Flintshire council has agreed proposals to buy back former council houses.

A council report said the move was needed due to a growing shortage of affordable homes in the county.
In November, Flintshire council voted to prevent its social housing tenants from having the right to buy their homes.
It is also planning to build about 200 new council homes over the next five years.
Since January 2005, all council homes sold in Flintshire under the Right to Buy scheme have had covenants placed on them to ensure that the council had the option to buy them back if they came up to sale and before going on to the open market.
A total of 55 properties have been sold under the scheme at an average price of Â£80,080 since April 2010.
Council leader Aaron Shotton said the decision was the next "logical step" when it came to addressing the shortage of affordable housing in the county.
"This will provide more affordable housing for the residents of Flintshire and provide income to the council by way of rent," he said.


Apple will refund customers at least $32.5m (£19.9m) after a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

The refund agreement settles long-standing complaints over in-app purchases made by children without their parents' consent.
Apple will also be required to change its billing procedures to make sure customers have given consent before they are charged for in-app purchases.
The company said it had settled rather than take on a "long legal fight".
"This settlement is a victory for consumers harmed by Apple's unfair billing, and a signal to the business community: whether you're doing business in the mobile arena or the mall down the street, fundamental consumer protections apply," said FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez in a statement.
"You cannot charge consumers for purchases they did not authorize."
The FTC's complaint alleged that Apple failed to inform parents that by entering a password they were approving a single in-app purchase and also 15 minutes of additional unlimited purchases their children could make without further consent.
It also said that Apple often presented a password prompt screen for parents to enter their details without explaining that this would finalise any purchase made in the app.
The FTC also noted that Apple received at "least tens of thousands of complaints" about unauthorised in-app purchases by children.
One woman said her daughter had spent $2600 in one app.
This refund settlement only covers customers who have made purchases through Apple's US app store but the BBC's technology editor Rory Cellan-Jones says Apple has previously almost always refunded parents in the UK who have complained about big bills from their children's in-app purchases.
The changes to Apple's billing process, which means express consent must be obtained before in-app charges are made, must be in place by 31 March, said the FTC.
In an internal email obtained by the website 9to5Mac, chief executive Tim Cook told Apple employees that the FTC's proposals were in line with the company's own intentions.
"The consent decree the FTC proposed does not require us to do anything we weren't already going to do, so we decided to accept it rather that take on a long and distracting legal fight," he said.
He also explained that Apple began setting out a process to refund customers last year.
"We wanted to reach every customer who might have been affected, so we sent emails to 28 million App Store customers - anyone who had made an in-app purchase in a game designed for kids.
"When some emails bounced, we mailed the parents postcards.
"In all, we received 37,000 claims and we will be reimbursing each one as promised."
Apple's App Store offers many games for children, a large number of which allow in-app purchases to be made. These purchases can include virtual items or currency, and typically allow faster progression in the game.
In-app purchases can range in cost - from 99 cents to just under $100.


Two men have been arrested after a woman was stabbed in the back as she walked in a busy shopping street.

The 35-year-old victim was attacked outside Barclays Bank in London Road, North End, Portsmouth at about 15:20 BST on Saturday.
The men, aged 41 and 42, were arrested on suspicion of murder and conspiracy to murder. They are both in police custody.
It is understood the victim's injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Police said they are appealing for witnesses.


Blackpool FC has apologised after playing Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" in the lead up to their League One match against Bradford City.

The club tweeted to apologise for "any unintentional offence".
A fire ripped through Bradford City's home ground during the 1985 match against Lincoln City, killing 54 Bradford City fans, two Lincoln fans and injuring many more.
The fire is thought to have been started accidentally by a cigarette.
Responding on Twitter, Blackpool fans said it was "totally insensitive" and showed a "lack of thought and care" but Bradford City fan Andy Walker said "no offence was meant or taken".
Kyel Reid scored the only goal of the game on Saturday as Bradford City moved to within a point of the play-off spots with victory over relegation-threatened Blackpool at Bloomfield Road.


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The father of a gunman who killed dozens of people in an Orlando gay club says he did not know that his son had a "grudge in his heart".

Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history, before being shot dead by police.
Seddique Mateen said he did not understand why his son had carried out the shooting at the Pulse nightclub.
The so-called Islamic State group (IS) called Omar Mateen one of its soldiers.
In a statement posted online and addressed to people in his native Afghanistan, Seddique Mateen said his son had been "a very good boy", who had a wife and a child.
"I don't know what caused it," he said. "I never figured out that he had a grudge in his heart... I am grief-stricken."
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He added he did not know why his son had committed such an act during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, adding that the fate of gay people was "not in the hands of humans" as it was, he said, only God who could judge.
IS had called for attacks on the West during Ramadan.
On Sunday, Seddique Mateen said: "We are apologising for the whole incident. We are in shock, like the whole country."
He said his son had been angered after seeing two men kissing in Miami.
The attack began at about 02:00 local time (06:00 GMT) on Sunday. There was an exchange of fire with a police officer working at the club, after which the suspect took hostages.
At 05:00 a police assault team went into the club after police received text messages and phone calls from some of the hostages. Mateen was killed in an exchange of fire.
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Mateen, a US citizen of Afghan descent who was born in New York and lived in Florida, was not on a terrorism watch list.
However, the FBI interviewed him twice in 2013-14 after he made "inflammatory remarks" to a colleague, before closing its investigation.
Mateen had legally purchased several guns in the days before the attack.
A statement on the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency said an IS "fighter" was responsible and on Monday, the group's al-Bayan radio called Mateen "one of the Caliphate's soldiers in the US".
An FBI spokesman said Mateen had called the emergency services before the attack and sworn allegiance to IS.
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On Sunday, Mateen's father said religion had had nothing to do with the attack.
A security company that Mateen used to work for said he had been vetted twice.
The checks in 2007 and 2013 did not reveal anything of concern, G4S said, and Mateen had carried a gun as part of his job.
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The FBI's admission that it investigated Mateen on a number of occasions will raise questions not just for law enforcement but for the wider US security community.
It has frequently been the case in a number of countries that individuals are assessed as not dangerous at one point and then turn out to be a threat later. In the UK, this led the Security Service to place more emphasis on going back and checking up on previous cases to ensure that the threat assessment made in the past had not changed.
Keeping detailed files and watch on people can be resource-intensive, however, and has raised concerns over civil liberties in the past.
As the concern over home-grown terrorism in the US grows, there may be pressure to do more and there may also be further questions as to whether a previous investigation for possible terrorism should place people not just on No-Fly lists, but also restrict their ability to purchase weapons.
Sitora Yusufiy lived with Mateen for four months in 2009. She said her family had "rescued" her from the relationship when they became aware he was being physically abusive.
He beat her up regularly during their short-lived marriage for trivial things like not doing laundry, she said.
"When he would get in his tempers, he would express hate toward everything. He was mentally unstable and mentally ill: that's the only explanation that I could give."
The death toll means that the Orlando attack surpasses the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, which left 32 people dead.
According to the crowd-sourced Mass Shooting Tracker, the US suffered 372 mass shootings last year, defined as a single incident that kills or injures four or more people. Some 475 people were killed and 1,870 wounded.
The latest incident came as Orlando was still reeling from the fatal shooting on Friday night of 22-year-old singer Christina Grimmie following a concert in the city.


Co-operative Bank's annual pre-tax losses have more than doubled to £610m, up from £264m in 2014.

Conduct and legal risk charges increased to £193m, because of higher provisions for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance.
The bank almost collapsed in 2013, after bad property loans contributed to a £1.5bn hole in its finances.
Since then, it has taken action to shore up its finances and says it is much "stronger" than a year ago.
It said it had improved its balance sheet and reduced its operating costs through 58 branch closures and staff cuts.
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The Co-op Bank was the only lender in 2014 to fail the Bank of England's key test of capital strength, which assesses the ability of major UK lenders to withstand another financial crisis.
Chairman Dennis Holt said the statutory loss and low-interest-rate environment meant the bank would take a year longer than expected to reach the levels of capital strength required by regulators.
He said the bank had disposed of more than half of its higher-risk mortgages in its Optimum portfolio, which was done to protect capital reserves.
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At first sight, the doubling of losses at the Co-op looks like further depressing news for a bank where "catastrophe" became a routine word.
The discovery of black holes in the accounts, a failure to meet Bank of England stress tests, announcements that were misleading, poor governance and even a drugs scandal are all part of recent history.
The continuing pay-outs for PPI mis-selling have not helped its battle to return to profitability.
But riskier parts of the business have now been sold off, customers are not deserting like they were, and the bank's capital base is more solid.
In the bank's core operations, losses have been cut from £79m to £15m.
Niall Booker, the boss, has promised to make a profit by the end of next year.
All those hedge fund managers that now own the bank will be willing him to triumph.
Niall Booker, chief executive officer, said: "Whilst the Bank as a whole will report a loss before tax in 2016 and 2017, we expect a return to operating profitability in the core bank before the end of 2017."
Its core bank operation saw operating losses of £15m in 2015, down from £79m the previous year.
The bank has managed to largely retain it retail current account holders and now has 3.8 million customers.
Christopher Wheeler of Atlantic Equities said: "The Co-op Bank is in an extremely competitive market. The events of the last few years have tarnished its reputation and put off customers previously attracted by its history and ethical banking policy.  It needs to have something else to offer to bring in meaningful returns in the future."
A group of hedge fund investors bought a majority share in the bank in 2013, leaving the Co-operative Group with just 20% of it.
There have been reports that the bank has started to look for a replacement for Mr Booker, whose contract is due to finish at the end of the year.
Mr Booker told journalists on Friday that he enjoyed the challenge of the "triage phase" of dealing with a distressed lender, but gave no firm indication of his plans.
"You don't get trauma surgeons who treat you forever," he added.
The bank's chairman, Mr Holt, would also not be drawn on the subject.


Downing Street has strongly condemned university leaders whose guidance endorsed voluntary segregation of men and women at guest events on campus.

The prime minister's official spokesman said David Cameron felt "very strongly about this".
"He doesn't believe guest speakers should be allowed to address segregated audiences."
The spokesman added that the guidance, from the umbrella body, Universities UK (UUK), should be urgently reviewed.
"There is an important issue of principle here around segregation.
"There is a very important tradition of free speech in our educational institutions," he said.
"It is important to be vigilant regarding free speech," the spokesman said. But he added: "This is about universities, places of worship are a very different issue."
Yesterday, Universities UK said that its guidance may need to be tested in court.
The body wrote to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) asking it to consider having the issue clarified by the High Court, "or provide a clear and public statement about the law and the relevant policy considerations".
UUK also published legal advice on its guidance from Fenella Morris QC which concludes that it "is lawful and provides an appropriate foundation for lawful decision-making by universities".
The row hinges on a hypothetical case study included in the guidance which was published last month.
The case study, now withdrawn pending the EHRC review, involved an external speaker invited to talk about his orthodox religious faith who subsequently requested segregated seating areas for men and women.
The UUK guidance stated that university officials should consider both freedom of speech obligations, as well as discrimination and equality laws when considering the request.
Universities UK concluded: "If neither women nor men were disadvantaged and a non-segregated seating area were also provided, it might in the specific circumstances of the case be appropriate for the university to agree to the request."
It added that the guidance was not prescriptive but was intended to provide "practical assistance to universities in making decisions about who they choose to invite to speak on campus, steering them through all the different considerations, legal and otherwise, that apply."
The row has sparked protests from students and some MPs.
Earlier today, Education Secretary Michael Gove urged university leaders to withdraw the guidance, accusing Universities UK of "pandering to extremism".
Yesterday shadow business secretary Chukka Umunna told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was "horrified" by Universities UK's position.
While former home secretary Jack Straw said it was "wrong" for universities "to indulge in such extraordinary behaviour".
Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK, said her organisation agreed entirely with the prime minister that universities should not enforce gender segregation on audiences at the request of guest speakers.
But she added that "where the gender segregation is voluntary, the law is unclear.
"We are working with our lawyers and the EHRC to clarify the position. Meanwhile, the case study which triggered this debate has been withdrawn pending this review."
EHRC chief executive Mark Hammond said it is not "permissible" under the law for universities to segregate by gender in academic meetings.
"Clearly, a university like any other institution is entitled to provide services and facilities separately by gender where appropriate and lawful - for example, accommodation, sports and targeted welfare provision," said Mr Hammond.
"It is also entirely permissible for a university or other organisation to have private members' clubs for a single sex.
"Universities can also provide facilities for religious meetings and associations based on faith, as in the rest of society. Equality law permits gender segregation in premises that are permanently or temporarily being used for the purposes of an organised religion where its doctrines require it."
A statement from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said gender segregation is never acceptable on campuses.
"But the application of the law where the segregation is voluntary is unclear which is why Universities UK are working with their lawyers and the EHRC to clarify the position."
The statement added that many universities had very strong equalities policies which ban segregated events on campuses, with some events cancelled recently because the organisers were insisting on segregation.
Ms Dandridge also said it was possible for women to choose to be educated in an all-women environment.
She said it was was not something so alien to our culture "that it has to be regarded like race segregation."


A man has appeared in court charged with murdering a charity worker and the attempted murder of a 16-year-old boy.

Alyson Watt, who was 52 and worked for Barnardo's Scotland, died on Friday following an incident in Penilee Road in Paisley.
The teenage boy remains in a critical condition in hospital following the same incident.
Gary Brown, who is 54, made no plea or declaration and was remanded into custody at Paisley Sheriff Court.


Six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt won his first 100m of the season in a photo finish, beating fellow Jamaican Kemar Bailey-Cole at the Cayman Invitational.

Bolt is carrying a hamstring problem, but said that was not to blame for his modest time of 10.09 seconds.
"It was just a bad race. It wasn't a bothering pain so I can't blame it on that," the 26-year-old said.
Bailey-Cole, one of Bolt's training partners, was given the same time.
Bolt, the triple Olympic champion from London 2012, added: "I felt it [hamstring injury] slightly. I just have to go back and figure out with my coach what went wrong."
Antigua's Daniel Bailey finished third in the Cayman Islands with a time of 10.23 secs.
America's Carmelita Jeter won the women's 100m in a world leading 10.95 secs.


Police in Zambia have been banned from marrying foreigners, according to a memo by police inspector general Kakoma Kanganja circulating on social media.

The memo, dated 11 January, said those who were already married to foreigners should declare this within a week.
It said failure to do so would "attract disciplinary action".
Police spokeswoman Esther Katongo said: "Issues of security are delicate. If not careful, spouses can be spies and can sell the security of the country."
Ms Katongo told the BBC that a standing order had been issued, notifying police officers of the measure, but that the ban itself was not new.
She said officers had previously obeyed the ban but the new order had been thought necessary because some police had begun ignoring it.
"There are a few officers who have started marrying foreigners," she said. "They are ignoring the previous requirement and this is why another standing order has been passed to remind officers what they are supposed to do and not supposed to do."
She said it was likely officers who had married foreigners would now be given "some rules they should follow".
Asked why such measures were necessary, Ms Katongo said: "When you get married, they say that you are one. You know what marriage is - you share secrets. And you can tell officers 'do not disclose' but you have no control. You won't be in their homes to always check on them.
"The security of the nation is what is paramount."


England will leave France to sift through the wreckage of one of the most humiliating defeats in the country's sporting history.

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The 2-1 loss to Iceland, ranked 34th in the world and with a population of just 330,000, in the last 16 of Euro 2016 stands alongside the 1-0 defeat by the United States in the 1950 World Cup in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, as the darkest moment in England's football history.
England manager Roy Hodgson resigned within 20 minutes of the final whistle. England's credibility was destroyed and the reputation of every player whose hand and boot was imprinted on this national embarrassment will be tainted forever.
Hodgson was the biggest and swiftest casualty as England, and its rulers the Football Association, start to pick apart its worst night in recent memory.
Roy Hodgson was finished as England manager once this defeat by Iceland was confirmed. He could not survive, especially after FA chairman Greg Dyke suggested a quarter-final was a minimum requirement - and even then it needed to be a decent performance in defeat.
Hodgson saved the FA the bother of sacking him by reading from a prepared letter to confirm he was resigning. He had finished his contract and it was not simply the right decision, it was the only decision.
If we suggest Hodgson had a free hit at Euro 2012 because he had barely walked through Wembley's doors to succeed Fabio Capello, then there is no escaping his dismal record in the two major tournaments he has overseen since.
Hodgson was manager as England went out of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil at the group stage following defeats by Italy and Uruguay.
It was a fiasco and yet expectations had been dampened to such a extent Hodgson and his players received polite applause when they acknowledged fans at the conclusion of a goalless dead rubber with Costa Rica in Belo Horizonte.
The supporters, and perhaps the FA, seemed lulled into thinking this was not so bad. Words of support were delivered and 10 wins out of 10 in a relatively comfortable Euro 2016 qualifying group covered up the cracks in Hodgson's ability to manage on the highest stage.
England won one game out of four in France, a last-minute 2-1 win over Wales, drew two and lost one.
Hodgson simply could not inspire performances out of an England squad that left for France with a measure of excitement surrounding it.
The final straw was being outflanked tactically to such an extent by Iceland's veteran coach Lars Lagerback and his partner Heimir Hallgrimsson, a dentist by trade, that he was left looking a man out of his time and out his depth in the second half in Nice.
It was the final act of a tenure that will be remembered for the dramatic failures in Brazil and France.
For all the talk of the FA's meticulous planning, England's football team actually looked ill-prepared for a tournament they had been strolling towards from a very early stage of their qualifying group.
As usual, the infrastructure surrounding England gave them the perfect environment in which to flourish, no excuses to cling to - and yet once again they go home embarrassed and no-one involved on the football side can make the journey with credit.
Hodgson was a muddled manager before England arrived in France and continued in the same vein here.
It started with his ill-fated notion of playing Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy (49 Premier League goals between them last season) as wingers in the final friendly against Portugal at Wembley and was maintained through his various selections here.
Wayne Rooney was suddenly re-invented as a central midfield player for the opening game against Russia. He was England's best player but Hodgson blundered by inexplicably taking him off with a 1-0 lead to protect, with the almost inevitable consequence of a 93rd-minute Russian equaliser.
Hodgson deserves credit for making two key substitutions when England trailed 1-0 to Wales in their second game, introducing Jamie Vardy and Daniel Sturridge for Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling. Vardy and Sturridge scored to secure victory.
It led to the moment that, perhaps more than any other, summed up the confused and chaotic thinking that characterised Hodgson and England during this campaign.
England's confidence was high and momentum was being gathered after the Wales win when Hodgson decided to stop it dead in its tracks by making six changes, including dropping Rooney, for the final Group B game against Slovakia when a win was needed to top the group.
Whether it was an idea from Hodgson or his assistants Ray Lewington and Gary Neville, it was a very bad one.
England drew 0-0, finished second behind Wales and Euro 2016 life suddenly became more complicated.
Raheem Sterling returned from the sidelines to replace Adam Lallana against Iceland, a decision that went against all form and logic and was certainly a high-risk strategy.
Once Hodgson made his changes against Slovakia, England needed to win and top the group. They did not. Once Hodgson decided to recall Sterling against Iceland he needed to deliver. He did not.
And then came the perfect storm against Iceland that sealed Hodgson's fate.
He talked explicitly about Iceland's long-throw threat from Aron Gunnarsson - and yet the evidence of this harrowing night suggested either Hodgson's words had fallen on deaf ears or they had not planned sufficiently.
How does Rooney end up marking the statuesque Kari Arnason, who is usually the target? How does Kyle Walker switch off to allow Ragnar Sigurdsson to score? Where was the planning to cope with such an obvious danger?
Jack Wilshere's appearance for Eric Dier after 45 minutes appeared to be a punt, while the introduction of Manchester United teenager Marcus Rashford was left too late, a mistake that became even more apparent when he almost qualified as England's man of the match following his 86th-minute appearance.
Why was Kane, despite clearly not playing to his strengths as proved in previous games, still taking set-pieces that got steadily worse as this grim night went on?
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Iceland, by contrast, looked organised, committed and clearly had a plan, one which served them well in qualifying and once again here. They were focused while England, with Hodgson motionless and apparently out of ideas in his technical area, were reduced to a state of blind panic long before the end.
Wilshere was a flawed inclusion in England's Euro 2016 squad after playing only 141 minutes for Arsenal last season. James Milner had a "blink and you'll miss it" appearance as a substitute against Russia, while Everton outfield pair John Stones and Ross Barkley never figured at all.
This is now an important time for FA technical director Dan Ashworth, who will be instrumental in choosing Hodgson's successor.
He has remained in the shadows at St George's Park but will now come under scrutiny while head of performance services Dave Reddin does not appear to have produced many of the marginal gains his work is meant to bring.
Like Brazil, it has almost been a case of all the gear and no idea for England.
Roy Hodgson was always going to pay for the Iceland defeat with his job - he will shoulder most of the responsibility but not all.
No-one could argue with Hodgson's choice of Joe Hart as his main goalkeeper and yet the 29-year-old, a mainstay of England's last three tournaments, has had a nightmare Euro 2016.
Hart fumbled Gareth Bale's free-kick against Wales and conceded another soft goal to Kolbeinn Sigthorsson against Iceland. He must now come under pressure from Southampton's Fraser Forster and Stoke City's Jack Butland.
Hodgson may also use an old argument that the gruelling Premier League season did not help his cause.
Dele Alli and Harry Kane have had seasons full of glorious promise at Tottenham but disappointed here.
The pair, usually full of energy and verve, looked out on their feet in France. Kane's set-piece deliveries, in particular, looked like the work of a young man, only 22, who is spent mentally and physically.
Hodgson was also betrayed by the fact that barely any of his players lived up to their Premier League standards. It is his responsibility to coax this out of them and inspire them - but there is also responsibility on the players themselves and this did not happen.
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The cupboard is bare when it comes to stand-out candidates but former England captain and BBC Sport's Match Of The Day analyst Alan Shearer has registered his interest.
It would be a gamble by the FA but having employed the likes of Sven-Goran Erikisson, Steve McClaren, Fabio Capello and Hodgson for their experience and rewarded them handsomely, Shearer should at the very least be spoken to. He would command instant respect from players.
Gary Neville will not be a contender because he is tainted by his association with Hodgson's failure - so the early favourite with the bookmakers is England Under-21 coach Gareth Southgate.
The 45-year-old has long been a favoured figure within the FA but was damaged by England's poor performance at the European Under-21 Championship last summer. The reputation was restored somewhat after they won the prestigious Toulon tournament for the first time in 22 years in May.
Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew, 54, and Bournemouth's Eddie Howe are already being touted. Pardew's fiery personality and boom-and-bust results throughout his career make him an outsider, while Howe is only 38 and is just starting out in the top flight after one Premier League season with the Cherries. Surely too soon for him.
Brendan Rodgers is another who had been mentioned in dispatches after almost winning the title at Liverpool but the 43-year-old has just taken over at Celtic so is out of contention.
Former Everton and Manchester United manager David Moyes is available - and would the FA be tempted to make an audacious inquiry for Arsenal's Arsene Wenger, who has one year left on his contract with the Gunners?
The FA will need to act quickly because England are back in competitive action away to Slovakia in 2018 World Cup qualifying Group F on 4 September.
It is only a short flight back from France - but rarely can the FA have had so much to discuss as the England team returns from Euro 2016 as a national sporting embarrassment.
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A former tram depot near the centre of Cardiff has been officially opened as an entertainment and community venue and digital business hub.

First Minister Carwyn Jones marked 18 months of refurbishment of the Grade II-listed Tramshed.
The one-time vehicle repair depot now includes a music venue and restaurants, with a 40-seat cinema to open soon.
Mr Jones said it was "an iconic building, not just for Cardiff but for Wales".
He added: "It's a great example of a building which 20 or 30 years ago would probably have been torn down but has been restored sympathetically as a place to live, to work in, and for entertainment.
"It is the kind of building which will encourage so many businesses, particularly tech and digital."
The business hub - Tramshed Tech - aims to be a workplace for small creative and tech companies and entrepreneurs.
There are also 30 studio apartments, designed as "live-work" spaces.
Part of Tramshed in Grangetown will also include a community room and a dance therapy and yoga studio for disadvantaged and disabled children.
The 1,000-capacity venue opened last October in a first phase and is used for regular concerts and events ranging from darts to food fairs.
Developer Simon Baston, of DS Properties, said it would provide 300 long term job opportunities with the small and medium sized businesses in the "every changing landscape of Cardiff."
The building in Pendyris Street, with its redbrick facade and distinctive windows, was built between 1900 and 1902 and extended in 1923.
Local councillor Ashley Govier said the redevelopment had been a result of hard work and some luck but had not involved any public money.
"It's a fantastic addition to the area and unlike some other parts of the city we've managed to keep an historic building and re-open it to include some community use," he said.
Council leader Phil Bale said in a "very challenging" period for local government, the authority had been able to use one of its land and building assets to create something of "great pride to the local community and to the businesses based here".


It will either remind you of a time when you were younger and better looking or bring back how bad your hair (and camera phone) really was.

We're talking the latest thing everyone's doing on Facebook - resurrecting their first profile picture.
Timelines are filling up with fresh-faced snaps, with nominations for who should go next. But no-one really knows why.
Unlike the no make-up selfie and Ice Bucket Challenge - which were linked to raising awareness for a charity - this craze has no obvious hook.
Facebook is about to turn 11 so many of us now have a lot of history on the site. So are we just getting nostalgic for that time in 2008 when we had blue hair?
Whatever the reason, we give you a glimpse of what Facebook might look like right now - if you were mates with these famous faces.
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Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton has worked hard on his image.
Here he is in 2009 (he posted this after he was apparently punched) and then this year heading into the current series of Celebrity Big Brother.
Emma Watson first entered the limelight in 2000 when she was  cast as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films.
These days, she's a regular on the celebrity circuit and models alongside her acting.
Prime Minister David Cameron looks like he's posing for his school photo in this publicity shot from his election campaign in 2001.
Justin Bieber can now be seen tattooed and muscular in photo shoots, but here he is all cute and boyish at Radio 1's Big Weekend in 2010. Only four years ago.
We managed to find not one, but two photos of Victoria Beckham smiling.
Here she is as Posh all the way back in 2000 and picking up an award forfashion in 2014.
Phillip Schofield first hit our screens around the time of your birth. His hair is a little greyer now but we salute whatever is in his skin care regime.
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Following the signing of a revised peace agreement between Colombia's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), and the Colombian government, BBC News takes a closer look at the guerrilla group which has been fighting the longest-running armed insurgency in the Western Hemisphere.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc, after the initials in Spanish) are Colombia's largest rebel group.
They were founded in 1964 as the armed wing of the Communist Party and follow a Marxist-Leninist ideology.
Their main founders were small farmers and land workers who had banded together to fight against the staggering levels of inequality in Colombia at the time.
While the Farc have some urban groups, they have always been an overwhelmingly rural guerrilla organisation.
The security forces estimate that there are between 6,000 and 7,000 active fighters within the ranks of the Farc.
They think there are another 8,500 civilians who make up the Farc's support network.
This is down considerably from the estimated 20,000 active fighters they are believed to have had around 2002.
The rebels are organised in small tactical groups that in turn make up larger fighting units which are organised in regional "blocs".
They are controlled by the Secretariat, a group of less than a dozen top commanders who devise the overarching strategy of the Farc.
The Farc's top leader is Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, better know by his alias Timochenko.
Read more about Timochenko here.
The Farc were founded at a time of brutal repression against any form of action considered subversive.
Colombia has historically been a country which suffers from huge levels of inequality, where vast swathes of land are owned by a very small elite.
This is partly due to the fact that the Colombian state sold off large tracts of land to private owners in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries to pay for its debts.
Some of the founders of the Farc had established an agricultural commune in the region of Marquetalia, in central Tolima province.
Inspired by the Cuban revolution in the 1950s, they demanded more rights and control over the land.
But their communist ideals were seen as a threat by big landowners and the state, which sent in the army to disband the commune, or Marquetalia Republic as it had come to be known.
The Farc say that it was after the clashes with the army in Marquetalia that they decided to make their struggle an armed one.
No, Colombia went through a 10-year civil war before the Farc were even founded.
During the period known simply as La Violencia (The Violence), between 200,000 and 300,000 people are estimated to have been killed.
La Violencia was triggered by the assassination in 1948 of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, a popular presidential candidate for the Liberal Party.
His shooting in Bogota caused riots in the capital, which were followed by 10 years of conflict pitting the followers of the Liberal Party against those of the Conservative Party.
The man who would later become the top leader of the Farc, Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, had fought in La Violencia.
Human rights groups have often accused the Farc of forcibly recruiting poor farmers and children. The Farc say that everyone who joined them did so voluntarily.
According to their own figures, there were 21 children under the age of 15 in their ranks in May 2016.
Most of their fighters are from poor, rural communities and include both men and women of all ages.
Some of those who have left the Farc speak of being lured by the promise of adventure and the kudos of carrying a gun.
The main enemy of the Farc have been the Colombian security forces. Farc fighters have attacked police stations and military posts, and ambushed patrols.
But they have also blown up oil pipelines, electricity pylons and bridges and bombed social clubs.
Many of their victims have been civilians. They have included children who died when home-made Farc explosives fell short of a rural police station and hit a school, and thousands of people maimed by landmines laid by the Farc.
Thousands of people were kidnapped by the Farc for ransom.
One police officer, Luis Mendieta, was seized in an attack on a police station in 1998 and held for 14 years before being freed by the army in a rescue operation dubbed Chameleon.
Analysts think the Farc are among the richest rebel movements in the world.
Guerrilla commanders have denied the group has stashed away large sums of money
Colombia is one of the main producers of cocaine and the rebels get a large part of their income from drug trafficking or levying "taxes" on those who do.
They have also resorted to extortion and kidnapping for ransom to fill their coffers.
The Farc have been hit hard by the Colombian security forces over the past years.
The Colombian army and police received millions of dollars in funding and training from the US government, much of which they invested in fighting the rebels.
Many of the top leaders of the Farc were killed or died within the past decade.
In 2008, senior rebel leader Raul Reyes was killed in a bombing raid and Farc founder Manuel Marulanda died of natural causes.
In 2011, Alfonso Cano, who took over from Manuel Marulanda, was also killed in a bombing raid.
The number of active fighters also diminished from its estimated high of 20,000 to around 7,000 after thousands of guerrilla fighters were demobilised or killed.
The Farc themselves insist that they wanted peace all along but that the conditions were not right before.


Two people arrested over the death of a five-year-old boy in a suspected drowning at a water park were held on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence, police have said.

Charlie Dunn, from Tamworth, Staffordshire, was pulled from the Blue Lagoon at Bosworth Water Park in Leicestershire on Saturday afternoon.
He died later in hospital and a man and woman were arrested.
Police declined to give any further details about the pair.
The man and woman, who are believed to be Charlie's mother and stepfather, have been released on bail pending further inquiries.
In a statement, Leicestershire Police said: "Our investigations in to the circumstances surrounding the death are ongoing.
"We would continue to ask people not to speculate about the incident and the circumstances around the death and leave the authorities to carry out their investigations."
Officers are urging witnesses and anyone with video footage taken at the park to come forward.
Witness Olivia Quinn said the scene at the water park was "horrific".
"It hasn't left my mind seeing the boy's body on the ground and seeing people try to save him by giving him CPR," she said.
"Everyone was in shock, crying and praying for the little boy. The ambulance took a while to come as it was so busy with people everywhere and cars all around the park."
She said people got towels to "cover him and give him privacy" and "were trying to get their children not to look".
The park reopened on Sunday, with owner Nigel Riley describing the incident as "dreadful".
A statement on its Facebook page said: "From all of the staff at Bosworth Water Park we would like to pass on our deepest sympathies to everyone affected by this tragic loss of life."
Source: Bosworth Water Trust website


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The length of a person's fingers could reveal their risk of motor neurone disease, according to a study.

UK researchers measured the finger length of 110 people, including 47 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common form of the disease.
The study, in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, suggests a link between a longer fourth finger relative to the index finger and ALS.
Experts say finger length cannot help screen for ALS and more work is needed.
The ratio between the fingers has already been linked to many traits, including sporting prowess and aggression, and is believed to be set in the womb.
Experts believe a longer fourth finger relative to the index finger could be partly determined by how much exposure a baby has to the male hormone testosterone before birth.
Indeed, men often do have slightly longer ring fingers than index fingers, while women often do not.
And experts know that motor neurons need testosterone for survival and repair, and men who are born without the ability to use testosterone in the normal way develop a form of motor neuron degeneration.
Dr Brian Dickie of the Motor Neurone Disease Association, said: "This simple, but carefully conducted study raises some interesting questions about how events occurring before birth may increase the risk of developing motor neuron disease later in life.
"But it's important to remember that exposure to higher testosterone in the womb does not directly cause motor neuron disease.
"Many people with long ring fingers will never develop motor neuron disease as we believe there are numerous genetic and environmental factors that need to coincide in order to trigger the disease."


Dutch police are training eagles to grab illegal drones out of the sky.

In this video (which is in Dutch) an eagle is seen swooping towards a hovering drone, grabbing hold of the machine with its talons and flying off.
The birds are taught to treat the drones as if they were a small animal they would hunt to eat.
"The bird sees the drone as prey and takes it to a safe area, a place where he does not suffer from other birds or humans," says a statement from the police.
The Dutch National Police force says it's trying to limit how often members of the public are using drones.
Drones have been a big problem, sometimes they are flown too close to aeroplanes.
Obviously there's the chance that an eagle could get hurt by the blades on a drone.
That's why the police are apparently looking into some sort of protective clothing for the birds.


Rwanda's Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of opposition leader Victoire Ingabire and increased her jail term from eight to 15 years.

She was found guilty of threatening state security and "belittling" the 1994 genocide.
The Supreme Court also found her guilty of spreading rumours intended to incite people to revolt - charges on which she had earlier been cleared.
She had appealed against her conviction.
She insists the trial was politically motivated.
The Unified Democratic Forces (UDF) leader, who was in court for the ruling, was arrested in April 2010 months after returning from exile and was barred from standing in elections later that year.
The BBC's Prudent Nsengiyumva in the capital, Kigali, says the court was packed with diplomats and supporters of Ingabire.
After the sentence was read out she shouted out to them that "the fight continues" and urged them not to be discouraged by her jail term, he says.
Both the defence and prosecution had appealed against last year's High Court verdict.
The Supreme Court judge ruled that Ingabire should be serving a 27-year sentence for her crimes, but she had decided to show leniency, giving her 15 years, because her family was based in the Netherlands and that this was her first conviction.
Ingabire, a Hutu, returned from exile in the Netherlands in January 2010 - and has been in jail since her arrest.
She had questioned why Rwanda's official memorial to the 1994 genocide did not include any Hutus.
Most of the 800,000 people killed were ethnic Tutsis but Hutu moderates were also slaughtered by the Hutu extremists.
The prosecution had initially requested a life sentence.
"We are disappointed, of course, but... we are going to wait for the written verdict which will be available as of next week," the AFP news agency quoted her British lawyer Iain Edwards as saying after the hearing.
The UDF's deputy leader, Boniface Twagirimana, said the party was "not surprised" by the verdict.
Ingabire is a leading critic of President Paul Kagame, a former rebel leader whose Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) put an end to the genocide, and who has been accused increasingly of ignoring human rights and stamping out any opposition.
He won a second term in office in August 2010 with 93% of the vote and his supporters praise the  government for maintaining stability and overseeing rapid economic growth.


Dubbed one of the biggest test cheating scandals in the US, more than 170 teachers and principals were found to have helped cheating in exams in 2009.

Ten Atlanta teachers have been jailed after investigators found wrong answers on test papers were erased and children told the right answers. The incentive - financial bonuses for good marks.
Here are five more notorious examples of exam cheating.
Red faces all round when allegations emerged in January that 34 US Air Force officers in charge of launching US nuclear missiles had cheated in proficiency tests.
According to the US Air Force, some staff had sent answers by text message to others at the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.
It was a monthly test that all those dealing with nuclear missiles in the US must take.
Other officers were accused of knowing about the cheating but failing to do anything about it.
In Shaanxi province, 2,440 pharmacists were accused of cheating in a national licensing test according to China's state TV.
The scam involved the use of earpieces last October.
Fake candidates were sent into exams to get hold of the questions, the South China Morning Post reports.
They then left the test centres early to find out the answers.
Candidates who had paid the scammers the appropriate fee then received the correct answers through their earpieces.
Several hundred people have been arrested in connection with mass school exam cheating in the Indian state of Bihar.
Parents climbing school walls to pass the answers though windows may not be the most subtle method, but it's by no means the only one.
Many students smuggled in textbooks and notes into the examination centres despite tight security.
"Sports, Ethics and Religion" - the title of an undergraduate course at this US college in New Hampshire.
The ethics element seems to have been a bit lost on some students though.
Up to 64 were suspended for cheating in January, the Boston Globe reported.
At issue were electronic hand-held clickers registered to individual students to answer questions in class.
Some of these apparently fell into the wrong hands, enabling students to cheat.
Some face a one-term suspension, the college says.
Money seems to have been central to this one, according to the Cuban authorities.
Eight people, five of them teachers, were arrested last year accused of selling university entrance exams.
Thousands of of secondary school pupils in Havana were obliged to re-sit their exams, official newspaper Granma said.


Adverts for junk food and sweets would be banned from all TV shows broadcast before the 21:00 watershed under Labour plans to tackle childhood obesity.

The party says the proposal forms part of a future child health bill that will be outlined in its election manifesto.
Products high in fat, salt or sugar are currently banned from being advertised during children's TV only.
The Tories said they had the world's "most ambitious" child obesity plan that would be put at risk by Labour.
According to Labour, introducing a ban on pre-watershed junk food promotions would reduce children's viewing of such adverts by 82%.
It says the move would affect programmes including The X Factor, Hollyoaks and Britain's Got Talent, shows campaigners say are popular with children but not specifically aimed at them.
Labour says its strategy on child health aims to halve the number of overweight youngsters within 10 years in an effort to curb the £6bn annual cost to the NHS of obesity.
The party said a £250m fund would be created by halving the amount the NHS spends on management consultants each year. It would be used for investment in school nurses and counselling services in primary and secondary schools in England.
A future Labour government would also measure progress in child health against international standards as part of an "ambition to make Britain's children the healthiest in the world", the party said.
Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said some children were already obese when they started school, while type 2 diabetes was costing the NHS about £10bn a year.
"This initiative is good for children but it is also good for the taxpayer," he told BBC Breakfast.
He said he was not calling for cereals such as Coco Pops to be banned or for parents to stop going to McDonalds, saying he happily took his own children there "once in a while".
"We are asking people to think about the impact and asking the advertising industry to recognise by putting their messages into things like Britain's Good Talent all the time, it is having an effect on children saying they want to eat and drink this stuff."
The Conservatives' childhood obesity plan announced last August set out the action local communities, the food industry, schools and the NHS should be taking over the next 10 years.
It was criticised by health experts, the health select committee and campaigners for being "weak" and "watered down".
But Tory public health spokesman Nicola Blackwood said: "Reducing childhood obesity is vital. That's why the public health watchdog says that the childhood obesity plan we've put in place is the most ambitious in the world, and why we have one of the strictest TV advertising regimes of any country.
"We spent £3.4bn on public health programmes last year - that can only be funded by a strong economy which Jeremy Corbyn would risk with his nonsensical economic ideas."
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The leader of the Republic of Ireland's Fianna Fáil party has said Garda (police) commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan should consider her position.

It has emerged that almost one million drink-driving tests recorded by police in the Republic of Ireland did not actually take place.
Senior officers have admitted many of them were likely made up.
In addition, they have admitted a separate error that caused almost 15,000 wrongful traffic convictions.
Speaking on Irish broadcaster RTÉ's This Week, Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin said his party cannot express confidence in Commissioner O'Sullivan, but did not want to embroil the Dáil (parliament) in the controversy.
Mr Martin said he wants a clear statement from the commissioner to explain why the Policing Authority was not told about the controversy until recently.
"We can no longer articulate confidence in the Garda commissioner or indeed at this particular point in time in the administration of justice, until we get absolute clarity in plain language as to what happened here," Mr Martin said.
He added that there needed to be a "radical change in terms of how policing is managed in this country" as the credibility of the Garda had been "seriously undermined by these revelations".
Earlier, Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed said there is nothing to suggest the commissioner is implicated in the latest revelations about the force.
Speaking on RTÉ's The Week in Politics, the minister said the commissioner deserves support and nothing would be served by delivering a head on a plate.
On Saturday, the commissioner said the revelations were "totally unacceptable and not in keeping with the standards of a modern and professional police service".
Commissioner O'Sullivan was already facing questions over her leadership because of allegations of a smear campaign against a whistleblower, Sgt Maurice McCabe.
Sgt McCabe was one of two officers who raised concerns years ago about the alleged deletion of penalty points from the driving licences of well-connected offenders.


The head of Britain's electronic surveillance agency GCHQ has resigned.

Robert Hannigan, who has held the post of GCHQ director since 2014, said he was stepping down for family reasons.
He said he was proud of his work but that 20 years in public service roles had "demanded a great deal of my ever patient and understanding family".
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Mr Hannigan had "led the renewal" of national security capabilities to fight terrorism during his time at GCHQ.
Mr Hannigan was director general of defence and intelligence at the Foreign Office before taking over the leadership of GCHQ in 2014.
In a letter to the foreign secretary, he said he was proud of the work he had done and "how many lives have been saved in this country and overseas by the work of GCHQ" but added "now is the right time for a change in direction".
Mr Hannigan said it was "right" that a new director be in place ready for GCHQ's 100th anniversary in 2019, but he would stay in the post until a replacement was appointed.
Sources have told BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera that the resignation was not the result of any concerns over policy in the UK or in the US.
Mr Johnson thanked him for his service, saying he had "set the groundwork for a major transformation of our cyber defences" during his tenure.
There will now be an internal competition within government to identify candidates for the job. Recommendations will then be sent to Mr Johnson and Prime Minister Theresa May for a final decision.
Mr Hannigan was born in Gloucestershire and is a married father-of-two.
He was previously responsible for the UK's first cyber security strategy, oversaw the first national security strategy, and chaired Cobra emergency committee meetings on terrorist incidents.
He also worked as principal adviser to then Prime Minister Tony Blair on the Northern Ireland peace process.


Robin Soderling - who remains the only man ever to have beaten Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros - is hoping he will be able to return to the ATP Tour in 2016.

The two-time French Open finalist has not played competitively since July 2011 because of severe glandular fever, but has told BBC Radio 5 live of his optimism he still has "some good years" ahead.
"I'm actually finally doing a lot better," says the 30-year-old Swede.
"I wouldn't say I'm 100%, but not very far from it, which is a great feeling."
He added: "Hopefully - if it continues to progress the way it has been - then maybe, it's tough to say, but maybe six months or a year from now I can hopefully start to train 100%.
"My goal was to play a long career and to play until I was way over 30. If I can become healthy, I still feel that I have some good years in me. Look at the way the players on the tour are performing now at a high age - that gives me a little bit of hope."
Soderling famously beat Nadal in four sets in the fourth round of the 2009 French Open and went on to finish as the runner-up to Roger Federer. He again reached the final in Paris 12 months later, where Nadal took the opportunity to exact his revenge.
The Swede says he started to develop a light fever and a sore throat during the 2011 Wimbledon Championships but rallied a couple of weeks later to beat David Ferrer in a final in Bastad, Sweden. That was the 10th title of a burgeoning career, and yet it remains his most recent appearance on the ATP Tour.
Soderling was just 26 at the time and admits to feeling bitter about the illness which has robbed him of arguably the best years of his career.
"In the beginning I didn't think so much about it because I was feeling so bad: I had problems going from my bed to the bathroom," he said.
"But then after a while, as I started to feel physically better, it was tough of course mentally: all [manner of] thoughts started going through my head about maybe I cannot ever play tennis again. But I did some other stuff. I had a kid and I learnt that tennis is a big part of my life but it's not my whole life as I thought it was before."
"Other stuff" includes setting up RS Tennis, a company that sells tennis products, and spending almost a year trying to develop the perfect tennis ball. Soderling's creation - which he says is light yet durable and offers plenty of control - will be used at this year's Stockholm Open, where the Swede is now in his second year as tournament director.
That role has really opened his eyes to life on the other side of the fence. He is now having to negotiate appearance fees with players' agents, some of whom are "very nice and easy to talk to - but some are totally the opposite".
And if Soderling does return to the tour in 2016, we should expect to see a man whose illness has given him a different perspective on professional life.
"Sometimes I wish I had been a little bit more humble as a player, because sometimes you could complain about really small things like there's no water on the court."


Falkirk missed a chance to leapfrog Hibernian into second place in the Scottish Championship after a goalless draw away to St Mirren.

In a game of few chances, Jordan Stewart dragged an effort wide for St Mirren as the hosts enjoyed the better of the game early on.
Stephen Mallan and Calum Gallagher both went close without testing goalkeeper Danny Rogers in the Falkirk goal.
Falkirk's Blair Alston had a right-footed effort come back off the bar.
However, the Bairns had to settle for a draw that takes them to within a point of a Hibs side who suffered a third straight defeat after a 1-0 loss away to Queen of the South.


An advert released by drinks giant Pepsi and starring reality TV star and model Kendall Jenner has left a bad taste around the world.

Pepsi apologised and pulled the ad after accusations that it trivialised recent street protests across the US. But it wasn't the only company copping flak for poor creativity this week.
German skincare brand Nivea also said sorry over its "white is purity" deodorant advert that was deemed discriminatory and racially insensitive.
Meanwhile, in the UK, the Co-op supermarket was accused of "outrageous sexism" in an advert for chocolate Easter eggs that encouraged parents to "treat your daughter for doing the washing up", while Cadbury was criticised after dropping the word "Easter" from its egg hunts.
These campaigns have now taken their place in the pantheon of bad advertising. Here are a few more picks from recent memory.
Here's another one that left a sour taste. The Snickers TV advert featuring Mr T as BA Baracus from The A-Team was pulled after it was accused of being insulting to gay men.
Mr T is shown firing Snickers chocolate bars at a man who's speed walking in tight yellow shorts, while yelling, "You are a disgrace to the man race. It's time to run like a real man."
Confectionery giant Mars, which owns Snickers, released a statement saying the advert was intended to be funny but that "humour is highly subjective".
In the US and most of the West, this poster would have caused outrage and accusations of racism.
But in Thailand, an image of a woman in blackface and bright pink lipstick to promote a new "charcoal donut" wasn't deemed a big deal.
The chief executive of the Thai franchise - whose daughter was the model - reportedly said at the time: "I don't get it. What's the big fuss? What if the product was white and I painted someone white, would that be racist?" But a spokesman for Dunkin' Brands apologised.
The use of blackface - which historically was used by non-black performers to represent a black person - is still used in some Asian countries. Last year, a company in China used it to promote a laundry detergent.
The US carmaker was forced to issue an apology over a poster that featured three gagged and bound women in the boot of a car.
It also showed former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the driver's seat grinning and flashing the peace sign.
The advert for Ford's new Fido hatchback was posted online soon after India passed a new law on violence against women following a fatal gang rape.
This anti-gambling advert deserves to be ranked in the Hall of Fame (or shame) for the amount of jokes it generated.
It was released to coincide with the 2014 World Cup and featured a boy complaining to friends that his dad had bet his life savings on Germany winning. The trouble is... Germany won.
Singapore officials updated the ad but not before it got lampooned around the world.
It takes quite a lot to shock in France, a country many consider to be one of the most liberal in Europe.
But a 2010 anti-smoking advertisement featuring teenagers and oral sex innuendos did just that, with one minister calling it an "outrage to decency".
Critics said the highly suggestive pictures trivialised the sexual abuse of minors.
Thankfully we've since moved on to pictures of diseased organs to put people off smoking instead.
There wasn't any cheering when the US department store Bloomingdale's released its Christmas catalogue two years ago.
The photo of an attractive, well-dressed woman being eyeballed by an unsmiling man looked innocent enough...
Until you read the creepy caption that said "spike your best friend's eggnog when they're not looking".
The online backlash was swift with many interpreting it as supporting date rape. Bloomingdale's admitted the ad was "in poor taste".
Benetton's "Unhate" campaign (which still exists) had good intentions when it launched in 2011.
But on one of its images the Italian clothing company clearly took its photo-editing skills too far.
It received a warning and the threat of legal action from the Vatican for a "totally unacceptable" image of Pope Benedict XVI kissing an Egyptian imam, and subsequently withdrew the ad.
The Vatican said in a statement that the ad was "damaging not only to the dignity of the Pope and the Catholic Church but also to the feelings of believers".
The White House also disapproved of the images featuring then-President Barack Obama but Benetton kept those.
We live in a time where race and gender and sexual orientation remain highly sensitive topics. So what can brands do to generate buzz without offending?
David Meikle, who founded marketing consultancy Salt, doubts that Pepsi will suffer from any long-term damage from the Kendall Jenner ad fiasco.
"Pepsi seems to have managed the retraction and apology quite well. Most importantly Pepsi was swift and decisive in its response to the feedback," he says.
Simon Kemp, a marketing expert with almost two decades of experience, agrees that Pepsi has handled the fallout well but says all eyes will be on its next campaign.
"I think Pepsi has built sufficient goodwill over the years that their core customers will forgive them this time, although they may not forget as quickly as the brand would like. The real test will come when the brand launches its next campaign though, and Pepsi will need to tread carefully for that."
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US singer Chris Brown is being investigated by Las Vegas police over an allegation of battery.

Officers were contacted at 10:30 local time (18:30 GMT) on Saturday about the alleged incident at the Palms Casino resort, according to Lt Jeff Goodwin.
A police statement said an altercation took place in a room when a woman went to take a picture of Brown and was struck by him before he took her phone.
His publicist Nicole Perna called the woman's charges "unequivocally untrue".
Police officers were unable to speak to Brown at his hotel room as he had left before they arrived.
They said a crime report has been taken, listing Brown for for misdemeanour theft and misdemeanour battery.
Ms Perna said the woman's allegations were "a complete fabrication".
Grammy winner Brown, whose hits include Run It! and Kiss Kiss, had performed on Friday at a Las Vegas nightclub where he appears regularly.


Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have agreed that Burma can chair the regional bloc in 2014, amid some signs of reform in the country.

The move came at a summit of the 10-member group in Indonesia.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa told the BBC the decision was unanimous.
He said member states believed that Burma had made significant progress down the path of democracy.
The announcement came as Burma's pro-democracy party appeared poised to rejoin the country's political process.
The leadership of the Asean regional grouping rotates on an annual basis, but Burma was not allowed to take the top position last time because of its human rights record.
Some critics say it is still too early to award the high-profile role to Burma, where between 600 and 1,000 political prisoners are thought to remain behind bars.
By David LoynBBC International Development Correspondent, in Rangoon
We met for an interview in a plain wooden house. Aung San Suu Kyi said that it was one sign of reform that the interview could take place at all - the first time the BBC has been given a visa for such a trip.
She said she was confident that remaining political prisoners will soon be released, a confidence that may come from her recent talks with President Thein Sein, who she described as a good listener; he is widely credited with the pace of reforms.
She has offered to try to negotiate a peaceful end to several ethnic conflicts that have become worse this year. But she said that the continuing conflicts should not be allowed to get in the way of restoring democracy.
Her party, the National League for Democracy, is now likely to support a decision to run in by-elections, a year after they boycotted a national vote.
She is certain to be one of the candidates her party puts forward for by-elections in about 50 parliamentary seats, made vacant when MPs were appointed as ministers.
But Mr Natalegawa said it was important to recognise that the situation had changed.
"It's not about the past, it's about the future, what leaders are doing now," he said. "We're trying to ensure the process of change continues."
Ko Ko Hlaing, chief political adviser to the Burmese president, said Asean had welcomed Burma as a responsible leader.
"Be assured that we are now growing into a democratic society and we will do all our responsibilities and duties as a responsible government, reflecting the desires of the Myanmar (Burmese) people," he said.
But US President Barack Obama, speaking before the decision was announced, said more was needed from Burma.
"Some political prisoners have been released. The government has begun a dialogue. Still, violations of human rights persist," he said in a speech to the Australian parliament.
"So we will continue to speak clearly about the steps that must be taken for the government of Burma to have a better relationship with the United States."
Burma held its first elections in two decades a year ago - polls which saw military rule replaced with a military-backed civilian-led government.
The new leadership then freed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest and has opened dialogue with her.
Her National League for Democracy party is to meet on Friday to decide whether to rejoin the political process.
It boycotted the 2010 polls because of electoral laws that banned its leaders - former political prisoners - from standing as candidates.
This law and another that required registered parties to "safeguard" the military-written constitution have now been changed.
Ms Suu Kyi told the BBC she expected most of her party to support a decision to run in forthcoming by-elections.


A Jersey resident who died on the crashed EgyptAir flight was a "great guy", a friend has said.

Stephen Ellyatt had known geologist Richard Osman for the past two years after renting a house to him.
He saw Mr Osman days before the crash and knew he could have been on the Paris to Cairo flight.
"You hear of these tragedies but until it's someone very close to you, you just don't know how much it hurts," Mr Ellyatt said.
Mr Osman, 40, was on flight MS804 with 66 passengers and crew when it vanished early on Thursday.
The Egyptian military has released images of items found during the search in the Mediterranean Sea.
Mr Osman's wife Aureilie, 36, gave birth to their second daughter Olympe three weeks ago.
Mr Ellyatt had met Mr Osman for a night out two days before the crash.
"I knew his schedule and realised he could have been on that flight so I texted him to see if he was OK and where he was," he said.
"I never got any response so I texted Aureilie in Paris where she is staying with her parents and she said he was on the plane, which realised my fears."
He said the couple "loved Jersey".
"It's just awful. I am so sad for the family and the two children.
"It's heartbreaking that he was chosen to die in that way," Mr Ellyatt said.
Investigators have confirmed smoke was detected in various parts of the cabin three minutes before the plane disappeared, but say the cause of the crash is still not known.


A fourth person has been arrested by police investigating the stabbing of a teenager in a street in Shrewsbury.

Michael Warham, 16, from Liverpool, was found in Wayford Close in Meole Brace on 1 August.
He died in hospital at about 06:30 BST on 4 August.
An 18-year-old man, also from Liverpool, was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and later released on bail, West Mercia Police said.
Three other people - a 19-year-old man and 17-year-old boy, both from Liverpool, and a 19-year-old woman from Shrewsbury - have been arrested and bailed in connection with the incident.
More on this and other stories from Shropshire


As US tech giants take steps against President Donald Trump's travel ban, Canada's tech scene is hopeful the executive order will help bring much needed talent to the sector north of the border.

Canadian firms see an opportunity to lure talent even as they struggle with the impact of the ban on their business, and are seeking a fast-track visa to help them bring top candidates to cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
Kasra Nejatian is among those leading a charge to assist the sector to hire tech workers rejected at the US border due to the recent executive order, which temporarily barred nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US.
The Iranian-Canadian chief executive of Kash, a tech company with offices in San Francisco and Toronto, has created an online list of resumes - he has over 180 names so far - to share with tech executives in Canada.
Mr Nejatian, who helped craft Canada's own immigration policies under the previous federal Conservative government as a senior adviser to a former immigration minister, does not mince words when it comes to the executive order.
"It's confusing and irresponsible, with tinges of racism," he said.
"There's great reason to be worried about the security of the US border. Americans should be worried about it. But there are things that help and there are things that hurt. This will hurt."
The order included a 120-day pause on the admission of all refugees and a 90-day pause on entry for people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
The US policy has had repercussions for the global tech industry.
A group of 97 US tech firms have filed a legal document stating that President Trump's immigration ban affects their operations and "inflicts significant harm" on business.
The amicus brief, which allows parties not directly involved in a case to give their view, includes Silicon Valley giants like Apple, Facebook and Microsoft.
There is currently a stay on the ban, issued on Friday by a federal judge, that allows visa holders from the seven countries covered by the executive order to enter the US until the full case has been heard.
But with so much confusion around Mr Trump's order, many have doubts about travelling between the US and Canada.
Mr Nejatian says for the moment, he is staying put in San Francisco.
Stephen Green, a specialist in immigration law, told the BBC that application of the policy "varies from border to border, there's no consistency through the system".
His company has been fielding calls over the past few days from start-ups looking to set up shop in Canada and global companies interested in increasing their presence in the country "because we have predictability here".
Canadian firms say their doors are wide open for the tech talent left out in the cold.
On 29 January, over 150 executives signed an open letter underscoring their support for diversity and pluralism in the workforce. By this week, there were over 3,400 signatories, including executives from domestic companies like Shopify,  and venture capital firms like  OMERS Ventures.
The letter also called on the Canadian government to institute a targeted visa providing tech workers displaced by the policy with temporary Canadian residency, one that would allow them live and work in the country.
Allen Lau, co-founder of Wattpad and among the signatories, says "Canada always supported inclusive nationalism and we embrace that recipe".
But the sector has struggle to compete with places like Silicon Valley for the best employees, and a talent gap of 200,000 high tech workers is projected by 2020, according to the Information and Communications Technology Council.
The shift in the US could be an incentive for people to look north for work, especially if the ban grows and starts applying to other nationalities and visa categories.
"Canada as a country is in a very unique place on the planet right now, has a unique message, is a unique differentiator. That will allow us to attract the best talent," Lau said.


A man has been charged with murder after a 30-year-old man died following a stabbing in Lancashire.

Marcin Pawlow, from Poland, was found with stab wounds to his hip, thigh and shoulder in Central Drive, Blackpool, at about 01:30 GMT on 23 December.
He was taken to Blackpool Victoria Hospital, where he later died.
Daniel Sobisz, 34, of no fixed address, is due to appear before Blackpool Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with murder.


Volunteers have been taking part in a commemorative project by National Theatre head Rufus Norris and artist Jeremy Deller to mark the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme.

Photos of the project spread across social media using the #wearehere hashtag.
Mandy Charlton tweeted this image of the scene at Grey's Monument in the city centre, saying "with all that is happening right now in the country, this really puts things into perspective".
John Wilson, BBC Front Row presenter, captured the scene at King's Cross station this morning, calling the appearance of the soldiers an "incredibly moving tribute".
"I was surprised at how moving it was to see young lads in uniform, as if they were going off to war," says Alan Meban.
The uniformed men have been handing out cards to people who ask them what is happening. Each card details a soldier killed on the first day of the battle.
Madeline Littlejohns tweeted that she had "been handed several of these this morning, so moving".
Barbara Leatham has been capturing events in Salisbury and says that it's "incredible how many people have been touched by the #Somme100 Remembrance scenes".
Gemma Swallow describes the scene in Royal Exchange Square as "powerful and deeply moving".
You can see more images using #wearehere at www.becausewearehere.co.uk.
Compiled by David Campanale, BBC News UGC and Social News


Lewis Hamilton was only fourth fastest in second practice at the Singapore Grand Prix as Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat set the pace.

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Both Mercedes, so dominant in 2015, had a low-key session, as Hamilton's team-mate Nico Rosberg was seventh.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was second fastest ahead of Kvyat's team-mate Daniel Ricciardo as the top three drivers were covered by only 0.114secs.
Hamilton was 0.337secs off the pace, ahead of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.
Force India's Sergio Perez was sixth, with McLaren's Fernando Alonso an impressive eighth behind Rosberg.
Red Bull had long targeted this weekend for a strong result, the tight and twisty nature of the circuit favouring their strong chassis and masking the deficit of their Renault engine.
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And Ricciardo started the weekend well with third fastest time in the first session.
Kvyat's performance in the second session was all the more impressive because he suffered engine problems in the first and hardly ran at all.
But the Russian, having a strong first season in the senior Red Bull team after a briefly shaky start, was immediately on the pace in the second session.
Kvyat was third fastest on the harder 'soft' tyres on the first runs, behind Hamilton and Raikkonen, before his fastest time on his qualifying simulation run on the faster super-softs.
Red Bull's performance suggests their hopes of battling with Ferrari for the honour of being next best behind Mercedes could be fulfilled.
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said the team were not happy with their pace on either of the two types of tyre. But it is highly unlikely that they will suddenly have been leapfrogged by two of their rivals, but it was still a surprise not to see a silver car at the front of the field.
Hamilton enters the weekend with a 53-point advantage over Rosberg in the championship, determined not to be distracted and to keep focusing on winning each race.
Rosberg had looked more comfortable in the first session, heading Hamilton by 0.3secs and being consistently faster throughout the session.
But Hamilton turned the tables in the second and was clearly the faster Mercedes driver throughout.
Even on the race runs, Red Bull and Ferrari appeared to have an edge on Mercedes.
But few people in the paddock will expect to see anything else other than Mercedes at the front once they turn up the power of their engines for final practice and qualifying on Saturday.
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The team are running a new-spec engine, first introduced at the last race in Italy, and there were reliability concerns with the one in Rosberg's car, to the extent that it had to be removed before qualifying and another new one fitted for this race, his fourth and final one for the year.
Like Red Bull, and for similar reasons, McLaren expect Singapore to provide one of their best chances of a strong result.
The Honda engine's inefficiency in terms of hybrid performance left them helpless in the last two races on high-speed tracks in Belgium and Italy.
But the shorter straights of Singapore mean the engine's shortage of electric boost is less of a problem and Alonso, something of a specialist on this track, looked convincing on his way to the eighth fastest time, which was only 0.817secs off the pace.
Team-mate Jenson Button had a less happy time, setting the 14th fastest time 0.929secs behind Alonso.
It has been a difficult weekend for the back-of-the-grid Manor team.
They drafted in American Alexander Rossi at short notice ahead of the weekend, to replace Spaniard Robert Merhi for five of the remaining seven races this season.
Rossi was doing well, on team-mate Will Stevens's pace, until he crashed at Turn 18 with a few minutes to go in the first session.
The team were unable to get the car repaired for the start of second practice, and their day became even worse when Stevens spun into the barrier at Turn 11 early on.
Rossi's car was repaired in time for him to get out for the last 20 minutes of second practice.
Practice results
Singapore Grand Prix coverage


Justice Secretary Liz Truss is facing growing pressure to stop domestic abusers from cross-examining former partners in family courts.

The courts handle parental disputes and other cases related to divorce.
The head of England and Wales' family courts, Sir James Munby, said family courts were lagging "woefully" behind criminal ones, where a ban is in place.
The Ministry of Justice said it was working with the judiciary to bring in extra protection for the vulnerable.
In family courts, judges are supposed to follow guidance, known as practice direction 12J, when handling cases in which domestic violence is cited as an issue.
This is aimed at stopping an abusive partner from directly interrogating their ex, requiring the judge to step in instead.
However, research by Women's Aid found one in four abuse victims with experience of the family court had been questioned by their violent or abusive former partner.
Campaigners and members of the judiciary want Ms Truss to close this loophole, which effectively allows abusers to re-traumatise their victims.
Polly Neate, chief executive of Women's Aid, said that professionals in family courts, usually judges, often had an "appalling" lack of understanding of domestic abuse cases.
"They don't understand that domestic abuse very commonly, in fact routinely, continues after separation," she told BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour.
"If the last violent incident was a few months ago and the couple have separated, they just don't see that as a potentially abusive situation.
"They don't understand the impact of domestic abuse on children, they don't understand coercive control."
She said people in family courts were representing themselves more and more, often because they were not eligible for legal aid since cuts were made in 2012.
Currently in 80% of family court cases at least one of the participants has no lawyer, and is representing themselves, BBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said.
In a statement, Sir James, president of the Family Division, said he had been pressing for reform of the way in which vulnerable people give evidence in family proceedings since 2014, and had been disappointed by ministers' "slow response".
He said reform should be "a matter of priority", saying a bar would be welcome.
"But the judiciary cannot provide this, because it requires primary legislation and would involve public expenditure. It is therefore a matter for ministers," he said.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said family judges already have a range of powers to protect vulnerable witnesses in court.
These included intervening to prevent inappropriate questioning and ordering video links, protective screens and intermediaries, he said.
"However, we recognise more needs to be done, which is why we are working with the judiciary to consider additional protections," he added.
It is understood that the Ministry of Justice has undertaken research looking at how judges currently manage cross-examination in cases, and the findings will inform new measures to protect the vulnerable.


Labour and Plaid Cymru have clashed on whether the two parties could work together if next week's election results in a hung parliament.

During BBC Wales' televised leaders debate Labour's Owen Smith challenged Plaid leader Leanne Wood over whether she would "let a Tory government in by the back door".
But she responded that Labour's "time was up on taking people for granted".
On Friday Ed Miliband had ruled out doing a deal with Plaid.
Ms Wood has said she could do a deal to put Labour in power even if the Plaid's sister party the SNP was not involved.
Appearing to concede that Labour may not win a majority, Mr Smith said: "The question is for Leanne - in the event of Labour being the largest party, and Labour forming a government, perhaps a minority government, would Leanne vote down our programme for getting rid of the bedroom tax, for increasing the minimum wage - would you, Leanne, let a Tory government in by the back door?"
She responded: "I just love the way that you take for granted the way you think Plaid Cymru votes are going to go, just in the same way you have taken for granted the people of Wales over many many decades.
"I think the time is up on taking people for granted, Owen Smith."
Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb said a vote for a Conservative administration was the alternative to what he dubbed a "squabbling coalition of chaos".
The debate also heard from the Welsh Liberal Democrat's Kirsty Williams, UKIP Wales' Nathan Gill and the Wales Green Party's Pippa Bartolotti, as all six politicians took part in the final Welsh televised debate.
Ms Williams faced questioning over the Lib-Dem coalition role on benefit issues and told the audience:" There have been tough decisions about welfare."
The Green's leader highlighted what she described as the "disproportionate" burden being felt by women under austerity measures, while UKIP's Welsh leader hit on the devolved issue of the NHS - warning that Labour had made "a right pig's ear" of the health service in Wales.
Large chunks of last night's debate at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff were dominated by the coalition government's welfare reform policies.
The Conservative Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb came under sustained attack on the subject, including from his party's former coalition partner, the Liberal Democrats.
But the Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams had an uncomfortable moment of her own as well in a question about her party's role in cutting back the UK's welfare bill.
She wasn't alone as Labour's Owen Smith faced some difficult questions over the Labour Welsh government's record running the NHS.
While UKIP focused on financial responsibility, and a more efficient use of foreign aid, the Greens pushed their message on greater financial protection for women and more protection for the environment.
But arguably the most lively exchange came towards the end of the debate when Labour and Plaid clashed over a potential working relationship in a hung parliament.
This was the final set-piece televised debate in the general election campaign in Wales. What's called the air war has come to an end and the ground war will now get fully underway as the political parties look to get their vote out on polling day.


A majority of parents in the UK believe social media harms their children's moral development, a survey has suggested.

Just over half (55%) of 1,700 people with children aged 11 to 17 strongly agreed that social media hinders or undermines moral development.
The poll was part of a project by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at Birmingham University.
Researcher Blaire Morgan said some of the findings were surprising.
"Not least [of these is] the low level of agreement that social media can enhance or support a young person's character or moral development.
"Whilst parents acknowledged that positive character strengths, including moral virtues such as love, courage and kindness, are promoted through social networking sites, they were reluctant to agree that these sites could have a positive impact on their child's character."
BBC Newsround research earlier this year suggested that children as young as 10 have social media accounts despite being below the age limit, which is usually 13.
The new poll highlights parents' concerns about the trend.
Of those questioned, 93% were themselves regular social media users but:
The survey, which also questioned parents about their own use of social media, asked which negative traits or vices they saw online at least once a month.
They were also asked to name character strengths they believed were lacking on social media:
But almost three-quarters (72%) said they saw content containing a positive message at least once a day.
And asked to identify character strengths they saw at least once a month on social media, the respondents replied:
Ms Morgan said: "The Jubilee Centre's parents and media project seeks to explore the relationship between social media and virtues in more depth, and hopefully offer a more constructive outlook on how social media might impact on a person's character and moral values.
"Social media is not going away, so by learning more about this relationship we should be able to maximise the benefits of social media use and avoid the pitfalls."


Opposition candidate Klaus Iohannis has won a surprise victory in Romania's presidential election, defeating PM Victor Ponta after a tight race.

With most results declared, Mr Iohannis, mayor of Sibiu, had 54.5% of the vote to Mr Ponta's 45.5%.
Mr Iohannis, 55 and an ethnic German, vowed to change politics and said "another kind of Romania is beginning".
Romania is one of the most corrupt EU states, something the centre-right Mr Iohannis has vowed to tackle.
Despite the election result, Mr Ponta told a local TV channel that he had "no reason to resign" as prime minister.
He had hoped to become the country's youngest president, replacing the incumbent Traian Basescu who cannot stand for re-election after serving two terms.
Klaus Iohannis - Romania's president-elect
Profile of Klaus Iohannis
Romania's large diaspora of up to four million people played a key role in the election. Many expat voters were said to be disillusioned with Mr Ponta.
After the first round of voting there were protests at polling stations in Paris, London and other cities. In some places voters had to queue for hours - with some unable to vote - leading to the resignation of the foreign minister last week.
The number of expatriate voters on Sunday more than doubled to 379,000 and large queues thronged polling stations at embassies and consulates across Europe, from Milan and Munich to London and Portsmouth.
Police in Paris fired tear gas on Sunday evening to disperse voters angry that they had been unable to cast their ballots. The new foreign minister had suggested that voters in France should travel instead to the eastern city of Nancy.
Romanian media praise election result
Expatriate voters overshadow presidential poll
Mr Ponta had been leading in the opinion polls and had beaten Mr Iohannis, the mayor of Sibiu in Transylvania, in the first round of the presidential election.
"We are a democratic country," Mr Ponta said outside the headquarters of his Social Democratic Party on Sunday. "The people are always right."
Mr Ponta, 42, had promised to reduce the budget deficit, increase pensions and the minimum wage.
As prime minister, he oversaw economic growth and political stability in Romania, the EU's second-poorest state after Bulgaria.
Aside from tackling corruption, Mr Iohannis, 55, promised in his election campaign to strengthen the independence of the judicial system.


BBC Radio 1 has recovered from record low audiences, and now reaches 10.44 million listeners a week, according to new figures from ratings body Rajar.

The station gained 737,000 listeners in the last quarter, thanks in part to new presenters Clara Amfo and Annie Mac.
Breakfast DJ Nick Grimshaw also increased his weekly reach by 344,000 to 5.84 million.
BBC Radio 2 remains the most listened to station in the UK, with 15.14 million tuning in.
In total, 48 million UK adults - or 89% of the adult population - tuned in to the radio every week between April and June, Rajar said.
Helen Boaden, Director of BBC Radio, said: "Radio is frequently underestimated so it's wonderful to see the whole market growing this quarter."
Radio 1's recovery will be welcome news to the station's bosses. Results for the first three months of 2015 showed the station's audience dropping to its lowest level for more than a decade - at 9.7 million listeners.
At the time, Grimshaw had 5.5 million listeners, his lowest audience since succeeding Chris Moyles in 2012, and the breakfast show's smallest audience since 2003, when Sara Cox was at the end of her tenure.
The next set of Rajar figures will measure the impact of Apple's Beats 1 radio station, which poached Zane Lowe from Radio 1, along with several of the station's producers.
Apple told the BBC it had signed up 11 million people to its Apple Music service since it launched on 30 June.
That compares with 75 million active users on Spotify, 16 million on Deezer and 770,000 on Tidal.
"We're thrilled with the numbers so far," said Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of internet software and services.
However, it remains to be seen how Apple's user base will change when the free, three-month trial period ends and it introduces a monthly subscription fee of Â£9.99.


Erratic and disruptive behaviour at work can be caused by even a single night's loss of sleep, say researchers.

Lack of sleep does not only mean tired workers, says the study, but can also cause "unwanted" activity, which it links to lower levels of self-control.
The study, published by the Rotterdam School of Management, says that such sleep-related disruption can cost billions in lost productivity.
Sleeplessness can cause a "destructive cycle" in work, says the study.
"Unwanted behaviour in the workplace often stems from selfish impulses that are not kept in check by self-control," says researcher Laura Giurge of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
This could be anything from being rude to someone else in the office or increasing the likelihood of workplace theft.
But the study suggests that lack of sleep, even for a single night, can be a powerful influence over people who would otherwise not behave that way.
"This study shows that the display of unwanted behaviour is not a fixed character trait," says Ms Giurge.
"It can vary from day to day, even within the same person."
The study argues that lack of sleep can reduce people's sense of self-control and their ability to "regulate their impulses" - so that they behave in a way that they would not do normally.
"This can lead into a possibly destructive cycle," says the study and could contribute to unethical behaviour.
Such lack of sleep can also make it more difficult for people at work to overcome feelings of failure, says the study, with workplace problems seeming to become overwhelming.
There have been previous studies which have examined how sleep deprivation can disrupt "moral judgement" and alter the quality of decision-making.
This has been studied in areas such as whether lack of sleep changes the behaviour of judges and how sleep deprivation might change how soldiers behave under pressure.


January 2014 has been mild and fairly sunny but significantly wetter than normal, with some parts of the UK experiencing record-breaking rainfall.

While Wales had the highest total rainfall, at 246.9mm, south-east and central southern England had the most unusual level of rain - the highest in the area since records began in 1910.
The South East and central southern part of the country is usually fairly dry with a long-term January average of 80.1mm (3.1in) rainfall.
But this year it has more than doubled to 175.2mm (6.9in) - beating the previous record of 158.2mm, set in 1988.
For the UK as a whole 164.6 mm of rain fell in the period up to 28 January, 35% above the long-term average. Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland all had more rain than usual.
On the back of December's stormy weather, this puts the country on course for a wetter winter than average, the Met Office said. Only northern Scotland was drier than usual in January.
The rain has come with mild temperatures, which are 1.2C higher than average with a UK mean of 4.9C. England was even slightly sunnier than a typical January, with an extra four hours over the month.
The main reason for the mild and wet weather so far was a predominance of west and south-west winds, bringing in mild air from the Atlantic, the Met Office said.