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Earlier this year Baltimore unveiled new plans to help regenerate its blighted neighbourhoods.

The early part of Draper's professional career was blighted by physical issues, but his charge in New York has come as a result of being more robust this season.

Schools are welcoming children back with an assembly promoting "respect and tolerance", after the summer holidays were blighted by riots.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said she wanted to introduce a "better-controlled" system to replace "the chaos that has blighted the system for far too long".

Last year saw the lough, the UK's largest freshwater lake, was blighted by large blooms of the potentially toxic blue-green algae.