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Andy Carroll scores his first Liverpool goals to boost their slim hopes of a Europa League spot with a comfortable win over Manchester City.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton have attended their last official engagement before their wedding on April 29th
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Raymond Alexander has appealed for anyone with information to come forward. A 49-year-old woman has suffered serious head injuries following a hit and run collision in Holywood, County Down.
The crash happened at the Holywood Golf Club at 0110 GMT on Monday.
Julie-Ann Alexander was hit by a vehicle in a car park. The car did not return to the scene.
Her brother, Raymond Alexander said his sister has a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain.
“She is in a really bad state in hospital. She is obviously unconscious,” he added.
“Her fingers seem to be bruised as well as if she had a fingers caught in a door.”
A spokesperson for the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast said the victim’s condition is “stable”.
Police have appealed for help in tracing the car involved, which they believe was grey in colour with County Monaghan number plates.
Ms Alexander spent Sunday evening at the golf club watching Rory McIlroy’s challenge at the US masters.
Her brother said the crash was a “sad end” to what should have been an enjoyable night.
“What I am appealing for is any witnesses who may have walked into the car park between 1am and 1.20am to come forward.”
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Head of the ICB, Sir John Vickers, says UK banks that take too many risks should be allowed to fail in future
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Mr Cameron was answering questions from members of the public Oxford University has hit back at the prime minister after he said only one black UK student began a course there in 2009 and called it “disgraceful”.
The university said David Cameron had been “incorrect and highly misleading”, and that at least 26 black British undergraduates started that year.
Mr Cameron was answering questions about the effect of raised tuition fees on poorer students.
Downing Street said the figure of one black Caribbean student was accurate.
Mr Cameron was answering questions from the public at a “PM Direct” event in Harrogate in North Yorkshire.
“I saw figures the other day that showed that only one black person went to Oxford last year,” he said. “I think that is disgraceful. We have got to do better than that.”
The university said that it was true that only one British undergraduate from that year’s intake identified his or herself as “black – Caribbean”.
Elite universities’ intakes are under increased scrutiny as they raise tuition fees But this failed to take into account another 26 who identified themselves as either “black – African”, or “black – other”.
Another 14 described themselves as mixed race with some black heritage, a spokesman said.
And these figures do not take into account postgraduates, non-British undergraduates, or undergraduates who preferred not to identify themselves as belonging to a specific ethnic group, he added.
In total, in 2009 22% of Oxford University students were from ethnic minorities, the institution said.
A Downing Street spokesperson said: “The figure the prime minister used was from a response to an Freedom of Information request submitted by David Lammy – which clearly states that only 1 black Caribbean student was admitted to Oxford in 2009.
“The wider point he was making was that it is not acceptable for universities like Oxford to have so few students coming from black and minority ethnic groups.”
Mr Cameron was also criticised by the Russell Group of leading universities for saying that the numbers of state-school students had gone down in the last 20 years.
He had said: “That is a terrible record.”
But Wendy Piatt, the group’s director general, said it was “simply not true”, as the proportion of state-school students at Russell Group universities had risen by 9% since 1997.
Elite universities are under increasing pressure to boost the numbers of students they attract from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Universities wanting to charge more than the basic £6,000 tuition fees under the new regime, which begins in 2012, must commit to measures to attract poorer students.
Both Oxford and Cambridge failed to increase their share of students from state schools last year, according to data published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency last month.
Both institutions, along with numerous other universities, have said they will charge the maximum tuition fees possible, of £9,000 a year.
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Mr Pelata had his resignation as chief operating officer accepted by Renault Renault’s chief operating officer Patrick Pelata has resigned, but will remain within the firm, following an industrial espionage scandal.
Three executives from the group’s security service will leave the French car-maker, which is 15% state-owned.
Meanwhile, compensation will be paid to another three executives who were wrongly fired over the affair.
It comes after investigations into the theft of the electric car technology, which was first detected last August.
Another trio of top executives will be relieved of their duties while their fate is decided, Renault added.
Renault accepted Mr Pelata’s resignation at an extraordinary board meeting on Monday to discuss the findings of an audit into the matter.
“The audits thus evidenced the chain of failings and dysfunctions within the company, particularly as regards the supervision and control of the group security department,” a Renault statement said.
Mr Pelata joined Renault in 1984 and joined the management committee in 1998.
“Pelata as COO did a solid job of guiding Renault through the last few years,” said Morgan Stanley analyst Stuart Pearson.
Renault and its partner Nissan have invested extensively in electric vehicle technology Car manufacturing is an important part of the French economy, and a major employer.
One of the biggest advantages that Western carmakers have is their advanced technology, which enables them to compete against cheaper labour costs outside Europe.
The carmaker, alongside its partner Nissan, has invested heavily in electric vehicle technology.
Both plan to launch a number of new electric vehicles over the next two years.
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Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo is detained in Abidjan after a dramatic French military operation and delivered to his rival’s HQ.
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The couple’s visit to Blackburn will be their last public engagement before they marry Prince William and Kate Middleton are to visit Lancashire in their final public engagement before their wedding.
They are due to visit the Darwen Aldridge Community Academy, where Prince William is due to formally open the new school.
They are then due to visit Witton Country Park, in Blackburn, where thousands of people are expected.
Prince William is signing a deed to protect the park as part of the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge.
The scheme is designed to permanently protect 2,012 outdoor recreational spaces around the UK in honour of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, next year.
Prince William and Miss Middleton are due to marry at Westminster Abbey on 29 April.
Since announcing their engagement last year, the pair have met well-wishers in Anglesey in North Wales, visited their former university – St Andrews in Fife, Scotland – and flown to Belfast, Northern Ireland.
On Monday, Prince William will meet staff and young people before the launch of the SkillForce Prince’s Award.
The prince is patron of the education charity. From summer 2012, it will present the new honour to teenagers who show significant character or make a major contribution to the community in which they live.
Brendan Loughran, principal of the academy, said: “We want all our students to aim high – Prince William and Catherine’s visit will inspire them to aim even higher.
“We will give them a really exciting day in Darwen, showing them how entrepreneurial thinking is securing real improvements.”
Pupil Jessica Dootson said: “Everyone’s really excited about the Royal visit.
“There’s loads of people coming round today.
“Everyone is looking smart today – not like usual.”
Moving to Witton park, the couple will meet local civic dignitaries, view sports activities on the athletics field and see youngsters taking part in a football skills session.
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The global economic recovery has “solidified” but risks to growth still remain, the International Monetary Fund says.
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Some banks had threatened to move abroad if they were broken up UK banks’ retail operations should be “ring-fenced” from their investment banking arms, the Independent Commission on Banking has recommended.
However, in its interim report the commission stopped short of recommending to two should operate as separate entities.
The final report will be published in September.
The commission was set up by the government last June to review UK banks after the financial crisis.
Its report said that, in the build-up to the crisis, lenders and borrowers took on “excessive and ill-understood risks”.
It added that implicit taxpayer support encourages “too much risk taking” by banks.
The commission said that banks needed to hold more cash in reserve to protect against future crises, and that creditors, not taxpayers, should be liable for any losses.
It said it was looking at forms of “retail ring-fencing” under which retail banking would would be carried out by a separate subsidiary within a wider banking group.
This would lead to additional costs to the banks, some of which would fall on the wider economy, it said.
However, these costs would be more than offset by the benefits of “materially reducing the probability and impact of financial crises”.
The report also recommended that Lloyds Banking Group sell some of its branches in order to increase competition in High Street banking.
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One month on, lives – and landscapes – are still in chaos in areas of north-eastern Japan Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has thanked people around the world for their response to the earthquake and tsunami of exactly a month ago.
Signed newspaper advertisements said the support had brought hope and inspired courage at a desperate time.
Ceremonies and a one-minute silence were held to mark the moment of the unprecedented disaster, triggered by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake.
It is estimated to have killed 28,000 people and left 150,000 homeless.
Some villages on the north-east coast of the main Japanese island of Honshu were largely destroyed.
The disaster also severely damaged a nuclear plant, which is still causing severe problems for the authorities.
“We offer our deepest condolences to those who lost their loved ones,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said.
“We are sorry for causing inconvenience and difficulties to those who still live in shelters.”
The earthquake struck at 1446 local time on 11 March.
Touring areas wrecked by the disaster on Sunday, Mr Kan promised to do everything possible to help communities.
“The government will give all its strength to work with you. We will never abandon you,” he told survivors in the city of Ishinomaki.
The prime minister also tried to reassure survivors that the fishing industry – which many in the area rely on for their livelihoods – would resume as soon as possible.
The tsunami wrecked boats and piers, closing down large-scale fishing operations.
Naoto Kan tried to reassure locals that the fishing industry will resume But the damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has also hit the fishing industry, as the public and international buyers ditch Japanese food products over fears of contamination.
Workers have been feeding water into three reactors to cool them because the cooling systems were damaged in the earthquake.
Mr Edano said that gains had been made at the plant.
“The possibility that the situation at the nuclear plant will deteriorate and lead to new leakage of massive radioactive materials is becoming significantly smaller,” he told reporters.
“Obviously, the nuclear plant is not running normally. We have to continue to ask nearby residents to remain evacuated in case the situation deteriorates.
“We believe the risk of that has become significantly smaller compared to one or two weeks after the earthquake.”
The authorities have been releasing water with low levels of radioactivity into the sea in recent days so that they can transfer highly radioactive water to a sealed area within the plant.
The release of the water angered fishing communities and drew criticism from Russia, China and South Korea.
Mr Kan has apologised for not releasing more information on the operation.
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William Hague spoke at a joint press conference with Italy’s foreign minister Foreign Secretary William Hague has urged the Syrian government to respect its people’s right to free speech and peaceful protest.
Mr Hague also called on Syria to put in place “meaningful reform”, which he said was the “only legitimate response to the demands from the Syrian people”.
His comments came amid protests in Syria which have challenged President Bashar al-Assad’s 11-year rule.
He spoke at a joint press conference with Italy’s foreign minister.
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Two people have died in a shooting incident near Cheddar in Somerset.
Police attended reports that a man had been shot in Westbury-sub-Mendip just after 2230 BST on Sunday. He died shortly after they arrived.
An investigation was launched and officers discovered a second body in a nearby churchyard shortly afterwards.
An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said they were not currently looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.
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William Shakespeare’s last home is now the site of an archaeological dig to find out more about life 400 years ago
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A gunman is being hunted by armed police following a double shooting in Maidenhead.
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