Clive Williams - News Feeds

A selection of news feeds from around the internet.

BBC News Headlines

Delays hit pupils' test results

More than a million 11 and 14-year-olds in England will get their Sats results late this year because of administrative chaos.

Robbery clue to student murders

The death of two French students, who suffered more than 240 stab wounds, could be linked to a robbery, police reveal.

Badger cull proposals 'rejected'

The government has decided against a cull of badgers in England to control TB in cattle, the BBC understands.

Teenager dies after knife attack

A 16-year-old youth stabbed in a street attack in south London has died of his injuries in hospital, police say.

BBC journalist Wheeler dies at 85

Sir Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, dies from lung cancer aged 85.

Football Headlines

Newcastle owner in takeover talks

Newcastle hold informal talks over a potential sale to American investors, according to reports.

Galatasaray claim Kewell transfer

Galatasaray claim Harry Kewell has signed a three-year deal, but agent Bernie Mandic insists he has not completed a move.

Middlesbrough sign striker Emnes

Middlesbrough clinch a £3.2m deal for Sparta Rotterdam striker Marvin Emnes.

Fulham complete deal for Kallio

Fulham sign Finland defender Toni Kallio on a two-year contract.

Hull to make bid for Olofinjana

Hull City prepare a bid for Wolves midfielder Seyi Olofinjana and give a trial to Dortmund's Delron Buckley

Cricket Headlines

Zimbabwe to miss World Twenty20

Zimbabwe withdraw from the World Twenty20 in England next summer, but retain their ICC status.

Shoaib's 18-month ban suspended

Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar is free to play cricket after his 18-month ban for indiscipline is suspended.

Jones delight at England call-up

Simon Jones says it is "brilliant" to be named in England's provisional ICC Champions Trophy squad.

Live - Durham v Kent

Scorecard from Durham v Kent in the first semi-final of the Friends Provident Trophy.

Live - Pakistan v Bangladesh

Scorecard from Pakistan v Bangladesh in the Asia Cup at Karachi.

  

The Register

IPS finds no nuggets in ID checking goldmine

Claims targets exceeded, but fee income tiny

Government plans to position the Identity & Passport Service as the UK's de facto identity services broker seem not to have entirely caught the imagination of the private sector, figures in IPS' annual report and accounts suggest. Although IPS recruited 44 new customers for its Passport Validation Service (PVS), income from this for the year ending March 2008 was only £357,000.

MoD mega gov-IT project only mildly catastrophic - NAO

Military celebrate limited-disaster triumph

The UK Ministry of Defence has received some qualified praise for its ongoing, enormous effort to replace hundreds of different internal IT systems comprising scores of thousands of machines with a single integrated infrastructure.

Mystery over Verisign boss' shock exit

Like déjà vu all over again

Wall Street shut down for the long July 4 weekend pondering a puzzler. It emerged yesterday that Verisign CEO Bill Roper had suddenly quit the firm to be replaced by the firm's founder and chairman, Jim Bidzos.

TVonics MFR-300 micro digital TV set-top box

Bringing digital to Scart-free tellies

Review Thousands of Brits are going to find their analogue TVs incapable of picking up a signal come 2012. Clearly, that doesn't concern too many of us, since we're still buying plenty of analogue tellies.

David Davis tells El Reg that Labour is 'mesmerised' by tech

Liberties sacrificed for 'an illusion'

Interview As polling day approaches for the Howden and Haltemprice by-election, voters and observers are left with an eerie sense of déjà vu as Labour once again refuses to debate its civil liberties record with David Davis.

Newcastle United News

Newcastle owner in takeover talks

Newcastle hold informal talks over a potential sale to American investors, according to reports.

Magpies sign Argentine Gutierrez

Newcastle capture Argentina winger Jonas Gutierrez from Real Mallorca on a five-year deal for an undisclosed fee.

Magpies to discuss Barton future

Newcastle's Joey Barton is set to face showdown talks with club bosses over his future on his release from prison.

Barton is sentenced for assault

Newcastle United footballer Joey Barton is given a four- month suspended sentence for assaulting a team-mate.

Feature: Who will test the Magpies?

The dangermen from Newcastle's pre-season opponents