Ronnie O’Sullivan says he can win more world titles after his first-round victory over Dominic Dale but will quit if he stops enjoying snooker again.
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Elisabeth Sladen originally starred in Doctor Who for three years in the 1970s
Doctor Who star Elisabeth Sladen, who was also in spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures, has died aged 63.
Sladen appeared as Doctor Who assistant Sarah Jane Smith in the BBC television sci-fi series between 1973 and 1976 opposite Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker.
In more recent times the Liverpool-born actress had appeared in four series of The Sarah Jane Adventures on children’s channel CBBC.
Sladen, who had a daughter, had been battling cancer for some time.
Sladen first appeared as Sarah Jane alongside the third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, and stayed for three-and-a-half seasons, also working with the fourth Doctor, Tom Baker.
Her character, a journalist, was renowned for being inquisitive and stronger than some of the Doctor’s other assistants.
After her time in the Tardis, Sladen returned to her native Liverpool where she worked in theatre.
She returned to the role on several occasions over the years and was given her own spin-off series on CBBC in 2007, in which she appeared with the most recent two Doctors, David Tennant and Matt Smith.
A BBC spokesman said: “It is with much sadness that we can announce Elisabeth Sladen, the much-loved actress best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who and CBBC’s The Sarah Jane Adventures, passed away this morning. She was 63.”
CBBC controller Damian Kavanagh said he was “deeply saddened and shocked by the news of Lis’s untimely death”.
“Lis brought joy, excitement and a sense of wonder to her many fans in her role as Sarah Jane Smith. She was adored by our young audience and I know all of them will miss her as much as I will,” he said.
Russell T Davies, the creator of The Sarah Jane Adventures, said: “I absolutely loved Lis. She was funny and cheeky and clever and just simply wonderful. The universe was lucky to have Sarah Jane Smith, the world was lucky to have Lis.”
Sladen leaves actor husband Brian Miller and daughter Sadie.
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Mr Kouzaris and his university friend Mr Cooper were found shot dead in an estate in northern Sarasota
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US police have released photos that two British tourists took of themselves while out drinking on the night they were shot dead in Florida.
University friends James Kouzaris, 24, from Northampton, and James Cooper, 25, of Warwick, were found dead in the city of Sarasota early on Saturday.
The photos of the victims were taken in bars in downtown Sarasota and police want to know what happened next.
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the double murders.
Sarasota Police named him as Shawn Tyson and said he had previously been arrested for allegedly firing shots into a car on 7 April.
No murder weapon has yet been found but both men, ex-Sheffield University students, were shot a number of times, the BBC understands.
BBC Washington reporter Steve Kingstone said contrary to some reports, no bullet casings were found at the scene.
He said the 16-year-old had not been formally charged and prosecutors had until 8 May to decide whether to charge him as a juvenile or as an adult.
He said the expectation was that he would be charged as an adult.
Officers said there was no known link between the holidaymakers and the boy.
Officers said there was no known link between the men and Shawn Tyson
Sarasota Police Captain Paul Sutton said: “It is very unusual to find tourists or visitors in this area. It is a residential neighbourhood with no shops and no bars. We do not know what brought them here at 3am.”
He said the pair may have been given a lift to Newtown by someone they had befriended, or they may have walked there, or hired a cab which police had not yet traced.
They had been staying about 12 miles away on the island city of Longboat Key with Mr Cooper’s parents Sandra and Stanley, who have now returned to the UK to their home in Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire.
Mr Kouzaris and Mr Cooper were found lying about 50ft apart near a housing estate.
The two Britons were not carrying drugs and there is no evidence they were drug users, police said.
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Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas says a lack of a ‘winning mentality’ has led to the club’s trophy drought.
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Steven Whittaker scores two penalties but misses another as Rangers stretch their SPL lead to four points after Dundee United have three men sent off.
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An off-colour Manchester United miss the chance to open up a nine-point gap at the top of the Premier League as they are held to a draw by Newcastle.
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Toronto police hope to scour for clues the computer of a Chinese man who witnessed via webcam the final moments of a student found dead last week.
Hours before Qian Liu was found dead on Friday, a friend in China chatting with her online saw her struggle with an intruder who came to the door.
Detectives are investigating the 23-year-old’s death as a homicide.
They are searching for her laptop, webcam and phone, believed taken from her apartment by the intruder.
Detectives have interviewed a “person of interest” but declined to say whether he was the intruder seen online.
Police have yet to determine a cause of death.
“Liu’s death has not been classified as a homicide,” Toronto police Sgt Frank Skubic told reporters on Tuesday, describing the York University student as “hard-working”, with a small circle of friends.
“We are investigating this as a homicide and with the due diligence that’s required of a homicide investigation… with the expectation that at some point we will be able to come to a determination as to what led to her death.”
According to police, Ms Liu and a male friend were chatting at about 0100 local time (0500 GMT) when a man unknown to the friend knocked on the door asking to use Ms Liu’s cell phone.
She let him into her basement flat and a struggle ensued for several minutes while the friend watched in horror, police said. Then the intruder shut the IBM laptop, apparently taking it and the attached webcam with him when he fled the apartment.
The friend then sought frantically to alert authorities in Canada. Ms Liu was found dead on Friday morning after a Chinese consulate official contacted police.
The web video chat was streaming live between the computers in Canada and China, Sgt Skubic said, and investigators are working with computer experts to determine if any “artefacts or remnants” of the chat remained on the friend’s computer that could provide a clue.
Officers who found Ms Liu say no substantial trauma was evident. Ms Liu’s body was naked from the waist down, but investigators have seen no obvious signs of sexual assault.
A second cell phone found in the apartment was inactive and belonged to Ms Liu, Sgt Skubic said.
On Tuesday, Sgt Skubic sought to quell Canadian media reports Ms Liu had been stalked.
He said she had been asked out on dates and may have refused some, but none of the behaviour of her presumed suitors constituted criminal stalking.
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Mr Miliband said Labour did not fully appreciate the impact of migration on the wages of UK workers
Past errors in immigration policy contributed to voters in the south of England “losing trust” in Labour, Ed Miliband has acknowledged.
The opposition leader told the BBC the last government had “got it wrong” on the issue in terms of underestimating migrant numbers and their impact on wages and housing in parts of the UK.
Mr Miliband is campaigning ahead of English council elections on 5 May.
David Cameron has argued immigration got “out of control” under Labour.
The prime minister has said it is the coalition’s “ambition” to reduce net migration levels from more than 200,000 right now to the “tens of thousands”, although his approach has been criticised by Lib Dem coalition colleague Vince Cable, who say the target is not official government policy.
During a campaign trip to Gravesend, Mr Miliband was asked by the BBC’s Political Editor Nick Robinson why Labour had suffered such a drop in support in southern England at last year’s general election.
“I think the problem is that we lost trust and we lost touch particularly in the south of England,” he said. “I think living standards is a big part of it, immigration is a big part of it. I think maybe a combination of those two issues – most importantly.”
Mr Miliband criticised Labour’s record during last year’s party leadership contest, saying it had not addressed people’s concerns about the social and economic impact of immigration on communities and did not appear to be “on the side” of those affected.
“The question is whether… promises of more training, apprenticeships and a living wage will re-connect Labour with the working class supporters who have abandoned it”
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Lord Glasman, the Labour leader’s former speechwriter, argued recently that the Labour government lied to people about levels of economic migration and illegal immigration during its years in power and that this had resulted in a “massive rupture of trust” with sections of the electorate.
Responding to this accusation, Mr Miliband said: “I don’t think we lied but I do think we got it wrong in a number of respects”.
He added: “I think that, first of all, we clearly underestimated the number of people coming in from Poland and that had more of an effect therefore than we would otherwise have thought.
“And secondly, I think there is this really important issue about people coming into the country and the pressure on people’s wages.
“People are not prejudiced but people say to me ‘look I am worried about the pressure on my wages of people coming into this country. I am worried about what it does to housing supply, all of those issues. Now some of that is real and some of it is not but I think you have to address not just tough immigration policy but underlying issues as well.”
Mr Cameron has suggested Labour “helped inflame the debate” over the issue while in power by “talking tough” about reducing immigration but not doing anything about it – thereby giving the impression they were not heeding public concerns.
In a speech last week – the tone of which Business Secretary Vince Cable criticised as “very unwise” – Mr Cameron said a cap on non-EU migrants and other controls were working and the UK needed “good immigration rather than mass immigration”.
The prime minister rejected Mr Cable’s claim that he was electioneering in the speech, in which he said communities had been affected by incomers unable to speak English and unwilling to integrate, he argued, creating “a kind of discomfort and disjointedness in some neighbourhoods”.
Mr Miliband said Labour had introduced a new system to regulate the number of migrants entering the UK, while in office, but had failed to appreciate how the wages of low-skilled British workers would be squeezed as a result.
“We were still saying let’s have flexible labour markets, maximum flexibility at work, and that was causing problems for people and that’s why we need to rethink,” he told Nick Robinson.
Labour is reconsidering its approach on immigration as part of a root-and-branch review of policy launched soon after Mr Miliband’s election.
The opposition leader has called on the government to get young people into work and to build more homes – problems which he believes are helping to fuel concerns over levels of immigration.
“I think the thing this government is getting wrong on immigration is that they have got big promises which I do not think are going to be matched by reality,” he added.
“But they are not dealing with those underlying economic issues which I think caused a lot of the concern people had.”
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Pte Bradley Manning served in Iraq 
