has been filled for June.
There were 1,650 allocations for June, but the Home Office will not confirm how many applications it received.
The BBC understands that as well as nurses, doctors and teachers other visas refused were applications to bring in accountants, solicitors and management consultants.
Under the Tier 2 scheme, there are 20,700 posts available a year to employers who want to recruit a non-EU skilled worker.
Applicants have more chance of success if the company is trying to fill a post on a national list of shortage occupations. The BBC understands that none of the visas refused this month under the cap relates to a job on that list.
On Thursday, Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to make it harder to bring in skilled staff from outside the EU, saying, it was too easy for some businesses to employ these workers, rather than train British employees.
Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said there were no plans to change the current Tier 2 limit - and the independent Migration Advisory Committee would be advising on further reducing economic migration from outside the EU.
"Our reforms will ensure that businesses are able to attract the skilled migrants they need," he said. "But we also want them to get far better at recruiting and training UK workers first."
But some business representatives predicted that enforcing the cap would be damaging.
Mark Hilton, head of immigration policy at London First, said: "Every skilled migrant we turn away as a result of this cap will hit jobs and growth.
"Of course business wants to hire locally, but you can't just magic people up with highly specific skills because they take years to develop."
Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory at Oxford University, said: "The cap has been hit at a time when many companies are hiring recent...

Summary: The government's immigration cap for non-EU skilled workers has been hit for the first time, blocking the arrival of some nurses, doctors and teachers.
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Article: Researchers discovered it after looking back at some fossils found in the late 2000s in Morocco, North Africa.
Two of the fossils were in such good condition that the team were able to make this amazingly detailed reconstruction.
You can clearly see its small mouth filled with hundreds of teeth and the prickly spines which cover its body.
This slug like creature also had a built in, helmet like, shell to keep it safe from predators.
It might look a little terrifying but it was only four inches long and scientists think it survived by eating algae off rocks.
Molluscs first appeared on earth around 520 million years ago, Calvapilosa is an ancient relative of modern molluscs.
A mollusc is a type of animal that doesn't have a spine, there are lots of different kinds including slugs, snails, oysters and squid.
Jakob Vinther who was the lead researcher on the project said "This discovery brings a neat solution to how the ancestor of all molluscs may have looked."

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The West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority has approved its budget for the next financial year.
The authority said it needed to spend more money to keep the service running.
The authority said it needed to spend more money to keep the service running.
The authority said it needed to spend more money to keep the service running

Plans to demolish and replace two West Midlands fire stations - one of which is Grade II listed - have been backed by fire service bosses.

Article: Researchers say treatments could be developed based on antimicrobial peptides that occur naturally in the immune systems of humans and animals.
The Edinburgh Napier University team observed how they increase the body's natural response to rhinovirus infection.
Rhinovirus is the main virus responsible for the common cold.
The team synthesised antimicrobial peptides found in pigs and sheep, and assessed their impact on lung cells infected with rhinovirus.
The peptides successfully attacked the virus, and could provide clues for developing novel treatments based on peptides found in nature.
Dr Peter Barlow, associate professor of immunology and infection at the university, said: "This is an exciting discovery and our next steps will be to modify the peptide to make it even better at killing this virus.
"This research is still in the early stages, but we will ultimately be looking to develop drug treatments that have the potential to cure the common cold."
An effective treatment for the cold could help sufferers of more serious lung conditions, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), for whom viral infections can pose a serious health risk.
Dr Barlow added: "There is no cure and no vaccine so the development of effective therapies for human rhinovirus, the main causal agent of the common cold and one of the most common causes of viral respiratory tract infections, is an urgent requirement.
"This study represents a major step towards finding a treatment."
Earlier research by Dr Barlow had underlined the potential of antimicrobial peptides in tackling the influenza A virus.
The latest study, was funded by the Chief Scientist Office and medical research charity Tenovus Scotland.

Summary: Scientists believe they may have made a breakthrough in the search for a cure for the common cold.
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Article: The futures of Aston and Coventry stations were discussed by West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority.
The authority, which said it needed buildings for a "modern-day" fire service, approved its budget earlier.
Plans to demolish Aston's Ettington Road fire station, which was built in 1923, will go before planners.
Phil Hales, deputy chief officer of West Midlands Fire Service, said Aston residents would be consulted as part of the planning process.
The authority says that Coventry's Radford Road station, which was built in 1976, is expensive to run and maintain.
A new station at Aston could cost around Â£7.5m, while the Coventry scheme could cost an estimated Â£6.7m.
English Heritage has said it expected to be consulted on the proposal to demolish Aston fire station if the plan was put forward.
"Aston fire station was listed at Grade II in 2010 and recognised as a carefully-designed building which works well with its surroundings and is a powerful symbol of civic pride," a spokesperson said.

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The US and Russia agreed to seek a "cessation of hostilities" in Syria, but the Friday deadline came and went.

Russia has said bomb attacks which killed at least 140 people in Syria were aimed at "subverting attempts" to reach a political settlement.

Article: The Financial Conduct Authority said it was the largest fine that it or the former Financial Services Authority had imposed for retail conduct failings.
The bonus scheme pressurised staff to hit sales targets or risk being demoted and have their pay cut, the FCA said.
Lloyds Bank has accepted the regulator's findings and apologised to its customers.
"The findings do not make pleasant reading," said FCA director Tracey McDermott.
By Simon GompertzPersonal finance correspondent, BBC News
There was a grim atmosphere in some Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland branches, as staff tried to avoid being demoted and having their pay cut for failing to meet sales targets.
"I left just before I was likely to have had a breakdown," one staff member told the BBC.
Another reported that "The only thing that matters is hitting sales numbers, not the customer."
And one who lost his job said: "I can only describe my nine months in a branch as a disgrace."
Lloyds has embarked on a trawl of sales to 692,000 customers to see how many may have lost out.
About 11,000 cases are being prioritised - cases where the behaviour of advisers seemed to be most questionable.
There are suggestions that Lloyds may have set aside as much as £100m to cover compensation for failings including the ones highlighted today.
The fine could have been £35m had Lloyds not agreed to settle early, the FCA said.
Lloyds has already set aside £8bn for mis-selling loan insurance and £400m for mis-selling interest rate swaps. And in 2003 it was fined £1.9m and handed a £100m compensation bill by the Financial Services Authority for mis-selling so-called "precipice bonds".
Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer organisation Which?, said: "This should send a clear message to the banking industry that mis-selling won't be tolerated and that customers, not sales, must come first."
He called for the FCA to deliver "a big change in banking culture across the industry".
"In one instance, an adviser sold protection products to himself, his wife and a colleague...

Summary: Lloyds Banking Group has been fined £28m for "serious failings" in relation to bonus schemes for sales staff.
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Article: Russia's foreign ministry condemned the "atrocious crimes of extremists".
Sunday's attacks hit the Shia shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of Syria's capital Damascus, and the city of Homs.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it carried out the attacks. Both targeted areas dominated by Islamic minorities reviled by IS.
Four blasts in Sayyida Zeinab killed at least 83 people, according to state media. A monitoring group reported that 57 people, mainly civilians, were killed in a double car bombing in Homs.
The UK-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) put the toll from the Damascus attacks at 120 and said they were among the deadliest to occur during the whole of Syria's civil war.
SOHR also reported on Monday that heavy fighting had cut off the government's only supply route to the northern city of Aleppo.
IS and other Islamist militia had cut the road between Aleppo and the town of Khanasser to the south-east, it said.
More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed in the conflict.
Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, of whom four million have fled abroad - including growing numbers who are making the dangerous journey to Europe.
History of the conflict - how the civil war has spread
Maps of the conflict - the shifting territorial gains
The Sayyida Zeinab district is the location of Syria's holiest Shia Muslim shrine, said to contain the grave of the Prophet Muhammad's granddaughter.
The district was hit by suicide attacks last month that left 71 people dead and which IS fighters also said they had carried out.
On Sunday US Secretary of State John Kerry said a "provisional agreement" had been reached with Russia on a partial truce.
However he admitted issues remained to be resolved and said he did not expect any immediate change on the ground.
Earlier this month, world powers involved in the crisis in Syria agreed to seek a "cessation of hostilities", but the Friday deadline came and went.
In Homs, the blasts happened in a predominantly Alawite district, the sect to which...

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A man has been jailed for life for the murder of his wife.
The man, who was in his 50s, was found guilty of murdering his wife, who was found dead in their home in the early hours of July 1, 2017.
The court heard the couple had been separated for a year and a

A breast surgeon accused of carrying out unnecessary operations has told a court that witness statements against him have been "coached".

Article: The service was stopped after concerns were raised over the number of organs rejected by Leicester General Hospital.
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust called for an external review which found problems with its procedures.
It has suspended the service while changes are made affecting about seven patients.
Experts were called in January after it was revealed the hospital appeared to refuse a higher than average number of kidneys offered to Leicester's Renal Transplant Service.
By Rob SissonsHealth Correspondent, BBC East Midlands Today
Kidney transplants are one of the miracles of modern medicine, something that truly transforms people's lives.
Without it, they face months, years, on dialysis, wired up to a machine every few days and with restrictions on food and drink.
The news that Leicester's unit may have turned down kidneys that might have been used locally, will not sit well with people waiting for that phone call.
People die waiting for a kidney.
The decision on whether or not to accept an organ for transplant can be a tricky one for surgeons and sometimes they might think it's worth waiting for a better match.
The review team visited last week to speak to staff, examine paperwork and patients' outcomes.
It found no patients had been harmed, the trust said, but it raised questions about the "policies, processes and guidelines" and also the way the team worked together.
Andrew Furlong, the trust's deputy medical director, said it was "incredibly disappointing".
He added: "We have decided to pause the surgery because for this, or any other kind of complex surgical procedure, we have to have cast iron processes, policies and procedures underpinning the surgery itself and good team working between the clinicians, until it can be independently verified that these are in place we would prefer to err on the side of caution."
The review team will return in two weeks and will make further recommendations including whether kidney transplants should resume.
Three patients were due to have live...

Summary: Kidney transplants in Leicester have been suspended for at least two weeks while an urgent review is carried out.
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Article: Dr Ian Paterson denies 20 counts of wounding with intent against nine women and one man at Nottingham Crown Court.
He said he had never told alleged victims they had "a ticking bomb" of cancer inside them.
He said the phrase appears in three witness statements which was "clear evidence" statements have been coached.
"It's a scary thing, why would I intentionally scare a patient, that you've got a time bomb?" he said.
More updates on this and other stories in Birmingham and the Black Country
The 59-year-old also said one patient, John Ingram, who had a double mastectomy after tests showed only potentially abnormal cells, was a "quivering mass of anxiety", convinced he would get cancer.
Nothing he told him would have changed his mind, Mr Paterson said.
Mr Ingram gave evidence saying Mr Paterson, who worked at hospitals run by the Heart of England NHS Trust and Spire Healthcare, told him in 2006 he was "on the road to developing breast cancer".
But Mr Paterson, of Ashley, Altrincham, Greater Manchester, said on Wednesday that Mr Ingram's memory had become "confused" over time.
He described his patient as a "troubled gentleman with multiple phobias - one of them breast cancer, because his mother had died of breast cancer, aged 42".
"So the minute he had an abnormality in his chest wall, in his head he was on the way to getting breast cancer," he said.
"Very little I told him thereafter would disavow him of that view."
Prosecutor Julian Christopher QC asked whether it was "quite wrong" to say he would "travel in time towards cancer".
Mr Paterson said: "I doubt I said that, simply because nobody has a crystal ball."
The trial continues.

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The government is to publish draft laws it says are a "landmark" in prohibiting the substances' production, distribution, sale and supply.
Legal highs, officially called new psychoactive substances, have been linked to a number of deaths.
Ministers said young people who took them were "taking exceptional risks with their

A new "blanket ban" on so-called legal highs will carry prison sentences of up to seven years, the government says.

Article: The change will eventually mean swapping the home routers of millions of customers as older devices cannot work with the new system.
About 1.5 million BT customers already use IPv6-ready hardware.
Rival Sky has converted about one million customers to IPv6, and many mobile operators use it widely.
The net is steadily moving to adopt IPv6 because stocks of the older addresses have run out.
In a presentation to an industry conference, BT said it planned to "enable" IPv6 on half of its network by April 2016 and complete the transition by the end of the same year.
BT currently has about 7.8 million customers, and 6.3 million of those use its Homehub 4, which cannot currently work with IPv6.
BT said it was "looking at options" for how to upgrade that hardware to use v6 addressing.
As hardware is changed, BT intends to support both old and new addressing systems on its network to avoid disruption.
Sky said it was running extensive trials that had, so far, converted more than one million customers and staff to IPv6. The BBC understands that the majority of Sky customers should be switched over by early 2016.
TalkTalk and Virgin are currently running smaller scale trials.
Adrian Kennard, who runs the A&A ISP and has been offering IPv6 for 13 years, welcomed news of BT's plans and wished it luck with the project.
"Our experience deploying IPv6 was that we did not find any serious problems and that it all 'just works'," he said. "Hopefully, other major providers will follow soon."
Mobile networks have been among the most aggressive adopters of IPv6, because the addressing system is widely supported on modern handsets.
"It's easier for the mobile operators to do this due to the nature of the smartphone devices they sell, and the rate at which consumers refresh them," said Dr Tim Chown, co-chairman of the UK's IPv6 Council and a computer science lecturer at the University of Southampton.
Already, he said, 30-50% of all the browsing that people do would be via IPv6, because widely used content networks and websites,...

Summary: BT has announced that by the end of 2016 its entire network will be able to use IPv6 - the next version of the net's core addressing system.
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Article: Ministers are to publish draft laws they say are a "landmark" in prohibiting the substances' production, distribution, sale and supply.
Legal highs, officially called new psychoactive substances, have been linked to a number of deaths.
Ministers said young people who took them were "taking exceptional risks with their health".
A blanket ban on legal highs, which are often sold online or on the high street, was in the Conservative Party's election manifesto and featured in the Queen's Speech.
Labour also promised to ban their sale and distribution in its manifesto.
The Psychoactive Substances Bill applied to "any substance intended for human consumption that is capable of producing a psychoactive effect", the government said.
Alcohol, tobacco and caffeine will be excluded, and there are also exemptions for food and medical products, while controlled drugs will continue to be regulated by existing laws.
The new restrictions will also extend to the sale of nitrous oxide - also known as laughing gas or "hippy crack" - for human use.
What are legal highs?
The government said the "legitimate sale" of nitrous oxide, which is also used for food processing, medicinal and industrial purposes, would not be affected.
Home Office minister Mike Penning said the measures would "fundamentally change the way we tackle new psychoactive substances".
They would end the "game of cat and mouse" whereby new drugs appeared on the market more quickly than the government could identify and ban them, he said.
He added: "The blanket ban will give police and other law enforcement agencies greater powers to tackle the reckless trade in psychoactive substances, instead of having to take a substance-by-substance approach."
Legal highs are not controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act, although individual substances, such as mephedrone, have been outlawed.
The government's proposals would apply throughout the United Kingdom, and would include powers to seize and destroy legal highs and to search people, premises and vehicles.
Civil measures -...

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The US is the biggest market for Toyota, and it is struggling to meet demand for bigger vehicles such as sport utility vehicles.

Toyota says its full-year profits will be better than expected thanks to a pick-up in sales and a boost from currency fluctuations.

Article: Tim Farron said the Labour leader was "blinkered" to the risk of an exit in the 23 June referendum.
Mr Corbyn was forced to defend himself after criticism he was not making a more "passionate" case to Remain.
Mr Farron urged unhappy Labour members to switch to his "united force".
At the Lib Dems' spring conference in York, he said: "Jeremy Corbyn, please do not let your own internal party chaos get in the way of winning this campaign.
"I know you may have wanted to leave in the past, but we treat your conversion as genuine and so I ask you to show the zeal of the convert and get on board."
He added: "If your party leadership remains blinkered to the risk, then your party is sleepwalking to the exit. So, come with us, share a platform, and let's make the positive, unified case that we all believe in."
Mr Corbyn, a longstanding critic of the EU, has defended Labour's campaigning on the referendum, saying his party is pushing for "a social Europe".
Speaking on a visit to Dagenham on Tuesday, the Labour leader said there were issues on which the EU should be challenged, but "at the moment we're campaigning because we want this sense of unity across Europe".
His spokesman added he would be making a "big" speech on the EU "in due course".
Mr Farron also attacked Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith for "appalling" claims last month that staying in the EU would leave the country vulnerable to a Paris-style terrorism attack.
"Some of the rhetoric in the campaign recently has been unpleasant, to put it mildly," Mr Farron told a rally of party activists.
"People on both sides have tried to scaremonger about borders, refugees and migrants. Using desperate people fleeing war and terror as pawns to score points is appalling and it is weak.
"This campaign needs the opposite. This campaign needs strength and compassion."

Summary: Jeremy Corbyn should not allow "internal party chaos" to jeopardise the campaign to keep Britain in the European Union, the leader of the Liberal Democrats has said.
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Article: The Japanese firm expects net profit in the year to March of 1.7 trillion yen ($15.1bn; Â£12.1bn), compared with a previous forecast of 1.55 trillion yen.
That is despite losing its top-selling carmaker status to Volkswagen in 2016,
Meanwhile, Toyota said it had begun formal talks to work with Suzuki on projects including safety technology.
Analysts said the partnership - which could also involve collaboration on vehicles that were less damaging to the environment - would give Suzuki access to Toyota's technology. Benefits for Toyota are likely to include tapping in to Suzuki's strong market position in India.
The forecast for 2016-17 profits is still below the 2.1 trillion yen profit it recorded a year earlier.
But with Japan's yen weakening against the dollar, it will benefit from sales overseas which are worth more when converted back into the local currency.
Like other Japanese carmakers, Toyota is watching closely for any trade tariffs introduced by the new US administration.
At the moment, only about half of the cars it sells in the country are manufactured locally. Last month, US President Donald Trump criticised it for making vehicles in Mexico to sell over the border.
The US is its biggest market, and it is struggling to meet demand for bigger vehicles such as sport utility vehicles. Lower petrol prices have made such models more affordable to drive.

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The US economy added 209,000 jobs last month, beating analysts' expectations, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%.

Stronger than expected jobs figures helped to lift US stocks on Friday, leading the Dow to another record.

Article: Colin Evans, 39, was found dead at home in Broomfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex, in September 2014.
He had been stabbed multiple times by Jose Correia Agrela, of no fixed address, who fled wearing his victim's clothes and taking his pet dog.
Agrela, 30, was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years and three months at Chelmsford Crown Court.
On sentencing, Judge Christopher Ball QC told him he had abused the help of a man who "had befriended you, offered you food and friendship".
Agrela denied murder - trying to claim someone else killed Mr Evans while he had been out walking the dog, Sweep - but was convicted in court last month.
Det Ch Insp Martin Passmore, from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said Mr Evans had invited Agrela into his home "as an act of charity after he became homeless".
"It beggars belief that Agrela could launch such an attack on a man who had given him a roof over his head," he said.
He added the sentence length reflected the "savage nature of the attack".

Summary: A homeless man who brutally murdered a cafe worker who had "befriended" him has been jailed for more than 20 years.
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Article: Official data showed the US economy added 209,000 jobs last month, beating analysts' expectations, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%.
The Dow Jones closed at a record for the eighth consecutive day, rising 0.3% to 22,092.81.
The wider S&P 500 index closed up 0.19% at 2,476.83, while the Nasdaq rose 0.18% to 6,351.56.
Analysts said the latest jobs report meant the Federal Reserve was still on track to raise interest rates later this year, which would be the third increase in 2017.
Shares of banks, which benefit from higher rates, saw some of the most significant gains on Friday. Goldman Sachs was among the biggest winners on the Dow, rising 2.6%.
Among individual stocks, Viacom shares sank nearly 14% after it forecast a drop in sales to US pay-TV companies and streaming services in the current quarter.
Consumer review website operator Yelp saw its shares jump by more than a quarter after it announced the sale of its Eat24 business to Grubhub for $287.5m.
Yelp also reported revenues of $209m for the second quarter of the year, which beat analysts' expectations.
US stocks are in record territory this year. The Nasdaq is up almost 17% since January. The Dow has risen 11% and the S&P 500 is climbed almost 10%.

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