A man has been arrested after a woman was stabbed in a street in the city centre.
The woman was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The man, who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, has been released on bail.
The woman was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The man was arrested

A health board has brought in extra staff and cancelled some operations in an attempt to manage "significant pressures".

Article: The names and pictures of an estimated 150 million Facebook members were used in Sponsored Stories, but only those who responded to an email from the site earlier this year will be compensated.
Privacy organisations will also receive some of the $20m (£12.9m) settlement.
Facebook said it was "pleased" the settlement had been approved.
The payout was approved by a US court on Monday following a class action filed against Facebook in 2011 by five of its users.
The group said their details had been used to promote products and services through the site's Sponsored Stories programme, without paying them or giving them the choice to opt-out.
A Sponsored Story is a tailored advertisement that appears on members' Facebook pages, highlighting products a user's friends have endorsed or "liked" on the site.
US District Judge Richard Seeborg acknowledged that the $15 payments were relatively small, but said it had not been established that Facebook had "undisputedly violated the law".
He added that the claimants could not prove they were "harmed in any meaningful way".
The court estimated that Facebook had made about $73m (£47m) in profit from the Sponsored Stories featuring details of the 150 million members.
The settlement also requires Facebook to make changes to its "Statement of Rights" and to give users more information and control over how their details are used in the future.
This move was estimated by the plaintiff's lawyers to cost Facebook $145m in advertising revenue.
Approximately 7,000 Facebook users opted out of the settlement altogether, allowing them to bring their own legal action against the social network.
A Facebook spokesperson said: "We are pleased that the settlement has received final approval."

Summary: Approximately 614,000 Facebook users whose personal details appeared in ads on the site without their permission will each receive a $15 (£9.65) payout.
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Article: The Civil Aviation Authority's (CAA) centre was opened after the 1972 Staines plane crash was partly blamed on a pilot's heart condition.
Dr Michael Joy, the first consultant at the centre, said the closure was not in the interest of aviation safety.
The CAA said other independently run centres were available to pilots, including in the Gatwick area.
Dr Joy said: "I think this is corporate vandalism.
"The pool of expertise built up over a generation is going to be dispersed and that cannot be in the interest of aviation safety, and it cannot be in the interest of the pilots."
A CAA spokesman said: "It was felt that the CAA should not be both a service provider and regulator of medical services.
"All requirements relating to pilot and air traffic controllers' medical examinations and fitness standards are set at a European-wide level and these will remain unchanged regardless of who provides medical services."
In 1972 a British European Airways Flight BE548 crashed in a field shortly after takeoff, killing all 118 people on board - at the time one of the UK's worst air disasters.
One of the underlying causes of the crash was the captain's health, a public inquiry found.
Capt Stanley Key had a heart condition which had lead to a "lack of concentration and impaired judgement", the official report said.
The crash led to the setting up of what is now known as the CAA's Aeromedical Centre.
Mervyn Granshaw, a former pilot from Surrey said; "The whole process of aero-medicine has evolved over the 30 years that it's been a centre of excellence."
The centre is due to close on 29 February.

Summary: The closure of a medical centre for commercial pilots at Gatwick Airport has been branded "corporate vandalism".
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Article: The researcher said other details had also been taken that would let attackers pinpoint where the equipment was being used, making more targeted hacks possible.
Pen Test Partners' Ken Munro wants thousands of routers to be replaced.
But TalkTalk said it had not seen evidence to confirm the thefts.
"As is widely known, the Mirai worm is affecting many ISPs [internet service providers] around the world and it has affected a small number of TalkTalk customers," a spokeswoman said.
"We continue to take steps to review any potential impacts and have deployed a variety of solutions to ensure customers' routers remain safe.
"We have also employed additional network-level controls to further protect our customers."
The BBC revealed last week that TalkTalk's D-Link DSL-3780 routers had been struck by malware causing connectivity issues for those customers using the model.
The firm subsequently published advice online telling affected users to reset the equipment - which forced it to install an update to protect itself against the attack - and then "use the wireless network name and password on the back of the router" to get back online.
Security researcher Mr Munro obtained one of the affected routers to study the attack.
He said his "honeypot" router was hit by the variant of Mirai, which is now being referred to as TR-06FAIL.
But in addition to the connectivity issue, Mr Munro detected that a follow-up attack involving the same malware caused the device to disclose its wi-fi password and Service Set Identifier (SSID) code.
An SSID code can be used to reveal where a machine is located via online tools such as Wigle.
As a consequence, he said, even after subscribers had restarted their routers they could remain at risk if they continued using the same password as before.
"Most consumers never change the wi-fi keys written on the back of their router, so the fix didn't actually fix the problem," Mr Munro explained.
"Once an attacker has got the wi-fi key, if they go near to the house they can get nearly everything from...

Summary: TalkTalk customers' wi-fi passwords have been stolen following a malware attack that blocked their internet access last week, an expert has warned.
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Article: Hywel Dda director of operations Joe Teape said all hospitals were full following a busy bank holiday weekend.
He said there were a high number of patients who needed to be admitted which put pressure on impatient beds.
Mr Teape thanked staff for "working tirelessly" and asked people to "bear with them at this busy time."
In a statement the health board said additional medical staff were working to ensure "all patients had a senior medical review" both in A&E and on the wards.
Community teams are also at the hospitals to support patients on discharge.
The health board said it had to cancel some "non-urgent planned operations" on Tuesday and will review Wednesday's operations during the day.
"Every winter we deal with a number of seasonal pressures," Mr Teape said.
"To mitigate the demand on services, we have a winter plan to ensure that services continue to run as smoothly as possible while ensuring that patients' needs continue to be met 24 hours a day."
He added that local communities could help by making using of NHS services such as pharmacies rather than visiting A&E departments, where appropriate.

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The pound fell against the dollar and euro, but recovered in the afternoon.
The pound was down 0.2% at $1.4226, and fell by 0.6% against the euro to $1.2627.
The pound was down 0.2% against the dollar at $1.

Sterling see-sawed as investors reacted to growing uncertainty over the outcome of the UK's EU referendum.

Article: Leader Angela Merkel called it "a good day", while markets rallied in relief.
But the Constitutional Court imposed conditions including a cap on Germany's contribution, which it said could only be overruled by the German parliament.
Critics had argued that the ESM commits Germany to potentially unlimited funding of debt-ridden eurozone states.
Some 37,000 people had signed a petition to the court asking it to block the ESM, and make it subject to a referendum.
Since Germany is due to contribute 27% of the fund, it cannot proceed without German ratification.
But, after weeks of deliberation, the court's Chief Justice Andreas Vosskuhle said it "rejected the injunctions", since there was a "high probability" that the ESM did not violate the constitution.
By Stephen EvansBBC News, Berlin
You could see the relief clearly:  charts for stock prices jumped the moment the judgement was made public.
The positive sentiment was as much about what didn't happen as what did. If the panel of judges had blocked the ESM, there is little doubt that it would have halted the bailouts of eurozone countries in difficulty, and financial markets would have taken it badly.
The judgement, though, is qualified.  The most significant string attached is that any raising of Germany's contribution could only be done with the full consent of parliament.
In the current political climate, there would be much opposition to any more money from Berlin.  A recent poll showed that more than half of Germans wanted the judges to block the ESM, so there is no mood for digging deeper into pockets, should it be necessary.
However, he said ratification of the treaty could only be allowed under certain conditions.
He continued: "No rule of the treaty must be interpreted in a way which would result in higher payment obligations by Germany, without the consent of the German representative."
Correspondents said that meant that any future increase in the size of the 500bn-euro (Â£400bn) fund, or of Germany's contribution, could only be permitted with the...

Summary: Germany's top court has rejected calls to block the permanent eurozone rescue fund - the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) - and the European fiscal treaty.
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Article: FRP Advisory were appointed as administrators after the European Development Company (EDC) ran into financial difficulties.
Two of the hotels for sale are in the Aberdeen area - a Holiday Inn Express on Chapel Street and a Holiday Inn in Westhill.
The third is a Holiday Inn Express in Picardy Place, Edinburgh.
FRP said they would trade as normal during the marketing process.
They added that there were no immediate plans for redundancies.
Nearly 120 of the 136 staff affected are based at the Aberdeen hotels.
In a statement, FRP Advisory said occupancy levels at the hotels had been high, but EDC had suffered "severe cash flow problems" as a result of the downturn in the oil and gas sector.
They also cited intense price competition from new build hotels in the Aberdeen market.
Joint administrator Iain Fraser said: "The administration presents a rare opportunity to acquire quality hotels with an established trade and reputation in their local markets.
"The hotels could appeal to an existing hotel operator looking to expand their business, or an entrepreneur keen to enter the hospitality market by acquiring quality properties in prime locations.
"I am pleased to say that we are in advanced discussions for the sale of the Edinburgh hotel, and would urge interested parties to contact us as soon as possible with respect to the Aberdeen properties."

Summary: Three Scottish Holiday Inn hotels have been put up for sale after the collapse of their Aberdeen-based owners.
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Article: Greg Wallace, of Best Start Federation schools in Hackney, east London, was accused of awarding contracts worth more than Â£1m to C2 Technology, a company run by a friend.
He was banned for a minimum of two years by the Department for Education (DfE) in 2013.
The court ruled a "less intrusive measure" should have been implemented.
A panel of judges said there was a public interest in maintaining his "exceptional contribution to education".
Previously, former education secretary Michael Gove described Mr Wallace as one of a "magnificent seven" of head teachers running outstanding schools in deprived areas.
He was not initially banned, but the DfE overruled a recommendation from the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) that a ban should not be imposed because of his "inspirational example" as an educator.
Mr Wallace was accused of awarding contracts without seeking approval from school governors to a firm owned by a friend and partner, and attempting to cover up evidence by deleting emails.
He was also accused of receiving payments from the firm, including one of Â£4,000.
Mr Wallace went to the High Court in a statutory appeal against the DfE's insistence on a teaching ban.
He won his case in a ruling handed down in Birmingham by Mr Justice Holgate on Friday.

Summary: A "super head" has won a High Court appeal against a teaching ban following allegations of financial mismanagement.
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Article: The currency initially slipped against the dollar and euro, only to start recovering in mid-afternoon trading before falling again.
Meanwhile, the "volatility index" - a measure of investors' uncertainty - has hit levels last seen in the 2008 financial crisis.
The Leave campaign argued that the pound simply retreated to March levels.
The pound was down 0.2% against the dollar at $1.4226. Against the euro, sterling was down 0.6% at â‚¬1.2605 and weakened by 1% against the Japanese yen to just over 151.
Investors have been spooked by data showing the chances of a Remain vote have fallen, although markets have also been rattled by global economic worries.
With 10 days to go before the referendum vote, two polls at the weekend put the Leave camp ahead, while betting firm Betfair said the implied probability of a vote to Remain had now fallen to 68.5% from almost 80% a week earlier.
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
"We expect incoming polls to move the pound more aggressively than before," said Charalambos Pissouros, senior analyst at IronFX Global.
"If new polls continue to show a tight race between the two campaigns as we approach the voting day, the outcome is likely to become even more uncertain and hence, volatility in sterling is likely to heighten further."
BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed said hedge funds had been placing bets - short-selling - on expectations that the value of sterling will sink further. "The bears are in town," he said.
Joe Rundle, head of trading at ETX Capital, said the markets were now on full Brexit alert. "Polls show it's now too close to call and markets are responding with some very twitchy activity. Sterling has shed more than 2% in two sessions to retrace its April lows."
Worries about the economic impact of leaving the EU were also blamed for a big fall in Asian stock markets. Japan's Nikkei index closed 3.5% down, while Hong Kong's main index slid 2.5%.
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The National Crime Agency (NCA), is to lead the investigation into the sale of Nama's NI property portfolio.

Article: The unexpected discovery indicates there are large volumes of the gas contained in a type of sludgy ice called methane hydrate.
There are concerns that these new seeps could be making a hitherto unnoticed contribution to global warming.
The scientists say there could be about 30,000 of these hidden methane vents worldwide.
Previous surveys along the Atlantic seaboard have shown only three seep areas beyond the edge of the US continental shelf.
The team behind the new findings studied what is termed the continental margin, the region of the ocean floor that stands between the coast and the deep ocean.
In an area between North Carolina and Massachusetts, they have now found at least 570 seeps at varying depths between 50m and 1,700m.
Their findings came as a bit of a surprise.
Source: US Department of Energy
"It is the first time we have seen this level of seepage outside the Arctic that is not associated with features like oil or gas reservoirs or active tectonic margins," said Prof Adam Skarke from Mississippi State University, who led the study.
The scientists have observed streams of bubbles but they have not yet sampled the gas within them.
However, they believe there is an abundance of circumstantial evidence pointing to methane.
Most of the seeping vents were located around 500m down, which is just the right temperature and pressure to create a sludgy confection of ice and gas called methane hydrate, or clathrate.
The scientists say that the warming of ocean temperatures might be causing these hydrates to send bubbles of gas drifting through the water column.
They do not appear to be reaching the surface.
"The methane is dissolving into the ocean at depths of hundreds of metres and being oxidised to CO2," said Prof Skarke.
"But it is important to say we simply don't have any evidence in this paper to suggest that any carbon coming from these seeps is entering the atmosphere."
This research, though, does highlight the scale of methane that is under the waters.
Estimates suggest that these undersea...

Summary: Researchers say they have found more than 500 bubbling methane vents on the seafloor off the US east coast.
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Article: The workers, who represent about 15% of the airline's cabin crew, were balloted about the plan to strike at Heathrow.
The vote comes after cabin crew rejected a 2% pay rise.
Strike action could begin after 21 December, but Unite has not confirmed whether the strike would affect travellers over Christmas.
BA said Unite was "creating uncertainty" for passengers.
Tensions have been running high over pay and conditions at the airline.
Some 79% of crew that took part in the ballot voted for action, Unite said, urging British Airways to return to the negotiating table.
The dispute concerns about 4,000 staff who have joined the airline since 2010 on "Mixed Fleet" contracts, who do not feel they are paid enough. About  2,500 of them are Unite members.
Earnings were advertised between £21,000 and £25,000 but, in reality, start at just over £12,000 plus £3 an hour flying pay, Unite said.
"Not surprisingly, the crew have rejected a 2% pay offer and on-board customer service managers are furious," the union said.
"They do not have collective bargaining rights. The managers have also endured a six-year pay freeze."
According to a recent Unite survey, half of Mixed Fleet staff have taken on second jobs to make ends meet, and more than two-thirds were going to work "unfit to fly" because they could not afford to be off sick.
It said 84% reported experiencing stress and depression since joining BA because of their financial circumstances.
Some even admitted sleeping in cars between flights, because they could not afford the petrol to get home.
Unite regional officer Matt Smith said: "Not only are the pay rates indefensible, but in aviation, low pay is a safety issue."
A BA spokesman said: "We are extremely disappointed that the union is creating uncertainty for our customers.
"Mixed Fleet Unite represents about 15% of our cabin crew. We remain focused on resolving this issue as quickly as possible without any disruption to customers."
The spokesman added: "We have proposed a fair and reasonable pay increase to Mixed Fleet...

Summary: About 2,000 British Airways cabin crew have voted overwhelmingly for strikes in a dispute over pay, the Unite union said.
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Article: The console, currently priced in the UK at Â£429, with a bundled game, will drop to Â£399 on Friday and will include major title Titanfall in the package.
So far, the drop will only apply to the UK.
The new cost brings the console in line with the price of Sony's PlayStation 4, which is outselling Microsoft's machine.
However, the PlayStation 4 can be bought without a game for Â£349.
"The reason we're doing this is that we're committed to giving gamers the best value that we can," said Harvey Eagle, Xbox's marketing director in the UK.
"We're only a few months into a generation of consoles that are going to last for many many years to come," he added.
"And now just feels like the right time to make the adjustment on the price."
Industry figures suggest that the PlayStation 4 is outselling the Xbox One by around two to one, with 5.3 million of Sony's machines being sold worldwide.
However, Microsoft is keen to point out that compared with their previous console, the Xbox 360, the newer model has enjoyed a "record-breaking" launch, and that sales of games have been strong.
The new, cheaper bundle will include a copy of Titanfall - a major title that Microsoft expects will significantly drive sales of the console.
Titanfall is not out until 14 March, and so people buying consoles at the cheaper price before that date will not be able to the play the game until it is released.
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Eagle defended the price change coming so soon after the console's release - and thanked those who had bought the machine early.
"We're hugely appreciative," he said.
"We would like to thank all of the people that have supported us since launch."
The Xbox One's higher launch price was attributed in part to the inclusion of its Kinect hardware - the motion tracker that allows gamers to play without a physical controller.
However, analysts argued that while an impressive piece of technology, the Kinect does not yet offer enough innovative uses to tempt people into the extra cost.
"You've got this Kinect device...

Summary: Microsoft is to drop the price of its new Xbox One console - just over three months after its release.
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Article: It will also investigate claims about money contained in an Isle of Man bank account.
It is understood the PSNI asked the NCA to take the lead because of the complexity and scale of the investigation.
It is the NCA's first major investigation since it began operating in Northern Ireland in May.
Investigators from the agency are expected to meet the PSNI shortly.
In a statement on Thursday, the NCA, the UK equivalent of the FBI, confirmed it had agreed to investigate the sale of Northern Ireland assets owned by the Republic of Ireland's National Assets Management Agency (Nama).
NCA deputy director of operations Graham Gardner said: "The NCA has considered a request from [the] PSNI and has agreed to lead an investigation, calling on support as necessary from PSNI officers.
BBC News NI Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney
This takes the investigation to a new level.
The NCA has a level of expertise and resources not available to the PSNI.
They include a specialist economic crime unit and a financial intelligence unit.
Those units contain specialist investigators like forensic accountants and technical experts.
The NCA also has an international reach and works with other agencies throughout the world, including Interpol, whose members include the Republic of Ireland and the United States.
"We will not be providing a running commentary on our progress but will provide updates as and when appropriate."
Earlier, an Irish parliament (Dáil) committee was told a former Nama adviser was in line for a £5m payment after the sale of Nama's property loan portfolio in Northern Ireland.
US investment firm, Pimco, pulled out of the tender bidding process after discovering the fee arrangement to Nama's former adviser, Frank Cushnahan.
The revelation came during a hearing of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
It is examining Nama's sale of its 850-property NI portfolio last year.
The National Assets Management Agency (Nama) is the Republic of Ireland's "bad bank", set up to deal with toxic loans during the Irish banking...

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The British government has said it is "deeply concerned" by the Paris attacks.
The UK's Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, said: "We are deeply concerned by the attacks in Paris.
"We are also deeply concerned by the fact that the perpetrators of these attacks are still at large.
"We

Anthony Joshua has the "brutish strength" of George Foreman and Frank Bruno, according to Audley Harrison.

Article: Mobile network Verizon told Fortune magazine that it planned to divert calls made via the phones so that they reached its staff instead.
It follows dozens of reports of the devices overheating and in some cases bursting into flames.
Samsung is expected to reveal the cause of the problem on Monday.
It pulled the product from the market and cancelled further production in October after an earlier botched recall and re-release.
US operators had already released a software update intended to prevent Note 7s from being able to recharge and connect to their networks.
But Verizon said that thousands of its customers had still not returned the devices, possibly because they had managed to prevent the firmware from being installed.
"The recalled Note 7s pose a safety risk to our customers and those around them," it told Fortune.
It said it would still allow 911 calls to connect to the emergency service, but all other calls would be redirected to its employees, who would demand the return of the handsets.
Customers who refused might be billed the full retail cost of the device, it added.
"This is all about liability," commented Ben Wood from the CCS Insight tech consultancy.
"People may be willing to accept the risk now, but that could change if they experience a catastrophic incident like it burns down their house or seriously injures someone.
"Samsung and the operators have no option but to put whatever measures in place they can to try and retrieve all the remaining devices."

Summary: Galaxy Note 7 owners in the US who have ignored the global recall of Samsung's smartphone face a fresh effort to make them return their devices.
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Article: Alex Staniforth, of Cheshire, has already tackled Pen-Y-Fan, Fan Foel and Snowdon since starting the series on 13 May.
The 22-year-old will aim to scale Moel Famau, on the Flintshire-Denbighshire border, on Sunday.
If successful, he will have climbed the equivalent of 13 Mount Everests.
He said: "A big thanks for all my friends and supporters from all over north Wales who encouraged me so brilliantly over the past few months and who've been so generous."
Mr Staniforth previously became the youngest person to complete the Three Peaks Challenge and has twice attempted to scale Everest.
He abandoned his last bid to reach the world's highest summit in 2015, after an avalanche left three of his friends dead.
Mr Staniforth, who sets off at 11:30 BST, is carrying out the latest series of climbs in aid of mental health charity, Young Minds UK, and has so far raised Â£15,000.

Summary: An adventurer is set to complete his bid to climb the highest point of every UK county when he scales a north Wales peak.
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Article: President Francois Hollande says France is "at war" with so-called Islamic State (IS).
Here we look at the international impact of the attacks and the lessons the authorities are trying to draw from it.
Are the attacks over?
It is too early to say. But there was a breakthrough on Thursday - it was confirmed that the suspected ringleader, IS militant Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was killed in a police raid in Saint-Denis, northern Paris.
His fingerprints were formally identified from remains found in a Saint-Denis apartment, where a group of militants fiercely resisted anti-terror police early on Wednesday.
France is urgently hunting another leading suspect - Salah Abdeslam, who hired one of the cars used in the attacks. Salah's brother Brahim blew himself up in Boulevard Voltaire during Friday's attacks.
French media have reported that nine militants carried out the attacks, and we know that seven died on Friday night. So it is possible that another attacker - as well as Salah Abdeslam - is still at large.
There has also been speculation that the militants killed and detained in Saint-Denis with Abdelhamid Abaaoud were planning to attack La Defense - an upmarket Paris business district - and Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, though no evidence has been provided.
Two men were arrested in the apartment in Saint-Denis and six other people nearby, so police may get some key information from them.
Profile: Abdelhamid Abaaoud
Who was Hasna Aitboulahcen?
Paris attacks: Who were the victims?
How was the plot hatched?
French authorities believe that IS in Syria decided to launch the attacks, and that the operation was planned in Belgium, probably in Molenbeek, a Brussels district known for high unemployment, social problems and a mixed immigrant population.
IS said its militants had attacked Paris in order to punish "crusader" France for its air strikes against "Muslims in the lands of the Caliphate" - their language for Iraq and Syria.
The attack "targeted the capital of prostitution and obscenity, the carrier of the banner of...

Summary: France and neighbouring countries are on high alert after the Paris attacks, which killed 129 people and wounded hundreds more.
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The 2000 Olympic super-heavyweight champion is backing fellow Briton Joshua to be too strong for American Charles Martin in Saturday's IBF world heavyweight title fight in London.
Harrison says "all the cards are in Joshua's favour", likening the 26-year-old to the ex-heavyweight champions.
"He lives the life of an athlete," Harrison, 44, told BBC Radio 5 live.
"He's very fit, strong and committed.
"I just think Anthony Joshua has got that George Foreman, Frank Bruno brutish strength - that ingredient that is hard to hold him off."
Watch: Anthony Joshua, Beast Mode
Martin has won 23 and drawn one of his 24 fights and beat Vyacheslav Glazkov for the vacant IBF belt in January.
Harrison has sparred with the 29-year-old American, whom he calls a "rugged, tall, big southpaw", but says Watford-born Joshua will have the British crowd behind him on Saturday.
"Charles Martin will be gallant, brave and it's a great fight potentially" said Harrison. "But I can't see him keeping back the steam train that is Anthony Joshua."

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The BBC has announced it will move from its current premises at Broadcasting House on Ormeau Avenue.
The corporation has yet to decide on a site.
The council has set out its preferred options for the broadcaster in its regeneration and investment strategy.
It said lands to the rear of Belfast Central Library, a site

Belfast City Council has said a BBC relocation to a site beside the Ulster University campus would lead to a "comprehensive transformation" of that part of the city.

Article: Labour just held on to the seat by 11,633 to 11,016 votes.
Mr Miliband said UKIP voters did not think the parties listened to them, or that the country represented them.
And he predicted the next election would be a fight against "disillusionment and despair".
Speaking in Heywood, where he congratulated winning candidate Liz McInnes, Mr Miliband said Labour had changed and realised it was "not prejudiced" to worry about immigration.
But he said he did not think UKIP could "represent the interests of working people" because they wanted to cut taxes for the rich.
Earlier he promised Labour would not have "a shred of complacency" after avoiding a shock defeat.
He said the Conservatives were in retreat in the North West and had lost to UKIP in "their own back yard" of Clacton in the other by-election.
Ms McInnes got 41% of the vote, up slightly on Labour's share at the 2010 election.
John Bickley, for UKIP, came second with 39% of the vote - up from 3% in 2010. The Conservatives got 12% of votes, down from 27% in 2010 and the Lib Dems 5%, down from 23%.
Ms McInnes said she was proud to have been elected, saying "our vote held up, but we had not anticipated the Tory vote collapsing quite so dramatically".
She added: "Our core voters turned out. We didn't take anyone's votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign."
Veteran Labour MP Frank Field said the result in Heywood and Middleton meant that "all bets were off" for Labour at next year's general election.
But Mr Field said: "If last night's vote heralds the start of UKIP's serious assault into Labour's neglected core vote, all bets are off for safer, let alone marginal seats at the next election."
Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said the surge in support for UKIP underlined "the scale of the challenge to traditional politics".
Mr Alexander said both the Heywood and Middleton and Clacton by-election results showed none of the three main political parties could "deploy the tools of traditional party politics".
He told BBC Radio 4's...

Summary: Ed Miliband said UKIP could not represent the interests of working people as he reflected on a close by-election victory over Nigel Farage's party in Heywood and Middleton.
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Article: She spoke out after the Greens lost four councillors in local elections across England and failed to make significant gains in Wales.
Ms Bennett said they had lost "great councillors" in Oxford and Norwich.
The best Green showing came in Scotland where the separate Scottish Green Party now has six MSPs.
The results pushed the Lib Dems into fifth place after the most successful showing for the Scottish Greens since 2003.
The Green Party secured its best ever result in the London mayoral election, with candidate Sian Berry coming in third with 5.8% of the vote - up from 4.48% in 2012.
It also claimed third place in the London Assembly elections, equal to UKIP and ahead of the Lib Dems, with two London Assembly members, Caroline Russell and Ms Berry.
Elsewhere in England the Greens held six seats on Oxford City Council, but lost two, while numbers in Norwich have fallen from 14 to 10.
Ms Bennett told the BBC: "I'm very disappointed to lose some really great councillors obviously, in Oxford and Norwich, but if you look around the country, there are really positive stories, particularly in the West Midlands.
"In Solihull, Chris Williams got 75% in the vote in his seat, which is what you could call a ringing endorsement.
"More broadly, Worcester Council... fell from Tory to no overall control and there Louis Stephen fought a brilliant campaign with the Tories throwing everything but the kitchen sink at it and he won that seat... with some great ideas."
"We're very much looking to the Scottish Greens who have had a good night, doubling their representation in Holyrood, electing some great people - Andy Wainwright, a real campaign reformer - and also Ross Greer [aged 21], who's going to be the youngest MSP in the Scottish Parliament."
Voting system
The results for London were "looking very good", following Green candidate Sian Berry's "very positive campaign" compared with that of Zac Goldsmith, which Ms Bennett said had been "99% Lynton Crosby and 1% ecologist".
This was a dig at the Australian election strategist...

Summary: Natalie Bennett has defended her leadership of the Green Party of England and Wales - saying membership had soared since she took on the role.
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Article: As with other militants operating in the Sahel desert region that crosses the borders of Algeria, Mali, Niger and Mauritania, details of his life were hard to confirm.
But he gained a reputation as one of AQIM's most feared and radical commanders, held responsible for murdering hostages, and for imposing ruthless Islamist rule on the historic Malian city of Timbuktu.
He was said to be close to AQIM leader Abdelmalek Droukdel, and was given a prominent role in the group's activities in the Sahara.
Thought to be in his late 40s, Abou Zeid sometimes used an alias, Mosab Abdelouadoud, and also had a nickname, the little emir, that referred to his short stature.
The Algerian media raised doubts over his legal name, identifying him as either Abid Hamadou or Mohamed Ghedir.
Abou Zeid fought in the Islamist insurgency in the 1990s in his home country, Algeria. He became a member of a Salafist organisation known as the Group for Call and Combat (GSPC), which in 2007 changed its name to AQIM.
In recent years AQIM, suffering setbacks at the hands of the Algerian military in the north, focused more of its efforts in southern Algeria and across its desert borders.
Abou Zeid was reputedly involved in the smuggling networks that proliferate in the area, as well as playing a key role in a series of kidnappings of Western hostages that raised tens of millions of dollars in ransom money.
He has been linked to the killing of British hostage Edwin Dyer in 2009 and that of Frenchman Michel Germaneau the following year.
One hostage who was released, former Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler, recounted in a book how Abou Zeid refused to give medicine to two other hostages who were suffering from dysentery, and one of whom had been bitten by a scorpion.
After Islamist groups seized control of northern Mali in 2012, Abou Zeid is said to have taken command of Timbuktu.
The Islamists sought to impose an extreme form of Sharia, destroying Sufi shrines and carrying out amputations.
They were forced back after the French military launched an...

Summary: Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, whose death has been confirmed by the French government, was one of the most senior leaders of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
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Article: BBC Northern Ireland is planning to move from its premises at Broadcasting House on Ormeau Avenue.
The corporation has yet to decide on a site.
The council has set out its preferred options for the broadcaster in its regeneration and investment strategy.
It said lands to the rear of Belfast Central Library, a site north of Great Patrick Street or the stalled Royal Exchange development could all be suitable.
It has recommended that a working group involving the BBC, the council, the universities and other agencies should be formed.
The Ulster University is currently building a major extension to its Belfast campus on the northern edge of the city centre.
Adjacent streets are also due to be redeveloped as part of the Northside scheme.
The council strategy expresses hope that a major department store, such as John Lewis, will anchor the Royal Exchange development.
But it states that if the retail option is not possible the BBC "would be an obvious candidate" as an anchor tenant.
The BBC has previously been linked with a move to Titanic Quarter or as part of the redevelopment of Great Victoria Street station.
The council's strategy also contains details of its Â£19m city centre investment fund.
It could be used to make loan or equity funding to developments or for the council to buy development sites.

Summary:


A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a woman in a car crash in Lincolnshire.
A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a woman in a car crash in Lincolnshire.
The woman, who was in her 20s, was killed in a collision with a car in the

The husband of a dentist who was arrested over her death has said she "took her own life" as he told of his family's "devastating loss".

Article: Barbie was bitten on Monday night by Falco, a German shepherd, on a private lane, and was put down due to the extent of her injuries.
Falco's operational licence has been removed while the incident is investigated, Lincolnshire Police said.
The suspension was "normal practice" and was "not a pre-judgement of the circumstances", it said.
No action has been taken against Falco's handler Mick Judge, who the force said was "very upset" by the incident.
More on this and other stories from across Lincolnshire on our Live page
Barbie's owner Charles Giermak described Monday's attack, near Fishtoft, Boston, as a "horrible sight".
He said the other dog came out of the darkness and shook three-year-old Barbie "like a rag doll".
Mr Giermak, who was out walking with Barbie and her daughter Candy, said: "There was no barking, no growling - nothing - it just attacked."
He said the attack could have been prevented if the police dog had been wearing a muzzle.

Summary: A police dog that fatally injured a Yorkshire terrier in an unprovoked attack has been suspended from duty.
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Article: The "Westerlund 2" cluster of stars is located about 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina.
Hubble was launched on Space Shuttle Discovery on 24 April, 1990.
Engineers expect the observatory to keep operating for at least another five years.
"Even the most optimistic person to whom you could have spoken back in 1990 couldn't have predicted the degree to which Hubble would rewrite our astrophysics and planetary science textbooks," commented Nasa Administrator Charlie Bolden.
"A quarter of a century later, Hubble has fundamentally changed our understanding of our Universe and our place in it."
Famously, a flaw was found in the telescope's primary mirror soon after launch that blurred its images.
A smart fix was then installed by spacewalking astronauts in 1993 that allowed its instruments to correct for the aberration in the reflecting surface.
Four further servicing missions later, Hubble is in rude health and technically a far more capable observatory than when it was first put in orbit.
No more repair visits by astronauts are planned, but the latest assessment of its likely longevity is very encouraging.
In the past, Hubble has suffered from degradation in its six gyroscopes - the spinning devices that allow it to point very precisely at objects on the sky.
However, the current batch has experienced just the one failure - in March, 2014.
"The instrumentation on Hubble has been getting better with time, in the sense that we've been able to calibrate it better and know more about how the observatory is working," said Ken Sembach, interim deputy director at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
"It's also worth noting that two of the instruments repaired on the last servicing mission - the Advanced Camera for Surveys, and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph - are both working five years hereafter the servicing mission, which is longer than they worked originally with their original electronics.
"And so we have great hope that these two instruments, along with the two that were...

Summary: The Hubble Space Telescope has celebrated its silver anniversary with a picture featuring a spectacular vista of young stars blazing across a dense cloud of gas and dust.
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Article: In a country that is struggling with a record influx of migrants and refugees, it is perhaps unsurprising that this has dominated, but concerns have also been raised about the limits of satire.
One of the most shared images came from a carnival in a small municipality in southern Germany that featured a tank labelled "asylum defence" ("Asylabwehr").
Florian Simbeck, a German comedian and local politician, posted a picture of Sunday's display of the tank at a parade in the municipality of Steinkirchen in southern Germany. It was shared more than 2,500 times and started a debate about the morality of the display.
"I think it was in very bad taste and unacceptable. The tank should not have been permitted to the parade," Mr Simbeck told BBC News.
Other social media users said the tank was of satirical nature and should be seen as a sideswipe at Alternative for Germany (AfD), a right-wing populist party.
Mr Simbeck, who first posted the picture, said that satire needs a clear reference.
"Maybe it was not intended to cause any offence, but I could not just let the tank pass by without taking any action," he said.
Twitter user Robert Fietzke likened the tank to a float in Cologne's 1933 carnival parade that was titled "The last ones are leaving" ("Die Letzten ziehen ab") - a reference to Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany.
Several participants at the parade reported the incident to the police and prosecutors are now deliberating whether to open an investigation.
The head of the association responsible for the parade has apologised on German public television about the display.
In the central German state of Thuringia, police have opened an investigation into another controversial carnival float: a train titled "Balkan Express".
Critics say the term and the slogan on the train's front ("The plague is arriving") refers to the Balkan route taken by the majority of migrants arriving in Germany.
Other images of the parade on social media show the train being accompanied by a group of people dressed as green...

Summary: It is carnival season in Germany and amid the brightly coloured floats and giant papier mache figures, some displays linked to Europe's migrant crisis have provoked controversy.
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Article: Dr Helen Nicoll, 53, was found dead at home in Frog End, Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, on Friday.
Her husband and partner in their dental practice, Stephen Nicoll, 53, was arrested on suspicion of murder before being released on Tuesday.
A post-mortem examination revealed Mrs Nicoll died from asphyxiation.
Mr Nicoll was released by police with no further action and his bail cancelled.
The couple had three children and worked together in their clinic in Hurst Park, Cambridge while Mr Nicoll also practises in London's Harley Street.
Mr Nicoll said in a statement: "These last few days have been the worst of my life.
"Nobody can understand the true loss that my children and I have experienced following the discovery that my wife Helen has taken her own life.
"I would ask everybody, particularly the media, to respect our privacy and allow us to come to terms with our devastating loss and to begin the grieving process as a family following this tragedy."
He added his family had "fully co-operated" with police and his wife's death had been referred to the coroner.
Mr Nicoll's solicitor Paul Oliver said: "The arrest of Mr Nicoll in the immediate aftermath of the death of his beloved wife and the consequential media interest in this tragic case compounded the distress caused to him and his family.
"The police have confirmed Mr Nicoll is not a suspect and he and his family now ask that their right to grieve in private be respected."

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The Welsh Rugby Union has confirmed that the Six Nations will be played in Cardiff, not London.
The Welsh Rugby Union has confirmed that the Six Nations will be played in Cardiff, not London.
The Welsh Rugby Union has confirmed that the Six Nations will be played in Cardiff, not London.
The Welsh Rugby Union

Wales and Ospreys scrum-half Rhys Webb expects to be back in action sooner than expected following injury.

Article: The main risk factors for the disease are a lack of exercise, smoking, depression and poor education, it says.
Previous research from 2011 put the estimate at one in two cases, but this new study takes into account overlapping risk factors.
Alzheimer's Research UK said age was still the biggest risk factor.
Writing in The Lancet Neurology, the Cambridge team analysed population-based data to work out the main seven risk factors for Alzheimer's disease.
These are:
They worked out that a third of Alzheimer's cases could be linked to lifestyle factors that could be modified, such as lack of exercise and smoking.
The researchers then looked at how reducing these factors could affect the number of future Alzheimer's cases.
They found that by reducing each risk factor by 10%, nearly nine million cases of the disease could be prevented by 2050.
In the UK, a 10% reduction in risk factors would reduce cases by 8.8%, or 200,000, by 2050, they calculated.
Current estimates suggest that more than 106 million people worldwide will be living with Alzheimer's by 2050 - more than three times the number affected in 2010.
Prof Carol Brayne, from the Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge, said: "Although there is no single way to treat dementia, we may be able to take steps to reduce our risk of developing dementia at older ages.
"We know what many of these factors are, and that they are often linked.
"Simply tackling physical inactivity, for example, will reduce levels of obesity, hypertension and diabetes, and prevent some people from developing dementia.
"As well as being healthier in old age in general, it's a win-win situation."
Dr Simon Ridley, head of research at charity Alzheimer's Research UK, said there was still much to discover about the disease.
"While age is the biggest risk factor for most cases of Alzheimer's, there are a number of lifestyle and general health factors that could increase or decrease a person's chances of developing the disease.
"However, we still do not fully understand the...

Summary: One in three cases of Alzheimer's disease worldwide is preventable, according to research from the University of Cambridge.
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Article: The answer, as you probably guessed, involves debating the Wales Bill, with Monday's committee stage ending at 11:12pm.
The Lords don't, by tradition, have votes during committee stages. Instead, amendments are introduced, moved and debated before being withdrawn after peers have had the chance to find out if ministers might change their mind later during the legislative process - or whether there is such a groundswell of support to change the Bill that the government might be defeated.
Peers spent an hour of that time debating whether a referendum should be held before the Welsh Government gets the power to vary income tax rates.
The law, as it now stands, says there should be a plebiscite but the Wales Bill scraps that requirement, much to the annoyance of Welsh Labour grandees Lords Hain, Murphy and Kinnock.
The debate, perhaps inevitably, featured reflections, prompted by recent experience, on the recent nature of referendums. Lord Kinnock spoke of his own bruises and scars from the Brexit vote, but argued referendums were justifiable in a parliamentary democracy "when there is a proposal to change the way in which we are governed".
He argued that the proposal to give Wales tax-varying powers was made "in the absolutely certain and cynical knowledge that it would not be exercised" and that there "was and is no evident support among the public for the idea of income tax-raising or income tax-varying powers to be allocated to the Welsh Assembly".
Wales Office Minister Lord Bourne disagreed, telling peers: "I strongly and sincerely believe that if we were to have a referendum, it would be carried".
Former Labour MP Lord Howarth of Newport, suggested the Conservatives were "sliding away" from a clear manifesto commitment to only devolve tax powers after a referendum.
The Welsh Conservative manifesto referred to the issue in a passage on what politicians call "fair funding". It said:  "We will do this by putting in place a floor in the level of relative Welsh Government funding in the expectation that the...

Summary: What do members of the House of Lords get up to at eleven o'clock of an evening?
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Article: Labor said PM Tony Abbott's offer of a same-sex marriage plebiscite next year was nothing but a "delaying tactic".
The attack comes as Mr Abbott faces criticism within his own ranks about how he has handled the issue.
On Tuesday, he blocked a free vote for government MPs on any same-sex marriage bills but said the issue should be "put to the people" after the next election.
Read more: 'Crocodile Dundee' MP leads Australia gay marriage push
Labor leader Bill Shorten called on all Coalition MPs in favour of same-sex marriage to keep lobbying the prime minister.
"The choice in this country is you either have Mr Abbott or you have marriage equality but you can't have both," he told reporters on Wednesday.
Mr Shorten has pledged to introduce same-sex marriage legislation within the first 100 days if Labor wins the next election, due in 2016.
Mr Abbott, who personally opposes same-sex marriage, on Wednesday said under Liberal Party policy, any government frontbenchers who defied the agreed position to oppose gay marriage would be sacked.
Backbench coalition MP Warren Entsch plans to introduce a cross-party bill next week to legalise same-sex marriage.
Mr Entsch, who has campaigned publicly for marriage equality, told local media he believed some of his colleagues would cross the floor to vote in favour of his bill.
"Absolutely I will be crossing the floor," he said, "but even with some support I don't think the support is there to see it succeed".
Analysis: Jon Donnison, BBC News, Sydney
The gay marriage issue in Australia is an interesting one, not least because Tony Abbott, and indeed politicians in general, are out of touch with public opinion.
Polls show the majority of Australians support same-sex marriage. And that's why it's a potentially dangerous issue for Mr Abbott who admits to feeling "a bit threatened" by homosexuality - even though his own sister Christine is a lesbian.
And it's not just the public Tony Abbott is out of sync with.
Some MPs within his own Liberal Party are in favour of legalising gay...

Summary: Gay Australians will never be allowed to marry under a Conservative government, says the Labor opposition.
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Article: Webb has not played since suffering a serious foot injury in a World Cup warm-up with Italy in September.
The 27-year-old says he is close to a return, giving him time to get fit before the Six Nations in February.
"I'm back up and running now and going through a pre-season sort of stage at the moment. It's all coming along well," he said.
"I'm going to take each week as it comes now and see where I am then.
"It's been talked about [returning] at the beginning of February, but I did ask the physios if they could scrape a couple of weeks off that and they said 'yes'."
Wales begin their Six Nations campaign away to Ireland in Dublin on Sunday, 7 February.
Webb, capped 16 times by Wales, has renewed his national dual contract with Ospreys and the Welsh Rugby Union.
He turned down offers from elsewhere to stay at the region for whom he made his debut in 2007.
"It's my home region and I enjoy the club," Webb told BBC Wales' Scrum V Live.
"I want to put myself in the best possible position to play for my country and I'm not going to give that up that easy.
"Wales and the Ospreys came together and I'm happy to get it done."

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A man has been arrested after a man was found with a knife in a car in Llandudno.
The man, who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, was taken to hospital for treatment to a cut on his forehead.
The incident happened on the A55 at the junction with the A483 at

A man who liked "highly offensive" Facebook messages about Islam had his shotgun licence revoked by police.

Article: PC Simon Reynolds assaulted a 27-year-old man after the victim was arrested in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, in the early hours of 22 November, 2014.
He was found guilty of common assault after an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
Reynolds, 38, was sentenced at Swansea Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The inquiry into Reynolds' conduct came after a referral to the police watchdog by Dyfed-Powys Police in December 2014.
It related to the assault of a man arrested outside Bar Luna in the town centre.
He was taken to hospital for treatment to a cut on his forehead after the incident, the IPCC said.
As well as the sentence, suspended for one year, Reynolds was ordered to pay Â£500 in prosecution costs, Â£250 in compensation and an Â£80 victim surcharge.
The watchdog said its report into the conduct of Reynolds and another officer had been passed to Dyfed-Powys Police.

Summary: A Dyfed-Powys Police officer has been handed an eight-week suspended sentence for assaulting a man.
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Article: "At the moment there are still a lot of people who want to turn up," he told Grimmy on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show.
It's already been on the air for a decade, and with Simon returning to the judging line-up, it seems like there's still some life in The X Factor yet.
But what about in another 10 years? Or 20? Or more?
Simon seems to think it could go on indefinitely, so long as they keep finding great contestants.
So basically it's down to you. If you want The X Factor to remain on our screens for the rest of our lives, then keep turning up to those auditions.
And if you don't? Then send your boring mates.
"You've got to find great people and if they're all boring then it will run out of steam and then you may have to rest it and then bring it back," he said in his BBC interview.
So actually there's no way of stopping the juggernaut, a break is the most you're going to get.
Simon's also got a bigger pool of people to choose from, now that younger teenagers are allowed to audition.
"A lot of the really great kids now are 14, 15 years old and they probably know a lot more than the older contestants," he said.
"It's case by case. If they're really nervous or you've got some horrible stage mum pushing them on to the show, forget it.
"I would have done it. I would have been in a band in a shot."
In his interview with Nick Grimshaw, Simon also shared his critique of recent television series.
He and his girlfriend Lauren Silverman are fans of House of Cards, which surprised him to begin with.
"Normally when everyone tells me about how it is great, it's usually terrible, like those weirdo Game of Throne things, which I couldn't be bothered with," he said.
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Summary: The X Factor will only end when the contestants get "boring", Simon Cowell has said.
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Article: Mr Trump's golf development on the Menie estate on the coast is nearing completion.
Work on the controversial Â£750m project, to also feature a hotel and homes, began a year ago.
The images show a single-story building made of granite, slate and glass, described as "second to none".
The clubhouse - designed by Acanthus Architects - forms part of the next phase of the development.
Sarah Malone, executive vice president of Trump International Scotland, said: "We've spent many months refining and perfecting the permanent clubhouse design and will submit our planning application to Aberdeenshire Council in the coming weeks.
"With luxurious Scottish interiors and a full range of services and facilities for golfers and visitors, this clubhouse will be second to none."

Summary: The first images of the planned clubhouse for Donald Trump's golf course in Aberdeenshire have been released.
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Article: North Wales Police claimed Owen Jones, 52, of Caernarfon, Gwynedd, was not fit to hold a firearms certificate after officers looked at his profile.
Mr Jones, who had held a licence for more than 30 years, appealed against the decision and won.
Caernarfon Crown Court heard on Friday that he was not a cause for concern despite the posts.
The hearing was told a senior police officer regarded the posts as "highly offensive", prompting the licence to be revoked.
Judge Niclas Parry said Mr Jones was ignorant about the subject of the Muslim faith, but added: "None of those messages were created by the appellant.
"The appellant has liked certain messages that appeared on his Facebook profile. He has then effectively re-published the message."

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A man has been arrested after a woman was allegedly sexually assaulted by a man in a car park.
The woman, who was in her 20s, was walking home from work in the early hours of the morning when she was approached by a man in a car park.
The man then allegedly sexually assaulted her,

Shell is removing life-sized cardboard cutouts of a female employee from all of its Malaysian petrol stations after "distasteful" images appeared online.

Article: Here at Russia's Star City centre near Moscow, he and two fellow astronauts endured three hours in a Soyuz simulator this morning.
Dressed in spacesuits, the three men clambered into the tiny capsule for a rehearsal of the end of their mission.
This is when the crew uncouple from the ISS and descend back to Earth.
Just before the exercise began, I suggested to Tim Peake that he looked far more sombre than he had during a big media day in London last week when he seemed to enjoy fielding light-hearted questions.
"It is a serious business," he said, sitting on the steps leading to the spacecraft.
"There's a fun side to space and what we do and the educational programmes we run but when it comes to actually getting into a Soyuz rocket - and the operational tasks that we have to perform - you need to be focused and serious."
Asked about the greatest challenges during the simulation, he said: "The most difficult thing to deal with is multiple failures.
"If you have just one failure then you can work through it as a crew. But if you have several it's much harder to keep track of all the problems."
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Watching the process relayed by CCTV to the simulator control centre, all three of the astronauts looked busy and tense.
During the exercise, instructors created a series of pretend challenges including a leak in the spacesuit worn by US astronaut Tim Kopra, a slow leak of the capsule itself causing depressurisation - and at the same time a computer failure.
Emerging later, Tim Peake looked quite tired and slightly unsteady on his legs - a normal reaction after sitting hunched in such a confined space.
But he was pleased with the way the team had coped with the malfunctions that the instructors had faced them with - and was keen to emphasise how the training is a positive experience.
"I always feel more confident when I come out of the simulator - they throw these emergencies at you but we coped with them and we got back...

Summary: British astronaut Tim Peake is going through a gruelling round of final training before liftoff to the International Space Station next month.
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Article: Aviva has called for a new process that would force victims to put their claims directly to the insurer of the driver who caused the crash.
It suggests that the system would cut out middlemen who inflate the cost of claims.
However, one legal group said such a change would leave victims vulnerable.
"Putting the injured person entirely in the hands of the guilty party's insurer would create a profound conflict of interest," said the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
"Independent advice is key to preventing such a conflict and ensuring a fair outcome for the injured person."
Whiplash claims are a major factor behind the rapid rise in the price of motor cover. They account for 80% of injury claims, and most go through lawyers who have been charging sizeable fees, Aviva said.
Costs can rise even further as a result of referral fees paid by lawyers and claims management firms to breakdown firms, brokers and the insurers themselves - in exchange for providing information about accident victims.
Aviva suggested that all this accounted for £118 of a typical motor insurance premium.
The government has already given notice that it will ban referral fees and limit legal fees, but Aviva believes the cost could be cut further by putting a claim first to the "at fault" insurer.
The victims should then receive independent clinical advice and there should be a standard tariff of damages focused on care, rather than cash payments, according to Aviva.
Some 550,000 whiplash claims are made each year. Aviva estimates that up to 300,000 cases could be dealt with under its proposed system.
"Our primary concerns are that injured parties receive care and compensation as quickly as possible, and that all motorists benefit from a reduction in the excessive costs that have built up in claims over the past few years," said Dominic Clayden, claims director at Aviva.

Summary: The UK's biggest insurer has said that motorists' premiums could be cut by an average of £60 a year by changing the system of whiplash claims.
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Article: The document includes improvements to equipment already in use as well as proposals for new technologies.
The list includes lasers and heat beams designed to disperse crowds, and nausea-inducing sound waves targeted at scuba divers.
Experts said the document acted as a "sales pitch" for continued funding.
The list - named the Non-Lethal Weapons Reference Book - is said to have been produced by the US Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD).
A copy of the report was obtained andpublished by "anti-secrecy" site Public Intelligence. The organisation has a track record of publishing US government documents relating to national security.
A spokeswoman for the US Department of Defense said she could neither confirm nor deny the document's authenticity.
Running to over 100 pages, the report details the characteristics of each weapon - as well as possible collateral damage and the policy implications of its use.
Typical effects of the weapons on the human body include temporary blindness, deafness and loss of movement.
One example, the Impulse Swimmer Gun, is described as being able to "suppress underwater swimmers and divers". It says an "underwater pulsed sound wave" affects a diver's hearing causing severe nausea.
The report noted "impact on aquatic life" as possible collateral damage. The weapon is marked as being in the "developmental" stage.
Of the more outlandish ideas, an entry for "Laser Based Flow Modification" details how lasers could be used to disrupt the aerodynamic flow around an aeroplane's wings, forcing an "enemy" plane to change direction.
Other non-lethal weapons said to be in development include:
The JNLWD was set up in 1996 with the goal of facilitating and deploying non-lethal weapons in the US military in the wake of US operations in Somalia and Bosnia.
"They came up with a new set of missions that didn't involve blowing things up," explained James Lewis, military technology expert and senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International...

Summary: An alleged US military wish list of real and conceptual non-lethal weapons has been published online.
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Article: Pictures of men kissing the figure, holding her hand and touching her chest and crotch have gone viral on Facebook and other social media.
Malaysia is a Muslim-majority country which has seen religious conservatism on the rise in recent years.
Shell said the acts went against local culture and its own values.
The energy giant, which has more than 950 outlets in Malaysia, said it would not condone the "distasteful and suggestive acts", which it said were "disrespectful".
"We urge netizens and members of the public to refrain from sharing these images further", it added, criticising the "extreme behaviour" of the men,
The adverts featuring a 25-year-old female employee, dressed in a red T-shirt, black trousers and a black headscarf.
The woman told local paper The Star that she felt "humiliated" by the images.
"They may just be joking, but I feel humiliated because that is still myself although it is just an image," she said.
One man who posted a four-minute video on Facebook of himself kissing the cardboard cutout has reportedly apologised.
"I let excitement get the better of me," he told a Malaysian news outlet.

Summary:


A man has been arrested after a woman was found dead in a car in Bristol.
The woman, who was in her 20s, was found in a car in the city centre on Thursday.
Police said the woman was found in a car in the city centre on Thursday.
The woman was taken to hospital

Hundreds of photos of Bristol taken for a competition to show "24 Hours in Our City" are on show.

Article: Mr Sarkozy gained 64.5% of the vote, well ahead of his nearest rival Bruno Le Maire.
He was under pressure to win by a wide margin, and hoped to get more than 70% to keep his re-election hopes alive.
The UMP has struggled to be effective in opposition to Francois Hollande, despite the president's dismal ratings.
Mr Sarkozy, 59, won 85% of the vote when he was first elected party leader in 2004.
He served as president from 2007 and 2012 but left active politics after his defeat to Mr Hollande.
More than 150,000 party members - over 50% - voted in the election, despite the process being slowed down by a cyber attack.
Mr Le Maire, a former agriculture minister, received just less than 29.2% and a third candidate, MP Herve Mariton 6.3%.
Mr Sarkozy posted a message to supporters on his Facebook page (in French).
"I would like to thank all the UMP members who did me the honour of electing me leader of our political family," he said.
"Their mobilisation, at a level unequalled in the history of our movement, is the best response to two years of internal quarrels and divisions."
But a spokeswoman for Mr Hollande's Socialist Party said that the UMP's campaign had provided "nothing new for France".
"Mr Sarkozy's victory in the campaign for the UMP presidency is not the triumphal return that he was hoping for," Corinne Narassiguin said.
Florian Philippot, spokesman for the far-right National Front, described the result as an "utter failure" for Mr Sarkozy.
The UMP will choose its nominee for the 2017 presidential elections in two years, but correspondents say a lower than expected party vote for Mr Sarkozy could encourage other UMP leaders to stand against him.
Former prime ministers Alain Juppe and Francois Fillon are widely reported to want to be the UMP's candidate for president.
Mr Sarkozy is disliked by some French voters for his unusually high-profile private life, with critics branding his one-term tenure as the "bling-bling" presidency.
The 2012 leadership ballot - after Mr Sarkozy left office - degenerated into...

Summary: Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been elected head of the opposition UMP, in what is being seen as the start of a new bid for the presidency.
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Article: Nicholas Salvador, of Gilda Avenue, Enfield, is accused of killing Palmira Silva, 82, who was found in a garden in Edmonton, north London, on Thursday.
The 25-year-old is also charged with assaulting a police officer.
A post-mortem examination on Saturday found Ms Silva died from stab wounds to the heart and aorta. She was found decapitated, it is understood.
Mr Salvador was remanded in custody during a hearing at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court and is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Tuesday.
The defendant was taken to the dock in the magistrates' court by four police officers, the BBC's Sophie Long said.
She said one officer had to confirm Mr Salvador's name to the court as he would not answer.
Police found Ms Silva's body behind a property, in Nightingale Road, after being called to the area following reports an animal had been attacked.
Officers evacuated nearby homes before the suspect was Tasered.
Neighbours described Ms Silva as a "lovely lady" and said she was an Italian widow who ran a cafe in Church Street, near Edmonton Green station.

Summary: A man accused of the murder of a grandmother who was beheaded in London has been remanded in custody.
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Article: Mr Neil told The Times newspaper he did not want to see a "premature referendum".
And he believes waiting to see the details of the deal the UK government agrees with the EU could "maximise" the prospect of independence.
Mr Neil served as health secretary under Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon.
He revealed last month that he voted to leave the EU, against the strong pro-EU position of the party leadership, and claimed some other SNP MSPs had done so too.
Ms Sturgeon has said Scottish independence remains "firmly on the table" in the wake of the Brexit vote, with a majority of Scots voting to Remain in June's UK referendum.
And the Scottish government believes that people should "have the ability to consider the question of independence - and to do so before the UK leaves the EU - if it becomes clear it is the best or only way to protect our country's interests".
But Mr Neil told The Times: "You cannot realistically maximise your chances of winning a referendum for independence unless and until you know what the final Brexit deal is.
"The reality is that after the statement by (the EU's chief negotiator) Michel Barnier that the deal has got to be done in the next 18 months, physically it would be very difficult to get an independence referendum in that time.
"So realpolitik is kicking in anyway in terms of the timing, and realistically any referendum on independence is going to come after the deal is done."
Mr Neil, who stood down as social justice secretary in May, believes the best time for a second independence referendum would be after the next UK general election, scheduled in 2020.
"There's an argument that, with the likely result of an election in 2020, with a Tory government with an increased majority, that would be the best time to have a referendum," he told the newspaper.
"Let's not have a premature referendum which we might not win because we don't have all the answers."
Ms Sturgeon is due to publish options focused on keeping Scotland in the European single market, even if the UK leaves it, later...

Summary: A second Scottish independence referendum should not be held before Brexit negotiations are completed, former minister Alex Neil has said.
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Article: The images were all taken from midday-to-midday on 16 and 17 April and the contest was  open to anyone with a camera or a mobile phone.
The overall winner was Paolo Ferla who took "Electric Bristol" - a picture of the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
Megan Witty, from 24 Hours In Bristol, said the judges had had "an incredibly tough job" picking a winner.
The competition involves entrants being "randomly allocated" one hour of the day or night in which they must take at least one photograph.
Mr Ferla, from Bath, said he was "delighted" to have won.
He said he used a 10 second self-timer and then ran into the shot.
"Ten seconds is not very long so it took quite a few attempts - when we got there the sky was still quite bright, so we sat there for nearly 20 minutes waiting for the sky to get darker.
"It's a beautiful bridge and as soon as the sun sets on it and the sky gets darker and the electric lights come on - it just comes to life. "
Ms Witty said the six judges "didn't always agree" and one said it had been "heartbreaking" for some not to win. She said about 75% were taken on cameras and about 25% on mobile phones.
The exhibition is at the Harbourside Arts Centre near Millennium Square and runs until the middle of June.

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open to the public, is one of the oldest industrial structures in the UK, its owner said.
The museum, which is open to the public, is

A mine, which has been made popular again by the recent BBC series Poldark, is to get a "facelift".

Article: Col Tahir Mahmood said troops acted on information that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was hiding criminals.
Schools and businesses across the city closed down amid fears of a backlash.
The MQM, which has urged a national protest, has long been accused of using violence and intimidation to control Karachi - claims it denies.
At various times in its 30-year history, the MQM has been part of the national governing coalition.
But leader Altaf Hussain lives in self-imposed exile in London, where he is being investigated over money-laundering allegations.
And its control of Karachi is increasingly being challenged by ethnic gangs, says the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad.
The MQM operates from the modest residence of party chief Altaf Hussain, and its adjoining buildings. The complex, known as Nine-Zero, has narrow, heavily guarded lanes that served as Mr Hussain's base until he went into exile.
For die-hard loyalists, many of whom were seen weeping after the raid, the sanctity of the neighbourhood has been violated. For critics of the party, however, Nine-Zero remains a no-go area from where the MQM has used the fear of guns and bullets to control this city of 20 million.
In the past, security forces have regarded the MQM as a force capable of turning Karachi into a war zone. But over the years things have changed.
Having spent more than a decade in government, the MQM is seen as weaker and somewhat directionless today. Its leader is under pressure from the British authorities as he faces a series of allegations, including money-laundering. He is also said to be suffering from health problems.
On the ground in Karachi, the MQM's muscle may be intact but it is believed that the army is managing to persuade the party to move away from its violent past.
After Wednesday's early morning raid, supporters and activists gathered outside the MQM headquarters and party leaders called for a nationwide strike.
Speaking to Pakistan's Geo News, senior MQM figure Farooq Sattar said the operation was "inappropriate and...

Summary: Security forces have raided the Karachi headquarters of Pakistan's fourth biggest political party, detaining "hardcore criminals" and seizing arms.
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Article: Karol Wojtyla's election as Pope in 1978 stunned the Catholic world. Not one expert had tipped the 58-year-old bishop of Krakow for the top job.
His stand against Poland's Communist regime had brought him respect. But he was not part of the Vatican "in-crowd" and, above all, he was the first non-Italian pope in more than 450 years.
He went on to become one of the most familiar faces in the world. His papal odyssey covered more than 120 countries and he earned himself the reputation of an international fighter for freedom.
But, to his critics, John Paul II was the arch-conservative - an autocrat whose pronouncements on abortion, contraception and women's rights have had an effect on millions of lives.
The youngest Pope of the 20th Century was born near Krakow, Poland, in 1920. As a young man he excelled at sports, including soccer and skiing. He also had a great love for the theatre and, at one time, seriously considered becoming an actor.
World War II and the Nazi occupation saw Karol Wojtyla working as a labourer. He studied theology from 1942 and was forced into hiding in 1944 following a crackdown on religious teaching.
Continuing his studies after the war, he was ordained a priest in 1946. Rapid promotion followed, and by 1964 he was archbishop of Krakow. Three years later he was a cardinal.
Throughout, he had continued his theological studies and was often seen in Rome, but no more so than dozens of other cardinals from distant and obscure dioceses.
How does someone become a saint?
"The Year of the Three Popes" came in 1978. Pope Paul VI died at the age of 80. His successor, elected in a single day, took the name John Paul in memory of his two predecessors. Thirty-three days later he, too, was dead.
Once again the College of Cardinals conducted the centuries-old ritual of a papal election in the Sistine Chapel. After two days of deliberation, Karol Wojtyla became the next successor to St Peter.
Taking the name John Paul II, the new pontiff signalled a new era in Catholic affairs. He was dynamic and...

Summary: John Paul II, who died at the age of 84 in April 2005, was declared a saint in 2014 alongside Pope John XXIII at a ceremony in the Vatican.
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Article: But Sir Alan, the former judge who heads the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso), said papers were unlikely to face exemplary Â£1m fines.
In a speech to the Society of Editors, he said Ipso would use a "slim, clear book of rules" not an "iron fist".
He insisted he did not want a "boring, defensive" press, but an "unruly" one.
"Mistakes and errors of judgement will always occur," said Sir Alan.
"But if you do so deliberately, flagrantly, without caring one jot whether you break the code or not, Ipso will damn you.
"We want a free, fair and unruly press ruled only by an independent regulator, Ipso, who will support you and encourage you to remain free, fair and unruly."
Most newspapers have signed up to Ipso, which replaced the much criticised Press Complaints Commission in the wake of the Leveson report into press standards.
The Guardian, Independent and Financial Times are three of those that have declined to embrace the new watchdog.
Campaign group Hacked Off, which wants tougher press regulation, has dismissed Ipso as a "sham".
Sir Alan has said Ipso will prove its independence with its actions.
Referring to the prospect of exemplary fines, Sir Alan said: "When Ipso was launched we were all told how different the regulatory regime would be now that there was power to fine up to Â£1m or 1% of annual turnover.
"And they said, 'There you are... now you can show your mettle by fining someone Â£1m, that's what you need.'
"You only have to say that, to see how unlikely it is. Proper successful independent regulation will not be established by manic firing of a big bazooka."
Sir Alan said Ipso's decisions would occasionally be unpopular.
"But we are not here to be popular. We are not here only to secure agreement but to manage disagreement.
"Of course it is important that there should be urgent and speedy resolution of complaints. Publications should be encouraged to settle disputes, with fairness, clarity and above all without delay."
One of the first tests for the new watchdog is the case of the...

Summary: Newspapers that break press rules "deliberately" or "flagrantly" will be "damned" by the new industry watchdog, its chairman, Sir Alan Moses, has said.
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Article: Machinery that used to be "the heart" of Poldark Mine is to be restored by Cornwall College engineering students.
The tin mine, which is open to the public, is one of the oldest industrial structures in the UK, its owner said.
It is believed that the renovation project on the mine at Wendron near Helston could take several years to complete.
David Edwards, who bought it last year, said the machinery on site "has suffered after 14 years of little or no investment" but that the recent BBC television series has prompted the need for it to be rejuvenated.
"Poldark definitely had an impact for us, it brought more people in buying bookmarks and taking a tour of the mine," he said.
"The challenge now is to restore the machinery we have on display and get it back in order so that it is more interesting to the public.
"This has been a place of industry since the 1400s, one of the oldest industrial structures in the UK, so keeping it going is vital for Cornwall's heritage."
Luke Bazeley, an engineering lecturer at Cornwall College, said: "We always try to give the students work experience and this is the perfect live project to work on - they've loved visiting the site and finding out more about Cornwall's heritage."
He added the students will need to do some research to find replacement parts for the machinery.

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A Danish court has sentenced a former Se og Hor journalist to 18 months in jail for selling information about celebrities.
### Article: A Danish court has sentenced a former Se og Hor journalist to 18 months in jail for selling information about celebrities.
### Article: A Danish court has sentenced a former Se og

Four Danish journalists have been found guilty of paying for credit card information to track politicians, celebrities and royal family members.

Article: The structure was one of the entries for the "edible masterpieces" challenge at Norwich Castle.
Its creator, Alison Newbery, 28, said she had been inspired by artist Perry's building in Wrabness, Essex.
"It took me about 14 hours to make, which was longer than I thought. But I did take a break to watch the Great British Bake Off final," she said.
The challenge was started by charity Art Fund, which supports museums and galleries across the country.
Miss Newbery, who works as an administration and finance officer at Norwich Castle, said she and her colleagues had been inspired by the BBC One baking series, which finished this week.
Norfolk Museum's head of service acted as the competition's own Mary Berry and declared Miss Newbery's biscuit creation the winner.
The BBC has contacted Perry to see what he made of the cake, but he is yet to respond.
Miss Newbery said she had grown up in north Essex, near the site of Perry's art work, and thought it would be the easiest of his creations to try to render in biscuit form.
Organisers said a "big favourite" was an edible version of Norwich Castle, which included cake at the bottom and top, and contained 16 eggs.
Another baker made a model of Kings Lynn town hall out of marzipan, while someone else created a cake covered in sugar work brooches, inspired by Norfolk finds in the museum's collection.
Miss Newbery said all the money raised during the bake sale would go to Art Fund and the museum.
She said the competition had left all the participants feeling "very happy and slightly high on sugar".

Summary: A shortbread version of Grayson Perry's "A House for Essex" has been named the winner of a baking competition.
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Article: Kimberley Taylor, from Blackburn, told BBC News she had joined Kurdish forces known as the YPJ in March last year.
The 27-year-old, who is on the front line in Raqqa, said fighting IS was for "democracy and freedom from extremism".
She is the first known woman from the UK to successfully travel to Syria to join the fight against IS.
Despite fighting in a war zone, she said: "I really don't want to scare my family."
Anti-IS forces have been trying to recapture Raqqa since it became the group's de facto capital in 2014.
Ms Taylor, a former maths student at the University of Liverpool, said she had spent 11 months learning Kurdish and studying regional politics, weaponry and battlefield tactics at the Kurdish Women's Protection Units' (YPJ) dedicated military academy.
"Everyone here sees the YPJ as leaders of the revolution, they're women that we can't compare with anything in the world," she said.
By Emma Vardy, the BBC correspondent who interviewed Ms Taylor
For Kimmie Taylor, joining the Kurdish women is about much more than picking up a gun.
She sees the YPJ female fighters as a beacon of hope for the world.
Strong female comrades, battling for freedom, democracy, and equality, in the midst of a terribly troubled region where women have been raped, kidnapped and held as sex slaves.
It is easy to see how one can be inspired. This is a revolution, she tells me.
As I interviewed her, she spoke in Kurdish to her comrades. She has clearly earned their trust and respect.
She is now trying to shine a spotlight on their struggle.
Ms Taylor, who is also known as Kimmie and by the name Zilan Dilmar, said she went the front line with the YPJ in October.
Like their male counterparts in the affiliated YPG, the YPJ has women who fight on the front line.
"The [women] are young, 18, 19, 20, they're taking on this power which seems uncontrollable," she said.
Although willing to risk her life for the cause, she said: "I don't want to die. I have too much work to do."
"It's a necessary thing," she added. "This is for the...

Summary: A British woman who has travelled to Syria to fight so-called Islamic State has said she is willing to die in the battle against the militant group.
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Article: The research said the shift was a response to a decline in the quantity and quality of food on offer.
"Because it is cheap, tasty, and rich in calories, ramen has become so valuable that it is used to exchange for other goods," said study author Michael Gibson-Light.
US prison data shows spending has not kept pace with the number of inmates.
How the US will end its 30-year history with private prisons
Although the research is based on anecdotal evidence from fewer than 60 inmates and staff from one male state prison, the author points to other findings indicating that the trend toward using ramen noodles for exchanges is evident in other prisons.
The shift was taking place across different groups within prisons and was not a response to bans on tobacco products within the prison system, Mr Gibson-Light said.
The noodles are exchanged for goods including other food items, clothing, hygiene products and even services such as laundry and bunk cleaning, Mr Gibson-Light said.
Others use them as bargaining chips in gambling when playing card games or participating in football pools.
They are also replacing other traditional forms of prison currency, such as stamps and envelopes, the study found.
The US spent $52.4b (Â£39.7bn) on prison services in 2012. But expenditure has not kept up with a growing state prison population, which saw a rise of 343% between 1980 and 2013, although it has now declined slightly.
Mr Gibson-Light said staff and inmates at the prison he visited said the amount of food being provided had decreased steadily over decades and warned the shift could have serious implications.
"Prisoners are so unhappy with the quality and quantity of prison food that they receive that they have begun relying on ramen noodles - a cheap, durable food product - as a form of money in the underground economy," he said.
"The form of money is not something that changes often or easily, even in the prison underground economy; it takes a major issue or shock to initiate such a change," he added.
He called for more...

Summary: Ramen noodles have overtaken tobacco to become the most valuable commodity in some US prisons, a new study suggests.
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Article: An employee of the credit card company Nets was also convicted.
Leaks provided by IT expert Peter Bo Henriksen to the Se og Hor weekly magazine enabled it to report a series of royal family and celebrity stories, to the bafflement of its rivals.
The case has attracted huge public interest in Denmark.
Judge Mette Lyster Knudsen sentenced Mr Henriksen - who used to work for Nets - to 18 months in jail for selling information between 2008 and 2012 that detailed the location of major public figures including Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and actor Mads Mikkelsen.
Former Se og Hor editor Henrik Qvortrup was also sentenced to 18 months in jail, of which 12 were converted into 200 hours' community service.
Three other Se og Hor journalists were given suspended sentences, while another was acquitted.
All have since left the weekly, which has one of the biggest circulations in Denmark.
Among the stories reported by the magazine were details about the honeymoon of Prince Joachim and his wife in Canada in 2008, after it bought information about their itinerary from Nets.
The media group that owns the magazine was fined $1.52m (Â£1.22m) last year for wrongfully monitoring more than 120 celebrities. Two former senior staff members were given suspended sentences.
One of the celebrities who fell victim to the magazine, Rene Dif of the Danish-Norwegian music group Aqua, criticised the sentences on Thursday. "These short sentences shows how ridiculous the Danish justice system is," he told Danish TV.
The four journalists have said they are considering an appeal against the verdict.

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A Russian military plane has crashed in Syria, killing all on board.
The plane, a MiG-29, was carrying a crew of four, including a pilot, a co-pilot and a flight engineer.
The plane was flying from the Russian airbase in Latakia to the Syrian airbase in

Turkey's military has denied that it mistakenly told Russian warplanes to bomb a building in Syria on Thursday, killing three Turkish soldiers.

Article: Neil Hamilton said that with Brexit achieved, UKIP's aim now was to inform the Welsh electorate of its domestic policies.
And he denied the party had outlived its purpose, following the vote to leave the European Union.
His comments come despite UKIPs loss in Stoke-on-Trent Central's by-election on Friday.
The party had hoped to capitalise on voters' leanings towards Brexit - the area voted strongly to leave the EU in June - but Labour held its seat.
UKIP was founded in 1991 with the sole aim of getting the UK out of the EU.
But Mr Hamilton defended the role of his party post-Brexit while speaking to Sunday Politics Wales.
"In the last 20 years, UKIP has become an essential, particularly in Wales, part of the domestic political scene and we now have to refocus our attention upon other issues," he said.
"We have serious work now in order to show people we do have other policies which can benefit them in their daily lives."
With six assembly members, UKIP are hoping to establish a further foot-hold in Wales in the up-coming local elections.
"Carywn Jones doesn't hold a majority in the assembly, he can only do so with the combination of other parties," Mr Hamilton said.
"We are an important voice in Wales, we got the best part of 15% of the vote in the assembly election last year and all the current opinion polls show that we would actually do better in Wales today than we did last May."

Summary: UKIP has become an "essential voice" in Welsh politics, the party's leader in the assembly has insisted.
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Article: A restored print of Sleigh Bells (1928) will have its world premiere at the BFI in London in next month.
The BFI says the re-discovery of the "long-lost" six-minute film in its archive is a "joyful treat".
Other Oswald films survive but Sleigh Bells has been unseen since its original release.
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was invented by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for Universal in 1927 before they went on to create Mickey Mouse.
The only surviving print of Sleigh Bells was preserved in the BFI National Archive and was "re-discovered" by a researcher browsing its online catalogue.
The restoration work was carried out by Walt Disney Animation Studios and the new print will be shown at BFI Southbank on 12 December as part of a programme of Disney Christmas shorts.
"What a joyful treat to discover a long-lost Walt Disney film in the BFI National Archive and to be able to show Sleigh Bells to a whole new audience 87 years after it was made," said Robin Baker, head curator at the BFI National Archive.
"The restoration of this film will introduce many audiences to Disney's work in the silent period - it clearly demonstrates the vitality and imagination of his animation at a key point in his early career."
Andrew Millstein, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, which oversaw the restoration, said the Oswald shorts were an important part of Disney history.
"We have been working with film archives and private collectors all around the world to research the missing titles."

Summary: A cartoon featuring the first Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, is to be screened for the first time in 87 years.
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Article: The Society of Motoring Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said there was a 7% rise in new car sales in the first six months of the year, taking the total to more than 1.3 million.
In June alone, there was a 12.9% surge in car sales compared with a year ago, amounting to 257,817 sales.
About 15% of buyers chose a UK-manufactured vehicle, the SMMT said.
That was the highest level in five years, it added.
However, it said it expected slower growth in the next six months.
Low interest rates, attractive finance deals and the launch of new models continued to encourage consumers to buy new cars, the SMMT said.
It also reported a strong surge in demand for alternatively fuelled vehicles in June.
The Ford Fiesta remained the top-selling car last month, as it has all year, selling 12,543 units in June and 71,990 in the year to date.
Behind the Fiesta, the Vauxhall Corsa was the second best-selling car, with 9,561 unit sales in June and 50,125 in the year to date.
1. Ford Fiesta: 71,990
2. Vauxhall Corsa: 50,125
3. Ford Focus: 45,078
4. Volkswagen Golf: 38,261
5. Nissan Qashqai: 34,501
6. Vauxhall Astra: 29,966
7. Volkswagen Polo: 28,980
8. Audi A3: 25,765
9. Mercedes Benz C-Class: 24,676
10. Mini: 23.455
"It is still a great time to buy a new car in the UK, and it is encouraging to see more consumers choosing British models. This is important for the wider economy, with 799,000 people now employed across the UK automotive sector, including retail," said SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes.
"We anticipate a flatter second half of the year, as the market finds its natural running rate."

Summary: UK new car sales in the year to June rose at the fastest rate on record, a motor industry survey has found.
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Article: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters the pilots were "guided by co-ordinates" from "Turkish partners".
"There should not have been Turkish troops at those co-ordinates," he said.
But the Turkish military insisted the troops had been at the building for 10 days and that Russia had been advised of their position on Wednesday.
The two countries, which support opposing sides in Syria's almost six-year civil war, are working together to drive the Islamic State group from its last stronghold in Aleppo province.
Turkish-backed rebel fighters have been besieging al-Bab from the north since December, while Russian-backed government forces are advancing from the south.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was quick to call his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to offer condolences after Thursday's air strike, which also wounded 11 Turkish soldiers.
On Friday morning, Mr Putin's spokesman told reporters in Moscow that the causes of the incident were "clear".
"Unfortunately, when carrying out strikes against terrorists, our military were guided by co-ordinates that had been handed over by Turkish partners," Mr Peskov said.
Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister, Numan Kurtulmus, meanwhile said the air strike was still being investigated.
"According to initial information we received, it is a total accident," he was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency. "But how it happened and how the co-ordination was miscalculated will be clarified."
The Turkish military subsequently issued its statement challenging Mr Peskov's account and stressing that the soldiers' position had been communicated the previous day to both officers at Russia's Hmeymim airbase in Syria and the Russian military attache in Ankara.
The air strike came as rebel fighters clashed with pro-government forces near al-Bab for the first time since coming within firing distance of each other.
Russia had to intervene to prevent further fighting at a village south-west of the town again on Friday, according to the Reuters news agency.
Both...

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