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Liverpool chairman Tom Werner tells BBC Sport Kenny Dalglish will be given funds to strengthen the squad at Anfield.

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The campaign against granting the Welsh assembly more law-making powers in the March referendum is to be officially launched.

True Wales describes itself as a grassroots movement opposed to devolving more law-making powers.

It will launch its No campaign at Newbridge Rugby Club, in Caerphilly county, later.

The Yes campaign, which is backed by all four main parties, was launched earlier this month.

True Wales spokeswoman Rachel Banner said: “This referendum is more than just a tidying-up exercise.

“We don’t want more laws. What we need is for AMs to focus on education and health and the economy and to build up these things so we can have a prosperous Wales.

“We don’t believe new laws will achieve that.”

The campaign launch takes places at 1730 GMT.

The referendum will be held on 3 March.

It will be the third devolution referendum in Wales. The first, in 1979, saw proposals to create an assembly heavily defeated.

But the second, in 1997, resulted in a narrow Yes vote which led to the opening of the assembly in 1999.

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A mutated gene has been found in a third of patients with the most common form of kidney cancer.

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US President Barack Obama and the visiting President of China, Hu Jintao, hold a joint news conference in the White House in Washington.

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The UK faces up to £1bn of penalties from the European Commission because of mistakes by government departments.

The National Audit Office says £398m of “financial corrections” have already been made and a further £601m has been set aside to cover further penalties.

The EC withholds the money from countries it believes has not met rules on allocating money from the EU.

Most of the penalties from 2008/9 were due to well publicised problems with agricultural schemes, the NAO says.

But the Department for Communities, the Wales Office, Scotland Office and Northern Ireland Office also attracted penalties for their use of the European Regional Development Fund.

The NAO report is the first time all the withheld payments have been added together for the time period – they relate to mistakes made before March 2009 but go back years.

In the NAO report on Britain’s use of EU funds, Auditor General Amyas Morse said the “irregular” payments meant he had to qualify his verdict on the accounts.

Some payments are disallowed every year but the NAO says £1bn is unusually high.

The government says that the penalties came under a previous administration.

Sources say efforts have been made to improve accounting, and reduce the number of mistakes paying out EU money and they are optimistic future penalties will not be so large.

In a written ministerial statement, Economic Secretary to the Treasury Justine Greening said the government was “determined to ensure sound financial management of all EU funds”.

She added: “The government is fully committed to transparency in the use of EU funds in the UK and to strong accountability for receipts of EU funding to the UK Parliament, to strengthen the audit and Parliamentary scrutiny of the UK’s use of EU funds.”

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Musician Boy George has agreed to return an icon of Christ to the Church of Cyprus that came into his possession after the 1974 Turkish invasion.

The former Culture Club singer bought the piece from a London art dealer in 1985 without knowing its origin.

Boy George – real name George O’Dowd – said he was “happy the icon is going back to its original rightful home”.

“I have always been a friend of Cyprus and have looked after the icon for 26 years,” he added.

“I look forward to seeing the icon on display in Cyprus for the moment and finally to the Church of St Charalambos from where it was illegally stolen.”

The goodwill gesture came about after the church in New Chorio-Kythrea village gave evidence proving it was its rightful owner.

Bishop Porfyrios of Neapolis expressed “joy and gratitude” as the singer handed over the icon at the St Anagyre church in north London.

The gesture, he said, had “contributed to the efforts of the Church of Cyprus for the repatriation of its stolen spiritual treasures”.

Thousands of religious artefacts went missing from northern Cyprus following Turkey’s invasion of the island and its subsequent partition.

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MPs have been told they should not use Twitter while sitting in the the House of Commons.

Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said they ought not to “be tweeting from the chamber to let the outside world know what is going on”.

The warning followed a complaint made by Labour’s Kevin Brennan about Lib Dem MP Julian Huppert.

More than 100 MPs use Twitter to communicate with their constituents and other followers.

Mr Hoyle’s Commons intervention came after Mr Brennan demanded to know why Mr Huppert had tweeted that shadow education secretary Andy Burnham had refused to meet education access advocate Simon Hughes, a Lib Dem.

The Deputy Speaker replied: “What I can say is that it is for me to keep order in the chamber.

“I am glad you have brought it to my attention. I am sure no honourable member will be tweeting from the chamber to let the outside world know what is going on.”

Mr Brennan, who represents Cardiff West, raised the point of order during a debate on the government’s abolition of the Educational Maintenance Allowance for teenagers in England.

The Labour MP, who has his own Twitter account, said: “The honourable member for Cambridge is tweeting from chamber right now that the shadow secretary of state has refused to meet the honourable member for the Liberal Democrats on the front bench when in fact the shadow secretary of state has already met him and is prepared to meet him at any time.

“Is it in order during the course of a debate for a member to seek to make points about participants in that debate without doing it here so everybody can hear the points that they are making and have the opportunity to rebut them?”

Mr Huppert’s tweet read: “Ah, Andy Burnham’s real agenda leaks out. Simon Hughes, in charge of developing a better replacement, offers to work with him. He refuses.”

In a separate tweet, the Cambridge MP added: “Very disappointing; labour want a fight, not a solution. I realise this is opposition, but I’d hoped for a more constructive approach!”

Labour’s Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, responded to Mr Huppert’s comments using her own Twitter account, saying: “You claim Andy (Burnham) has refused to work with Simon Hughes when (the) opposite is true. Using p’mentary privilege to spin perhaps?”

She added: “Think you’ll find they’ve (Burnham and Hughes) already met – or is Hughes going rogue and not telling his party about negotiations?”

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