Former Celtic and Hibs footballer Islam Feruz has admitted driving an £80,000 Porsche while disqualified.

The 21-year-old Somalian-born player also pleaded guilty to driving without insurance at Glasgow's Justice of the Peace Court.
The offences took place on 9 September 2015 in Nelson Street, Glasgow.
Feruz - who is on loan at Swindon Town from his current club Chelsea - had his case continued until later this month for reports.
The former child refugee was tipped as a future star after joining Celtic aged 10.
The Parkhead club had successfully campaigned for him and his relatives to avoid deportation from Scotland.
But, after six years, Feruz left for Chelsea - and later reportedly downplayed Celtic's role in the deportation case.
He has since gone out on loan to several clubs, including Scottish Championship side Hibs.


When will the first train arrive on an electrified line in Swansea?

The Network Rail website (download the FAQs) says: "Cardiff to be electrified by May 2017, Swansea to be electrified by May 2018".
No-one in government is putting a date on it. Plaid Cymru's parliamentary leader, Jonathan Edwards, asked the prime minister on Wednesday to confirm it would be delivered by 2018.
Mr Edwards asked: Can you inform the house and the people of Wales whether it continues to be the policy of your government to complete to Swansea by 2018 and part-fund the Valley lines?"
The prime minister, reading from a brief, replied: "We're absolutely committed to electrifying the Great Western Main Line to Cardiff, through to Swansea.  We're also contributing Â£125m to the cost of the wider Valley lines electrification. It's vital that this work goes ahead. We do need to make sure that Network Rail gets its costs under control and has strong leadership in place and we'll make sure those things happen."
No dates there. Mr Edwards tried again today with Transport Minister Patrick McLoughlin. He got this response: "What I can say for the people of Swansea and for your constituents is that they do get the benefit straight away, I think it's 2018, I'll clarify exactly with you in a letter of the new IEP trains which will be able to run, and yes, electrification to Swansea - all the way - is part of a programme which I have said is a top priority."
No dates there either. The Wales Office issued a brief statement from its Minister Alun Cairns:  "I'm pleased to hear the strong commitment to South Wales electrification through to Swansea from the Transport Secretary today.  This project will transform the lives of people in South Wales by attracting investors, linking businesses to suppliers and connecting people to jobs."
No dates there. Will it be delivered by 2018? It was suggested I contact the Department for Transport, which is clearly furious with Network Rail's performance.
Mr McLoughlin told MPs:"On the 216 miles of the Great Western line alone, Network Rail needs to alter around 170 bridges, lower parts of the trackbed, and install 14,000 masts of overhead line equipment, electrifying parts of the railway constructed by Brunel in the 1830s so that the new British-built fast train can speed up services, provide more seats and services."
A Sunday Times report suggested on June 21 that the line may not be ready in time to take delivery of the new trains.
The good news - if you live in Swansea or want to get there - is that the Great Western line is now a top priority, at the expense of similar projects in England.
Any further significant delay could come with the silver lining that I may be able to use my senior railcard for the first journey.


West Brom striker Saido Berahino has been charged with drink-driving.

The 21-year-old was arrested by Cheshire Police after being stopped near junction 20 of the southbound M6 in the early hours of 22 October.
He will appear before North Cheshire magistrates in Runcorn on 19 January.
The England Under-21 international has scored 13 times in 24 appearances for the Baggies this season, and has been linked with a big-money transfer to a top Premier League club.
The player's form earned him a call-up to the full England squad in November but he did not play in matches against Slovenia and Scotland.
Berahino,who came to the UK from war-torn Burundi as a child, signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract with West Brom in December 2013.


British number one Johanna Konta is out of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells with a 6-3 3-6 6-7 (1-7) third-round defeat by France's Caroline Garcia.

Meanwhile British number three Kyle Edmund lost to defending champion Novak Djokovic 6-4 7-6 (7-5) in round two.
It ends British interest in the singles after Andy Murray and Dan Evans lost.
Konta, seeded 11th, broke Garcia in the fourth game but the 21st seed levelled the match and dominated the third-set tie-break, winning it 7-1.
Garcia, who was once described by Murray as a future world number one, showed impressive resilience to recover from a set down against Konta and sealed her win and a place in the last 16 with a powerful cross-court backhand.
Edmund lost the first set in 42 minutes against Serb Djokovic but won the first three games of the second and served for the set at 5-3, before the five-time champion fought back to seal the match.
The world number two will play former US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina in the third round.
Australian Open champion Roger Federer needed only 52 minutes to reach round three with a comfortable 6-2 6-1 win against France's Stephane Robert.
World number six Rafael Nadal secured a third-round tie against fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco with a 6-3 6-2 victory over Guido Pella of Argentina in one hour 20 minutes.
World number 60 Donald Young was a surprise 6-3 3-6 6-3 winner against fellow American Sam Querrey, ranked 26.
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller at Indian Wells
Konta played without her usual fluency and, although she served better in the final set, she could not take any of the three break points and was outplayed emphatically by Garcia in the tie-break.
The best part of four weeks off tour resting a foot injury may explain some of the rustiness, and - like Andy Murray - Konta now has virtually two weeks of practice stretching ahead of her before she plays her first singles match in Miami.


The Egypt Air disaster may have dropped out of the news briefly, but the investigation continues apace to find out why flight MS804 crashed.

French investigators think they have heard locator-beacon signals from at least one of the "black box" flight recorders, and now salvage experts are heading to the site to take a closer look.
Hearing the beacons is one thing, but they won't know for sure what they have found until they send down a robotic submarine armed with bright lights and cameras.
"Black boxes" are, in fact, bright orange and have reflective strips, so they show up pretty well when you shine lights on them.
The robotic submarine is on a special salvage ship, called the John Lethbridge.
The sub has claws (manipulator arms) that can pick things up and bring them to the surface.
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I have spoken to a marine salvage expert, David Mearns, who has decades of experience looking for shipwrecks and lost aircraft.
It had a different name then, but he used the John Lethbridge in 2001 to photograph the wrecks of the warships Bismarck and HMS Hood.
This is also a man who once ran an operation to pick up every single piece of a crashed aircraft that had sunk 3,800m (12,500ft) to the sea bed on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea (actually the Tyrrhenian Sea off western Italy).
It took his team two years to recover all the debris.
Mr Mearns is not involved in this search, but he knows crew members on the John Lethbridge, and ocean recovery is a small, specialised world.
His best guess, and it's just that because he doesn't know all the details, is that, with a fair wind, the team with the robot sub could be on site within three or four days.
They have to stock up in port first.
"If they're really lucky, they could find the black boxes on their first dive," he told me, "but it all depends."
"It is not unusual for the underwater locater beacons, or pingers, to have been knocked off the black boxes during the crash."
In the meantime, Mr Mearns thinks that the ship, Lalplace, that initially heard the pingers, will have remained on site to sweep back and forth, listening out for more locator-beacon signals.
They go in set patterns, figure of eights or clover leaves, "to get the best possible range and bearings from which they can calculate a more accurate position of the black boxes on the seabed".
If they have found the plane, he says, investigators are faced with a choice.
"This is potentially a crime scene," he said.
"So, they could decide to sonar map and photograph the entire debris field before touching anything.
"That may be an area as small as 1km [0.6 miles] by 1km depending on how the plane broke up.
"Or they may choose to bring the boxes up quickly, because that could give them an early answer."
Recovering aircraft from under the sea is time consuming and complex.
The robot subs, operated by experts on the surface, can bring up small pieces weighing maybe 100kg (15st) in their claws.
You can also strap bigger parts, weighing about 500kg, to the subs.
But the really big pieces, such as the engines or tail for example, require specialist heavy lifting equipment.
There is one piece of positive news.
The depth isn't an issue for this kind of kit.
But all of this is jumping ahead.
First, they have to confirm they have heard a "black box".
Then, they have to find it, recover it, dry the circuits out - that takes a day or two - and download the data.
There are two boxes on board.
The cockpit voice recorder should reveal what the crew thought was happening.
You would hear what they said to each other, plus all the alarms in the background.
The flight data recorder should reveal what the plane's computers thought was happening.
The limited evidence so far points to an on-board fire.
But the "black boxes" might not be able to tell us whether it was started deliberately or not.
They may end up having to recover large parts of the aircraft to know for sure, and that is a long job.


Thieves have stolen a cash tin and a jar full of 1p coins from a church in the Borders.

Kelso North parish church, on the town's Bowmont Street, was broken into some time between 20:00 on Sunday and 08:00 on Monday.
The cash tin - containing a total of Â£130 - was taken along with the jar full of coins.
Police have appealed for anyone with information about the incident to contact them.
PC Craig Hood said: "The church runs on a very tight budget and this incident has had a significant impact on available funds which would otherwise have gone towards the upkeep of the church and any local events that they participate in.
"I would ask anyone with information in relation to any suspicious persons seen around the church during this time and in particular anyone seen exiting the building via the front door, to please get in touch."


Patients across the UK will be able to have hand transplants on the NHS, health officials have said.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust will begin assessing suitable adult candidates and performing the "highly complex procedure" from April.
Hand transplants offer patients the only method of reconstruction that looks and functions like a normal hand.
If transplanted successfully, a new hand will be able to sense its surroundings and heal itself when hurt.
The patient will also be able to move it with dexterity and it will feel warm to the touch.
The centre in Leeds is headed up by consultant plastic surgeon Prof Simon Kay, who successfully performed the UK's first hand transplant in 2012.
"We are delighted to be confirmed as the provider of this new service," he said.
"The team here at Leeds is keen to now assess new patient referrals and benefit patients and their families in a way they may never have thought possible before."
Former pub landlord Mark Cahill from West Yorkshire was the first person in the UK to have the operation.
Mr Cahill had been unable to use his right hand after it was affected by gout. His operation was carried out on the NHS but under different commissioning rules, which were subsequently changed months after his operation.
Since the transplant, he has started regaining almost complete use of his hand - allowing him to carry out tasks such as tying his shoelaces, carrying his granddaughter and driving a car.
He said: "My experience as a patient and my quality of life since the hand transplant has been fantastic. It really has transformed my life."
He also said he wanted to publicly thank his donor.
Dr Jonathan Fielden, NHS England's director of specialised commissioning, described hand transplants as "cutting edge procedure", which had been shown to "significantly improve the quality of life for patients who meet the strict criteria".
He said: "We will be working closely with Prof Kay and his colleagues at Leeds, as well as NHS Blood and Transplant, to ensure that this highly innovative service for the NHS can get up and running as soon as possible."
About 80 hand transplants have been performed worldwide.
Experts say success rates are high provided patients are selected carefully and fully-prepared psychologically.
After the operation, patients need to take lifelong medication to stop limbs being rejected by the body and follow daily physiotherapy routines.
Meanwhile, Corrine Hutton is to become the first person in the UK to have a double hand transplant.
She has been waiting for a suitable match for the past year-and-a-half.
Ms Hutton had her hands and feet amputated last summer after a pneumonia infection led to blood poisoning.


Japan's cabinet has approved an economic stimulus package worth more than 28 trillion yen ($275bn; Â£207bn).

It is the latest attempt by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to kick-start the world's third-largest economy and boost growth.
The package includes 7.5tn yen in new spending for the national and local governments over the next two years.
More than half of that sum has been earmarked for the current fiscal year.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the stimulus package would be included in a supplementary budget, which will be considered by an extraordinary session of parliament starting in September.
The government expects the measures to boost gross domestic product by 1.3%, but economists have expressed disappointment.
"This package is very much in line with reports over the past few days and has not done much to improve sentiment," said Lee Jin-Yang, macro research analyst at Aberdeen Asset Management.
The programme includes spending on infrastructure projects and the reconstruction of disaster zones, including parts of north-eastern Japan which were devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Part of the funds will also be used to improve wages for child and elder care workers, and provide support for small-scale companies and low income families.
However, Takuji Okubo, chief economist at Japan Macro Advisors in Tokyo, said the stimulus would  "have a very short-term effect".
"In terms of contents of the stimulus, old-fashioned public works tend to dominate. Overall, the stimulus packages smack of another disappointing misfiring of Abenomics," he added.
The latest government stimulus comes just days after the Bank of Japan eased monetary policy slightly and announced a plan to review its monetary stimulus programme in September.
That raised expectations for so-called "helicopter money", printing money to pay for government debt.
"While the method of financing is not clear yet, such cooperation between government and central bank is likely to be more frequent in Japan, and potentially elsewhere in the world," said Aberdeen Asset Management's Mr Lee.
"While helicopter money is a concept still frowned upon thus far, such coordination does make the first step in blurring the line as central banks run out of stimulus measures."


You may be surprised to learn that as many as 6.9 million people of working age in the UK have a disability.

That's 19% - nearly one in five. But when you look at the figures for UK sports coaches, provided by UK Coaching, the percentage who are disabled drops to 6%. And the number who have gained a qualification in sports coaching since 2009 is only 2%.
So how can these discrepancies be addressed? BBC Get Inspired asked three advocates of disability sports coaching what progress has been made and what still needs to be done.
Based at Basildon Sporting Village in Essex, Jack Edgar is the head coach of Sport for Confidence, an organisation that offers sports coaching to people with mental illness, and physical and learning disabilities. It also integrates the work of healthcare professionals into the sport and leisure industry, as Jack explains...
"When I was 18, I was working as a multi-sports coach and was given the chance to work with occupational therapist Lyndsey Barrett.
"That was the beginning of Sport for Confidence and now I run the sessions as a coach, supported by health professionals and working to help our clients develop a range of skills, both physical and social.
"We're making huge strides, bringing together professionals from health, sport and leisure. One participant is a young lady called Donna Robinson, who has cerebral palsy.
"Two years ago, Donna was attending our sessions as a participant and showed interest in becoming a coach or volunteer. In response to her enthusiasm, we created a sports programme called Pathway to Coaching, helping people with disability, like Donna, to achieve their coaching goals.
"We run several boccia sessions a week. Donna completed her Pathway to Coaching course and a boccia leader's course. Now she is on board as a member of the coaching staff.
"We're working hard to attract more leisure operator partners so we can take this model to new parts of the community. We also work with leisure centres to train staff and help them become more disability friendly.
"When some of our participants first attend, they're too anxious even to come into the hall. But we're seeing a huge difference in people. It's a big team effort but it really works."
For more details on the Pathway to Coaching programme, email jack@sportforconfidence.com or follow @sportforconf on Twitter.
Most people want to relax after a hard day at work, but not Bisi Imafidon. Bisi, 50, is a school manager in Newham, but also coaches running, basketball, goalball, boccia, swimming and more...
"When I was growing up I had no interest in sport or PE and only got into keeping fit after I had children. I joined my local running club, which was all volunteers. At the time I was working in a bank but was made redundant and it was a 'now or never' moment.
"In 2009 I took my level one coaching qualification in running and it just built from there. I was putting on sessions and got lots of encouragement and good feedback from the members.
"I knew how welcome the coaches had made me feel, never having done any running before. So it was really giving back.
"My specialism in disability coaching has always been mental health and I have quite a lot of people who have had issues with mental health and the effects of medication.
"I know what impact being active has made on my life and those of the people I've met. And you don't have to be sporty.
"One thing I do a lot is hula-hooping because it's active but it's a really good way to bridge the gap between sport and non-sport, disability and non-disability.
"That sends a really powerful message that you have those different groups working and playing together side by side."
Discover more about Bisi's running club - East End Road Runners - here, and follow Bisi on Twitter here.
Anna Jackson played 70 times for the GB wheelchair basketball team before retiring from elite competition in 2008. She has since dedicated herself to coaching the next generation of players - and up-and-coming coaches - from her base at Cheshire Phoenix Basketball Club in Ellesmere Port. This is her coaching story...
"I was a hockey player and tennis player and always enjoyed helping other people learn to play. Then I started having problems with my knees and had to give up sport on foot but discovered wheelchair basketball.
"Almost right away I put the coaching skills I had learned from other sports into wheelchair basketball. So for me it was always a natural progression.
"Wheelchair basketball changed my life and I probably wouldn't be here if I hadn't discovered that sport. If I can give a taste of that to other people, that would be amazing.
"Perceptions of disability sport are changing. I first noticed that in Sydney in 2000 at the Paralympics. For them it was just about sport. It's starting to happen over here, but I think that Australian attitude was the catalyst.
"Now it's about finding the sports coaches out there who have disabilities and telling people about them. I'm a tutor for British Wheelchair Basketball and giving all my players aged over 14 the chance to do a leadership course - right from youngsters with quite severe physical disabilities to a older players who have additional needs because of autism and ADHD.
"I want them to succeed and get that qualification and I'm in a place to help them do just that."
Find out more about Anna's club Cheshire Phoenix here, or find a club near you here.
Use our inclusive Get Inspired guides to find out more about disability sport,coaching and volunteering. And discover more about the work UK Coaching does here.


England Test captain Alastair Cook made only four at Grace Road, after Division Two leaders Essex bowled out Leicestershire on day one.

Jamie Porter (4-50) took two wickets in two balls in the first over, trapping both Paul Horton and Neil Dexter lbw.
Angus Robson (52) and Mark Cosgrove (71) put on 129 for the third wicket as Leicestershire were all out for 238.
Dieter Klein (2-7) removed both Cook and nightwatchman Porter as the visitors finished the day on 13-2.
Playing his first game for Essex since their 10-wicket win against Kent in July, Cook went into the game averaging 114.6 with the bat in the Championship.
The visitors began with a 23-point lead over Leicestershire, with only three more games to play this season and just a single promotion place available.


Europe has reached another milestone in its contribution to Hubble's successor - the James Webb Space Telescope.

An industrial team led from Astrium in Germany has completed the build of the Near-Infrared spectrometer, one of four instruments that will go in JWST.
NirSpec's job will be to determine the age, composition, movement and distance of the objects in its field of view.
The expectation is that some of these targets will include the very first stars to shine in the Universe.
That would mean picking up light signals that have travelled across space for perhaps 13.6 billion light-years - something Hubble cannot do.
JWST will make it possible with a suite of next-generation technologies, including a 6.5m primary mirror (more than double the width of Hubble's main mirror), and a shield the size of a tennis court to guard its keen vision against the light and heat from the Sun.
NirSpec is critical to this new capability, and represents 10 years of design and manufacturing endeavour.
In a short ceremony in Ottobrunn on Friday, the instrument was handed over to the European Space Agency (Esa), which had commissioned NirSpec. The Paris-based organisation then immediately passed the near-200m-euro instrument to the US space agency (Nasa), which leads the JWST venture.
On 20 September, NirSpec will be flown to Maryland's Goddard Space Flight Center for integration into the giant orbiting observatory.
Europe's major industrial commitments to JWST are now complete.
Its other instrument - the Mid-Infrared Instrument (Miri), which was assembled in the UK - was safely delivered to North America last year.
The one outstanding task - and it is a very onerous one - will be to launch JWST in October 2018. This will be performed by an Ariane 5 rocket from Esa's Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.
When I visited NirSpec in the Ottobrunn clean room last week, there was not much to see because the finished instrument was dressed for shipment in its protective thermal coat.
But if you could lift that covering, you would lay eyes on what appears to be an impossible optical maze.
NirSpec will be mounted just behind JWST's primary mirror and will sample the gathered light via a kind of periscope.
A series of mini-mirrors will then corral and condition this light, moving it towards a grating element where it can be sliced and diced into its component colours - its spectra. Detectors are positioned at the end of the maze to read these colours and convert them into an electronic signal that can be transmitted to the ground.
All this is done in the near-infrared, in the wavelengths from 0.6 to 5 microns. This is the region of the electromagnetic spectrum where you would expect to pick up starlight that has been stretched on its 13-billion-year journey across an expanding cosmos.
An interesting aspect of NirSpec's design is that nearly half by weight of the instrument is made from ultra-stiff silicon carbide.
"The unique feature of silicon carbide is that it allows us to make structure and mirrors out of the same material," explains Astrium programme manager Ralf Maurer.
"This helps us survive the transition going from warm to cold; there is no deformation. And that gives us a very stable alignment of the optics."
Seeing in the infra-red allows you to probe not just distant objects, but also cool objects and targets obscured by the light-scattering effects of dust. And so JWST should make many important discoveries in the close-by Universe, the most exciting of which may come in the study of planets around other stars. For some of these worlds, James Webb will have the power to discern the chemical compositions of their atmospheres, which should tell us a lot about the prevailing conditions at their surfaces.
Of course, it is very difficult to have a discussion about JWST without some reference to the problems it has encountered during its build. A mix of funding, technical, and management shortcomings have resulted in years of delay and a ballooning full and final cost (now expected to be close to $10bn if European and Canadian contributions are included).
Indeed, NirSpec leaves Germany with two US-provided components that do not meet the required specifications, and which will have to be exchanged before launch.
These are the instrument's infrared detectors and its system of microshutters.
The performance of the detectors has degraded over time and will now be replaced by a modified design that is in the process of being manufactured.
The microshutter array uses 250,000 tiny gates to select objects on the sky for study - up to 100 at a time. Some of the gates were getting stuck in an open position during testing. Goddard's experts have come up with a solution that, again, is well advanced.
Whilst it is right that JWST should account for its mistakes, it is worth remembering also that Hubble's full life-cycle costs are probably double that projected for the new telescope, even after the overruns.
It is easy to forget that Hubble's mission has required six extremely expensive shuttle launches. For sure, the old observatory has had a major impact on modern science, but many of those I speak to expect nothing less from JWST.
"Webb will be transformative, in the way that Hubble was before it," argues Nasa's Dr Eric Smith, the acting programme director for the observatory project.
"When Hubble was first conceived it had a set of science requirements and more-or-less predicted discoveries it could make; and indeed, it made all of those. But the most wondrous things that Hubble has found are the things that weren't predicted. Webb will have things just like that," he told me.
And Prof Mark McCaughrean, from the European Space Agency, puts it slightly differently: "There is no question at all that JWST is a central part of the next decade's exploration of the Universe.  Many other observatories have been planned around the knowledge of JWST being there, and taking complementary data.  It advances in sensitivity not by factors of 10, not even by factors of a hundred in many places, but by factors of a thousand or ten thousand. It's a telescope whose time has come."


Premier League side Watford have loaned striker Alex Jakubiak to Wycombe Wanderers until the end of the season.

Jakubiak has only made one first-team appearance so far for the Hornets, in a 4-1 Championship defeat by Huddersfield Town in May 2014.
The 20-year-old has been out on loan on four previous occasions, most recently at Fleetwood earlier this season, scoring one goal in five games.
"He's got a good eye for goal," Wycombe boss Gareth Ainsworth said.
"We have good competition for places up front but games are coming thick and fast and keeping everyone fit and sharp is a big challenge for us."
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Calls for an extra bank holiday because the 70th anniversary of Liberation Day falls on a Saturday have been rejected.

On 9 May 1945 the island was freed from five years of German occupation and in recent years the day of the anniversary has been a public holiday.
In 2015 the Saturday has been designated a public holiday, but seven deputies called for Friday to also be an official day off.
However, this move was heavily defeated by their fellow politicians.
The proposition had also suggested the May Day bank holiday on 4 May was removed so employers did not lose an extra working day.
The proposals included introducing an extra weekday public holiday whenever Liberation Day falls on a weekend in the future - this plan was lost by a drawn vote of 20-20.
An alternative proposal with the same aim was also lost.
A separate move to introduce Sunday trading laws, which limit what shops can open and what can be sold, on Liberation Day was also defeated.
Molly Bihet, an author who was 14 years old when the island was liberated, said it was a shame.
She said of Liberation Day: "You've got to live through it to really realise how happy we were and what a day it was.
"Everybody was so happy, my mum she sang and shouted so much that she lost her voice for weeks after."


Hundreds of pictures discovered in a cupboard which show Birmingham in the 1950s and 1960s have gone on display.

The images by amateur photographer Phyllis Nicklin were found last year when University of Birmingham staff were clearing out a building.
Ms Nicklin, a lecturer from Aston, took the photos between 1953 and 1969.
A selection are on display at the city's Reuben Colley gallery and artists have been invited to interpret the photos.
David Oram, from the university, published Ms Nicklin's photos on his local history website, Brumpic.
He said: "She's captured a time of change in Birmingham where new buildings [were] going up, the [old ones] coming down. This is exactly what happened in the 1950s and 1960s in Birmingham."
The photos were discovered by staff last year.


A "much-loved" junior doctor who posted on social media about the pressures of working in an A&E department has been found dead at her home.

Dr Rebecca Ovenden, 32, was found by her husband at home in Plymouth, Devon at 09:25 BST on 28 March.
She had a history of mental health issues and had previously attempted to take her own life, an inquest heard.
Dr Ovenden is the third female junior doctor who has died or gone missing in the south west of England in a year.
An inquest into her death was opened at Plymouth Coroner's Court on Monday and adjourned for a fuller hearing at a later date.
As yet there is no suggestion that Dr Ovenden's death was connected to her medical work and there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death, the inquest heard.
For more on Dr Rebecca Ovenden, and other news
In 2016 the family of Dr Rose Polge, 25, called for action to halt the "crisis" affecting trainee doctors after she went missing during a junior doctors' strike and took her own life.
Dr Lauren Phillips, who works for North Bristol NHS Trust, has been missing since 23 February. The 26-year-old's car was found in Woolacombe, Devon, five days later but no other traces of her have been found.
Dr Ovenden was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, and had worked in the emergency department at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth for 18 months.
In November 2015 she posted on Facebook calling for people to not to complain about waiting for four hours in A&E and be thankful for the service they receive.
The post, which was shared 38,000 times, she said: "Please don't complain in earshot of your health care professional about waiting four hours to be seen in the middle of the night, free of charge by a doctor, with a smile on their face who has not been rude to you, who has reassured you, when the reason it took four hours to see you was because they were trying to save the life of an elderly man who had not wanted to make a fuss about a cold when he was dying of a raging chest infection."
She added: "Every day we run the risk of not seeing a patient who desperately needs medical attention in a timely fashion because our department is full of people who did not need to be there."
Anne Hicks, Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the hospital described her as "a much-loved member of our team".
"She will be very sadly missed. Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones."
Helena Holt, CEO of Devon Air Ambulance, where Dr Ovenden also worked, said: "On behalf of everyone at Devon Air Ambulance we send our thoughts and condolences to Becky's family, friends and work colleagues at this difficult time."
Nigel Hare, operations director, added: "We were very sad to hear of Becky's passing. She was a talented doctor and much respected member of our team and will be missed by us all."
If you are affected by any of the topics in this article, the Samaritans can be contacted free on 116 123 or through their website.


Oil prices have stabilised after hitting fresh five-month lows in early trade on Friday, amid renewed concerns about a worldwide supply glut.

After falling sharply on Thursday, Brent crude fell below $47 a barrel at one point, before recovering to $49.14.
Prices are still around their lowest level since November, when the Opec oil producers' group agreed to cut output.
Investors are worried that Opec nations will fail to rein in output further at their next meeting later this month.
The price of US crude also dropped sharply on Friday morning, but then recovered to stand at $46.28 a barrel.
Oil prices are down by about 15% since the start of the year, despite Opec's agreement in November which cut output by 1.8 million barrels a day.
Supply is still outpacing demand, with US oil production alone up by 10% since summer 2016.
It now pumps out some 9.3 million barrels a day - not far short of the two giant oil producing nations of Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Opec's deal in November, and subsequent supply cuts agreed by other oil producing countries, helped to boost prices earlier this year, said David Hunter, an energy industry analyst with Schneider Electric.
But the market has been "jittery" as countries decide whether to extend those cuts, he said.
Opec and other oil nations are meeting on 25 May where they will discuss the success of the six-month cutback and whether it should be deepened.
Russia, one of the non-Opec countries to sign up to the cuts, gave mixed signals on Thursday about whether it would continue.
"While the cartel is expected to extend a self-imposed production cap by another six months, it will be a challenge to convince several non-Opec members to follow suit," said Abhishek Kumar, senior energy analyst at Interfax Energy's Global Gas Analytics.
"Persistent growth in US oil production ... will also make extensions of the Opec cap beyond 2017 unlikely."
Data released on Tuesday indicated US crude stocks fell 930,000 barrels last week. Analysts had been expecting a drop of 2.3 million barrels.


World number 25 Chris Simpson will miss the rest of the season after having surgery on a hip injury.

The 29-year-old from Guernsey, ranked fourth in England, had been targeting a place in the sport's top 16 this year.
He has won more than 200 matches as a professional player, and reached the final of the Nantes Open in France in September.
"My season has unfortunately come to a premature end," Simpson said in a statement on Twitter.
"I'm up and about today, and determined to make a full recovery."


Leicester City have signed Riyad Mahrez from French second-tier side Le Havre.

The 22-year-old France-born winger, who has declared himself available for Algeria, joins for an undisclosed fee.
He spent five years with Le Havre, scoring six times in 60 games after moving from amateur club Quimper.
"I'm delighted we've been able to sign him. Any signing has to improve what we already have and Riyad is a very talented, technically good player," said Leicester manager Nigel Pearson.


A man has died after suffering serious head injuries in an alleged assault in Leamington Spa.

Two groups are believed to have been involved in an altercation outside Moo Bar on Russell Street at about 01:00 BST.
A man in his 20s was assaulted and taken to hospital but died from his injuries, Warwickshire Police said.
Two 30-year-old men from Birmingham have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
The force is appealing for witnesses to come forward.


The home where film producer J Arthur Rank was born has been restored after standing derelict for over a decade.

Lord Rank's birthplace, in Holderness Road, Hull, was taken on by a social housing company which converted the property into apartments.
Many of the Victorian home's original features were preserved during the work, carried out by local apprentices.
The reopening was marked by the sounding of a giant golden gong, as seen at the start of every Rank film.
A campaign to save the house was started by BBC Radio Humberside presenter David Burns, who received an email from a listener complaining about the rundown state of the property.
It was opened by Lord Rank's grandson Joey Newton, who praised the community campaign to restore it.
"I really hope it will be a living memory to my grandfather," he said.
Rank was born into a family of Methodist flour millers in 1888.
He moved into film production as a way of promoting the Christian message.
The Rank Organisation grew to dominate British film production in the 1940s and 50s, operating the Odeon cinema chain and building Pinewood Studios.
He became Lord Rank in 1957 and set up a charitable foundation before his death in 1973.


Michael Schumacher's achievements are so colossal, statistically, that it is sometimes hard to separate the exceptional from the humdrum.

The catalogue of wins in the early 2000s, once the Ferrari team under Jean Todt, Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne had hit their stride, was so overwhelming that each tends to blend into the next. In those cars, probably any driver of consequence could have achieved what Schumacher did.
But it was not always like that. When Schumacher joined Ferrari, after two consecutive titles with Benetton in 1994-95, the team were on the rack, and he was brought in to save them.
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The title drought stretched back nearly 20 years, to Jody Scheckter in 1979, and the wins had been spread pretty thinly, too - none at all in 1991, '92 or '93, one each in '94 and '95.
The under-achievements had been largely technical in those years - but not always.
When Schumacher first drove the 1995 Ferrari at Estoril in winter testing at the end of the season, he was nearly two seconds quicker than regular drivers Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger had ever gone. And by no means all of that could be explained by the more advantageous conditions.
In that car, it was very obvious, Schumacher could have achieved plenty with Ferrari in 1995.
Unfortunately for him, the 1996 car was a dog.
It looked like a bathtub, its high cockpit sides an overly-literal interpretation of new safety rules, and it went like one, too, lacking grip, downforce and balance.
In it, though, Schumacher underlined his greatness arguably more effectively than he ever did when unlimited budget and testing, bespoke tyres, and ruthless management unfurled before him advantageously - arguably more than any driver has ever enjoyed.
The car should never have won a race - as team-mate Eddie Irvine's performances underlined. But Schumacher, as all great drivers do, found a way to transcend its shortcomings.
The first example was in Argentina early in the season, when he somehow manhandled the unwilling machine on to the front row, with a qualifying lap from the gods, all acrobatic reflexes, visibly dancing on the razor's edge.
But of all the amazing things he achieved that year, one stands out more than any - his victory in Spain.
It absolutely poured down all day. A wetter grand prix it is hard to imagine, and the conditions were so bad that, now, the race would probably not have happened.
It did, though. In the gloom, Damon Hill, on pole in the dominant Williams-Renault, spun twice in the first nine laps. Schumacher made a bad start and dropped back from his third place on the grid, but by lap 13 he was past Hill's team-mate Jacques Villeneuve and into the lead.
From there, he never looked back, regularly lapping five seconds - yes, you read that right - faster than anyone else.
There were extenuating circumstances, to an extent. Ferrari had gone all the way with a wet set-up, while Williams had gambled on it drying later on and hedged their bets. But that on its own could not explain the gulf between Schumacher and the rest.
It was a day when one driver raised himself to a level beyond the reach of his rivals and it was in many ways reminiscent of another great performance on a soaking wet Iberian peninsula, in Portugal 11 years before.
Like Ayrton Senna's first career win in 1985, Schumacher's maiden Ferrari victory has gone down in the annals as one of the greatest wet weather drives in history, from one of F1's greatest ever talents.


Visa has said it is considering offering incentives to UK businesses to go cashless, after introducing a similar scheme in the US.

The payments company is selecting 50 small companies in the US to receive $10,000 if they only use cards.
The companies have to bid for the money by explaining how going cashless would affect them, their staff and customers.
However, the idea has been criticised by consumer groups, who say cash is still vital for many people.
"It is easy to categorise it as a bribe, but ultimately they are incentivising companies to do away with cash, and that's not the job of people like Visa," said James Daley of consumer group Fairer Finance.
In any case, the offer could be of limited appeal to many retailers, who have to pay fees every time a customer uses a debit or credit card.
Even though interchange fees, as they are called, have been capped by the EU, retailers still pay an average of 16p on each credit card transaction, and 5.5p on each debit card.
In total UK retailers still paid Â£800m in such fees last year, charges that have been criticised by the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
Cards have already overtaken cash for retail payments, according to figures for last year from the BRC.
But banks and card companies should not be driving that move, Mr Daley said.
"In 50 years it seems unlikely that most of us will be using cash. But banks need to let evolution follow its natural course, rather than accelerating it," he told the BBC.
"As a responsible society we need to look after vulnerable customers who rely on cash."
Last month Victoria Cleland, the Bank of England's chief cashier, said that 2.7 million people in the UK rely almost entirely on cash - that's 5% of adults.
Nevertheless at least one cafe in London - Browns of Brockley -has already gone cashless.
In a statement, Visa said that following the launch of the scheme in the US, "we hope to bring similar cashless initiatives to other countries, including the UK".
"At this time, we do not have a firm plan on when such an initiative would be available in the UK."
In June this year, Visa chief executive Al Kelly told investors that the company was "focused on putting cash out of business".
"The number one growth lever [for the company] is the conversion of cheque and cash to digital and electronic payments."


A "treasure trove" of stolen personal details has been found on sale on black market websites, a security firm says.

About 360 million account credentials including email addresses and passwords were reportedly uncovered.
Hold Security said it had also found 1.25 billion email addresses without passwords.
It is unknown where the credentials, which were found in the past three weeks, came from - but the company said they included major email providers.
Experts said that the batch was exceptionally large in size. "It is Godzilla-sized, it is a monster," said online security consultant Graham Cluley.
He added: "There may be some duplicates but, even so, it sounds like a complete treasure trove for cybercriminals."
Hold Security said that its findings were the result of "multiple breaches which we are independently investigating".
In a post on its website, it said: "In the first three weeks of February, we identified nearly 360 million stolen and abused credentials and 1.25 billion records containing only email addresses.
It called the numbers "mind boggling" and said the disclosure represented a "call to action" over online security.
According to Mr Cluley, the details could be used to access not only the accounts they are directly associated with, but potentially others.
"What normally comes out is not only spam and phishing attacks, but also that the combination of email and password can be used in multiple places because people use the same ones across different sites," he said.
Mr Cluley added: "If people have a big database of passwords, they use it to find out what the regular ones are. The next time they want to crack into an account, they can use the most common passwords."
And Reuters reported concerns that the discovery could represent more of a risk to consumers and companies than stolen credit card data because of the chance the sets of user names and passwords could open the door to online bank accounts, corporate networks, health records and virtually any other type of computer system.
Alex Holden, chief information security officer of Hold Security, told the agency: "The sheer volume is overwhelming."
He said the credentials had been stolen in breaches yet to be publicly reported. The companies attacked could remain unaware until they were notified by third parties who found evidence of the hacking, he said.
"We have staff working around the clock to identify the victims," he said.
The batch also included email addresses not paired with passwords, which would be of use to people intending to launch spamming and phishing attacks.


Activity in China's vast factory sector picked up unexpectedly in March, according to a government survey.

The official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) was up to 50.1 from February's 49.9, and higher than economists' forecasts of 49.7.
A reading above 50 points shows an expansion in activity in the sector, while one below indicates contraction.
China has cut interest rates twice since November among other measures to boost economic activity.
However, a private survey of the sector showed a much dimmer outlook, indicating that activity had contracted this month.
The final HSBC/Markit PMI came in at 49.6, slightly higher than a preliminary "flash" reading of 49.2 released earlier in March.
Despite the contradicting surveys, economists said both continued to show the persistent weakness in the world's second-largest economy.
The Asian giant has been impacted by a downturn in its once red-hot property market, overcapacity in factory production and high levels of local debt, which contributed to growth of 7.4% in 2014 - a 24-year low.
Economists are now expecting growth to slow to around 7% this year.
On top of the manufacturing data, figures on China's services industry also added to concerns about slowing growth.
The official services PMI cooled in March, hovering around one-year lows.
The non-manufacturing index fell to 53.7 from February's 53.9, at the one-year low hit in January.
The service sector, which was expanding strongly last year while manufacturing struggled, accounted for over 48% of the economy in 2014, up from about 47% in 2013, according to Reuters.


BBC SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR 2014, SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Sunday 14 December.

The BBC Sports Personality of the Year will be named during a live awards show on Sunday, 14 December 2014 (BBC One & BBC One HD).
Voting details and criteria are below.
An expert panel (hereafter 'the Panel') will be convened in November 2014 in London to decide the shortlist for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. The BBC Sports Personality of the Year production team will provide the Panel with a list of the top 50 or more sportspeople from 2014, including information on their achievements. The Panel will be free to consider other potential candidates.
The Panel will comprise 12 members this year:
•Representatives from BBC Sport: Barbara Slater (Director, BBC Sport), Philip Bernie (Head of TV Sport) and Carl Doran (Executive Editor, BBC Sports Personality of the Year).
•Former nominees: Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Rebecca Adlington and Denise Lewis
•Representative from BBC Radio 5 live: Jason Roberts
•Pan-sports broadcaster/journalist: Alison Mitchell
•Representatives from newspaper sports editors: Mike Dunn (Independent, the i and Evening Standard) and Howard Wheatcroft (Express Newspapers Head of Sport) and Alex Butler (Sunday Times).
•Representative from UK sports industry: Louise Martin (Chair - sportscotland)
The panel will:
•Determine the shortlist of 10 for the main BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
•Undertake a back-up vote for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places for the main award (in the unlikely event of voting difficulties on the night of the show).
•Decide the top 3 positions for Team of the Year.
•Decide the top 3 positions for Coach of the Year.
•Decide the top position for Overseas Sports Personality of the Year.
The Panel will select a short list of 10 sportspeople on the basis of the following criteria:
• Reflects UK sporting achievements on the national and/or international stage;
• Represents the breadth and depth of UK sports, and;
• Takes into account 'impact' over and beyond the sport or sporting achievement in question.
The Panel will endeavour to produce a shortlist based on reaching a consensus view. If a consensus view cannot be reached on all or some of the candidates, then the Panel will be asked to vote for the remaining candidates. In the event of a tied vote, the chairperson's decision (Director, BBC Sport) will be binding.
The shortlist of 10 contenders will be announced during 'The One Show' on Monday, 24 November (BBC One, 19:00 GMT) and will also appear on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year website.
Vote on the night
The public only will decide the winner from the shortlist of 10 contenders during the live show with a vote. This will be overseen by an independent adjudicator.
In the unlikely event of:
• A tie in the public vote amongst the two contenders obtaining the highest number of votes, the award will be shared amongst those two. There will be no award in second place category and the third place category award will go to the contender scoring highest after the two in the tie.
• A tie in the public vote amongst the three contenders obtaining the highest number of votes, the award will be shared amongst the three and there will be no awards in second and third place categories.
• A tie in the public vote amongst two contenders obtaining the second highest number of votes, the second place award will be shared amongst those two and there will be no award in third place category.
• A tie in the public vote amongst two contenders obtaining the third highest number of votes, the third place award will be shared amongst those two.
• A full list of the number of votes polled by each contender will be available on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year website after the show.
Voting Terms and Conditions
1. Voting for the main award will be from a shortlist of 10 contenders presented during the live show on BBC One & BBC One HD on Sunday, 14 December 2014. Voting will be available by phone or via the BBC website. The number to call for each contender will be revealed during the programme. There is no voting via email, Red Button or by text. The telephone numbers will be available through Red Button and via the BBC website.
2. Telephone Vote: Voters in the UK can choose either to call from their landline using the long (11-digit) number for the contender(s) of their choice or from their mobile phones using the shortcode (7-digit) number for the contender(s) of their choice. Please note that callers from the Channel Islands and Isle of Man should call from their landlines using the long (11-digit) number to avoid higher mobile charges.
Calls to the long (11-digit) number cost 15p from BT landlines, other networks may vary. Calls to the long (11-digit) number will cost considerably more if made from a mobile device. Therefore, only call the long (11-digit) number, when dialling from a landline. To vote from your mobile in the UK, call the short (7-digit) number announced for your chosen contender(s). You cannot text and you cannot dial the short (7-digit) number from a landline.
Online Vote: You can also vote online. In order to vote you will need to be registered with the BBC sign in system, BBC iD. You can register at any time. If you are already registered with a BBC iD, you do not need to do anything but will have to sign in in order to vote on the night.
(Online votes will be limited to one vote per BBC iD account).
The online vote will be open during the same period as the telephone lines. The results of the telephone vote and the online vote will be aggregated prior to any announcements.
3. If you are watching BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014 on iPlayer, following through a website or any other time shift or catch up service you should not vote since the lines will have closed.
4. Voting is only open to individuals as consumers from the UK, and not to any agencies, businesses and/or companies. Please note that BBC employees who are in any way connected to the vote, their close relatives or anyone directly connected in any way with the production of the programme or the provision of telephony services to the programme is not eligible to vote.
5. You must obtain the phone bill payer's permission before voting.
6. Opening and closing times will be specified on the programme.
7. Please be sure you carefully dial only the number of the contender you wish to vote for.
8. Please do NOT call before the lines open, or after the lines have closed, as your vote will not be counted, but you may still be charged. The winner will be announced live on the programme.
9. The BBC reserves the right to disqualify votes if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that fraudulent, excessive or suspicious patterns of voting have occurred or if it considers there has been any attempt to rig the voting.
10. All voting will be overseen by an independent verification service.
11. The BBC reserves the right to cancel or suspend voting at any time. In the event of any such cancellation or suspension, a technical failure or any other malfunction with the vote, the BBC reserves the right to arrange for the winner to be decided by a contingency arrangement from the votes cast by a pre-agreed contingency panel. This panel will be the same as one which devised the shortlist - see above for details.
12. For purpose of verifying any claim for refunds (where offered) or investigating possible voting irregularities, the BBC may need to request the network operator to disclose the telephone number that you are voting from. Please note that this will still be required where you have originally opted not to disclose your telephone number (caller's line identification barring). If you do not agree to this, you should not vote. For the purpose of investigating possible voting irregularities when voting on bbc.co.uk, the BBC may use cookies (to log IP addresses, or analyse the information from your BBC iD account).
Where such investigations are required, the BBC will only ever use your personal information for the purposes of running the vote (including processing refunds or investigating possible voting irregularities) and in accordance with the BBC's Privacy and Cookies Policy. The BBC will not publish or provide your personal information to anyone without permission, except where required for enforcement of these terms. You can read more about the BBC Privacy and Cookies Policy here.
13. The BBC, its sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any telephone network or line, system, server, provider or otherwise which may result in any vote being lost or not properly registered or recorded.
14. The voting in this programme accords with the BBC's Code of Conduct for Competitions and Voting, details of which can be found here.
Definition of who is eligible
Voted for by the public live during the TV show, this prestigious award will be given to the sportsman or woman whose actions have most captured the public's imagination in 2014. Non-playing coaches or management are not eligible.
People are eligible to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year if they are citizens of Great Britain or Northern Ireland or all of the following criteria apply:
- They play a significant amount of their sport in the UK;
- Their core achievements that year were achieved in the UK, and not with a non-UK based team (in which case they would more likely qualify for the Overseas award);
- They are residents in the UK.
To the foreign sportsman or woman who has made the greatest impression in the world of sport this year.
(Includes all non-UK sportsmen and women who do not qualify for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award under its criteria.)
The expert panel responsible for choosing the shortlist for the main BBC Sports Personality of the Year award will decide an overall winner for the Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award based on reaching a consensus view. If a consensus view cannot be reached on the winner, then the Panel will be asked to vote. In the event of a tied vote, the chairperson's decision will be binding.
The winner will be announced during the BBC Sports Personality of the Year programme, with full details on the BBC website.
To the coach who has made the biggest impact in UK sport.
The expert panel responsible for choosing the shortlist for the main BBC Sports Personality of the Year award will decide the top three candidates and the overall winner for the Coach of the Year award based on reaching a consensus view. If a consensus view cannot be reached on the top three, then the Panel will be asked to vote. In the event of a tied vote, the chairperson's decision will be binding.
The winner will be announced during the BBC Sports Personality of the Year programme, with full details on the BBC website.
For the team in an individual sport or sporting discipline that has achieved the most notable performance in the calendar year to date. The team should have significant UK interest or involvement.
The expert panel responsible for choosing the shortlist for the main BBC Sports Personality of the Year award will decide the top three candidates and an overall winner for the Team of the Year award based on reaching a consensus view. If a consensus view cannot be reached on the top three, then the Panel will be asked to vote. In the event of a tied vote, the chairperson's decision will be binding.
The winner will be announced during the BBC Sports Personality of the Year programme, with details on the BBC website.
This will be awarded to the outstanding young sportsperson aged 17 or under on 1 January 2014, selected from nominations made to the BBC and by sports governing bodies via the Youth Sport Trust. Nominations close on 3 November 2014.
People are eligible to win the award if they are the right age and they are citizens of Britain or Northern Ireland or all three of the following criteria:
- They play a significant amount of their sport in the UK;
- Their core achievements that year were achieved in the UK, and not with a national team (in which case they would more likely qualify for the Overseas Sports Personality award);
- They are residents in the UK.
Judging panel
BBC Sport's John Inverdale chairs a panel which includes three representatives of Youth Sport Trust, former winner of the award Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, 2013 main award nominee Hannah Cockroft, Blue Peter presenter Lindsey Russell, a Blue Peter competition winner, Radio 1's Tina Daheley and the executive editor of BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
The panel meet to decide the top 10 contenders from the list of nominations collected by the Youth Sport Trust and the BBC. They will select the winner by secret ballot and the final vote will be independently verified.
The top three will be announced on Blue Peter and invited to the live event at The Hydro in Glasgow. The other top seven contenders will be notified out of courtesy that they have not made the final shortlist.
The winner will be announced live on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year programme and the BBC Sport website on Sunday, 14 December 2014.
By way of explanation the young judge selected by Blue Peter will be done so using the following criteria:
•The applicant will have been successful in their application for a Blue Peter Sport Badge 2014 and the quality of the Sport Badge application may also be taken into consideration.
•The quality of the answer to the question, "Why would you be a great judge for Young Sports Personality of the Year 2014?" will be assessed. The answer must demonstrate a passion for sport, show why they are good at making decisions and be all their own work. If there is any reasonable doubt about this the application will not be considered.
•In a phone interview the candidates will be assessed on their suitability for the role, confidence in a judging situation and ability to deal with the task and appearing on camera.
•Being part the panel that decides who wins Young Sports Personality of the Year 2014 is a responsible role, the young judge will need to be confident working with adults and making informed decisions.
A special BBC award for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity.
There is no vote. It is in the gift of the BBC to choose the winner, who is decided by the board of BBC Sport.
The award will be presented live on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year programme on Sunday, 14 December 2014.
The Lifetime Achievement award honours someone who has made a major impact on the world of sport during their lifetime.
There is no vote. It is in the gift of the BBC to choose the winner, who is decided by the board of BBC Sport.
The award will be presented live on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year programme on Sunday, 14 December 2014.
1. Any UK resident (incl. Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) aged 18 or over on 1 January 2014 is eligible to be nominated, except previous winners of the BBC Sport Unsung Hero Awards, BBC employees OR any person connected to the Awards and their close relatives. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested.
2. The nominee must:
(i) either be an individual or no more than two people who are both involved in the same sporting activity
(ii) help amateurs participate in a sports activity
(iii) offer help that does not form part of their job or take place at their place of work
(iv) help voluntarily with no financial reward
(v) in the opinion of the nominator be deserving of a BBC Award
(vi) not bring the BBC into disrepute (in the BBC's sole discretion)
(vii) have consented to be nominated.
3. Nominations can be made via bbc.co.uk/unsunghero from Monday 8 September 2014, and must be received no later than Monday 20 October 2014.
4. Only one nomination is permitted per person and it should be on the official BBC form. Nominators should declare any professional or personal relationship with the person or people nominated.
5. The BBC will appoint a representative in each of its 12 English Regions plus Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who will each shortlist no more than 10 nominees for their regional voting panel. The shortlisting criteria will be
(i) The extent of the nominees' contribution at the grassroots level of their sport
(ii) the range and number of people helped
(iii) the impact on their local community
(iv) the personal sacrifices or commitment made.
6. Regional judging panels consisting of BBC staff and non-BBC members will meet to select a BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero Award for their respective area from those shortlisted and based on the criteria above. The 15 regional winners become eligible for the overall BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero 2014 Award.
7. A national judging panel will then meet to select the overall winner from the 15 regional winners based on the aforementioned criteria, any supporting documentation and a short BBC film about each of them. It is intended that the panel will consist of representatives from the BBC, leading sports figures and a previous BBC Unsung Hero winner dependent on availability. The judging process will be overseen by an independent verifier.
8. Nominees may be asked to disclose details of any and all criminal and civil actions pending against them, or served against them plus any unspent convictions. Entrants asked for this information must keep the BBC informed of any changes to that disclosed up to the point the winner is announced. This information will be handled in the strictest confidence as will all personal information, accordance with the BBC Privacy Policy.
9. Following standard industry practice, the BBC may undertake background checks of the shortlisted finalists. Information discovered or that may have been disclosed by the entrants themselves will inform the decision as to the selection of the regional winners and overall winner.
10. The overall winner will be announced live on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014 programme, to be held in Glasgow on Sunday 14 December and to which all regional winners are invited to attend.
11. The judges' decision as to the winner is final. No correspondence relating to the awards will be entered into.
12. The regional winners will each receive a regional BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero Award 2014 trophy and the national winner will receive the national BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero Award 2014 trophy. There are no cash alternatives and the award cannot be sold or transferred in any circumstances.
13. Nominees must agree to take part in any post-award publicity if required.
14. The BBC reserves the right to:
(i) vary the opening and closing times for making nominations and to vary the date of the announcement of the awards;
(ii) disqualify any nominee who breaches the rules or has acted fraudulently in any way
(iii) cancel or vary the awards or any of the selection processes or criteria, at any stage, if in its opinion it is deemed necessary or if circumstances arise outside its control.
15. The BBC, its sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem which may result in any nomination not being properly registered.
16. The BBC will only use personal details for the purposes of administering this award and will not publish or provide them to anyone without permission. You can read more about the BBC's Privacy Policy at bbc.co.uk/privacy
17. Nominators and nominees (on accepting their nomination) will be deemed to have accepted these rules and agree to be bound by them.


The BBC has pulled the plug on comedy panel show Never Mind The Buzzcocks after 18 years and 28 series.

First broadcast in 1996, the music trivia quiz has been hosted by Mark Lamarr, Simon Amstell and, most recently, Rhod Gilbert.
It had a reputation for upsetting its guests - with Lemmy, Huey Morgan and Preston all storming off the set.
A revamp in 2014 failed to improve ratings, and the BBC has now dropped the show.
Phill Jupitus has been a team captain for all 28 series, while Sean Hughes, Bill Bailey and Noel Fielding have filled the opposing captain's chair.
"After 28 series we've decided not to bring Never Mind the Buzzcocks back to the BBC," said a spokesperson. "This will create space for new entertainment formats in the future.
"We'd like to thank the team at Talkback, Rhod Gilbert, all the brilliant hosts over the years and of course Noel and Phill for the years of enjoyment they've given BBC Two viewers."
Named in tribute to the Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks album, the show took a similarly anarchic approach to the TV quiz show format, delighting in insulting its guests.
Ordinary Boys frontman Samuel Preston appeared to take umbrage as soon as Simon Amstell introduced him as a "professional celebrity" at the beginning of a 2007 episode.
He stuck around until Amstell read extracts from his wife Chantelle Houghton's biography, including the line: "The photoshoot was for the Daily Mail, which made me feel really posh and upmarket."
Declaring "I can't be bothered with this", the singer stormed off with half an episode left to record.  Audience member Ed Seymour was drafted in to fill the vacant seat.
BBC 6 Music presenter Huey Morgan also saw the red mist descend during his appearance in 2013, violently smashing a mug after an altercation with guest hosts Rizzle Kicks.
Meanwhile, Mark Lamarr used his stint as host to berate the British public for voting Robbie Williams' Angels the best song of the last 25 years.
"I've done a quick list of other songs that maybe should have been considered. Number one, Ghost Town by the Specials. I think that's a better song than Angels.
"Number two, every other song recorded in the last 25 years."
Phill Jupitus was the show's mainstay, taking part in almost all of the 270 episodes.
But he briefly considered quitting the show during Amstell's tenure.
"It struck me with Simon that people were being booked especially to have the piss taken out of them in a very overt fashion," he told the Guardian in 2010.
"Mark [Lamarr] didn't book people to rag on them, it was just in the flow of the show that people suddenly went a bit weird and Mark could turn on them. It became something else with Simon and started to get a bit wearing."
However, ratings never recovered after Amstell left, dropping from an average of 2.5 million viewers in 2008 to 1.1 million for the most recent series.


A Manchester man has been arrested in the Netherlands after an investigation into money laundering and drugs.

Glenn Madden, from Urmston, was held on a European arrest warrant by Dutch police officers on 16 June and will appear at an Amsterdam court this week.
British detectives said they would seek to have the 36-year-old extradited to the UK, where he is accused of money laundering and drugs conspiracy.
His arrest follows a collaboration between Dutch and British police.


A man has been rescued from the sea 200 metres off the coast at Ballyholme Bay, near Bangor, after a man working nearby heard shouts and called the Coastguard.

The man, who was in his 20s, was rescued by a volunteer crew from Bangor RNLI.
The lifeboat's operations manager said medical personnel told him the man could have died if he had remained in the water for another five minutes.
The alarm was raised by Mark Pollock, who was working in Banks Car Park.
Hearing faint shouts, he initially thought it was someone calling for their dog, but kept looking until he realised there was someone in the sea.
He then called the Coastguard.
Bangor RNLI's helmsman James Gillespie said when they arrived "the early morning light made it difficult to see, but fortunately the water was flat calm, and on scanning the area I saw a slight movement as the casualty raised his hand".
Another crew member, Johnny Gedge, entered and helped the man, who was only just conscious, until he could be lifted on board.
Mr Gillespie said: "Our extensive training in casualty care is invaluable at a time like this.
"Because of this, we know the importance of not trying to warm the patient too quickly, as this can cause cardiac arrest.
"Instead, we made the patient safe, and prevented further cooling, and returned as quickly and safely as we could to the lifeboat station where an ambulance and paramedics were waiting to take over."
The rescued man was wearing only tracksuit bottoms, a t-shirt and socks. It is not clear why he was in the water.
"I am just delighted that I heard his calls, and hope he makes a full recovery," Mr Pollock said.


A 10-year-old boy has been awarded £5,000 after a judge ruled his human rights had been breached while in local authority care.

Judge Richard Rundell said serious delays stopped Child B making contact with his extended family.
The judge said it was appropriate compensation for the "lost opportunity over three years to develop a relationship with at least one of his half-siblings".
The case was at Worcester Family Court.
A care order was made for B in February 2011, and Worcester County Council was ordered to withhold contact with his mother following concerns that she could have a potentially "harmful impact" on him.
The man thought to be his father had refused to take a DNA test and played no part in the case.
The court heard the council initially decided that B, who has behavioural difficulties, should be adopted.
When no appropriate adopters were found the plan was changed to allow long-term foster care in 2012.
The judge said the original adoption placement order should have been revoked and the matter returned to court, with members of his family given a fresh chance to contact him.
But that did not happen for three years, until February 2015.
During the intervening period there were seven "looked-after child" (LAC) reviews and a failure by an independent reviewing officer (IRO) to take adequate action.
The judge said both the local authority and the IRO now conceded they had breached B's rights under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to a fair hearing, and his Article 8 right to "private and family life".
Both the authority and IRO have apologised for failing for three years to "take the obvious step" and say there would be "no repetition of such a lengthy failure", Judge Rundell said.


The Conservative Party should have campaigned for "change not continuity" in the general election, one of Theresa May's former leading advisers has said.

Nick Timothy told the Daily Telegraph that Downing Street was also guilty of a breakdown in communication with both the public and Whitehall departments.
The party clearly underestimated Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, he added.
Mr Timothy resigned as the prime minister's joint chief of staff after the Tories lost their majority.
He said: "If the party retreats into a comfort zone that we don't find very challenging, I worry that we will not only fail to address the challenges the country faces but we will also increase the chances of a hard-left government in five years' time."
Mr Timothy was joint chief of staff alongside Fiona Hill, and co-wrote the Conservatives' manifesto going into the general election.
He rejected reports that Mrs May had intended to sack Chancellor Philip Hammond if she increased her Commons majority.
Mrs May is still prepared to walk away from Brexit talks without a deal, he added, but her hopes of reversing the ban on new grammar schools are over.
Mr Timothy said plans for ministers to play a bigger part in the election campaign were overruled by party strategists.
He conceded it "probably is true that there should have been more on the economy during the campaign".
"Overall the lesson of the election for the party and for the government cannot be: 'Oh well, we tried that and we didn't win the election we were hoping for so let's not try it any more'," he said.
"If the party retreats to a much more orthodox Conservative proposition then I worry that won't be sufficient to tackle the big problems that the country has and in five years' time we do risk the election of a dangerous left-wing alternative."
Mr Timothy was interviewed by the Telegraph ahead of starting to write a weekly column for the paper.


Former England coach Peter Moores has been appointed as Nottinghamshire head coach on a three-year contract.

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Moores, who has been a coaching consultant at Notts since July 2015, will work alongside director of cricket Mick Newell but will pick the side.
Notts have struggled in Division One of the County Championship this season and will be relegated if they lose their current game against leaders Middlesex.
"The passion for being a head coach again is there," Moores, 53, said.
"The club has the ambition to be competing for trophies across all three formats of the game, so it's a fantastic opportunity."
Moores takes up his role alongside former Notts batsman Newell on 1 October.
Newell told BBC 5 live sports extra that Moores will pick the team and run the professional squad his way.
He added: "We feel this is the right time. We've been struggling at the bottom of the division. Chances are we're going to get relegated.
"We're trying very hard to avoid that, but we want to make it clear to the supporters and members before the last home match of the season that we have a clear plan in place that if we do get relegated as to how we believe the best way to come back is."
Moores was first appointed England coach in 2007, but dismissed in 2009 after a dispute with Kevin Pietersen.
He returned to the role in April 2014 but, following a poor 2015 World Cup which saw England eliminated in the group stage as well as a drawn Test series with the West Indies, Moores was sacked in May 2015.
The ex-wicketkeeper has twice won the County Championship as a coach, with his former county Sussex in 2003 and Lancashire in 2011.


A £1bn funding row is set to delay the new rail franchise process in Wales - with the project "in jeopardy", according to the Welsh Government.

The four firms bidding to run the Wales and Borders network were due to submit tenders on 18 August.
However, the UK Department for Transport (DfT) wants the date moved to 26 September to resolve a funding row.
The Welsh Government wants £1bn plus £3.5m for delays it said were caused because of June's general election.
The bidders - Abellio, Arriva, KeolisAmey and MTR - have been in discussions since June 2016 over the running of the network, including the South Wales Metro project.
But UK Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling has threatened to put the whole process on hold.
Russell George, the Conservatives' economy and transport spokesman in the assembly, called the letter "damning".
The £1bn requested by the Welsh Government relates to an annual rebate of £67m given by current franchise holder, Arriva Trains Wales, to the DfT.
The rebate, which is linked to track charges, is passed to Network Rail via a grant for improving railways.
However, the rail infrastructure in Wales will remain in UK government hands after the handling of the franchise is devolved to Wales from 2018.
The Welsh Government says this means it will not be able to collect the rebate - which it has calculated to be worth £1bn over the 15-year span of the contract.
In a letter to Welsh Economy Secretary Ken Skates, Mr Grayling said he would only authorise the tender process continuing when agreement is reached on this.
He described it as a "claim which would commit my department to finding an additional £1bn over the franchise term compared with today, and for which I see no basis".
Mr Grayling also said he was "unable to accept" an assertion he attributed to Mr Skates that the "general election caused the process to be behind schedule".
He listed seven outstanding issues, such as the Welsh Government not resolving the future of the valleys lines with Network Rail and services that cross into England.
The secretary of state blamed "cumulative delays in the process over the last few months" and refused to pay the £3.5m in compensation requested.
Saying the tender process will not begin until he is happy all issues were resolved, he added: "The scale of the challenge for all of us is clear."
A Welsh Government spokesman said Mr Grayling's letter "misrepresents a complex devolution position".
He added: "This approach jeopardises the Welsh Government's ability to award a replacement for the current Wales and Borders franchise, which, if unresolved, will be a major issue for rail users.
"Being willing to subject people to the prospect of continued overcrowding and poor quality rolling stock to resolve a budgetary issue of their own making is no way for the UK government to behave."
The spokesman accused the UK government of having a "cavalier attitude to devolution".
A Department for Transport spokeswoman said: "We remain committed to the principles agreed with the Welsh Government in 2014 to devolve rail powers."
Tory AM Mr George added: "Sadly, it's the commuters which are going to pay the price and they will be extremely worried that the timeline for completing the next franchise seems some distance away."


Greece's international creditors have raised the pressure on the Athens government, as IMF negotiators left talks in Brussels and flew home.

Major differences remained and they were "well away from an agreement", IMF spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters.
Greece is seeking a cash-for-reform deal, to avoid defaulting on a €1.5bn debt repayment to the IMF.
But the European Council president said there was no more time for gambling and the game would soon be over.
"The Greek government has to be, I think, a little bit more realistic,'' Donald Tusk said.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras held talks with European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels on Thursday afternoon but little progress was made.
He also held a late-night meeting with the French and German leaders on Wednesday, after which Mr Tsipras said they had decided to intensify talks.
The EU and IMF are unhappy with the extent of economic reforms the Athens government is offering in exchange for the release of a final €7.2bn (£5.3bn) in bailout funds. Their bailout deal with Greece runs out at the end of June.
Mr Tsipras's left-wing Syriza party came to power in January on an anti-austerity platform.
IMF's Gerry Rice in Washington said there had been "no progress" in narrowing differences during the talks between IMF and Greek negotiators in Brussels, and both teams had packed up and left for home.
But he stressed that "the IMF never leaves the table. We remain engaged - but the ball very much is in Greece's court right now."
He said the sticking points remain pensions, taxes and financing.
Analysis: BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels
Sometimes the toughest talking happens just before a deal is done.
But occasionally it means things are about to fall apart.
So the public pressure on Alexis Tsipras is growing - reflecting concern within the EU and the IMF that he has miscalculated the extent to which he can orchestrate a change in policy.
But there are countervailing pressures on the prime minister at home. His supporters swept his party to power in January and now they expect him to deliver - and some are taking a hard line.
Tsipras's impossible position
Greek spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis said in a statement that government negotiators were ready to intensify talks "even in the coming days" and would carry on working on the remaining issues "such as the fiscal issue and the sustainability of the debt".
Earlier in the day, Greek stocks had soared by more than 8% after EU Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said a debt deal was close and needed a "happy ending".
However, as the mood darkened, stock markets elsewhere began to retreat. By then, the Athens market was already closed.
One EU diplomat called the meeting between Mr Tsipras and Mr Juncker a "last attempt" to reach a debt deal.
"If the process was working properly the president would not have had to have a meeting with Tsipras today," he was quoted as saying.
Mr Tsipras told reporters after meeting Mr Juncker that they were "working in order to bridge the remaining differences" and reach an agreement "which will ensure that Greece will recover with social cohesion and viable public debts".
The Greek government needs an urgent deal as it is running out of cash and needs the last slice of its bailout money.
One possible solution would be a temporary deal with EU creditors until March, when the IMF part of the bailout also runs out. But if that does not work out, Greece could default and there is a risk it could fall out of the euro.
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Earlier this week, Athens submitted a revised reform plan to the EU and IMF, after Mr Tsipras rejected a set of reforms put forward by Jean-Claude Juncker.
It is believed Athens has conceded some ground on VAT reforms, pensions and the country's primary surplus target.
A major sticking point in the talks appears to be Mr Tsipras's demand for some debt relief for Greece, the BBC's Damian Grammaticas in Brussels reports.
European leaders will not countenance writing off debts before Greece commits to reforms, our correspondent says.
Last week, Greece postponed until the end of June a €300m payment to the IMF, deciding to bundle up four payments amounting to €1.5bn.
Mr Tsipras has warned that a failure to reach a deal on Greece's bailout by the end of June would be the beginning of the end for the eurozone.
Greek state broadcaster goes back on air
Mr Tsipras's left-wing Syriza party fulfilled one of its campaign pledges on Thursday when state broadcaster ERT resumed broadcasts, exactly two years after it was replaced by a smaller-scale operation called Nerit.
Nerit's channels were replaced on Thursday by ERT's programming.


South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu has returned to hospital just a week after being discharged.

He has what has only been described as a "persistent infection" which his foundation says is unrelated to the prostate cancer he has had for 15 years.
Archbishop Tutu retired from public life in 2011 but continues to travel.
The 83-year-old Nobel peace laureate cancelled a planned trip to Rome in December following another infection.
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A man has died following a road accident in Aberdeenshire.

The 30-year-old driver was the sole occupant of a red Seat Ibiza  which crashed on the A93 between Braemar and Crathie at about 01:00.
The road was closed for several hours before reopening just after 11:00.
The accident has caused delays to a running event being held at nearby Balmoral Castle.
Police have appealed for witnesses.


A security alert over an unspecified threat to a British Airways flight from London to Newark has been lifted.

US media reports that two threats made by a male caller proved unfounded.
The flight, carrying 206 passengers and 13 crew, landed at Newark Liberty International Airport at around 13:00 local time (17:00 GMT).
Passengers were evacuated from the plane and luggage removed. Police at the airport later said nothing harmful was found on board.
Customs officials continued checking the luggage but the aircraft was given the all-clear.
A spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the airport's operator, said they had released the plane to British Airways.
Port Authority received the threat about the plane at around 10:00 local time (14:00 GMT), when it was already in the air.
ABC television reports that the two separate threats now appear to have come from the same person.
No arrests are reported to have been made and the investigation is ongoing.


A 12-year-old girl who spent the past year buying gifts for children who would otherwise go without has given 200 presents to a women's refuge.

Emily Clarke, from Bloxwich in the West Midlands, used her pocket money to buy two items a week and also appealed on Facebook for people to donate their unwanted gifts.
She came up with the idea while opening her Christmas presents last year.
"I just thought it's not fair that kids don't get stuff," Emily told the BBC.
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"It was when I was opening my presents last year that I came up with the idea. I've got Frozen jigsaws, and Peppa Pig picnics, toy cars and everything - and some makeup.
"It makes me feel proud that other kids are going to be happy."
Emily's kindness has attracted praise on social media, with friends and strangers extolling her generosity.
Donna Neale wrote: "What a lovely kind thing to do." She added that Emily was "an inspiration to others".
Pam Brini Jervis posted: "Well done Emily you are an absolute star to do that, you deserve the biggest present yourself for having such a kind heart." She praised her parents for "raising such a loving an caring little girl".
"Awww, a few kids and adults I know could learn a valuable lesson from you love. You are totally an inspiration to everyone," wrote Pamela Leeks.
The presents have been taken to an unnamed refuge in Walsall.


A man has been taken to hospital after being beaten by men with iron bars at a house in County Antrim in the early hours of Tuesday.

The attack at Ballyvannon Road in Glenavy was reported to police shortly after 04:00 BST.
The victim was taken to hospital for treatment to his injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening.
A car which was found burnt out on the Lurgan Road in Glenavy a short time later is being linked to the attack.
The black Renault Clio had earlier been stolen from a house in the Dunmurry area.


Former Scotland and Dundee United footballer Garry Kenneth has been cleared of a charge of threatening and abusive behaviour.

Mr Kenneth had denied banging on a door at his Dundee home in December during a row with his girlfriend Reagan Kelbie.
Ms Kelbie told Dundee Sheriff Court during a brief trial that she had not been in a state of "fear or alarm" when Mr Kenneth was at her door.
Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC found Mr Kenneth not guilty of the charge.
The 29-year-old was fined Â£300 at a previous court hearing after admitting driving away without insurance after the row last December.


A teenager in Londonderry has been attacked by a man with a hammer.

The 19-year-old man suffered a head injury in the assault at Ard Grange near Hazelbank.
It happened on Wednesday morning.
A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and having an offensive weapon.


Cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew has been appointed MBE in the New Year Honours for services to broadcasting.

Mr Agnew, fondly known as Aggers, was a bowler for Leicestershire before joining BBC Radio Leicester and then the BBC's Test Match Special.
His suggestion that Ian Botham had failed to "get his leg over" was voted the greatest sporting commentary ever in a poll.
Mr Agnew said he was "really thrilled" to be made MBE.
"It's great to get a pat on the back no matter what you do and this is a big pat," he said.
"Test Match Special is a tight knit crew and I look at this as a team award.
"I've also been able to be more of an all-rounder, having done the Olympics and royal events, but I know cricket, and cricket on the radio is my home".
The famous "leg over" comment was broadcast on 9 August 1991, while commentating on the day's play at the Oval on Test Match Special.
Aggers and the late Brian Johnston both dissolved into helpless laughter.
"People have tried to write off radio but it is unique," Mr Agnew said.
"It is warmer and more personal and on long programmes like Test Match Special it is like a soap opera in terms of the characters the listeners get to know.
"It gets cricket and sport out there to new and wider audiences."
Claire Lomas, who completed the London Marathon in a robotic suit, is also among Leicestershire's New Years Honours recipients.
The 36-year-old has been appointed MBE for charitable and voluntary services to spinal injury research.
Ms Lomas has raised more than Â£570,000 for charities since being paralysed from the chest down in a horse riding accident in 2007.
As well as completing the London Marathon in 2012, Ms Lomas hand-cycled 400 miles around England in 2013, and completed the Great North Run in September while 16 weeks pregnant.
Her challenges have raised money for Spinal Research and the Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation.


A British chemistry professor has calculated that if the World Cup trophy were really solid gold it would be too heavy for footballers to lift.

Martyn Poliakoff of Nottingham University estimates that a solid gold trophy of its size - 36cm (14 in) high - would weigh at least 70kg (154lb).
He concludes that the trophy, or at least part of it, must be hollow.
Fifa insisted that the metal part of the current trophy, which dates back to 1974, was "solid gold".
It told the BBC News website the prize weighed 6.175kg, including 4.9kg of "solid 18-carat gold" and two layers of the semi-precious stone malachite.
Nobody wins the coveted trophy outright as Fifa retains possession between tournaments, awarding a gold-plated replica to each World Cup champion.
Making his case on the university's Periodic Table of Videos website, Professor Poliakoff said a genuinely solid gold cup of this height would be "as much as the weight of quite a large adult".
"Gold is very heavy, it's one of the densest metals that there is," he said.
"According to my calculations, if it was solid all the way through, it would have somewhere between 70 and 80kg of gold in it."
The professor suggested the term "solid gold" might mean "the metal part is gold all the way through - it isn't that there is a thin layer of gold and the rest is steel, for example".
"However, I think - and I have no means of knowing - that perhaps the ball at the top, which is the world, is probably hollow... because I don't think that it would be light enough for people to wave above their heads, and also it would be a big waste of gold."
The professor added that he was "not very interested in football".
"I was a teenager when England won the World Cup in 1966," he said.
"I didn't watch the game then and I haven't watched a World Cup match since then, but perhaps I will watch something this year."


An 85-year-old woman has died after being struck by a bin lorry in Edinburgh.

The incident happened on Morningside Road, near to Jordan Lane, at about 11:45 on Sunday.
A local diversion was put in place at Comiston Road and Churchill Place, following the incident.
Police Scotland have appealed to anyone who may have seen the elderly woman, or the bin lorry, before the incident occurred.
Sgt Andrew Miller, of the road policing unit, said: "The woman was walking with a wheeled walking aid, similar to a zimmer frame, and we're hopeful anyone who might have seen her will come forward with relevant information."


The referee on duty at Hillsborough on the day of the disaster has said his statement was changed to support allegations fans were drunk.

Ray Lewis told an ITV documentary that a typed version of his statement referred to fans as being "pissed" when he had originally written "mixed".
He said he feels it was placed there to "give support" to "police actions".
An inquests jury found 96 Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed in the 1989 disaster and fans were not to blame.
In the documentary, Mr Lewis tells journalist Peter Marshall: "When I received the typed-up version it said these spectators were pissed. So they changed the word 'mixed' to 'pissed'.
"The handwriting, I must admit from the police superintendent, isn't particularly good but I'm sure that anyone who would actually look at that would identify the word is definitely not 'pissed'.
"So I just feel it's been placed in there to give support possibly to police actions."
The programme will also reveal that former Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards included allegations of bad behaviour of fans in his statement.
In his statement, Sir Dave described fans shouting lewd comments about a female casualty whose blouse had become unbuttoned. The allegations were also reported in The Sun newspaper.
Programme-makers, who say Sir Dave's description of the apparently dead woman does not match any of the seven women killed in the tragedy, said when they wrote to ask him about his statement their letters were returned unopened.
Two criminal investigations into the disaster, Operation Resolve and the Independent Police Complaints Commission inquiry, are due to hand files to the Crown Prosecution Service at the turn of the year.
Hillsborough: Smears, Survivors and the Search for Truth goes out on ITV1 at 22:40 BST on Monday.